April 25, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller discusses if the Browns will regret trading the #2 overall pick and missing out on Travis Hunter who was taken by the Jaguars, if Travis Hunter will be a good fit in Jacksonville, what statement the Browns made by trading the pick, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We all welcome. It's our number what, our number one
of the original Recipe podcast, and a happy Friday to you.
It is the twenty fifth day of April. Reminder, the
Fifth Hour podcast will be up coming up later today
and we'll have exclusive behind the scenes the big story
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in sports. Shannon Sharp, the Hall of Famer, sued big
lawsuit woman making some very wild allegations against Shannon Sharp
and I somehow ended up getting involved in an email chain.
I'll explain what that's all about on the Fifth Hour podcast,
but here in our number one, it's all about the
NFL Draft. Will the Browns regret trading the number two
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pick and the chance to draft the dynamic Travis Hunter
or even obdul Carter. They traded the pick and the
Jaguars general manager said that he can alter the sport
he being Travis Hunter. Is Jacksonville a good fit for
Travis Hunter? We will discuss that and what statement did
the Browns make by dealing the pick that would have
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been Travis Hunter? All that and more here it is
our number one. Avoiding the factory of sadness. Welcome in
the beginning of another night of the Ben Malors Show.
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the Clippers are and how they're gonna win the championship
and it's all over all these other NBA teams are
pretenders and frauds, but not the Clippers. But I chose
to talk about the NFL draft and the reason We're
going to start with the NFL draft. It's pretty simple.
We have spent hours and hours and hours in the
lead up to this, so we might as well discuss
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it now. We're gonna go to the frozen tundra, not
so frozen in April temperatures mild in Green Bay, temperatures
in the fifties. The NFL conducting their annual April shindig,
And after months of chatter and build up and speculation,
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the curtain went up on the twenty twenty five NFL drafting.
And if you saw it or not, it was the
same as has always been. Not as much juice. Where's
the juice? Not as much juice? So cam Ward went
number one to the Tennessee Titans. The big talking point
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happened for me. It happened early on. Now someone say, well,
what about Shirdar Sanders not being drafted at all? How
great is that? There were mock drafts that said this
guy was gonna be the number three pick in the draft.
Some even had him higher than that number two, number two,
and he doesn't even get picked in the first round.
Shouldur Sanders and they retired his number? Can they take
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their number of retirement back over there at Colorado. How
embarrassing to not even be picked in the first round.
But that was not the story that got my attention.
It was a trade trade the Jacksonville football team. The
Jaguars traded up not one, not two, but three spots
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on the big boards. We had no trades up until
the start of the draft, almost like the NFL said,
don't make any trades until draft day, and we had
a few trades, teams trading back in later on, teams
trading out team I like the Rams said screw this draft,
we're out. We'll take an extra pick next year. We're done.
But cam Ward goes number one, but Jacksonville trading up
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three and they selected the Heisman Trophy winner, also from Colorado.
Unlike Shedar Sanders, this guy was picked Travis Hunter. So
he went number two in the draft, so he will
go to Jacksonville. Jacksonville gave up not one, not two,
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not three, but four picks, including a second and fourth
round selection in this year's draft. I know you're concerned
about that and their twenty twenty six first round pick
to land a player that is the most intriguing that
we have had in modern NFL draft. History, and the
idea is that they're setting the tone. This is a
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tone setting situation. The Jaguars envisioning the players Travis Hunter
as a primarily primarily a receiver, a receiver and then
he'll also play occasionally defensive back. But they already got
their number one receiver supposedly in Brian Thomas Junior. They
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got him last year. So they have Trevor Lawrence, who's
not very good. He's still still there. He's sucking money
out of the ownership because he's supposed to be good,
but he's not. And so that's where we are. So
let us discuss now. The better story is in the
losing locker room. The Browns lost a lot of games
to get the number two pick. They sucked all season
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to get the number two pick, and then they traded
back a few picks to get extra picks. So the
question is will the Browns regret trading the number two
pick and the chance to draft Travis Hunter or for
that matter, ab Dul Carter and just saying we're good.
We don't want that. So my thoughts on this, I
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have hooked on phonics, triangle and golden arches, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some delicious delicious apple pie is what
we're gonna make, all right, So a on this one,
the arrow is pointing down, down, down, down, down, down,
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down down down that which is yes, there will be regret.
Who goofed? I've got to know. It is a marketing fail.
It is a swing enemis the Cleveland Browns, I recommend
they grab hooked on PHONEX because they read the room.
Read the room. If you're the Browns. The Browns are bad.
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They're also boring. You can't be both. And they are
the most unlikable franchise going around, right Is anyone more
unlikable in the Cleveland Browns? Seriously? You know they put
all their chips in that you know, Deshaun Watson creepy
quarterback basket a few years ago and it was like, oh,
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they're just numb to the Browns. They don't care about
the Browns. Those that did have passion for the Browns
just like, ah, we suck again. And not to say
that Travis Hunter is a Hall of Fame player who
knows whether or not he's a Hall of Fame player,
but he does immediately add right away, right away, the
razzle dash, and there's no razzle dazzle with the Browns. Okay,
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that's Browntown. They suck. And if there was a reason
to actually watch Brown's game, it would have been Travis Hunter,
the curiosity factor in overtime, overtime. If I was the Browns,
I would have drafted Travis Hunter and played him every
fing snap. I would have even played him on special teams.
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I would have played him every single snap in the
game everything, defense, offense. Iron Man, make him the iron Man,
and the curiosity factor is a big part of it.
The versatility unprecedented in this age of don't do any
more than just the bare minimum in every facet of life.
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And here's a two way guy capable of playing both
cornerback and being a wide receiver, a modern Marvel if
he can pull it off. Very unique, very unique, and
would have had a ripple of excitement to a morbid
Browns team. So instead they traded back. They drafted a
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random defensive tackle, Mason grind from Michigan. Whoopee damn do
could turn out to be a fine NFL player, but
does lack the wow the wow factor, and no one's
going out to buy tickets or to turn on a
game to watch Mason Graham play. That's just not it.
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You're going to turn the tide on that now. Page two.
So the Jags general manager said that the player Travis
Hunter can alter the sport. He can alter the sport.
That is a bold quote, that is a money quote.
He can alter the sport. Wow, So is Jacksonville a
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good fit for Travis Hunter? So, after several minutes of
deliberation in the Mallard jury room, despite the tremendous amount
of smooching, smoochy, smoochy smoochy from the GM there, I
don't love the fit. It's not ideal. It's not ideal.
