February 25, 2025 • 49 mins
Big Ben talks about the Packers trying to ban the "Tush Push" play popularized by the Eagles, the Chargers being the favorites to land WR Cooper Kupp from the Rams, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Drew Barrymore Edition, 2025 Benny Award Nominees are revealed, and more!
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about the rules of the game and some changes coming
in the next month or sore, at least conceivably changes
coming in the next month or so. If you have
not heard and perhaps not here, we got you covered.
We got you covered on this. So we've learned how
the Green Bay Packers, that's a football team. It's community owned,
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but stock's not worth anything anyway. The Green Bay Packers
have submitted paperwork to the NFL to banish the notorious
philadel Fi Eagles tush push. The Packers are saying, no tush,
get tush out of the NFL, is what they're saying.
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I assume you know, because you're listening to a sports
talk radio show at a time most people are not
that the toush push is the short yardage garonty for
the team from Philadelphia. Now, the CEO of the Packer
football team, a guy named Mark Murphy. Mark Murphy and
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he voiced dis pleasure, not happy with the play there,
upset with the signature play of Nick Sirianni and the
reigning Super Bowl champions said this about a month ago.
He can play in. The formation features a couple of
players lining up right behind quarterback Jalen Hurts and then
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shoving his tushy and pushing him over the line the
gain across the line of scrimmage after obviously he gets
the snap there and runs the quarterback sneak and when
cold and Philadelphia, it has been nearly unstoppable, nearly unstoppable
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in Philly, but not the rest of the NFL. The
success rate of Jalen Hurts and the Eagles, that is
the superpower. It is not necessarily the superpower for the
rest of the NFL. So let us discuss the question
what is the what is the word? What is the
word for the Packers trying to ban the toush push.
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So I've got and we'll get to the word in
a minute. But my thoughts on this. We have pugophobia,
Kareem abdul Jabbar and American gladiators, and we will combine
all of these things together and we're gonna put them
under the magnifying glass is what we're going to do
right under the magnifying glass. So to answer the question,
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what's the word for the Packers trying to ban the
toush push, my word is cowardly. That's my word. I'm
going with cowardly. You could also use chicken hearted, which
I believe is synonym of cowardly, but either one of
those work. But I'm going with cowardlye And here's why.
Here's why the great bit Packers ought to be embarrassed
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early on. Honestly, well, that's not unattractive play. But I've
evolved my position over the use. I thought the NFL
is gonna get rid of this the first year the
Eagles ran the play, I thought they were gonna get
rid of it because it's not good television. But much
like Major League Baseball, which got rid of the shift,
which I thought was stupid, I also think this is
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equally stupid. I have no skin in the game. I'm
not a fan of the Philadelphia Eagles. With apologies to
Fats in Philly and Jonathan and Delaware and all the
other Eagle fans that are loyal minions of the Mallard militia.
But you know that. But the packers fan based and
the organization should be embarrassed because like, what are you
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doing here? Right? We can't beat it, we can't replicate it,
so we'll ban it. We'll just get rid of it.
And it's just a loser mentality, right, So tell me
you have a loser mentality without telling me directly, you
have a loser mentality. It really is one of those
Southwest Airlines commercials from back in the day. You want
to get away. If you're a Green Bay Packer person,
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you want to get away. You're the team trying to
change the rule. You're the one that's proposing this. Right now,
we'll see if it actually sticks or not. But my goodness,
right you talk about soft serve now die diagnosis. I
am not a doctor, but I can play one on
overnight talk radio and as a untrained amateur doctor. My diagnosis.
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The Green Bay Packers are suffering from pugaphobia. Now, what
is pugaphobia? It is fear of the butt docks. That
is what the packers are afraid of. That touch push
they're afraid of that touch eight push eight is what
they are. It's not that deep. Okay, just go int
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the weight room. You know, lift some weights, become bigger, stronger, faster,
and you too can run the play at a similar
clip as the team from Philadelphia. And the play has
grown on me from the standpoint. It shows you who's
actually putting the time in in the gym on the
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offensive line and Jalen Jalen Hurts, he's not my favorite quarterback,
but he's obviously physically gifted in terms of raw strength
in the leg department and to be pushed by his
teammates here. But it is a throwback play. It hearkens
back to the olden days of the NFL where back
of the old days you were supposed to get low
and explode off the football and low person wins the
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battle and it was all about pushing forward and all
that stuff. Now, the NFL over the years has embraced
the wussification. If you've seen the kickoff, you know what
I'm talking about. But just in the case of the
Green Bay Packers, it's do better and be better now
page two. If you are Jalen Hurts, if you are
Jalen Hurts and the Eagles, what is your reaction to
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this news that the team from Green Bay is trying
to ban the tushy pushy. So if your Jalen Hurts on,
this is really not that hard. If you're Jalen Hurts,
it is a trip down the catwalk. You are walking
down the catwalk, you are a dressed well and you
and your offensive lineman can do a Pirouet Steet's spin
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on the catwalk. There. Congratulations. Now it's not ben yet. However,
all right, However, the fact that the Packers are working
to ban the play is such a flex for Jalen Hurts.
It'll add to the legend the mythology of Jalen Hurts
and the Eagles offense here. If it is outlawed, that
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would be a tremendous feather in the old cap of
the Eagles if it happens that way, because very few
things have been outlawed plays like this. And there's some comparisons.
I think the most famous one that I heard when
I was a kid was Kareem Abdul Jabbar, who was
known as leu Ale Sinder at UCLA, and he was
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so dominant the Nced double a band, the slam Dunk.
A lot of people don't know that. Of your a
younger age, you might not know that. But the nc
double A actually got rid of the slam dunk. Do
you imagine a basketball operation saying we can't have the
slam dunk anymore, right, And they did it because they
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said it was not a skillful play. What does that
sound like? It sounds like what they're saying about the
Toush push. And the rules committee said the ban was
a result of injury concerns in the NCAA. What are
the NFL people say, Well, it's not a safe play
and it's not a skillful play. Those are the same
arguments that are being made against the Tousch push that
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were made against the slam dunk when they banned that.
And they even had data even back then before big
nerds took over the world, and they claimed the NCAA,
the people that banned the slam dunk, that there were
like fifteen hundred times where players were heard around the
backboard because of the slam dunk, and so they had
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to get rid of it. And it's the same playbook
that people are using you to try to get rid
of the Toush push in the NFL. And the slam
dunk being banned was called the lu Al cinder rule
andmitted players from making shots above and directly over the cylinder.
So it's a similarly, there's still be a quarterback sneaks,
but you can't push and all that. Now, last word,
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so the NFL owners have to decide whether or not
they want this thing outlawed. Are they gonna get rid
of it or not? The NFL owners could vote on
the proposal next month at the annual league meetings. They're
in beautiful Palm Beach. For it's odd that the NFL
owners never meet in like Wisconsin in the winter. They
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never go to Ohio or Minnesota in the winter. They
might go there in the summer, but they don't go there.
And there's always a tropical destination. Have you noticed that? Yeah? Anyway,
So if the proposal does not get taken off the ballot,
packers could retract the or withdraw the proposal. I guess
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it's the proper verbiage. So if the proposal goes to vote,
then they need twenty four votes out of the thirty
two teams to the play. So twenty four out of
thirty two if they vote in favor and the play
is outlawed, see you later. So how should the NFL
handle the tush push going forward. So the obvious answer,
you know my position on this. The answer is to
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just do nothing and say go pound saying to the
packers here and keep it around. If anything. The one compromise,
the common ground I will give you is to level
the playing field. Now, the way you would level the
playing field, since you are allowing two players to push
the tushy of a jailing person a jailer hurts, I
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think what we should do is have equal tushy pushy
on both sides. So instead of just the offensive players
being allowed to partake in this, how about you allow
the linebackers to push the defensive tackles and make it
like American gladiators back in the day, a game of
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tug of war, and may the strongest team win, because
right now it's not. There are defensive players that can
match up strength wise with the offensive line, and Jalen
Hurts of the Eagles, they're not given the opportunity because
if they do that, it is a penalty against the defense.
That's make it a strong man competition. Who's against that?
Who would not like a strong man competition to decide
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who gets the first down? I don't know anyone who's
got half a brain who doesn't think that's a great idea.
And as for the it's not fair crowd, you must
get rid of the torch pusch it's not fair. Well,
everyone has the same opportunity to run the play, so
it's absolutely fair. Just because your team sucks at it
is not the Eagles problem. It's not. And you could
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also argue that for many teams in the NFL, if
you've watched in recent years, the forward pass is also
a play that is not fair because if you don't
have a quarterback named Mahomes or Joe Josh Allen, someone
like that regular season Lamar Jackson, then chances are your
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team is not that good at throwing it and your
quarterback can't throw it as accurately or as far as
those quarterbacks, So it's an unfair advantage. And many players
get hurt when they catch passes because if they don't
catch passes, it's hard to get hurt. So if you
want to play that game, we can. We can play
that game, and what a fun game it is. And
I'm not against playing the game.
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App Sorrly this hour is from the speculation Room. That's
not politics. We don't do politics here. We do sports.
