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Hour 2 - Low Power Mode · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: It's our number two. And there is no more compelling
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  Speaker 1: story in the NFL than the downfall of the Chargers
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  Speaker 1: with Mr. Franchise quarterback guy Justin Herbert and Jim Harbaugh.
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  Speaker 1: The Chargers are sitting 0-2 this season, losing at home
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  Speaker 1: to the lowly Raiders and Cardinals. The 0-2 start. Here
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  Speaker 1: in September, is this just a speed bump or evidence
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  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh's program is going backwards? We'll take a look
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  Speaker 1: at that. Is it fair to question the new offensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, with the Chargers, the former Dolphins head coach,
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  Speaker 1: after only two games? And does this count as a
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  Speaker 1: massive statement win for Clint Kubiak's Raiders?
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  Speaker 2: Oy, oy, oy.
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  Speaker 1: We'll explain why that's rather pathetic, but yet, It's a thing.
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  Speaker 1: That and more right now. Also, Mallard to the third degree.
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  Speaker 1: Here it is, hour number two. Going into low-power mode.
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  Speaker 1: Going into low-power mode. Welcome in the beginning of another
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  Speaker 1: Don't bear the lead, my man. As we continue our
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  Speaker 1: in-depth team coverage, we're here all night breaking down all
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  Speaker 1: the big stories in the NFL. There is no story
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  Speaker 1: more compelling right now than the downfall of the Chargers. Man,
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  Speaker 1: who knew? The Chargers. Jim Harbaugh, Mr. I-know-how-to-coach-I-can-poop-and-win-10-games Jim Harbaugh. Well,
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  Speaker 1: times have changed now, and if you have not heard,
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  Speaker 1: Dateline LA, that is our lead. The Chargers playing the
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  Speaker 1: softest schedule you can possibly have and gagged it away.
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  Speaker 1: Show me your lightning bolt. The Chargers now play two games.
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  Speaker 1: They are 0-2. 0-2, losing each game by the same score, 26-14.
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  Speaker 1: Outscored 52-28. combined by the Raiders. And the exact same
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  Speaker 1: score back in week one, 26-14, at the hands of
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  Speaker 1: the lowly Arizona Cardinals. The game on Sunday, though, the
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  Speaker 1: Chargers and the Raiders, all these old guys that are
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  Speaker 1: Raider fans that remember when the Raiders used to be good.
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  Speaker 1: So you have to be old to remember when the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders used to be good. That's the rule because anybody
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  Speaker 1: young doesn't like the Raiders because the Raiders have sucked
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  Speaker 1: their entire life. Anyway, get to the point, please. So
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers lose by double digits in a game that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't even that close. And that means for the first
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  Speaker 1: time ever, Jim Harbaugh in his coaching career has started 0-2.
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  Speaker 1: That spans a career that goes big stages, like Stanford,
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  Speaker 1: back when they used to have a good football team. Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: the 49ers and the Chargers. Never before has this happened
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  Speaker 1: for Jim Harbaugh, even during Harbaugh's back-to-back suckbag seasons at
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  Speaker 1: Stanford many, many years ago. If you remember the 07-08
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  Speaker 1: vintage of Stanford Cardinal football, his teams won at least
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  Speaker 1: one of the first two games. The reason, because they
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  Speaker 1: often scheduled a lightweight in one of those two games.
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  Speaker 1: And the Chargers have two lightweights in this situation. And
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  Speaker 1: my God, they're terrible. Let's hear from the man himself
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  Speaker 1: as the Chargers are off to the 0-2 start. The
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  Speaker 1: most embarrassing team in football, the Los Angeles Chargers, who
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  Speaker 1: should be in San Diego. Here is Jim Harbaugh. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think Harbaugh is beaten and broken? That's option A.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think Harbaugh gave no comment about the state
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  Speaker 1: of the Chargers? Or do you think that Jim Harbaugh
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  Speaker 1: is fired up to the challenge of trying to come
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  Speaker 1: back from an 0-2 hole? Let's go to the audio tape.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: Not deterred.
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  Speaker 1: No one in that locker room is deterred. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: And that's what it's going to take. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to find our way out of this. The why
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  Speaker 1: is what we're talking about. We'll look at the tape.