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And here's why you trade it up to get a
guy who you're planning if the earlier reports are accurate,
you're not planning on playing him both ways all the time,
just select defensive packages. So you're gonna make him mostly
a wide receiver. And you already had last year. You
picked up your number one wide receiver, so you drafted.
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You traded up to get a number two wide receiver
and a occasional defensive back. And the other factor here
which you cannot overlook, is the triangle I'm not talking
about the triangle offense here. What I'm talking about is
you play for the Jaguars, Hello, and if you go
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to Jacksonville, you are in the football Bermuda triangle. You
go there and all of a sudden there is a
rogue wave wipeout your career, some kind of magnetic anomaly
they're talking about right now over on coast to coast
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that will take you down. If that doesn't take you down,
there'll be an alien abduction. And if you make it
out of that alien abduction, they'll drop you off in
the Lost City of Atlantis and you won't be able
to get out. And Jentual it's a starter job.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
They hired a bunch of old RAM people, so I
guess I'm supposed to say all these are great people,
but they look like total dufases. James Gladstone looks like
he should be serving ice cream somewhere, and Liam Khne,
the coach is but I think we've gone over duval
and all that. They do not exactly oose the confidence,
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so they know what they're doing. So not a ringing endorsement,
but good luck. I'm pulling for Travis Hunter. I hope
Travis Hunter does well, and we inspire future players down
the line to attempt to play both ways. So the
last part of it as we put the bow on
the package here from the big trade early in the draft.
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As we have our all night in depth team coverage
of the twenty twenty five NFL drafting, we'll mix in
some some other things. So what statement, what statement did
the Browns make by dealing Travis Hunter? What was the
statement they made? What statement did the Browns make by
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dealing Travis Hunter? So they were playing, and this is
something they know a lot about special teams. They were punting.
They were punning on excitement. They were punning on aura.
They didn't want that. They didn't need that. They didn't
know what to do with that. So they didn't want
the aura. They didn't want the wow factor. Cleveland is
going back to the franchise charter. The Browns have decided, Hey,
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listen at our core. We are the factory of sadness
and we need to provide sadness, and so let's get
back to our roots. It's like the syndicated comic strip
tank Macnum Tanky mctank right, adding a couple more scratcher tickets.
You're selling hope, and the low information fan loves it.
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They they had a chubby. They were so excited. Oh
we have extra draft picks. Oh isn't that great? It's
so exciting. It's false hope. Of course, the easiest thing
to do in the industrial complex of sport is to
trade for future draft picks. You can always sell the future.
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Everyone assumes those draft picks are all going to turn
out to be wonderful players, even though the team never
drafts the right player, and the dumb fan, the dumb fan,
always buys it. Right Cleveland, I'm telling you, right now,
I know what they're doing here. They have their eyes
on the Golden Archers. Now McDonald's Arch Manning, the Texas
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quarterback Arch Manning, and he is projected to be the
top quarterback in the twenty twenty sixth draft. That's assuming
he actually leaves college and just doesn't keep staying in Texas.
There in Austin, but arch Manning is supposed to be
his draft twenty twenty six So you have two first
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round picks. You've got your own in Jacksonville. Jackson's gonna suck,
so they'll end up with a top ten pick. Again
in Jacksonville, and then you've got your own pick and
the Browns are tanking, so they're trying to get the
number one pick by themselves. But warning, warning, warning, warning,
be careful. The Manning family, the Manning family, the Illuminati
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of football. They are ruthless, the illuminati family of football,
the Mannings. And if you don't believe me, ask the
old San Diego Chargers. Yeah, ask about that. That Eli
Manning a smooth operator. He became the punk, but it
was because of his old man, his dad there back
in the day. So Arch Manning's the next in line.
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And it's like the Kennedy family in politics, you have
the Manning family in football. So we'll see how this
all plays out. We will talk about that anything else
you want. As are in depth coverage up the draft.
We're gonna highlight some things in the monologues at the
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on as well as the playoffs continuing. And yeah, tough
day for the trolls. I know a lot of you
boys were trying to bust my balls there and pretty
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difficult for you to do that. And hopefully you'll have
better days ahead to bust my chops. But I win
for me, win for me, lost for you. You shuck, well,
then gets do suck? And I tried to tell you
where's that Where's that loser from Denver? They called up
talking all that trash about them? Where's that guy that
does a moron? As phone stopped working? It's funny when
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the Nuggets lose the phone. They all the phones in
Denver don't work. It's wild. When the Nuggets win, everyone's
phone reception is great. They call in, they scream, they
shout all that. Anyway, top headlines in the draft if
you miss the monologue here, we talked a lot about
Travis Hunter and the trade Jacksonville made with Cleveland, as
the Browns are getting back to their roots here of
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tanking and just grabbing draft picks and not even trying
to be even mildly entertaining. That's Cleveland Brown football. Jacksonville.
I'm pulling for Travis Hunter. It just looks like they
have a bunch of nimrods who are running that team.
So I'm not exactly sure I was gonna work. And
my life, I have only seen maybe one or two
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players my entire life who have gone to Jacksonville and
it's actually worked out where they've been productive and been successful,
and it hasn't happened in a very long time, so
That's where we are on that the Shaduur Sanders story,
which continues to develop. He hasn't been drafted yet. He
was passed over. So the question is has Mike Tomlin
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made his decision? The fact that the Steelers had the
twenty first pick in the draft they didn't take Shadu
Sanders and then also could have traded back into the
first round to get Chaudiur Sanders, they didn't do that.
Does that clearly indicate that the Steelers are all in
on Aaron Rodgers? Or does Pittsburgh take Shadar Sanders. They
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have a second round pick, which I think is like
seventh in the second round, which will be later on
here on Friday. So do they take Shadu Sanders? You
gotta think they don't want the guy, right. If they
really wanted the guy, they would have taken him in
the first round. So why would you? Why would you
pass over him if if you think he's legit and
he can play, and he's your guy and all, why
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would you? I know, you kissed guy's ass publicly, But
that's what most of these people do. They never trash
anyone publicly. The only time you get public assassination is
washing was private? When when somebody gets ripped, it's never
there's never a name attached to it. So Aaron Rodgers
hasn't announced anything, right, I mean, here we are, the
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first round's over and there were only a couple of
quarterbacks that were picked in the first round of the draft. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mahlor Show as we are rolling
through the overnight. We will take your calls here in
a moment. But time now for the play of the night.
That's right, the play, well, it's the play of the
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day for us. It's the play of the night. Let's
take it out to the Dome, the into it Dome.
