1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,800 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:06,199 Speaker 1: Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,520 Speaker 1: from two to six Eastern eleven pm to three am 4 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and to find your local 5 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:17,280 Speaker 1: station for the Benmatlers Show at Foxsports Radio dot com. 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:19,680 Speaker 1: You can find it there or stream us live every 7 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: night on the iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on 9 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. 10 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 1: And we are back at it again here. I saw 11 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 1: some cockroaches walking the well, maybe as away for a 12 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: little bit, so maybe they fix the infestation, but no, 13 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:44,599 Speaker 1: they have not. They have not, So you're just kind 14 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: of like seeing an old friend. When you see a 15 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: little cockroach scirming around on the floor, You're like, Oh, 16 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 1: that's where I belong here. Those are Those are my 17 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,600 Speaker 1: insects right there. It's kind of cool. So our lead 18 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: this hour is from Western Pennsylvan. It's excited to be 19 00:00:57,800 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: back here and we're looking forward to a lot of 20 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: fun and we'll have Mallard meet and greets during the 21 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 1: course of the year in random places to be determined 22 00:01:05,440 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: at a later date. Hopefully we'll make it. The plan 23 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,000 Speaker 1: is to make it to an Ohio meet and greet 24 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: at some point this year. But that is all stuff 25 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 1: we will talk about as we work our way through 26 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: the overnight. We'll start out in Western Pa. It was 27 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: the AFC North Championship game. There was the final game 28 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty five regular season. The NFL has 29 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: jammed two hundred and seventy two regular season games into 30 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty two days. This all started back 31 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:39,279 Speaker 1: on September fourth of last year. Way back in twenty 32 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: twenty five. You might remember the Cowboys and the Eagles. 33 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: They got together. It was a real spinner, a slobber knocker. Literally. 34 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: It started with a giant loogie flying out of the 35 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:51,880 Speaker 1: mouth one of the Eagle players. And that's how the 36 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: season began. And it ended with Lamar Jackson returning to 37 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:01,120 Speaker 1: lead the Ravens into Pittsburgh. Winner gets the playoffs, a 38 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: wrangle against Aaron Rogers. So the winner gets the division. 39 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 1: The loser goes on a nice vacation, nice tropical vacation somewhere, 40 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:12,840 Speaker 1: So there really are no losers, and there's either go 41 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:14,800 Speaker 1: on a vacation you go play a playoff game somewhere. 42 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: So you had Mike Tarico Chris Collinsworth on NBC. They 43 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: had the call. Now, I don't if you're watching it 44 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 1: or not. Maybe you were not watching it. I don't 45 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: know what else you're watching. It was really nothing else 46 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: to watch. We watched it, and this was a roller 47 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 1: coaster of a game, a roller coaster of the game. 48 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers gets the headline on it. He threw the 49 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: go ahead touchdown to Calvin Austin with fifty five seconds 50 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: left on the clock. However, the Steelers they missed the 51 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: extra point, giving Baltimore an opportunity, and the Steelers ended 52 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: up getting the I don't know how you say it here, 53 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 1: They ended up getting the benefit of the idiot kicker 54 00:02:57,919 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 1: in this game. They squeeze past the Ravens twenty six 55 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: twenty four. All the Ravens need was needed was a 56 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: field goal, and they did get into field goal range 57 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: rather quickly. A complete meltdown by the Yinzers defense as 58 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, that was MVP Lamar in the fourth quarter 59 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 1: as he sliced up the Steelers took Baltimore down the field. 60 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: They're set up what in modern NFL is a chip 61 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: shot field goal forty four yard field goal attempt by 62 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: Tyler Loop. Who Tyler Loop make the kick? You're in 63 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: the playoffs. Missed the kick, and that's it, You're done. 64 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: And as time expired, the kick went up and yeah, 65 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: he went to the to the right side of the 66 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: goal post, not through the goal post. Who goofed? I've 67 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 1: got to know. And so with that, these Steelers have advanced. 68 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 1: They will have a home game wild Card weekend, but 69 00:03:55,440 --> 00:04:01,119 Speaker 1: not on Saturday, not on Sunday. Instead, on Monday Night 70 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: they will take on the Houston Texans. That'll be the 71 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: match up there on Monday night. Have they added that? 72 00:04:08,720 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: A couple of years ago Monday night football in the playoffs? 73 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: So that'll be the story with thischburd Now. The better 74 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 1: story though, for our purposes, is in the losing locker room. 75 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 1: The Baltimore Ravens are dun Skis and the window for 76 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson to get her done. Now. He's been a 77 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: terrible big game quarterback in his career and played really 78 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:32,919 Speaker 1: well down the stretch in this game. Didn't play this 79 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 1: so well in the middle part of the game, but 80 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:37,239 Speaker 1: down the stretch played very well. At in the end 81 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: not enough, and so Baltimore is done. Here is their 82 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: head coach Sean Harbaugh. As we discuss, and he points 83 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: out that even though the idiot kicker missed the kick, 84 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: he says, apparently there were other people to blame thinke 85 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: A Liss. 86 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 3: What you saw this game is pretty much what you've 87 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 3: seen all year from my heart, henifort and fight standpoint. 