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4:04That's tryfencing.org. Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mallor Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight from 2-6 Eastern 11 PM to 3 AM Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and to find your local station for the Ben Mathers Show at Fox Sports Radio.com. You can find it there or stream us live every night on the iHeart Radio app by searching FSR. This is the best of the Ben Mallor Show on Fox Sports Radio. Don't bury the lead, mom. We're not going to bury the calm down. There's going to be no lead bearing. Nothing will be buried in terms of lead. So it's rather obvious here. The prime time Sunday night game made for television and made for overnight talk radio. So our lead is from the swamplands of Jersey there where the Sunday nightcap for a very offensive day of football here, the giants and cowboys.

5:08But we never get to see the giants and cowboys in Sunday night football. So rare. So rare that NBC would put that game in prime time. Just really odd. And if you didn't watch it perhaps not, you might have been burned out. Maybe you lost your parlay or your big bed of the day there and you feel like a dope. I had a very middling day myself there. A couple of backdoor things broke my, yeah. The Washington, not that you care about my bets, but the Washington Philadelphia game, that late touchdown by Washington hurt. Also Atlanta and Pittsburgh that was, that was a bit of a blow considering the way the game had gone. But more on that later. And so we watched the Sunday night game. So you were not have to. It is our good midst of the day. And Jackson Dart, like he was back in college, slicing up some low level directional school connecting with tight end Isaiah likely. The former Raven for not one, but two, two touchdowns. And Devon Singletary had another camscatiboo ran for one in the, his first game back after

6:14that big injury there and a really dressed for success. Camscatiboo, if you saw what he was wearing there as he walked into the game like, wow. Anyway, the giants opened up the season by Rumblin and Stumblin passed the Cowboys 28 to 20, the final of the game that did not seem that close. And Sunday night football, John Harbohs, New York debut right there free turkey sandwiches at any bodega in New York for John Harboh. Now you know how we roll in these parts. It has been the mantra of the show all these years. The better story is in the losing locker room. And that's why we talk a lot about the Cowboys. I get emails, what do you talk so much about the Cowboys? Nobody even calls from Dallas, I don't understand. Well, that's true. We don't get a lot of calls from Dallas, but their Cowboy fans everywhere. All right. That's the first thing. And then second thing, we love talking about losers. And it's even more fun to talk about losers when they're expecting to be good. Boy, that's a good story, right?

7:15When a team's supposed to be good and then they're not. Oh, that's awesome. So the Cowboys dropped another turd right there in the Jersey Swampland. And that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. How do you describe Brian Shottenheimer's Cowboys defense? Let's start with the Cowboys defense here. Because I think that's the story. And yeah, we'll do that. So we've got Toby Keith. We've got rapping as well. And if that was not enough Martha Stewart, three things that have never been put together. And we're going to do that. And we are going to strong arm the microphones, the powerful microphones, the bullied pulpit here of Fox Sports Radio. So we begin with this again, the question, how do you describe Brian Shottenheimer's Cowboys defense? So the Cowboys defense is not rebuilt. It's re-airing last season with new commercials. They just they're new convert now.

8:16We just have these things called reruns and then people realize, well, everything's on demand. You're only needed to reruns for the most part here. Just like a podcast. This show is saved. You can replay it. It's like a re-airing. Whenever you want. Right. So eventually this will become a podcast. But Dallas spent all off season yet again, yet again, changing the ingredients and somehow the meatloaf appears to still taste like a good year tire with a little extra salt and some pepper. Same factory settings for the Cowboys. Yeah, Vaughn Miller is a big name. I know he's at the end of his career. But Vaughn Miller bought him in, you know, a local guy from Texas comes back to play for the Cowboys. They hired this hot shot defense and coordinator from the Eagles Christian Parker. Oh, young Savant, the Sean McVeigh of defense Christian Parker. And that performance yet in first opportunity, the performance with the Cowboys defense. It was a Toby Keith song, wacky tobacco, the way they played their third and anything

9:16against Dallas. That turned out to be a rewards program for the opposing quarterback. Back in this case, Jackson Darden, who completed overall 79% of his passes. There should be a tribunal on the Dallas Cowboys defense. Jackson Darden went out there and shoved it down your throat. 79% completion percentage, three touchdowns, a part-trust in the pear tree. The Giants also ran for 165 yards, held the ball for nearly 37 minutes. And it's not in play in the NFL. I'm told that's good. I'm told that's good. And also, let's not forget the generosity of Dallas. They handed over 10 penalties for 114 yards. The Giants gave 114 yards on the kindness of the Cowboys defense that had the discipline watching this game. The discipline of a kindergarten class after somebody handed out the pixie sticks.

