Speaker 1: Welcome players, You're welcome. It's time now Penny versus the
Speaker 1: Penny that it is and welcome in a post season edition.
Speaker 1: If you thought the regular season of Benny Versus the
Speaker 1: Penny was quality, wholesome podcasting, well you are in for
Speaker 1: a magical treat because we have arrived our first Benny
Speaker 1: Versus the Penny for the new year, and we ring
Speaker 1: it in with the second round of the postseason, the
Speaker 1: Divisional Playoff round and as always representing the Coin, a
Speaker 1: man who whatever I pick will go against me, meaning
Speaker 1: that many people think this is a rigged deal. David
Speaker 1: Gascon his stage name No I Don't play right, Don't
Speaker 1: play right. He's known on social media as Dagon David
Speaker 1: gag on uh, and that is David Gascon sending the
Speaker 1: treasury and David Gascon full front and center. Now, well,
Speaker 1: all I know is that I have had a wonderful
Speaker 1: postseason so far, to one and one in the postseason,
Speaker 1: and I'm very excited about that. So I'm I've gotten
Speaker 1: back on track. And really a bad beat which was
Speaker 1: a bad tie in the Buffalo Houston game because the
Speaker 1: quarterback of the Buffalo Bills, Josh Allen, not a barbarian.
Speaker 1: Not a gladiator, more like a little church mouse, a
Speaker 1: little church mouse that just played like vomit, gave that
Speaker 1: game away, gave that you needed smelling salts in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter and overtime they're uh, double shot of espresso,
Speaker 1: something to wake him up. But so I really should
Speaker 1: have had a perfect weekend. I think most would agree
Speaker 1: with that. So it's a great weekend for me, you know.
Speaker 1: And I'll be honest, I don't know how you got
Speaker 1: that time, considering the fact that you usually cap these
Speaker 1: games on Wednesdays or Thursdays, um, But somehow you found
Speaker 1: a way to have that line set at three. What's
Speaker 1: called buying. You can buy a half a point. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you know this. You're probably not that
Speaker 1: educated on gambling, and I don't know how we can
Speaker 1: co exist if you don't know about gambling. But but
Speaker 1: when a line is either like two and a half
Speaker 1: or three, you know, you can a lot of people
Speaker 1: wait and most people buy points when it's three or
Speaker 1: seven because you want the hook, you want the three
Speaker 1: and a half of the seven half. But you can
Speaker 1: do it. You can do it at two and a half.
Speaker 1: You want to land on though either three or seven
Speaker 1: or above it. But when you're taking the underdog, either
Speaker 1: one of those. But it was a great job by me,
Speaker 1: And I know there's some dissension. You're upset that I
Speaker 1: had a good weekend. Well, most people don't buy the points.
Speaker 1: They don't felt Most people don't. That's why. That's why
Speaker 1: you listen to podcasts like this, so you're not a
Speaker 1: feeble pushover like gag On. You've never actually disclosed buying
Speaker 1: it to three or buying it too. I've been doing
Speaker 1: this for like fifteen years. I haven't talked about on
Speaker 1: the podcast. I've talked about on the radio stupid, but
Speaker 1: nobody listens to that show. They listen. Nobody listen to
Speaker 1: the show recording to you. Nobody listens to the podcast.
Speaker 1: And I agree because you're on the podcast. And here's
Speaker 1: the other thing, too, is most sharps that are involved
Speaker 1: in laying points, they don't usually look at two and
Speaker 1: a half as a bad number. Three is usually the
Speaker 1: magic number. If a home team is favored by three,
Speaker 1: more often than not they go with the road team.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what you did. Well listen, I know,
Speaker 1: I know you don't know this because you have lived
Speaker 1: your life as a follower. But I'm a leader. I'm
Speaker 1: an alpha dog, and alpha dog, I don't care what
Speaker 1: other people do. I do my own thing. I have
Speaker 1: lost my own battles here and so I have unquestioned
Speaker 1: the ability when it comes to gambling, and I have
Speaker 1: some things that I have done here when with underdogs.
Speaker 1: I always take the underdogs over a touchdown divisional games
Speaker 1: or playoff games for that matter. That always happens. But
Speaker 1: that's just the way it is. I understand, and I
Speaker 1: think I'm happy that you acknowledge that as being a
Speaker 1: lead dog and gambling. And because of that, looking at
Speaker 1: our podcast downloads, you owe me more Tito's tacos next week. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm a very busy man, and I don't know that
Speaker 1: to be true. Now. I thought you wanted to, you know,
Speaker 1: talk about this in the other podcast, but we'll talk
Speaker 1: about on this podcast. We had a wager we did
Speaker 1: the Seattle podcast, and I had a number in my
Speaker 1: head of how many downloads we would get. Uh. Gascon
Speaker 1: claims I did not reach that number of downloads. We
Speaker 1: had a bet. I said that podcast would reach a
Speaker 1: very high threshold. Gascon said, no way, not gonna happen
Speaker 1: in hindsight, though, Gascon, I believe I won the bet
Speaker 1: because that is an amazing number. We put that podcast
Speaker 1: up on New Year's fucking Eve. Okay, that podcast went
Speaker 1: up when of people were preparing to go out and
Speaker 1: have a nice time, to have some drinks, to have
Speaker 1: a you know, a meal or whatever, so they were
Speaker 1: not ready to us into a podcast. That's one of
Speaker 1: the reasons I take my time off at the end
Speaker 1: of the year. The listenership numbers over Christmas and New
Speaker 1: Year's going the toilet. People are not listening as much
Speaker 1: as they do the rest of the year. So I
Speaker 1: really believe we were amazing a company. I should get
Speaker 1: like Burrito out of this is what I should forget Tacos.
Speaker 1: I should go Burrito. Wow. Well, you see here's You've
Speaker 1: actually bet against your militia twice during this podcast, and
Speaker 1: I've won both beds. I'm batting a sharp and crisp
Speaker 1: one thousand. Well the slugging percentage of two thousand, if
Speaker 1: I might add to yes, and you're on as many
Speaker 1: steroids as Barry Bonds was back into mad at me
Speaker 1: because I'm big and burly and have tons of Now
Speaker 1: listen that's not with the women that have told me.
Speaker 1: But that's that different conversation. Yes, now here postseason edition
Speaker 1: of Benny Versus a Penny. You have a special treat
Speaker 1: for us, I might add correct, Yes, we do now
Speaker 1: because it's the postseason. There's only four games this weekend
Speaker 1: next we can the only be two games, but we
Speaker 1: thought why not. People have been asking for it. I
Speaker 1: don't usually do this on the radio show. I used
Speaker 1: to do it a little bit, but we are going
Speaker 1: to handicap as an added bonus on this edition of
Speaker 1: Many Versus the Penny. At the end, we will handicap
Speaker 1: the college football Championship. You have the playoff championship game
Speaker 1: which will be taking place over the weekend on Monday night.
Speaker 1: The college football season will end on Monday, So depending
Speaker 1: on when you download this, you might want to fast
Speaker 1: forward through the first part of it because if you're
Speaker 1: downloaded on Saturday night, the first two games will be irrelevant. Uh.
Speaker 1: Some people like to go down and download the podcast
Speaker 1: to goof on me if I get picks wrong. Those
Speaker 1: are extreme zealots um that do that, But that's possible too.
Speaker 1: But if you just want the new games, just depends
Speaker 1: on when you download the podcast, so you this this
Speaker 1: will be good by my knowledge, my logic here rather
Speaker 1: un till Monday, just before kickoff of Clemson and l
Speaker 1: s U. So I'm excited for this because if there's
Speaker 1: any indication of how this playoff run will be, it'll
Speaker 1: be a lot better than weeks fifteen and sixteen for
Speaker 1: you because that was well, again, you're focusing on the past.