88 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: I just didn't play well enough to you know, close 89 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 1: it out. Now. You hear the question in the answer 90 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:10,479 Speaker 1: on this one, and uh, you know here John Harball 91 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: asked about the Ravens situation. Now, it's it's pretty Uh, 92 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: it's low hanging through. It's kind of obvious what Harball 93 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: is gonna say. But let's take a listen. 94 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 2: This happens. 95 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 1: You feel who use one another? Shots the guys? Yeah, 96 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 1: I love I love the guy. Is he supposed to say? No, 97 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: these guys suck. They're so bad. I'm so happy I 98 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: never have to coach that team again. My god, they're horrible. 99 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: I think Sports with Coleman, the podcast guy in Baltimore 100 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 1: do a better job. Uh playing defense? Is some of 101 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 1: these stiffs? What else is gonna say? 102 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 4: Uh? 103 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: All right, we'll hear from Lamar in a minute, but 104 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 1: let's start with just the wide angle lens on the 105 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: Ravens as they do not qualify for the playoffs. To question, 106 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:00,040 Speaker 1: as we discuss who do you blame? Who do you 107 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 1: blame for Lamar Jackson the Ravens not qualifying the bar, 108 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: the very minimum bar and make the playoffs. Hey, this 109 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: is the great, all time Greats Hall of Fame quarterback, 110 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, and they're not even in the playoffs. All right, 111 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got flatulence, way back 112 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 1: machine and trump card, and we will combine all of 113 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 1: these things together and we're gonna present to you a 114 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:28,320 Speaker 1: combo meal deal. So that's the first ever combo meal 115 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: deal that we're gonna give you here of sports. Take 116 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 1: So a we are going to blame a kindergarten song 117 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,040 Speaker 1: is who we're going to blame? All right, Crank up 118 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: the old boom box. Damn Bones a classic song, demn Bones. Right, 119 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,720 Speaker 1: the headbone is connected to the neck bone, the neck 120 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: bones connected to the backbone. Except in Baltimore, the whole 121 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 1: skeleton system, the whole skeleton there was held together by 122 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: duck tape and some Elmer's glue and a lot of 123 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:02,280 Speaker 1: wishful thinking. And in the end, Lamar who played thirteen 124 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,919 Speaker 1: games this season. Now the Ravens played seventeen. Lamar played thirteen, 125 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: and he missed chunks of the games he did play 126 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 1: in for the Ravens. A bunch of those games Lamar 127 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: played in he was playing in a dinghy, if you 128 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying there. It was kind of like 129 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:20,239 Speaker 1: your phone was at twelve percent when they had Lamar 130 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: out there twelve percent and then ended up dying at 131 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: twelve percent. Well, of the phone's not supposed to die 132 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: twelve percent. He should get down like five percent. You 133 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:31,880 Speaker 1: should have another seven percent, But it died at twelve 134 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: percent unreliable when it actually mattered unreliable. Baltimore was six 135 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: and seven in games started by Lamar Jackson at a 136 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: losing record. This year. They were two and two in 137 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 1: games he did not play in. He also lost to 138 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,080 Speaker 1: three non playoff teams the Ravens did this year and 139 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: got swept by the Pittsburgh Steelers. So that's a pretty 140 00:07:55,040 --> 00:08:00,080 Speaker 1: good way to not make the postseason, and so it 141 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: was into non playoff team teams that did not end 142 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: up qualifying for the postseason. There, it's kind of like 143 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: trusting some cheap tires in a rainstorm. It's you know, 144 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: you could get away with it. Sometimes it doesn't really 145 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 1: work all that much. There so seven games with one 146 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: or zero touchdown passes for Lamar this year, seven of 147 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: them played thirteen. Seven of them he had no touchdown 148 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: passes or one touchdown, So this was not for most 149 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:29,840 Speaker 1: of the season. This was not the ENVP version of 150 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:33,839 Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. It was Lamar Light, caffeine free, low calorie, 151 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 1: low calorie for Lamar. And so they played with their 152 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: food all season, they being the Baltimore Ravens, and wound 153 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: up thanks to the kicker there at the end, going 154 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: to Detention instead instead of going to the postseason. So 155 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:54,839 Speaker 1: this was kind of like microwaving your leftovers and calling 156 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: it gormet. You should at least put it in the 157 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 1: air fire, don't put on a microwave. I don't know 158 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: any thing that tastes good other than popcorn in the microwave, 159 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: and even that, you can make it on the stove 160 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: and it would taste better. That's just my hot food 161 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: take that's my high. I just I don't like things 162 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: in the microwave. I don't, sam I am, I don't. 163 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,679 Speaker 1: I just don't like them. So and now the postseason, 164 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 1: Boogeyman has a right things that go bump any pump 165 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,319 Speaker 1: in the night for the Ravens, Lamar's name certainly will 166 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: be floated through talk radio like flatulence floating through an elevator. 