The people's team taking on a multi time envp in
the Joker Nicole jokicch and the Nuggets and they won
a championship a couple of years ago. Surely Denver was
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going to come back and beat the Clippers. And we
know playoff hardens. No good. Right, Let's see what is
the player of the day. Let's see if we can find.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Out Westbrook right, twarter and three, it's the heel and
Harden has the mess.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Finally free opportunities for the Nuggets. They can't find anything
about foods gold.
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Harden to the realm left handed layoff. What's the backboard
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playoff game by thirty four points over the Nuggets. I
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know we're talking football. Just want to mention that for
those of you that weren't watching, Clippers won a playoff
game by thirty four points against a team that just
won a championship a couple of years ago. And uh, yeah,
that had that taste that tastes good, That tastes pretty good.
Yeah you like that. That was a good taste. It
tasted yummy, didn't it. Yeah? Okay, And James Harden had
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twenty points in that game. So the Clippers up two
games to one in that that one. And I mean
to tax. Yeah, I know, we'll take some calls. Eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number. That's
eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine.
And we'll get to this later on. You're so upset
with your car, you don't want to talk about your car.
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You don't want to discuss your car because you're that
upset about the car. So you're not gonna talk about
the car. And that's the story with the car, understand.
All right, very good. Let's see eeny meany miny mo.
Pick a caller by their name, and let's start out
with who do we have you. Let's say hello, Oh,
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wait a minute, we found one person in Denver whose
phone is working. Let's go there right now. Let's go
to Jeff in Denver. Defend your squad, Jeff, go ahead,
defend your team, Jeff bro Oh wait, go ahead?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
All right, Ben, I was trying to make a bet
with you like a week ago, but you cut me off.
But it's one game.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, actually it's actually two games. The Clippers are up
two games to one. I know you're not good at math,
but they're up two games to one.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It was one bad game. The first two games were
probably the greatest game so far in the playoffs this year,
they were neck and neck.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Let's be honest, the Clippers should be up three to
zero in this series. You're lucky you got one win.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Well, you should be lucky you got that second game.
But anyway, it's two to one.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
But see, your team is falling apart, sir, your team
is doomed. It's over. It is over.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Well, Michael Porter Junior did play with an injury tonight
that he should be out five weeks, so he's probably
gone for the series.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Oh, you're making excuses for him.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Huh Oh, he's gone.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
How about this? How about how about how about if
you play and you're on the court and you suck,
you get ripped. How about that? How about that you
pay thirty five minutes? He was embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Yeah, I don't understand why they played him. I don't,
but it's it's a roster thing. I agree as far
as the Malone firing and the Boot firing, I agree
with Boot being fired. It's they are a flawed roster.
I will admit that I am a lifelong Nuggets fan.
I'm fifty seven. The team is sixty seven years old. Okay,
so I'm a lifelong fan. I'm not dropping on I'm
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not bailing or nothing, but.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I know you're not. I'm not saying you gonna bail
on them. But this is not they're gonna get They're
gonna lose this series. That's it. They'll be done. And
that the guy that yeah, the guy that you hired. Man,
send him back to the to the to the Nerdville
he came from. My god, what a door.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
It's not it's not. It's not a coaching issue at all.
It's a flawed roster. They are a offensive minded team.
The Clippers are a defensive minded team that has good
players that can score.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
All right, So wait a minute, now, is this a
concession speech? Are we getting now? I don't feel like
the whole sect larda. Does this not sound like a
concession speech from Jeff?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, like you would get it at a concession stand
for sure.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
No, I will admit it is.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Okay, but you knew wait time time out, Jeff. All right,
you say you watch the Nuggets, your your whole life.
You probably go back to you know, the Alex English
and Fat Lever and all those guys. Fine, okay, fine, okay,
David thomp my condolences. But here's the thing. Okay, you
knew that before the series. You knew before the series
it was a flawed roster. You knew that going in.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Yeah, usually they can outscore or play some defense to
control it. They did in the first two games. This
game was just.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Okay, all right, but we're going. I feel like we're
going in circles. I feel like we're going. I feel
like we're going.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
We'll see how they come back in game two, I mean,
in game four, in game four, if it's.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Game four, Yeah, that's a must win. You'd agree, that's
again the number four gener you'd agree that's a must win. Right,
you'd agree, you have to be that's a must win.
It's a muscle. They're gonna come back down. They're gonna
win every game.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Come on, Well, it's gonna probably go six at least.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Okay, well that's a very very confident. All right. Listen,
I give you credit for calling in. I didn't think
you'd call in, Jeff, so I'll give you credit half credit.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Ben Ben Nuggets do make this comeback. You actually have
to eat Rocky Mountain oysters, not just jerky actual oysters.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I ate Rocky Mountain oysters, sir, you are talking I
what was what was the jerky made out of?
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Because I had to chew the protest No that it
was worse. Everyone says it's worse. I ate nobody. I
ate the cow testicles. It was just in jerky form.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
What ben? You're that confident in your clip?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yes, the Clippers are winning, there's no there's no payback.
But what are you gonna do? I don't even know you.
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
You're so confident in the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yes, they're going to win. It's the year the Clippers.
I bashed them before the playoffs. They'll win. This will
be the year they win. I bashed them.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Here, what's dodging the question? If the Nuggets make this
miraculous comeback, I will eat.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I've already Why would I do something I've already done.
I've already eaten. I did eat? How daius? I'm offended
by that. You've offended me? I And what was it
made out of?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
They can flavor it up, it's different.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
It was it was made out of ball. Bull balls
is what it was made out.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Take the bet? You're so confident, Yeah, they're gonna win.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
There's no concern geverd this guy get out. Yes, they're winning,
Clippers are winning. They're winning. I mean, come on, he
was too he's too scared to make the bet. You, Jeff,
you were making a concession speech. You just made a
concession speech. Everyone heard it. Everyone heard it. Rick Oh
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writes in and says, Ben, you know you're right. This
Clipper team better than the Lakers about that? Well, thank you,
Rick for coming from you. I did not expect that.
Mister irrigation writes and says, the Texans propaganda machine is
spinning it up. Convince me why picking thirty third is
better than twenty fifth. I'm sure it is a new math. Well, yeah,
(29:33):
there was. Well you get the same kind of player.
It's not that big a deal. You get extra picks
and all that crap. Old, there you go. What else
were we Let see page down? Grapes writes in Montana,
Mike says, I fully expect you to rip the nuggets
and praise the Clippers. Just acknowledge the greatness of the joker,
(29:56):
as he's averaging a triple double for the series, and
he been being double and triple teamed. Eh, I'm good.