Speaker 1: But the way I look at it, I had last
Speaker 1: week at two one in one week. So let's focus
Speaker 1: on what just happened, not what happened a while ago.
Speaker 1: To one and one. That is a solid professional handicapping week.
Speaker 1: You win money on that, not a lot, not a lot,
Speaker 1: but you'd win a little bit of money on that.
Speaker 1: That's a six sixty seven winning percentage last week. Well,
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's do this damn thing all right. Here
Speaker 1: we go. First game up, Divisional Round Saturday, the early game,
Speaker 1: it's Minnesota, NFC North representative eleven and six at Santa Clara,
Speaker 1: the big bad Beast of the NFC West at thirteen
Speaker 1: and three. It's on n b C. Can't wait to
Speaker 1: see what sweater Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth where So
Speaker 1: this game will kick off at four thirty five Eastern
Speaker 1: one thirty five local time in the Bay and the
Speaker 1: forty Niners opened a touchdown favorite. They are still favored
Speaker 1: by seven. Now the public money is mostly even. There's
Speaker 1: a slight lean to the forty Niners. So slightly to
Speaker 1: the forty Niners. The weather mostly sunny fifty five degrees
Speaker 1: at kick off at Levi's Stadium on Saturday afternoon, so
Speaker 1: there's no weather playing a factor here at the start
Speaker 1: of the game. Now the pick is in, and I
Speaker 1: am gonna take my Minnesota Vikings to shock the world
Speaker 1: in this game and getting a touchdown on the road.
Speaker 1: Now the reason why I may walk you through my
Speaker 1: thinking on this, and of course all of this is
Speaker 1: through theoretically, but hey, the Vikings are the right side
Speaker 1: in this game. I don't know how you could take
Speaker 1: the forty Niners in this game with that kind of
Speaker 1: number Minnesota. I don't believe in momentum. I do believe
Speaker 1: in confidence. If you beat the Saints in New Orleans
Speaker 1: and they controlled that game, the New Orleans offense had
Speaker 1: like a hundred yards other than one big play going
Speaker 1: to the fourth quarter. Drew Brees looked horrific against that
Speaker 1: Viking defense. If you can do that, you can sure
Speaker 1: as hell go punch for punch with the forty Niners
Speaker 1: in Santa clar I think we agree on that. So
Speaker 1: it's going to be an intriguing matchup, especially to see
Speaker 1: if Kirk Cousins, which one shows up. Was last week's
Speaker 1: performance in the Biou gonna become the new standard or
Speaker 1: was that just a fluke in an isolated situation and
Speaker 1: he will go back to being the mistake filled mess
Speaker 1: that Cousins has often been in these big games. Now
Speaker 1: the other reason, like the Vikings, they'll forget Cousins whether
Speaker 1: he plays great or not. Mike Zimmer has a ball
Speaker 1: hawking defense. The Purple People Eaters were back in that game.
Speaker 1: Now during the year they were one of four teams
Speaker 1: that have thirty plus takeaways. In nineteen they ranked fifth
Speaker 1: in turnover differential. But that defensive front for the Vikings,
Speaker 1: they had the macheese more work against No that was
Speaker 1: in impressive, impressive performance. Now, the Vikings hold onto the
Speaker 1: ball as I said, right, they take the ball away,
Speaker 1: they don't turn the ball over. I think they were
Speaker 1: fifth as I said in turnover differentials, So possession is
Speaker 1: what it's nine tenths of victory. We learned that in court.
Speaker 1: So the Vikings defense we be able to man handle
Speaker 1: the New Orleans front line and the trenches. Can they
Speaker 1: have a similar day, not maybe as dominant, but close.
Speaker 1: If they do, they'll win this game going away. Now
Speaker 1: Part B the forty Niners. Now they're the team that
Speaker 1: a lot of people like because uh not maybe not
Speaker 1: the number, but to win the game. Because the historically
Speaker 1: teams coming off a bye week have a great record
Speaker 1: in the divisional round. It's almost like a gimme show up,
Speaker 1: collect to win. They've had a week of rest and relaxation,
Speaker 1: getting healthy because of the bye week, and now the
Speaker 1: Niners get back to work with a roster that features
Speaker 1: four players who were selected to the Pro Bowl. You've
Speaker 1: got Nick Bosa, Joe range Kittle, Richard Sherman among that group.
Speaker 1: But not on that list is Jimmy Garoppolo and he
Speaker 1: is making his postseason starting debut. He said, well, it's
Speaker 1: just another game, blah blah blah blah blah blah. Now
Speaker 1: it's not. Now it is not, and it's not only
Speaker 1: the quarterback. Garoppolo is making his first start. It's Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan who's making his first appearance as a head coach
Speaker 1: in the postseason. Now, Kyle Shannon has most famous moment
Speaker 1: coaching is what he was with the Atlanta Falcons as
Speaker 1: an offensive assistant and they had the biggest choke job
Speaker 1: in Super Bowl history against the New England Patriots. That
Speaker 1: was under his watch as the offensive coordinator for that team.
Speaker 1: From George. But will Jimmy g be nervous? Will he
Speaker 1: be tentative? Will he be indecisive? Those are all qualities
Speaker 1: that generally happen when you're making your first appearance in
Speaker 1: a playoff game. And if you look at the numbers
Speaker 1: and you go back to two, so the last seventeen years,
Speaker 1: we're not obviously counting this year. Actually actually we will
Speaker 1: put what we will come this year. But Jimmy Garoppolo
Speaker 1: going in there as a home favorite, since home favorites
Speaker 1: in their first playoff start are five and sixteen against
Speaker 1: the spread, that's a two thirty eight winning percentage. So
Speaker 1: now that tells you what has happened. It doesn't tell
Speaker 1: you what's gonna happen. Garoppolo had a one to zero
Speaker 1: touchdown passes actually one one touchdown pass and uh or less.
Speaker 1: I should say I got the number. I've wrote this
Speaker 1: down in Chicken scratch one touchdown or less in nine
Speaker 1: of the games, so he doesn't throw the ball past
Speaker 1: twenty yards. They had that odd stat this week about
Speaker 1: that the forty Niners they can run. But again I
Speaker 1: got the Vikings defensive front. That's very very good, look
Speaker 1: very good against the New Orleans Saints. A bunch of
Speaker 1: psycho pass out there on defense the way they played
Speaker 1: in that particular game. So all of the plays out,
Speaker 1: it's in the hands mostly of the Viking defense and
Speaker 1: running the game, running game as well. I expect Minnesota
Speaker 1: to take advantage of the nerves, a couple of early
Speaker 1: turnovers and the snowball effect will help out. But it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a tight game fourth quarter. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the Vikings to pull the upset twenty seven to twenty
Speaker 1: six over the forty Niners. Oh Penny likes what you're
Speaker 1: driving right now, Real Vikings in the divisional round. You
Speaker 1: know what we call that? Guess tailing copycat is what
Speaker 1: we call that. I get that all the time on
Speaker 1: the radio show where I give a brilliant answer, and
Speaker 1: then Eddie and Roberto and whoever is producing just kind
Speaker 1: of copy whoever is producing? Well, we have a wheel
Speaker 1: of producers. We have since started. I've had a different
Speaker 1: producer every night. The reason for that, why is that? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean getting off the Titanic I just said it
Speaker 1: week Yeah, train Wreck Radio, You of course are the
Speaker 1: Titanic of broadcasting. But we don't have time to do
Speaker 1: that here. Moving on, Why are you gotta throw a
Speaker 1: while in there? It's not we're on the clock. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with that? I want to I want to
Speaker 1: are you naive here? I want to stay on the clock.
Speaker 1: I I feel like you're happy that you got your
Speaker 1: full length of material in for that game, because I am.
Speaker 1: I do, like you know, I had to cut back.
