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Hour 1 - Buffalo Stampede · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Here we go, Buffalo. It's our number one, hour one
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  Speaker 1: the weekends. Here in hour number one, big Thursday night game.
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  Speaker 1: They opened a new stadium in Orchard Park, New York.
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  Speaker 1: And the game was a route or route. Buffalo jumped
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  Speaker 1: out to a 21-point lead. Never looked back. Explain the
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  Speaker 1: better story in the losing locker room. Explain what Coach
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  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell accomplished. My calling out the Lions' lack of
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  Speaker 1: discipline postgame. Lions had double digits in penalties. Also, is
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  Speaker 1: it too soon, too soon to eliminate the Lions from
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  Speaker 1: contender status based on their terrible defense in the NFC?
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  Speaker 1: These are not the Lions that used to steamroll everybody. No, no, no, no, no. Also,
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  Speaker 1: the NFL media has dubbed Buffalo's new stadium as the
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  Speaker 1: house that Josh Allen built Does that work for you?
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  Speaker 1: We'll do a nosedive into all of this and more
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  Speaker 1: right now. Here it is, our number one. Well, they
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  Speaker 1: say we're the Buffalo Rome. This was more like a stampede,
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  Speaker 1: a buffalo boat race. Welcome in the beginning of another
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  Speaker 1: night of the Ben Maller Show. We are in the
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  Speaker 1: the magic. And unlike... Unlike the NFL, we are actually
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  Speaker 1: idea was that, from the world-famous... Fox Sports Radio Studios,
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  Speaker 1: where the Bills monster is in a celebratory mood. Mark
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  Speaker 1: and get To work. A programming note. We're off to
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  Speaker 1: the 1-0 start on Benny versus the Penny. If you
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  Speaker 1: took our advice, you're welcome, Buffalo. Easy. Out of the
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  Speaker 1: gates there. We'll have more of Benny versus the Penny
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  Speaker 1: for week two coming up in hour number two. So
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  Speaker 1: get on the bandwagon. It's back where it all started.
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  Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny right here on the radio. That'll
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  Speaker 1: be coming up in hour number two. But don't bury
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  Speaker 1: the lead, my man, or lead this hour. From Orchard Park,
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  Speaker 1: New York, the opening night there, those little soft launch games,
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  Speaker 1: those little exhibition matchups and whatnot, but now it's the
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  Speaker 1: real deal. And what they're calling in Buffalo their pigskin palace.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about that. $ 2. 1 billion spent on the
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  Speaker 1: new Highmark Stadium with the fun-sized jumbotron, the obstructed view seats,
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  Speaker 1: the upper deck where it was designed for mountain goats,
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  Speaker 1: and the matchup. Made for the Amazon. You had Al
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  Speaker 1: Michaels and Herbie right there. Josh Allen's Bills hosting Jared
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  Speaker 1: Goff's Lions. Did you watch? Were you engaged in this?
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps not. I don't know what else you were doing.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen. Threw for three touchdowns. He ran for two scores.
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  Speaker 1: I'm told that's good. I'm told that's good. And Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: beat the snot out of the Lions 41-31, the final
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  Speaker 1: in a game that was never in doubt for the
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. No matter how much Al Michaels tried to
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  Speaker 1: convince you, the consumer, his old school broadcasting pedigree, the
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  Speaker 1: first day of broadcasting clown college, they teach you to
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  Speaker 1: try to sell whoever's losing. because they're so paranoid about
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  Speaker 1: losing the audience. Rather than just be honest and say, boy,
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  Speaker 1: the Lions really blow.
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the Lions can get right back in the game. No,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't. They didn't get back in the game. The
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  Speaker 1: Bills kept them at arm's length, so Buffalo gets a
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  Speaker 1: 10-point victory on Thursday night in the first regular season
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  Speaker 1: game at the aforementioned new stadium there, Highmark Stadium, which
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  Speaker 1: had the same name as the old stadium, but you
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  Speaker 1: get the deal. Anyway, it was Josh Allen's fourth career
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  Speaker 1: five-touchdown outing. He's got Nine touchdowns now after a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks of football. And that's all good, and that's
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  Speaker 1: all great. You know how we roll in these parts.
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  Speaker 1: The better story is in the losing locker room. Where
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  Speaker 1: have you gone? The bravado, the swag of Dan Campbell's Lions.
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  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell, his post-game gripe. He had many gripes in
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  Speaker 1: the post-game, Dan Campbell, complaining about, A number of things.
