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Hour 2 - Taylor Made...Until It Wasn't · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: How do you do? It's our number two. Hour two
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  Speaker 1: and talking about horses in hour two. Not the Kentucky Derby, though,
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  Speaker 1: on the Ben Maller Show. Do you find it significant
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  Speaker 1: that the Colts failed the trade Jonathan Taylor made? And
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Daniel Jones, despite making a flurry of trades before
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  Speaker 1: the deadline, which was yesterday. Also, what was Rams GM
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  Speaker 1: Les Snead thinking by standing pat at the trade deadline?
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  Speaker 1: Rams losing their top two receivers. Puka Nakua and Devontae
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  Speaker 1: Adams to injury, yet they did not acquire a wide receiver.
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  Speaker 1: And how do you evaluate the 49ers trade for Colts
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver Keenan Allen? Yes, that Keenan Allen. Yeah, I know,
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  Speaker 1: he's getting old, but the Niners went out and traded
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  Speaker 1: for him. We'll talk about that as well. It's your
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  Speaker 1: second bite of the apple. Here it is, our number two. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it was tailor-made until it wasn't tailor-made. Welcome in the
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  Speaker 1: The crown is yours. And we are back at it.
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  Speaker 1: Our in-depth team coverage here continues. Yapping about the... NFL
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  Speaker 1: trade deadline. And while there were a gaggle of trades
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  Speaker 1: that happened on the final day before the music stopped,
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  Speaker 1: we go to Indianapolis. For weeks and weeks, the vultures
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  Speaker 1: have been circling over the rotting horse carcass, picking apart
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  Speaker 1: the horse carcass, picking it clean. And they left some
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  Speaker 1: horseshoes around. So Indianapolis held... an NFL-level garage sale. They
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  Speaker 1: sold off their plumbing. They ripped out the copper wiring.
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  Speaker 1: That's gone. However, they refused to part with some expensive furniture.
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, after firing the general manager, Chris Ballard, they unloaded
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  Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson to Seattle. He's already hurt. DeForest Buckner went
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  Speaker 1: out to the Niners. Keenan Allen... Also went out to
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  Speaker 1: the Niners. And Josh Downs goes to the, he goes
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  Speaker 1: out of town as well to the Chiefs. So the
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  Speaker 1: Colts kept Jonathan Taylor. You see this? Yeah. They kept,
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  Speaker 1: Taylor already announced his goodbyes. He said, that's it. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It's an honor to be here. And he was getting ready.
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  Speaker 1: Probably had all his stuff packed up in boxes, ready
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  Speaker 1: to go. Psych. They did the old okey-doke. And the
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  Speaker 1: story is that multiple teams offered a second round pick
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  Speaker 1: for Jonathan Taylor. And he said, no, I want a
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  Speaker 1: first round pick. And the NFL said, phooey, we don't
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  Speaker 1: want to give you a first round pick. Now, they
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  Speaker 1: also held on to Daniel Jones. He's still throwing interceptions
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  Speaker 1: and collecting dust. So the quarterback and the running back
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  Speaker 1: stay in place. That is a good jumping-off point. Let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss. The question, do you find it significant that
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  Speaker 1: the Colts failed to trade their star running back, Jonathan Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: and their suck-bag quarterback, Daniel Jones? So I've got Washington Irving,
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  Speaker 1: Chicken Pot Pie, and Dick Dastardly. And we will combine all.
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  Speaker 1: All of these things together. And we are going to
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  Speaker 1: play an old-fashioned game of whack-a-mole. We're going to play
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  Speaker 1: a game of whack-a-mole. Now, number one. Number one. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: Number one. All right. I wrote on my scorecard for
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  Speaker 1: the Colts. I wrote down not A, not B, not C,
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  Speaker 1: not D, and not even F. I wrote down U-E
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  Speaker 1: is what I wrote down. Unforced error. This is an
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  Speaker 1: unforced error. Indianapolis, it's like they're trying to be pregnant
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  Speaker 1: and not pregnant at the same time. You can't be both.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be both. They fired the GM, Chris Ballard,
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  Speaker 1: who was a tenured professor. I thought they could not
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  Speaker 1: fire him. I didn't know it was allowed. They finally
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  Speaker 1: got rid of him. A relic of the Jim Ursae era.