10:20Well, there's no discipline. There's none. Did I expect the Cowboys to play better? Do I look like a donkey? Yeah, I look like a donkey. Hopefully I don't smell like one. The Cowboys here, I mean, how many times do I come on here? And usually the Cowboys would get off to a decent start before they started imploding. And the Giants are one of those weird teams. Are they a good team? Have they crossed the Rubicon? We're not sure yet. They're kind of in that gray area where they could be good. You've seen a lot of bad football from the Giants over the years. Anyway, so listen, Brian Schottheimer, the coach, after that performance, he should be answering questions. Under oath. Okay, under oath because somebody needs to explain where the F, the coaching went. You're either coaching the undisciplined football or you're just allowing it to happen. Either way, you're parked. Okay, so this is the Cowboys' eternal scam. And they've been doing it my entire time in sports radio.

11:22Now believe it or not, I actually got it so long ago, the Cowboys were still winning championships. But for the most part, all right, this is the scam. The names change. There's new optimism, unbridled optimism for the Dallas Cowboys. And then the same malpractice, in this case, defensive malpractice. And the Cowboy fan, yet again, has now entered what we call the age of reason, which is when the regular season begins, the annual September ritual that the brochure that Jerry Jones showed you, the brochure looks a lot better than the actual resort. Product. Understand? All right, now meanwhile on the offensive side for Jerry Jones team, because this is also a great story. We talk about every year, it's the eternal scam, the optimism, the hype. And there's no one better, the Cowboys are the most valuable franchise, not only in America, but in the world.

12:22They have what they need in terms of creating buzz. So the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, that press got, quote, came to mind. I don't know if you thought about it when I was watching this game and I was thinking about my place in the universe and I'm watching the Cowboys really scuff it up, really scuff it up. And I was going back to training camp and you remember the deck press got quote, because I flashed into my head. So we're going to frame it as a question. Okay, we're going to frame it as a question. So the question, deck press got nicknamed the 2026 Cowboys offense, Gotti, G-O-T-I, as in greatest offense, there is. All right. Didn Dallas back that talk from deck press got up on the field. All right. So I'm going to answer this. I'm going to play the Wheel of Fortune and play the Wheel of Fortune. So I, I would like an N and can I buy a vowel? Okay. Good guy.

13:23I would like to buy an O. Let's put them together. No. No, no, no, no. Gotti, more like G-O-T-I, do better. Dack out there. This off season, you know, deck, you should be pretty boring. And during training camp randomly, deck talk like Jay-Z and played like the guy handing out the mix tapes outside and so I don't think they'd do that anymore. They're back in the day. They're free, free. And then if you take it, they get hit you up for money. That's their hustle. Deck press got was out there wrapping bars in, you know, for the Dallas offense there. The performance was pure rap, R-A-P, as in replacement level average performer. All right. Replacement level, average performer. That's it. And by the way, replacement level can join word. That's how it works. Just work with me. Just work with me. Thank you. Unfortunately, this is in the album. This album by Deck press got went absolutely platinum in that game on Sunday night football.

14:26And to think, you've got CDLAM on one side. You've got George Pickens on the other. A couple of thermonuclear missiles as wide receivers. And somehow, some way, they got turned into possession receivers. Possession receivers. CDLAM and George Pickens are supposed to be the best. Supposed to be fireworks. And they played like wet sparklers. Press got average 5.1 yards per pass. Fight again. Gotty, gotty, gotty, gotty. Greatest offense. There is. Is that the great 5.1 yards per pass? Despite having all the horsepower, they need one of those little blue pills. They came up limp in Dallas. And the offense lacked any real razzle dazzle. Making this less greatest offense there is.