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  Speaker 1: The big gripe seems to be the lack of discipline
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  Speaker 1: for the Lions. Campbell complaining about that as the penalties
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  Speaker 1: were piling up throughout the night, back-breaking penalties. The Lions
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  Speaker 1: were penalized ten times, several penalties wiping out opportunities to
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  Speaker 1: change things. the game in favor of the Lions in
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  Speaker 1: terms of field position and whatnot. So that is a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question. Can you
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  Speaker 1: explain what Coach Dan Campbell accomplished in his post-game diatribe
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  Speaker 1: calling out the Lions' discipline on this night? So my
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on this, I've got Orville Redenbacher, vegan cookbook, and
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  Speaker 1: booster shots. And we'll combine all of these things together,
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  Speaker 1: and we will answer the $ 64 question. Not the $ 64, 000 question.
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  Speaker 1: Not the $ 64 million question. The $ 64 question is what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to answer. So, A, Dan Campbell... is up
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  Speaker 1: there at the dais and he's i know what he's
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  Speaker 1: trying to do he's trying to be like hey you
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  Speaker 1: know as long as we just clean this up we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be fine i'll be the human sponge i'll soak
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  Speaker 1: up all the rage all the outrage and i'll dig
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  Speaker 1: a little deeper and it's gonna be okay you know
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  Speaker 1: as long as we clean this up we'll be fine
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  Speaker 1: yeah so i give the guy a hint he he
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  Speaker 1: claims like he's identified that the lions have a discipline
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  Speaker 1: problem nobody could have guessed that after the penalties it
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  Speaker 1: was a yellow flag party there You've solved the mystery. Now,
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  Speaker 1: spoiler alert, spoiler alert. Dan, as we like to say
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  Speaker 1: in these parts, you're either coaching it or you're allowing
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  Speaker 1: it to happen. And if I'm not mistaken, every single player,
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  Speaker 1: every single player on the Lions roster was handpicked. Handpicked
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  Speaker 1: all the players. And these are the guys they wanted.
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  Speaker 1: And right now, Detroit is at the casino and they're
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  Speaker 1: playing problem roulette. That is where you spin the wheel.
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  Speaker 1: And that roulette wheel goes round and round. And then
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  Speaker 1: you just kind of wait and see what breaks next.
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  Speaker 1: Will it be another penalty? Is it going to be
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  Speaker 1: a turnover? Is it busted assignment, sloppy tackling, hitting the
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  Speaker 1: wrong sound effect, or just pure dumb decisions? There you go.
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  Speaker 1: You were close. Calling it out at the podium. Calling
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  Speaker 1: it out at the podium does not work. Like Clorox
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  Speaker 1: and all those disinfectants, they say, well, it kills 99.9%
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  Speaker 1: of bacteria. By the way, the reason they say that,
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  Speaker 1: legally they can't say 100%. Legally, they've been sued and
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  Speaker 1: they can't say 100% because if something happens, they'd be liable.
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  Speaker 1: So 99.9% is plausible deniability. So just a fun fact
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  Speaker 1: on that. So Dan Campbell, listen, it's not Clorox. It
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  Speaker 1: didn't kill 99% of the problems and all that because
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  Speaker 1: you get up at the podium. And Campbell, he's not
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  Speaker 1: some kind of outside consultant. We like Dan Campbell. He's
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  Speaker 1: generally been good for our purposes here as a talk
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  Speaker 1: show host doing the show overnight. And he's not brought
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  Speaker 1: in as a consultant here outside to audit the circus.
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  Speaker 1: He is literally the ringmaster of whatever's going on under
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  Speaker 1: the big top there outside. in the Motor City. So
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  Speaker 1: if you want to give out these press conferences and
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  Speaker 1: say this, that, and the other thing's wrong, that's fine.
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  Speaker 1: You know, give these press conferences about the grease fire.