Speaker 1: I get that much material on every game. But because
Speaker 1: you have anxiety when we do this podcast, I have
Speaker 1: to give you a petite version of the preparation that
Speaker 1: I do. But do we have any trivia this week? No? No,
Speaker 1: I don't have any. Well there's reasons for that, but
Speaker 1: lazy Ben Maller. I mean, if you want, I can
Speaker 1: come up with one on the fly, and we don't
Speaker 1: want any pity. But you know what happens when you
Speaker 1: do a trivia you become trivial. I guess so, but
Speaker 1: will learn that from a program director of years ago. Yes,
Speaker 1: even though I still do it, But I shouldn't change
Speaker 1: the name of instant trivia on the radio show. That way,
Speaker 1: if a program director asked me, why are you doing trivia,
Speaker 1: I'll say I'm not I'm just doing something else, Like
Speaker 1: who am I? Game? Is just the who am I?
Speaker 1: That I could do? The what am I? Game? That
Speaker 1: could be the instead of the instant trivia. You should
Speaker 1: realign your entire staff. I mean you're redoing second Who
Speaker 1: would you like me to get rid of Eddie? Probably
Speaker 1: at probably all of them. Yeah, it's very nice of you.
Speaker 1: I mean you've had staff die. I have. I've been
Speaker 1: to many funerals and whatnot to people that have passed. None,
Speaker 1: you've had colors die. Yeah, mostly callers have dropped dead,
Speaker 1: and a lot of them unfortunately. Yeah. I need to
Speaker 1: keep him alive. Is there anything I can do to
Speaker 1: keep him alive? Anything I can do? I feel like
Speaker 1: I've done way too many you with gees for callers.
Speaker 1: I don't I feel terrible. I mean, every one of
Speaker 1: these stories breaks my heart and I have no heart
Speaker 1: because I'm a scumbag overnight talk showst at rips peep. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got no answers for you. I only care about
Speaker 1: your female callers listeners. So I mean I got a
Speaker 1: letter from this girl, this lady woman and about her
Speaker 1: dad who passed away, and I did him. I did
Speaker 1: a tribute to him from I think St. Louis and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I mean I was. I was like really
Speaker 1: bummed out. Man. It was like it was very touching.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be emotionally. Was he a big
Speaker 1: listener super fan? In fact, this guy what a stud
Speaker 1: this guy was, because you know he's he's got brain cancer,
Speaker 1: he's not doing very well, but he loves the show.
Speaker 1: And apparently he would go to like, um, he traveled
Speaker 1: to a hospital just to sit in the parking lot
Speaker 1: and use the the WiFi to listen to the podcast
Speaker 1: because you know, if he couldn't listen live and all that.
Speaker 1: And when I got when I got whacked from the
Speaker 1: company a while back, it's been eleven years now, this
Speaker 1: company not w e I. But no, I never got
Speaker 1: whacked from w E I. I left on my own accord,
Speaker 1: on good terms. Left on good terms from w e
Speaker 1: I and Boston, and I can go back there at
Speaker 1: some point, not right now, because we're on the Sports
Speaker 1: Hub at now. You didn't. You can't be on both
Speaker 1: the Sports Hub in Boston and w e I because
Speaker 1: they are blood rivals. All right. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you know what blood rivals are guests on. But in
Speaker 1: the radio game they flip flop one one ratings book
Speaker 1: w e i's number one. Then the next time the
Speaker 1: sports hubs number one. It is a battle royale. So
Speaker 1: you can in Boston. You can't be the radio version
Speaker 1: of Alex Rodriguez. Then, yeah, they don't. They don't do
Speaker 1: that in that you know, a rock can work for
Speaker 1: Fox and ESPN, But no, that's not how It's not
Speaker 1: quite how it works, unfortunately. But yeah, that that tribute
Speaker 1: that got me. It got me a little bit. So
Speaker 1: we did that the other night on the radio show.
Speaker 1: Anna actually was. The guy's name is Steve Williams, Steve
Speaker 1: George Williams. He was a mechanic and and uh he
Speaker 1: actually started a Facebook pitch when I got let go
Speaker 1: to demand my return, and uh it worked. I hope George,
Speaker 1: I hope Steve knows it worked because six months and
Speaker 1: twenty six la days after the worst decision the company
Speaker 1: ever made, they they begged me to come back, and
Speaker 1: I came back. Who was your program director at the time, Uh,
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean, we've had so many I don't
Speaker 1: remember the one that everybody loved. What was his name, Andy, Oh?
Speaker 1: Andrew Ashwood? Yes, Andrew Ashwood. Yeah, he died from pancreatic cancer,
Speaker 1: but everybody he was he was a big, burly guy.
Speaker 1: And yeah, that was one of the sadder things watching
Speaker 1: him go down and all that stuff at work. And
Speaker 1: he kept trying to work right up until the end,
Speaker 1: which is I give him credit for what fucking flipping
Speaker 1: podcast Right now? We have absolutely amazing You wanted me
Speaker 1: to waste time here. It's thought that I'm wasting time,
Speaker 1: but it's time. Well you you said, hey, are you
Speaker 1: in a rush? No? I said, now we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to be in a rush. You must be happy that
Speaker 1: you get all your materially and when you cap that
Speaker 1: Minnesota San Francisco game, well I have more material. Can
Speaker 1: I continue? Have you reached your goal where you want
Speaker 1: to annoy me already? Or what are we doing? No? No,
Speaker 1: please continue, sir, oh, sir, that's respect. Be sure to
Speaker 1: catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at
Speaker 1: two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: and the I Heart Radio app. You respect people that
Speaker 1: are more successful than you. I understand that. All right,
Speaker 1: Tennessee from the a f C South at ten and seven,
Speaker 1: they played the playoff game beat the Patriots last week
Speaker 1: at Baltimore a f C North, fourteen and two. It's
Speaker 1: on CBS on Saturday night, eight fifteen Eastern time. I
Speaker 1: an Eagle and Dan Fout have the call. How about
Speaker 1: Dan Fouts? Last time Dan Fouts played in an NFL
Speaker 1: game was what the nineteen eighties, and he's still hanging
Speaker 1: out on TV. These are tough jobs to keep. Good
Speaker 1: job by Dan Fouts. His beard still flowing, so he's good.
Speaker 1: He's the color analyst version of Dick Stockton, right, Uh, Well, well,
Speaker 1: Dick's got him beat by a few years. But yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't have to do the Dick Stockton game for
Speaker 1: the playoffs, unfortunately, because last time Dick stock did the
Speaker 1: playoff game I think was the nineties. Is that a
Speaker 1: cheap shot? No, it wasn't an NBA game or was
Speaker 1: it NFL. Know, he's good at the NBA though, him
Speaker 1: and Tommy Heinson calling an NBA game that is that
Speaker 1: is soul food. He's what that is? Like a Lakers
Speaker 1: Celtic game on a Sunday morning from Boston at the
Speaker 1: Parque and all that. Yeah that I hold that in
Speaker 1: high regard. I'll admit I was always a fan of
Speaker 1: Bill Walton and Steve Snapper Jones. Yes, Steve Snapper Jones, Mam.
Speaker 1: He passed away again. He was another guy who died
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Yeah, he was really good.