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  Speaker 1: But apparently, the ghost of Chris Ballard, the ghost of
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  Speaker 1: the Ballard ball, is still making personnel decisions in Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 1: They hoarded mid-round picks. All of these trades, and they
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  Speaker 1: got a bunch of canned beans, like they're doomsday preppers,
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  Speaker 1: stockpiling canned beans in the war chest. They got two
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  Speaker 1: picks in the fourth round, two in the fifth round,
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  Speaker 1: one third-round pick, and one sixth-round pick. And the Fourth
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  Speaker 1: round and fifth round picks, which is what they mostly got,
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  Speaker 1: and a sixth round pick, those are what's known as
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  Speaker 1: frequent flyer picks. They're flyer picks. Shopping for a diamond
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  Speaker 1: in a rough. You try to find that diamond, the
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  Speaker 1: needle in the haystack, and you look around and say, well,
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota needed a quarterback, and they said, we don't want
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  Speaker 1: your guy. We don't want him. We'd rather have the
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  Speaker 1: other guy. We don't want your guy. Then you have
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  Speaker 1: the curious case of Jonathan Taylor. So the Colts have
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  Speaker 1: held for the last couple of weeks here a liquidation sale. However,
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor is locked, apparently, in the manager's office, not
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  Speaker 1: actually on the floor to be sold. Taylor is 27,
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  Speaker 1: and running backs, as you know from watching the game
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  Speaker 1: of football... And unless you've got some other harebrained idea,
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  Speaker 1: running backs notoriously have very short shelf lives. It's like guacamole.
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  Speaker 1: Once guacamole is exposed to the air, it doesn't last
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  Speaker 1: very long. It turns colors there after it's been out
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  Speaker 1: in the air for a day or so. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: A second round pick plus additional compensation. Well, I don't
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  Speaker 1: love draft picks. In fact, I despise draft picks. That
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  Speaker 1: seemed like a reasonable path. By the time the Colts
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  Speaker 1: are even sniffing relevance... Jonathan Taylor will be past his
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  Speaker 1: athletic prime as a running back, so you'd rather go
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  Speaker 1: down that road. The real indictment isn't even that Indianapolis
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  Speaker 1: kept Jonathan Taylor, though. It's that the Colts have no direction.
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  Speaker 1: No direction. It's Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
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  Speaker 1: The Headless Horseman. Imagine, if you will, a world where...
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  Speaker 1: You're too bad to contend. Even in a suck bag division,
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  Speaker 1: you're too bad to contend. You're too stubborn to completely
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  Speaker 1: blow the thing up. And you're too attached to a
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  Speaker 1: star running back to fully embrace tomorrow. You are stuck
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  Speaker 1: in the twilight zone. That's not football philosophy. That is
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  Speaker 1: an organizational gridlock situation with a nice horseshoe on the helmet.
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  Speaker 1: You can shove that horseshoe up your tuchus. All right,
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  Speaker 1: now the La La Land, the Rams, did they go
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  Speaker 1: out and ram it all day and ram it all
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  Speaker 1: night and make that big, sexy trade?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams apparently ate ice cream too fast. They got
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  Speaker 1: a brain freeze. They got a brain freeze here. They
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  Speaker 1: were boxed into a corner. And with Puka Nakua out,
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  Speaker 1: Devontae Adams also out. Les Snead twiddled his thumbs and
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  Speaker 1: did bupkis. Nothing. Squadoosh for the Rams. Matthew Stafford. is
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  Speaker 1: now going to be expected to elevate the play of
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  Speaker 1: some substandard wide receivers. As the contenders across the NFL
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  Speaker 1: made moves in the NFC anyway over the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks, and the Rams in limbo, they decided not
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  Speaker 1: to make any transaction at the deadline. The question, What
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  Speaker 1: was Rams general manager Les Snead thinking by standing pat
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  Speaker 1: at the trade deadline with his top two offensive players
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  Speaker 1: in terms of wide receivers out injured? What was he thinking?