167 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:34,320 Speaker 1: And so we hear a lot about Lamar. Here's Lamar, 168 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 1: here's his thoughts. He was asked about the future and no, 169 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: here's what he had to say this off season. 170 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 2: There's a lot of questions about your contract to selling 171 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 2: cat number. 172 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:45,199 Speaker 1: Do you do you feel your you'll be back as 173 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:46,440 Speaker 1: the race for a riving season. 174 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 3: He just lost a game, you know, a divisional game, 175 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:53,559 Speaker 3: you know, a game to put us in the playoffs. 176 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 3: I'm not even thinking about that right now. The tavannahshun. 177 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 3: Don't caught up in what just happened. You know, my 178 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 3: focus went on. 179 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: Sounds like a guy that does not want to play 180 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 1: for the Ravens anymore. The easy answer, the simple answer, 181 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: is I love it here, I don't want to play 182 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: and where else? Lamar didn't say that. Lamar said I 183 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: haven't thought about that, which means that in my mind 184 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: he's thought about playing somewhere else. He did want to 185 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 1: He don't give a straight answer didn't give a straight answer. 186 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 1: It sounds like a guy that does not want to 187 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: play for the Baltimore Ravens anymore. That's the sound of 188 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,680 Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. And there's a real debate. There's a real 189 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:29,920 Speaker 1: debate here about Lamar and he has been a battering 190 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: ram type of quarterback for the Ravens. And so do 191 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:37,079 Speaker 1: you keep riding the horse, of course, until the horse 192 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: collapses and goes to the glue factory, or do you 193 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 1: decommission as a Raven Lamar Jackson a year or two 194 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:48,400 Speaker 1: too soon, and you do that before the wheels fall off. 195 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:50,319 Speaker 1: It sounds like Lamar's not real happy. I mean, the 196 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 1: easy answer is I love it here. I don't want 197 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 1: to play where else. I haven't thought about it, but 198 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: I don't want to play. Well, why would I want 199 00:10:54,280 --> 00:10:56,680 Speaker 1: to play somewhere else? I didn't say that. Instead, he 200 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:02,439 Speaker 1: gave the default answer, Well, just playing a game. If 201 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 1: you know you like it somewhere, don't you say you 202 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 1: like it there? Am I wrong? Am I reading this wrong? 203 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 1: I don't think I am. It's a simple thing to 204 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: say I love it here. Oh my god, I we 205 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: go anywhere else? Listen. I love Fox Sports Tray every 206 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 1: cockroach that drops from the ceiling. I love it the 207 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 1: smell of trash when I come in on a Sunday 208 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: night into a Monday. I love the rum of the 209 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 1: trash here because I love it here. It's not like, well, 210 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:27,679 Speaker 1: I don't know if I like you. I don't know. 211 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 1: You know, I mean, think about it, you know. I mean, 212 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:31,240 Speaker 1: I'm just trying to do a show. I'm just trying 213 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:33,559 Speaker 1: to get through the monologue. I'm just trying to get 214 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: through the bloody monologue. That's all I'm trying to come 215 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:39,079 Speaker 1: on now. As for John Harbaugh, the coach, he seems 216 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 1: relatively safe. I don't think they're gonna get rid of him, 217 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:44,840 Speaker 1: he says. This is a this is a situation similar 218 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:48,160 Speaker 1: to Mike Tomlin, tenured professor at Harvard. You're not gonna 219 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 1: get rid of John Harbaugh, not at this point. Now 220 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:55,679 Speaker 1: on the Pittsburgh side, the question for the esteem paddle 221 00:11:55,880 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: are the Aarin Ragers Steelers a good team or just 222 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:03,440 Speaker 1: a fortunate team? 223 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:05,079 Speaker 2: All right? 224 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:09,600 Speaker 1: So the answer is yes, no, maybe so with a 225 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: lot of pepto, just extra pepto. This feels a lot 226 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:19,680 Speaker 1: like every other Mike Tomlin Steeler team post Ben Roethlisberger like, 227 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: it doesn't feel any but they like the names have 228 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 1: changed slightly. The names are a little different for the 229 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 1: Steelers Pittsburgh, they stumbled and they bumbled. It was like 230 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: a shopping cart with a bad wheel. There's a one 231 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: hundred shopping carts in front of the store. You pick 232 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: the one that has the bad wheel, and then you're like, 233 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 1: what do I do? Do I put it back and 234 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: give somebody else the one with the bad wheel? Do 235 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 1: I try to push it? Do I try to find 236 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: a different cart while I'm in That's my move. Go 237 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:50,000 Speaker 1: to Costco, I get the one with the bad wheel, 238 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:53,720 Speaker 1: and I take it. And then people just they leave 239 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: their They leave their carts around the store. So I'll 240 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:58,959 Speaker 1: just grab someone else's car because they don't use anymore 241 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 1: this just leave it on side. That's it. But you 242 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 1: look at Pittsbord, this did not look like a playoff team. 243 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: Did not sound like a playoff team. You look at 244 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: the way they played this particular game. They stumbled and bumbled. 