Speaker 1: He was he was. So it was a Blazers announced
Speaker 1: and they worked well again. All right, So Tennessee in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Can we talk about anyone else who died? Is anyone
Speaker 1: else we will know? Yeah, there's a guy and Iran
Speaker 1: we can talk about. Yeah, that'll be on the other podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you'll bring that up. So the Ravens open
Speaker 1: to ten point favorite. They are favored by nine. The
Speaker 1: weather cloudy sixty two degrees. That kick off at M
Speaker 1: and T Bank Stadium in the House of Sports with
Speaker 1: Coleman in Baltimore. Now, I am gonna take the Tennessee
Speaker 1: Titans here at plus nine. I I don't know how
Speaker 1: this is another one. I look at this line and
Speaker 1: so how can you go the other way? Now? I
Speaker 1: know everyone's all gung hole and excited. It's nauseating the
Speaker 1: admiration people are showing for the Ravens. They've had a
Speaker 1: fine year. But this game is a different animal. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Titans. They ran the ball down
Speaker 1: the throats of the New England Patriots. Derrick Henry put
Speaker 1: on a show. He was electrifying, all right, kind of
Speaker 1: performance were like if he played for the Lakers, they
Speaker 1: retire his number and give him a statue. He was
Speaker 1: that good and um and he had to touch down.
Speaker 1: What will he do for an encore? Now the Ravens
Speaker 1: are a different cat, alright, I guess a different bird. Uh,
Speaker 1: Because in New England, let's be on, they were skinning
Speaker 1: off the runway at take off or landing rather at
Speaker 1: the end of the year because they it just did
Speaker 1: not go well for them. As the season progressed, the
Speaker 1: Patriots looked like every game was a struggle. They lost
Speaker 1: to the damned Dolphins at home. Well, Baltimore. He's the
Speaker 1: opposite there's no tail wind against there's no wind pushing
Speaker 1: against the Ravens. Baltimore went turbo time. No head winds there.
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill the quarterback. Now this is the interesting thing
Speaker 1: for me about Tennessee this week. He was mostly a
Speaker 1: decoy for a good chunk of that game last week
Speaker 1: by Mike Rabel and his co staff their game plan.
Speaker 1: Now the smart money says that he is going to
Speaker 1: have a bigger role this week, which is equal parts exciting,
Speaker 1: nerve racking, and scary for Tennessee because if you look
Speaker 1: at the resume of Ryan Tannehill, there's very few people
Speaker 1: in the tabernacle of Tannehill that believe this guy is
Speaker 1: a big time quarterback. And I played like a big
Speaker 1: time quarterback this year, and you know these kind of
Speaker 1: guys over the years. I am of the belief in
Speaker 1: the conviction that they revert to who they had been
Speaker 1: in big moments. Now, Tannehill was hidden by the Tennessee
Speaker 1: coaching staff in that game against the Patriots and obviously
Speaker 1: worked out. So it's it is nerve racking and scary,
Speaker 1: but also exciting because he could play the way he
Speaker 1: did during the regular season. But the Ravens defensively have
Speaker 1: been playing better than the Patriots have at the end
Speaker 1: of the year. So as an impartial observer, I don't
Speaker 1: expect Tanny Hill to be great, but I don't expect
Speaker 1: him to suck out loud and play like Puke. So
Speaker 1: I think he'll be somewhere in the middle, which is
Speaker 1: where Tennessee. As long as he don't turn the ball over,
Speaker 1: then then they're fine. Now the second thing here, which
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson is gonna show up. Now, nobody else is
Speaker 1: talking about this. Everyone else is is biased the prejudice.
Speaker 1: They are convinced that Lamar Jackson is just gonna continue
Speaker 1: on la la la la, la la la with his
Speaker 1: crazy breakout season, a kind of a year for a
Speaker 1: dual threat quarterback that has put him in the book
Speaker 1: of legends. He's gonna win the MVP Award and he's
Speaker 1: gonna win by a mile uh the m v P race.
Speaker 1: But the postseason was not his friend last year. This
Speaker 1: is not his first playoff start. Now I understand, you know,
Speaker 1: he's different, he's evolved and all that blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah, But I still have the preconceived
Speaker 1: idea that this guy has some suck in him in
Speaker 1: playoff games because last year a lot of people have
Speaker 1: forgotten and the numbers got skewed. If you go back
Speaker 1: and just look at the box score in the wild
Speaker 1: card round against the Chargers in Baltimore, do you know
Speaker 1: what Lamar Jackson's quarterback rating was going to the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter of that game? No, you don't. He had a
Speaker 1: two point seven quarterback rating. I don't know that you
Speaker 1: could go that low. He had twenty five yards passing,
Speaker 1: no touchdowns in one interception over the first three quarters
Speaker 1: of that game against the l A Chargers in the
Speaker 1: postseason last year, and then he went bananas in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter and had like a hundred and seventy yards
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns whatever it was, um, And so which
Speaker 1: guy shows up now? Everyone's always gonna be the guy
Speaker 1: that played in the fourth quarter the playoff game last year.
Speaker 1: But you're not so fast, my friends. I know Rabels
Speaker 1: got some tricks up his sleeve here as an old
Speaker 1: defensive guy and a disciple of Bill Belichick, to try
Speaker 1: to throw off Lamar. Now everyone says they have that,
Speaker 1: but we had actually worked the Ravens on the surface.
Speaker 1: Look unbeatable. They run and frow and have a grand
Speaker 1: old time. They have an opportunistic defense. Certainly late in
Speaker 1: the year the defense got better. So what can the
Speaker 1: underdog Titans do well? I mentioned it already, play error
Speaker 1: free football. Don't give the Titans extra the Ravens rather
Speaker 1: extra possessions. You also got to get a few breaks,
Speaker 1: lucky breaks that go your way, meaning Lamar Jackson fumbles
Speaker 1: or Ingram fumbles. There's a tipped past that deflects off
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman and goes to one of the Titans linebackers.
Speaker 1: All of those things, if a couple of them go
Speaker 1: the way of the Tennessee Titans. The way I look
Speaker 1: at it, nobody is infouiable, certainly the Titans opponent. Here.
Speaker 1: The Ravens look like they are unbeatable and the juggernaut,
Speaker 1: and they're the fat Cats of the NFL. They're the
Speaker 1: elite of the elite, and they should live at the
Speaker 1: taj Mahal the way they played. But any time you
Speaker 1: get a touchdown or more in a playoff game against
Speaker 1: plausibly teams that are pretty close, you take the points. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not crazy enough to pick the Titans to win
Speaker 1: this game. Out right, but they will hang around, hang
Speaker 1: around Ravens thirty Titans three. Uh, Penny again likes it
Speaker 1: and going with the Tennessee Titans. So what's the point
Speaker 1: of doing the podcast if the Penny agree with every
Speaker 1: one of my What do you want me to do?
Speaker 1: It's it's Does the Penny have any thoughts on the game?
Speaker 1: With the penny like the handicap the game? Does they
Speaker 1: have like a portfolio ideas that you can share in
Speaker 1: investments for the game. The Penny has the game at
Speaker 1: nine and a half, but it likes it either way.
Speaker 1: Concerning the fact that Lamar Jackson last season against the
Speaker 1: Chargers in the Divisional round was not up to snuff
Speaker 1: and it was not good at all, he looks for
Speaker 1: a duplication of such. Well, he was good in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, but the Chargers played more of a prevent
Speaker 1: defense in the fourth quarter things assuming the game was over,
Speaker 1: and then Lamar started hitting receivers and and all that
Speaker 1: much easier to be in that kind of an environment
Speaker 1: when you're playing catch up at home, and of course
Speaker 1: you can do all right. So we're gonna adjust the
Speaker 1: line of that because I just looked you are correct.
