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Speaker 1: We are going to buck the odds the benny versus
Speaker 1: the penny segment on the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller.
Speaker 1: Let's get into it, as Marcel would say, welcome players,
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Speaker 1: time now penny versus the penny? Yes, it is on
Speaker 1: the fifth Hour worth Ben Maller and David Gascon. That's right.
Speaker 1: They wanted to find some one who would annrymally. They
Speaker 1: picked Gascon. There he is right over there. We will
Speaker 1: attempt to buck the odds. Gascon. We will cut the
Speaker 1: cards if you will, literally flipping a coin here, shooting
Speaker 1: for the moon, as the old expression goes out, and gambling.
Speaker 1: This used to be, as as Arnie says, on the weekends,
Speaker 1: you know, the great Arnie Spaniard. You know, it used
Speaker 1: to be just for entertainment purposes only, But now we
Speaker 1: don't have to say that because gambling on sports is
Speaker 1: now in the mainstream and it's a good hobby. A
Speaker 1: lot of guys like to do it. So I'm excited
Speaker 1: about this. And I've always mentioned my love affair for
Speaker 1: casinos and how much I enjoy the casino because the concept,
Speaker 1: the business concept of the casino is is it's just
Speaker 1: I just think it's a fantastic thing because from the
Speaker 1: business perspective, people who go to casinos, no, the deck
Speaker 1: is stacked against them. The odds are against them. They're
Speaker 1: gonna win, right, You know that when I love gambling too,
Speaker 1: but you want a casino, you're not. You know, the
Speaker 1: odds are against you. And yet even though people like
Speaker 1: you and I know we're gonna lose money, we still
Speaker 1: enjoy it. It's fun. It's a recreational type activity, and
Speaker 1: human beings love games of chance, of course, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and not that this is you know, you
Speaker 1: think in sports. One of the cool things about sports,
Speaker 1: guest guys, we think we have inside information, right because
Speaker 1: we know if you're a cowboy fan, you know everything
Speaker 1: about Dak Prescott or everything about Zeke Elliott. If you're
Speaker 1: Bears fan, you're you're nuanced on Mitch Robinsky and the
Speaker 1: Bears defense and so yeah, so it's it's but anyway,
Speaker 1: we'll get into it. And the first game up, guest
Speaker 1: Gon is the Atlanta Minnesota game. We did the Thursday
Speaker 1: night game, which was last night the Bears and Packers.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, how about that outcome? We we put that
Speaker 1: on the podcast. You can go back and hear the
Speaker 1: pick on the radio show podcast. Not the Fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Maller because four hours are not enough. So
Speaker 1: Atlanta at Minnesota. This is a Fox game. Tom Brenneman
Speaker 1: and Chris Bielman will be in the at Fox box.
Speaker 1: That rocks and the Vikings opened a four and a
Speaker 1: half point favorite. They're currently favorite by four. The pick
Speaker 1: for me in this game is the Vikings, and I'll
Speaker 1: give you my my logic behind that. Minnesota Now they
Speaker 1: are my pick to click. As Hawk Carrolson, the old
Speaker 1: White Sox broadcaster, would say, as the surprise team in
Speaker 1: the NFL this year, I believe they will have a
Speaker 1: boomerang type season. They will bounce back and be a
Speaker 1: playoff team. I like Mike Zimmer's club. He needs a
Speaker 1: big year here. They were very bad last year compared
Speaker 1: to expectations. I love the foundation the Vikings have with
Speaker 1: their defense. That's a top five defense. That's the bedrock
Speaker 1: of the Vikings, and I expect them to to mess
Speaker 1: around with Matt Ryan, and Matt Ryan usually gets his
Speaker 1: numbers in the end. It's a dome game, so it's
Speaker 1: not a weather game you have to worry about for
Speaker 1: the Falcons when you look into that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But but Zimmer has been absolutely money from a from
Speaker 1: a gambling perspective in the last few years. The last
Speaker 1: fourteen times in these spots, last fourteen times a Mike
Speaker 1: Zimmer coach team has had extra time to prepare, prepare,
Speaker 1: like the entire off season. His teams have a seven
Speaker 1: fourteen winning percentage. They're ten and four in a similar
Speaker 1: spot to this. That tells you what has happened, not
Speaker 1: what's going to happen. And then secondly, the Falcons. The
Speaker 1: main reason to pick the Vikings here is a I
Speaker 1: don't normally like the bet favorites. I try to if
Speaker 1: if it's even I'll take the underdog. But the Falcons
Speaker 1: are a defensively challenge squad. Uh. They have negligence all
Speaker 1: over that side of the field. Atlanta ranked thirty in
Speaker 1: pressure last season, twenty nine in past defense. It's hard
Speaker 1: to pick the Falcons to go into a hostile environment
Speaker 1: when when they don't have the weaponry defensively like they'll
Speaker 1: score some points even though the Vikings have a good defense. Uh.
Speaker 1: We'll see how the new offensive line does for the Vikings.
Speaker 1: They made a couple of changes minor changes window dressing
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, But it really comes down to
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, who simply has to be better and stop
Speaker 1: being Charlie checked down. You've got the weapons that the
Speaker 1: Falcons don't have a good defense. You can sling the
Speaker 1: ball around to Adam Feelings, Deefon Diggs and Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: in the backfield. Have them work their magic. Final score,
Speaker 1: it'll be the Vikings thirty four, Falcons twenty three. What
Speaker 1: about the coin here, guess Penny likes the Falcons. No, No,
Speaker 1: the penny did not land on the side of the Falcons.
Speaker 1: I did, I do? I believe you were doctoring the
Speaker 1: penny results. Why would you pick the Falcons? That's a
Speaker 1: bad pick, all right. Next up Washington at Philadelphia. This
Speaker 1: game is a Fox game. Kevin Burkhardt and Charles Davis,
Speaker 1: the voice of Madden, will be calling the game. The
Speaker 1: Eagles opened an eight and a half point favorite. They
Speaker 1: are a double digit favorite. This is the biggest point
Speaker 1: spread as we are recording this on the fifth Hour
Speaker 1: with Ben Mallory, as we're doing this in real time.
Speaker 1: This is the biggest point spread in the NFL this weekend. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I am going to be a contrarian here. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take the Washington d Skins plus ten points in
Speaker 1: this particular game. And I'll tell you why. First of all, Uh,
Speaker 1: the Eagles. I get that they're loaded. I I am
Speaker 1: also optimistic the Eagles will have a great season. We
Speaker 1: don't know yet if these jigsaw puzzle pieces are gonna
Speaker 1: fit together. Philadelphia had thirty percent of its roster turnover
Speaker 1: from last year's playoff team. They have plausibly better players
Speaker 1: in Philly, but they haven't really played together in a
Speaker 1: real game. Philadelphia showed complete apathy like many of these
Speaker 1: teams did in the preseason. So we don't know. We
Speaker 1: think we know, but we don't know. It's also the
Speaker 1: first rodeo for Carson Wentz, who's consistently been injured. Here,
Speaker 1: the Eagles have no backup quarterback. They don't, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: so the old guy who's a high school coach, and
Speaker 1: the Eagles also have questions on the back side of
Speaker 1: their defense. Now. Secondly, the Redskins already bad team. They
Speaker 1: it is dysfunction junction. That's obvious. Uh. They're kind of
Speaker 1: like a division in one double a team. It's the
Speaker 1: way I would look at the at the red Skins.
Speaker 1: They got holes all over the roster. I love Darius Guys.
Speaker 1: I think this guy is gonna be great, you know,
Speaker 1: if you can do that on a bad team. But
Speaker 1: that said, even bad teams can hang around. There's this perception, well,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be a bad team, you're gonna get blown out.
Speaker 1: You know. Usually bad teams lose close games. Good teams
Speaker 1: win close games. And case keenum, he's good for at
Speaker 1: least a couple of decent quarters of football with his
Speaker 1: moxie and all that. He only takes you so far.
Speaker 1: And in general, one of my beliefs as a gamblers,
Speaker 1: anytime you get over a touchdown in a divisional game,
Speaker 1: you've got to take it. This is the divisional game.
Speaker 1: These teams played each other twice a year. You take
Speaker 1: the points. Getting double digits in an NFL game when
Speaker 1: most games are decided by a touchdown, unless hail to
Speaker 1: the Redskins, hail to covering. So the pick here is Washington.
Speaker 1: The final score, Philly is gonna win the game, but
Speaker 1: the Redskins are gonna cover. Philly twenty seven Washington twenty three.
Speaker 1: Penny picking guest on here, it's Penny likes the Redskins.
Speaker 1: Also really yeah, copying my work there, guests bad telling
Speaker 1: you there. Next up as we do Benny versus the
Speaker 1: Penny on the fifth hour Buffalo and the j E
Speaker 1: t s Suck Suck, Suck, suck suck. This game is
Speaker 1: a CBS game. Kevin Harlan and Rich Gett. You Kevin
Speaker 1: Harland guy. You like Kevin Harlan of course right between
Speaker 1: the eyes. Yeah. I like Harlan. I like his energy.
Speaker 1: He's a good radio guy too. I've interviewed him before.
Speaker 1: He's a good he seems like a good dude. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he seems like a guy. Wasn't his dad a GM
Speaker 1: in the NFL? Dad's a GM and his daughter is
Speaker 1: now a sports coster too, So it runs in the family.
Speaker 1: There you go, the family business. But the Buffalo and
Speaker 1: the Jets. The Jets open to three and a half
Speaker 1: point favorite. The Jets are currently a three point favorite.
Speaker 1: The pick here, the pick is in, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take Buffalo. I I'm taking the Bills here, and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why. Uh to start with, I am not
Speaker 1: sold on the Jets. I'm not. Every year my entire life,
Speaker 1: the same thing happens. It's the typical New York hyperbo lee.