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  Speaker 1: You might want to turn off the stove. You might
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  Speaker 1: want to turn off the stove. And so Dan Campbell
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  Speaker 1: should be a brand ambassador, be a pitch man for
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  Speaker 1: Orville Redenbacher. And the reason why is because the Lions
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  Speaker 1: right now have popcorn problems every few seconds. another kernel explodes. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they're 1-1, thanks to the Saints being unable to get
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  Speaker 1: it done in overtime last week. So they are 1-1.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the worst of the worst here. But you
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  Speaker 1: just allowed Buffalo to have 34 first downs, 446 yards,
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  Speaker 1: of offense and convert on 75% of their third down
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  Speaker 1: tries there. So good luck. You might want to fix
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  Speaker 1: the popcorn thing and the roulette wheel and the whole deal. Now,
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  Speaker 1: page two. As the Lions are out there lost in space,
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  Speaker 1: Detroit has played just two games. That is about 12%
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  Speaker 1: of the regular season. That's it, 12%. Two of 17
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  Speaker 1: is about 12%. I think it's 11.7%. So it's early
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  Speaker 1: and all those good things, and you can say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing to worry about here, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: But we have a show to do today. We have
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  Speaker 1: to worry about today's talk show. So the question, is
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  Speaker 1: it too soon to eliminate the Lions from contender status
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  Speaker 1: in the National Football Conference after two games? So as
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  Speaker 1: of this moment, it is absolutely not too soon. They're porked.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if they're 1-1. The eyeball test, the
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  Speaker 1: hearing test is ugly with a capital U. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: take this team seriously. You can't. Two games in. And
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  Speaker 1: the Motor City assembly line has produced a lemon. You
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  Speaker 1: won't get a lemon. They got a lemon. And unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe there's a recall available. Like, what are
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  Speaker 1: you going to do? You say the offensive line had
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  Speaker 1: guys out. We took the bills. And the main reason
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  Speaker 1: we took the bills is because the offensive line was
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  Speaker 1: a problem. And it took the Lions about half the
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  Speaker 1: game to figure things out. And by then, they were
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  Speaker 1: playing catch-up. And they never did catch-up. They had some
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  Speaker 1: mustard and whatnot. The defense, though, is not too many
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  Speaker 1: major injuries where you say that they can just get
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  Speaker 1: some guys back and they'll be fine. Unless I'm missing something,
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  Speaker 1: they got big time issues here with who's out there.
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  Speaker 1: And it sucks because Dan Campbell's motivational speeches are freaking great. Eventually, though,
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  Speaker 1: you actually have to tackle someone. That's always the problem.
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  Speaker 1: You have to evolve into tackling, which sucks and The
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  Speaker 1: thing about the Lions, the evolution of the Detroit Lions
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  Speaker 1: under Dan Campbell, this team went from biting kneecaps to
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  Speaker 1: currently on defense reading a vegan cookbook. That's what they're reading. Well,
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  Speaker 1: why don't you tackle someone? Well, that's violent. We don't
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  Speaker 1: want to do that. Let's just make some vegetables taste
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  Speaker 1: like meat. That's what we're going to do. So they've
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  Speaker 1: traded that grit that Dan Campbell installed to whatever that was,
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  Speaker 1: what passive surrender by the Lions defense. And you look
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  Speaker 1: at the injuries, penalties, and just overall defensive incompetence, that
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  Speaker 1: is the holy trinity, the holy trinity of suck that
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  Speaker 1: has arrived in Detroit. And normally there's a couple people
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  Speaker 1: that go into the cockpit. The entire Lions defense is
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  Speaker 1: riding the vomit comet. Right now. That is unreal. They're
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  Speaker 1: not contenders. They're pretenders. You're not a contender if you're
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  Speaker 1: giving up 36 points a game and 457 yards per game,
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  Speaker 1: which is what the Lions are doing right now through
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  Speaker 1: two weeks. That is pinata status. Pinata status for the Lions. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell. He needs an intervention. His team does. Because
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  Speaker 1: I'm starting to see some of those same old lions
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  Speaker 1: who are staging a hostile takeover here. Detroit spent decades,
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  Speaker 1: decades in football incarceration. They're in football jail. They were
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  Speaker 1: only furloughed on Thanksgiving, on that Thursday Thanksgiving. And in
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  Speaker 1: recent years, they finally tasted freedom. Free at last. Free
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  Speaker 1: at last. And now the ankle monitor is starting to
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  Speaker 1: beep again. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
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  Speaker 1: Just like you can hear it almost. You can almost
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  Speaker 1: hear the beeping. All right, last word to the winning side.
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  Speaker 1: Winning to the winning side. And the question here, the
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  Speaker 1: NFL media, the NFL media elites have dubbed Buffalo's new
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  Speaker 1: stadium as, quote, the house that Josh Allen built. Close quote.
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  Speaker 1: Does that work for you after a five touchdown debut?