Speaker 1: The line is up to nine and a half the
Speaker 1: current line I had at nine, but we haven't made
Speaker 1: the bet yet, so nine and a half. The money
Speaker 1: on this game is pretty even. The money on this
Speaker 1: game is pretty even. I like Tennessee, man, I I
Speaker 1: and the Ravens can win this game by twenty eight
Speaker 1: points and that's you know, no one will be shocked
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But you gotta like going in
Speaker 1: a team that can run the ball the way Tennessee
Speaker 1: can and and keep it close to the best because
Speaker 1: you gotta keep the ball away from the Ravens. Right,
Speaker 1: doesn't everyone say that the key to beating the Ravens
Speaker 1: All any team is as dominant as the Ravens. It's
Speaker 1: like those old remember the Minnesota Vikings when they had
Speaker 1: Randy Moss and Chris Carter that these amazing offenses, but
Speaker 1: the way to beat them was to not allow them
Speaker 1: to have the ball. Robert Smith was also on that team,
Speaker 1: and Atlanta got it done. That's right, that's right, one
Speaker 1: of the classic upsets in NFL history. So the Titans
Speaker 1: are the pick, and we also like the Vikings in
Speaker 1: the early game on Saturday, so we're taking both underdogs
Speaker 1: in that game. Sunday Sunday. Sunday Sunday. Now, this is
Speaker 1: good news for you. The penny being on your side
Speaker 1: for these first two games on Saturday is great because
Speaker 1: weeks fifteen and sixteen you weren't good, but the penny
Speaker 1: was fantastic. So this is a good omen Well no, no, well,
Speaker 1: I'm going first. So really the penny is copying me.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think this is a good
Speaker 1: omen for well. The fact that you don't think, you
Speaker 1: don't have to say so. At the end of that,
Speaker 1: you can just say, I don't think. I'm not thinking
Speaker 1: about you in this instance. I'm thinking about the petty,
Speaker 1: the one, the money maker, the treasury, the bank, the
Speaker 1: treasury exactly all right. Next up Sunday, early game Houston,
Speaker 1: a FC South team eleven and six had the playoff
Speaker 1: win over Buffalo last week. Cansa City, home of the
Speaker 1: Ben Mallard Chicken Finger in Liberty, Missouri. UH. The a
Speaker 1: f C West representative twelve and forts on CBS doesn't
Speaker 1: quite work as well as and be easy. Uh, CBS
Speaker 1: at three oh five Eastern, just after noon Pacific, and
Speaker 1: in Kansas City will be just after two o'clock. Jim
Speaker 1: nance and toe knee role, mole the golfer. We'll have
Speaker 1: the call now. The line on this game, Kansas City
Speaker 1: opened up a seven point favorite. They are now favorite
Speaker 1: by nine and a half. The current line is nine
Speaker 1: and a half. In this game, where is the money?
Speaker 1: It's pretty even. There's a slight when I say slight,
Speaker 1: like between fifty and fifty of the cash is on
Speaker 1: Kansas City now. The tickets are about six in favor
Speaker 1: of the Chiefs in this game. The weather sunny, thirty
Speaker 1: seven degrees. That kick off at air Oldhead Stadium. The
Speaker 1: pick is in. I'll take the I hate to do
Speaker 1: this the Houston Texas. I am gonna take the Houston
Speaker 1: Texans in this game. And I'll walk you through why
Speaker 1: I am gonna take the Houston Texans. First of all,
Speaker 1: because of the Ravens success. The Chiefs have been flying
Speaker 1: under the radar, and I get that. I am aware
Speaker 1: of that, and they they have a chance to get
Speaker 1: the spotlight back with a blowout, dominant win against the
Speaker 1: Houston team, which is already on borrow time. Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: how good has this guy been? He got hurt against
Speaker 1: the Broncos during the year, and he missed some time,
Speaker 1: but when he's played, he's passed for over four thousand yards,
Speaker 1: twenty six touchdowns, five interceptions, and yet perception, which is
Speaker 1: often not reality, but the perception is that this guy
Speaker 1: has not played as well as numbers have regressed from
Speaker 1: his m v P year. But twenty six touchdowns and
Speaker 1: five interceptions, prettyep pretty pretty good for the Chiefs quarterback. Now,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs we're better than Houston both defensively and offensively
Speaker 1: this year. But you also can look and this is
Speaker 1: one of those matchups where if you look at the
Speaker 1: Chiefs and the Texans schedule and you go la la
Speaker 1: la la, la la la. Let me look at the
Speaker 1: schedule here and go down, all right? I mean in
Speaker 1: the week one, Week two, Week three, Week four, Week five, oh,
Speaker 1: week six? What happened in Week six? Kansas City played
Speaker 1: host to Houston, the same thing that's gonna happen on
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon at Arrowhead. And in that particular game, it
Speaker 1: was a thirty one, twenty four loss for Kansas City.
Speaker 1: They lost that game to the Houston Texas. How about that?
Speaker 1: So now I I do I think the Texans are
Speaker 1: going to win the game here? No, I do not.
Speaker 1: I believe Kansas City is a better football team now
Speaker 1: than they were at that particular point, and the Texans
Speaker 1: are either about the same or a little bit worse now. Secondly,
Speaker 1: as we talked on Benny versus the Penny, so Bill O'Brien,
Speaker 1: this guy should count his lucky stars that he was
Speaker 1: able to beat Buffalo last week. Josh Allen handed that
Speaker 1: game on a room service card to the Texas with
Speaker 1: his stumbling, bumbling performance. By any calculation, the arithmetic tells
Speaker 1: you this guy stinks. This guy should be he should
Speaker 1: be unhooked on Phonics the quarterback edition. He should be
Speaker 1: on their Josh Allen, with those mistakes he made, how
Speaker 1: dare him cost me money? It's a bad job by him.
Speaker 1: But lost in all that, what the hell happened to
Speaker 1: the Texans offense? Here about DeAndre Hopkins, the greatest receiver
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and the John Watson electrifying and all
Speaker 1: that their offense. I guess you could say it was frugal,
Speaker 1: was economical because they didn't score until late in the game.
Speaker 1: Now because of the mistakes, they took advantage of it.
Speaker 1: I don't even they scored until late in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: uh and they got a gift field goal after a
Speaker 1: Josh Allen turnover. But the point of this is, right,
Speaker 1: you look at everything here and you're like, what happened?
Speaker 1: You know? I know Buffalo has got a good defense
Speaker 1: in Kansas City is not as good even though they're
Speaker 1: they're they're better this year. Defensively, they're not as good
Speaker 1: as the Bills, who are wonderful. But Deshaun Watson he
Speaker 1: had some success in Kansas City back in Week six
Speaker 1: in that game. It's not like the Texans are gonna
Speaker 1: be intimidated like, oh, we can't beat the Chiefs. You
Speaker 1: already beat the Chiefs. Most of the roster has not
Speaker 1: turned over since that game. The issue for Houston, and
Speaker 1: it's the same issue everyone's got when they play Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs, is how does slow down Patrick Mahomes right?
Speaker 1: How to have you know he's going from Josh Allen
Speaker 1: to Patrick Mahomes. He's like going from driving a Toyota
Speaker 1: Prius on the four oh five Freeway in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: and rush hour traffic to driving a Maserati okay on
Speaker 1: the audubon. That that's the difference there. It's a big
Speaker 1: difference now that said, I expect this to be a
Speaker 1: nip and tuck game. You're getting almost ten points. What
Speaker 1: a gift from the bookmakers, getting almost ten points. So
Speaker 1: yet again I find myself on the side of the
Speaker 1: underdog in this game. At Arrowhead Stadium, the house that
Speaker 1: Bob Festco built, the Great Morning Man at six ten
Speaker 1: Sports in Kansas City are home for this show on
Speaker 1: the radio, the radio version. So I'm gonna take the
Speaker 1: Chiefs twenty eight, Texans twenty three. Not this time, Penny
Speaker 1: is gonna Canauh City be sure to catch live edition.
Speaker 1: So the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern Pacific. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a big number to put down guests, nine and
Speaker 1: a half for the penny. That's a lot of points there.
