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- 1:34Speaker 1: so Our lead this hour is from football. Things should
- 1:39Speaker 1: ratchet up in terms of activity over the next couple
- 1:42Speaker 1: of days. The scouting Combine is coming up in a
- 1:45Speaker 1: couple days, always a big event for gossip speculation and
- 1:49Speaker 1: football smut. We have that to look forward to also,
- 1:52Speaker 1: before we get into the monologue. Later this hour, well
- 1:55Speaker 1: actually not this hour, but later on in the overnight,
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- 2:27Speaker 1: when we're done then you'll get everything. But our lead
- 2:30Speaker 1: this hour is from Dallas and how I am Cowboy eyes?
- 2:35Speaker 1: Now did the Cowboys make a big trade over the weekend?
- 2:37Speaker 1: Now they did?
- 2:38Speaker 2: Not?
- 2:39Speaker 1: Have you heard the latest? Perhaps you have not heard
- 2:41Speaker 1: the latest on this, the Dallas has not yet discussed
- 2:47Speaker 1: a contract extension. Oten have not discussed an extension with
- 2:52Speaker 1: Micah Parsons, who is currently on track to hit the
- 2:57Speaker 1: market after the up coming in NFL season in September,
- 3:02Speaker 1: that he is not locked into Dallas past twenty twenty five. Now,
- 3:07Speaker 1: the Cowboys are spinning this saying nothing to see here,
- 3:11Speaker 1: everything is fine, and that they will not talk contract
- 3:17Speaker 1: prior to the scouting combine which begins in a couple
- 3:20Speaker 1: of days. Now I say that, well, Michael Parsons's own
- 3:25Speaker 1: brother went on a social media tirade hinting that Jerry
- 3:29Speaker 1: Jones team and Michah Parsons are very, very far apart.
- 3:35Speaker 1: Like the size of the Grand Canyon, They're very far apart.
- 3:39Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question. The Cowboys have reportedly
- 3:44Speaker 1: not started any contract negotiations with Michael Parsons. What do
- 3:49Speaker 1: you read into this? If anything? So, I've got Sotherby's
- 3:53Speaker 1: auction house, hearing Test, and Amtrak, and we will combine
- 3:57Speaker 1: all of these things together there and we are going
- 4:01Speaker 1: to make crunchy tacos. Why not? The greatest crunchy, greatest
- 4:05Speaker 1: taco is the crunchy Taco and I will I will
- 4:08Speaker 1: fight to the death on that. All right, So, first
- 4:10Speaker 1: of all, the Micah Parsons story, as we do the
- 4:16Speaker 1: show today, at this moment, right now today, it doesn't whisper.
- 4:23Speaker 1: It screams that Parsons is not a massive priority. Like
- 4:29Speaker 1: you think, Hey, this guy's the face of the defense
- 4:32Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. We've got to do everything we
- 4:34Speaker 1: can right away. He is the most important part of
- 4:39Speaker 1: the offseason. To sign Michaeh Parsons to an extension. If
- 4:42Speaker 1: you truly thought he was a generational defensive player. Would
- 4:45Speaker 1: that not be the first move that you would make
- 4:48Speaker 1: if you're Jerry Jones, He answers, Yes, of course you
- 4:51Speaker 1: would make that move. But it's not a massive priority.
- 4:54Speaker 1: It's fair to say because there's been no talks. The
- 4:56Speaker 1: Cowboys have had plenty of time. What are they doing
- 4:58Speaker 1: there there playing with their hands there. I don't know
- 5:02Speaker 1: what they're doing. But the salarycap has gone up, so
- 5:04Speaker 1: there's a little bit more money to futts around with.
- 5:06Speaker 1: Dallas has an opportunity here now. My gut tells me
- 5:11Speaker 1: that the Cowboys will be doing some old multitasking here
- 5:14Speaker 1: that Southeby's auction house will be brought in and they're
- 5:20Speaker 1: on standby, not quite yet, but they're on standby, and
- 5:23Speaker 1: Parsons can be yours if the bid is right, meaning
- 5:28Speaker 1: a silent auction, if you will. And the Cowboys while
- 5:33Speaker 1: they are doing two things at the same time, chewing
- 5:36Speaker 1: gum and trying to walk at the same time, here,
- 5:38Speaker 1: they're gonna be talking contract parameters with Micah Parsons. I
- 5:43Speaker 1: don't doubt there'll be some conversations that take place at
- 5:47Speaker 1: the same time. He will be placed right next to
- 5:49Speaker 1: those old oil paintings and jewelry and watches and all
- 5:54Speaker 1: that stuff at the Southeby's auction house. And now that
- 5:58Speaker 1: doesn't mean Jerry Jones actually has the balls the footballs
- 6:02Speaker 1: to pull the trigger. He typically does not, does not
- 6:07Speaker 1: get rid of players that he deems to be a star.
- 6:11Speaker 1: He hates to do that, and then when he does,
- 6:13Speaker 1: he tries to bring them back. And so it's a
- 6:16Speaker 1: weird dynamic there with Jerry Jones. But based on the
- 6:20Speaker 1: fact that there's been no movement up until this point,
- 6:23Speaker 1: it tells you that the Cowboys have not made Michael
- 6:26Speaker 1: Parsons a number one the biggest priority there, and you see,
- 6:31Speaker 1: see what the market is, he says, see what I
- 6:33Speaker 1: can get for that. It's like putting someone on eBay.
- 6:35Speaker 1: Post it on eBay. See if anyboy bids on it.