I've spent a lot of my time pointing out athletes
that are great stat compilers, great stack compilers, and if
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you're not, it's not part of a winning environment. It
doesn't really impress me that much. But if you're impressed
by it, Montana, Mike, and I'm good for you. Good
for you. I'm not. I've seen players like in other sports.
Dakota Prescott put up great stats, Hell Scheer Sanders at
Colorado put up great stats, and the NFL doesn't think
he's worthy of being a draft in the first round.
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Not so much. What else do you have to see?
Page down, We'll skip over that. Takoma dru says Ben
Travis Hunter is not the first, last, or only player
playing both ways. I am sick of people saying he's
the only one doing it. Have you googled the Ravens
Patrick Card who two time All Pro? Guess what he plays?
(31:03):
Three hundred STAPs on defense, offense, and special teams. Yeah,
and he's not. He's not an impact guy too. If
you don't understand, uh, and by the way, your your
math on that is wrong if you look at offense
and defense. In fact, we have that later on. Uh,
there's a question that we will pose I want to.
I don't want to ruin it right now because then
you'll ruin the bit later. But just keep listening to
(31:24):
Coma Drew that it actually is something. If if Hunter
can play both ways, hasn't happened in a long long time.
So what else do we have? This is your page down? Uh.
Tammy in Montana says, I'm so upset about my car
right now. As a matter of fact, look what happened. Wow,
(31:45):
somebody looks like they they shot her windshield with a
I hope that's a pellet gun and not a real gun.
It's hard to tell. And then right there right in
the front it would appear that's that sucks? Is it?
Because you had Green Bay Packers stuff they didn't Maybe
they didn't like the packers. They're upset with the packers.
(32:05):
I don't know. People do get aggressive over teams. Ben Yeah,
well yeah, but that's a come on. What's going around
just rainly? You're shooting pellets at random cars in Vegas?
What's up with that? Mickey in State forty eight, right
since says great Mallard monologue. At this rate, I would
not be shocked if ham Scataboo were drafted ahead of
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Sugar Sanders, so he says. Robbie the Marina fan says,
friendly advice. Emulate the great dictators of our age and
quell the strike by violent means before it really takes off,
says Robbie the Mariner. Feit okay. Shannon Moyes says, what
a first round of the NFL draft. It was mind
blowing and action packed. I don't know about that. I'm
(32:48):
not gonna lie I I was not fully locked in.
I'd go back. I had it timed out. I knew
how much time I had between picks, and so I
would go watch the basketball, and then I'd wait and
and I knew I had about ten minutes or so
a little less than that, and then I'd flip back over.
I'd flip back over anyway. But he does say, unless
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it wasn't eight plus plus on the mall of MYO log,
if we skip the Leprechaun call tonight, we can enjoy
this Friday morning. So he said, So he says, Benito
the long suffering Cowboy fan rights and says the Clippers
will win the NBA title for Clipper Daryl. Yeah. Clipper
Darrel is still recovering from getting knocked out by some
(33:34):
loser security guard down on skid row at that dump
of an arena. The Clippers is to play at back
in the day. Anyway, It is the Bean Maler Show.
Upset with your car? You don't want to talk about
the car? Time now for the who am I? Game?
And with cam Ward going number one overall in the
NFL Draft, I was the last player picked at the
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top pick in the NFL who was not a quarterback,
offensive tackle, or pass who again, the last player who
was drafted at the very top of the first round
in the NFL that was not a quarterback, an offensive tackle,
or a pass rusher. Who am I? That is the question?
(34:17):
But what is the answer. We'll get to it and
we will do it next.
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With camp Ward going at the top of the draft
on Thursday night in Green Bay. I was the last
player picked number one overall in the NFL who was
not a quarterback, offensive tackle, or pass rusher. Who am I?
That is the question? What is the answer? Maladprop guy's
(36:46):
going with Jeff in Denver, the guy that just called up.
That's probably what he looks like. Who else do we have?
Paid down? Mister Unlimited from Scrooge in the Bay Area,
Raub the goat Man going with legendary Browns kicker Oscar Pistorius.
All right, he's out of jail, right, I think he's
(37:08):
a danger mouse from Milkman Mike in Colorado. Berg Dog says,
socks with sandals on the beach. Guy, Yeah, that's that's
not that's a no, no, that is a fashion faux.
Paul Mike Glennon from Alf the Alien Opiner the Human Draft?
What else? Page down Milkman Mike and Colorado. Guess by
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Shane in Des Moines, Domaso Garcia, Blue Jays nineteen eighty seven,
legend from mister nice guy. Who else we have a
Megan Fay who is thirty five today from Late Night
drug tester, Page down, page down, Patricia Pelinkis, she's ranked
(37:49):
up there on the Texans Big Board. Okay, Ben Jarvis,
that was from mister Irrigation, Ben Jarvis. Kreen Ellis guests
by Malibu Rubin. That's his answer. G Man in Chicago
says eighteen ninety seven Chicago colt a Donnis. Terry is
Tony Boselli from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Yeah. Who else
(38:12):
do we have a? Travis Hunter's forehead? Guests by Greg
the real estate mogul in Baltimore, Brian Bosworth from Kelly
that's her. It's our friend Donut Kelly. Now she's no
longer Donut Kelly. Sebastian Janakowski guests by Steve he misplaced
Sandy Agin. Who else do we have? Terry in England
(38:34):
says it is none other than Brock Perdy. It's very funny.
Mister irrelevant. Mickey in State forty eight says Nick Kurtz
is the answer. Page down. Christian McCaffrey from Gunner in
the Walmart in Northern Minnesota, spocks Weed says, Dion Sanders
(38:55):
or Fraser Crane is the way to go. Okay, Lorrain,
now here's the question. One more time. I was cam
Warden went to the top of the draft at Tennessee.
I was the last player pick number one overall in
the NFL who was not not a quarterback, offensive tackle,
or pass rusher.
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This one was really complicated for me, Ben how to
do a lot of Google searching.
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Was it a.
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Concession, Yes, a concession indeed, But Paris Hilton is Paris Hilton.
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I have decided to go with Yeah, she was very
fast back in the day on high side. Not a
big upside, but a high upside. Let's see is that correct?
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Now?
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Is in correct? The answer? Key? Sean Johnson's the answer
to give me the damn ball. That was all the
way back in nineteen ninety six. That means next year,
if no none of those players other than a quarterback,
offensive tackle, or pass rushers picked, that'll be thirty years
thirty years only those three positions have been picked at
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the top of the draft.
We all welcome. It's our number what, our number one
of the original Recipe podcast, and a happy Friday to you.