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  Speaker 1: So we have a plot twist. Les Snead on this
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  Speaker 1: particular trade deadline went from F them picks to F it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see what happens. That's his new mantra is, ah,
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  Speaker 1: let's F it. Let's see what happens. I'm sure Rebecca
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  Speaker 1: the Ram fan is not happy about it. But if
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  Speaker 1: you look at the depth chart, you have 2-2 Atwell
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  Speaker 1: and Kanate Mumfield as your top two receivers. Let me
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  Speaker 1: repeat that for those of you in the back of
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  Speaker 1: the room. You have 2-2 Atwell, that's a good name,
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  Speaker 1: and Kanate Mumfield, also a good name. Good name, good game,
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  Speaker 1: and not so much. Those are your top two receivers.
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  Speaker 1: And Les Snead What he needs to do now is
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  Speaker 1: go out and buy a shipping container from China filled
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  Speaker 1: with prayer candles because the Rams offense is out here
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  Speaker 1: fishing for a Lombardi trophy with a bent paper clip
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  Speaker 1: and an expired thing of worms. They really need MacGyver's
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  Speaker 1: pocket knife and some duct tape is what they need. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay, one of the top coaches in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay, is being deputized here to turn chicken manure
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  Speaker 1: into chicken pot pie. Turn that into chicken pot pie.
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  Speaker 1: And even if he does, you're going to call the
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  Speaker 1: health department. You've got to reach out to the health department.
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  Speaker 1: So Les Snead has clearly determined he's unimpressed with what
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  Speaker 1: was available at the deadline. And a little birdie says
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  Speaker 1: that there are people over there with the Rams gambling
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  Speaker 1: that San Francisco is going to release Brandon Iook in
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  Speaker 1: the next 10 days, and he will be a street-free agent.
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  Speaker 1: They can't trade him now that the deadline is gone.
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  Speaker 1: So we imagine that Les Snead is traveling to the
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  Speaker 1: Bay Area. He's hiding out right near the electric substation.
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  Speaker 1: He's out there doing that, and he's outside the Niners'
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  Speaker 1: headquarters like a seagull waiting for a dropped french fry.
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  Speaker 1: Just waiting. And have to convince Brandon Iook to come
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  Speaker 1: to L.A. And if they pull that off, McVay would
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  Speaker 1: then need to activate the Svengali effect in order to
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  Speaker 1: hypnotize Brandon Iook back into the form that he showed
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  Speaker 1: flashes of to get that big contract, which turned out
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  Speaker 1: to be a frivolous amount of money from the 49ers.
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  Speaker 1: So good luck. Good luck on that. Now, final point,
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  Speaker 1: we do go to the Bay Area where the Niners
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  Speaker 1: have added A new body to their banged-up receiver room.
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  Speaker 1: The 49ers adding veteran, long-time star wide receiver. Keenan Allen. Oh, yeah, Mr. Charger.
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  Speaker 1: He was with the Colts. His big contribution with the
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  Speaker 1: Colts was driving under the influence arrest when he got
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  Speaker 1: to Indianapolis. That was, I think, his main contribution so
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  Speaker 1: far in years. But he is now heading off to
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  Speaker 1: Northern California for Also played for the Bears, mostly a charger.
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  Speaker 1: Show me your lightning bolt. Now the 49ers are going
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  Speaker 1: to send a sixth-round draft pick to Indy in 2027
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  Speaker 1: to get their hands on Mr. Allen. Question. How do
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  Speaker 1: you evaluate the 49ers' wheeling and dealing for Colts wide
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  Speaker 1: receiver Keenan Allen? So this is a classic example of name...
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  Speaker 1: Over game. Name over game. And that's it. Keenan Allen
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  Speaker 1: sounds really good. Like that name, that's a good ball player.
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  Speaker 1: That is a good ball player, Keenan Allen. That's a
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  Speaker 1: good name. It's a great name. Until you remember what
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  Speaker 1: year it is. Ah, crap. Ah, crap. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to sit here and rain on our friends in the
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  Speaker 1: Bay Area there who so many great fans of the
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  Speaker 1: show who love the 49ers. The Niners, what they have
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  Speaker 1: done here, not only didn't give up anything, but it's
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  Speaker 1: not like they added anything. They have added another past
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  Speaker 1: his prime relic to their collection of aging, injury-prone antiques
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  Speaker 1: that happen to play football. They should open up a shop.