- 6:37Speaker 1: Maybe somebody wants it, maybe they're willing to bid on it.
- 6:40Speaker 1: And a couple people in there. You go, But I
- 6:43Speaker 1: look at Michael Parsons from thirty thousand feet up in
- 6:46Speaker 1: the sky, and I see a guy who is the
- 6:48Speaker 1: defensive version of Dak Prescott meaning low information fans. The
- 6:54Speaker 1: dumb fan sees Michael Parsons, Oh, look at the stats,
- 6:57Speaker 1: He's so good. Now, it all turn out. But then
- 7:00Speaker 1: when you watched the Cowboys against better opponents, and Michaeh.
- 7:04Speaker 1: Parsons more times than not gets bottled up in big games,
- 7:08Speaker 1: he doesn't rise up, which makes him a stat bandito.
- 7:12Speaker 1: Against weaker opponents. Better teams have been able to consistently
- 7:15Speaker 1: handcuff Micah Parsons time and again, and at some point,
- 7:20Speaker 1: I know it's only been a couple of years and
- 7:21Speaker 1: all that, but at some point you go say, well,
- 7:22Speaker 1: who is the real Michah Parsons. Is this a guy
- 7:25Speaker 1: that's just gonna put up empty numbers against the weak opponent,
- 7:29Speaker 1: or is this a guy that's gonna end up better
- 7:32Speaker 1: than that and really make his mark against the better teams. Now, secondly,
- 7:35Speaker 1: we pivot now to Bolt Tomorrow, Maryland, where the seafood
- 7:39Speaker 1: is fresh and the football is foul. As the Ravens
- 7:44Speaker 1: having nothing to say. Now the kicker, if you missed
- 7:47Speaker 1: it over the weekend, the Friday news dump leading into
- 7:51Speaker 1: the weekend, Ravens kicker Justin Tucker is reportedly under investigation
- 7:55Speaker 1: now by the NFL, the NFL Investigative Arm. They are
- 7:59Speaker 1: known as the Keystone Cops, and they are investigating as
- 8:03Speaker 1: to multiple women said inappropriate touchy feely eye contact during
- 8:11Speaker 1: massage therapy sessions that things went a little sideways there.
- 8:16Speaker 1: Now the league is currently interviewing three of the women.
- 8:19Speaker 1: They have plenty of other women if they want to
- 8:21Speaker 1: talk to them, and they plan on talking to more.
- 8:25Speaker 1: No criminal charges of any kind have been filed. The
- 8:28Speaker 1: Ravens have said nothing at all. Zip bo all right,
- 8:35Speaker 1: So that's interesting if you're keeping score at home. The
- 8:39Speaker 1: total number of allegations has grown now to sixteen, so
- 8:44Speaker 1: that is eleven starters and five backups, or eleven starters
- 8:49Speaker 1: a kicker upon her a long snapper and then two
- 8:52Speaker 1: backups if you want to do it that way. So
- 8:55Speaker 1: the Ravers remain mum is the word. They remain silent
- 9:00Speaker 1: regarding Justin Tucker. So how do you interpret the lack
- 9:04Speaker 1: of any kind of verbiage, not even the boilerplate response
- 9:09Speaker 1: from the Ravens. So this is a hearing test situation.
- 9:14Speaker 1: It's a hearing test situation. Now what does that mean?
- 9:16Speaker 1: The silence is deafening, is what it means. And it's
- 9:21Speaker 1: equal parts distracting. It's unpleasant, and it's ominous. It's all
- 9:27Speaker 1: of those things. Tucker is not long for the Baltimore
- 9:31Speaker 1: football team, and he's got a defect. He is no
- 9:37Speaker 1: longer a great kicker. If he was a great kicker,
- 9:39Speaker 1: the Ravens would have come out with some kind of
- 9:41Speaker 1: statement talked about how, you know, we stand by our
- 9:43Speaker 1: players and we're gonna let the league investigation play out.
- 9:46Speaker 1: They didn't even do that. But Tucker is a diminished asset,
- 9:50Speaker 1: and as a diminished asset, he is at the end
- 9:53Speaker 1: of his career. You look at the age, you look
- 9:55Speaker 1: at the way he played last year, and it's trending
- 9:58Speaker 1: the wrong direction. He is no longer, mister automatica. And
- 10:04Speaker 1: so when you do a cost benefit analysis of what's
- 10:07Speaker 1: going on Baltimore, you don't need me to tell you
- 10:09Speaker 1: that they're going to have a new kicker and that
- 10:12Speaker 1: they'll likely draft a kicker and some guy from directional
- 10:17Speaker 1: you will be the new kicker for the Ravens and
- 10:21Speaker 1: they'll cut the cord and then that'll be that. Now,
- 10:24Speaker 1: final thought, We now pivot to the NFL Combine which
- 10:30Speaker 1: begins later this week, but it will not will not
- 10:34Speaker 1: have one of the plumb draft picks throwing the football.
- 10:37Speaker 1: A recent report did not also have much positivity to
- 10:43Speaker 1: say about that same particular player. We're talking about the
- 10:47Speaker 1: former Colorado quarterback Where are you at? Where are you at?
- 10:52Speaker 1: On NFL draft curus saying Shuder Sanders should be a
- 10:59Speaker 1: late for first round or second round pick, early second
- 11:04Speaker 1: round pick. In an ideal world, this is a player
- 11:07Speaker 1: that's being tags a top ten pick all the way
- 11:09Speaker 1: from number one to number ten and likely more so
- 11:14Speaker 1: one to five. But the recent reporting says the actual
- 11:18Speaker 1: guru say, based on his ability shoulder, Sanders should be
- 11:22Speaker 1: drafted late first round or early into the second round.