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  Speaker 1: So it's cute. You got to be joking, though. Calling
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  Speaker 1: that the house that Josh Allen built is kind of
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  Speaker 1: like saying that Mickey Mouse personally poured the concrete at
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  Speaker 1: Disney World.
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  Speaker 3: It's.
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  Speaker 1: Poppycock is what it is. Josh Allen didn't build the house.
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  Speaker 1: He's a very expensive Airbnb attraction living inside the house.
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  Speaker 1: You know who built the house? The taxpayers. They brought
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  Speaker 1: the lumber. They poured the concrete. They picked up the tab.
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  Speaker 1: Even those that don't like football couldn't tell you the
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  Speaker 1: difference between a racquetball and a football. They still had
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  Speaker 1: their tax dollars go to pay for this monstrosity. That's
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  Speaker 1: New York State and Erie County taxpayers. They're the sugar daddies.
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  Speaker 1: They're the ones that built the stadium. $ 850 million of
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  Speaker 1: public taxpayer money. Your tax dollars at work building a
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  Speaker 1: football stadium for the Buffalo team. Now, regardless, the Bills
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  Speaker 1: right now are feeling pretty good. They got a little swagger.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing all right. That win over the Lions was
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  Speaker 1: a confidence booster shot. And you look at it two
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  Speaker 1: weeks in. Now you got wins over the Lions and
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  Speaker 1: the Texans, which is really great for self-esteem. Really, really
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  Speaker 1: great for self-esteem. Everything is wonderful in Western New York,
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  Speaker 1: provided you don't look at the fine print. You don't
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  Speaker 1: look at the defensive stat sheet. Because if you look
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  Speaker 1: at that, suddenly things aren't looking so great. Because you
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  Speaker 1: weave a web of lies when you look at that.
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  Speaker 1: And while the Lions are rightfully being crucified for their
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  Speaker 1: defensive blunders, since Buffalo is 2-0, everyone's throwing confetti in
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  Speaker 1: the air everywhere. And while the Bills' offense is fine,
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  Speaker 1: and certainly the Lions' offense, you say, is good enough
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  Speaker 1: to win, the defense also for Buffalo is screaming, check-in-ging,
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  Speaker 1: pulling teeth over there, the Lions' defense. defense like our
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  Speaker 1: friend anthony in louisiana had some teeth pulled but thanks
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  Speaker 1: to the cologne of victory the body spray of victory
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  Speaker 1: the bills have been given a pardon and we talked
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  Speaker 1: about how bad the lions are in the lions giving
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  Speaker 1: up an average of 36 points and 457 yards a
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  Speaker 1: game Well, the Buffalo Bills are not that bad. However,
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  Speaker 1: they're not great. The Bills' defense through two games allowing
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  Speaker 1: 368 yards of offense per game and 31 points per game.
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  Speaker 1: So I've gone into the lab and I've looked at
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  Speaker 1: all the beakers and I've done some weird science and
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  Speaker 1: all that and I've crunched the numbers on this and
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  Speaker 1: I've determined this is going to blow you away here.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody else has this take. That is not a sustainable formula.
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  Speaker 1: It is not. Under scrutiny, that is not a sustainable formula.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care how much you dance around. And it's
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  Speaker 1: similar to the Lions. Like, what are the Bills going
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  Speaker 1: to do? The guys that are out there on defense,
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  Speaker 1: these are the guys. And there'll be some easier games
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  Speaker 1: up ahead, sure. There'll be some games against tomato cans.