Speaker 1: That's actually, there's a lot wrong with that. A lot wrong,
Speaker 1: is not. Penny likes Andy Reid as opposed to Bill O'Brien,
Speaker 1: likes Mahomes way better than DeShawn Watson. Why I like
Speaker 1: Mahomes better than DeShawn Watson too. I like Andy Reid
Speaker 1: more than Bill O'Brien. I agree with all of that,
Speaker 1: but I also believe in the theory that most games
Speaker 1: are decided by a touchdown or less between competitive teams
Speaker 1: that are trying to win the game. And so that
Speaker 1: that that's the reason there. You take the underdog there
Speaker 1: and you enjoy and a vast in the after glow
Speaker 1: of victory. Didn't you just give us about nine minutes
Speaker 1: worth the crap on this game? Yeah? And I'm taking
Speaker 1: the taking the Chiefs to win in the Texas to cover.
Speaker 1: All right, it wasn't crap. Let the penny talk, go ahead, talk,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I'll turn my mic, go ahead. A
Speaker 1: little sprinkle on this. Why don't you put a little
Speaker 1: icing on top, a little cherry. You didn't say anything
Speaker 1: about the environment either. I mean, don't you love Arrowhead Stadium?
Speaker 1: Don't you just love it? But you want me to
Speaker 1: talk now, Well, yeah, I'm asking you a question. Well,
Speaker 1: I've been the Aarirhood Stadium. I've never been to a
Speaker 1: game at airhoods. Well, I've been to the Sports Complex.
Speaker 1: I was at the Royals game. The environment there is
Speaker 1: amazing at the Royal Stadium day or night game for
Speaker 1: the Royals. It was a day game. It was oppressively hot.
Speaker 1: It was the Royals playing the Cleveland Indians. But fortunately
Speaker 1: my seats were under the overhang, so it wasn't as bad.
Speaker 1: But the humidity, oh my god, oppressively hot. It was.
Speaker 1: You know how humid it gets in Kansas City, and
Speaker 1: like in August. My god, man. Now I've only been
Speaker 1: there for December games to Bronco Chiefs games Sunday night
Speaker 1: football on both of them, and it was freezing, freezing, freezing.
Speaker 1: Any other humble brags you'd like to throw out. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been the arrowhead. I mean, I haven't had chicken
Speaker 1: fingers named after me, but at least I support their team.
Speaker 1: I think you missed somebody on your victory lap over there.
Speaker 1: I think you missed someone. You might want to go
Speaker 1: over there and slap their hand high five. For the
Speaker 1: other podcast. Oh that's right, that's for the other podcast
Speaker 1: where everyone hates you. They put up with you on
Speaker 1: this podcast, but on the other podcast, all the emails
Speaker 1: I get, how can you allow this guy to work
Speaker 1: with you? It's you know, it's a bridge to nowhere.
Speaker 1: What are you doing? You know, going on and on.
Speaker 1: He's he's an albatross, he's deadweight. You know. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: think I'd probably drive some of these people to psychiatric help.
Speaker 1: But the reality is they're actually coming from psychiatric help
Speaker 1: to here we go, Here we go, really with your
Speaker 1: arms open, trying. You are someone that wants to be loved, right,
Speaker 1: you want these people to love you, and that's a
Speaker 1: great strategy by you. No, I mean no, that's that's fine.
Speaker 1: Moving not even on my radar, Ben Mallory. Can I
Speaker 1: move on? Yes, you can, please move on, move along.
Speaker 1: I know you're a bottomless pit of silly concompetence, but
Speaker 1: I must move on. I'm just happy that you're awake
Speaker 1: right now, functioning somewhat upright. It's good. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm actually sleeping while I'm doing this. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you can tell you have you know corportty hackety
Speaker 1: hacks that come in and redo your studio. Well again
Speaker 1: we will. We talked about this on the other podcast,
Speaker 1: but this is the maiden voyage of the new studio.
Speaker 1: I think it sounds freaking great. I those engineers at
Speaker 1: I Hearted Media, God love them. They did a wonderful
Speaker 1: job the wiring that went into this. That we had
Speaker 1: a couple of glitches that we had to work out,
Speaker 1: and it sounds wonderful. I was very nervous I'll explain
Speaker 1: you know again in the other podcast, a longer extended
Speaker 1: dance remix rather than the radio edit. But yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: excited and so far, so good. It hasn't dropped one time.
Speaker 1: We're good. Everything is wonderful, hallelujah. Invoice is as good
Speaker 1: as it'll get. So let's go. The voice sounds wonderful.
Speaker 1: It's a all right, it's not that good. Well it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not The voice isn't that good because of my
Speaker 1: situation here involving sleep. Fuck has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: the microphone. See, your voice is impacted by the amount
Speaker 1: of sleep, or lack there of it, you get. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's how it happened. What a fucking baby. That's reality. Listen,
Speaker 1: we got two more games to go. Well, we have
Speaker 1: one more NFL game to go, and if we don't
Speaker 1: have time, I guess we can't do the college. We
Speaker 1: have two games, I said, So you're listening is obviously
Speaker 1: impaired by your lack of sleep. So let's I work
Speaker 1: in talk radio. I don't work and listen radio. They
Speaker 1: don't pay me to listen, they pay me to talk.
Speaker 1: It's called active listening. Ben Mallory, No, no, it's talk radio.
Speaker 1: I talk was taught that in the class before I
Speaker 1: was taking my glamour shots, and so I heard about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my my wife said, hey, hey, guess guy, he's got
Speaker 1: the glamour shots. I said, really, when's he having the
Speaker 1: big announcement? When is he having the big announcement? There's
Speaker 1: plenty of those. Yeah, you're gonna. Okay, now those going
Speaker 1: right up on grinder? Or are you waiting? I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, do you wait to put
Speaker 1: those up? I mean to see idiot? Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: I just want to know. I don't know how that works.
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Speaker 1: twelve and five. As I said in Green Bay, Well
Speaker 1: maybe I didn't say twelve and five from the NFC
Speaker 1: West with the worst PR department in the entire NFL,
Speaker 1: the Seattle's Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers from the
Speaker 1: NFC North. Thirteen and three. It's on Fox. You better watch.
Speaker 1: This game will kick off at six forty eastern five
Speaker 1: forty Local time at Lambeau three forty Pacific. And if
Speaker 1: you're in Hawaii, figure it out for yourself. And if
Speaker 1: you're in Australia or England, you gotta figure that out.
Speaker 1: Joe Buck, Buckety Buck, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. We'll
Speaker 1: have the call on Fox. This is the only Fox
Speaker 1: game this week. And the Packers opened a three and
Speaker 1: a half point favorite in this game, and they are
Speaker 1: now favored by four. The current number is four. Where
Speaker 1: is the money. There's a slight lean to the road team,
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks that that four is a big number
Speaker 1: because if you can get over three, anything over three,
Speaker 1: you like that. You like that a lot. Now the weather,
Speaker 1: Remember last week after the Seahawks playoff game, Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: who played college football briefly at Wisconsin, said, Oh, I
Speaker 1: know it's gonna be snowing. Well, spoiler alert, No snow
Speaker 1: is forecast at least at the start of the game,
Speaker 1: but it is gonna be frigid. Is the frozen tundra
Speaker 1: after all. And the Seahawks will leave their hotel in Appleton, Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: where my brother lives, and then drive over to Green Bay.
Speaker 1: It'll be cloudy and twenty one degrees at kick off
Speaker 1: at lom Move Field in green Bay, Wisconsin. Now the pick,
Speaker 1: I'm taking my guys in Seattle, the Mallard Man March Crew,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna take the Seahawks here plus up four points.
Speaker 1: And I tried to find a way to pick Green Bay.
Speaker 1: I couldn't do it. Green Bay, to me, is very
Speaker 1: fortunate to be hosting this game. When I watched them play,
Speaker 1: and I watched them play several games because football establishment
Speaker 1: loves to put Aaron Rodgers on TV. I was unimpressed
Speaker 1: with the Packers this year, and so how can you
Speaker 1: be unimpressed? Three schmuck listen. They look to me more
Speaker 1: like a ten and six team then a thirteen and
Speaker 1: three team? Am I wrong on that? Will find out?