- 11:25Speaker 1: So where are you at? So these guys are using
- 11:28Speaker 1: what's known as decorum. That's the word here. They're saying
- 11:34Speaker 1: the quiet part out loud, but they're whispering the quiet
- 11:38Speaker 1: part out loud. Here and say with me now the
- 11:40Speaker 1: old word over rated. Over rated, Yes, without saying over
- 11:49Speaker 1: and over eighted doesn't mean bad. It just means not
- 11:51Speaker 1: as good as people think you are. But shudder Sanders. Ultimately,
- 11:55Speaker 1: and this is what the draft is all about. Now,
- 11:57Speaker 1: the first round of the draft. Now, after you get
- 11:59Speaker 1: through the first and maybe even part of the second
- 12:01Speaker 1: round of the draft, after that, it's a meritocracy. But
- 12:05Speaker 1: the top of the draft, a lot of it is
- 12:08Speaker 1: who's got the better marketing person? And it's Shoulder Sanders
- 12:13Speaker 1: riding the Amtrak and he's in the locomotive on the
- 12:19Speaker 1: the hype train. He's on the hype train. And it's
- 12:22Speaker 1: the aura, it's the glitz, it's the glamour, it's the Rasmataz.
- 12:26Speaker 1: All of that marketing is a battle of what. It's
- 12:30Speaker 1: a battle of perceptions, not products. It's not about the product,
- 12:34Speaker 1: it's about the perception of the product. And the NFL
- 12:37Speaker 1: Draft at the very top is more about perception than reality,
- 12:40Speaker 1: and the perception that you can sell should Sanders that
- 12:45Speaker 1: you can take him in a top five pick, and
- 12:48Speaker 1: you can sell him because of the bloodlines with Dion
- 12:51Speaker 1: Sanders and all that. Now, meanwhile, there is a mini
- 12:54Speaker 1: brew haha developing and it involves I Rappaport, the NFL
- 13:01Speaker 1: information person for state sponsored NFL media, who is getting
- 13:06Speaker 1: absolutely roasted over an open fire over a social media
- 13:11Speaker 1: post recently about Shadur Sanders skipping the combine at least
- 13:16Speaker 1: the throwing portion of the combine this week. No bueno,
- 13:21Speaker 1: nobueno on that not taking part in that one at all.
- 13:26Speaker 1: So rap report posted that Colorado quarterback and potential top
- 13:31Speaker 1: PIC shader Sanders plans to focus on his interviews right,
- 13:37Speaker 1: full interviews with teams at the NFL Scouting Combine, helping
- 13:40Speaker 1: them continue to learn him as a person. He'll allow
- 13:44Speaker 1: his four years of film to speak loudly and then
- 13:49Speaker 1: throw at his pro day with four draftable CU wide receivers.
- 13:54Speaker 1: Close quote So why does that look so bad? Why
- 13:57Speaker 1: does it sound so bad? What's that all about? What
- 14:00Speaker 1: it reads and sounds like it was written by a
- 14:04Speaker 1: publicity person for Shechdur Sanders. The kind of thing that
- 14:10Speaker 1: was just sent copied and pasted and sent out by
- 14:13Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport from an agent or marketing person. Now we
- 14:17Speaker 1: don't know for sure whether that happened. It's more likely
- 14:19Speaker 1: than not that it did actually happen because there's not
- 14:22Speaker 1: an ounce of integrity in that. It's, oh, this is great.
- 14:26Speaker 1: You know he's he's gonna let the film speak for itself,
- 14:29Speaker 1: and you know he's gonna learn learn him as a person,
- 14:33Speaker 1: like what is that about bull crap? It's absolute bull crap.
- 14:36Speaker 1: As maneuvers what that is. And we know this happens regularly.
- 14:40Speaker 1: Most famously, remember a couple years ago, Adam Schefter got
- 14:43Speaker 1: caught with his pants down and there was an email
- 14:46Speaker 1: chain in which Schefter was just repackaging commentary from an
- 14:52Speaker 1: NFL executive. Bruce Allen in fact called him mister editor,
- 14:58Speaker 1: called him mister editor, which was very awkward, very awkward.
- 15:01Speaker 1: But the NFL the it's quid pro quo, right, So
- 15:05Speaker 1: if you're Ian Rapper, We're I'm not saying this happen
- 15:07Speaker 1: at one hundred percent, but you know, in a world,
- 15:09Speaker 1: in a dimension in the multiverse, if you're Ian Rapaport
- 15:12Speaker 1: or the NFL insider guy and you send out some
- 15:16Speaker 1: some knee pad comment on social media about how great
- 15:19Speaker 1: a player is before the combine, and then they hook
- 15:22Speaker 1: you up with insider information two months from now. It's
- 15:26Speaker 1: I scratch your back, you scratch my back, and that's
- 15:28Speaker 1: how it goes.