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  Speaker 1: We'll go back to work. That's all I know how
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  Speaker 1: to do. That's all we know how to do. Find
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  Speaker 1: our way. Find the way. And we'll move forward. It's
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  Speaker 1: a one-week league. Well, it's a two-week league, and you're 0-2.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss.
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  Speaker 1: So the question is this. Is the Chargers 0-2 start
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  Speaker 1: a September speed bump Or is this clear evidence that
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  Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh's program is going backwards into a sinkhole in Malibu?
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  Speaker 1: So my observations, I've got Spirit Halloween, Caller 89, and Fajitas.
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  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to go whoopsie, because that's what the
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  Speaker 1: Chargers have done. They've gone whoopsie is what they have
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  Speaker 1: done here. So number one. The Chargers are not just
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  Speaker 1: experiencing a September bumpity bump. Jim Harbaugh got behind the wheel.
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  Speaker 1: of the struggle bus and went over the curb, through
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  Speaker 1: the flower bed, and straight into the neighbor's swimming pool. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's where the Chargers are. They're playing like they're in
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  Speaker 1: wet sand, even though they're on that field turf in L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Harbaugh went down to Spirit Halloween. And he said, Halloween's
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  Speaker 1: coming up, and I would like to do some nice cosplay.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, okay, what do you want? I'm here
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  Speaker 1: at Spirit Halloween. What do you want? Okay, yeah, let
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  Speaker 1: me get that Michael Jackson outfit. I want to moonwalk
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  Speaker 1: directly into mediocrity meadows. Sure, why not? So on the
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  Speaker 1: Malheur scale of panic, 0 to 6, 0 to 6,
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  Speaker 1: the Malheur scale of panic for Jim Harbaugh's Chargers, I
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  Speaker 1: am sitting at a crisp 5.5. On the Mallard scale
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  Speaker 1: of panic, 0-6. Cowabunga, dude! You might want to take
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  Speaker 1: up surfing because football's not your thing. Now, if you
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  Speaker 1: look at it, the Bolts are 0-2 at home against
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals and the Raiders. Two teams that last season
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  Speaker 1: combined had a 176 winning percentage. They went 6-28 last season.
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  Speaker 1: And that feels statistically disrespectful. You're like, well, they're so
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  Speaker 1: bad right now. If they scheduled Bishop Sycamore, they'd lose
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  Speaker 1: to Bishop Sycamore. All right? And now you look ahead,
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  Speaker 1: and they've gotten rid of the lightweights. Now they're playing
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  Speaker 1: the heavyweights. They got them lined up. Here's the upcoming
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  Speaker 1: schedule for the Chargers at Buffalo, at Seattle, Broncos at home,
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  Speaker 1: Chiefs on the road. And then the Rams. That's 0-7.
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  Speaker 1: Forget 0-6. That's 0-7. They're having an upset somewhere. Jim
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  Speaker 1: Harbaugh and Justin Herbert are staring down an 0-7 start.
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  Speaker 1: An 0-7 start, barring some kind of out-of-body experience here.
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  Speaker 1: And they earned it. I mean, how do you give
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  Speaker 1: a game away where the Chargers prove that the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: aren't very good? I'll get to that in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: These Raider guys think they're good. I mean, God. Tell
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  Speaker 1: me you don't know ball. So the Chargers had six
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  Speaker 1: fumbles against Las Vegas. There was no rain. I went
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  Speaker 1: outside during the game. There was no snow. There was
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  Speaker 1: no sleet. It was a picture-perfect Chamber of Commerce 75-degree
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  Speaker 1: day there at SoFi Stadium in the hood in Inglewood.
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  Speaker 1: And Jim Harbaugh's squad looks like somebody unplugged the intensity machine.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing that's the most damning. You get upset
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  Speaker 1: every once in a while. But the Jim Harbaugh product
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  Speaker 1: had always been that you're going to fight to the death.
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  Speaker 1: That was always the mantra of the Jim Harbaugh coach teams.
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  Speaker 1: And this team just looks like they're lacking intensity. They're
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  Speaker 1: California cool. And that's not a compliment. That is not
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  Speaker 1: a compliment. And once again, transforming enormous expectations the Chargers had.
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  Speaker 1: Yet again, bounce back year. They fired up about their
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  Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator. And it's just some expensive slug. That's
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers serving up expensive sludge. All right, now, page two.