Speaker 1: The Jets go out sign a couple of players, draft
Speaker 1: some hotshot guy in the top ten of the draft,
Speaker 1: and then we're off to the races. How great Gang
Speaker 1: Green is gonna be? And this year they added Levian
Speaker 1: Bell for example. He arrived and they're talking about the
Speaker 1: resurgence of Sam Donald in year two and he played
Speaker 1: well at the end of last year. They also signed
Speaker 1: pretty good linebacker from the Ravens, C. J. Moseley, who
Speaker 1: they brought over. And there's some other defensive pickups along
Speaker 1: the way. And so the media is like, well, the
Speaker 1: Jets are ten wind they could they could flirt with
Speaker 1: ten wins. I'm not buying it. I am in a
Speaker 1: Missouri State motto. I'm in a show me state of
Speaker 1: mind here with the Jets, I just don't think they're
Speaker 1: as good as the hyperer. The Jets have a shaky
Speaker 1: pass defense. Uh and in pass catch, I think even
Speaker 1: the pass catcher is the bigger problem. They they appear
Speaker 1: to be a work in progress. And the other thing
Speaker 1: you're picking the Bills is not a vote of confidence
Speaker 1: for Josh Allen. Like that guy Robbie the Mariner fan,
Speaker 1: who's a kool Aid drinking Josh Allen sickophan. I am
Speaker 1: not endorsing Josh Allen. He is the compass rose type
Speaker 1: of quarterback, which I despise. He throws it all over
Speaker 1: the place. You don't know where it's gonna go. Uh
Speaker 1: is helter skelter and all that throwing the ball. But
Speaker 1: I am gonna ride with the Bills defense. The Bills
Speaker 1: defense is legit. Buffalo had the second ranked defense in
Speaker 1: the NFL owing the Ravens last year allowed less yards
Speaker 1: per game. Than Buffalo. Didn't that hard to believe and
Speaker 1: wrap your head around. But the defense has been upgraded.
Speaker 1: They added a top ten pick, a guy who I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be pretty good. You know, as much
Speaker 1: as I care about defensive, big fat guys defensively in
Speaker 1: Ed Oliver, who's added to that defense, And so they
Speaker 1: made a couple of other changes. I believe the Bills
Speaker 1: win this game outright. As a live dog in a
Speaker 1: divisional game, I'm gonna take the Buffalo Bills twenty three,
Speaker 1: the Jets twenty your final score, and the Penny picking
Speaker 1: on Benny versus the Penny. Oh Man, Sam, I am
Speaker 1: at home. Penny has the New York Jets. Really, Jets sucks, sucks, sucks, sucks.
Speaker 1: You gonna have a quarterback to win this league? Pen.
Speaker 1: Don't we need Levian Bell to have a rude introduction
Speaker 1: to the Wouldn't it be better if like Levian Bell
Speaker 1: fumbles three times and the you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like he just said it runs for thirty yards and
Speaker 1: just has a trying experience. I think that would be
Speaker 1: better for the talk radio show. Yeah, and don't forget
Speaker 1: time Montgomery. It's his backup. So if Montgomery just like
Speaker 1: walks off the field for some unknown reason, that would
Speaker 1: be perfect for your Jets. Open up there. I'm right
Speaker 1: there with you and Sam Donald. You know, usually support
Speaker 1: the USC football program. Donald's like, know not, I need
Speaker 1: to see more. He's gonna have a great relationship with
Speaker 1: Adam Gates moving forward in nineteen Yeah, crazy eyes Adam Gaze.
Speaker 1: That's right, he's making his Jets coaching debut. We gotta
Speaker 1: we gotta mention that, all right. Next up Baltimore at Miami.
Speaker 1: We gotta keep the train moving, Gascon, stay with me.
Speaker 1: Baltimore at Miami is a CBS game. Andrew Catalan is
Speaker 1: that his name? You're a TV guy? And James Lofton?
Speaker 1: How about James Lofton? How James gotta be in his sixties?
Speaker 1: Now do anything? It sounds good to everything on there.
Speaker 1: He's good man. You guys had like a longer career
Speaker 1: TV than he had did playing list a long time,
Speaker 1: didn't he stopped playing in the late eighties, early nineties
Speaker 1: something like that. Uh well, I remember with the Packers Packers,
Speaker 1: and I think he played with the Raiders. I think
Speaker 1: I don't know he bounced around, But anyway, that's the bad.
Speaker 1: That's the TV broadcast crew. The game is in Miami.
Speaker 1: It is going to be toasty, toasty, as it usually
Speaker 1: is in South Florida. Early in the year. The Ravens
Speaker 1: opened up a four point favorite, and this is all
Speaker 1: the way up to six and a half after the
Speaker 1: Dolphins traded away their their top offensive lineman, one of
Speaker 1: their better receivers at least last year, Kenny Stills, uh
Speaker 1: Laramie tons of both traded to the Texans. Right, but
Speaker 1: for the year. Uh So, I'm gonna actually again be
Speaker 1: a contrary in here. I'm gonna take the Dolphins, all right,
Speaker 1: And the thinking behind this the Ravens I believe will
Speaker 1: win the game. But the value is the Dolphins. Yes
Speaker 1: they are a bad team, Yes they management is trying
Speaker 1: to tank the season. I don't disagree with any of that,
Speaker 1: but it's the season opener. And Ryan Fitzpatrick has a
Speaker 1: way of getting guys to play for him. He's got
Speaker 1: some kind of that Swengali effect where he's able to
Speaker 1: get guys to play for Most NFL games are decided,
Speaker 1: as I've said earlier, by a touchdown or less, and
Speaker 1: even bad teams are able to lose close games on
Speaker 1: a regular basis. And so you're talking about home field
Speaker 1: being worth three points, generally down the middle three points,
Speaker 1: and so the Ravens are six and that point so
Speaker 1: Vegas and the people that set the lines. In my
Speaker 1: mind and my warped behind, maybe I'm wrong in this,
Speaker 1: but they they believe the Ravens are nine and a
Speaker 1: half points better than the Dolphins, even on the line
Speaker 1: six and a half. I disagree with that. I don't
Speaker 1: trust Lamar Jackson until I see him be more than
Speaker 1: a one trick pony. Much like Josh Allen we talked
Speaker 1: about earlier in Buffalo. The key for the Dolphins in
Speaker 1: this particular game is obvious, right, you try to win
Speaker 1: the turnover battle Fitzpatrick, that's one of his bugaboos, turning
Speaker 1: the ball over. But you also simply put eight nine
Speaker 1: man fronts and you dare Lamar Jackson to throw the
Speaker 1: ball down the field that it matriculate the ball down
Speaker 1: the field. As the late Hank Stram used to stay
Speaker 1: back in the day when I was a kid listening
Speaker 1: to him on the radio, that the Dolphin players will
Speaker 1: show some fight early in the year. Eventually they'll wake
Speaker 1: up one day and they'll realize, oh crap, we're terrible,
Speaker 1: and then that and then that's a different conversation. But again,
Speaker 1: too many points here for a road team with a
Speaker 1: one dimensional runnee one trick pony quarterback in Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: The final score, Ravens win the game, but Dolphins win
Speaker 1: the money. Baltimore twenty four, Miami twenty The Penny picks
Speaker 1: Penny going at the home Dog likes Miami as well.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Speaker 1: Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app.
Speaker 1: Didn't the penny pick the Redskins? Also? Right? Yeah, look
Speaker 1: at that. There's value and the pennies listening? All right?
Speaker 1: Next up, next game on the board. Here we have
Speaker 1: Kansas City at Jacksonville and this is a CBS game.
Speaker 1: Iron Eagle and Dan Fouts calling this game they are
Speaker 1: in now. Isn't Fouts one of those guys for CBS.
Speaker 1: If he's doing the game, it's not one of the
Speaker 1: top games. Isn't that he's on that list? Yeah? But
Speaker 1: you should be nice because I An Eagle's son actually
Speaker 1: now calls basketball for your l A Clippers. So yeah,
Speaker 1: eyes will be on this for you, I know for
Speaker 1: several reasons. I heard about that. And he's young, right,
Speaker 1: he's like so young, Whipper snapper. That's right, straight out
Speaker 1: of college from Syracuse to the hardwood court in the NBA.
Speaker 1: Good for him, that's right. I hope he's a nice guy.
Speaker 1: I will reserve judgment to like, Hey, hear him and
Speaker 1: be meet him if he's if he's if he's a
Speaker 1: doode to me, I'll kill him. But if he's nice
Speaker 1: to me, I'll be very you know, I was like,
Speaker 1: people are nice. I've always had a good relationship with
Speaker 1: the Clipper broadcasters over the years. They love me. I
Speaker 1: wonder why not. Yeah, well, you're a fanboy. No I'm not.
Speaker 1: I am an objective observer of greatness. It also helps
Speaker 1: that you're like three ft taller than everybody else in
Speaker 1: that broadcasting team too. Wow, how about you anyway? Listen,
Speaker 1: Kansas City's a focus guest gun. All right, it's the
Speaker 1: fifth Hour with it's Penny versus the Pen. It's all
Speaker 1: about picking games. Kansas City at Jacksonville. The line on
Speaker 1: this game opened up Chiefs a five and half point favorite.