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- 15:38Speaker 1: The Breakfast of Champions has struck again. Welcome in the
- 15:43Speaker 1: beginning of another hour of the Ben Malor Show. We
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- 16:37Speaker 1: our lead this hour is from the Delaware Valley. We
- 16:40Speaker 1: go to Philadelphia, big injury update on the woe begone
- 16:46Speaker 1: woebegone the Philadelphia basketball team. If you have not heard
- 16:50Speaker 1: by now, perhaps not, news came down over the weekend
- 16:55Speaker 1: and we are told the constantly hobbled Joel Nbad Embiid
- 17:00Speaker 1: and the Sixers considering quote alternative options for treating his
- 17:08Speaker 1: bum left knee alleged lady Yeah, so Scham's Sharonia who
- 17:15Speaker 1: replaced quote. He tells us that Embiid is considering alternative
- 17:20Speaker 1: treatment as meth is like those pesky injections have not
- 17:27Speaker 1: not helped. So Embad's messed up. There's a lot of
- 17:31Speaker 1: chatter that it will be turned out the last the
- 17:34Speaker 1: parties over and they're gonna shut him down for the
- 17:40Speaker 1: rest of the NBA season. So let us discuss the question,
- 17:47Speaker 1: what does this latest revelation in the Joel Embiids story
- 17:52Speaker 1: from the seventy six ers, what does it sound like
- 17:54Speaker 1: to you? All Right? So I've got nursery rhyme, civil war,
- 17:59Speaker 1: and in Times Square billboard, and we will combine all
- 18:04Speaker 1: of these things together and we were going to leave
- 18:07Speaker 1: the galaxy, is what We're going to we're gonna literally
- 18:10Speaker 1: leave the galaxy, all right. So Number I said numb,
- 18:16Speaker 1: that's right, all right. So Joel Embiid is the be word,
- 18:20Speaker 1: not that bee word. He's broken. The man is broken,
- 18:24Speaker 1: Joel Embiid. He's living the testimonial to this era of
- 18:30Speaker 1: the modern basketball load management. He is the in many ways,
- 18:34Speaker 1: the poster child of load management. Joel Embiid and what
- 18:40Speaker 1: fools gold it turns out to be the Sixers ever
- 18:44Speaker 1: since Embiid arrived on the scene have babied and be
- 18:47Speaker 1: Remember he left Kansas to go to the NBA. He
- 18:49Speaker 1: wasn't ready to go right away. Load management. Your body's
- 18:53Speaker 1: got some issues there. So they've handled him softly with
- 18:57Speaker 1: kid gloves ever since he got to the end, and
- 19:01Speaker 1: it's been injury management. And now he can't play back
- 19:05Speaker 1: to back games. He hasn't played back to back games
- 19:07Speaker 1: in a while. And that's just draconian to have to
- 19:11Speaker 1: work back to back this. I should tell my bosses,
- 19:13Speaker 1: I cannot my voice. If I have to do talk
- 19:16Speaker 1: radio back to back this, I'm gonna get learyngitis. What
- 19:20Speaker 1: about the talk show host? It is unnatural to talk
- 19:24Speaker 1: for four hours a night every night. I am putting
- 19:28Speaker 1: my vocal cords at risk. I think we should do
- 19:32Speaker 1: one show and then take a night off, and then
- 19:34Speaker 1: do another show, and no more than like three or
- 19:36Speaker 1: four shows a week. I think that's the way we
- 19:38Speaker 1: should do it. Load management. It's worked so well for
- 19:41Speaker 1: Joel embi right, it's been great, been wonderful. Gets that
- 19:45Speaker 1: sponge bath on the Sixers on the regular. Well, it's
- 19:49Speaker 1: the old line. You give him an inch, they'll take
- 19:50Speaker 1: a mile, right. So the Sixers are that whatever we can,
- 19:52Speaker 1: we're gonna We have all the nerds, the medical nerds
- 19:56Speaker 1: that are gonna tell us exactly when to rest Joel
- 19:58Speaker 1: Embiid so he'll be able to play at a high level.
- 20:01Speaker 1: And what has that gotten them? All roads lead to Rome,
- 20:06Speaker 1: but not Jim Rome. Philadelphia has a modern day They've
- 20:10Speaker 1: created a modern day nursery rhymes. Joel Embiid is Humpty Dumpty.
- 20:14Speaker 1: He's Humpty dumpty. That's Joel Embiid. It's called like it
- 20:18Speaker 1: is here and it's a matter of when, not if
- 20:21Speaker 1: Joel Embiid gets shut down, and it will happen. Embiid
- 20:25Speaker 1: is in many ways the Milkman, not like Mike the
- 20:29Speaker 1: Milkman or Steve the Milkman or Jim the Milkman. He's
- 20:32Speaker 1: Joel the Milkman, and he ages like milk, like a
- 20:37Speaker 1: carton of milk he does. He's gonna turn thirty one soon.
- 20:41Speaker 1: Joel Embiid should be in the prime of his career,
- 20:44Speaker 1: and yet he doesn't play that much. And when he
- 20:46Speaker 1: does play, it's like going down to the YMCA and
- 20:50Speaker 1: watching a dude in his sixties try to run up
- 20:52Speaker 1: and down the court right he can't move laterally, it's
- 20:55Speaker 1: painful to watch him plodding up the court. Ugh goie.
- 20:59Speaker 1: He's a liability and absolute liability. Defensively, he saves his
- 21:05Speaker 1: energy for offense, and Bead has managed to be able
- 21:08Speaker 1: to play more home games somehow than road games. He
- 21:13Speaker 1: also seems to always get hurt against better opponents and
- 21:16Speaker 1: not able to play, but he's usually able to go
- 21:19Speaker 1: against the creamy, soft opponents in the NBA. And you
- 21:24Speaker 1: look at teams that have played the Sixers recently in
- 21:27Speaker 1: games and Beads played, and they realize what a liability
- 21:31Speaker 1: he is defensively, where they just run the pick and
- 21:33Speaker 1: roll and you get a basket. You get a basket,
- 21:37Speaker 1: you get a basket, and it's an absolute poop fest
- 21:41Speaker 1: when you toss in the fact Embiid he got into
- 21:43Speaker 1: it with a Philadelphia columnist to call them beat out
- 21:47Speaker 1: on his lack of ability to stay healthy, lack of
- 21:52Speaker 1: ability to play, because it's not just the injuries. Say
- 21:55Speaker 1: he's hurt now, but even when he's been deemed healthy,
- 21:58Speaker 1: he still misses work. There's guilty of truancy on a
- 22:02Speaker 1: regular basis, and he just can't depend on him. The
- 22:06Speaker 1: worst thing you can say about some mean you're not dependable.