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  Speaker 1: Digging a little deeper into this power outage for the
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  Speaker 1: Bolts here as they've gone to airplane mode. So the question,
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  Speaker 1: is it fair to question the new offensive coordinator, Mike McDaniel,
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  Speaker 1: the former Dolphins head coach, after only two games? Is
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  Speaker 1: it fair to poke and prod the new offensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, the former Dolphins coach, after only two games?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get a capital Y Yeppers. Capital Y Yeppers.
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  Speaker 1: Enough with the offensive genius label. Show me the genius.
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  Speaker 1: I see the label. Where is it? McDaniel was hired
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  Speaker 1: to install a turbocharger. And we're two games in. So far,
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  Speaker 1: you know what he's installed for the Chargers? A cup holder.
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  Speaker 1: Who needs a cup holder? You don't need a cup holder. Stop.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what he's added. Not the turbo charger. He's
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  Speaker 1: added a cup holder. He sold and the Chargers sold offensive, sophistication, innovation, wizardry. Wizardry.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, the, quote, genius, genius label is doing more
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  Speaker 1: work than the chargers offense and they hired him again
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  Speaker 1: for innovation and they look like they're running windows 95
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  Speaker 1: it's not 95 anymore the offense is not cutting edge
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  Speaker 1: they'd be better off cutting coupons they might actually save
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  Speaker 1: some money and you get to call plays for justin
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  Speaker 1: herbert who's completely out of sorts what what happened to
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  Speaker 1: this guy What happened to Justin Herbert? Like, I've never
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  Speaker 1: been a big Justin Herbert fan. At least he's put
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  Speaker 1: up some empty numbers against bad teams. He can't even
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  Speaker 1: do that right now. And so Herbert, the guy that
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  Speaker 1: you all told me, oh, he's got a bazooka, bazooka Joe,
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  Speaker 1: or in this case, bazooka Justin. Get that bazooka attached
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  Speaker 1: to his shoulder. Right now when I see him, he's spitting,
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  Speaker 1: he's shooting spitballs out of that bazooka. That's what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so he's wandering through the wilderness right now.
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  Speaker 1: And what's he got, three interceptions in a couple of
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  Speaker 1: games here, getting outplayed by Kirk Cousins and Jacoby Brissett.
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  Speaker 1: That is a felony. You lost to Cousins and Brissett.
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  Speaker 1: And McDaniel, you know what he looks like on the sidelines?
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  Speaker 1: He looks like Caller 89. Caller 89, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: win tickets to the iHeart Music Festival. Come on down. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I won tickets. Oh, in this case, no, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: have tickets to the iHeart Music Festival because that was
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. So instead, we're going to let you call
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  Speaker 1: plays for the Chargers. Okay, I'm Caller 89. My name
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  Speaker 1: is Mike McDaniel. I'd like to call some plays.
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  Speaker 3: Whee!
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. The whole thing looks like the Chargers need
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  Speaker 1: roadside assistance. They need a tow truck. You got the hippy-dippy-doo,
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  Speaker 1: and you wonder, like, did he get some bad devil's
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  Speaker 1: lettuce or something like that? The Dolphins, the argument was always, well,
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  Speaker 1: McDaniel couldn't run what he wants because of Tua. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Tua's not around anymore, not with McDaniel. And should somebody
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  Speaker 1: check the Chargers playbook for bongs, water stains on there?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they can't read the plays. That's what's going on here.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, final point. To the Vegas side of things.
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  Speaker 1: To the Vegas side of things. So the overreaction machine
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  Speaker 1: is about as high as it can get when you
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  Speaker 1: talk about the situation with the football team representing Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, does this 2-0 start now for the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders and this win over the Chargers, does this win
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  Speaker 1: over the Chargers count as a huge statement victory for
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  Speaker 1: Clint Kubiak's Raiders? So my response would be three words.
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  Speaker 1: Easy there, Sparky. Okay, calm down, Sparky. Calm down now, Sparky.
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  Speaker 1: It is a nice divisional road win to get to 2-0,
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  Speaker 1: but you know what that means. Clint Kubiak did not
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden discover penicillin here. He did not.