245 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 1: As we said there, especially late in the game Lamar 246 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 1: Jackson when we just did a serenade about Lamar. In 247 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 1: this situation, when you look at the play in the 248 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:20,679 Speaker 1: fourth quarter, Lamar was really good, really good. He pulled 249 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: out the butcher knife. Lamar Jackson had seventy two percent 250 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:27,520 Speaker 1: almost of his passing yards for the whole game in 251 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: the final fifteen minus one hundred and seventy one of 252 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: two thirty eight and a couple of touchdowns, error free 253 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: football for Lamar Jackson. And it was an oil painting. 254 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 1: He was a museum piece. That was Lamar the Ravens 255 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:41,920 Speaker 1: had gotten when he was winning regular season the MVPs. 256 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 1: And it was still not enough. Why because Mike Tomlin 257 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 1: went to the way back machine and it was a 258 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,440 Speaker 1: wonderful life for Mike Tomlin. Clarence the Angel had a 259 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 1: terrible towel and the divine intervention. There was a full moon, 260 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 1: I guess a few days back, their cosmic event, the 261 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:02,680 Speaker 1: whole thing there. Pitch blows an extra point and then 262 00:14:02,760 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: Baltimore says, all right, ball, don't lie. You blew an 263 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 1: extra point. So let's have our kicker do the old 264 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 1: loop d loop and miss the kick face plant chip 265 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,680 Speaker 1: shot modern NFL field goal, And so that happens. Now, 266 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 1: do the Steelers scare you if you are like the Texas. 267 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 1: We're on in Houston. You're in Houston. Are you afraid 268 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh? No, hell no, nobody's afraid of Pittsburgh. However, 269 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,120 Speaker 1: they are lethal at home. They have been lethal. That's 270 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 1: what they have done in primetime games. They get the 271 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 1: Monday night slot, the Steelers, and they're like a giant 272 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: anaconda that doesn't look that fast until until it's too late. 273 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: And so you got a dome team. You got a 274 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 1: dome team from Houston going to frigid Pittsburgh with temperatures 275 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: around freezing the long term forecast for a week from 276 00:14:56,720 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: this Monday here, So the weather math looks good. With 277 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:04,760 Speaker 1: the malor math CJ strads not very good. Although these 278 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: teams played in the regular season in Pittsburgh lost by 279 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 1: seven thousand points, but that was the regular season and 280 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 1: the playoff team. So this is a playoff team obviously, 281 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:17,400 Speaker 1: much different situation. You're so good team, eh, Now, fortunate 282 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: team Pittsburgh. Absolutely fortunate team, and sometimes that's all you need. 283 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor 284 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on 285 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. 286 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,440 Speaker 3: Hey, it's Rob Parker and Kelvin Washington from The Odd 287 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 3: Couple on Fox Sports Radio. 288 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:38,920 Speaker 5: And in addition to hearing us live weeknights from seven 289 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 5: to ten pm Eastern on Fox Sports Radio, we are 290 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 5: excited to announce brand new YouTube channel for the show. 291 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: That's right. You can now watch The Odd Couple live 292 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: on YouTube every day. 293 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 5: All you gotta do search Odd Couple FSR on YouTube 294 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 5: again YouTube, just search Odd Couple FSR. Check us out 295 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:00,560 Speaker 5: on YouTube as subscribe. 296 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: So our lead this hour from the coaching carousel. And 297 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 1: we have seen a bunch of coaches given the boot 298 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 1: given the boot right, and they've all been pretty predictable. 299 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:16,920 Speaker 1: They've all been pretty predictable. Bad teams, bad owners. This 300 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: is what they do. Well. We got a backdoor curveball 301 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,800 Speaker 1: in the coaching cycle. And if you have not heard 302 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 1: by now, I assume you have where the hell you been. 303 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: But there's a chance maybe you actually have a life 304 00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 1: and you don't pay attention to this stuff all day 305 00:16:33,920 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 1: and you just turn it on at night. So here's 306 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 1: the deal. We have learned that the Dead Poet Society 307 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: has said aloha to John Harbaugh. The Ravens have fired 308 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: John Harbaugh. He's out. They're franchise is winning hist head 309 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: coach Halwy sports with Coleman Batman. Wow, that's our buddy 310 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,280 Speaker 1: in Baltimore. But in less than forty eight hours after 311 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: a chip shot field goal was missed to the right, 312 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:10,240 Speaker 1: the Ravens said, we're done with you. So if the 313 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:12,159 Speaker 1: field goal goes in, do they keep the coach? Is 314 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 1: that how this works is that we didn't realize at 315 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 1: the time if that kick had been made, does Tomlin 316 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,760 Speaker 1: lose his job? Is that what that is? If they 317 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:23,119 Speaker 1: had tied with both coaches have lost their job, or 318 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 1: where they have both kept their job. Well, the Steelers 319 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 1: made the playoffs, the Ravens failed to make the playoffs, 320 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:35,880 Speaker 1: and so after eighteen seasons, Hardball his ass is grass, 321 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:40,200 Speaker 1: He's out. Now eyebrows have been raised and they are 322 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 1: pointed the direction of mister MVP guy Lamar Jackson, who 323 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 1: intrigue all right, So that is a good jumping off point. 