- 22:08Speaker 1: Joel Embiid's not dependable now, page two. There cannot be
- 22:13Speaker 1: a story in modern sports without some kind of deep
- 22:17Speaker 1: state conspiracy. So the conspiracy theory is that Joel and
- 22:21Speaker 1: Beiad could absolutely continue to play in Philadelphia this season
- 22:25Speaker 1: the rest of the way. However, the Sixers are going
- 22:28Speaker 1: to shut him down for lottery balls. That Joel Ebiad's
- 22:32Speaker 1: being shut down for lottery balls. So do you believe
- 22:38Speaker 1: the conspiracy that the Sixers are positioning this claiming that
- 22:43Speaker 1: Embiid needs a procedure, but he could have waited until
- 22:46Speaker 1: after the season to have it, but they want to
- 22:48Speaker 1: do it now to ensure that they end up getting
- 22:53Speaker 1: those extra lottery balls. So you can't totally dismiss this
- 22:58Speaker 1: when it comes to the Sixers, because the mix in
- 23:00Speaker 1: Philly is equal parts bleach and ammonia. And you know
- 23:04Speaker 1: from when you were in school, if you mix bleach
- 23:07Speaker 1: and ammonia, it causes this hawxic gas, right, this nasty
- 23:14Speaker 1: toxic gas. It becomes a big problem there. And so
- 23:18Speaker 1: the Sixers, I believe, are sixteen games under five hundred.
- 23:21Speaker 1: They've lost nine of their last ten, seven in a row.
- 23:26Speaker 1: They just lost to a dog Food Nets team over
- 23:28Speaker 1: the weekend, and you've got their big pickup from the
- 23:31Speaker 1: Clippers podcast, p who is better at getting clicks online
- 23:36Speaker 1: than Baskets on the court at this point in his career.
- 23:39Speaker 1: And then you realize that the entire mantra of the
- 23:43Speaker 1: franchise is trust the process. Well, what is the process?
- 23:47Speaker 1: The process is tanking to try to get better players
- 23:50Speaker 1: in the draft. And they said, well, all those all
- 23:52Speaker 1: those people are gone, and it's true, like Sam Hinkey
- 23:54Speaker 1: and all that group has gone. But what is Joel
- 23:58Speaker 1: and Beach's nickname? Trust the process? His nickname is the process, right,
- 24:02Speaker 1: And so you're like, the temptation is there, and this
- 24:06Speaker 1: is the point in the calendar. It's past the All
- 24:08Speaker 1: Star break. You figure you are what your record says
- 24:11Speaker 1: you are, and you blow and you're looking ahead. You're like, well,
- 24:16Speaker 1: you know, we're not that far away. Only got a
- 24:18Speaker 1: couple of months to go here in the NBA regular season,
- 24:22Speaker 1: And why don't we play a game that originally originated
- 24:25Speaker 1: it's the modern versions based on like the Civil War,
- 24:29Speaker 1: Capture the Flag. Will play a modern version to Capture
- 24:32Speaker 1: the Flag, which in basketball parlance means the pride of Maine.
- 24:37Speaker 1: As it's all about the duke forward Cooper Flag, who
- 24:41Speaker 1: is projected to be the number one overall in the draft.
- 24:45Speaker 1: Scouts have been drooling. They want the Flag. The flag
- 24:49Speaker 1: is up. They would love to get their hands on
- 24:51Speaker 1: this guy. Being compared because to all the greats, and
- 24:54Speaker 1: I'm always skeptical about that, but being compared to Scottie
- 24:58Speaker 1: Pippen and Kevin Gardn and yeah, we'll see it when
- 25:01Speaker 1: he actually gets to the NBA. But the Sixers have
- 25:04Speaker 1: the sixth worst record in Pro Bouncy Bault. They're the
- 25:09Speaker 1: sixth worst team and if they fully collapse and are
- 25:12Speaker 1: committed to the tank the rest of the season, they
- 25:17Speaker 1: likely would only move up one, maybe two more slots
- 25:20Speaker 1: over the final twenty six games or so of the
- 25:23Speaker 1: regular season. Our final point, we pivot away from Philadelphia.
- 25:28Speaker 1: We go now to the Bayou and the shores of
- 25:32Speaker 1: the mighty Mississippi River in Louisiana, where Zion Williamson filling
- 25:37Speaker 1: up the content kitty Here on the Ben Mather Show,
- 25:40Speaker 1: I read that the Pelicans stars Zion Williamson currently weighs
- 25:44Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty four pounds. Two hundred and sixty
- 25:48Speaker 1: four pounds. They're bragging about that. Who are they? We'll
- 25:52Speaker 1: get to that in a minute, but they're bragging. This
- 25:53Speaker 1: is the lightest he has weighed since he entered the
- 25:58Speaker 1: NBA six years ago. Oh that, this is the light
- 26:02Speaker 1: of design's been since twenty nineteen. Now, Williamson is listed
- 26:06Speaker 1: on the NBA propaganda website at two hundred and eighty
- 26:10Speaker 1: four pounds, so he's dropped twenty pounds below that. But
- 26:13Speaker 1: there were reports he was actually like three hundred and
- 26:15Speaker 1: fifty pounds, So that's the case. He's actually lost like
- 26:18Speaker 1: seventy pounds, and so he's whatever the case, he's dropped
- 26:21Speaker 1: a significant amount of weight. Can you put into words,
- 26:26Speaker 1: because it's a talk show, can you put into words
- 26:29Speaker 1: what this report about Zion Williamson losing weight actually means.