So it's NFL style, some rumbling, rumbling, rumbling as the
NFL combine gets going the traditional gossip mill in Indianapolis. Now,
the real events start later in the week, but the
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gossip will begin immediately on Tuesday, throughout the day and Wednesday,
and it'll crank up throughout the weekend all the way
through Monday. But the rumbling in my stommach comes out
of LA That is where the Chargers made the playoffs
and then exited stage left. They fizzled out and meekly
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against the Houston football team. The Texans kicked their tuckus
in a playoff game. So if you've not heard the
latest on this, perhaps not. It's year two of Jimbo,
Jim Harbaugh and his era. So we're hearing now that
Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers brainiacts over there are on
the war path and they are absolutely hell bent to
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land a premium wide receiver this offseason. They would like
to improve the duo of Ladd McConkie, who was a
rookie mcconkee and played all right in Quinton Johnson, who
was spotty and made a few plays here and there,
but not consistently great. Now, the gambling market is that
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the Chargers are the favorite to land Rams wide receiver
Cooper Cup. At the gambling market says, Cooper Cup will
just stay in La He'll go across Sofi Stadium and
put on the lightning bolt and put down the ram horns.
So let us discuss the question, the Chargers the betting
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favorite for wide receiver Cooper Cup. Would that be a
good fit? Would that be a good fit. So I've
got sky Miles, Confectionery, and leg room, and we will
combine all of these things together, and we are going
to make a money back guarantee like a late night infomercial.
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Is what we're going to do, So, num burn I said,
Num burn I said number. So I'm gonna go thumbs
down on this. I do not think this would be
a good fit for the Chargers. I don't quite understand it. Now. Again,
I have no ill will against Cooper Cup. I don't
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know him in real life. I just know him as
a name and a player that I have watched for
a number of years with the Rams, who didn't win
a Super Bowl MVP, but Cooper Cup had for years
when he played been great. You knew he didn't play
all the time, but he played. He was always very good.
And even that started to vanish. In twenty twenty four.
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He took a back seat to Pukin Deaku and as
the season went on. Over the last six games, including
a playoff winning against the Vikings and a loss against
the Philadelphia Eagles in the snow in Philadelphia, Cooper Cup
averaged less than twenty four yards per game, less than
twenty four yards receiving per game. The problem for the
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Chargers is the reputation precedes Cooper Cup and the reputation
of the Chargers. So you could argue this is a
perfect match. You could make that argument, but it's not
just that Cooper Cup looked like he was starting to
lose it at the end of last year. You look
at the DNA of the charge, Cooper Cup appears to
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be damaged goods now. Sometimes damaged goods get a change
of scenery and they turn out to be fine. We
all know that, but he's got a dent over here.
There's some kind of scratches and some rust over there.
Not your normal wear and tear. It's more than your
normal wear and tear with Cooper Cup. And he's picked
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up a lot of sky miles. He's flying the injury
plane is what he's flying here. And in recent years,
Cooper Cup has had four ankle injuries, a couple of
high ankle sprains, ACL issues, and other various bumps and
bruises from playing in professional football. He also turns thirty
two before the start of next season. Happy early birthday.
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The projections on players with that injury history at that
age are not good. Now, that tells you what has happened.
That doesn't tell you what's going to happen. Is unique.
There's always the player that defies what has happened. And
do you want to bet on defying the comps? Do
you want to bet on that? Right? And the franchise
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Charger though the franchise charter for the Chargers HEAs for
me to say, But the franchise charter for the Chargers,
Cooper Cup would be the epitome of a modern Charger
player because they can't get enough of damaged goods. They're
really solid at picking up players that have a super skill,
a super power of getting heard. Now, turning the page,
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turning the page, we stay with the theme disgruntled pass
catchers for a thousand. We head now to the lone
Star State, page two, as the combine inches closer. Here,
news out of Houston. What is the news? We're hearing
that wide receiver Stefon Diggs, Remember him, all those dopey Bills,
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mafia people, Andy the comic book guy. Oh, he and
Josh Allen or Fred they love each other. Oh they're
lovey dovey. Yeah, yeah, I love when fans think one
thing and it couldn't be further from the truth. Well,
we know the truth came out in the end. Stefan
Diggs and Josh Allen they might like each other, but
they don't like working together. So Stefan Diggs was decommissioned
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by the Buffalo Bills and he was sent down to
the Houston Texans. And so now the noises we're hearing this,
Stefan Diggs is not expected back with the Texans. Give
me your school of thought on Diggs likely moving on
to his next NFL outpost, out in the wild blue yonder.
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So the word I have is predictable. Predictable is the
word I am. I'm going with. Stefan Diggs in Houston
was a dummy run, right, He was a dummy run.
It was a flyer moves like, ah, let's see if
this works out. We need a receiver. He's a receiver,
and he's got some issues. But maybe a change of
scenery every it'll be great. And so the Texans gave
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up pretty much nothing to get Stefan Diggs, and he
went there and they visited the confectionery and they got
a double scoop of Rocky Road ice cream with all
the chopped almonds and the marshmallows and the chocolate ice
cream and all that. And c J. Stroud, the quarterback
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of the Houston football team, turns out apparently he's lactose
intolerant when it comes to Stefan Diggs and the Rocky
Road ice cream, and so he had a tummy ache.
And yeah, not working out because the only reason to
not bring him back is if there was a legitimate riff. Otherwise,
why would you at least not negotiate with the player
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and try to bring him back. But by all indications,
the Texans are like a we're good, you go somewhere else.
We're good. You know, don't call us, we'll call you
that kind of thing. And Digs is a hammerhead, if
you will. And he also had an ACL go snap
crap pop. Easy for me to say, snap crackle pop
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there midseason, right, So he had that, So the Texans
will be on the proud. We know they're looking for
a new wide receiver too. We know that Tank Dell,
the Tank is in the warehouse there getting some repairs done.
I remember week sixteen his knee was shredded there and
so he's out for this season upcoming when it starts
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in September. Unlikely he'll be back at any point in
any meaningful way. Now, final thought, we go down to
the Mile High Club, not the Mile High City, the
Mile High Club where randomly this story pops up. These
are the kind of random stories that you get this
time of the year. So everyone's on their way to Indianapolis.
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All roads lead to Indy for the combine, which is
going to drive sports talk, radio conversation and internet gossip
and all of that. So I bring this up because
randomly the Raiders the Raiders head coach Pete Carroll was
spotted by random people on a flight from Seattle to Indianapolis.
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I would say, well, who cares. I would assume that
he flew there, and he did not take a Amtrak train
or take a Greyhound bus or drive himself. It was
more probable than not that Pete Carroll, who lives in
the Seattle area still hasn't relocated to Vegas yet, that
he would fly to Indianapples. So what's the story. We'll explain.
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So Pete Carroll was spoted on this flight by other
people on the flight on his way to Indianapolis heading
to the combine, and Pete Carroll, who is a coach,
sat in coach.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah, Pete Carroll, NFL head coach, was not sitting in
the first class section of the flight. And there were
of course media dopes and some other fan types that
we're taking shots here at the Raiders organization. How could
Pete Carroll be forced to sit with a great, unwashed
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flying coach and what's wrong with the Raiders and Mark
Davis and all that stuff. NFL gurus railing railing against
the Silver and Black saying that Pete Carroll deserved better.
He deserved better. So the Raiders are being called cheap.
They're being called cheap for Pete Carroll's seat on the
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flight to the Combine not being a first class seat,
So is that fair or foul? Is that fair or foul?
The Raiders are being put on blast because of this.
So I actually have this as a fab ball on
the replay assist faball is how I have it. So
it's actually kind of refreshing and cool to see an
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NFL head coach be relatable to have to deal with
what we have to deal with when we travel around.
These guys are not gods, they're not They're just the
merely coaching ball is all they're doing. They're coaching ball.
And on this one, whether it was intentional or unintentional,
Pete Carroll looked like the everyman sitting there in the back.
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And Pete Carroll I wouldn't be shocked if he prefers
to fly coach. He did have an exit row, so
he was sitting in an exit row, and that's good
because you love that extra legroom that you get on
an exit row. That's the way to go. You don't
have to be squished in there like a bunch of
sardines when you sit in the exit row and they
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give that spiel and then you say, okay, we're good,
and then that's it. It's also possible he's a savvy
traveler and he took a page out of the NBA
officials from years ago and Major League Baseball umpires, and
the Raiders did buy him a first class ticket, and
then he downgraded to coach, and it's conceivable that Pete
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might have pocketed the money pay for a first class ticket,
but you spend a coach price and you pocket the difference,
And of course he could have done that. Or it's
just hey, whatever, the guy's worth, like forty fifty million
dollars or something like that, from all the NFL money
the college money he's made. So I'm pretty sure if
he wanted to fly first class, he could, And from
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what I've been told, it is the standard practice. If
you have a head coaching job in the NFL and
you travel to an NFL event, you fly first class.
Everything is first class in the NFL now. Occasionally, teams
like the Bears were called out because if people were
interviewing for jobs, they wouldn't they wouldn't give them the
VIP treatment. But outside of that, you're you're in good shape.