Speaker 1: They are down. The money is coming in on Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: This has been adjusted two points in. Kansas City, who
Speaker 1: was in the ANC Championship game last year's now three
Speaker 1: and a half point favorite on the road again hot
Speaker 1: weather in Jacksonville. The conditions not not the greatest, but
Speaker 1: it's early season football. It's normally how it is. I
Speaker 1: am gonna take Kansas City in this game. I did
Speaker 1: consider Jacksonville. I did try to come up because they're
Speaker 1: a home dog. I love home dogs. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of value in that. But I I couldn't put myself
Speaker 1: that far over the edge to actually pick Jacksonville. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Kansas City and Patrick Mahomes he did
Speaker 1: have his worst game. I think one of the reasons
Speaker 1: people are betting on Jacksonville. He had his worst game
Speaker 1: last season against Jacksonville in Kansas City, and now this
Speaker 1: is the rematch situation. I do believe in zigging when
Speaker 1: everyone else zaggs if you will, but it does have
Speaker 1: its limits. There's an exception to every rule, and when
Speaker 1: handicapping this particular game, when looking at the numbers in
Speaker 1: this particular name, I could not come up with a
Speaker 1: scenario in which Jacksonville was able to score enough, like
Speaker 1: outside of five turnovers. Even if Mahomes throws let's just
Speaker 1: say three interceptions, Kansas City should still overwhelm jack Inville.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs have scored twenty five or more points in
Speaker 1: twenty one consecutive games. That goes before Patrick Mahomes goes
Speaker 1: back to twenty seventeens, the longest streak ever in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I don't see that ending here. I believe they will
Speaker 1: get over twenty five points, and if that is correct,
Speaker 1: I don't see a scenario Jacksonville can keep up. Now.
Speaker 1: I know the counter argument is, hey, the Chiefs blow
Speaker 1: on defense. I've got a high flying offense. There's a
Speaker 1: huge talent gap though, between the defense and the offense.
Speaker 1: And there's also on this in this game, there's a
Speaker 1: talent gap between the Chiefs high flying offense. Uh and
Speaker 1: and Jackson And jackson has got some big name players
Speaker 1: on defense. They think they're gonna be pretty good. But
Speaker 1: the offensive thing. Nick Foles is essentially a caretaker of
Speaker 1: an offense. His magic pixie dust is in Philadelphia. He
Speaker 1: ain't in Jacksonville. He's not He's not gonna be a
Speaker 1: difference maker. Uh For for Jacksonville. He's a game manager.
Speaker 1: And Patrick Mahomes is like an oil painting. Uh So,
Speaker 1: I would expect Kansas City to jump out by mid
Speaker 1: second quarter to a nice lead and then not look
Speaker 1: back in the second half because Jacksonville, their whole strategy,
Speaker 1: I would imagine, is gonna be grounded, pound, run the
Speaker 1: football and all that and try to beat into that
Speaker 1: Swiss cheese defense of of Kansas City. But I don't
Speaker 1: think it's gonna work. I think jackson will score because
Speaker 1: the Chiefs don't have a great defense. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take Kansas City. Your final score Kansas City thirty four,
Speaker 1: Jacksonville twenty four, and the penny picks. The betting public
Speaker 1: took Jacksonville, but Benny and the penny go of Kansas City,
Speaker 1: Kansall City. You ever been to Kansas City. I have.
Speaker 1: I've actually been there twice for Chiefs Broncos Sunday Night football.
Speaker 1: Look at you your big Bronco apology. I love Kansas
Speaker 1: CITYBECU is awesome. It is an amazing food city. It's
Speaker 1: a nice kind of I like. I like the vibe.
Speaker 1: I'm down with Kansas City. I heard you're a big
Speaker 1: Larry Johnson and end too. That's part of the reason
Speaker 1: why I like Kansas City. He was my favorite Chiefs
Speaker 1: player when and he's a very normal human being. I
Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about. I think he has
Speaker 1: a great social media presence, is he Also he's not
Speaker 1: a fashionist. He doesn't like the catwalks, so we know
Speaker 1: he's not a fashions Be sure to catch live editions
Speaker 1: of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am
Speaker 1: Eastern eleven p m. Pacific. You're listening to the fifth
Speaker 1: hour with Ben Maller. We're picking NFL games against the spread.
Speaker 1: And this is our first edition of Benny Versus De Penny.
Speaker 1: There's another podcast up on this channel that we we
Speaker 1: did either before this or after this. You'll have to
Speaker 1: figure out which. But uh so, so this is the
Speaker 1: This is gonna be the weekly thing here during football season.
Speaker 1: We might even mix it in into some college sometimes
Speaker 1: if if we are so inclined for big college games
Speaker 1: of the weekend. But we're gonna start This is just football.
Speaker 1: This is NFL football, is what it is. I'm so
Speaker 1: excited about that. And tell a friend about it. If
Speaker 1: you have a buddy who's a degenerate gambler wants to
Speaker 1: hear opinions on games and what people think is gonna happen.
Speaker 1: When what an inadamant object object like a penny thinks
Speaker 1: as well, Now we will mix it. I do this
Speaker 1: on the radio show when I've done this for the
Speaker 1: last time many years, so I figured since I can't
Speaker 1: get answers unfortunately on Twitter, but I'll still give you
Speaker 1: the question and you can kind of let that marinate
Speaker 1: in your head. So here's the mini pop quiz here
Speaker 1: to test your football knowledge. Who was the quarterback who
Speaker 1: led his team to the biggest road comeback in NFL history?
Speaker 1: All right, again, that's the question. I will give you
Speaker 1: the answer coming up here in uh in a little bit.
Speaker 1: But who is the quarterback who led his team to
Speaker 1: the biggest road comeback in NFL history? Uh, the answer
Speaker 1: coming up here in a bit. This is a regular
Speaker 1: season now. Meanwhile, next game up Tennessee at Cleveland. It
Speaker 1: is a CBS game, and this is the big game
Speaker 1: over at CBS this week. This is the game that
Speaker 1: is in vogue. Uh. This is the craze of their
Speaker 1: their channel over there. They have the Cleveland Browns. They're
Speaker 1: buying into the Live Cleveland and Tennessee. They think this
Speaker 1: is the top game they got on their channel. So
Speaker 1: we'll see if that's correct. The Browns at home opened
Speaker 1: a five point favorite. Cleveland's now a five and a half. Hey,
Speaker 1: by the way, before we get into the games, do
Speaker 1: you have any quirky things like Jim nance who likes
Speaker 1: eating his toast cooked a certain way and he has
Speaker 1: a photo. Do you do anything thing like that? A
Speaker 1: couple of things. Energy drinks always three hours before kickoff
Speaker 1: or before opening tip. Always an energy drink. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: have to do. You have to have snacks at a
Speaker 1: certain time and the all that. Like no, but I
Speaker 1: remember listening to Vince Gully. He used to say that
Speaker 1: he would suck on jelly ranchers during games or just
Speaker 1: before first pitch so his mouth would stay somewhat I
Speaker 1: guess dry, so he wouldn't have to drink water, because
Speaker 1: that's the worst thing. You have to go drink water
Speaker 1: and then go to the restaurant right after. Bob Miller
Speaker 1: told me a great story one time where he had
Speaker 1: a name dropping just we're in l a right. Bob
Speaker 1: Millier told me at back in the day he had
Speaker 1: to go to the restroom and could not. He was
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia at the Spectrum and actually used like a
Speaker 1: gatorade bottle underneath the desk to go to the restroom
Speaker 1: and then like, manager, let me tell you something. I
Speaker 1: don't want to be sexist guesst Gump, but it is
Speaker 1: a a competitive advantage the mail anatomy provide. Has that
Speaker 1: ever happened to you during the live show? Uh no,
Speaker 1: I did vomit one time in the studio and vomited
Speaker 1: in the studio. Yeah, but you're not really an alcohol drinker.
Speaker 1: So was it bad food? No, I had. I had
Speaker 1: like the flu. And this is years ago. And the
Speaker 1: funniest thing about it gas gun hand the god my
Speaker 1: engineer was on the weekend overnight. My engineer didn't even notice.
Speaker 1: He did not even notice I vomited and he's on
Speaker 1: the other side of the glass and he didn't even
Speaker 1: realize that I had done that because I had. I
Speaker 1: was very ill, and I never used sick days of
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, I just don't do it, and so
Speaker 1: I like to get everyone sick sick that I work
Speaker 1: with it. So but anyway, I showed up and I
Speaker 1: was just I shouldn't have been there. It was a
Speaker 1: bad job by me, and uh yeah, I vomited in
Speaker 1: the In the strategy, we should do a separate addition
Speaker 1: of this podcast, making note of this guest count because
Speaker 1: you're the you gotta keep track of this crap broadcast
Speaker 1: tales from the Naked City of broadcasting. I got. I
Speaker 1: got some good Scully stories, Ross Porter's stories when I
Speaker 1: did stuff with the Dodgers years ago, and uh, we
Speaker 1: tell some of the famous lines about the great Ralph Lawler, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, the Clipper broadcaster, just retired in the
Speaker 1: Pro Basketball Hall of Fame this weekend. Ralph sent me
Speaker 1: a message there in Springfield, mass and so that's that's
Speaker 1: pretty cool for him. So I'm happy for Ralph, who
Speaker 1: you talk about polishing turds. I mean that guy, man,
Speaker 1: you're putting lipstick on a pig. And he did that
Speaker 1: for years with just morbid Clipper teams and always had
Speaker 1: a smile on his face. And and now the Clippers
Speaker 1: are finally good, really good, and he's gone just absolut
Speaker 1: that's like Vince Scully, right, Vince Scully retires and all
Speaker 1: this on. The Dodgers are back to back World Series
Speaker 1: runs and well it actually started with Scully. But seventh straight,
Speaker 1: uh seven straight division titles. They're about to win the
Speaker 1: probable this weekend, they'll win their seventh division title. So
Speaker 1: I'm making a note of this Tales from broadcasters, Sales
Speaker 1: from the Naked City of broadcast. So you'll have all Yeah,
Speaker 1: Vince Scully stories, Ralph Law, Ralph Urban. Do you have
Speaker 1: any Ralph Urban stories too that you can? Sure? You
Speaker 1: gotta bring his? Why are you gonna bring record Ralph
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Speaker 1: get back. We gotta get back to the games. We
Speaker 1: gotta get back to the games. All Right's Ben Ben
Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny here on the fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Mallard, part of the I Heart Podcast Network. Doesn't
Speaker 1: that sounds like like your steak, Like it's well done?