15:27And more get off the internet type offense. Like stay away from social media. And deck completed under 60% of his passes to those two guys. Less than 60%. They combined, if you put side by side, lamb and pickens for a pathetic 75 yards total. Like what are we doing? What are we doing? This is why people laugh at the cowboys. Nobody celebrates themselves harder before accomplishing less. Here is Shotty by the way. What a shotty performance by Brian Shotinheimer's team. And he's about to play the blame game. Let's take a listen. You know, one of the not excuse guys, we did not play well. But you got young players. And young players are closing in. Jackson, dark boots and gets outside. We don't push three different times to the fucking flat route. He's in a language. You know, like, those are going to happen. And we have to coach the young players better. But when you play young players, it's part of the deal.

16:32I like how he said no excuses. Then what word did he use? That's right. He used but capital B. That was the pivot. That was the pivot point. That's where he started rolling off excuses. Play it again. Listen, you can hear him. He always know excuses. And then he dropped a butt in there. And then it was nothing but excuses. And you could tell he's making excuses because he got upset and then said the F word. Take a listen. You know, one of the not excuse guys, we did not play well. But you got young players. And young players closes in Jackson, dark boots and gets outside. We don't push three different times to the fucking flat route. He's in a language. Flyer up. All right. There you go. All right. So it's good to be back talking football here. I love these excuses. Yay. I love losers. I love talking about losers. I get paid to talk about losers. All right. So last word, let's talk about winners for a second. Let's change it up a little bit.

17:32I like losers. I love losers. Say I. So here's the question. What is your word? I love words. What is your word for John Harboss first real game as Giants coach? All right. So my word for John Harboss Giants debut. Tantalizing capital T. Tantalizing. Small sample size. Obviously one game. But we have a talk show to do right now. The arrow is pointing straight up. And as a part of Americana for many years ago, before my time even Mark Twain would say, there's gold in them. There hills. There's gold in them. There hills. And Harboss did not rebuild the New York overnight. Obviously it's not going to see here and say that. However, for the first time in forever, you can see something that has a blueprint that can last for more than a couple of games. Like nobody ever bought into Daniel Jones.

18:34That guy blows and they've had some other turds that played for the Giants over the years and some really incompetent coaches. But this guy's like a growing up in the room. The Giants have gone from football purgatory to football promising, which is not a bad first step. That's I am Benny Brightside on the Giants, which concerns me because the next game is against the Rams. We at that game watching them in person a week from Monday here or next Monday night, not obviously today, but the next Monday night. So this was a direct copy. What I saw from John Harboss was the Baltimore playbook. John basically packed up the Martha Stewart cookbook when he left the Ravens and the recipe is a physicality smash mouth. We got a little bass in their voice now. They no longer squeaking. And forcing the Cowboys of high powered offense to eat a casserole of crow.

19:34That doesn't seem very tasty. A casserole of crow. Was it perfect? Absolutely not. Far from it. The Giants had nine penalties. They had four fumbles. They only lost one of them. So Lady Luck was on their side. Regardless, Jackson Dart, I was impressed. I hate to say that. I'm not, you know, I don't like to praise anyone. But Jackson Dart really did impress me. How much of that was the Cowboys defense, but he was out there performing surgery. Like he was drew breeze carving up carving up the Dallas defense and then the Giants defense themselves muting CD lamb and George Pickens. So the Giants obviously did not hire John Harboss to win news conferences in September. And he made some headlines here last week. There was the not playing along with the injuries and the New York writers and all that, which

20:35went viral and which was cool. But the Giants obviously hired him to change the DNA because they have bad DNA there. A lot of medical problems for the Giants. And you could see that mutation starting. There's that. You could kind of tell there's something going on. And I'm never wrong about these things. I'm never wrong. You can see there's a little bit of a turn there. And that division is winnable. The Eagles are not as good as they've been. Washington still a mess. And the Cowboys appear to be the same old Cowboys. So the opportunities there for the Giants, will they take advantage of it? We'll see as the season plays out. But they got shot. The Rams have their own issues. They just lost. We'll talk more about this later. But Miles Garrett is out now for the next month at least. And so the Rams who looked like they were. We can't it. Bernies in Australia. And now they come back. We'll play the Giants next week. So that'll be a more intriguing matchup. Be sure to catch live additions of the Ben Mallor Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern 11 p.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app.