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And I do think it's also hilarious from what I
was observing here that people were saying that Pete got
up to go take a whiz on the flight to
Indianapolis from Seattle. The Raiders coach and the flight attendant
gave him a warning, saying that he had to sit
and wait until the beverage carts had gone by. He
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could not go up to the first class commode because
you know, he was not a first class member. He
had a weight with everyone else back there. So I
thought that was cool. So we speak the same language.
We speak the same language.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
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Speaker 1 (26:25):
It's Mallard, how about that racer? I know, I know
this is going to hell, said Cleveland Indians. All right,
here we go, Lorraina, here we go, Here we go,
here we go.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
All right, Yes, lots of people considered I'm not the
rain of it. I know that lots of people considered
Jim Harbaugh's first season as Chargers head coach to be
a success. Though I'm sure fans weren't happy with the
way that the season ended, just like it ends every
other season for the Chargers. Ben, what are the Chargers
need to do to get to the next level?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Well, Justin Herbert has to stop riding the vomit comet
in playoff games. He's played in two playoff games. Had
a to a twenty seven point choke job against Jacksonville.
They blew the lead. He did nothing in the second half,
and then he kept turning the ball over against the
Houston Tentions. He's got to play better. They obviously have
to get some better players around him. But Herbert hasn't
played well in big games. That's you know, that's on him.
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He's the franchise quarterback.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Next, it was reported back in December that the NFL
would be making a decision sometime in the spring about
players participating in Olympic flag football in twenty twenty eight games.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, and Ben, spring is right around the corner. What
do you think the decision will be. Well, they have
to get they have to get insurance and if as
long as an insurance company will sign off on allowing them.
From a liability standpoint, if guys tear their knees up
they're allowed to play, then the NFL will sign up
on it. They want it because they're never even get
tackle football the Olympics. That's the only chance they have next.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
After another embarrassing loss to the Celtics on Sunday, the
Knicks are now zero to five against the Cavs and
Celtics this season, being outscored by an average of twenty
one point two points per game.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, Ben, they're inevitable.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
After their inevitable second round exit, what changes do you
see coming to New York?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Well, if they continue like this, Tom Thibodau is gonna
be fired. I mean that's obvious. How do we do
You've passed there? It is. That's a win, hi one.
You could have done better, Ben, Turn your mic off?
How about that? Zip bit? Zip bag?
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Speaker 1 (28:43):
All Right, here we go, time to play Malos amount
of Money. Let's welcome in our contestants, and who do
we have you? It's the eeny Meeni Mini Moe. We've
got Brian in Almoney. Hello, Brian, welcome.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Hello, man, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I'm good? Now you're driving around? You're distracted? Are you
gonna be able to focus on the game.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I've got this game, Ben, you.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Sure about that? I've heard that before?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Ah, you never know.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
He does seem pretty confident though. Yeah. Well he's driving though.
Guys driving sometimes need to get distracted. You all right, well,
hold on, who do you want to play with?
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Brian?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You got me? Or if you really want to have
some fun, Lorena or cool? You know, Ben, I gotta
go with you, all right, man, we're in it to
win it. We'll very kind, thank you. And let's see here,
Lorena pick one, two or three? Lorena? Let's go number three?
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Number three? All right? You picked Mark in Ithaca. Hello, Mark, welcome, Welcome?
How you doing? Man? You guys are like neighbors. Man.
You can go hang out with Brian. You got that
far away shovel snow together. Yeah, Live the dream, Live
the dream? Sure clear? Surrounded about jill fans and losers?
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Oh I see interesting? Well, who do you want to
partner up with there? Mark, how you know?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Right? Interesting? What's what's the what's happening? Am I missing? No?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
No?
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Okay, so they just all know I'm a sports.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I recognize something there, so we'll tell all right, Yeah, alright,
let's go.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
This is Malard's Mountain of Money, the Drew Barrymore addition,
do you think we're being pranks?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Is that? No? No, we're not being brand all right?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
She turned fifty years old over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Fifty, that's right.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
The categories are et, the extraterrestrial, the wedding singer, fifty
first dates, and miss you already?
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Brian, you were on the air first. Which category would
you like?
Speaker 4 (30:53):
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
And Mark? How about you? All right? All right, Brian,
we are going to go first year on the air first.
These athletes all suffered head injuries, famous head injuries. Are
you prepared here? Yeah? Are you sure you're prepared? All right,
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let's play again. We need the first and last name,
first and last name, and we're on our way and go.
A quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs right now? Oh
my god, oh wow, are you kidding me? All right? Lorena? Yes,
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quarterback for the forty nine ers after Joe Montana left
handed quarterback. Yes, Cleveland Cavaliers. Storry was on the Jazz
is nicknamed Spider. All right, third the third basement for
the Red Sox. He doesn't want to leave third base
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even now they signed that cheating astro. Oh, this is
going as well as I thought it would be. All right,
Well that was You knew we were in Joe when
he couldn't figure out Mahomes name. That was a bad son.
The man's been in the last three Super Bowls. Okay,
all right, sweet.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Mark, we've got a we've got a tough hill to
climb here.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yes, you're down, but thirty yeah, thirty points you got
thirty commandingly unbelievable about already?
Speaker 4 (32:31):
All right, Mark, we have e t the extraterrestrial. These
pro athletes were not born in the USA. Forty five seconds.
That's the begin the Japanese phenom on the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
DONI full name please?
Speaker 4 (32:46):
He yes, okay, he said both names. The player that
just got traded from the Mavericks to the Lakers. Yes,
the white point guard from Canada. He was on the
Mavericks and the Sons. He won two MVPs.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yes, this guy's from the congo.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
He blocked shots.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
No no, no to cam Bag mcmbo. Resident.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Yes, wow, this guy the al batting titles named after him.
He's from Panama. He was on the Twins and the Angels.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Stuck dude, du Lay Tulay Toulay, good job, good job,
too lait and he got it after a buzzer. Well
we still got this guy is man. You probably get
massages like Justin Tucker. All right, we're up everywhere. Well no,
he converted, supposedly according to Adam sam Anyway, all right, Brian,
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we're up again.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
What do you got?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Wedding singer or MISSI already? Okay, wedding singer. These athletes
got married within the last year. Are you ready? Here
we go forty five seconds run away go quarterback for
the Lions right now, yes, forty nine ers quarterback. He
was mister irrelevant and now he was in the Super
Bowl a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yes, the Greek freak for the Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
He didn't.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
What's his first name?
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Point guard for the Boston Celtics when they when they
won a championship with Doc Rivers. He played for the Lakers,
also out of Kentucky. No, play with Paul Pierce, though
a shortstop for the Royals when they won the when
they had one wars. He's Rookie of the Year made
the playoffs this past year. His dad was a pitcher
for the Rangers. No boy, good effort. Yeah it was
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Bobby Wit Junior, Rajon Rondo and Jannis. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
You technically got thirty thirty points that time too, because
he didn't say giannis.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
He only said a ten.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Oh stop fish, don't because shot all right, don't be
a mark with you.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
You know you guys a ringer. Go find the find
the white suit, mark find the white Suit.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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The twenty twenty five nominees for the Benny Awards. We
have the nominees I'm gonna run through these year. These
are the nominees for all the various awards for the show.
And we're excited about this now that the categories for
the twenty twenty five venues we have Rookie Caller of
the Year. Now some people think that we only have
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the same people that call up every single night to
the show, and no one knew ever calls the show,
but we actually have people that do call in that
are new that find the show that worked the third shift.
Some people listen for a long time, but they start
calling the show randomly on a whim. The nominees for
Rookie Caller of the Year are Daniel America's favorite crossing
guard from Fort Wayne, Indiana, The Moe Joe Rising from
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the Bay Area, Tuna in Laguna, Mike Maleprakahn. Now here's
a controversial one, Kelly in Des Moines. Some say Kelly's
actually been listening for more than a year and calling in,
but who knows. She is listed as a Rookie Caller
of the Year formerly in Nashville. And our favorite trash
man who calls one of the great bloopers on the
(36:28):
TV show this year, Danny DeVito from Boston. So those
are the nominees. Congratulations to all the nominees for Rookie
call of the Year. Game Show Contestant of the Year
another very competitive category play a lot of dopey game shows.
The nominees for the Game Show Contestant of the Year
we have Coach Russell from Orlando High School football. Like
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the Belichick of High school football in Orlando, and he's
called the show quite a bit recently. And we have
Manuel in Garden, a legend on the show. He is
a nominee for Game Show Contestant the Year. Chris in Massachusetts,
also Chris and Boston. Those are not the same person,
but both Game Show Horse. Mitch in man Cato and
(37:12):
nominated again for her second Benny Award, Kelly in De Moine.