Speaker 1: This is like medium. Well, yeah, I mean I like him,
Speaker 1: it is. My Hearts podcasts have been you know, let's
Speaker 1: be honest here, there are a podcast monster. People love
Speaker 1: these podcasts that I Hearts putting out. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: they're they're going all right, So Tennessee at Cleveland the
Speaker 1: Browns of five and a half point favorite, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take Tennessee here now I I I love the Browns.
Speaker 1: I think the Browns are gonna be great. I believe
Speaker 1: in that, but I'm not so sure this week and
Speaker 1: number one Freddie Kitchens, he's making his debut, is the
Speaker 1: big cohuna there the head coach Odell Beckham gets his
Speaker 1: first dance with the Browns here. This is a hype game.
Speaker 1: We mentioned CBS is sending their top crew with Nance
Speaker 1: and Romo to the game. Uh. But you know everyone
Speaker 1: around Cleveland is all about the hype. And I buy
Speaker 1: into the hype. But this is not a good spot
Speaker 1: for the Brownies, and I'll tell you why. Even though
Speaker 1: they are at home, the Titans present a litany of
Speaker 1: problems here. The positive is home cooking. The Browns did
Speaker 1: go five into their last seven games last year, but
Speaker 1: this this Tennessee team is is gonna be a fringe
Speaker 1: playoff team again this particular year. Loved their defense, loved
Speaker 1: the Titans defense. Uh. And in the second thing to
Speaker 1: me the numbers two. I believe this game should be
Speaker 1: about three. The Browns should be about a three point favorite. Uh.
Speaker 1: The extra two and a half points, in my eyes,
Speaker 1: are a direct result of hyperbole. And so if I'm
Speaker 1: right on this that the gambling market has bumped this
Speaker 1: up to five and a half as a result of
Speaker 1: inflation because of public perception. I like to bet against that,
Speaker 1: and the value is on Tennessee. I expect Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: to have uh some issues that Tennessee has gotta again
Speaker 1: a very good defense here. Uh they'll, they'll, they'll put
Speaker 1: the Browns in some tough spots. The problem I have
Speaker 1: with Tennessee is Marcus Mariota and the Titans offense, which
Speaker 1: looks to be riding the short bus again uh this season,
Speaker 1: So you gotta you're gonna have to do something on office.
Speaker 1: The Browns have a bunch of names on defense, first
Speaker 1: round picks and all that. But I am gonna take
Speaker 1: the Browns to win. But I'm gonna take the Titans
Speaker 1: to cover Browns. Titans twenty four Penny picks. Penny settles
Speaker 1: down and goes with the road team as well. Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Al Right, we agree. Now, I gave you a pop
Speaker 1: quiz earlier. I gotta pay the pay that off. Who
Speaker 1: was the quarterback who led his team to the biggest
Speaker 1: road comeback in NFL history? Do you have a guest, guest,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take an educated guest and I'll say it's
Speaker 1: your favorite quarterback one Peyton Manning with the Indianapolis Colts. No,
Speaker 1: you should know me better than this guest, Gunn And
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna put any kind of pro Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: propagand out. Okay, that's wrong with you. Now, this is great.
Speaker 1: This is I love this when the answer is an
Speaker 1: obscure person. The greatest road comeback in NFL history. Brian
Speaker 1: Hoyer engineered it. Brian Hoyer who did it while playing
Speaker 1: for the Cleveland Browns. This is only five years ago.
Speaker 1: This is back in the Cleveland Browns were down three
Speaker 1: against the Tennessee Titans, the matchup we just talked about.
Speaker 1: It was the second quarter, twenty five point comeback. That
Speaker 1: is the largest comeback by a road team in NFL history.
Speaker 1: And Brian Hoyer, who's still lurking with the Colts. Uh,
Speaker 1: he was the guy that did it. That's that's wild, man.
Speaker 1: It is unbelievable. I was just that Manning game against
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on money. Yeah. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: the last five minutes of the Monday night game, right,
Speaker 1: And I remember that al Michaels lost his mind, and
Speaker 1: that a couple of coins too. What you're talking about? Uh?
Speaker 1: Next up on the fifth hour with Ben Maller, it's
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams and the Carolina Panthers. It's on
Speaker 1: Fox my former radio colleagues, someone who actually respected and
Speaker 1: appreciated the great Chris Myers. I kid because I care.
Speaker 1: We'll be calling this game and Darryl moose Johnson, the
Speaker 1: old Dallas Cowboys SI by side. They will be waxing
Speaker 1: poetic in the Fox box. That rocks. The Rams opened
Speaker 1: up a two and a half point favorite. Rams are
Speaker 1: favorite by two. Uh. I am going to take Carolina
Speaker 1: in this game, and I'm gonna hold my nose while
Speaker 1: I do it as a Ram apologist, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take the Panthers. Uh. And I'll walk you through this now.
Speaker 1: First of all, the Rams have been a great road
Speaker 1: team under Sean McVeigh. It's a small sample size, but
Speaker 1: their ten and two straight up in the last twelve roadies.
Speaker 1: So the ten and two, that's a very good record,
Speaker 1: not and not against the spread. But overall, they have
Speaker 1: to get rid of the stigma from the Super Bowl loss.
Speaker 1: Everyone seems to think that teams are now going to
Speaker 1: figure out the Rams offense. I don't buy that. No
Speaker 1: team teams. I don't doubt teams are gonna try to
Speaker 1: copy what Belichick did in the Super Bowl. It's whether
Speaker 1: they they're able to pull it off. And and now
Speaker 1: that the Rams have to adjust and McVeigh has got
Speaker 1: to adjust, and Golf's gotta figure it out with McVeigh
Speaker 1: leading him by the caller to figure it out. But
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what to expect out of the Gates.
Speaker 1: The Rams as they usually do, didn't show anything in
Speaker 1: the preseason. I wouldn't think they're this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a little bit better. Secondly, you know Carolina has a
Speaker 1: better defense. I don't think I'm going out in a
Speaker 1: limb saying that the Panthers have a defense they believe
Speaker 1: is gonna be an elite defense. They fell apart near
Speaker 1: the end last year, but everyone's healthy for the most
Speaker 1: part to start the year, and they think they're gonna
Speaker 1: mess with with Jered gb I I don't expect much
Speaker 1: from Cam Newton. I think this is a close game,
Speaker 1: is a back and forth type of game. Uh and
Speaker 1: home underdogs cover the spread more often than not. I
Speaker 1: know I've picked a couple of road favorites here, but
Speaker 1: in this spot, two good teams. I'm gonna take Carolina
Speaker 1: to cover. But spoiler alert, I don't think they win
Speaker 1: the game. I think this is a one point game.
Speaker 1: And I know the public almost always bets on road favorites,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of people that love the Rams
Speaker 1: here even though it's gone down by a half point.
Speaker 1: So Rams thirty one Panthers thirty in a thriller. That's right,
Speaker 1: that's right. You can ram it all day. You can
Speaker 1: ram it discussing, but the penny goes with you and
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. All right, So we agree on that
Speaker 1: it's amazing. Cam Newton, through divine interventions, able to play here.
Speaker 1: And he heard his ankle in that exhibition game a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks back, did a whole monologue about how
Speaker 1: he might not play. Was it pretty good? There was
Speaker 1: a great monel. I give it like a six six
Speaker 1: on the monologue school scale of what wow? Really you know,
Speaker 1: I mean you are replaceable? Understand that? I mean everybody is, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they might put well, I got replaced by a can
Speaker 1: of soup. Nine, I got fired from the radio show
Speaker 1: and they put on your fighting for like six hours.
Speaker 1: Weren't you for like thirty days? I was? It was
Speaker 1: six months and twenty six days. I was in radio
Speaker 1: purgatory and uh, and then I had to fill in.
Speaker 1: I worked. We should talk about that sometime. We used
Speaker 1: to be a separate podcast on Radio Story. So we're
Speaker 1: coming up with ideas as we go. Here. Guess I
Speaker 1: know I used to listen to you twenty or thirty
Speaker 1: years ago. Stop that you are such a liar. You
Speaker 1: are lying, you bombastic schmuck. Alright, seez I guess we
Speaker 1: can curse you know what? You are an asshole? There
Speaker 1: I said it. You're an asshole, all right. Anyway, let's
Speaker 1: get to the late games now spending versus the Pennyman
Speaker 1: versus medal Uh, the late games. Santa Clara. This is
Speaker 1: a late game Santa Clara at Tampa Bay. They don't
Speaker 1: play in San Francisco. They play in Santa Clara. By
Speaker 1: the way, I'll be spending some time not far from
Speaker 1: Santa Clara this weekend. That's right, surprise. Yeah. Anyway, Santa
Speaker 1: Clara at Tampa Bay. It is on Fox. You better
Speaker 1: watch Friend of the show. Good dude, I love this guy.
Speaker 1: Kenny Albert on the Fox Box that rocks and ron
Speaker 1: Da Barber. We'll have to add some Kenny albert stories there,
Speaker 1: but it's great Kenny. I was introduced by to him
Speaker 1: by Sports with Coleman, my radio friend in Baltimore. And
Speaker 1: every time Kenny comes to Los Angeles and does uh,
Speaker 1: whether it's a hockey game or a uh, you know,
Speaker 1: boxing match or whatever. You know. He has a lot
Speaker 1: of basketball. He doesn't knicks, and I'll go say hello
Speaker 1: to Kenny, will catch up. It's pretty cool. He's a
Speaker 1: good guy. Kenny does everything football, basketball, baseball, hockey, Olympics.