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  Speaker 1: They should sell some of these things. We swear, the
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  Speaker 1: electrical substation saw this trade. They got a message on
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  Speaker 1: their phone at the electrical substation and they started going
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  Speaker 1: dick dastardly. They started rubbing their hands together like that
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  Speaker 1: cartoon villain licking their chops. They were so excited. The
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  Speaker 1: 49ers are feeding another aging player. It's like a sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: to the electrical gods at that substation. Keenan Allen is
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  Speaker 1: 34 years old. He has the medical history of a
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  Speaker 1: Civil War veteran. He's seen a thing or two. In
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  Speaker 1: his career. Allen's top availability, his best availability these days,
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  Speaker 1: is his availability for physical therapy. He's really good. He's
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  Speaker 1: on time. He's on time for physical therapy. He's always there.
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  Speaker 1: He's there when he needs to be. And that's important.
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  Speaker 1: So the 49ers need healthy bodies. So what do they do?
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  Speaker 1: They bring in a guy whose body has been sending
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  Speaker 1: out distress signals for almost a decade now. And you
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  Speaker 1: kind of wonder what John Lynch is thinking. Now, you
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  Speaker 1: may know that I worked for John Lynch's old man.
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  Speaker 1: John Lynch comes from a radio family. His dad ran
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  Speaker 1: the cluster in San Diego at the mighty 690 when
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  Speaker 1: I started in radio. His old man was the general manager.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember when John was a young lad and
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  Speaker 1: his dad would go in there and they'd He talked
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  Speaker 1: to Hacksaw whether John was going to make it someday
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. He didn't make it to the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: He's a Hall of Fame player, one of the great
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  Speaker 1: safeties of his time. As an executive, you're like, what
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  Speaker 1: are you doing here? You're collecting another washed-up receiver. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a hoarder collecting broken televisions, like the handsome hoarder,
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  Speaker 1: Cowboy John Brad, back in the day. And so this
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  Speaker 1: is not roster construction. The Niners... have a really sexy record. Really,
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  Speaker 1: really sexy. But that roster, it's like assisted living. The roster.
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  Speaker 1: And you look at those key performance indicators, KPI, and
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  Speaker 1: they're not very good for the Niners. Despite the record,
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  Speaker 1: the key performance indicators indicate that this is not going
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  Speaker 1: to go well down the line for the 49ers. But
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  Speaker 1: Keenan Allen... We went and checked. He's got more mileage
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  Speaker 1: than an Amazon delivery truck, and the 49ers just bought
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  Speaker 1: him without checking, without a tune-up. They just bought, didn't
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  Speaker 1: even check under the hood, said, I don't need to
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: check the thingamajig or the whatchamacallit or the doohickey or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to get the item. Boy, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if that's a good idea. Well, we need the receiver.
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  Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, if I remember correctly, he signed late. He
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  Speaker 1: could have signed with anyone. Nobody really wanted him because
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  Speaker 1: of his age and all that. Again, the Niners didn't
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  Speaker 1: give up much to get him. I just saw some
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  Speaker 1: of these stories talking about how amazing.
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  Speaker 2: He is.
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, well, yeah, he was. I was
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  Speaker 1: a big Keenan Allen fan. We used to do the
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  Speaker 1: NFL Pick'Em on the show years ago, one of the
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  Speaker 1: bits that's been retired. And you always wanted to get
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  Speaker 1: Keenan Allen. He was indispensable. You knew you were going
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  Speaker 1: to get like six to ten catches a game, right
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  Speaker 1: around 85 to 100 yards. or more, and you were
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  Speaker 1: going to get one plus touchdown per game from Keenan Allen.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he did. Really, game after game for the
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  Speaker 1: old Chargers. Show me your lightning bolt. But now he's
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  Speaker 1: a 49er back in the golden state, so we'll see
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  Speaker 1: All right, so we mentioned the Rams who have done
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  Speaker 1: nothing to upgrade the wide receiver position value. Pull back
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  Speaker 1: the curtain. Is it true? No. that the Rams have
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  Speaker 1: their eye on a receiver that is not who I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Iok, but there's another receiver that the Rams are
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  Speaker 1: on the prowl for. God, I hope this is bogus.