So Kelly's in there as well Lame Joke Contributor of
the Year. These are actual nominees for the Benny Awards
twenty twenty five. We have Kurt from Earth. Kurt from Earth,
the legendary Chip in Maine, a great joke writer, the
man that won the title last year, very controversial figure,
(37:35):
Surfer Todd the comedian, the Great Gordon in Tacoma is
a nominee. Good Yeah by him. And Noah in Austin, right,
very competitive Ratlasi. Yes, all the nominees here for Lame
Joe Contributor of the Year, and there were some other
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names that did not make the cup which should have
been in there. To ask Ben questions, a weekly bit
that we do in the show, ask Ben the nominees
for the Benny of the Year Award. You'll be able
to vote on this alf the Alien Old Piner. Congratulations
alf Fer Dodge herd Dog and that winner won the
(38:17):
Land of Siberia, followed two I forty Ian so he's
a nominee. Also the King Rory, Cowboy Killer, Late Night
Drug Tester, and Lady Sidebirds are all the nominees for
Ask Ben questions. Good job by you, Top crew fill in,
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not that we miss many days, but sometimes we're away,
and the nominees for the Top Crew fill In. This
year we have Bree. How about that her first Zetter
first set her first nomination which he nominated last year.
Bree is one of our favorites, Mark the Great Mark.
He fills in for Lorrainer. He's the guy who's a
White Sox fan. Bernie Fratto who sits in for me
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Bernie Weekend at Bernie's The No Show. Brian No also
a nominee Lead a Laugh It's Just and for Coop
and also nominated for Top Crew fill in Milkman Mike
in Colorado for his weed man hippie impersonation. So congratulations
the drop of the Year on the Ben Mala Show.
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These are actual nominees for the show. We're not done yet.
Drop of the Year. On the show, you can vote
on all of these. Oh look, I'm a nominee. Look
at that. I'm a nominee. Give me a taste of that.
I forget what that last part is there. Give me
a little taste of that. Dick, Well, that's of course
attribute to Dick and Dayton. Lorraina. Congratulations, Lorraine, your first
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nomination for a Benny Award. Me. Yes, you're nominated. Something
about a pickle, something about a pickle there, So yeah,
that's right, bro. And I'm nominated again. Look at that
something about chewing on something. I don't know what that's about.
That must be because I had to chew the testicles.
(40:04):
That's out of context audio. And we also have hollering James.
How about that hollering James a nominee for dropping it. Yeah,
that's where he snored and farted at the same time
on the show. Most impressive thing I've ever heard. Yeah,
we didn't think that was possible. We thought you could
only snore or fart. You couldn't do both at the
same time. And yeah, I mean you talk about both ends.
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Man alive. What a talent hollering James is and how
lucky are we we found him? He found us? Man
all right? Now a category that went away, but his
back Blind Collar of the Year. He's in the nominee
for the twenty twenty five Benny Awards that helped make
the Ben Mallor Show a show. And the man that
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well he loves our show. I think he loves the
morning show in the Sports Hub with Toucher and Hardy.
I think he loves them more than us. But he
calls our show all the times you call me for
fifteen years. Blind Scott from the North end of Boston
is a nominee.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
The classically trained musician from a Rochester He's traveled all
over the world. The man known as Inca Terror nominated
for Blind Caller of the Year.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
We also have legally blind Christopher from m Carolina. Congratulations
on your nomination, am It. The blind Seahawk fan from
the Pacific Northwest. He's also nominated, And a man that
calls the show semi regularly, although more of a guy
on social media. Stevie Meatballs is nominated for Blind Caller
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of the Year. All Right, A few more categories to
go it's the nominees for the twenty twenty five Benny Awards.
Listen to our live coverage. Nobody else has it. You know,
ESBN wishes they had this, they don't. We've got it.
Nobody else has it this. We're the only one. Every
network wants this, Lareda, We're the only ones doing this
(42:05):
content right now. It's unbelievable. International Caller of the Year.
International Caller of the Year the category. Now, if you
think this show sucks in America, imagine if you're listening
in Europe or Australia or any of the other countries
the show is broadcasting, it must really suck. But the
nominees for International Call of the Year Otto bon Butch,
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who just left Germany, but he's still a candidate, A
nominee for International Call of the Year. Hank in Tokyo,
Congratulations Hank in Tokyo. A couple of Australian listeners Ozzie Wise,
he loves our show so much he bought one of
those satellite things from Elon Musk. He's out in the
boondocks in Australia and he calls and texts the show
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from out there because he's got that little satellite hookup,
dedicated Ozzie Momentum, great joke rider, Terry in England Isee,
congratulations tarrying England. He's the guy who does a lot
of lists. Leren he likes to list. And also from Montreal,
mister Hurt. Congratulations to mister Hurt from Montreal. Now, some
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would say this is the most competitive category. Most competitive
category on the show this year. Intoxicated Caller of the Year. Now,
this includes all kinds of trouble. This includes booze, drugs, pharmaceuticals,
you name it. And I'd like to think that we
lead all of talk radio in this category, that no
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one else can compete when it comes to the level
of intoxication that we provide on a nightly basis. And
it's so difficult to really whittle down this category. But
here are the nominees for Intoxicated Caller of the Year.
We have Keg Drinking Steve. He's the delusional Chiefs fan.
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He actually returned to the show few hours ago near
the podcast Jay Dot in Utah. Now j Dot went
to jail because he got hammered and got into like
a fight with cops in Salt Lake because he was
drinking too much. How about this? Mouthwash Mike is a nominee. Congratulations,
mouth washed Mike. Right, very competitive category. Jed who fled
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who's like the og of intoxication while calling sports radio?
He is a nominee and the black irishman from Omaha.
Congratulations to him. By the way, mouthwashed Mike is online.
Mouthwashed Mike, congratulations in your nomination. Mouthwash Mike, I'm here, Okay,
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thank you God? Is that not on brand? Coop? Come on?
That is perfect? He's not even paying attention. All right.
Female Caller of the Year, Female Caller of the Year, Yes, please,
we don't have many women in the college show, but
we have a few that stand out, and it's not
hard to stand out when there's not many women calling
the show probably, so all right, Female Caller of the Year,
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we have Tammy in Montana. Tammy is a legend on
the show. She works the dreaded day shift. Now, Andrea
the astrology Lady, Congratulations Andrew on your nomination for Female
Caller of the Year. Kelly in Des Moines her third nomination,
and Leslie and Brandon Florida. Now, a lot of people
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upset here that our favorite drag queen did not make
the list, but unfortunately not other All right, we have
the twenty twenty five Beer Drinking Brian Worst Caller of
the Year category. We have two categories left, the worst
Caller of the Year. These are the nominees and another
competitive category. Nobody has worse calls than we have, so
the Worst Caller of the Year in many ways is
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the highest honor on the show. Some would say so,
the twenty twenty five Beer Drinking Brian Worst Call of
the Year. The nominees are Gunner in Minnesota his first nomination.
Congratulations Gunner, you earned it.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Pal.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
That's a tough beat right there.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
I don't know how anyone beats Gunner hollering. James from
Minnesota is James second nomination. Congratulations, Mike the lepre Kahn
has been nominated. I believe Mike the Lepreca is there. Mike,
Congratulations on your nomination. Mike the Leprechaun. Congratulations. All he's
not talking there? All right? We have Poppy in San Diego.
(46:27):
How does anyone be Poppy? I think he's the uh
last year's he the raining shot. He's gotta be the
Raining champion, right, Poppy in San Diego? I mean this guy.
Oh hey, how about Jerome and Charleston? All right, Jerome,
way to go. Well, you're up for the beer drinking
Brian Worst Caller of the Year and the final category.
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And here it is the most competitive category, some would say,
the Genie and Medford Memorial Caller of the Year award
the highest honor and overnight sports talk radio. And here
are the nominees. You'll be able to vote on this.
The link will be sending out in a moment. Here
the nominees for the Genian Medford Caller of the Year.
Here's a shocking nominee, Andre in the Commonwealth and soon
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a multi time caller of the Year, a man that
will declare himself the winner whether he wins or not.
Marcel in Brooklyn right, a man that has also won
previous Call of the Year honors in years past and
now is a semi regular caller to the show. Whoop
be Pie Blair from Maine is a nominee. Right. Another
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multi nomination goes out to our nominee. Our next nominee
for Caller of the Year, Jed who fled Congratulations, Jed
who fled.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
Our next nominee is a man that has regaled us
over the last year with call by call details on
the O. J. Simps' thirty year old murder trial. We
welcome in helmet Man. Congratulations helmet Man. If the glove
don't fit, you must have quit. How about weed Man Hippie?
Every week weed Man? We love weed Man Hippie is
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a nominee. There are two nominees left for the Genian
Medford Caller of the Year. A guy that hangs out
occasionally in the jungle and he comes to our show
as well, and call me since I was doing local
radio back in the day. Manuel in guard Dina in
Southern California. Congratulations Manuel on your nomination for Caller of
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the Year. And the final nominee. Here we go, the
final nominee for the Ben Maller Show, Genia Medford. Do
you want a drum roll? I would love it. Draw
I need a drum roll? I need I need a
drum roll? Here? All right, Tony in the bay, All right,
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Tony's the guy up. He usually pretty short calls and
then drops a bad word and I always laugh.