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  Speaker 1: I have an unpopular opinion. I'm not very impressed with
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders beating the Dolphins and the Chargers. I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: You people have your pants down, you Raider aficionados, which
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  Speaker 1: shows you how pathetic the Raiders are. You don't even
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  Speaker 1: realize it. You're so obtuse. You're sending me all these
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  Speaker 1: nasty messages and emails about, oh, you were wrong about
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders. And I'm like, wow. I mean, Al Davis
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  Speaker 1: is rolling over in his grave that this is how sad,
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  Speaker 1: how pathetic the Raiders are that the fans are gaga
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  Speaker 1: because you beat the Dolphins and the Chargers. That's considered historic? Really?
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  Speaker 1: You embarrass yourself is what you do. You've embarrassed yourself.
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  Speaker 1: This was not some magic potion, by the way. The
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  Speaker 1: Chargers just drank their own poison. Okay. Just like they
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  Speaker 1: did against the Cardinals the week before. There's some internal
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  Speaker 1: things going on with that Charger team. And it had
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with the brilliance of the Raiders. And remember,
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  Speaker 1: most NFL games are not won. They're lost. And often
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  Speaker 1: they're lost by pure stupidity. Just absolute stupidity. And the
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  Speaker 1: Chargers serving up a hot mess fajita plate On a
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  Speaker 1: flaming platter. Eight penalties, six fumbles, and two interceptions. And
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  Speaker 1: they spent four quarters stepping on garden rakes, the Chargers did.
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  Speaker 1: And this looked radioactive right now. And Clint Kubiak's Raiders
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  Speaker 1: did not pull off a master class. They just found
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  Speaker 1: a wallet. lying on the sidewalk, and they were smart
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  Speaker 1: enough to pick it up. Do you get credit for that? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I found a bunch of money. I gave him a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of money. Well, you found it. Anybody could walk
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  Speaker 1: by and found the wallet stuffed with cash. You just
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  Speaker 1: happen to be the person. You don't get extra credit
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  Speaker 1: for that. It's not like you did something brilliant to
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  Speaker 1: earn that money. You just happen to be in the
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  Speaker 1: right place at the right time. You say a win
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  Speaker 1: is a win, but let's hold off the coronation of
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  Speaker 1: The Raiders, my goodness, because I do believe if you
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  Speaker 1: look around the corner there, there's a little thing called
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  Speaker 1: reality that's going to step up here. And the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: up next have the Saints, Chiefs, Patriots, Bills, and Rams,
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  Speaker 1: which is looking like these two wins. Remember when the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders were 2-0, and then they lost their next five
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  Speaker 1: games in a row to be 2-5? Yes. Anyway, it
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  Speaker 1: at least want the Chargers to be somewhat competitive. I
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  Speaker 1: go to some of those games. I mean, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be sitting there and owning seven. And then, how
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  Speaker 1: about this? All right, let's do a little hypothetical sports
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  Speaker 1: talk radio fun. Let's say the Chargers, this thing completely
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  Speaker 1: falls apart. Herbert plays like this. He gets hurt. Chargers
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  Speaker 1: are 0-7, 0-8, 0-9. And then it's over. They're fighting
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  Speaker 1: for the top pick in the draft, let's say. that
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  Speaker 1: they end up with the top pick. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 1: if Arch Manning's like, I don't want to play for
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers. My uncle Eli didn't want to play for
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers. I don't want to play for the Chargers.
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  Speaker 1: And the Chargers are like, we're going to trade Justin
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  Speaker 1: Herbert's lazy ass. We're going to trade him somewhere else,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to draft you. No, no, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to play there. But that was San Diego.
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  Speaker 4: This is L.A.
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  Speaker 1: Is it different in L.A.? But the Chargers, the way
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  Speaker 1: they look right now, if you lose to the Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: and the Raiders, you're in position to get– the number
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  Speaker 1: one pick in the draft. Do you understand that? That's
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  Speaker 1: how bad it is. And I'm not being a shock jock.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not being a gas bag man over here. That's reality.
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  Speaker 1: If you lose to the Raiders and the Cardinals, you
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  Speaker 1: can lose to anyone. You should lose to anyone. Wow. Wow. Wowzers.
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  Speaker 1: here all night long into the early morning hours. We're
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  Speaker 1: efforting to supposedly do some really good audio. Really good audio.