324 00:17:53,560 --> 00:18:01,000 Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. Is it true Lamar Jackson 325 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:07,439 Speaker 1: played at least some role, some role as coach killer 326 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 1: in Baltimore for John Harball developing hot dot dot dot. 327 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:22,359 Speaker 1: So my thoughts, I've got teenage mutant ninja turtles markers, squeaking, 328 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:28,920 Speaker 1: and magnifying glass. And we will combine all of these 329 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:32,359 Speaker 1: things together and we are going to make some old 330 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 1: Bay seasoning, which is they put that on everything in Baltimore, 331 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 1: that old Bay seasoning. Put that on the salad, not 332 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 1: that I eat salad. Because I believe all vegetables should 333 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: live a full life. I don't think anything should be 334 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: harmed by me eating them. I think you pigs that 335 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:52,159 Speaker 1: eat vegetables, you don't vegetables. They need to live a 336 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 1: full life. Anyway. So to answer the question, is it 337 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 1: true that Lamar Jackson played a role as the coach 338 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:07,160 Speaker 1: killer in the John Harbaugh story, I am nodding my head. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, 339 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:13,159 Speaker 1: yes yes. I listen. We are private investigators here, and 340 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:17,560 Speaker 1: if you follow the bread crumbs, like every great crime drama, 341 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:23,120 Speaker 1: you follow the bread crumbs. Lamar Jackson didn't just stay silent. 342 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 6: He didn't he What he did was he had an 343 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 6: opportunity to publicly endorse his head coach, go to bat 344 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 6: for his coach, and he said no. 345 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:41,879 Speaker 1: He stayed well, not necessarily signing. He did talk, He 346 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,639 Speaker 1: just refused to answer the question. And the Ravens have 347 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 1: leaked that One of the issues here was John Horball 348 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:54,399 Speaker 1: refused to whack offensive coordinator Todd Munkin, and there was 349 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: an issue in the ownership. So what we got. You 350 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 1: gotta get rid of this guy. I mean, this guy's 351 00:19:57,920 --> 00:19:59,560 Speaker 1: at DRABRONI you're gonnaet wait wait, I don't want to 352 00:19:59,560 --> 00:20:01,160 Speaker 1: get rid of the guy. You got to I don't 353 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,199 Speaker 1: want to. Oh you're fired. Boom done, gon get out 354 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 1: of here. You know what that is? Abra cadabra poof presto. 355 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:12,960 Speaker 1: That is what. That is the key to magic. And 356 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 1: I love magic. You know. I was the kid Ryan 357 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: went to Disneyland as a kid. I always want to 358 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 1: go to the magic Store. That's where I wanted to 359 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:20,680 Speaker 1: go more than any on Main Street, USA. I want 360 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 1: to go hang out the magic shop. And I got 361 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 1: smaller and smaller. It was a kid, it was big. 362 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 1: Now I go in there, it's like a little side, 363 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: little thing pocket of magic. But I recall and a 364 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:34,679 Speaker 1: magician's act, whether you're a great magician or a bad magician, 365 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 1: the key is the misdirection. And this is a classic 366 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: smoke bomb. It's a classic smoke bomb by the Ravens, 367 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: and it's the magician waving the hand. I'm waving the 368 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: hand over here. And then and then on this side 369 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:52,959 Speaker 1: you do the switch. You know, you do the old switcheroo. There, 370 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 1: that's the that's the move, and you grab something and 371 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 1: your wallet pops up in a different place. But the 372 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:03,440 Speaker 1: real evidence on this, what is the real evidence? The 373 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 1: real evidence? Was Lamar at the podium the other day. 374 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 1: He was asked a soft ball question, total softball question. 375 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,600 Speaker 1: Do you want John Harbaugh back as coach of the 376 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:22,880 Speaker 1: Ravens next season? Standard basic question for Lamar Jackson. A layup, 377 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:27,399 Speaker 1: an absolute layup, a foul shot, no one guarding you 378 00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:34,200 Speaker 1: unless it wasn't. So what did Lamar Jackson say? We've 379 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: got the audio. Let's go to the audio tip. Here's 380 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 1: Lamar responding to a really simple question. Do you want 381 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: to see John? 382 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:47,400 Speaker 3: You asked me about next year? Jamison, I'm so caught 383 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 3: up in what just happened tonight. I can't I can't 384 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 3: focus on that right now. I just told you, like 385 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 3: he asked me, are you stunning? I'm stunning right now, 386 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:56,159 Speaker 3: and I'm still trying to process what's going on. Like, 387 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,880 Speaker 3: I know we lost, but but you know that's all. 388 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,360 Speaker 1: So you heard a little bit of a pause there. 