It is the twenty fifth day of April. Reminder, the
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and I somehow ended up getting involved in an email chain.
I'll explain what that's all about on the Fifth Hour podcast,
but here in our number one, it's all about the
NFL Draft. Will the Browns regret trading the number two
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pick and the chance to draft the dynamic Travis Hunter
or even obdul Carter. They traded the pick and the
Jaguars general manager said that he can alter the sport
he being Travis Hunter. Is Jacksonville a good fit for
Travis Hunter? We will discuss that and what statement did
the Browns make by dealing the pick that would have
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been Travis Hunter? All that and more here it is
our number one. Avoiding the factory of sadness. Welcome in
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the Clippers are and how they're gonna win the championship
and it's all over all these other NBA teams are
pretenders and frauds, but not the Clippers. But I chose
to talk about the NFL draft and the reason We're
going to start with the NFL draft. It's pretty simple.
We have spent hours and hours and hours in the
lead up to this, so we might as well discuss
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it now. We're gonna go to the frozen tundra, not
so frozen in April temperatures mild in Green Bay, temperatures
in the fifties. The NFL conducting their annual April shindig,
And after months of chatter and build up and speculation,
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the curtain went up on the twenty twenty five NFL drafting.
And if you saw it or not, it was the
same as has always been. Not as much juice. Where's
the juice? Not as much juice? So cam Ward went
number one to the Tennessee Titans. The big talking point
(03:31):
happened for me. It happened early on. Now someone say, well,
what about Shirdar Sanders not being drafted at all? How
great is that? There were mock drafts that said this
guy was gonna be the number three pick in the draft.
Some even had him higher than that number two, number two,
and he doesn't even get picked in the first round.
Shouldur Sanders and they retired his number? Can they take
(03:54):
their number of retirement back over there at Colorado. How
embarrassing to not even be picked in the first round.
But that was not the story that got my attention.
It was a trade trade the Jacksonville football team. The
Jaguars traded up not one, not two, but three spots
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on the big boards. We had no trades up until
the start of the draft, almost like the NFL said,
don't make any trades until draft day, and we had
a few trades, teams trading back in later on, teams
trading out team I like the Rams said screw this draft,
we're out. We'll take an extra pick next year. We're done.
But cam Ward goes number one, but Jacksonville trading up
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three and they selected the Heisman Trophy winner, also from Colorado.
Unlike Shedar Sanders, this guy was picked Travis Hunter. So
he went number two in the draft, so he will
go to Jacksonville. Jacksonville gave up not one, not two,
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not three, but four picks, including a second and fourth
round selection in this year's draft. I know you're concerned
about that and their twenty twenty six first round pick
to land a player that is the most intriguing that
we have had in modern NFL draft. History, and the
idea is that they're setting the tone. This is a
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tone setting situation. The Jaguars envisioning the players Travis Hunter
as a primarily primarily a receiver, a receiver and then
he'll also play occasionally defensive back. But they already got
their number one receiver supposedly in Brian Thomas Junior. They
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got him last year. So they have Trevor Lawrence, who's
not very good. He's still still there. He's sucking money
out of the ownership because he's supposed to be good,
but he's not. And so that's where we are. So
let us discuss now. The better story is in the
losing locker room. The Browns lost a lot of games
to get the number two pick. They sucked all season
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to get the number two pick, and then they traded
back a few picks to get extra picks. So the
question is will the Browns regret trading the number two
pick and the chance to draft Travis Hunter or for
that matter, ab Dul Carter and just saying we're good.
We don't want that. So my thoughts on this, I
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have hooked on phonics, triangle and golden arches, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some delicious delicious apple pie is what
we're gonna make, all right, So a on this one,
the arrow is pointing down, down, down, down, down, down,
(06:45):
down down down that which is yes, there will be regret.
Who goofed? I've got to know. It is a marketing fail.
It is a swing enemis the Cleveland Browns, I recommend
they grab hooked on PHONEX because they read the room.
Read the room. If you're the Browns. The Browns are bad.
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They're also boring. You can't be both. And they are
the most unlikable franchise going around, right Is anyone more
unlikable in the Cleveland Browns? Seriously? You know they put
all their chips in that you know, Deshaun Watson creepy
quarterback basket a few years ago and it was like, oh,
(07:29):
they're just numb to the Browns. They don't care about
the Browns. Those that did have passion for the Browns
just like, ah, we suck again. And not to say
that Travis Hunter is a Hall of Fame player who
knows whether or not he's a Hall of Fame player,
but he does immediately add right away, right away, the
razzle dash, and there's no razzle dazzle with the Browns. Okay,
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that's Browntown. They suck. And if there was a reason
to actually watch Brown's game, it would have been Travis Hunter,
the curiosity factor in overtime, overtime. If I was the Browns,
I would have drafted Travis Hunter and played him every
fing snap. I would have even played him on special teams.
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I would have played him every single snap in the
game everything, defense, offense. Iron Man, make him the iron Man,
and the curiosity factor is a big part of it.
The versatility unprecedented in this age of don't do any
more than just the bare minimum in every facet of life.
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And here's a two way guy capable of playing both
cornerback and being a wide receiver, a modern Marvel if
he can pull it off. Very unique, very unique, and
would have had a ripple of excitement to a morbid
Browns team. So instead they traded back. They drafted a
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random defensive tackle, Mason grind from Michigan. Whoopee damn do
could turn out to be a fine NFL player, but
does lack the wow the wow factor, and no one's
going out to buy tickets or to turn on a
game to watch Mason Graham play. That's just not it.
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You're going to turn the tide on that now. Page two.
So the Jags general manager said that the player Travis
Hunter can alter the sport. He can alter the sport.
That is a bold quote, that is a money quote.
He can alter the sport. Wow, So is Jacksonville a
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good fit for Travis Hunter? So, after several minutes of
deliberation in the Mallard jury room, despite the tremendous amount
of smooching, smoochy, smoochy smoochy from the GM there, I
don't love the fit. It's not ideal. It's not ideal.
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And here's why you trade it up to get a
guy who you're planning if the earlier reports are accurate,
you're not planning on playing him both ways all the time,
just select defensive packages. So you're gonna make him mostly
a wide receiver. And you already had last year. You
picked up your number one wide receiver, so you drafted.