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  Speaker 1: where one of the players that played in that game
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  Speaker 1: unloaded on his team, which we're efforting to get that audio.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll get that for you. Also, if that was
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  Speaker 1: not enough, there is a new theory out that who
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  Speaker 1: is responsible for the issues for Justin Herbert. And use
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  Speaker 1: your imagination. Try to think. Who do you think people
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  Speaker 1: are blaming for Justin Herbert being horrific To start the year.
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  Speaker 1: You know who it is? Okay, you might be right.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you're wrong. We'll tell you. We'll get to that,
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  Speaker 1: and we will do it next.
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• 20:38
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• 20:45
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• 20:48
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• 20:53
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• 22:01
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• 22:04
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• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Bears fan. Another big story this weekend. The Bears' offense
• 22:09
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• 22:13
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• 22:16
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• 22:31
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• 22:36
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• 22:37
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• 22:43
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• 22:46
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• 22:49
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• 22:56
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• 22:59
  Speaker 7: Yes. I know.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the Mallard Militia, a lot to say. And where
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: do we begin here? Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Pick a
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: out-of-context comment. Hoosier Bill writes in, says, Ursae and Gordon
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: was more dialed in than McDaniel. Am I wrong? No,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: you're not wrong. You're not wrong. The Colts are much
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: better off than the Chargers are at this particular point.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: What else do we have? Michael in Tulsa writes and says, Ben,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: if only Jim Harbaugh and Mike McDaniel could have asked
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Virgo in service, our friend Andrea, for advice regarding the
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: shirts they wore. If so, they may not be 0-2.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: By the way, the Raiders' new radio announcer sounded more
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: excited than storm chasers in Oklahoma after a tornado warning. Oh,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: is that right? I did not. I have no idea
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: who the Raiders announcer is. I have no idea. I
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: remember Musburger did it for a while, and Papa was
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: the voice of the Raiders for a long time. He's
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: going through some more health problems there, but I have
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: no idea who the voice of the Raiders is. I
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: haven't listened to a Raider game on the radio in years.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: But Michael does bring up a good point. We talked
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: about the Chargers losing their edge a little bit, and
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: it just doesn't seem like a Jim Harbaugh product. It
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: just doesn't. There's something missing. And they wore the shirts.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Everyone watches women's sports during training camp, which is like,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: what are you doing, dude? You're at work. What are
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: you effing around for? You don't need to do that.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: It's an unforced error. Harbaugh let Herbert leave, missed some
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: time with the team to go chase his untalented lady
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: friend Singh in Europe somewhere. So, I mean, there's things
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: that he would not have done back in the day
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: that he's doing now. Let's go to the phones. Let's
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: say hello to eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Let's go to
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Hollering James, who's in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello, Hollering James. james
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: you're on the air james james james james james can
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: you believe this guy made it through a 40 minute
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: podcast without without falling asleep yeah what are the odds
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: yeah he had taken no no i mean he had
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: taken his 36 pills in the morning and 36 pills
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: at night and i guess he'd taken them i don't
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: know when he I don't know when he takes the pills,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: but he had taken a bunch of the pills. As
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I pointed out on the Fifth Hour podcast, he's keeping
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Big Pharma in business. All right, I'll let you go
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: back to sleep. Thank you, James. Tremendous job. You still
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: got your fastball, my man. I was worried that you
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: might stay awake now that I had you on the mailbag.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately for me, that is not the case. You're right
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: back to where you used to be. Let's go back
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: to the phones. Let's say hello to Larry, who's representing
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: the entire state of Illinois. What's going on, Larry?
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: Welcome.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: You're on the Ben Maller Show on Fox.
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: Hey, great to be on tonight, Ben. Even though my
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: Bears lost today, I just wanted to make a point
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: that some Bear fans might be missing. Everyone's talking, of course,
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: about Caleb and his injury. A bigger problem than that, though,
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: check out the last play of that game. That signified
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: a lot of... The Bears' issues today, that offensive line
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: is at best below average. And I don't care who's
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: back there. They're going to take a beating.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Well, you can adjust. Obviously, that was not a great
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: performance by anyone involved for the Chicago Bears' offense. But
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the blame the fat guy's excuse, I've never been a
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: big blame the fat guy guy. That's not been me
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: because most of the time the sack is on the quarterback.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: There are exceptions. For example, that play, if you saw
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the Steelers-Patriots game when Rodgers got absolutely blindsided, that was
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: on the offensive line. But most of the time, the
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: sacks are actually on the quarterback, not getting rid of
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the ball quick enough and whatnot. The Bears, they're not
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: as bad as they were Sunday offensively, and they're obviously
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: not as good as they were against Carolina. So they'll
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: be in the middle somewhere. And it's assuming that I'm
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: not a huge Caleb Williams guy, but if he's out
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: for an extended period, it doesn't sound like he's going
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: to be out for that long. We'll see. They're cooked.