- 26:34Speaker 1: So the way I interpret this, using my super secret
- 26:37Speaker 1: decoder ring is it's like a Times square billboard that
- 26:42Speaker 1: you're playing. And I like to play this game a lot.
- 26:44Speaker 1: You're playing the parlor game of who leaked the story?
- 26:47Speaker 1: You always ask the same two questions you ask. We
- 26:50Speaker 1: start with who stands to gain from the league, That's
- 26:54Speaker 1: the first question, and then why leak now? But the
- 26:57Speaker 1: errow on both points to Zion Williamson and someone from
- 27:01Speaker 1: his posse wreaking the story there because he gains positive
- 27:06Speaker 1: spin and people say, oh, now he's committed to basketball.
- 27:10Speaker 1: Now Zion, it only took him six years, but now
- 27:12Speaker 1: he's committed to basketball. He's in shape, he said, wee,
- 27:15Speaker 1: he's in shape. And you leak now? You put that
- 27:19Speaker 1: billboard out there right now, that social media post because
- 27:22Speaker 1: you're marketing Zion Williamson as a trade entity this summer
- 27:30Speaker 1: that hey, you know, he can relocate Zion, and Zion
- 27:34Speaker 1: would like to like to go somewhere else, and hey,
- 27:37Speaker 1: I'm available and I'm in shape now, and what about me?
- 27:42Speaker 1: But he has been nothing but an enigma, big tease
- 27:45Speaker 1: that doesn't actually consistently perform, much like Joelle Embiid. Embiid's
- 27:50Speaker 1: better when he plays than Zion Williamson. But you get
- 27:52Speaker 1: the point here, and the Pelicans would be fools, absolute
- 27:56Speaker 1: fools to promote that he's in shape now because they
- 27:59Speaker 1: already look like the village idiot, the New Orleans Pelicans
- 28:03Speaker 1: by their decision to give him the MAX contract when
- 28:07Speaker 1: he had not earned it. Real dufices in New Orleans. There,
- 28:12Speaker 1: it's nothing to brag about. Yeah, we signed this guy
- 28:15Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Now he's in shape. You know,
- 28:18Speaker 1: you already gave him one hundred and ninety seven million
- 28:21Speaker 1: dollar max contract and now you're bragging that he's in shape.
- 28:24Speaker 1: I mean, come on, hello. Yeah. And now that we
- 28:29Speaker 1: are told that he has to maintain physical fitness otherwise
- 28:34Speaker 1: he's going to lose lose some cash. Here in fact,
- 28:37Speaker 1: that we're told that Zion must keep his combined weight
- 28:41Speaker 1: and body fat percentage below two hundred ninety five pounds
- 28:45Speaker 1: to guarantee that's weight and body fat below two ninety
- 28:49Speaker 1: five to guarantee twenty percent of his salary for next
- 28:55Speaker 1: NBA season. So there's a financial element to this. Now
- 28:59Speaker 1: in our world year old, we follow the teachings of
- 29:02Speaker 1: Chris Rock and that great comedy bit years ago that
- 29:05Speaker 1: you don't get credit for doing things you're supposed to do.
- 29:08Speaker 1: Like if you're a professional athlete, you're selling your body.
- 29:11Speaker 1: That's what you do. You sell it in a different
- 29:13Speaker 1: way than a hooker, but you're selling your body, and
- 29:16Speaker 1: you have to stay in shape. There's some kind of
- 29:18Speaker 1: shape that you have to stay in and and so
- 29:20Speaker 1: Zion now is apparently in shape, and me thinks he's
- 29:24Speaker 1: the one here. People around him leaked that in an
- 29:26Speaker 1: effort to get some positive politlicity and then potentially a
- 29:30Speaker 1: relocation situation.
- 29:32Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
- 29:35Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
- 29:38Speaker 1: Here we go, Smaller to the third Degree, Here we go,
- 29:44Speaker 1: Here we go? Is one gets grail first? Mallard to
- 29:48Speaker 1: the third Degree. I'm the all time wins king at
- 29:50Speaker 1: this game. By the way, no one's even close to me.
- 29:52Speaker 1: Let's get over to the kooperloop for the reading of
- 29:54Speaker 1: the questions on Mallard of the third Degree.
- 29:57Speaker 4: Ben. It was announced over the weekend that Greg popovichp
- 30:02Speaker 4: his future is uncertain. He may have coached his last
- 30:05Speaker 4: game in the NBA. Yes, Ben, If he's definitely not
- 30:09Speaker 4: coming back this season, we know that, Yeah for sure, Ben.
- 30:11Speaker 4: If he doesn't coach another game ever, again, where does
- 30:14Speaker 4: he rank on the all time coach list?
- 30:15Speaker 1: So again, just for the record, Terry and England's probably
- 30:18Speaker 1: gonna getupset this because it feels like you're asking for
- 30:20Speaker 1: a list. Now, I don't do this. I'll do Benny's
- 30:21Speaker 1: big board. First thing is, it does seem like it's
- 30:25Speaker 1: about time, right Greg Popovich, the man had a stroke.