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You traded up to get a number two wide receiver
and a occasional defensive back. And the other factor here
which you cannot overlook, is the triangle I'm not talking
about the triangle offense here. What I'm talking about is
you play for the Jaguars, Hello, and if you go
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to Jacksonville, you are in the football Bermuda triangle. You
go there and all of a sudden there is a
rogue wave wipeout your career, some kind of magnetic anomaly
they're talking about right now over on coast to coast
(11:05):
that will take you down. If that doesn't take you down,
there'll be an alien abduction. And if you make it
out of that alien abduction, they'll drop you off in
the Lost City of Atlantis and you won't be able
to get out. And Jentual it's a starter job.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
They hired a bunch of old RAM people, so I
guess I'm supposed to say all these are great people,
but they look like total dufases. James Gladstone looks like
he should be serving ice cream somewhere, and Liam Khne,
the coach is but I think we've gone over duval
and all that. They do not exactly oose the confidence,
(11:44):
so they know what they're doing. So not a ringing endorsement,
but good luck. I'm pulling for Travis Hunter. I hope
Travis Hunter does well, and we inspire future players down
the line to attempt to play both ways. So the
last part of it as we put the bow on
the package here from the big trade early in the draft.
(12:04):
As we have our all night in depth team coverage
of the twenty twenty five NFL drafting, we'll mix in
some some other things. So what statement, what statement did
the Browns make by dealing Travis Hunter? What was the
statement they made? What statement did the Browns make by
(12:25):
dealing Travis Hunter? So they were playing, and this is
something they know a lot about special teams. They were punting.
They were punning on excitement. They were punning on aura.
They didn't want that. They didn't need that. They didn't
know what to do with that. So they didn't want
the aura. They didn't want the wow factor. Cleveland is
going back to the franchise charter. The Browns have decided, Hey,
(12:47):
listen at our core. We are the factory of sadness
and we need to provide sadness, and so let's get
back to our roots. It's like the syndicated comic strip
tank Macnum Tanky mctank right, adding a couple more scratcher tickets.
You're selling hope, and the low information fan loves it.
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They they had a chubby. They were so excited. Oh
we have extra draft picks. Oh isn't that great? It's
so exciting. It's false hope. Of course, the easiest thing
to do in the industrial complex of sport is to
trade for future draft picks. You can always sell the future.
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Everyone assumes those draft picks are all going to turn
out to be wonderful players, even though the team never
drafts the right player, and the dumb fan, the dumb fan,
always buys it. Right Cleveland, I'm telling you, right now,
I know what they're doing here. They have their eyes
on the Golden Archers. Now McDonald's Arch Manning, the Texas
(13:50):
quarterback Arch Manning, and he is projected to be the
top quarterback in the twenty twenty sixth draft. That's assuming
he actually leaves college and just doesn't keep staying in Texas.
There in Austin, but arch Manning is supposed to be
his draft twenty twenty six So you have two first
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round picks. You've got your own in Jacksonville. Jackson's gonna suck,
so they'll end up with a top ten pick. Again
in Jacksonville, and then you've got your own pick and
the Browns are tanking, so they're trying to get the
number one pick by themselves. But warning, warning, warning, warning,
be careful. The Manning family, the Manning family, the Illuminati
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of football. They are ruthless, the illuminati family of football,
the Mannings. And if you don't believe me, ask the
old San Diego Chargers. Yeah, ask about that. That Eli
Manning a smooth operator. He became the punk, but it
was because of his old man, his dad there back
in the day. So Arch Manning's the next in line.
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And it's like the Kennedy family in politics, you have
the Manning family in football. So we'll see how this
all plays out. We will talk about that anything else
you want. As are in depth coverage up the draft.
We're gonna highlight some things in the monologues at the
top of the hour, but we obviously will not be
able to get to everything. So if there's something that
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of the NFL Draft. We will talk some basketball later
on as well as the playoffs continuing. And yeah, tough
day for the trolls. I know a lot of you
boys were trying to bust my balls there and pretty
(18:49):
difficult for you to do that. And hopefully you'll have
better days ahead to bust my chops. But I win
for me, win for me, lost for you. You shuck, well,
then gets do suck? And I tried to tell you
where's that Where's that loser from Denver? They called up
talking all that trash about them? Where's that guy that
does a moron? As phone stopped working? It's funny when
(19:11):
the Nuggets lose the phone. They all the phones in
Denver don't work. It's wild. When the Nuggets win, everyone's
phone reception is great. They call in, they scream, they
shout all that. Anyway, top headlines in the draft if
you miss the monologue here, we talked a lot about
Travis Hunter and the trade Jacksonville made with Cleveland, as
the Browns are getting back to their roots here of
(19:33):
tanking and just grabbing draft picks and not even trying
to be even mildly entertaining. That's Cleveland Brown football. Jacksonville.
I'm pulling for Travis Hunter. It just looks like they
have a bunch of nimrods who are running that team.
So I'm not exactly sure I was gonna work. And
my life, I have only seen maybe one or two
(19:55):
players my entire life who have gone to Jacksonville and
it's actually worked out where they've been productive and been successful,
and it hasn't happened in a very long time, so
That's where we are on that the Shaduur Sanders story,
which continues to develop. He hasn't been drafted yet. He
was passed over. So the question is has Mike Tomlin
(20:16):
made his decision? The fact that the Steelers had the
twenty first pick in the draft they didn't take Shadu
Sanders and then also could have traded back into the
first round to get Chaudiur Sanders, they didn't do that.
Does that clearly indicate that the Steelers are all in
on Aaron Rodgers? Or does Pittsburgh take Shadar Sanders. They
(20:37):
have a second round pick, which I think is like
seventh in the second round, which will be later on
here on Friday. So do they take Shadu Sanders? You
gotta think they don't want the guy, right. If they
really wanted the guy, they would have taken him in
the first round. So why would you? Why would you
pass over him if if you think he's legit and
he can play, and he's your guy and all, why
(20:58):
would you? I know, you kissed guy's ass publicly, But
that's what most of these people do. They never trash
anyone publicly. The only time you get public assassination is
washing was private? When when somebody gets ripped, it's never
there's never a name attached to it. So Aaron Rodgers
hasn't announced anything, right, I mean, here we are, the
(21:19):
first round's over and there were only a couple of
quarterbacks that were picked in the first round of the draft. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mahlor Show as we are rolling
through the overnight. We will take your calls here in
a moment. But time now for the play of the night.
That's right, the play, well, it's the play of the
(21:40):
day for us. It's the play of the night. Let's
take it out to the Dome, the into it Dome.
The people's team taking on a multi time envp in
the Joker Nicole jokicch and the Nuggets and they won
a championship a couple of years ago. Surely Denver was
(22:00):
going to come back and beat the Clippers. And we
know playoff hardens. No good. Right, Let's see what is
the player of the day. Let's see if we can find.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Out Westbrook right, twarter and three, it's the heel and
Harden has the mess.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Finally free opportunities for the Nuggets. They can't find anything
about foods gold.