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27:52Night. We go to Canza City. The only city where you can have the Ben Mallor chicken fingers at the landing there in Liberty. I'm sure Andy Reed loaded up. I would imagine. I don't know for sure. I've heard whispers that Andy enjoys those delicious Mallor chicken fingers. So yeah, Joe Buck and Troy Ackman, that was loud. Yeah, Joe Buck and Troy Ackman on the call there on ABC in AFC West, Slobber Knocker, the Chiefs and the Broncos at the iconic Arrowhead stadium there is that stadium will be going away because it's not new enough. So they have to build a new palace for the Chiefs. So Patrick, a home's returning from injury, a big storyline here against Bo-Nex. I don't know how much of this game you watched. We burned out on pig skin. What else were you doing watching baseball? No sports. You didn't watch any sports at Badgev. It's badgev. So perhaps you did not watch, but the story of this game was not about Bo-Nex.

28:55What kind of was about Bo-Nex? But it was not about my homes. The main headline. He was a walk in the park, or at least a walker in the park as Kenneth Walker, Rumblin and Stumblin for 173 yards and not one but two, two touchdowns and his Chiefs debut. I'm told that's good. I'm told that's good. So he took the pressure off my homes and his first game back and all that. So Kansas City with a body slam, body slam of the Broncos 31 to 10, 31 to 10 Kansas City with a blowout win on Monday night. Walker carried the ball 23 times. Most of those seemed like early in the game. They just kept handing the ball off to Kenneth Walker and he had the most rushing yards by a Chiefs player since Jamal Charles. You remember him? Jamal?

29:56Long time ago. Jamal Charles there at 226 yards. He had in the game against the Indianapolis Colts and that was back in 2012. The year before Andy Reed ended up in Kansas City after his run in Philadelphia. So we have that. And before we get into the meat and potatoes of this, let's hear from the key participants. Here is Sean Peyton, the head coach, a very confident man. Sean Peyton explaining what went wrong for his football team. Take a listen. I thought they won really in every phase. Our third down numbers weren't good. Our rushing numbers weren't good. Pick your spot. We put our defense in some short fields, but collectively, you know, we didn't tackle well enough. Then the game became one dimensional. Really the antithesis of how you beat a good team on the road. It's that simple. Okay, that simple. How about bone X? This guy people thought was going to take off. And so far not so good there for bone X this season.

30:57His only sample size this game was you want to get away kind of a performance here for him. Here's bone X pointing out apparently the chiefs forgot that they're supposed to suck like they did last year. Like I said, you don't play good against a good team and they're going to beat you pretty good. And we can act like all we want, but there's still a chiefs. They're still really good football team. And all the new guys acted like, you know, the new guys they had acted like they've been playing in the system for years and just did exactly what they old chiefs have been doing. So, you know, you got to give them credit and they wore a cell today. All right, the better story though is in that Broncos locker room. So we're going to stay there because that's where the drama is. This team was on the brink of going to the Super Bowl and they came out and that is the word. I'm told that's the worst performance ever by a team that had as good a record as the Broncos did the year before. Have we seen such a crap performance by a team coming off such a dominant season? And the main focus as we discuss here is about the guy you just heard, Bonaix.