Speaker 1: Guy's hustling man. Kenny albert Is, He's hustling. He spent
Speaker 1: a lot of time at LaGuardia and JFK there. He
Speaker 1: lives in the New York area, flying all over the place.
Speaker 1: All right. So Santa Clara at Tampa Bay Bucks open
Speaker 1: to two and a half point favorite. They are currently
Speaker 1: favorite by one. I am not drinking the kool aid
Speaker 1: on the Niners. I'm gonna take the Buccaneers in this game.
Speaker 1: And I'll walk you through this now. To me, your
Speaker 1: guest is as good as mine. At which Jimmy Garoppolo
Speaker 1: is gonna show up. He had a very mixed performance
Speaker 1: in the exhibition game. Is hard to get a good
Speaker 1: read on that small sample size against vanilla defenses. He
Speaker 1: looked to me the game I watched the forty Niners
Speaker 1: played against I think it was the Broncos, he looked
Speaker 1: like damaged goods. So until I see something tangible from
Speaker 1: this guy and say that Garoppolo is gonna be back
Speaker 1: as a and X factors as a real impact player
Speaker 1: for the for the forty Niners, I I just can't
Speaker 1: go there. And and we we will get a good
Speaker 1: look at him against the middle of the Roadbucks defense
Speaker 1: this weekend. I'm just not optimistic. The Niners made a
Speaker 1: few changes around their offense. We'll see if it in Bruce.
Speaker 1: But the key is Jimmy Garoppolo. And secondly, Bruce Arians
Speaker 1: making his triumphant return, taking an amazing modern medical miracle
Speaker 1: as he had to retire for health reasons in Arizona
Speaker 1: and in a year he's back, an amazing comeback. But
Speaker 1: Bruce Arians making his his debut on the sidelines with
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. He's supposed to be the quarterback whisper, and
Speaker 1: if that's true, then Jamis Winston is gonna be really good, right.
Speaker 1: The bulk of Tampa's roster, I believe I would compare
Speaker 1: it to deep Doo Doo. That's what I could would
Speaker 1: compare the roster there in Carolina. It's a food bar group.
Speaker 1: I expect lots of points to be scored in this game.
Speaker 1: The forty Niners looking at what should happen this year.
Speaker 1: The weak spot in their defenses in the secondary. Uh
Speaker 1: last year they were horrifical. They give up the most
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns. Last season they had the fewest interceptions. I
Speaker 1: don't see a lot of big name changes there that
Speaker 1: I'm excited about, so it does not appear to me
Speaker 1: that they're all that much better defensively, which makes this
Speaker 1: a terrible matchup. It's gonna be hot, humid, nasty weather
Speaker 1: in Tampa, as it normally is earlier in the year.
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston should should slice them up? Should slice them
Speaker 1: being the forty Niners defense up in this game. And
Speaker 1: by the way, the forecast, just to prove that I'm
Speaker 1: not making this up, ninety one degrees and nice and humid,
Speaker 1: sweaty weather. And that's not Bay Area weather in well,
Speaker 1: it is the Bay Area weather in the Bay like
Speaker 1: Tampa and St. Pete. But in the other Bay area,
Speaker 1: the West Coast Bay area, not not so much. Your
Speaker 1: final score Bucks thirty five forty niners, thirty two Penny
Speaker 1: picks West Coast to East Coast. Team. Penny is picking
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Alright, Penny picking Tampa Bay Bay. Exciting. Now, uh,
Speaker 1: let me give you another football quiz here, pop football quiz,
Speaker 1: And here it is Baker Mayfield of the Cleveland Bounds.
Speaker 1: He has touchdown passes in all thirteen games he has started,
Speaker 1: trailing only for as far as career opening streaks. He's
Speaker 1: trailing only Hall of Famer Kurt Warner and Blank. Those
Speaker 1: are the only two players that have had longer weeks
Speaker 1: to start their career of touchdown passes per game. Again,
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield touchdown past all thirteen starts. He trails only
Speaker 1: Kurt Warner and Blank among the players who started there
Speaker 1: their career uh for as touchdowns per game. So that's
Speaker 1: the question. The answer coming up in a bit. Next up,
Speaker 1: Detroit at Arizona. It's on Fox. Now, this is the
Speaker 1: game here. Guesscon that they don't think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: very good, you know how I know that. I know
Speaker 1: because you got the E List broadcast career. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my guy Dick Stockton that I grew up with, Dick Stockton.
Speaker 1: I love the man. We've I used to do the
Speaker 1: Blitz on Sundays where it was one of one of
Speaker 1: my favorite parts of that. We got to talk to
Speaker 1: Dick Stockton every couple of weeks, and I love the guy.
Speaker 1: I hear his voice. I flashed back to when I
Speaker 1: was twelve years old he was doing a big Celtic
Speaker 1: Laker game or something like that, or a baseball game. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's just it's nostalgia for me. He's lost a little
Speaker 1: off as fastball, but he's still doing I loved it.
Speaker 1: Fox still sends him out there because people lampoon Dick Stockton.
Speaker 1: People are very cruel, these these young people on social media.
Speaker 1: How if you know about that? Uh and and so,
Speaker 1: I I love that Stockton still gets to do the game.
Speaker 1: But he's doing he does the worst games he does.
Speaker 1: But at least, if you're looking at this game as
Speaker 1: a football fan, at least you get two quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: have big arms. I know you hate Kyler Murray, but
Speaker 1: at least has a strong emotion hates a strong emotion,
Speaker 1: the confidence in him. You call him a mini me,
Speaker 1: you call alligator arms alligator arms. I've used that line
Speaker 1: like that grasshopper, I think tall as a grasshopper definicate
Speaker 1: on a starting quarterback of a National Football League. Alright,
Speaker 1: shut up, So Destroit Arizona the game open to pick him.
Speaker 1: The Lions are a two and a half point favorite.
Speaker 1: And just to prove that I am not some kind
Speaker 1: of hater here, I am actually gonna take the Cardinals
Speaker 1: in this game. I I have to come to terms
Speaker 1: with this, but I'm gonna take the Cardinals in this game.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why. Kyler Murray, as you said,
Speaker 1: he begins lie as a starter in the NFL. We'll
Speaker 1: see if if alligator Arms Murray has some beginners luck here.
Speaker 1: I don't expect much. Detroit. I believe will win the game,
Speaker 1: but I cannot bet on the Lions as a road dog.
Speaker 1: I have a stigma when it comes to the Lions
Speaker 1: as a road dog. I just cannot cannot do it.
Speaker 1: Will not do it. Don't want to be a party
Speaker 1: to it. Don't trust Matthew Stafford in these spots. Now
Speaker 1: that's it. I love the Lions defense. Like the Lions
Speaker 1: uh defense should be one of the top defenses in
Speaker 1: the NFL. They added Trade Flowers from the Patriots, and
Speaker 1: they've got Damon Snack Harrison. I love the nickname Snacks,
Speaker 1: big run stuffer up front they got from the Giants.
Speaker 1: Darius Slay is there in the secondary, pretty good player.
Speaker 1: They have the makings of one of the better defense.
Speaker 1: I mean, they've got some some centerpiece players there as
Speaker 1: the cornerstones of that defense, so I think they'll be
Speaker 1: very good. But yet I'm picking Arizona to cover the spread.
Speaker 1: This is a game that features two bad teams. This
Speaker 1: should be a pick them game and open to pick them.
Speaker 1: If it was a pick him, I would take the Lions.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to give any points at all
Speaker 1: with with Matthew Stafford, I don't. I do not. We'll
Speaker 1: see what Cliff Kingsbury and his millennial coaching style will turn.
Speaker 1: I I would like to see, like before halftime, maybe
Speaker 1: like mid second quarter, Kingsbury has all the players pull
Speaker 1: out their electronic devices and they can update the Graham
Speaker 1: like if they're trailing, wouldn't that be great? Like everyone
Speaker 1: has their phones on the bench and they all right,
Speaker 1: you gotta post something on the Graham because we're losing
Speaker 1: by two touchdowns to the Lions. Wonderful might have to
Speaker 1: do like a workout video in between breaks then, right,
Speaker 1: is that's what they usually do? Or like hey look
Speaker 1: at me eat something? Hashtag yeah they have Yeah, they
Speaker 1: have a snack. They have a snack break where they
Speaker 1: get granola bars and juice boxes orange peels. Like playing
Speaker 1: peewee football. Over under on how many sacks for over under?
Speaker 1: On how many sacks for the quarterback of the Cardinals
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. I'm gonna say four and a half. Oh
Speaker 1: as that's the over. I'll take the over. I believe
Speaker 1: he will be sacked regularly. Deer in the headlights situation
Speaker 1: over fair enough? All right, I gotta pay off the
Speaker 1: final score. By the way, we'll get the penny pick.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the Lions to win, but the Cardinals to cover.
Speaker 1: So Lions sixteen, Cardinals fourteen in a Dick Stockton spectacular.
Speaker 1: Uh penny likes the home team from the Desert Arizona
Speaker 1: as well. All right, let's get back to that payoff.
Speaker 1: We'll pay off that football quiz. Baker Mayfield touchdown past
Speaker 1: all thirteen starts, trailing only on the all time list
Speaker 1: to start their careers. Kurt Warner and Blank. Now Kurt Warner,
Speaker 1: who's a Hall of Famer. He had twenty three consecutive
Speaker 1: games with a touchdown. That's number one. Who's number two? Guest?
Speaker 1: Go on, you gotta guest. Now you're listening to the podcast.
Speaker 1: I can't read your answers on the air because, uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, this was already recorded.