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playoff game by thirty four points over the Nuggets. I
(22:53):
know we're talking football. Just want to mention that for
those of you that weren't watching, Clippers won a playoff
game by thirty four points against a team that just
won a championship a couple of years ago. And uh, yeah,
that had that taste that tastes good, That tastes pretty good.
Yeah you like that. That was a good taste. It
tasted yummy, didn't it. Yeah? Okay, And James Harden had
(23:14):
twenty points in that game. So the Clippers up two
games to one in that that one. And I mean
to tax. Yeah, I know, we'll take some calls. Eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number. That's
eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine.
And we'll get to this later on. You're so upset
with your car, you don't want to talk about your car.
(23:36):
You don't want to discuss your car because you're that
upset about the car. So you're not gonna talk about
the car. And that's the story with the car, understand.
All right, very good. Let's see eeny meany miny mo.
Pick a caller by their name, and let's start out
with who do we have you. Let's say hello, Oh,
(23:57):
wait a minute, we found one person in Denver whose
phone is working. Let's go there right now. Let's go
to Jeff in Denver. Defend your squad, Jeff, go ahead,
defend your team, Jeff bro Oh wait, go ahead?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
All right, Ben, I was trying to make a bet
with you like a week ago, but you cut me off.
But it's one game.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, actually it's actually two games. The Clippers are up
two games to one. I know you're not good at math,
but they're up two games to one.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
It was one bad game. The first two games were
probably the greatest game so far in the playoffs this year,
they were neck and neck.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Let's be honest, the Clippers should be up three to
zero in this series. You're lucky you got one win.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Well, you should be lucky you got that second game.
But anyway, it's two to one.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
But see, your team is falling apart, sir, your team
is doomed. It's over. It is over.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Well, Michael Porter Junior did play with an injury tonight
that he should be out five weeks, so he's probably
gone for the series.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Oh, you're making excuses for him.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Huh Oh, he's gone.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
How about this? How about how about how about if
you play and you're on the court and you suck,
you get ripped. How about that? How about that you
pay thirty five minutes? He was embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Yeah, I don't understand why they played him. I don't,
but it's it's a roster thing. I agree as far
as the Malone firing and the Boot firing, I agree
with Boot being fired. It's they are a flawed roster.
I will admit that I am a lifelong Nuggets fan.
I'm fifty seven. The team is sixty seven years old. Okay,
so I'm a lifelong fan. I'm not dropping on I'm
(25:31):
not bailing or nothing, but.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I know you're not. I'm not saying you gonna bail
on them. But this is not they're gonna get They're
gonna lose this series. That's it. They'll be done. And
that the guy that yeah, the guy that you hired. Man,
send him back to the to the to the Nerdville
he came from. My god, what a door.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
It's not it's not. It's not a coaching issue at all.
It's a flawed roster. They are a offensive minded team.
The Clippers are a defensive minded team that has good
players that can score.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
All right, So wait a minute, now, is this a
concession speech? Are we getting now? I don't feel like
the whole sect larda. Does this not sound like a
concession speech from Jeff?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, like you would get it at a concession stand
for sure.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
No, I will admit it is.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Okay, but you knew wait time time out, Jeff. All right,
you say you watch the Nuggets, your your whole life.
You probably go back to you know, the Alex English
and Fat Lever and all those guys. Fine, okay, fine, okay,
David thomp my condolences. But here's the thing. Okay, you
knew that before the series. You knew before the series
it was a flawed roster. You knew that going in.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Yeah, usually they can outscore or play some defense to
control it. They did in the first two games. This
game was just.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Okay, all right, but we're going. I feel like we're
going in circles. I feel like we're going. I feel
like we're going.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
We'll see how they come back in game two, I mean,
in game four, in game four, if it's.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Game four, Yeah, that's a must win. You'd agree, that's
again the number four gener you'd agree that's a must win. Right,
you'd agree, you have to be that's a must win.
It's a muscle. They're gonna come back down. They're gonna
win every game.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Come on, Well, it's gonna probably go six at least.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Okay, well that's a very very confident. All right. Listen,
I give you credit for calling in. I didn't think
you'd call in, Jeff, so I'll give you credit half credit.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Ben Ben Nuggets do make this comeback. You actually have
to eat Rocky Mountain oysters, not just jerky actual oysters.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I ate Rocky Mountain oysters, sir, you are talking I
what was what was the jerky made out of?
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Because I had to chew the protest No that it
was worse. Everyone says it's worse. I ate nobody. I
ate the cow testicles. It was just in jerky form.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
What ben? You're that confident in your clip?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yes, the Clippers are winning, there's no there's no payback.
But what are you gonna do? I don't even know you.
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (28:08):
You're so confident in the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Yes, they're going to win. It's the year the Clippers.
I bashed them before the playoffs. They'll win. This will
be the year they win. I bashed them.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Here, what's dodging the question? If the Nuggets make this
miraculous comeback, I will eat.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I've already Why would I do something I've already done.
I've already eaten. I did eat? How daius? I'm offended
by that. You've offended me? I And what was it
made out of?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
They can flavor it up, it's different.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
It was it was made out of ball. Bull balls
is what it was made out.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Take the bet? You're so confident, Yeah, they're gonna win.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
There's no concern geverd this guy get out. Yes, they're winning,
Clippers are winning. They're winning. I mean, come on, he
was too he's too scared to make the bet. You, Jeff,
you were making a concession speech. You just made a
concession speech. Everyone heard it. Everyone heard it. Rick Oh
(29:10):
writes in and says, Ben, you know you're right. This
Clipper team better than the Lakers about that? Well, thank you,
Rick for coming from you. I did not expect that.
Mister irrigation writes and says, the Texans propaganda machine is
spinning it up. Convince me why picking thirty third is
better than twenty fifth. I'm sure it is a new math. Well, yeah,
(29:33):
there was. Well you get the same kind of player.
It's not that big a deal. You get extra picks
and all that crap. Old, there you go. What else
were we Let see page down? Grapes writes in Montana,
Mike says, I fully expect you to rip the nuggets
and praise the Clippers. Just acknowledge the greatness of the joker,
(29:56):
as he's averaging a triple double for the series, and
he been being double and triple teamed. Eh, I'm good.
I've spent a lot of my time pointing out athletes
that are great stat compilers, great stack compilers, and if
(30:17):
you're not, it's not part of a winning environment. It
doesn't really impress me that much. But if you're impressed
by it, Montana, Mike, and I'm good for you. Good
for you. I'm not. I've seen players like in other sports.