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  Speaker 1: You get to play two games against the Jets, and
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  Speaker 1: they suck. But they beat the Titans. Well, the Titans
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  Speaker 1: suck more. The Titans suck more. So you look at it,
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, okay, so Buffalo, you know, you see
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  Speaker 1: the war of attrition and all that. They're off to
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  Speaker 1: the 2-0 start. Up ahead, they've got the Chargers and
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots and the Rams. Those are the next three games,
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  Speaker 1: and those teams all have pretty good offenses. So you
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  Speaker 1: figure you have to score a bunch of points and
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  Speaker 1: outscore everybody. At some point, you're going to run into
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  Speaker 1: a good defense, and it's going to be a problem.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see how this goes. It is the Ben
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  Speaker 1: we'll take calls this hour. In hour two, Ixnay on
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  Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio. As we
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: roll on here, talking about the primetime matchup. On Thursday night,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Buffalo christening their new stadium. Just like when you launch
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: a giant boat, big cruise ship. The Bills get a win.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: As they came out, this is what's called a boat
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: race situation. Not a Harvard boat race, but a boat
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: race situation. We're talking about that. A reminder, the Fifth
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Hour podcast returns later on on Friday. And we'd like
• 20:50
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• 20:53
  Speaker 1: on the Fifth Hour podcast. The return of my old homie,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: the one and only Eddie Garcia, will make a rare
• 21:00
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• 21:03
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• 21:09
  Speaker 1: what else do we call him? Nacho Daddy, the Merman,
• 21:14
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• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Jar Jar, the mad F-bomber of sports fodder. I feel
• 21:22
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• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Steamboat Willie, Gated Garcia, Games of Miller Garcia, Gaslight Garcia,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Cookie Crook, Eddie will pop on. Hot nuts! Eddie said
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: he would do it, but we had to talk some hockey.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: So against my better judgment, there might be some hockey
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: talk on the Fifth Hour Podcast. I'll put my stick
• 21:43
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• 21:46
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• 21:48
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• 21:53
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• 21:55
  Speaker 4: He blew me off.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: And you can also say hello to Lorena. She's known
• 22:08
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• 22:13
  Speaker 1: And the Koobaloop at a Bronco fan. That's a Bronco fan.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: There you go. Very exciting. Born in East L.A. Yes,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: when you think East L.A., you think Coop, definitely. JJ
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: from Renton writes in, and he says, Dan Campbell isn't
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: biting kneecaps off. He's biting ankles like a chihuahua at
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: this point. Oh, boy. It's a mess. Michael in Tulsa
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: writes and says, Ben, not sure which is bigger, the
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: number of dumb Detroit defensive penalties or the obstructed views
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: of Bills fans in their new stadium. My odds are
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: about even. But, of course, TV gave us the Chamber
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: of Commerce view of the Bills' new digs. Yes, you
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: definitely get a filtered view. a filtered view on what's
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: going on when you watch an NFL production. They put
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: a little extra sugar on top, and that's just how
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: they roll. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: and it's always been that way. I love that movie. Yes.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: The NFL, for so many years, has produced a product
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: where I'm pretty sure the director is Mary Poppins because
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: you watch an NFL broadcast and everything, is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Everything.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: It is. It's first class.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: It's marvelous.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: The stadium's the good. Let's just overlook all the bad stuff.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: We'll just talk about the good stuff. There you go. Yeah.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: So there is that. Inca Terror, part of Bill's Mafia.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: No matter what you say, Benny, you will not dampen
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: my spirits. My Yankees are in the playoffs. My neighboring
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: waterway has been upgraded to Lake America, and my bills
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: are 2-0. It's a great week to be alive, says
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: the great Inca Terror legend, classically trained musician who's performed
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: at halls all over the world, from Russia to Europe
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: to Australia. He's been everywhere, and he's a friend of
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: our show. Very talented man, the Inca Terror. It does
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: not always make the proper decisions when it comes to sports.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: You cannot celebrate the Yankees making the playoffs. Just like,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: I like the Dodgers. I can't celebrate the Dodgers, the
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: champagne celebration. It was like the dumbest thing in the world.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I don't want to get off on a tangent, but
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I'm allowed to get off on a tangent. Like, dude,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers and Yankees, you don't celebrate making the playoffs.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: You don't. What are you doing? Baseball, they have more
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: champagne celebrations than baseball. It's crazy. You know who should celebrate?