Speaker 1: But you just lock it in your head and then
Speaker 1: you can pack yourself on the back if you got
Speaker 1: it right. What's what's the your answer? I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with another Arizona quarterback, Jake the Snake Plumber. Jake the
Speaker 1: Snake Plumber, fine, fine man who also he pulled the
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck. He quit Jake Plumber. He pulled the Andrew
Speaker 1: Luck before it was Andrew Like what you used to
Speaker 1: call it? The Jake Plumber? Uh no, the correct answer.
Speaker 1: Here's a quarterback that was good, but nobody remembers Brad Johnson.
Speaker 1: Oh my, remember Brad Johnson. He did this with the
Speaker 1: Vikings when he started his career. But he he won
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl with Jon Gruden and the Buccaneers. But
Speaker 1: he was their quarterback when they beat the Raiders and
Speaker 1: the Superpens. Right, yeah, so Brad Johnson, he had fifteen
Speaker 1: games in a row to start his career with the
Speaker 1: touchdown pass. So that is the answer, right next time,
Speaker 1: Just just for clarity to you said they Detroit Arizona game,
Speaker 1: You'd never want to give Matthew Stafford points, right, I
Speaker 1: never wanted to lay points with That's what I meant
Speaker 1: to say. You trying to be a schmuck. But people
Speaker 1: are coming here, people are gonna be making money off
Speaker 1: of you, so I want to make sure that they
Speaker 1: get their accurate information. I know, it's just life and death.
Speaker 1: This is very important what we're doing here. It's people
Speaker 1: Taco Bell with the money that they went him from
Speaker 1: these transactions. We're doing earth shattering podcast is what we're
Speaker 1: doing here. But my theory, guess on is I'm pretty
Speaker 1: lucy goosey when it comes us. I believe the listener
Speaker 1: is smart. You think the listeners in it. I know
Speaker 1: the listener knows that. Um. The way I do radio
Speaker 1: is I'm kind of in the ballpark. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: close and you have to figure out what I meant
Speaker 1: that's how I do. I think the Ryle people up
Speaker 1: like that anyway. All right, Next up Cincinnati at Seattle,
Speaker 1: Spirodidas at one point the voice of the Lakers and
Speaker 1: the Knicks. I don't think he's the voice of either
Speaker 1: of them now. But Spirodidas and Adam arch Aletta are
Speaker 1: calling this game on CBS. You know, I worked with
Speaker 1: Adam Marcealletta at NBC years ago. He was one of
Speaker 1: the commentators they had. I heard you quit from television
Speaker 1: from that. Uh no, they the show got canceled. I
Speaker 1: was so bad at TV. The entire show got canceled.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's embarrassing. Yeah, I mean no one watched that show.
Speaker 1: I loved it. That was great TV money. Man. I
Speaker 1: flew me back to Connecticut. Every month I got a blast.
Speaker 1: Was it was it daytime or nighttime radio? Uh? It
Speaker 1: was no, I'm a TV There's that the one thing
Speaker 1: I hated. But we should do another podcast about the TVs?
Speaker 1: How many have Well, we gotta do this every week, man,
Speaker 1: I need content. Dude, all right, come on, we can't
Speaker 1: waste all our material right now. I can't give a
Speaker 1: keynote addressed on everything that's happened in the first podcast
Speaker 1: and then I'm gonnavite you back to Saddleback College for
Speaker 1: a keynote speaking session. They will never allow me, but
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened. I mean, I would love
Speaker 1: to come back as big man on campus, you know,
Speaker 1: teach the young broadcasters it Saddleback. Uh. They never bring me.
Speaker 1: They never bring me back. I think they're embarrassed by me.
Speaker 1: As Saddleback College they got. But if you're if you're
Speaker 1: in southern California, that is a handed gud. That's a
Speaker 1: great place. I don't even change. They have a college
Speaker 1: radio station there and the radio pro. That's a good
Speaker 1: place to learn your radio and and and put your
Speaker 1: chops in in radio. I did. And you know anyway, Uh,
Speaker 1: shameless plug. What's next? See a Cincinnati at Seattle? As
Speaker 1: I said, I was Spirodidas and Adam Marshallett of Seahawks
Speaker 1: opened a nine point favorite. They are currently a nine
Speaker 1: and a half point favorite to pick. Here is the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals. I'm gonna take the Cincinnati Bengals, and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why. The Seahawks are clearly the better team.
Speaker 1: They invigorated their locker room with the trade they acquire
Speaker 1: Jadevian Clowney and all that nice way to energize your
Speaker 1: locker room before the season. I'm skeptical. I'm a skeptical
Speaker 1: how good clown he's gonna be right away? I guess
Speaker 1: we'll find out. The Bengals are a very poor team.
Speaker 1: They look like a dumpster fire. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: positive vibrations in the Pacific Northwest, and Pete Carroll normally
Speaker 1: is on the happy sauce anyway, and Russell Wilson and
Speaker 1: friends very happy. But Cincinnati, these are the Bengals who
Speaker 1: are back to your daddy's Bengals, like Zach Taylor is
Speaker 1: making his debut as an NFL head coach here with
Speaker 1: zero zero buzz. Right, there's no no evidence at all
Speaker 1: all that this is going to go well. They have
Speaker 1: a bunch of bit players. They've got a roster that
Speaker 1: is a mix of chopped liver and mince meat. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's what they've got round Chuck is what the Bengals
Speaker 1: appear to be. But even that, even even when that said,
Speaker 1: I still believe that Cincinnati is the right side in
Speaker 1: this game. Even though the Bengals will wish they had
Speaker 1: Marvin Lewis back. Uh so so even with that, but
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton has been regularly shell shocked in hostile environments
Speaker 1: like Seattle in the past. Nevertheless, both teams are healthy.
Speaker 1: Nobody gets up for the Bengals. This is not a
Speaker 1: featured game for the Seahawks. And you're you're getting almost
Speaker 1: ten points. I know A J. Green is not playing.
Speaker 1: The Bengals are are shorthanded. But you run Joe Mix
Speaker 1: and Giovanni Bernard. You run these guys into the ground
Speaker 1: and play, you know, you play keep away here as
Speaker 1: much as you can, try to keep the game short.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Seahawks thirty one, Bengals twenty three.
Speaker 1: Ben and the Penny agree with the red Rifle. He's
Speaker 1: going with the road team, going with the road team. Alright,
Speaker 1: very very sly. Penny has tailed you in the last
Speaker 1: six picks. I think, Ben, is that right? But that's
Speaker 1: that's a good job. Yeah, that's a that's a good
Speaker 1: job by the by the penny, absolutely all right. It
Speaker 1: is the it is the maiden voyage here, if Benny
Speaker 1: versus the Penny, we're picking every NFL game against the number.
Speaker 1: Next up, Indianapolis at the Los Angeles Chargers. You've got
Speaker 1: Greg Gumble and Trent Green. This is CBS game. Charges
Speaker 1: opened up a six and a half point favorite. The Chargers,
Speaker 1: actually the Charges opening three and a half point favorere
Speaker 1: they that bumped up to six and a half as
Speaker 1: the Charges favorite by six and a half. The the
Speaker 1: pick here is the Colts. But take the Colts in
Speaker 1: this game, even though, again the Colts I believe will
Speaker 1: not be a great team this year. The value was
Speaker 1: on the side of Indianapolis. Life begins after the death
Speaker 1: of Andrew lux career this week. Uh. And you know,
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette very poor quarterback statistically when he's played in
Speaker 1: the NFL. You can expect lots of incomplete passes, a
Speaker 1: lot of mistakes here. India is going to have it
Speaker 1: just they're gonna be tipped on their side here when
Speaker 1: they when they look at how this is gonna go,
Speaker 1: uh offensively so, but I believe they will become a
Speaker 1: ball control team with Marlon Mack running. Uh. And you
Speaker 1: know the elite defense. Uh, that's the recipe that I
Speaker 1: am counting on uh for for Indianapolis to keep the
Speaker 1: game's close. I think their defense is still pretty good.
Speaker 1: They can't run the ball the offensive line. Secondly, the
Speaker 1: Charges are talented. They have suffered a couple of freaky
Speaker 1: injuries in training camp. And we'll see how Austin Ekeler
Speaker 1: and the running game, the ensemble backfield does. They got
Speaker 1: a bunch of supporting actors there who met have trivialized,
Speaker 1: who are now getting the opportunity to be a top
Speaker 1: headliner in the drawing card for the for the running games.
Speaker 1: So I think they'll be fine running the ball. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, Melvin Gordon is better than Austin Ekeler,
Speaker 1: but I don't think he's that much better than Austin
Speaker 1: Ekeler and Melvin Gordon's personna and On Grotta. So even
Speaker 1: with the shortcomings of Jacoby Brissette, this is too many points,
Speaker 1: all right. There's not a six and a half point
Speaker 1: spread between the Chargers and the Colts. You're getting almost
Speaker 1: a touchdown with a good defensive team. Understand they're on
Speaker 1: the road, but I will take the dog now that again,
Speaker 1: the Charges are gonna win the game, but they're not
Speaker 1: going to cover the spreads of the values with the
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts. Chargers thirty Colts twenty four, No luck needed
Speaker 1: penny going with the Colts as well. Alright, going with
Speaker 1: the Colts as well. It is Benny versus the Penny
Speaker 1: as we continue, as we roll on here on the
Speaker 1: fifth hour with Ben Malley, this is the extended dance remix.
Speaker 1: I just found out we're doing the Stendard Dance remix here.
Speaker 1: And I love that we're doing Benny Versus the Penny
Speaker 1: on the podcast because normally I would have already been
Speaker 1: over if this had been the radio show, we would
Speaker 1: have already been done by the clos for the clock.