Dakota Prescott put up great stats, Hell Scheer Sanders at
Colorado put up great stats, and the NFL doesn't think
he's worthy of being a draft in the first round.
(30:40):
Not so much. What else do you have to see?
Page down, We'll skip over that. Takoma dru says Ben
Travis Hunter is not the first, last, or only player
playing both ways. I am sick of people saying he's
the only one doing it. Have you googled the Ravens
Patrick Card who two time All Pro? Guess what he plays?
(31:03):
Three hundred STAPs on defense, offense, and special teams. Yeah,
and he's not. He's not an impact guy too. If
you don't understand, uh, and by the way, your your
math on that is wrong if you look at offense
and defense. In fact, we have that later on. Uh,
there's a question that we will pose I want to.
I don't want to ruin it right now because then
you'll ruin the bit later. But just keep listening to
(31:24):
Coma Drew that it actually is something. If if Hunter
can play both ways, hasn't happened in a long long time.
So what else do we have? This is your page down? Uh.
Tammy in Montana says, I'm so upset about my car
right now. As a matter of fact, look what happened. Wow,
(31:45):
somebody looks like they they shot her windshield with a
I hope that's a pellet gun and not a real gun.
It's hard to tell. And then right there right in
the front it would appear that's that sucks? Is it?
Because you had Green Bay Packers stuff they didn't Maybe
they didn't like the packers. They're upset with the packers.
(32:05):
I don't know. People do get aggressive over teams. Ben Yeah,
well yeah, but that's a come on. What's going around
just rainly? You're shooting pellets at random cars in Vegas?
What's up with that? Mickey in State forty eight, right
since says great Mallard monologue. At this rate, I would
not be shocked if ham Scataboo were drafted ahead of
(32:26):
Sugar Sanders, so he says. Robbie the Marina fan says,
friendly advice. Emulate the great dictators of our age and
quell the strike by violent means before it really takes off,
says Robbie the Mariner. Feit okay. Shannon Moyes says, what
a first round of the NFL draft. It was mind
blowing and action packed. I don't know about that. I'm
(32:48):
not gonna lie I I was not fully locked in.
I'd go back. I had it timed out. I knew
how much time I had between picks, and so I
would go watch the basketball, and then I'd wait and
and I knew I had about ten minutes or so
a little less than that, and then I'd flip back over.
I'd flip back over anyway. But he does say, unless
(33:10):
it wasn't eight plus plus on the mall of MYO log,
if we skip the Leprechaun call tonight, we can enjoy
this Friday morning. So he said, So he says, Benito
the long suffering Cowboy fan rights and says the Clippers
will win the NBA title for Clipper Daryl. Yeah. Clipper
Darrel is still recovering from getting knocked out by some
(33:34):
loser security guard down on skid row at that dump
of an arena. The Clippers is to play at back
in the day. Anyway, It is the Bean Maler Show.
Upset with your car? You don't want to talk about
the car? Time now for the who am I? Game?
And with cam Ward going number one overall in the
NFL Draft, I was the last player picked at the
(33:56):
top pick in the NFL who was not a quarterback,
offensive tackle, or pass who again, the last player who
was drafted at the very top of the first round
in the NFL that was not a quarterback, an offensive tackle,
or a pass rusher. Who am I? That is the question?
(34:17):
But what is the answer. We'll get to it and
we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
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Speaker 1 (34:30):
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And we are hanging out together on the Ben Mahler
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(34:54):
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Speaker 1 (35:53):
And back to it we go. Time for the who
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Speaker 3 (36:24):
Game?
Speaker 1 (36:25):
With camp Ward going at the top of the draft
on Thursday night in Green Bay. I was the last
player picked number one overall in the NFL who was
not a quarterback, offensive tackle, or pass rusher. Who am I?
That is the question? What is the answer? Maladprop guy's
(36:46):
going with Jeff in Denver, the guy that just called up.
That's probably what he looks like. Who else do we have?
Paid down? Mister Unlimited from Scrooge in the Bay Area,
Raub the goat Man going with legendary Browns kicker Oscar Pistorius.
All right, he's out of jail, right, I think he's
(37:08):
a danger mouse from Milkman Mike in Colorado. Berg Dog says,
socks with sandals on the beach. Guy, Yeah, that's that's
not that's a no, no, that is a fashion faux.
Paul Mike Glennon from Alf the Alien Opiner the Human Draft?
What else? Page down Milkman Mike and Colorado. Guess by
(37:29):
Shane in Des Moines, Domaso Garcia, Blue Jays nineteen eighty seven,
legend from mister nice guy. Who else we have a
Megan Fay who is thirty five today from Late Night
drug tester, Page down, page down, Patricia Pelinkis, she's ranked
(37:49):
up there on the Texans Big Board. Okay, Ben Jarvis,
that was from mister Irrigation, Ben Jarvis. Kreen Ellis guests
by Malibu Rubin. That's his answer. G Man in Chicago
says eighteen ninety seven Chicago colt a Donnis. Terry is
Tony Boselli from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Yeah. Who else
(38:12):
do we have a? Travis Hunter's forehead? Guests by Greg
the real estate mogul in Baltimore, Brian Bosworth from Kelly
that's her. It's our friend Donut Kelly. Now she's no
longer Donut Kelly. Sebastian Janakowski guests by Steve he misplaced
Sandy Agin. Who else do we have? Terry in England
(38:34):
says it is none other than Brock Perdy. It's very funny.
Mister irrelevant. Mickey in State forty eight says Nick Kurtz
is the answer. Page down. Christian McCaffrey from Gunner in
the Walmart in Northern Minnesota, spocks Weed says, Dion Sanders
(38:55):
or Fraser Crane is the way to go. Okay, Lorrain,
now here's the question. One more time. I was cam
Warden went to the top of the draft at Tennessee.
I was the last player pick number one overall in
the NFL who was not not a quarterback, offensive tackle,
or pass rusher.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
This one was really complicated for me, Ben how to
do a lot of Google searching.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Was it a.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Concession, Yes, a concession indeed, But Paris Hilton is Paris Hilton.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
I have decided to go with Yeah, she was very
fast back in the day on high side. Not a
big upside, but a high upside. Let's see is that correct?
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Now?
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Is in correct? The answer? Key? Sean Johnson's the answer
to give me the damn ball. That was all the
way back in nineteen ninety six. That means next year,
if no none of those players other than a quarterback,
offensive tackle, or pass rushers picked, that'll be thirty years
thirty years only those three positions have been picked at
(39:55):
the top of the draft.
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