- 30:29Speaker 1: You look at his age, He's seventy six years old.
- 30:33Speaker 1: So it's all the indicators are it's probably time to
- 30:36Speaker 1: kind of chill out for a little bit and step
- 30:38Speaker 1: away at this point. But you're asking me, and on
- 30:42Speaker 1: my big board of NBA coaches, I'm not a big
- 30:46Speaker 1: Popovich guy. He's annoying to me. I had him to me.
- 30:51Speaker 1: Phil Jackson, Red Arbach, pat Riley are ahead of him.
- 30:56Speaker 1: I'd put Bill Fitch ahead of Greg Popovic and even
- 31:01Speaker 1: Jerry Sloan who never got it done with the Utah Jazz.
- 31:04Speaker 1: But I would still put all those guys, there's oh
- 31:05Speaker 1: him a six or lower on Big Ben's Big Board
- 31:08Speaker 1: of NBA coaches.
- 31:10Speaker 4: Next on Friday, Yankees on Our House, Teinbrenner announced that
- 31:13Speaker 4: the team would be revising their long standing policy against
- 31:16Speaker 4: facial hair and would now allow a.
- 31:18Speaker 1: Well groomed beard thank god. Now.
- 31:20Speaker 4: He said it was to make players more comfortable and
- 31:22Speaker 4: perhaps attract more free agents to the city.
- 31:25Speaker 1: Ben, Will this help the Yankees win? No? No, maybe
- 31:30Speaker 1: they should work on covering first base in the World Series,
- 31:33Speaker 1: are catching fly balls in center field. But the conspiracy
- 31:37Speaker 1: is the Yankees did this as a preemptive strike because
- 31:40Speaker 1: Vladimir Guerrero Junior regularly has what coop a beard? Right
- 31:45Speaker 1: a beard. He's the next big free agent in baseball,
- 31:48Speaker 1: Vlattie Guerrero of the Blue Jays, And so that's that's likely.
- 31:53Speaker 1: That's not gonna help the Yankees win any games. And
- 31:56Speaker 1: so we'll see what how long this lasts.
- 31:58Speaker 4: But next, Jaguars VP Tony Boselli said in a recent
- 32:02Speaker 4: radio interview that Trevor Lawrence's lack of success isn't his fault,
- 32:05Speaker 4: saying this is going to be his third head coach,
- 32:07Speaker 4: and all the different systems and everything else.
- 32:09Speaker 1: You can't do that.
- 32:09Speaker 4: You got to help a quarterback have consistency and build
- 32:12Speaker 4: with him and build it around him. Ben, how long
- 32:15Speaker 4: do you think Lawrence has to figure it out? Well, Hey,
- 32:17Speaker 4: Tony Bisselli's a dope, right. The reason he's had three
- 32:20Speaker 4: coaches is because Trevor Lawrence has sucked as an NFL quarterback.
- 32:24Speaker 4: Compared to he was supposed to be a unicorn, a
- 32:26Speaker 4: generational town. He's been none of those things. But it's Jacksonville.
- 32:30Speaker 4: It's a small town. They're pathetic. He's probably gonna two.
- 32:33Speaker 1: Or three years. How did we do you pass us
- 32:35Speaker 1: it in? That's a win. I'm on the write up.
- 32:38Speaker 2: I won the game.
- 32:40Speaker 1: I want popping.
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- 33:00Speaker 1: Here you talking two sons. Here some instant advice. Hold
- 33:04Speaker 1: that thought. No one's paid attention to me for ten
- 33:06Speaker 1: whole seconds. And if you don't like it, you and
- 33:09Speaker 1: oh we go. It's the advice line onscreened radio. Who
- 33:17Speaker 1: needs the wisdom the knowledge of the mal or militia.
- 33:20Speaker 1: We talked about it earlier in the overnight, but it
- 33:23Speaker 1: appears that Joel Embiid is likely facing his season ending surgery.
- 33:29Speaker 1: He didn't win an MVP award, but it's mostly been
- 33:32Speaker 1: snap crackle pop So advice to Joel Embiid of the
- 33:37Speaker 1: Sixers on how to actually stay healthy. And you're live
- 33:42Speaker 1: on the air. When you hear my voice at eight
- 33:43Speaker 1: seven seven ninety nine on Fox, do not attempt this
- 33:46Speaker 1: at home. We are trained professionals. The safety net is
- 33:50Speaker 1: off and away we go, and we'll start out with
- 33:53Speaker 1: you online one Line one advice to Joel Embiid. Line one, if.
- 33:57Speaker 2: Your uber driver looks like Poppy, can to rye and
- 34:00Speaker 2: order a new one? Have you started talking about?
- 34:02Speaker 1: All right? Thank you? Line too, you're on there. That
- 34:04Speaker 1: was supermarket se if. I recognize his voice. Line two,
- 34:07Speaker 1: you're on the air. It's instant advice line for Joel nbead.
- 34:10Speaker 1: Line two, good morning time? Did he ever play? No?
- 34:14Speaker 1: That's a Rick and Maryland. I recognize everyone's voice. Line three,
- 34:17Speaker 1: you're on the Airline three.
- 34:18Speaker 2: Hello dan Ban, Look I won't say something about losing
- 34:23Speaker 2: the incriminator.
- 34:25Speaker 1: All right, thank you? On line four, you're on the
- 34:27Speaker 1: airline four. Hello, all right, Line six, you're actually line five.