389 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:10,640 Speaker 1: Lamar paused like his brain was buffering. Oh, I don't 390 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 1: want to answer that question, man, Why would you ask 391 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 1: me that? You asking me about next year? We in here, 392 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 1: we just lost the game. You're talking about next year. 393 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 1: Now you can't see the body of elements because we're 394 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 1: doing radio. It's an audio platform. But the hands were 395 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 1: in the air, a little headshake, dead give what Yeah, 396 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,680 Speaker 1: it's not. People said, well, that's emotion, you know, just 397 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 1: lost the game and all that stuff. You know what 398 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:39,159 Speaker 1: that is? Bull crap is what that is. That's avoidance 399 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: is what it was. Also, Lamar had an opportunity he 400 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,439 Speaker 1: did not choose to take the opportunity to defend John Harbaugh. 401 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: He didn't endorse him. He didn't even fake it like 402 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:54,080 Speaker 1: it's a simple thing. Just fake it old, Oh that's 403 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 1: my guy, that's my coach. We ride together, ride and die. 404 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 1: He didn't do any of that. Lamar hung his coach 405 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,399 Speaker 1: out to drive by not answering the question. And so 406 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: you keep hearing these little nuggets out of Baltimore and 407 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:13,680 Speaker 1: more and more as we workshop this together, it would 408 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 1: appear that Lamar Jackson and the coach it was like 409 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 1: teenage mutant ninja turtles. But they were not those turtles. 410 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: They were loggerhead turtles. John Harbaugh and Lamar Jackson fighting 411 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:32,360 Speaker 1: over the remote control. Who's in control here? And when 412 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 1: push came to shove ultimately ownership. They made the call 413 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 1: and they're the ones that make the decision here, right. 414 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 1: But the story that was leaked, one of the stories 415 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 1: that was leaked in addition to the Todd Munkins story, 416 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:50,440 Speaker 1: there was another story leaked by the Ravens obviously obviously 417 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:55,919 Speaker 1: was that John Harbaugh lost the locker room. Ding ding 418 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 1: ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ning. Yeah, 419 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 1: you know that's a tell you know that story was 420 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 1: not leaked by John Harbaugh. Why would John Harbaugh leak 421 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:06,399 Speaker 1: the story I lost the locker room? That make no sense, 422 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:10,119 Speaker 1: makes him look like a buffoon. So obviously came from 423 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 1: the Ravens. And let's see, let's break this down scientific 424 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 1: So what exactly who is the Ravens locker room? That's right, 425 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, Like, if ten guys of the Ravens despise 426 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: John Harbaugh, however Lamar Jackson loves him, doesn't that cross 427 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 1: out to ten people that don't like John Harbaugh as 428 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,120 Speaker 1: the old line, there's certain percentage of people that don't 429 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:40,600 Speaker 1: like it no matter what you do, and there's certain 430 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 1: people that like you, and then there's others that are undecided. 431 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,639 Speaker 1: And once the undecided voters go to the side they 432 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: don't like you, it's a problem. But to me, this 433 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:52,440 Speaker 1: is clearly pointing at the direction of Lamar Jackson and 434 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:56,480 Speaker 1: Steve Bashatti, the owner. He chose the quarterback. And the 435 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 1: whole thing smells like what raw sewage is what it's 436 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: smell like. And Lamar never grabbed a plunger. And now 437 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 1: the Ravens like, well, we call their own plumber, rode 438 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 1: O ruter, and they're coming in here. We gotta clogged toilet. 439 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: We're gonna unclog the toilet, is what we're gonna do. 440 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,479 Speaker 1: All right, now, turning the page, but keeping the theme 441 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 1: of the hour on this Mala monologue, there's a theme 442 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,119 Speaker 1: to all this, there's a method to the matter. So 443 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 1: John Harbaugh has now become hot to trot. He's the 444 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,880 Speaker 1: bell of the ball, hottest girl in the whole room. 445 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,760 Speaker 1: Uh well, let's kiss coach. Everyone loves him. Oh my god. 446 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 1: Now the question is does he sit out? Does he 447 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:39,640 Speaker 1: return to coach, Will he continue as an NFL coach? 448 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,119 Speaker 1: Does he take time off? Does this become an Andy 449 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,560 Speaker 1: Reid situation where Andy Reid had success in Philadelphia and 450 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,360 Speaker 1: then he went somewhere else and then things really went 451 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:52,919 Speaker 1: turbo time in Kansas City with Patrick Mahomes. Now the agent. 452 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: Keep him mind, the agent has an agent. Agents like politicians. 453 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:00,879 Speaker 1: They never say anything that's legit. But anyway, the agent's claiming, 454 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 1: pumping his chest out, get the feathers up like a peacock, 455 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 1: and the agent's claiming seven NFL teams within forty five minutes. 456 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 1: Contact the agent said, Hey, how would you like to 457 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 1: coach our team? To the agent? So, all right, question, 458 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:23,680 Speaker 1: through the powers of radio and audio content. Through the 459 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 1: powers of audio content, you have now been hired as 460 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:32,040 Speaker 1: an NFL consultant. Congratulations, paid a lot of money, good expense, 461 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 1: account no accountability, none of that stuff. So you're a consultant, 462 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:41,200 Speaker 1: you're a career counselor, and John Harball and his agent 463 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 1: have hired you time to give advice. So what should 464 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:52,200 Speaker 1: former Ravens coach John Harbaugh's next move be? You make 465 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,360 Speaker 1: the call. So on this one, we're going to activate 466 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 1: the Malor think tank. The Malor think tank is activated. 