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Like Tampa Bay gets to celebrate. The whole thing's stupid.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Anthony in Anaheim, retired caller. He sold out for family life.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Anthony writes and says, are the Dolphins going to suck forever? No,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: they will not suck. They will only suck as long
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: as you're alive, Anthony. So while you're alive, they will suck.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: The rest of your life, they will be terrible. But
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: at some point, maybe your kids, when they're old, they'll
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: see the Dolphins have a good team. Late Night Drug
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Tester writes in, says, Sure, Buffalo looked great today, but
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: title runs are in January. Not sure what the Farmer's
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Almanac predicts, but pretty sure the weather will slow down
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: that offense yet again. It's a similar problem to what's
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: going to happen in Sweet Home Chicago. The Bears. Playing
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: outdoors in the cold weather is hard. Even if you're indoors,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: generally the offense slows down the later you get in
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the season for a number of reasons. Shane in Des Moines, Iowa,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: writes in. He says, A-plus for the previous edition of
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Newbie Night. He said, Keith in Connecticut has a fan
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: in me. Solid collared me for what that's worth. Yeah,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: we enjoyed Keith, and the guys had fun. A tough
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: deck of cards handed to him in life, and he's
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: trying to get it back on his feet there, and
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: he listens to us late at night while he's hanging
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: out at a secret location. He cannot say. He cannot
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: say because he's not technically supposed to be there, but
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: somebody is allowing him to stay there, which is very cool.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: helping him try to get back on his feet. Yefimi
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: in Chicago writes in, says, Hey, Mahler, A-plus and Detroit-style
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: pizza on the Mahler monologue. That's the only good thing
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: coming out of the Motor City these days. Dan Campbell
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: has been exposed, and it was Ben Johnson's offense the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: whole time behind the curtain that made the kitty cats relevant.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Kneecap biter, says Yefimi. calm down your feet, put your
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: pants back on. I know you're all excited about the Bears,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: but calm down a little bit. And the issue for
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the Lions is not about the offense. The offense has
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: been good enough. They won the game against the Saints
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: because of their offense. They certainly scored enough, although they
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: did score kind of a late garbage time touchdown to
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: make the score appear closer against Buffalo, they being the Lions.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: That said, I mean, it's the defense. Defense. Defense. defense
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: analog alice's what about deadbolt daddy uh deadbolt eddie uh
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: that was not one of his nicknames i do not
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: recall that being one of his official nicknames i i
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: don't think so yeah i think you're making that up
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: bad job by you.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Are you a gatekeeper of the nicknames.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Uh i am as you know lorraine i have more
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: nicknames than anyone in talk radio i don't have the
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: biggest contract they don't make The big impact on the business,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: certainly don't. Nobody really knows who I am, other than
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: a few. When it comes to nicknames, though, I kick
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Cowherd's ass, Dan Patrick, all these other guys. They can't
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: compete with me. As you know, I am known as,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: among other things, the spin master of misinformation, the bantering broadcaster,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the Beethoven of BS. I've been called Benny Bingo, curmudgeon
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: of commentary, chasm of sarcasm, czar of zany, dark knight
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: of weeknight sports radio.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: I'm the boss.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: The mogul of mischief, Benny the brazen. Don't! The king
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: of zing, moneyball mallor, Benny the bopper for my baseball prowess,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: facetious fox, sultan of insultin, the shaman of schadenfreude, the
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: sensitive sniffer.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Jumping Jack of Wisecrack, Inside of Overnight, Medicine Man Maller,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the Nabob of Negativity, the Sage of Outrage, the Pinnacle
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: of Cynical, the Prince of Preposterous, Professor of Propaganda, the
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Hussar of Hyperbole, the Floating Turd of the Spoken Word,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: and the Mad Hatter of Sports Chatter. And that's only
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: half my nickname. That's it. That is a lot. Well,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I can give you the rest if you want. It's
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: up to you. Do you actually have a list of these?
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: That's crazy. These are documented. Many of them came from
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Richard the Racehorse, who used to call up from Detroit.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: He gave me a lot of them. But a number
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: of people have handed these out like candy on Halloween
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: over the years. It does happen. Anyway, let's take a call.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: It is a call-in show. And who do we have here? Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Andrew. who's in Bakersfield, California. Hello, Andrew. Hey, Ben.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: You know, I think the U.S. should keep the penny.
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: One reason, Abraham Lincoln is on there.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: And, you know.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: So you keep the penny. That's a random take. Yeah, but...
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Whether they... It doesn't... Obviously, they're getting rid of the penny.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: The penny's not going to be made anymore, so that's fine.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: But the penny is forever. The term, the penny, will
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: forever be in the lexicon. It's not going to go away.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: So you can get rid of the penny... can't kill
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the penny the penny will live on whether you actually
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: make pennies or not it is part of the fabric
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: of america i stand with the.
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: Penny and i'd like to mention nl west champions dodgers
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: and kyle tucker almost hit for the cycle and had
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: a double and was almost going to go to third
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: there benny what do you think.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Do you know what the term almost means? Do you
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: know what that means?
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: I think so.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: That means you didn't do it. That means you failed. Like, hey,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I almost won the lottery. I was only one number off. Okay, good. Congratulations, dummy.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: You didn't win the lottery.
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: But he got a single, two doubles, and a home run.