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I heard you say that earlier, Ben. Depending on
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: how long the injury is, they could be cooked for
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: anywhere from two to five weeks, right? If you watch
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: the injury, it's just the strangest looking thing. He was
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: rolling out slash being chased slash running for his life,
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: call it whatever you want. But he turned and just
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: something just kind of, if you watch the replay, you
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: can almost see his legs shake. And he just kind
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: of went down.
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, and then the way he reacted, it's like
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: he got bitten by a grizzly bear, the way he reacted.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: So you'd assume he's going to be out now. Is
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: he just dramatic? I don't know. But the way he reacted,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: it's like literally a grizzly bear came up behind him,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: and he's playing for the Chicago Bears. He said, no,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I'm a Chicago Bear. I'm not another bear. And then
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: the grizzly bear came over and said, no, no, you're
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: a bear, so I'm going to bite you. And then
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the grizzly bear bit him, and he screamed. And so
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: who knows? We'll find out.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: Do you remember him crying into his mom's arms?
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Yes, that was one of the great moments in U.S.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Football.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: I think he's pretty dramatic.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: You think so? Yeah. Do you imagine? Wouldn't this be
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: great if it turns out, oh, he'll play this weekend.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: He's fine. It's all just bull crap. It's all just
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: a lie. He was having a bad game.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: He had the towel over his face and then thumbs
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: up to the crowd like he may never play again.
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: He'll be out against the Eagles. They play, I think,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: on Monday. He'll be back on Monday night against the Eagles.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: No problem. No harm, no foul. That'd be hilarious. All right,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: thank you, Larry there. Depressed Larry, the Bears fan. Bummed
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: out Larry. Yeah, there you go. Celebrate your championship after
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: beating the Carolina Panthers. That's it. What else do we
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: have to see here? Bill, who's your Bill writes in,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: says a caller's fresh take on the Bears game. They
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: might as well have Rex Grossman at quarterback. Please. Josh says,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: don't forget the video of Justin Herbert getting his hair
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: done during practice.
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Well, that actually brings something up. up here. So people
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: try to figure out who to blame, who's responsible for
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: this situation. With the Chargers and Jim Harbaugh letting down
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: his guard a little bit. We talked about that in
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the monologue. Mike McDaniel also just a hot mess. And
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: then there are a number of people that seem convinced
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the reason that the Chargers are buried here in a
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: hole at 0-2 with five ridiculously difficult games up ahead
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: is because of the beer. Blame the beer. Madison Beer.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I guess they call her a pop star.
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Is she a pop star? Is she famous? I don't know.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Anyway.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: I mean, I had heard of her before.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Justin Herbert.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: You've heard of her, Coop?
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: What's her most famous song? Have I heard her most
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: famous tune?
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: No, I couldn't tell you. I just know the name.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Is she on Top 40? Does she get played on
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Top 40 music? Is that what it is, like pop?
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: She's a pop star, so okay. Anyway, people are blaming her.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: And this is... I don't know if that's the exact reason,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: but he did spend a lot of time away from
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: his normal duties there. And in hindsight, you look back
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: at it, you're trying to find a reason.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: And this is his oldest time, though. You know what
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: that term is? It's called the Delilah effect. Not the
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: lady who's on. Is that Delilah show still on radio?
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: That was on for years. I think it is. Anyway,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the Delilah effect takes place when a successful man lets
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: himself be seduced by a beautiful, cunning, treacherous woman. And
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: then allows that female fatal to overtake his life and
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: bring him down into the gutter. Kind of like losing
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: to the Raiders and the Cardinals at home. It's hard
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: to argue. Something's going on there. It's a mess. It
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: is a mess. Let's go to the phones. Let's say
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: hello to Nate, who's in Kansas City. It is the
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show. Hello. Nate is gone. He has exited
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: stage left. Let's say hello to Manuel Ingardina, who is
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: next at 877-99 on Fox. Hello, Manuel.