Speaker 1: Ben Mallay, Rn, I don't have to be about the
Speaker 1: clock on the podcast, right I can. I can take
Speaker 1: as long as I want. Now, is it accurate and
Speaker 1: fair to say that you should thank me for this
Speaker 1: because I actually had proposed this to last year, and
Speaker 1: that your listeners should go to the podcast version of
Speaker 1: Benny Versus the Penny? Is that fair to say? First
Speaker 1: of all, you know you're a fisherman, you're fishing for
Speaker 1: compan Secondly, this is my idea. All right, this is
Speaker 1: my idea. It's your segment, but I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was your idea. You're more of a mainstream radio
Speaker 1: guy as opposed to multimedia guy. Uh. According to the
Speaker 1: people that download the radio podcast, Uh, screw you. You
Speaker 1: had all your your your lackeys subscribe to the podcast
Speaker 1: teaser and all of a sudden give five star reviews.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I laughed, my ass. I I was
Speaker 1: showing everybody. I said, you can't believe what these idiots
Speaker 1: wrote on these reviews. I mean comparing me to Howard
Speaker 1: Stern and his prime and I mean it was hilarious.
Speaker 1: I think it's it's the funniest thing. And that was
Speaker 1: one of the coolest things the Mallan militia, the p
Speaker 1: Ones have done there for the podcast. There was no
Speaker 1: content Gascon as you know, and yet we had. I
Speaker 1: I think it was like seventy five reviews, all of
Speaker 1: them five star reviewsed, not not a single one star.
Speaker 1: Ready it was the best five fifth hour in podcast history. One.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just it was just great, possibly
Speaker 1: the greatest, possibly the best podcast ever. Just might be
Speaker 1: another person rode. Uh, it's pretty pretty funny. Uh So
Speaker 1: I think your best social media tweet too, was following
Speaker 1: the guy that responded to you and said I'll pass
Speaker 1: And he said, much like Pete Carroll, you're in the
Speaker 1: wrong right now. Yeah, they come back with that, but yeah, thanks,
Speaker 1: and listen, you know, just because we've gotten a lot
Speaker 1: of reviews, now we actually have content, like you're listening
Speaker 1: to contest, so don't stop. I mean, that's one of
Speaker 1: the things the big corporate muckety MUCKs and the big
Speaker 1: shots that keep track of this crap. Uh, they like
Speaker 1: to look at those reviews. It makes them feel good
Speaker 1: about themselves and stuff. It makes me good feel good
Speaker 1: about myself. So uh yeah, be great, you know, And
Speaker 1: I know you're disingenuous, but you can still post a
Speaker 1: nice review. It's good. I don't care. But of course,
Speaker 1: now with Benny versus the opinion, I know you said
Speaker 1: he might do some college football. Should you do anything
Speaker 1: or at least allow the listeners to pick a conference
Speaker 1: and maybe you do one game from that conference per week.
Speaker 1: And I think maybe we could do what you love
Speaker 1: doing polls. We could do like a poll on on Twitter,
Speaker 1: like which college game? You know, we could do like
Speaker 1: one college game or two college games, like like this weekend,
Speaker 1: the big college game is what L s U and Texas.
Speaker 1: I think in the Big Game this week, Texas is
Speaker 1: a dog at home. That's right, yeah, alright, So we're
Speaker 1: not picking that game because we gotta get back to football,
Speaker 1: right Otherwise they're gonna kick us out of this little
Speaker 1: podcast duty that wins, you're gonna you know, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have hell hell to pay. All right? Next up, what's
Speaker 1: the next time? Giants and Cowboys? Yes, yes, all right,
Speaker 1: Giants and Cowboys on Fox. You better watch now, this
Speaker 1: is the big game on Fox. Joe Buck and Troy
Speaker 1: a in the Fox box that Rocks calling this game.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys opened up a seven and a half point favorite.
Speaker 1: They were favored by seven. Now I am gonna go
Speaker 1: against one of my gambling beliefs here. I have often
Speaker 1: signed the pledge. I've told you about this earlier in
Speaker 1: the podcast. I love teams that are home dogs. And
Speaker 1: in addition, I don't like putting, uh, you know, a
Speaker 1: touchdown up for anybody in a divisional game. Normally the
Speaker 1: rule is divisional game touchdown or more. You take the
Speaker 1: team getting the touchdown because divisional games are closed. This
Speaker 1: is the exception of the rule. I'm gonna take the
Speaker 1: Cowboys here and Zeke Elliott I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: gonna play. We don't know yet. As we're doing the podcast,
Speaker 1: we don't know how much he's gonna play. Even if
Speaker 1: he does play, the guy could go out there first
Speaker 1: play pop as Achilles and be out for the year.
Speaker 1: That's possible. We've seen that kind of stuff before because
Speaker 1: who God knows what he was doing in Cabo. But
Speaker 1: this the reason to pick the Cowboys to cover a
Speaker 1: seven point number. The Giants are like the ugly redheaded
Speaker 1: step children of the NFL. Dallas can win this game
Speaker 1: with their defense alone. The Giants won't even break twenty points.
Speaker 1: They will be everyone's homecoming opponent until proven otherwise, and
Speaker 1: really until they changed quarterbacks. And meanwhile, Dak Prescott game manager.
Speaker 1: But that's all you have to be against the team
Speaker 1: Like the Giants. Big Blue was a middling past defense
Speaker 1: team statistically last season. I don't think they're gonna be
Speaker 1: much better. I know Pat Shermer who's still hanging around
Speaker 1: on the sidelines there. Uh, he doesn't have enough body
Speaker 1: spray to get the stench away from Eli Manning and
Speaker 1: and On the radio show this week, we had a story.
Speaker 1: I did a monologue which was critically lampooned by some
Speaker 1: of the militia because they didn't like what I was
Speaker 1: talking about. But they said that of all the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: the one that hurts their team the most via the
Speaker 1: point spread is Eli Manning, and I I would agree
Speaker 1: with that. He is a net negative for the Giants.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna struggle to run the ball, you fall behind.
Speaker 1: If the Cowboys jump ahead like fourteen, the nothing you're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to run the ball with Sequon Barkley
Speaker 1: fifty times in the game. I mean, good luck. That
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like a winning formula to me. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to throw, which means Eli is gonna get intercepted
Speaker 1: and turnovers stacked the score. Uh. You know, if the
Speaker 1: Giants played Daniel Jones in this game, Not that I
Speaker 1: don't think Daniel, you know, I'm not. I'm not completely
Speaker 1: sold on Daniel Jones, but I'd rather see what he
Speaker 1: can do than Eli Manning. I would certainly take the
Speaker 1: Giants plus seven, but they're by all accounts they're not
Speaker 1: doing that. Man Manning's gonna play the entire game unless
Speaker 1: he gets hurt. Uh. Final score Cowboys twenty seven, Giants sixteen,
Speaker 1: and the Penny picks. Finally, some dissension. The penny is
Speaker 1: going with the road team, the New York Giants. Alright,
Speaker 1: I enjoy that dumpster diving the Giants in the deep water.
Speaker 1: If you are deep, all right? Next up, Sunday Night Football.
Speaker 1: That's right, Sunday Night Football. You got the Patriots a
Speaker 1: six point favorite. They opened as a six and a
Speaker 1: half point favorite. I'm gonna take New England here. It's
Speaker 1: another one of those games. Usually you tried. It's not
Speaker 1: a divisional game, but usually you try to anytime you
Speaker 1: get close to a touchdown you take the points. But
Speaker 1: early in the year, in this spot, I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the Patriots. First of all, the Steelers are lacking the
Speaker 1: wild factor on office. They're lacking the dynamic, electric playmakers
Speaker 1: that they have typically had over the years. Like this
Speaker 1: trap door opened up and uh, it's problems that old
Speaker 1: Elvis song. Right, we were caught in a trap. Uh.
Speaker 1: And the Steelers have lost their big guys offensively, with
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown going out of Levan Bell was their last year,
Speaker 1: but they thought he might come back. So they are
Speaker 1: dependent on Juju Smith, Schuster being the man and some
Speaker 1: other guys who we have no idea. They're anonymous becoming good.
Speaker 1: If I'm Mike Tomlin, I am paranoid going into this
Speaker 1: season because because of the unknown and and plus Tomlin
Speaker 1: teams and any anyway have have regularly failed to cover
Speaker 1: against Belichick coach teams. The Steelers under Tomlin against Belichick.
Speaker 1: I think the numbers two and five the last seven
Speaker 1: times they've played in Foxboro, so they verily rarely win
Speaker 1: the money in Foxborough the Steelers do. Secondly, this will
Speaker 1: be the ground and pound run right, run, left, run
Speaker 1: up the gut version of the Patriots. I in mixed
Speaker 1: with a short, short passing game, but I think more running. Uh.
Speaker 1: And they have to they have to hide Tom Brady
Speaker 1: at this point in his career and limit the amount
Speaker 1: of throws put him on a pitch count if you will,
Speaker 1: or the longevity of the entire season. And I love
Speaker 1: the Patriots defense. I really think this is gonna be
Speaker 1: a top defensive squad. Patriots have gotten off to some
Speaker 1: slow starts, even in this twenty year run of Dynasty.
Speaker 1: This had been a week link defensively for the Steelers,
Speaker 1: and you know, or for the Patriots. Rather last year
Speaker 1: I thought they weren't very good. They got better as
Speaker 1: the year went on, But the odds indicate that the
Speaker 1: value is with Tom Brady. Even as a six point
Speaker 1: favorite Sunday Night football, tom Brady has a six thirty
Speaker 1: three winning percentage in Sunday night games. It's a nighttime
Speaker 1: Foxborough Al Michael's barking Away Patriots thirty six and the
Speaker 1: Steelers twenty four penny Going the opposite way, going Pittsburgh Steelers,
Speaker 1: Pittsburg Steelers. Have you ever been to Pittsburgh? I've been
Speaker 1: there once. Yes, Have you been to Primani Brothers? What
Speaker 1: the hell is that? Oh? It's guesscan you we're losing listeners.