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: And I don't know if he got another hit along
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: with that.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: You would be like the greatest parent. Can you imagine?
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Hey, you're in school here. What was your report? Well,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I got D and F, a D, and then there
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: was like one C. All right, well, you got a C.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: That's great. But, yeah, I failed every other class. But
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: you got a C. That's good. That's Andrew in Bakersfield,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: parent of the year right there. Kyle Tucker's making $ 70
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: million a year, and the guy blows. The guy blows.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: Good job, Dodgers. All right, thanks, man.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to... Who do we have? Swamp Billy
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: is up next. Swamp Billy. Hey, Swamp Billy, did you
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: hear about the fact that the Buffalo Bills, prior to
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the game, one of the... I'm not going to give
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: the name here because they're not an advertiser, but one
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: of the people from the prediction market, not our friends
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: at DraftKings, handed out free tables to people tailgating before
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: the first game. You know that Bills fans are known
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: to jump and break tables? So they handed out Those
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: outdoor tables so people could break them. That's not a
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: bad marketing gimmick. That's a pretty solid marketing gimmick. I
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: do wonder about the liability. If somebody got hurt jumping
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: on the table, wouldn't they be able to sue? the
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: company that gave them out saying that, hey, we wouldn't
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: have done this if you hadn't given these out. And
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that part of it, but it's
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: kind of funny. It's cool. It's nice. Swamp Billy, are
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: you alive? Swamp Billy. I am alive.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: I refer to that as an attractive nuisance, having been
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: a former member of the Alabama Bar Association. And I
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: want to thank the Bills for reinstituting Comiskey Park with
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: its obstructive views and other bullshit.
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: I cussed.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: I apologize.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Okay. I'm going to have to put you in jail,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Swamp Billy. I do appreciate your apology. Yeah, you're in
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the Bible Belt. What's wrong with you? You can't do that.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: You're in the Bible Belt. What's wrong with you? How
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: dare you?
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: I haven't been to church in several years. Anyway, but
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: I want to talk about, you know, Comiskey Park. I
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: was there when Andy Hawkins threw his eight-inning no-hitter back
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: in July 1 of 1990, not 1890. And they took
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: it away from him, you know?
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: I remember that. Yeah, they said Ixnay.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you're an old guy like me, but I
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: want to talk about, you know, the Bills are awesome,
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: and they get to play like, you know, the Titans
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: and the, you know, you know their schedule. They're great,
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: and I know you've got a lot of listeners up
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: there like you do in Boston, but I just want
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: to invite you to Nashville to go to the Chip
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: and the Bill, which reminds me of Blind Swamp. What
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: was his name? Von whatever.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Seabass, your rival. Von Seabass, yeah. Wait, wait, wait. You
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: were supposed to fight him, and you didn't show up, remember?
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: Sleep, okay? You know, you forgive Hollering James, Timus Ramirez,
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: but you don't forgive Tontano Guillermo.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: No, I do not. I do not forgive you. When
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: you're set off for a fight, can you imagine you're
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: fighting for the heavyweight championship of the world and you
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: don't show up? You can't not do it. You train
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: for that. You prepare for that. How dare you?
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: Versus Lennox Lewis? I had money on Lennox Lewis. I'm
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: happy about that. Hello?
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I went away.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: I'll win four games this year.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Who's going to win four games? The Titans?
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: Well, the way they played against the Jets, you can't
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: beat the Jets and you're in garbage time in the
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. That generally means you're in trouble.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: I got one last thing to say to you. Ask
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: Eddie if the Predators can beat the Rays in the
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: exhibition game Sunday. I love all you, and I know
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: you hate me, but that's okay. You got to have
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: a villain. God bless you, Ben Maller.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. Swamp Billy, the rare and appropriate appearance
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: by Swamp Billy. We thank him for that. Very nice.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: It is the Ben Maller Show. And time now for
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: the Who Am I game. This is where we pretend
• 34:59
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• 35:01
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• 35:05
  Speaker 1: With 31 receiving yards against Chicago on Sunday, Vikings wide
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: receiver Justin Jefferson can surpass me. for the second most
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: receiving yards by a player under the age of 28
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: in NFL history, trailing only Hall of Famer Randy Moss. Again,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: with 31 receiving yards at Chicago on Sunday, Vikings wide
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: receiver Justin Jefferson can surpass me for the second most
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: receiving yards by a player under the age of 28
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: in NFL history, trailing only Pro Football Hall of Famer
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Randy Moss, who am I? That is the question and
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: the answer. We'll get to it, and we will do
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: it next.