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Monday into Tuesday, still on the West coast. But our
lead this hour from the NFL Rules Gestapo. It's all
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about the rules of the game and some changes coming
in the next month or sore, at least conceivably changes
coming in the next month or so. If you have
not heard and perhaps not here, we got you covered.
We got you covered on this. So we've learned how
the Green Bay Packers, that's a football team. It's community owned,
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but stock's not worth anything anyway. The Green Bay Packers
have submitted paperwork to the NFL to banish the notorious
philadel Fi Eagles tush push. The Packers are saying, no tush,
get tush out of the NFL, is what they're saying.
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I assume you know, because you're listening to a sports
talk radio show at a time most people are not
that the toush push is the short yardage garonty for
the team from Philadelphia. Now, the CEO of the Packer
football team, a guy named Mark Murphy. Mark Murphy and
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he voiced dis pleasure, not happy with the play there,
upset with the signature play of Nick Sirianni and the
reigning Super Bowl champions said this about a month ago.
He can play in. The formation features a couple of
players lining up right behind quarterback Jalen Hurts and then
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shoving his tushy and pushing him over the line the
gain across the line of scrimmage after obviously he gets
the snap there and runs the quarterback sneak and when
cold and Philadelphia, it has been nearly unstoppable, nearly unstoppable
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in Philly, but not the rest of the NFL. The
success rate of Jalen Hurts and the Eagles, that is
the superpower. It is not necessarily the superpower for the
rest of the NFL. So let us discuss the question
what is the what is the word? What is the
word for the Packers trying to ban the toush push.
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So I've got and we'll get to the word in
a minute. But my thoughts on this. We have pugophobia,
Kareem abdul Jabbar and American gladiators, and we will combine
all of these things together and we're gonna put them
under the magnifying glass is what we're going to do
right under the magnifying glass. So to answer the question,
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what's the word for the Packers trying to ban the
toush push, my word is cowardly. That's my word. I'm
going with cowardly. You could also use chicken hearted, which
I believe is synonym of cowardly, but either one of
those work. But I'm going with cowardlye And here's why.
Here's why the great bit Packers ought to be embarrassed
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early on. Honestly, well, that's not unattractive play. But I've
evolved my position over the use. I thought the NFL
is gonna get rid of this the first year the
Eagles ran the play, I thought they were gonna get
rid of it because it's not good television. But much
like Major League Baseball, which got rid of the shift,
which I thought was stupid, I also think this is
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equally stupid. I have no skin in the game. I'm
not a fan of the Philadelphia Eagles. With apologies to
Fats in Philly and Jonathan and Delaware and all the
other Eagle fans that are loyal minions of the Mallard militia.
But you know that. But the packers fan based and
the organization should be embarrassed because like, what are you
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doing here? Right? We can't beat it, we can't replicate it,
so we'll ban it. We'll just get rid of it.
And it's just a loser mentality, right, So tell me
you have a loser mentality without telling me directly, you
have a loser mentality. It really is one of those
Southwest Airlines commercials from back in the day. You want
to get away. If you're a Green Bay Packer person,
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you want to get away. You're the team trying to
change the rule. You're the one that's proposing this. Right now,
we'll see if it actually sticks or not. But my goodness,
right you talk about soft serve now die diagnosis. I
am not a doctor, but I can play one on
overnight talk radio and as a untrained amateur doctor. My diagnosis.
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The Green Bay Packers are suffering from pugaphobia. Now, what
is pugaphobia? It is fear of the butt docks. That
is what the packers are afraid of. That touch push
they're afraid of that touch eight push eight is what
they are. It's not that deep. Okay, just go int
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the weight room. You know, lift some weights, become bigger, stronger, faster,
and you too can run the play at a similar
clip as the team from Philadelphia. And the play has
grown on me from the standpoint. It shows you who's
actually putting the time in in the gym on the
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offensive line and Jalen Jalen Hurts, he's not my favorite quarterback,
but he's obviously physically gifted in terms of raw strength
in the leg department and to be pushed by his
teammates here. But it is a throwback play. It hearkens
back to the olden days of the NFL where back
of the old days you were supposed to get low
and explode off the football and low person wins the
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battle and it was all about pushing forward and all
that stuff. Now, the NFL over the years has embraced
the wussification. If you've seen the kickoff, you know what
I'm talking about. But just in the case of the
Green Bay Packers, it's do better and be better now
page two. If you are Jalen Hurts, if you are
Jalen Hurts and the Eagles, what is your reaction to
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this news that the team from Green Bay is trying
to ban the tushy pushy. So if your Jalen Hurts on,
this is really not that hard. If you're Jalen Hurts,
it is a trip down the catwalk. You are walking
down the catwalk, you are a dressed well and you
and your offensive lineman can do a Pirouet Steet's spin
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on the catwalk. There. Congratulations. Now it's not ben yet. However,
all right, However, the fact that the Packers are working
to ban the play is such a flex for Jalen Hurts.
It'll add to the legend the mythology of Jalen Hurts
and the Eagles offense here. If it is outlawed, that
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would be a tremendous feather in the old cap of
the Eagles if it happens that way, because very few
things have been outlawed plays like this. And there's some comparisons.
I think the most famous one that I heard when
I was a kid was Kareem Abdul Jabbar, who was
known as leu Ale Sinder at UCLA, and he was
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so dominant the Nced double a band, the slam Dunk.
A lot of people don't know that. Of your a
younger age, you might not know that. But the nc
double A actually got rid of the slam dunk. Do
you imagine a basketball operation saying we can't have the
slam dunk anymore, right, And they did it because they
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said it was not a skillful play. What does that
sound like? It sounds like what they're saying about the
Toush push. And the rules committee said the ban was
a result of injury concerns in the NCAA. What are
the NFL people say, Well, it's not a safe play
and it's not a skillful play. Those are the same
arguments that are being made against the Tousch push that
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were made against the slam dunk when they banned that.
And they even had data even back then before big
nerds took over the world, and they claimed the NCAA,
the people that banned the slam dunk, that there were
like fifteen hundred times where players were heard around the
backboard because of the slam dunk, and so they had
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to get rid of it. And it's the same playbook
that people are using you to try to get rid
of the Toush push in the NFL. And the slam
dunk being banned was called the lu Al cinder rule
andmitted players from making shots above and directly over the cylinder.
So it's a similarly, there's still be a quarterback sneaks,
but you can't push and all that. Now, last word,
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so the NFL owners have to decide whether or not
they want this thing outlawed. Are they gonna get rid
of it or not? The NFL owners could vote on
the proposal next month at the annual league meetings. They're
in beautiful Palm Beach. For it's odd that the NFL
owners never meet in like Wisconsin in the winter. They
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never go to Ohio or Minnesota in the winter. They
might go there in the summer, but they don't go there.
And there's always a tropical destination. Have you noticed that? Yeah? Anyway,
So if the proposal does not get taken off the ballot,
packers could retract the or withdraw the proposal. I guess
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it's the proper verbiage. So if the proposal goes to vote,
then they need twenty four votes out of the thirty
two teams to the play. So twenty four out of
thirty two if they vote in favor and the play
is outlawed, see you later. So how should the NFL
handle the tush push going forward. So the obvious answer,
you know my position on this. The answer is to
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just do nothing and say go pound saying to the
packers here and keep it around. If anything. The one compromise,
the common ground I will give you is to level
the playing field. Now, the way you would level the
playing field, since you are allowing two players to push
the tushy of a jailing person a jailer hurts, I
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think what we should do is have equal tushy pushy
on both sides. So instead of just the offensive players
being allowed to partake in this, how about you allow
the linebackers to push the defensive tackles and make it
like American gladiators back in the day, a game of
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tug of war, and may the strongest team win, because
right now it's not. There are defensive players that can
match up strength wise with the offensive line, and Jalen
Hurts of the Eagles, they're not given the opportunity because
if they do that, it is a penalty against the defense.
That's make it a strong man competition. Who's against that?
Who would not like a strong man competition to decide
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who gets the first down? I don't know anyone who's
got half a brain who doesn't think that's a great idea.
And as for the it's not fair crowd, you must
get rid of the torch pusch it's not fair. Well,
everyone has the same opportunity to run the play, so
it's absolutely fair. Just because your team sucks at it
is not the Eagles problem. It's not. And you could
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also argue that for many teams in the NFL, if
you've watched in recent years, the forward pass is also
a play that is not fair because if you don't
have a quarterback named Mahomes or Joe Josh Allen, someone
like that regular season Lamar Jackson, then chances are your
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team is not that good at throwing it and your
quarterback can't throw it as accurately or as far as
those quarterbacks, So it's an unfair advantage. And many players
get hurt when they catch passes because if they don't
catch passes, it's hard to get hurt. So if you
want to play that game, we can. We can play
that game, and what a fun game it is. And
I'm not against playing the game.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I'm not I'm not be sure to catch live editions
of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
App Sorrly this hour is from the speculation Room. That's
not politics. We don't do politics here. We do sports.