- 34:33Speaker 1: Line five, you're next, Hello, line five.
- 34:36Speaker 2: Don't play scrabble against Ben unless you want to get
- 34:38Speaker 2: a beat down like out.
- 34:39Speaker 1: That's right, I took down Alf the alien All Pier, Fergie,
- 34:43Speaker 1: Yes I did. Line six, you're on the airline six. Hello. Yeah, Yeah.
- 34:47Speaker 1: You can overcome mental illness and call the bet Mallers Show.
- 34:50Speaker 1: It's really easy to do it. Yeah, exactly. Look at you,
- 34:53Speaker 1: blind Scott. I don't know if you've overcome many illness,
- 34:55Speaker 1: but you are calling the show. Hello, Line one.
- 34:59Speaker 2: Get you so the Stevie meatballs balls?
- 35:01Speaker 1: Okay, yes, it's all about Steve, I mean ball. It's
- 35:04Speaker 1: easy for you to say. We're giving advice to Joel embiid.
- 35:06Speaker 1: This is unscreened radio. You're right on the air. When
- 35:09Speaker 1: you hear my voice at eight seven seven ninety nine
- 35:12Speaker 1: on Fox. If it's ringing, let it keep ringing all
- 35:14Speaker 1: eventually picking up line two. Hello, line two, Oh, no, Fergie,
- 35:21Speaker 1: they're coming to get your fergy. Hello. Line three, you're
- 35:23Speaker 1: on the air Line three, go now, okay? Line four Hello, Line.
- 35:29Speaker 2: Four looks like more cowboy position for him?
- 35:33Speaker 1: Oh is that the Great Tammy and Montana's sound like
- 35:36Speaker 1: it the Great Tammy and Montana. Line five, Hello, Line five,
- 35:39Speaker 1: advice to Joel NB. Line five, Buddy, swear naughty words.
- 35:45Speaker 1: Oh man, what you're you're you know you remind me.
- 35:48Speaker 1: It reminds me about We used to have a guy
- 35:50Speaker 1: called Toukas took Us took us man that would call
- 35:52Speaker 1: it me just say Tukus tooks took Hello. Line six,
- 35:55Speaker 1: you're on the air. Yeah, they just need to clone
- 35:58Speaker 1: them morning time. Oh that's the great Rick and Maryland
- 36:02Speaker 1: morning Time DJ voice morning Time. Yes. Line one, I
- 36:07Speaker 1: hear your. Line one, you're on the Airline.
- 36:08Speaker 2: One, cal Marcellen Blair for all your tax attorneys.
- 36:12Speaker 1: They know all the numbers. Yes, it sounds like they're
- 36:16Speaker 1: actually working for the federal government based on some of
- 36:18Speaker 1: the things I've read recently. Line two, Hello, Line two,
- 36:20Speaker 1: you're on the air. Go, I'd say it's time to
- 36:23Speaker 1: do like a baby and head out. Yes, okay, there
- 36:27Speaker 1: you go, all right, very nice there, head out. Yes,
- 36:30Speaker 1: I'll go to line three. It's the instant advice line.
- 36:33Speaker 1: Joel NB, the former MVP. It looks like he's gonna
- 36:38Speaker 1: shut it down for the season. Although not official yet. Hello.
- 36:41Speaker 1: Line three, Yeah.
- 36:43Speaker 2: People keep spurting misinformation. How do you think mister information
- 36:45Speaker 2: feels good?
- 36:46Speaker 1: Point? We should check with mister information. Line four, you're
- 36:49Speaker 1: on the Airline four. His name the street close. Oh
- 36:52Speaker 1: there's Sean, the hood guy. Line five, you're on the
- 36:55Speaker 1: Airline five for giving advice to Joel NB. Anthony Davis
- 36:58Speaker 1: already has the nickname streak clothes. Line five, Hello, all sports,
- 37:02Speaker 1: talk to your whole millionaires. Yes, yes, if you only
- 37:06Speaker 1: knew the truth. Line six, you're on the air. Hello.
- 37:09Speaker 1: Line six, eating some green vegetables. Yeah, nobody wants to
- 37:14Speaker 1: do that. Eat green vegetables right now? Ben? What's wrong
- 37:17Speaker 1: with you?
- 37:18Speaker 2: Man?
- 37:18Speaker 1: You eating Sally? Really?
- 37:20Speaker 4: All?
- 37:20Speaker 1: Right? Line one? Hello, Line one. Line one's not there.
- 37:25Speaker 1: We'll go to line two. Line two, you're on the
- 37:26Speaker 1: airline too advice? Did you?
- 37:29Speaker 4: Ben?
- 37:30Speaker 1: What what are you yelling?
- 37:31Speaker 4: Man?
- 37:32Speaker 1: What?
- 37:32Speaker 4: What?
- 37:36Speaker 1: Nobody cares a? Line three? Hello, line three, yeah, Line three,
- 37:40Speaker 1: I would tell them it take two weeks offing quit, Yeah,
- 37:43Speaker 1: that's what you do, or just quit. Don't even take
- 37:45Speaker 1: two weeks. I would do one more, thank you, one more?
- 37:48Speaker 1: Only one more was good. I'll take credit off the
- 37:50Speaker 1: Koperloop Final Call. Instant Advice Line for Joe lmbad Line six,
- 37:55Speaker 1: Line six, last one. You're on the airline six. Go
- 38:00Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson. There you go. Just call the Shawn Watson.
- 38:04Speaker 1: That's all you gotta do. Guaranteed money