• 35:55
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• 35:58
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• 36:01
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• 36:05
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• 36:20
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• 36:24
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• 36:28
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• 36:31
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• 36:34
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• 36:36
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• 36:38
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• 36:44
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• 36:48
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• 36:52
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• 36:55
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• 36:57
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• 36:59
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• 37:04
  Speaker 1: the call-in number. Let's say hello to Sam, who's in
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Canada and just a little bit up from Buffalo, and
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: he was apparently at— The Bills game. He was in
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: the new stadium. Hello, Sam. Welcome, Sam. You're on Fox
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio. What's going on?
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: Thank you. Thanks so much. First time caller. Just wanted
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: to give you some feedback on the game. We had
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: some great seats. 50-yard line. The second-last row. of the
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: lower bowl. And I know one of the earlier callers
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: were talking about a lot of obstructed seats, but to
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: their credit, the Bills organization had taken a lot of
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: feedback and made a lot of changes from the preseason games,
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: even with seating. So kudos to them. It was very
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: classy for them to also include the Canadian National Anthem.
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: I'm not sure if it's because the Buffalo Sabres have
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: been doing it for years or if maybe they just
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: want to rise above the politics right now and just
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: sort of focus on our friendship between the U.S. and Canada,
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: and very classy on them to have the Canadian anthem,
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: which was cheered. had a chance to sit behind, of
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: all people, Jim Kelly, who was sitting in the row
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  Speaker 5: right in front of me, and that was great to
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: see him at the game. A lot of great bells
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  Speaker 5: and whistles. It was so great to see the Bills
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  Speaker 5: also sort of play at ease. You think maybe with
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: a home opener, season opener, stadium opener, that there's a
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: lot of pressure, but there's a certain... looseness to the
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: team and maybe that's Brady I'm not sure but it's
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: nice to see Josh Allen throw over the middle of
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: the field not always on the sidelines it's great to
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: see them mixing it up I did have one weird
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: anomaly that I wanted to ask you about maybe if
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: you're familiar with it but I noticed that whenever either
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: kicker would try a field goal or a point after
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: the stadium screen or the scoreboard, I should say, went dim.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm not sure if that's happened in other stadiums.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, again, if it's a courtesy to the kickers.
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  Speaker 5: It's certainly quite the opposite of what the Patriots have
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  Speaker 5: been accused of doing with flipping the image. But just
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  Speaker 5: wanted to get your feedback. if you know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't uh no i mean i i would assume
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  Speaker 1: if they did it every time somebody kicked a field
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: goal it was intentional but it's it's also good to
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: be at ease it's easy to be at ease sam
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: when you're up 21 points in the second quarter You
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like it's not, you're in control
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: of the game. But I'm glad you had a good time,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: and the stadium was nice, and it'll never be that
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: nice again because over time people mess it up. But
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you had a good time there, Sam, driving
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: back from the Bills game. Time now for the Who
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Am I game. Who? And here we go, the Who
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Am I game. This is where we pretend to be
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: somebody else, thus we call it the Who Am I game.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: With 31 receiving yards against Chicago on Sunday, Vikings wide
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: receiver Justin Jefferson can surpass me for the second most
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: receiving yards by a player under the age of 28
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  Speaker 1: in NFL history, trailing only Pro Football Hall of Famer
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Randy Moss. Who am I? That is the question. What
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: is the answer? And let's see, does anyone know the answer?
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: We go to the great unwashed here. Dijon Love, my
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: favorite 49er, better than Jerry Rice. That's from Mr. Irrigation.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Who else? Anthony in Anaheim says, Sam can really kill
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: a segment. Well, that's not nice. Alexa Bliss from Just Josh.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Page down. Former, another Viking wide receiver, Matthew Hatchett. Guest
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: by Arik. Very funny. Tony Soprano from Larry, who's reporting
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: in Nashville. Hi, Larry. Antonio Brown from Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: The Lemon Peppa Steppa from Rob in the 3-2-1. Trick Williams.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Page down. The Mad Hatter
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: of Sports Chatter. Alf the Alien O'Piner. Lorena, do you
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: have an answer, Lorena? Michael Myers. Michael Myers. He really
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: killed it, but no, that is incorrect. The correct answer
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: would be none other than DeAndre Hopkins!
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  Speaker 5: DeAndre Hopkins!