So it's NFL style, some rumbling, rumbling, rumbling as the
NFL combine gets going the traditional gossip mill in Indianapolis. Now,
the real events start later in the week, but the
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gossip will begin immediately on Tuesday, throughout the day and Wednesday,
and it'll crank up throughout the weekend all the way
through Monday. But the rumbling in my stommach comes out
of LA That is where the Chargers made the playoffs
and then exited stage left. They fizzled out and meekly
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against the Houston football team. The Texans kicked their tuckus
in a playoff game. So if you've not heard the
latest on this, perhaps not. It's year two of Jimbo,
Jim Harbaugh and his era. So we're hearing now that
Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers brainiacts over there are on
the war path and they are absolutely hell bent to
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land a premium wide receiver this offseason. They would like
to improve the duo of Ladd McConkie, who was a
rookie mcconkee and played all right in Quinton Johnson, who
was spotty and made a few plays here and there,
but not consistently great. Now, the gambling market is that
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the Chargers are the favorite to land Rams wide receiver
Cooper Cup. At the gambling market says, Cooper Cup will
just stay in La He'll go across Sofi Stadium and
put on the lightning bolt and put down the ram horns.
So let us discuss the question, the Chargers the betting
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favorite for wide receiver Cooper Cup. Would that be a
good fit? Would that be a good fit. So I've
got sky Miles, Confectionery, and leg room, and we will
combine all of these things together, and we are going
to make a money back guarantee like a late night infomercial.
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Is what we're going to do, So, num burn I said,
Num burn I said number. So I'm gonna go thumbs
down on this. I do not think this would be
a good fit for the Chargers. I don't quite understand it. Now. Again,
I have no ill will against Cooper Cup. I don't
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know him in real life. I just know him as
a name and a player that I have watched for
a number of years with the Rams, who didn't win
a Super Bowl MVP, but Cooper Cup had for years
when he played been great. You knew he didn't play
all the time, but he played. He was always very good.
And even that started to vanish. In twenty twenty four.
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He took a back seat to Pukin Deaku and as
the season went on. Over the last six games, including
a playoff winning against the Vikings and a loss against
the Philadelphia Eagles in the snow in Philadelphia, Cooper Cup
averaged less than twenty four yards per game, less than
twenty four yards receiving per game. The problem for the
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Chargers is the reputation precedes Cooper Cup and the reputation
of the Chargers. So you could argue this is a
perfect match. You could make that argument, but it's not
just that Cooper Cup looked like he was starting to
lose it at the end of last year. You look
at the DNA of the charge, Cooper Cup appears to
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be damaged goods now. Sometimes damaged goods get a change
of scenery and they turn out to be fine. We
all know that, but he's got a dent over here.
There's some kind of scratches and some rust over there.
Not your normal wear and tear. It's more than your
normal wear and tear with Cooper Cup. And he's picked
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up a lot of sky miles. He's flying the injury
plane is what he's flying here. And in recent years,
Cooper Cup has had four ankle injuries, a couple of
high ankle sprains, ACL issues, and other various bumps and
bruises from playing in professional football. He also turns thirty
two before the start of next season. Happy early birthday.
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The projections on players with that injury history at that
age are not good. Now, that tells you what has happened.
That doesn't tell you what's going to happen. Is unique.
There's always the player that defies what has happened. And
do you want to bet on defying the comps? Do
you want to bet on that? Right? And the franchise
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Charger though the franchise charter for the Chargers HEAs for
me to say, But the franchise charter for the Chargers,
Cooper Cup would be the epitome of a modern Charger
player because they can't get enough of damaged goods. They're
really solid at picking up players that have a super skill,
a super power of getting heard. Now, turning the page,
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turning the page, we stay with the theme disgruntled pass
catchers for a thousand. We head now to the lone
Star State, page two, as the combine inches closer. Here,
news out of Houston. What is the news? We're hearing
that wide receiver Stefon Diggs, Remember him, all those dopey Bills,
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mafia people, Andy the comic book guy. Oh, he and
Josh Allen or Fred they love each other. Oh they're
lovey dovey. Yeah, yeah, I love when fans think one
thing and it couldn't be further from the truth. Well,
we know the truth came out in the end. Stefan
Diggs and Josh Allen they might like each other, but
they don't like working together. So Stefan Diggs was decommissioned
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by the Buffalo Bills and he was sent down to
the Houston Texans. And so now the noises we're hearing this,
Stefan Diggs is not expected back with the Texans. Give
me your school of thought on Diggs likely moving on
to his next NFL outpost, out in the wild blue yonder.
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So the word I have is predictable. Predictable is the
word I am. I'm going with. Stefan Diggs in Houston
was a dummy run, right, He was a dummy run.
It was a flyer moves like, ah, let's see if
this works out. We need a receiver. He's a receiver,
and he's got some issues. But maybe a change of
scenery every it'll be great. And so the Texans gave
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up pretty much nothing to get Stefan Diggs, and he
went there and they visited the confectionery and they got
a double scoop of Rocky Road ice cream with all
the chopped almonds and the marshmallows and the chocolate ice
cream and all that. And c J. Stroud, the quarterback
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of the Houston football team, turns out apparently he's lactose
intolerant when it comes to Stefan Diggs and the Rocky
Road ice cream, and so he had a tummy ache.
And yeah, not working out because the only reason to
not bring him back is if there was a legitimate riff. Otherwise,
why would you at least not negotiate with the player
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and try to bring him back. But by all indications,
the Texans are like a we're good, you go somewhere else.
We're good. You know, don't call us, we'll call you
that kind of thing. And Digs is a hammerhead, if
you will. And he also had an ACL go snap
crap pop. Easy for me to say, snap crackle pop
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there midseason, right, So he had that, So the Texans
will be on the proud. We know they're looking for
a new wide receiver too. We know that Tank Dell,
the Tank is in the warehouse there getting some repairs done.
I remember week sixteen his knee was shredded there and
so he's out for this season upcoming when it starts
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in September. Unlikely he'll be back at any point in
any meaningful way. Now, final thought, we go down to
the Mile High Club, not the Mile High City, the
Mile High Club where randomly this story pops up. These
are the kind of random stories that you get this
time of the year. So everyone's on their way to Indianapolis.
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All roads lead to Indy for the combine, which is
going to drive sports talk, radio conversation and internet gossip
and all of that. So I bring this up because
randomly the Raiders the Raiders head coach Pete Carroll was
spotted by random people on a flight from Seattle to Indianapolis.
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I would say, well, who cares. I would assume that
he flew there, and he did not take a Amtrak train
or take a Greyhound bus or drive himself. It was
more probable than not that Pete Carroll, who lives in
the Seattle area still hasn't relocated to Vegas yet, that
he would fly to Indianapples. So what's the story. We'll explain.
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So Pete Carroll was spoted on this flight by other
people on the flight on his way to Indianapolis heading
to the combine, and Pete Carroll, who is a coach,
sat in coach.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah, Pete Carroll, NFL head coach, was not sitting in
the first class section of the flight. And there were
of course media dopes and some other fan types that
we're taking shots here at the Raiders organization. How could
Pete Carroll be forced to sit with a great, unwashed
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flying coach and what's wrong with the Raiders and Mark
Davis and all that stuff. NFL gurus railing railing against
the Silver and Black saying that Pete Carroll deserved better.
He deserved better. So the Raiders are being called cheap.
They're being called cheap for Pete Carroll's seat on the
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flight to the Combine not being a first class seat,
So is that fair or foul? Is that fair or foul?
The Raiders are being put on blast because of this.
So I actually have this as a fab ball on
the replay assist faball is how I have it. So
it's actually kind of refreshing and cool to see an
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NFL head coach be relatable to have to deal with
what we have to deal with when we travel around.
These guys are not gods, they're not They're just the
merely coaching ball is all they're doing. They're coaching ball.
And on this one, whether it was intentional or unintentional,
Pete Carroll looked like the everyman sitting there in the back.
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And Pete Carroll I wouldn't be shocked if he prefers
to fly coach. He did have an exit row, so
he was sitting in an exit row, and that's good
because you love that extra legroom that you get on
an exit row. That's the way to go. You don't
have to be squished in there like a bunch of
sardines when you sit in the exit row and they
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give that spiel and then you say, okay, we're good,
and then that's it. It's also possible he's a savvy
traveler and he took a page out of the NBA
officials from years ago and Major League Baseball umpires, and
the Raiders did buy him a first class ticket, and
then he downgraded to coach, and it's conceivable that Pete
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might have pocketed the money pay for a first class ticket,
but you spend a coach price and you pocket the difference,
And of course he could have done that. Or it's
just hey, whatever, the guy's worth, like forty fifty million
dollars or something like that, from all the NFL money
the college money he's made. So I'm pretty sure if
he wanted to fly first class, he could, And from
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what I've been told, it is the standard practice. If
you have a head coaching job in the NFL and
you travel to an NFL event, you fly first class.
Everything is first class in the NFL now. Occasionally, teams
like the Bears were called out because if people were
interviewing for jobs, they wouldn't they wouldn't give them the
VIP treatment. But outside of that, you're you're in good shape.
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And I do think it's also hilarious from what I
was observing here that people were saying that Pete got
up to go take a whiz on the flight to
Indianapolis from Seattle. The Raiders coach and the flight attendant
gave him a warning, saying that he had to sit
and wait until the beverage carts had gone by. He
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could not go up to the first class commode because
you know, he was not a first class member. He
had a weight with everyone else back there. So I
thought that was cool. So we speak the same language.