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: Welcome. He's in the air everywhere. Beer can Benny, blah, blah, blah. Hey,
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: what a sweet kid that guy from Illinois is. Yeah.
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: It's called a soft tissue injury. Would you start watching
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: football last week, bro? It's going to linger all year
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: or he's out for the season. Get ready for it.
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: Bear fan. I don't know what these guys, man. Sometimes
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: I tell you, oh, yeah, you're welcome, you puke. So, hey, Benny, also, man,
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: you know, I got a little bone to pick with you, Ben.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: What's that? What did I say?
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: You're notorious, notorious for saying the show is tonight, correct?
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, I have to worry about today's show.
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: Tonight, the Raiders are 2-0. Raider Nation is 2-0, okay?
• 32:47
  Speaker 8: And before you go saying that Surfer Boy and the
• 32:50
  Speaker 8: Chargers are going to go to 0-7, I'll say 0-6 because, hey,
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: last I checked, bro, your team, the Lambs, Didn't look
• 32:59
  Speaker 8: very good last week. And you can blame it on
• 33:02
  Speaker 8: an Australia trip, or you can blame it on this
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: or that, but those paper mache champs have.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Got a lot to prove. Listen, man, well, I'm glad
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: you got this call in because you won't be able
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: to make this call after Monday night, so I'm glad
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: you got it in. Good job by you. You had
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: to get this in. I will, Ben. You looked at
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the schedule. You said, all right, let me sneak this
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: one in before the Rams get back on track. And
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: so there you go. Congratulations. That's a good job by you.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: I give you credit. I would have done the same thing.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I give you credit because you snuck it in and
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: you did it. Congratulations.
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: I'm on record. The Rams will go eight and nine
• 33:37
  Speaker 8: at best this year. Stafford's going down with an injury,
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: and Aaron Donald is going to be a shell of
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: his former self. Remember I told you all of this
• 33:46
  Speaker 8: today in September, baby.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: I will remember.
• 33:48
  Speaker 8: I hate to be the bearer of bad news unless
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: it's the Lamb fans who build up this L.A. hype
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: machine like if they're the greatest things in sliced bread.
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: Show me. Show me.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, I think your Raiders have shown everyone by
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: beating the Miami Dolphins and the Charger team that hates
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: each other. I think you've done a tremendous job.
• 34:08
  Speaker 8: 2-0 tonight, baby.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: There you go. Congratulations. 2-0. Let's end the season right now.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: The Raiders are in great shape. I do.
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: I love you, though, baby.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: We love you, buddy. I know. I just say, listen,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: these guys are busting my balls, and I'm like, okay,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: the Dolphins are like, they're not even trying to win.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Did you see the Dolphin game against the 49ers? Oh,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: my God. They're terrible. Thank you, Manuel. The great Manuel
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: in Gardena.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Did you also get a text from Roberto?
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: No, I did not. What did he text you about?
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: What was he texting you about?
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Just, you know, your classic Raiders.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, you know, I'm surprised I didn't get a text
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: from him. I'm surprised. I usually, you know, when the
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Dodgers playoffs start, this is like the last week of
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: the baseball season, so he'll hit me up a bunch
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: during the Dodgers. He'll complain, and then he'll say positive
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: things online. But, yeah, no, I didn't hear from him.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Didn't hear from my buddy Roberto.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: What he was up to. Anyway, it is the Ben
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Maller show. So, again, the Chargers, the fans, some of
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: them blaming the Delilah effect as it's blaming the woman.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Got to blame the woman. Every man needs a woman
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: to blame. And in this case, there you go. Ever
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: since Justin Herbert proposed, he's not as locked in. Chargers
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: are 0-2. Most embarrassing team in football, the Chargers. Does
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: anyone disagree with that? Most embarrassing team in the NFL
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: this year, the Chargers. At home, right? Cardinals and Raiders
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: at home? My God. Anyway, all right, we'll take your calls.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Straight ahead, we have Maller to the third degree. Here
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: is the Instad trivia. You can answer this on X,
• 35:44
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• 35:47
  Speaker 1: given a brass ring opportunity here. He's the third-string quarterback
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta. The top two guys are not able to play,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: so Cooper Rush got the first couple starts of the year.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: He got benched in the game on Sunday. Cooper Rush
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: also became the first Falcons quarterback to have one touchdown
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: pass or fewer and four or more interceptions per game.