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  Speaker 1: I really want this to be bogus. I need this
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  Speaker 1: to be bogus. Can this please be bogus? We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to that. I'll tell you the name, and we will
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  Speaker 1: do it!
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• 21:09
  Speaker 3: And then I'm going home to the BBC, and they're
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: saying Jockovich instead of Jokovich.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Right, because you can't say Jockovich.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: If you do, you know the blowback you're going to
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: get from the American audience.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: And a whole lot of this.
• 21:27
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• 21:30
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• 21:39
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• 21:42
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• 21:43
  Speaker 1: right now. Say hello on the phones at 877-99 on Fox.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: That's 877-996-6369.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Also....
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: On the X-Machine, at Ben Maller. That's at Ben Maller.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: And my evil plan, we will actually have Aspen tomorrow,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: but I wanted to get the questions in early. Why not? So,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: hashtag Aspen. That's tomorrow, though. We'll do Aspen tomorrow. We'll
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: get the questions in right now. In the meantime, you
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: just want to comment on the monologues or anything you
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: hear on the show, the crazy people that call up.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: That's at Ben Maller. Lorena is here, FSR. tech queen
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: hello to lorena there she is right there and coop
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: is back this hour say hello to coop at uh
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: bronco fan your comments can and will be used against
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: you in the court of sports radio so please act
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: accordingly that's right parito says all you veterans all you
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: veterans today you can eat your jelly donut with pride
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: that's right it's a Celebration of the veterans there. It's
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: a big week here. A lot of sports leagues involved
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: in that as well. So a salute to you. Either
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: active duty, former military, whatever it might be. Moving Man
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Matt writes in from the highways and byways of North
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: America with his pal Louie and says, A minus on
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the Mallard monologue. Bonus points for whack-a-mole. Major deduction for
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: teeing up JT moving boxes and not saying he called
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: the moving man or Louie. That's a bad job by me, clearly.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Maller up, and whatever the instant trivia is, the answer
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: is Eli Manning, future Hall of Famer. Eli Manning will
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: get in the Hall of Fame when Dale Murphy gets
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame in baseball. They'll put them
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: both in the same year. Dale Murphy will go in
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the Baseball Hall of Fame, and Eli Manning will go
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: in football. Because you make a better argument for Dale Murphy.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: that Dale Murphy in baseball more deserving. That's an old
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: player from like the 70s and the 80s. He's more
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: deserving of being a Hall of Famer than Eli Manning.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: That's my hot take. Rack me. Rack me. Eileen in
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: San Francisco, she's got her 49er pajamas on right now.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: She says, yuck it up, Maller. The 49ers have assembled
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the roster of serious, mature, savvy veterans for an exciting
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: second half and successful playoff run. Well, the only thing
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I like about that, Eileen, is I like the bridge,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the Golden Gate, and I like the mascot, that sourdough Sam.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: It's not a bad mascot. It's a pretty solid mascot. Femi,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: the top Uber Eats driver in Minnesota, says, Ben, by
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: acquiring Keenan Allen, does it mean the acquisition of Mike
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Evans because of his injuries? Well, all those guys are hurt, Femi.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, you're saying they got, yeah, a bunch of
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: guys hurt for the Niners. You look at the injury report,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: and you handicap. You say, well, from a gambling perspective,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: you look at it. You're like, who's there, who's not there,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: and all that. You're like, my God. Half the veteran
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: players are out for the Niners, and it doesn't matter.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: They still win these games. At some point, that comes
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: back to bite you in the badonkadonk, and it becomes
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: a problem. It does become a problem. All right, let's
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: go to the phones, and let's say hello to Jed
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Who Fled, who's somewhere in the Redneck Riviera. Hello, Jed
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Who Fled. Welcome.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Ben, I've got a really, really serious issue to talk
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: with you about. Now, you might want to use your–
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I know you don't like that because you're about shenanigans
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: and skullduggery. But you know the elections of the midterm.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: You see the direction the country is going. And I've
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: got a real, real equality question to ask you. And
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: that's when is Lorena going to start getting picked for
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: the game shows on your show? Are all of your
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: callers sexist and Trump voting deplorables? What's going on here?