Speaker 1: The factors could come out here and win this game.
Speaker 1: Going away, I saw a lot of bland, lackluster, rather
Speaker 1: ordinary football, mainly from Aaron Rodgers. But there's nothing that
Speaker 1: gives me the wow factor about Green Bay. The name teams,
Speaker 1: many of them sound good, the performance is not, especially
Speaker 1: for Aaron Rodgers, has not been breathtaking. So is he
Speaker 1: gonna step up in the playoffs? And and Matt Lafleur
Speaker 1: makes his postseason coaching debut for Green Bay. Lambeau Field
Speaker 1: at one point when I was younger, was seen as
Speaker 1: a house of horrors where road teams never left with
Speaker 1: a win. But the intimidation factor is not gonna be
Speaker 1: there against Seattle and really has gone away. I would
Speaker 1: say in the last decade, I recall the Packers under
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy losing several playoff games at home. Uh. These
Speaker 1: teams are very close. It's it's one of these things
Speaker 1: where you're you're splitting the hairs. Uh. Now Seattle also
Speaker 1: does not have the wow factor. They don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, you about the Seattle Seahawks in their situation. Uh,
Speaker 1: they lost it to the Umpa Loompa. Do you know
Speaker 1: what guests got. They lost to the Umpa Loompa at home.
Speaker 1: They the year that's stupid fucking ran on Monday when
Speaker 1: you came back from vacation. I'd prefer that you wasn't vacation.
Speaker 1: I prefer that you address him as NFL Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year, Kyler Murray, address him and have some respect
Speaker 1: behind it. I fell apart at the end of the year.
Speaker 1: The NFL figured him out. Alligator Arms Murray, he sucked
Speaker 1: in the last five games of the year. He led
Speaker 1: the Cardinals to a victory at Seattle a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago. So the last five weeks of the year
Speaker 1: that was embarressing, Babe sing. But but Seattle, you got
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll, who's living a charmed life as well to
Speaker 1: still be alive. They had a fantastic gift of good fortune.
Speaker 1: Uh from the football got's there when Carson Wentz did
Speaker 1: what Carson Wentz does and got hurt in the first
Speaker 1: quarter compliments of Jadevan Clowney and he's hit, which should
Speaker 1: anything was anything horrible? I know the media in Philadelphia
Speaker 1: a bunch of dopes. They're fanboys in the media, like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is terrible. Clowney should be thrown in jail. I'm stop.
Speaker 1: Uh So, essentially, what I'm saying is that the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: even though they didn't have to buy, they had to
Speaker 1: play about fifteen minutes. Carson Wentz got hurt I think
Speaker 1: at the nine minute mark, and for the rest of
Speaker 1: that game you had Josh McCown, a high school football coach.
Speaker 1: Moonlighting is a backup NFL quarterback who was playing so
Speaker 1: against common opponents. The Seattle Seahawks were five and one,
Speaker 1: the Packers were three and two. I expect this to
Speaker 1: be a back and fourth type of game. Uh. The Seahawks,
Speaker 1: while they don't have the wow factor that they haven't
Speaker 1: overly impressed me. I DK Metcalf was a man among boys.
Speaker 1: He was doing the monster mash at wide receiver last week.
Speaker 1: I after like that, and Russell Wilson played better as
Speaker 1: the game went on. I think he had three seventy
Speaker 1: yards passing as the game concluded there against that Philadelphia defense.
Speaker 1: But I like Russell Wilson more than I like Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: And Seattle again, another one of these games is gonna
Speaker 1: be like, how did they win that game? You mean, like,
Speaker 1: I mean DK Metcalf will make a play or something
Speaker 1: like that. People like, how did they win? I mean,
Speaker 1: they didn't play all that well. But it's been that
Speaker 1: way all year. And you know, Seattle's twelve and five
Speaker 1: gives a playoff win. Seahawks Packers three. Typical of you
Speaker 1: to grab ankles Penny is going with the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? I should pick against Seattle
Speaker 1: because it would happen at Century Lake Field. I should
Speaker 1: pick against them every time, and it's called grabbing ankles
Speaker 1: because as opposed to pick, you would know about that.
Speaker 1: According to those those photos I saw there, Yes, I
Speaker 1: watch you Week seventeen with those photos outside the stadium
Speaker 1: is about oh yeah, that was great. We were chanting
Speaker 1: your name there. We're trying to get people to Seahawk
Speaker 1: fans to listen to you when you get denied credentials
Speaker 1: of a week seventeen primetime affair. I had a great time.
Speaker 1: That was one of the most fun days I've had,
Speaker 1: weekends I've had and the inn many many years. That's
Speaker 1: by my top five weeks. I had a great time
Speaker 1: eating the fans of the show. And you have no fans,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to worry about doing those kind
Speaker 1: of things. But at a wonderful time. Was great. That
Speaker 1: says a lot about your weekend. I almost got a
Speaker 1: photo with the Seahawks mascot. I think it was it
Speaker 1: was either Boom or Blitz, one of them. But I
Speaker 1: almost got a photo with the bird, the Green Bird mascot,
Speaker 1: but I missed it. That would have been fun. That's
Speaker 1: just great. I wish I could take three weeks worth
Speaker 1: offication to have someone fly me up to the Pacific Northwest,
Speaker 1: all expenses paid. It wasn't all expensive today. That number one,
Speaker 1: number two, very generous offer was made, and I chose
Speaker 1: not to turn it down. You're supposed to be a
Speaker 1: national media host and you get rejected from going to
Speaker 1: a game with me. Amazing. Alright, I bought the Seahawks
Speaker 1: PR department. They'll get there in the end. Is that
Speaker 1: one of the most embarrassing things that's ever happening in
Speaker 1: your career? No, actually working with you, he's more embarrassing.
Speaker 1: Seahawks PR department. Every every day I have to go
Speaker 1: into confessional and say, why have I any Please help me.
Speaker 1: You're not even Catholic. I know. That's what makes it
Speaker 1: even more interesting than I'm not even Catholic. And the
Speaker 1: priests are very kind to me, and they say, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: tell me what's wrong. Okay, there you go, Packers, our father,
Speaker 1: our father who aren't heaven? There you go. I would
Speaker 1: be the name, keep going, keep going. No, I think
Speaker 1: we need a hail Mary nouto. Are we done? And all?
Speaker 1: We have the college game? Right? College ball? Yes? We do? Alright,
Speaker 1: A very special treat. The final college football game of
Speaker 1: last year is being played. I believe in what are
Speaker 1: we in July? Now? Yeah, seems like it's so. The
Speaker 1: college Football Playoff Championship game taking place the Clemson Tigers,
Speaker 1: the number three seed in this Gas football playoff at
Speaker 1: fourteen and all versus the number one seed Louisiana State
Speaker 1: University at fourteen and otherwise known by their gangster name,
Speaker 1: as Looney would say, L s U. Now the line
Speaker 1: on this game. It's an all Tiger matchup. L s
Speaker 1: You opened a six point favorite. Wait wait, wait, you
Speaker 1: can't even set the table rent for this game? What
Speaker 1: do you? What are you talking about? Ball games on ABC?
Speaker 1: Chris Fowler? And who cares about that? You're you're such
Speaker 1: a fanboy of broadcasters it is. You're gonna serve us dinner.
Speaker 1: You might as well bring out the instruments with the
Speaker 1: two right now. Nobody wear a glass some wine, nobody
Speaker 1: killed give us this? Come on, Ben, alright, so so
Speaker 1: fucking lazy now, lethargic Mallard. I guess what your finger?