• 36:07
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• 36:11
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• 36:13
  Speaker 1: so this is a very difficult question to answer because
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: they've had many more bad quarterbacks than good quarterbacks. Cooper
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Rush became the first Falcons quarterback to have one touchdown
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: pass or fewer and four or more picks in the
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: first two games of a season since blank. That is
• 36:32
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• 36:35
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• 37:35
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• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Insta trivia. Very difficult question here. Here it is. Cooper
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Rush became the first Falcons quarterback to have one touchdown
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: or less passing and four or more interceptions the first
• 37:50
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• 37:55
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• 37:57
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• 38:01
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  Speaker 1: else do we have? Let's see. Page down. Puppy Love
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Vic from JT the Wingman. Duff Man, oh yeah, from
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  Speaker 1: Michael in Tulsa. Doug Johnson from Georgia Boy. Jeff George,
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  Speaker 1: guest by Ben. Who else do we have? Page down.
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  Speaker 1: Hugh Millen from Mediocre Kabuki. Harvey Wallbanger from Johnny Q.
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  Speaker 1: Page down. I can't read that. What else do we have?
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. Captain Kirk. From Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: Page down, page down. Chris Everett, as always, guessed by Steve.
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  Speaker 1: All right, the correct answer would be none other than
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  Speaker 1: Steve Bartkowski. Steve Bartkowski did it twice, once in the 70s,
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  Speaker 1: once in the 80s. The others to do it are
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  Speaker 1: Bob Lee and Randy Johnson. It's Maller. How about that?
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  Speaker 2: To the third degree.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 2: This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Koopaloo.
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  Speaker 3: Ben, before the Seahawks win on Sunday, it was reported
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  Speaker 3: that Sam Darnold is recovering faster than anyone had anticipated
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  Speaker 3: and that he could be ready by week four. But
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: with Drew Locke actually playing well and the Seahawks doing well,
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  Speaker 3: do you think they should not rush him back?
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would bench Sam Darnold. He's not that good.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is proving what Seattle's done is proving
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  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold's a fraud. And these two wins by the
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Seahawks are just that they validated my take. That's what
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: they've done. They validated my take. that you could put
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: anybody in there with that defense.
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  Speaker 3: Next! So I didn't even know this was a thing,
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: but apparently the Patriots used to put a reverse image
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: of the uprights behind the kicker when the opposing team
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: tried to kick, and now the NFL nicks that. They
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: said they're not allowed to do that anymore. Ben, how
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: do you feel about this type of gamesmanship?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't have a big problem with that. Here's
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: the problem we have, though, in sports. Because of the
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: interweb and everyone's got cameras, like all the tricks that
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: made sports fun back in the day, the gamesmanship tricks,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: are not allowed because they're called offensive. Like the things
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: the Celtics did back in the day where they'd paint
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: the locker room pink and they wouldn't provide air conditioning,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: now it's an HR violation. People complain and bitch. So
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: you can't do that stuff anymore. It sucks. It's all corporate,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: and I don't like it. Next!
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  Speaker 5: Next!
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: So Caitlin Clark was just in Europe with Team USA,
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  Speaker 3: and she thinks that they're itching for female basketball over there.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: And she thinks that the commissioner, the new WNBA commissioner,
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  Speaker 3: will have a international game next season.
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: Ben, do you think that will be the case for
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: the WNBA? They're going global.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Well, good luck. I mean, there's certain places they could
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  Speaker 1: have professional women's basketball where it would work. I mean,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: there are women's games elsewhere, but. Most of the world,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: like most of America, doesn't really care about women's basketball.
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  Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but that's the reality of
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  Speaker 1: the situation. We speak the truth here, Koopaloop, so good luck.
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  Speaker 1: There it is, Mallard to the third degree as we
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  Speaker 1: begin a brand new week. How did we do?
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  Speaker 4: You passed this edition.
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  Speaker 1: That is a win!