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Because Lorena is obviously super intelligent. She's beautiful, just judging
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: from her voice and from the truck driver in Louisiana
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: who goes, hey, Lorena, hey, Lorena. And she must be stunning.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: And so I'm wondering, when will your show join the
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: future and treat Lorena like the citizen and person that
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: she is? I just want to, I just want.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: To, I want you to know. It's a great question. Considering, listen,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: considering the zeitgeist of the times we live in right now,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: you know, the return of Woke. to america i think
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: that we should absolutely have her play the games i'm
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: all for it but i don't i'm not in control
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: of that jed the people that call up i think
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: she should play all the games i don't know password
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: i know but the other games you have a people
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: don't understand lorena plays a character she is the smartest
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: woman when it comes she can name every nfl coach
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: she can name all the starting quarterbacks in the nfl
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: She's pretty good on skill positions, wide receiver, running back,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: tight end. Little shaky. I think you'd admit, Lorena, the
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: offensive line, the offensive line, not that great. You can't
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: name all the offensive linemen. But it's fine. I can't
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: name all the offensive linemen. You're also very good at
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: defensive backs. You're solid on linebackers. You don't know that
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: much about the defensive line, but you have tremendous knowledge.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: You're just playing a character as kind of a clueless
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: character on the show, but you really know everything. You're
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: just dumbing it down, Lorena, to make these meathead guys
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: sound smart, right? Yeah, definitely.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: That's what I do for sure.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: That's right. Have they ever produced a Hollywood movie called
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Stupid about a radio show host? However, they have produced
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: a movie called Clueless with Alicia Silverstone, which I assume
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: you would have been a much prettier star. So let's
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: say that's obviously a likable person in the world. Where's
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: the Ben Maller equivalent in Hollywood? Have they ever created
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: a movie called Idiocy? Not idiocracy, but say bad takes. No, no,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: the name of the movie is called Bad Takes. It's
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: starring Ben Mauer. Have they created that? Because I know
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: they've already created Clueless with a girl not as pretty
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: as Lorena. So what's your answer to that, dude? I'm
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: not even on the air. I'm not even on the air.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I'm a helium balloon full of drugs, and I don't
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: like it, dude. Damn it. Damn it.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Darn i didn't even have to answer the question uh
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: yeah i said come on there used to be this
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: guy that played for the baltimore colts that he would
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: go on uh there's a people used to watch late
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: night tv before they just made political jokes now and
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: i guess i don't know i guess that's all they
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: do these days but back in the old days they
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: used to be entertaining and be funny and all that
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: and There was a guy that played for the Baltimore
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Colts named Donovan, I think was his name, and he
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: wrote a book called Fatso. And they should have made
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: that a movie. They should have absolutely made that a movie. Unfortunately,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: they did not. All right, let's keep it going on
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: the phones. It is a call-in show, 877-99 on Fox.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: And Blind Scott for, I don't know, I'll put him on,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Scott, you hate the show. Why do
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: you keep calling the show Blind Scott? Explain to me.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: You do not like the show. Why do you keep
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: calling the show? It's okay. There's other shows. Go call
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: George Norrie or something like that. Go talk about aliens
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: and chemtrails over there. What are you bothering me for?
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: You suck, you fat prick. All right, thank you. All right,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: there you go. Let's go to 2% Chance, who's next. Coop,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: let's not take his calls anymore. He's banned from the show.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Let's go to 2% Chance. Hello, 2% Chance. Welcome.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: Okay, two questions. First question, what is a levy? Is
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: it like a tax or something? Second question, do you
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: think Lorena can name all the head coaches in the league,
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: all the quarterbacks in the league, and the linebackers?