467 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 1: So the white board you got to whiteboard out, and 468 00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,720 Speaker 1: you got the market. Those squeaky markers, like the markers 469 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 1: are squeaking. You got that going on a logic, slightly 470 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 1: cooked overnight talk radio logic. So Hardball is shopping for 471 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 1: his next zip code. In theory, the first rule is 472 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:24,479 Speaker 1: you immediately cross off the clown cars. So you got 473 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 1: no clown cars. So that's so raiders forget. Come on, 474 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: is there a bigger clown car than well, the Browns. Okay, 475 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:35,920 Speaker 1: so they're out. Browns, Raiders, Titans. I don't want to 476 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 1: do that, So they're out. And so you've got that. 477 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:43,680 Speaker 1: That's three different flavors of ownership quicksand so you eliminate them. 478 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 1: The giants are not much better. The Giants are like 479 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,600 Speaker 1: the Jets light The Giants at least used to be good, 480 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: but now they're just like the Jets. But they have 481 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 1: a different logo and they've got taller buildings than the 482 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,160 Speaker 1: Browns and the Raiders and things like that. They actually 483 00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: have the same same buildings as the Jets, and the 484 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,119 Speaker 1: same socialist mayor they have there in New York. But 485 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:08,360 Speaker 1: if I'm John Harbaugh, right, If I'm John Harball, I'm 486 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 1: narrowing it down to two spots of the available teams, 487 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 1: Atlanta and Miami. However, however, I told you we're workshopping this. 488 00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:26,640 Speaker 1: If you're John Harbaugh, you gotta wait. There's a good 489 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:30,920 Speaker 1: chance the Buffalo Bills lose in Jacksonville on wild Card weekend, 490 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:37,439 Speaker 1: that job opens up. You slide in and coach Josh Allen. Now, 491 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 1: the Bengals have said that their coach is going to 492 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: be back. I don't know that I believe that, because 493 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,479 Speaker 1: if you have a chance to hire John Harbaugh, why 494 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: wouldn't you do that? So of the available jobs, none 495 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,240 Speaker 1: of them are all that good. If it was just 496 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 1: the available jobs, I would say, go to Atlanta, go 497 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 1: to Miami. However, you have to wait a couple of rounds. 498 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:03,520 Speaker 1: Just you're the hot person at the bar. Everyone's trying 499 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: to flirt with you, buy your drinks, but you gotta wait, okay, 500 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: because he's coming in late into the bar. Buffalo, they 501 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 1: don't they have to fire their coach if they lose 502 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 1: on wild card weekend and the Bills are in the 503 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 1: playoffs and there's normal homes, no Lamar Jackson, not that 504 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 1: he was any good in the playoffs. No Joe Burrow, 505 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:24,720 Speaker 1: this has got to be the year. And if they 506 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,960 Speaker 1: don't win, if he was on wild card weekend, don't 507 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 1: the Bill's fire mcdermoy so that job opens up, and 508 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 1: then say what, you know what? The Bengals have bad owners, 509 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 1: but they good quarterback, so keep an eye kind of 510 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:39,880 Speaker 1: hold off all the available jobs. I'd go with Atlanta 511 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 1: mainly because of the NFC South, where you can. No 512 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,400 Speaker 1: division has produced more teams with losing records to make 513 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: the playoffs in the history of the NFL than the 514 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,600 Speaker 1: team or the NFC South teams. I should say the 515 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:56,000 Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers, who suck this year. Tampa Bay's made it 516 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 1: under five hundred. So that's the division all stuck in 517 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 1: neutral or rebuilding, which is weasel terminology. Miami, that job 518 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 1: is technically not open all. I just wouldn't you want 519 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: to rather live in Miami. The Dolphins used to be good. 520 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 1: How you can wake up the echoes of Don Shula 521 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 1: and Dan Marino and all that. Of course they don't 522 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: have a quarterback, but most of these. 523 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 2: Teams don't be sure to catch live editions of the 524 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 2: Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. 525 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 2: Now Malor's mountain of money. Hell, do you have what 526 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 2: it takes to get to the top? 527 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 1: Probably not, as sir, we say hello to John, who's 528 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:45,800 Speaker 1: living in paradise? Hello John, Ben, how are you? How's paradise? 529 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:47,720 Speaker 4: You know what? 530 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 1: All right? Very good? Who do you want to partner 531 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,120 Speaker 1: up with? John? It's Mallard's amount of money? The Marlynd 532 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:55,040 Speaker 1: Manson addition, who do you want to partner up with? 533 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 1: How about you? Ben? All right? Very good? John? Hold 534 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 1: on a sec Lorraina picked door number one or door 535 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: number two? Nambo oh man, Well, Coop's very happy you 536 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:12,760 Speaker 1: picked number two, and that is a Jordans in Cansa City. 537 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:18,360 Speaker 1: Hello Jordan, Man, there's nothing going on in January football. 538 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 1: You can start scouting for the you can start scouting 539 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:27,120 Speaker 1: for the draft. Jordan's quickly, all right? Who you're gonna 540 00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 1: play with? Coop? Alright? Alright, very good? Coop? Please all right. 