We speak the same language.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
It's Mallard, how about that racer? I know, I know
this is going to hell, said Cleveland Indians. All right,
here we go, Lorraina, here we go, Here we go,
here we go.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
All right, Yes, lots of people considered I'm not the
rain of it. I know that lots of people considered
Jim Harbaugh's first season as Chargers head coach to be
a success. Though I'm sure fans weren't happy with the
way that the season ended, just like it ends every
other season for the Chargers. Ben, what are the Chargers
need to do to get to the next level?
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Well, Justin Herbert has to stop riding the vomit comet
in playoff games. He's played in two playoff games. Had
a to a twenty seven point choke job against Jacksonville.
They blew the lead. He did nothing in the second half,
and then he kept turning the ball over against the
Houston Tentions. He's got to play better. They obviously have
to get some better players around him. But Herbert hasn't
played well in big games. That's you know, that's on him.
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He's the franchise quarterback.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Next, it was reported back in December that the NFL
would be making a decision sometime in the spring about
players participating in Olympic flag football in twenty twenty eight games.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, and Ben, spring is right around the corner. What
do you think the decision will be. Well, they have
to get they have to get insurance and if as
long as an insurance company will sign off on allowing them.
From a liability standpoint, if guys tear their knees up
they're allowed to play, then the NFL will sign up
on it. They want it because they're never even get
tackle football the Olympics. That's the only chance they have next.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
After another embarrassing loss to the Celtics on Sunday, the
Knicks are now zero to five against the Cavs and
Celtics this season, being outscored by an average of twenty
one point two points per game.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Yeah, Ben, they're inevitable.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
After their inevitable second round exit, what changes do you
see coming to New York?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Well, if they continue like this, Tom Thibodau is gonna
be fired. I mean that's obvious. How do we do
You've passed there? It is. That's a win, hi one.
You could have done better, Ben, Turn your mic off?
How about that? Zip bit? Zip bag?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in
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have what it takes to get to the top? Probably? Not?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
All Right, here we go, time to play Malos amount
of Money. Let's welcome in our contestants, and who do
we have you? It's the eeny Meeni Mini Moe. We've
got Brian in Almoney. Hello, Brian, welcome.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Hello, man, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I'm good? Now you're driving around? You're distracted? Are you
gonna be able to focus on the game.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I've got this game, Ben, you.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Sure about that? I've heard that before?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Ah, you never know.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
He does seem pretty confident though. Yeah. Well he's driving though.
Guys driving sometimes need to get distracted. You all right, well,
hold on, who do you want to play with?
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Brian?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
You got me? Or if you really want to have
some fun, Lorena or cool? You know, Ben, I gotta
go with you, all right, man, we're in it to
win it. We'll very kind, thank you. And let's see here,
Lorena pick one, two or three? Lorena? Let's go number three?
(29:42):
Number three? All right? You picked Mark in Ithaca. Hello, Mark, welcome, Welcome?
How you doing? Man? You guys are like neighbors. Man.
You can go hang out with Brian. You got that
far away shovel snow together. Yeah, Live the dream, Live
the dream? Sure clear? Surrounded about jill fans and losers?
(30:03):
Oh I see interesting? Well, who do you want to
partner up with there? Mark, how you know?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
Right? Interesting? What's what's the what's happening? Am I missing? No?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
No?
Speaker 4 (30:18):
Okay, so they just all know I'm a sports.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I recognize something there, so we'll tell all right, Yeah, alright,
let's go.
Speaker 4 (30:26):
This is Malard's Mountain of Money, the Drew Barrymore addition,
do you think we're being pranks?
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Is that? No? No, we're not being brand all right?
Speaker 4 (30:34):
She turned fifty years old over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Fifty, that's right.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
The categories are et, the extraterrestrial, the wedding singer, fifty
first dates, and miss you already?
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Brian, you were on the air first. Which category would
you like?
Speaker 4 (30:53):
All right?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
And Mark? How about you? All right? All right, Brian,
we are going to go first year on the air first.
These athletes all suffered head injuries, famous head injuries. Are
you prepared here? Yeah? Are you sure you're prepared? All right,
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let's play again. We need the first and last name,
first and last name, and we're on our way and go.
A quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs right now? Oh
my god, oh wow, are you kidding me? All right? Lorena? Yes,
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quarterback for the forty nine ers after Joe Montana left
handed quarterback. Yes, Cleveland Cavaliers. Storry was on the Jazz
is nicknamed Spider. All right, third the third basement for
the Red Sox. He doesn't want to leave third base
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even now they signed that cheating astro. Oh, this is
going as well as I thought it would be. All right,
Well that was You knew we were in Joe when
he couldn't figure out Mahomes name. That was a bad son.
The man's been in the last three Super Bowls. Okay,
all right, sweet.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Mark, we've got a we've got a tough hill to
climb here.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Yes, you're down, but thirty yeah, thirty points you got
thirty commandingly unbelievable about already?
Speaker 4 (32:31):
All right, Mark, we have e t the extraterrestrial. These
pro athletes were not born in the USA. Forty five seconds.
That's the begin the Japanese phenom on the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
DONI full name please?
Speaker 4 (32:46):
He yes, okay, he said both names. The player that
just got traded from the Mavericks to the Lakers. Yes,
the white point guard from Canada. He was on the
Mavericks and the Sons. He won two MVPs.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yes, this guy's from the congo.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
He blocked shots.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
No no, no to cam Bag mcmbo. Resident.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Yes, wow, this guy the al batting titles named after him.
He's from Panama. He was on the Twins and the Angels.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Stuck dude, du Lay Tulay Toulay, good job, good job,
too lait and he got it after a buzzer. Well
we still got this guy is man. You probably get
massages like Justin Tucker. All right, we're up everywhere. Well no,
he converted, supposedly according to Adam sam Anyway, all right, Brian,
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we're up again.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
What do you got?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Wedding singer or MISSI already? Okay, wedding singer. These athletes
got married within the last year. Are you ready? Here
we go forty five seconds run away go quarterback for
the Lions right now, yes, forty nine ers quarterback. He
was mister irrelevant and now he was in the Super
Bowl a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yes, the Greek freak for the Milwaukee Bucks.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
He didn't.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
What's his first name?
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Point guard for the Boston Celtics when they when they
won a championship with Doc Rivers. He played for the Lakers,
also out of Kentucky. No, play with Paul Pierce, though
a shortstop for the Royals when they won the when
they had one wars. He's Rookie of the Year made
the playoffs this past year. His dad was a pitcher
for the Rangers. No boy, good effort. Yeah it was
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Bobby Wit Junior, Rajon Rondo and Jannis. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
You technically got thirty thirty points that time too, because
he didn't say giannis.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
He only said a ten.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Oh stop fish, don't because shot all right, don't be
a mark with you.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
You know you guys a ringer. Go find the find
the white suit, mark find the white Suit.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
The twenty twenty five nominees for the Benny Awards. We
have the nominees I'm gonna run through these year. These
are the nominees for all the various awards for the show.
And we're excited about this now that the categories for
the twenty twenty five venues we have Rookie Caller of
the Year. Now some people think that we only have
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the same people that call up every single night to
the show, and no one knew ever calls the show,
but we actually have people that do call in that
are new that find the show that worked the third shift.
Some people listen for a long time, but they start
calling the show randomly on a whim. The nominees for
Rookie Caller of the Year are Daniel America's favorite crossing
guard from Fort Wayne, Indiana, The Moe Joe Rising from
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the Bay Area, Tuna in Laguna, Mike Maleprakahn. Now here's
a controversial one, Kelly in Des Moines. Some say Kelly's
actually been listening for more than a year and calling in,
but who knows. She is listed as a Rookie Caller
of the Year formerly in Nashville. And our favorite trash
man who calls one of the great bloopers on the
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TV show this year, Danny DeVito from Boston. So those
are the nominees. Congratulations to all the nominees for Rookie
call of the Year. Game Show Contestant of the Year
another very competitive category play a lot of dopey game shows.
The nominees for the Game Show Contestant of the Year
we have Coach Russell from Orlando High School football. Like
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the Belichick of High school football in Orlando, and he's
called the show quite a bit recently. And we have
Manuel in Garden, a legend on the show. He is
a nominee for Game Show Contestant the Year. Chris in Massachusetts,
also Chris and Boston. Those are not the same person,
but both Game Show Horse. Mitch in man Cato and
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nominated again for her second Benny Award, Kelly in De Moine.