Speaker 1: I'm holding number one? Yeah, you are number one? So
Speaker 1: L s U. I mentioned they opened up as the
Speaker 1: favorite lines at five and a half right now, and
Speaker 1: most of the public money is on Louisiana State. Now.
Speaker 1: The weather will be light rain seventy and one degrees
Speaker 1: at kick up, but that's outside. That's the fans coming
Speaker 1: into the game will be in a light rain in
Speaker 1: Louisiana because the game is being played at the Mercedes
Speaker 1: is Band's Superdome. Uh. In Nolins now, l s U
Speaker 1: is the side here. We can't say Tigers because both
Speaker 1: teams are Tigers, so I guarantee a Tiger team will
Speaker 1: win the game. Uh. But I I love ed Orgeron
Speaker 1: coach oh the Cajun Fred flint Stone, and I admit
Speaker 1: that I am openly cheering for Louisiana State. I have
Speaker 1: no connection to Louisian I have some friends that live there,
Speaker 1: but I I have no real connection to Louisiana other
Speaker 1: than a couple of people I know that live in
Speaker 1: the state. But every time I watch l S you
Speaker 1: win a game. You know what I do. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you what I do. I flashback to a conversation
Speaker 1: I had with a very powerful University of Southern California booster.
Speaker 1: Do you know what that booster told me? When ed
Speaker 1: Orgeron was the interim coach at USC. Do you know
Speaker 1: what that person told me is not a good coach. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't say it was not a good coach. Said
Speaker 1: he's a good coach. He's a competent coach, and and
Speaker 1: and the players love him. But he doesn't look in
Speaker 1: sound like the USC coach is supposed to look and sound,
Speaker 1: so we can't hire. How about that he doesn't he
Speaker 1: doesn't look and sound and and the other thing. I
Speaker 1: ran into one of these boosters at the at the
Speaker 1: Laker Clipper game on Christmas and one of the boosters
Speaker 1: was there and fat cat Christmas Day, nice seats, the
Speaker 1: Laker game, the whole thing. And he again, even though
Speaker 1: l s U at that time was in the playoff,
Speaker 1: we didn't know they're gonna win or not, he said.
Speaker 1: I I we still made the right call. Enjoy Clay
Speaker 1: fucking helping USC. He looks and sounds like the USC
Speaker 1: football coach, except the coaching part is a problem. Yes,
Speaker 1: who is the fat Cat? Yeah, that's a booster. I
Speaker 1: don't need to say that. You wouldn't even know the
Speaker 1: name anyway, You don't know boosters. I'm pretty well connected
Speaker 1: to the US family. You are not connected. Please all right, Now,
Speaker 1: the real reason to like Louisiana's version of the Tigers
Speaker 1: here the Joe Burrows show. Now he has a chance,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow to become the sixteen Tisman Trophy winner to
Speaker 1: also win the National championship. This has become common practice
Speaker 1: in the last decade. We have had Cam Newton, Jamis Winston,
Speaker 1: and Derrick Henry all win the Heisman and win the
Speaker 1: National Championship the same year. So it's not like it's
Speaker 1: impossible to do. It's happened a lot over recent years.
Speaker 1: And in terms of this game, I expect the fairy
Speaker 1: tale finish for Burrow. I also believe that that L.
Speaker 1: S U is better in other areas the L s
Speaker 1: U defense quietly if you've watched them play as the
Speaker 1: year went on there, they have put it together over
Speaker 1: the last month or so that they've been playing football.
Speaker 1: And this is essentially a home game here, not a
Speaker 1: neutral psyche game. The game is being played in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: which is what eighty miles away from Baton Rouge Louise, Sienna.
Speaker 1: It's an hour and twenty minute drive with no traffic
Speaker 1: for the people of Baton Rouge to go hang out
Speaker 1: in in New Orleans. They do it all the time. Now. Secondly,
Speaker 1: Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence. Now this is the problem taking
Speaker 1: L s U as a five and at point favorite.
Speaker 1: This guy Lawrence is good. Ah, he's good. He's not
Speaker 1: some unsavory quarterback, uh, some outlaw from the dark web.
Speaker 1: This guy is legit and he can be the villain here.
Speaker 1: He can spoil the party. He can be the bad
Speaker 1: guy and lead Clemson to a win with an amazing performance.
Speaker 1: But the boys from South Carolina are gonna have trouble
Speaker 1: defensively containing all those playmakers on the L s U side.
Speaker 1: Good luck to Brent Venables, who I believe is the
Speaker 1: highest paid assistant in college football and in the weapons.
Speaker 1: Now this running back for L s U, this little
Speaker 1: guy Clyde Edwards Hilaire, who should I? I hope the
Speaker 1: Rams draft this guy. They got a trade up probably
Speaker 1: to get him. But Clyde Edwards in there do you
Speaker 1: see against Alabama when he had that amazing leap. He's
Speaker 1: built like Dred Sprowls. He's five eight and he is
Speaker 1: faster than a speeding bullet. I believe he's more powerful
Speaker 1: than a locomotive and he's able to leap tall buildings
Speaker 1: in a single bound, considering what he did to Nick
Speaker 1: Salmon in Alabama. So the dominutive running back who should
Speaker 1: have a very long career, if you can stay healthy
Speaker 1: in the NFL against that at defense, you have the
Speaker 1: ability a little back with the quarterback Joe Burrow, toss
Speaker 1: in Justin Jefferson, who's a stud at receiver. But wait,
Speaker 1: there's more. Uh Now, In a positive note, I did
Speaker 1: try to find a positive thing for Clemson, and if
Speaker 1: you believe in trends, then this looks pretty good. Dabbo Sweeney.
Speaker 1: If you look at the history here, of the five
Speaker 1: title games in the college Football Playoff era, the Vegas
Speaker 1: favorite has only one twice and has never covered the spread.
Speaker 1: Now does that trend continue here? I say now? I
Speaker 1: say now, I'm want to take the L s U.
Speaker 1: Bengal Tigers thirty eight, Clemson's version of the Tigers thirty
Speaker 1: and the Penny picks to cap it off. The Penny
Speaker 1: is going with the Clemson Tigers. Yeah, well, that's an
Speaker 1: irresponsible pick. Hack Trevor Lawrence and oh as a starting quarterback,
Speaker 1: it doesn't last forever. He will feel the agony of
Speaker 1: defeat to mention that in all your prep doesn't matter. Piling.
Speaker 1: It's funny. But by what stockpiling? What you say, big boy?
Speaker 1: What might my what your paper stockpilot paper stock? Have
Speaker 1: no paper here? That's I have my laptop open, but
Speaker 1: I have no paper. A great way for you to
Speaker 1: go out with the college. I know a print paper
Speaker 1: at the Mallard mansion because it's not free here, but
Speaker 1: at work. I print up everything at work because they're
Speaker 1: part of the illuminati and they can afford it. Right, No,
Speaker 1: that's true, the New World Order. I gotta know where
Speaker 1: the money is so I can use their papers. No,
Speaker 1: wonder your globalist hut that all right? You done? Are
Speaker 1: you done? You're part of the caball right? You gotta
Speaker 1: go back to a meeting or something like that. Wish Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, well there it is now amazingly with only
Speaker 1: five games this podcast. The length of this podcast is
Speaker 1: rather shockingly long. Yeah, I wonder why, wonderfuck why? Well,
Speaker 1: because you would not shut up, and you told me,
Speaker 1: you said, when I was trying to hurry through this
Speaker 1: and I was gonna get this done in about twenty minutes,
Speaker 1: you were like no, no, no no, no, no, no no no, no,
Speaker 1: no no, that's slowed slow down. So I slowed down
Speaker 1: and the trapdoor open up and we ended up taking
Speaker 1: forever to do this day. We have a great weekend.
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Speaker 1: you lose a lot of money, pretend you didn't listen
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