541 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 4: Marilyn Manson turned fifty seven on Monday. So the categories 542 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 4: are Sweet Dreams for the Beautiful People, The Dope Show 543 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 4: and Deep Six. John, you were on first, which category 544 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:42,720 Speaker 4: would you. 545 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 1: Like deep six. All right, and Jordan, how about you. 546 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 1: It's beautiful people, all right, beautiful right? John and Ben 547 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:56,000 Speaker 1: you were up first? All right? These athletes all war 548 00:31:56,320 --> 00:32:01,719 Speaker 1: or where the number six? Are you ready? John? All right? 549 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,680 Speaker 1: Forty five seconds We're on our way. Go star with 550 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 1: the Lakers right now. He's forty years old. Yes, a 551 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 1: quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers currently not in the playoffs. Yes. 552 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,000 Speaker 1: Greatest winner of all time for the Boston Celtics of 553 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:22,920 Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties. Yes, that's correct. Wide receiver currently for 554 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:28,760 Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. Number sixty. Won the Heisman at Alabama. Yes. 555 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 1: Nicknamed the man for the Saint Louis Cardinals back in 556 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:39,320 Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties. What. Yes, MVP for the Philadelphia Phillies 557 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 1: when they won the World Series. We play with Jimmy Rollins, 558 00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,440 Speaker 1: first basement African American hit a lot of home runs 559 00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 1: for the Phillies. Ryan, Yeah, well I think you said 560 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 1: he didn't the last name. He just said, Bryan. You 561 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 1: got one sixty on that man. I'm glad that you 562 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 1: live in Paradise because your phone doesn't. 563 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,520 Speaker 4: Ryan Howard was who you were looking for an hour? 564 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,480 Speaker 4: All right, Jordan, we have the beautiful people. Uh. These 565 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:09,320 Speaker 4: athletes all appeared on the cover of GQ magazine. Forty 566 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:13,320 Speaker 4: five seconds on the clock. Begin former quarterback for the Cowboys. 567 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 4: He is currently a broadcaster. No, the younger one, he's 568 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:23,120 Speaker 4: currently yes, all right. This guy was the flash for 569 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:29,560 Speaker 4: the Miami Heat. Yes, this guy was a USC quarterback. 570 00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:37,520 Speaker 4: He played at the Cincinnati Bengals and then the Raiders Carton. Yes, yep, yep. 571 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,080 Speaker 4: This guy had the sack record until it was just 572 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:46,000 Speaker 4: beaten by Miles Garrett. Nope, he has a gap tooth. 573 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:47,479 Speaker 2: Oh. 574 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 4: Yes, this guy is another USC quarterback, but he sucked 575 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 4: in the NFL. 576 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:53,320 Speaker 1: He was with Reggie Bush. 577 00:33:58,120 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 3: That was right there, but it wasn't it? 578 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:00,520 Speaker 1: Alright? 579 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,040 Speaker 4: Mat right, so we have one hundred points, right, Yeah, 580 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,760 Speaker 4: you guys got it all right? Jordan, do want Sweet 581 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:07,480 Speaker 4: Dreams or the Dope Show? 582 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:10,319 Speaker 1: All right? 583 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,400 Speaker 4: Uh? These athletes all have sweet sounding nicknames. Forty five 584 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,480 Speaker 4: seconds on the clock. Let's begin the Juice running back 585 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:21,680 Speaker 4: for the Buffalo Bills. He killed people. Yes, his nickname 586 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:25,480 Speaker 4: was Sweetness. Running back for the Bears. Yes, this guy's 587 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:27,640 Speaker 4: last name is a fruit. He was on the New 588 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:35,520 Speaker 4: York Mets. Yes, this guy's nickname was the honey Badger. Yes, 589 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:44,040 Speaker 4: this guy was chocolate thunder all right, how about white chocolate? 590 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:49,160 Speaker 4: He was on the Kings, played street ball. 591 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:50,919 Speaker 1: Sounds like you're an agony here. Okay. 592 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,200 Speaker 4: How about a pitcher named the candy Man for the 593 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:54,520 Speaker 4: Pirates in the seventies. 594 00:34:55,160 --> 00:35:01,359 Speaker 1: No, probably not all right, you know for fitting? All right? 595 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:03,839 Speaker 1: How many points are the guy? What do they got learned? 596 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:04,600 Speaker 2: That's another hundred? 597 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,320 Speaker 1: So you guys go to forty to win? Are you 598 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,759 Speaker 1: ready there? John in Paradise? We need forty to win. 599 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,439 Speaker 1: I'm going for the kill shot right away. Are you ready? 600 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,719 Speaker 1: All right? These athletes all have caught, all were caught 601 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:20,879 Speaker 1: doping or taking pds. Yeah, here we are, forty five 602 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:23,479 Speaker 1: seconds on the clock. We're on our way. A great 603 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,319 Speaker 1: defensive player for the San Diego Chargers, nickname lights Out. 604 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,759 Speaker 1: He was the defensive rookie of the Year for the 605 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:34,960 Speaker 1: San Diego Chargers. All right, slot wide receiver for the 606 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,000 Speaker 1: white guy for the Patriots. He's a podcaster now he 607 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:42,440 Speaker 1: does some television stuff like a Jewish guy wide receiver. No, 608 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,960 Speaker 1: another white guy for the Patriots. A slot receiver. Yeah, 609 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:50,919 Speaker 1: go ahead, all right, all right, Oh my god, oh 610 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:58,120 Speaker 1: my god. All right, Julian Edelman and Sean Merriman. He 611 00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:01,680 Speaker 1: didn't do anything, did not do anything. There was nothing 612 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:02,879 Speaker 1: done at all.