So Kelly's in there as well Lame Joke Contributor of
the Year. These are actual nominees for the Benny Awards
twenty twenty five. We have Kurt from Earth. Kurt from Earth,
the legendary Chip in Maine, a great joke writer, the
man that won the title last year, very controversial figure,
(37:35):
Surfer Todd the comedian, the Great Gordon in Tacoma is
a nominee. Good Yeah by him. And Noah in Austin, right,
very competitive Ratlasi. Yes, all the nominees here for Lame
Joe Contributor of the Year, and there were some other
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names that did not make the cup which should have
been in there. To ask Ben questions, a weekly bit
that we do in the show, ask Ben the nominees
for the Benny of the Year Award. You'll be able
to vote on this alf the Alien Old Piner. Congratulations
alf Fer Dodge herd Dog and that winner won the
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Land of Siberia, followed two I forty Ian so he's
a nominee. Also the King Rory, Cowboy Killer, Late Night
Drug Tester, and Lady Sidebirds are all the nominees for
Ask Ben questions. Good job by you, Top crew fill in,
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not that we miss many days, but sometimes we're away,
and the nominees for the Top Crew fill In. This
year we have Bree. How about that her first Zetter
first set her first nomination which he nominated last year.
Bree is one of our favorites, Mark the Great Mark.
He fills in for Lorrainer. He's the guy who's a
White Sox fan. Bernie Fratto who sits in for me
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Bernie Weekend at Bernie's The No Show. Brian No also
a nominee Lead a Laugh It's Just and for Coop
and also nominated for Top Crew fill in Milkman Mike
in Colorado for his weed man hippie impersonation. So congratulations
the drop of the Year on the Ben Mala Show.
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These are actual nominees for the show. We're not done yet.
Drop of the Year. On the show, you can vote
on all of these. Oh look, I'm a nominee. Look
at that. I'm a nominee. Give me a taste of that.
I forget what that last part is there. Give me
a little taste of that. Dick, Well, that's of course
attribute to Dick and Dayton. Lorraina. Congratulations, Lorraine, your first
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nomination for a Benny Award. Me. Yes, you're nominated. Something
about a pickle, something about a pickle there, So yeah,
that's right, bro. And I'm nominated again. Look at that
something about chewing on something. I don't know what that's about.
That must be because I had to chew the testicles.
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That's out of context audio. And we also have hollering James.
How about that hollering James a nominee for dropping it. Yeah,
that's where he snored and farted at the same time
on the show. Most impressive thing I've ever heard. Yeah,
we didn't think that was possible. We thought you could
only snore or fart. You couldn't do both at the
same time. And yeah, I mean you talk about both ends.
(40:28):
Man alive. What a talent hollering James is and how
lucky are we we found him? He found us? Man
all right? Now a category that went away, but his
back Blind Collar of the Year. He's in the nominee
for the twenty twenty five Benny Awards that helped make
the Ben Mallor Show a show. And the man that
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well he loves our show. I think he loves the
morning show in the Sports Hub with Toucher and Hardy.
I think he loves them more than us. But he
calls our show all the times you call me for
fifteen years. Blind Scott from the North end of Boston
is a nominee.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Right.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
The classically trained musician from a Rochester He's traveled all
over the world. The man known as Inca Terror nominated
for Blind Caller of the Year.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
Right.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
We also have legally blind Christopher from m Carolina. Congratulations
on your nomination, am It. The blind Seahawk fan from
the Pacific Northwest. He's also nominated, And a man that
calls the show semi regularly, although more of a guy
on social media. Stevie Meatballs is nominated for Blind Caller
(41:44):
of the Year. All Right, A few more categories to
go it's the nominees for the twenty twenty five Benny Awards.
Listen to our live coverage. Nobody else has it. You know,
ESBN wishes they had this, they don't. We've got it.
Nobody else has it this. We're the only one. Every
network wants this, Lareda, We're the only ones doing this
(42:05):
content right now. It's unbelievable. International Caller of the Year.
International Caller of the Year the category. Now, if you
think this show sucks in America, imagine if you're listening
in Europe or Australia or any of the other countries
the show is broadcasting, it must really suck. But the
nominees for International Call of the Year Otto bon Butch,
(42:27):
who just left Germany, but he's still a candidate, A
nominee for International Call of the Year. Hank in Tokyo,
Congratulations Hank in Tokyo. A couple of Australian listeners Ozzie Wise,
he loves our show so much he bought one of
those satellite things from Elon Musk. He's out in the
boondocks in Australia and he calls and texts the show
(42:49):
from out there because he's got that little satellite hookup,
dedicated Ozzie Momentum, great joke rider, Terry in England Isee,
congratulations tarrying England. He's the guy who does a lot
of lists. Leren he likes to list. And also from Montreal,
mister Hurt. Congratulations to mister Hurt from Montreal. Now, some
(43:14):
would say this is the most competitive category. Most competitive
category on the show this year. Intoxicated Caller of the Year. Now,
this includes all kinds of trouble. This includes booze, drugs, pharmaceuticals,
you name it. And I'd like to think that we
lead all of talk radio in this category, that no
(43:35):
one else can compete when it comes to the level
of intoxication that we provide on a nightly basis. And
it's so difficult to really whittle down this category. But
here are the nominees for Intoxicated Caller of the Year.
We have Keg Drinking Steve. He's the delusional Chiefs fan.
(43:58):
He actually returned to the show few hours ago near
the podcast Jay Dot in Utah. Now j Dot went
to jail because he got hammered and got into like
a fight with cops in Salt Lake because he was
drinking too much. How about this? Mouthwash Mike is a nominee. Congratulations,
mouth washed Mike. Right, very competitive category. Jed who fled
(44:23):
who's like the og of intoxication while calling sports radio?
He is a nominee and the black irishman from Omaha.
Congratulations to him. By the way, mouthwashed Mike is online.
Mouthwashed Mike, congratulations in your nomination. Mouthwash Mike, I'm here, Okay,
(44:43):
thank you God? Is that not on brand? Coop? Come on?
That is perfect? He's not even paying attention. All right.
Female Caller of the Year, Female Caller of the Year, Yes, please,
we don't have many women in the college show, but
we have a few that stand out, and it's not
hard to stand out when there's not many women calling
the show probably, so all right, Female Caller of the Year,
(45:05):
we have Tammy in Montana. Tammy is a legend on
the show. She works the dreaded day shift. Now, Andrea
the astrology Lady, Congratulations Andrew on your nomination for Female
Caller of the Year. Kelly in Des Moines her third nomination,
and Leslie and Brandon Florida. Now, a lot of people
(45:28):
upset here that our favorite drag queen did not make
the list, but unfortunately not other All right, we have
the twenty twenty five Beer Drinking Brian Worst Caller of
the Year category. We have two categories left, the worst
Caller of the Year. These are the nominees and another
competitive category. Nobody has worse calls than we have, so
the Worst Caller of the Year in many ways is
(45:50):
the highest honor on the show. Some would say so,
the twenty twenty five Beer Drinking Brian Worst Call of
the Year. The nominees are Gunner in Minnesota his first nomination.
Congratulations Gunner, you earned it.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Pal.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
That's a tough beat right there.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:05):
I don't know how anyone beats Gunner hollering. James from
Minnesota is James second nomination. Congratulations, Mike the lepre Kahn
has been nominated. I believe Mike the Lepreca is there. Mike,
Congratulations on your nomination. Mike the Leprechaun. Congratulations. All he's
not talking there? All right? We have Poppy in San Diego.
(46:27):
How does anyone be Poppy? I think he's the uh
last year's he the raining shot. He's gotta be the
Raining champion, right, Poppy in San Diego? I mean this guy.
Oh hey, how about Jerome and Charleston? All right, Jerome,
way to go. Well, you're up for the beer drinking
Brian Worst Caller of the Year and the final category.
(46:48):
And here it is the most competitive category, some would say,
the Genie and Medford Memorial Caller of the Year award
the highest honor and overnight sports talk radio. And here
are the nominees. You'll be able to vote on this.
The link will be sending out in a moment. Here
the nominees for the Genian Medford Caller of the Year.
Here's a shocking nominee, Andre in the Commonwealth and soon
(47:15):
a multi time caller of the Year, a man that
will declare himself the winner whether he wins or not.
Marcel in Brooklyn right, a man that has also won
previous Call of the Year honors in years past and
now is a semi regular caller to the show. Whoop
be Pie Blair from Maine is a nominee. Right. Another
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multi nomination goes out to our nominee. Our next nominee
for Caller of the Year, Jed who fled Congratulations, Jed
who fled.
Speaker 2 (47:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
Our next nominee is a man that has regaled us
over the last year with call by call details on
the O. J. Simps' thirty year old murder trial. We
welcome in helmet Man. Congratulations helmet Man. If the glove
don't fit, you must have quit. How about weed Man Hippie?
Every week weed Man? We love weed Man Hippie is
(48:14):
a nominee. There are two nominees left for the Genian
Medford Caller of the Year. A guy that hangs out
occasionally in the jungle and he comes to our show
as well, and call me since I was doing local
radio back in the day. Manuel in guard Dina in
Southern California. Congratulations Manuel on your nomination for Caller of
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the Year. And the final nominee. Here we go, the
final nominee for the Ben Maller Show, Genia Medford. Do
you want a drum roll? I would love it. Draw
I need a drum roll? I need I need a
drum roll? Here? All right, Tony in the bay, All right,
(48:59):
Tony's the guy up. He usually pretty short calls and
then drops a bad word and I always laugh.
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Ben Maller
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