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what she does, she plays a character on the show.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: And if you're if you're are you a Maller Plus subscriber? Yes,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: you are. OK, so I mean, you must have missed
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: that day. We went over it. We went over the
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: meeting and Lorena brings the meat and potatoes. But then
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: she likes to play the ditzy woman on the show.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: She she thinks that's a good character for her. And
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: we've told her. We've told Lorena, listen, you're a very
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: smart woman. Go out there and let the people hear you.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: She said, no. She said, Ben, you're fat loser people.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Of course, this was off the record. You're losers that
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: call the show. They want me to be the ditzy woman.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I'll play the ditzy woman. I said, no, Lorena. Share
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: your knowledge to the people. And she said no. So
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: that's the real issue, 2%. What was your other question? See,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: and I can't prove it on the air because that
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: would ruin my shtick. Yeah, you don't want to break
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: the fourth wall. You're in character, and you don't want
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: to ruin that. What other thing did you ask 2% Chance?
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: What was it?
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: The song, when you came back from break, Bye Bye,
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Miss American Pie, drove my shit.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: What is a levy?
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: Is it a tax?
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: What is it? You don't know what a levy is?
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: Is it a tax or something? I guess I could
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: have looked it up myself, but I wanted to sound stupid.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Enough All right, well, mission accomplished. So congratulations, but thank you.
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: Hey, wait, one more question.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: What, what, what?
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: Lorena, quick question.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Who is the Miami Dolphins head coach?
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Great question.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Great question.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: This is the guy who got abducted by dolphins like
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: two months ago.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Duh. She just told me in my headphones, Jeff Halfley
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: is the head coach of the Dolphins. She just told
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: me that. Why didn't you say that on the air?
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Why didn't you say that? You told me in my
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: headphones off the air, Lorena. You should have said that
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: on the air.
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: I told you, Ben. I cannot ruin my shtick.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: All right. I'm sorry, 2%. I tried to get her
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: to break character. So did you. She wouldn't do it.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: I won't do it. I'm going to be completely honest
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: with you. Had no idea. Who the Dolphins head coach was?
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: No.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Zero.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: By the way.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: That's the first time I've ever heard that name.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Full disclosure, I got lucky. I just didn't look it up.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I didn't have time to Google it, and I thought
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: that was. I remember talking about him when he got
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: hired from the Green Bay Packers. But if you told
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: me on a random Friday who's the coach of the Dolphins,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I would have no.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Idea.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: For some reason, that popped in my head. Jeff.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: Jeff Halfley.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah. How many NFL coaches could you name, Coop, right now?
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: Oh, man. I feel like I could name most of them,
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: but that's why I was surprised. I was like, Jeff Halfley?
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Who is that? But I think that's, I mean, I
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: don't know. Should I throw a random coach at you,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: see if you can name? All right. Let's do a
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: random coach. You know what I should do on my
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: podcast this weekend? I should have Weed Man. How many
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: coaches do you think Weed Man? None, right? Yeah, probably none.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: None.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: He'll say Bill Belichick.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: And then that won't be the right answer. Yeah, yeah,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: but that doesn't work. All right, real quick. Don't look.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Hands down, Coop, no cheating. Who is the head coach
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: of the Atlanta Falcons? Raheem Moore? Raheem Morris?
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Morris?