Speaker 1: And this one of the great local dives in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: Permanti Brothers. And there's there's a bunch of it. It's
Speaker 1: a rest where you don't need. It's not healthy, but
Speaker 1: they they're the sandwich. They make these chicken sandwiches and
Speaker 1: stuff used to put that. They put all the ingredients
Speaker 1: on the sandwich. They put French fries on there. It's
Speaker 1: it's really good. And I went to the one I
Speaker 1: met Pete in Pittsburgh. Uh, we should do another podcast
Speaker 1: about meeting listeners. But I met Pete and Pete and Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: and uh, it was like one in the morning. I
Speaker 1: was driving from Philadelphia to Buffalo and I went through.
Speaker 1: I wastrive from New York. Yeah, I was in Philly.
Speaker 1: I drove all over the East Coast, but anyway, I
Speaker 1: drove through Pittsburgh. I was only there for like two days.
Speaker 1: And I met Pete in Pittsburgh and a couple other listeners,
Speaker 1: the bread Man, the dough Boy, like one in the
Speaker 1: morning in the Steel District, that Permanti Brothers. We had
Speaker 1: sandwiches and old stories. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I'm a man of the people, man, I'm a man
Speaker 1: of the people. I forget the names, but give me
Speaker 1: some good spots in Boston when I'm out there with
Speaker 1: Blind Scott. Oh yeah, man, I love I've been in
Speaker 1: Boston a lot over the years, like for radio stuff.
Speaker 1: But there's some really good, really good restaurants there in
Speaker 1: in Boston as well. Alright, so what are we doing here?
Speaker 1: The next game? Alright, Monday night football, Monday Night. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the showcase game of the weekend. This is
Speaker 1: the sexy game. This is the the game that has
Speaker 1: the sex appeal, the charisma, the alert, the drawing power,
Speaker 1: it's on Monday night, Houston at New Orleans. Is this
Speaker 1: the game Bookers doing? And this is per for you
Speaker 1: because obviously you being a a anti Deshaun Watson uh
Speaker 1: sportscaster radio hack. Well again, I am a truth teller
Speaker 1: and I believe that Deshan Watson is overady. We'll find out.
Speaker 1: You know what It's defining moment as a professional quarterback
Speaker 1: is in a playoff game, down twenty one points against
Speaker 1: the Colts when they got a first down signalings like
Speaker 1: he was the referee. What a dope. That's the equivalent
Speaker 1: of doing a sack dance when you're down in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. It was just just great, just completely tone deaf,
Speaker 1: completely clueless. So what a dumb dumb Anyway, listen, Houston,
Speaker 1: New Orleans. The Saints open and nine point favorite in
Speaker 1: this game. The Saints are a seven point favorite right now,
Speaker 1: and much like I picked the Cardinals even though I
Speaker 1: despised Kyler Murray, the pick here is the Houston Texas.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Houston. I'll tell you my logic behind this.
Speaker 1: This game projects to be a track meet. It is
Speaker 1: the highest I believe over under the numbers. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at here, the highest over under on the weekend, and
Speaker 1: they are expecting Drew Brees and Deshaun Watson to have
Speaker 1: the old back and forth pinball gallery type of game. Touchdowns,
Speaker 1: they're touchdowns over there, touchdowns in the air everywhere, and
Speaker 1: field goals super Dome. Now, the main reason I like
Speaker 1: the Texans and I'm lean to them is you're getting
Speaker 1: seven points, which I love. I love getting a decent team,
Speaker 1: not a great team, Houston, but a decent team with
Speaker 1: a touchdown. And I don't know what you got with
Speaker 1: Drew Brees. He's forty years old. He had a free
Speaker 1: fall which many people seem to have swept under the rug.
Speaker 1: Four games he played in the regular season for the
Speaker 1: Saints last year, Drew Brees had three touchdowns, three interceptions.
Speaker 1: He had a passer rating under eighty five. And the
Speaker 1: most damning stat, right as I tried to to pile
Speaker 1: on here, Drew Brees the most damning stat. The last
Speaker 1: four games he played last season, he averaged six point
Speaker 1: four yards per attempt. That is anemic, is what it is.
Speaker 1: And so you're going against a decent defense. Texans have
Speaker 1: a pretty good pass rush, or at least they're supposed
Speaker 1: to have a pretty good pass fresh even with the
Speaker 1: Clowney being gone. So there's the unknown. And you also
Speaker 1: have Laramie Tunzl who's making his debut, supposedly gonna protect
Speaker 1: the Shawn Watson was I believe Deshaun Watson his bad
Speaker 1: internal clock is the reason that he led the NFL
Speaker 1: in sacks last year. He suffers from the pandemic that
Speaker 1: is pocket panic. Now that's set the Saints again. They
Speaker 1: have issues in their secondary as well here, namely defensive
Speaker 1: back the other side of Marshawn Lattimore. That is a
Speaker 1: weak spot for the Saints, and New Orleans traditionally has
Speaker 1: been a team to bet against earlier in the year. Now,
Speaker 1: what's my evidence? Al Right? New Orleans has started under
Speaker 1: Sean Payton since the last five years up until this year. Obviously,
Speaker 1: don't played last twelve games first, first or second week
Speaker 1: of the year. The Saints are one and eleven against
Speaker 1: the spread. They have started slow. Last year they lost
Speaker 1: to the Amish Rifle and the Buccaneers. So the pick
Speaker 1: here now again, this is the case where the Saints
Speaker 1: are gonna win this game. They're gonna lose out right,
Speaker 1: They're gonna win but there it's gonna be a back
Speaker 1: and forth close game. New Orleans thirty eight, Houston already
Speaker 1: four penny picks. Penny going at the Houston Texans. Alright,
Speaker 1: so the Penny not trying to upstage me, not trying
Speaker 1: to outshine me, agreeing with me, which is a very
Speaker 1: nice Ben not looking at the board. Off the top
Speaker 1: of your head, what do you think the second highest
Speaker 1: point total is for this weekend? You just mentioned Houston
Speaker 1: and New Orleans with think, yeah, that's that's good here, um,
Speaker 1: let me think you we'll have Rams Carolina. No, no,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, it's Kansas City in Jacksonville. They're well, yeah,
Speaker 1: because Kansas City scores are a ton of points, so
Speaker 1: they're going forty. They might have to. Yeah, alright, last game.
Speaker 1: We have reached the finish line. We have reached the
Speaker 1: finish line. And this the maiden Voyage of Benny Versus
Speaker 1: the Penny is a podcast only Hey, let us know
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Speaker 1: the Monday Night Football game of the late game here
Speaker 1: Denver at Oakland alright, opened up a three point favorite.
Speaker 1: They are currently a one and a half point favorite.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Raiders. I'm gonna take the Silver
Speaker 1: and Black against Gascon's Denver Broncos here. Uh, and I
Speaker 1: really think there's a good spot for Oakland, Like either
Speaker 1: one of these teams is all that good. The Broncos
Speaker 1: are are on offense, They're gonna be a dog's lunch,
Speaker 1: messy and lean complete passes. Joe Flacco is going to
Speaker 1: give John Elway a lesson in the law of diminishing returns. Uh,
Speaker 1: what are you thinking here with this Flacco guy? I mean,
Speaker 1: unless you send him to the guy or clinic for
Speaker 1: some of those happy pills that other Bronco quarterbacks have gotten.
Speaker 1: Wink wink, not not. I just don't see a scenario
Speaker 1: where he has this great career renaissance in Denver. And
Speaker 1: Elway clearly has amnesia with his comments about Flacco. He
Speaker 1: has just just slurped up and given a bubble bath
Speaker 1: to Joe flat Go. And Flacco was guilty of grand
Speaker 1: larceny for impersonating a good quarterback after he won the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl in Baltimore, and he got replaced by a
Speaker 1: guy that can't even throw the ball at a running quarterback.
Speaker 1: The Broncos should go on Amazon. Here's what they should
Speaker 1: do and buy some buy some deodorant themselves there, because
Speaker 1: they got to cover up that stank from their office,
Speaker 1: and their defense is gonna be pretty good to me.
Speaker 1: The other part of this, the one stumbling block here
Speaker 1: is Derek Carr, right, second tier quarterback, but better than
Speaker 1: the third tier quarterback like Joe Flaccos. He got a
Speaker 1: little bit better quarterback here. They the Raiders. They made
Speaker 1: some change against some young guys playing this game, and
Speaker 1: last year with a different roster, the Raiders were in
Speaker 1: most of the games. They faded in the second half.
Speaker 1: If they're in the game, I believe they will win
Speaker 1: the game. They expect this to be a close game.
Speaker 1: Neither team all that good. I will take and the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos twenty three and the Penny picks for the
Speaker 1: final game. Last, but not least, Penn ain't going with
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos. All right, the Denver Broncos. There it is.
Speaker 1: And thus that concludes the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller
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Speaker 1: hours are not enough and this actually was over an
Speaker 1: hour by the way, that was should we do the
Speaker 1: fifth and sixth hour? I, you know, for for me,
Speaker 1: as I donate my time to not only you, but
Speaker 1: to this this multimedia company. I don't think so I'm
Speaker 1: doing this pro bono, so you don't do anything pro bono. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that is it. So guess we've survived. It's a it's
Speaker 1: it's the main voyage, as you mentioned, and it's a
Speaker 1: start to a it's like you and William chatting it right,
Speaker 1: You guys have re established a new and better relationship
Speaker 1: than you did in years past, a new frontier. I
Speaker 1: mean I worked. I got here to Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and fourteen, and you started and
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Speaker 1: in the end of when I started, no member of
Speaker 1: two thousand actually okay, yeah, so I am closing in
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Speaker 1: Happy for you and uh yeah, I mean you got
Speaker 1: to twenty hours a week but now you get to
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