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: No, he was the coach. He's now the defensive coordinator,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: I think, with the 49ers, I believe, but no longer
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: coach of the Falcons. This guy used to be the
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: coach of another NFL team. he sucked with that team.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: And so the Falcons thought he could suck for their team.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: So they brought him to Atlanta and they said, Hey, you,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: we think you can do just as crappy a job
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: as you did with your last NFL team. So we'll
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: hire you as a coach. And so far he's done
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: the same crappy job he did with his previous team.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: I can't remember.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: All right. That would be Kevin Stefanski. Ah, suck with
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: the Browns and then stinks with Atlanta and There's a
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: level of consistency. There's a level of consistency with that,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: which is just outstanding, just absolutely wonderful. All right, it
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: is the Ben Maler show, so I'm a little concerned. Actually,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I'm a lot concerned because there was a roster move,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: how the mighty have fallen in the NFL, and there's
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: some connecting of the dots. And so let me give
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: you the inside skinny on this. So if you look
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: at the high-speed sports wire, Which I always look at
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: that high-speed sports wire. Very important. High-speed sports wire. If
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: you look at it, there's a name that popped up there.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: A well-known player who was fired from his job on Tuesday. Quietly,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: because the trade deadline took all the headlines. That would
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: be Odell Beckham. OBJ, who did not have a catch,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: did not have a target in the Vikings' loss on
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Monday night. Of course, it would be hard to have
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: a catch when they only completed, what, nine passes. At
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: least the starting quarterback, Carson Wentz, only completed nine passes.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: But there is buzz. There's whispers in the overnight. that
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: the L.A. Rams could be bringing Odell Beckham Jr. back
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: after he was fired by the Minnesota Vikings. This can't
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: be true, right? I understand the plan. Odell Beckham's friends
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: with a lot of the writers in the NFL and
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: his agent. You can put this stuff in the media.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Odell Beckham just turned 34. He has zero offensive statistics
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: this year. He failed with the Giants. He failed with Minnesota.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: And now people are saying that the Rams would be,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: come on. Come on, please. I'd rather get a guy
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. That's what I would rather have.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: All right, time now for the Insta Trivia. Here it is.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: And then we'll get to Mallard in the third degree.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Blank is the only NFL quarterback in 40 years to
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: win four consecutive starts without throwing a single touchdown pass. Again,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Blank is the only NFL quarterback in 40 years to
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: win four consecutive starts without throwing a single touchdown pass.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: That is the Insta Trivia. If you know the answer,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: it's on X, at Ben Mallard. We'll get to it,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: and we will do it.
• 36:18
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• 36:26
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• 36:30
  Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio. As we
• 36:33
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• 36:38
  Speaker 1: And next hour, we have the riddle of the day,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: too much or not enough, the Queen of Hearts with Lorena.
• 36:45
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• 36:49
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• 37:16
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• 37:21
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• 37:24
  Speaker 1: time now for the Insta Trivia Blank is the only
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL in 40 years to win four
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: consecutive starts without throwing a single, a single touchdown. Pass.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: A passing touchdown. That is the question. What is the answer? JT,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: the wingman going with Cam Newton. Bo Nix from Febby,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: the Uber Eats driver. Who else do we have? Page down.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Stacey Keech from Alf the Alien O'Piner. We've got Victor Cruz,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: who's 40 today. He's doing the salsa dance. Late-night drug
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: tester Cliff Stout from Mediocre Kabuki in Maine. Billy Volick
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: from Eek in Roseville, Minnesota. Fran Tarkington from Robbie the
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Mariner fan. Who else do we have? Page down. Alex
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Smith from Eileen in San Francisco. The random guy from
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: the Blue Bombers from You Gotta Have a Fall Guy.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Trucker Joe, do you have an answer, Lorena? Gotta be Gaston. No,
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: the correct answer would be J.J. McCarthy of the New
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: York Giants right now.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: J.J. McCarthy.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Here we go.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: Here we go.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Here we go.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Here we go.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: Well, there was a shot of Bill's running back, James Cook,
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: yesterday where it looked like he may have had a
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: bit of an accident.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: He responded on social media and said, this is wild.
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: I did not S on myself. Ben, what do you think?
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: Do you think he asked on himself?
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to get into this later, Coop, but yeah,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: he did. Just own it. He started the game, there
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: was no brown streak, there was no skid mark, and
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: then by the end of the game, there was a
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: skid mark. So, you know, do the math.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: Next!
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: So, reportedly Jimbo Fisher is pushing hard for a return
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: to Florida State. Do you think that could actually happen?
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes. He was there, had some success, and he
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: doesn't need that much money because Texas A & M,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: I believe, is still paying him. So, yeah, I think
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: there's a better chance of that happening than Deion Sanders. Next.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: The Braves say they're not training Ronald Acuna Jr.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: Put it in bold.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Do you believe that? No. No one's getting traded for that.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: A while, Coop.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: They're going to be a work stoppage. A work stoppage
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: December 1st, so no one's getting traded for a while,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: but he'll be traded. There he is. How did we do?
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: How did we do? I passed.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: I passed.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I passed.