31:59So the question, what went wrong? What went wrong for Bonaix and the Broncos offense, which some thought was going to be high powered with the additions that they made in the off season. So my thoughts on this, I've got manager special, shrapnel and pizza rhea. And we will combine all of these things together and we are going to turn into a whipsaw is what we're going to do. But we start with this a a Denver just the very beginning. Both teams are kind of, you know, the chiefs at least came out and just kept running the ball. They're like, I'm going to come out, run the ball. The Broncos started with a mistake. Denver had very little rhythm. They never got any kind of a flow, a rat attack, to what they were doing in this game. And it was cover your eyes type of football. Those are the Broncos from years gone by and not last year's Broncos here and watching on a B C it became a bit of an interactive experience on a B C. And when I say interactive

33:03experience, I have a new gizmo. The gizmo was the smell ovation. So if you had the smell ovation on and you were watching the Broncos and the chiefs on the smell ovation, when the Broncos offense was on the field, you could smell and you could smell it. And it smelled to me. And I don't know if you're smell ovation is like mine, my smell ovation it smelled like rotting seafood in a dumpster behind a taco bell in the summer sometime in August, just baking in the summer sun. That's what it sounded like and smelled like. You know, it's the smell of it rotting and then the kind of sound makes a little sound, I think. And so it's a little nasty and so foul that it makes a bit of a sound of it, just the poison going out in the air everywhere. That was the Broncos. So Sean Peyton there coming off that great regular season and a deep playoff run in Denver and how did that go? My God as the former Fox Sports Radio talk show host Jim Moore would say the Broncos offense

34:05could not do deadly poo. They could not do deadly poo offensively. Not and Sean Peyton changed play callers. Very concerned, very concerned that he was going to lose his his web, his beloved web to to another team. And so Davis, Web stayed and got promoted and all that stuff and and then it turned out that the Broncos on offense ordered the manager's special and I don't know if you looked at the menu board, the manager's special for the Broncos was a big-sized sloppy bow. That's right. Sloppy not sloppy. Joe, this was a sloppy bow by Bonyx who managed a poultry 131 yards passing that is less than five yards per pass attempt. Seven is average. Seven is at four point seven yards per attempt. He had one touchdown and one interception and three fumbles for Bonyx could have had

35:05a fourth fumble, four sacks and a passer rating below 70. And but wait, there's more a partridge in a pear tree for Bonyx who looked like he needed his own Bronco branded Rosetta stone and to try to decipher the Davis web offense. I didn't know it was that complex that Davis web was such a X's and O's of hot that he made it impossible to understand the Broncos offense. And it's not just the offense was was offensive indigestion for the for the Broncos here. You went out against an AFC West rival, a team that got their balls kicked in last year, Kansas City. They're at home. Y'all chance to stuff everyone into a you know what? By winning that game and this was not just merely a bad first impression for the 2026 vintage of the Denver Broncos there. It was wicked bad. Here industrial strength wretched football for the Broncos on both sides both sides of the

36:09ball because the defense ends up now some of this was on both Bonyx mistakes. We have 31 points to Kansas City 31 points. I know everyone's scoring except the Rams in the NFL is here, but still 31 points defensively. That's not good. The guy that is on trial for beating up a chick. He's out so they're blaming it all on him. I guess the other players on the defense just get to get a pass on that. Is that how that works? Then I have to worry about it. Okay. Fine. So now outside of the offense for the Broncos here. The Davis Web we mentioned the offense not great with the new play call. Where did the Broncos defense go wrong? There wasn't a lot of stoppage by the Denver defense in this game and I don't think it was a specific kind of suck for the Broncos. I don't think there was like one person. I thought it was as the line goes in all encompassing all encompassing type of suck for the Broncos defense who played soft lacked the basic pop Warner fundamentals of football wrapping

37:11up the tackling the line of scrimers. They got manhandled. The Broncos got manhandled by the big fat guys on Kansas City that were better than your fat guys. So fat against fat and their fat better than your fat you lose the fat game. That's it. That's my analysis. All right. Meanwhile, speaking of bad and we're highlighting bonus the Broncos defense. The much balli hood debut of the new torpedo. The new torpedo for the Broncos and had a night to forget the question. How do you grade? Give me the grade here on Jalen Waddles debut in a Denver Broncos uniform. The wide receiver coming over from South Florida. So the Malar report card for Jalen Waddle his first game, first real game as a Bronco and I'm not going to overreact. It's only one game and I don't want to be that guy.

38:11You know, I'm not a shock, shock. I would be on during the day if I was a shock, shock. I'm a lowly overnight guy just a just a part of the wheel here. Just a spoke in the wheel. So after a minutes long deliberation of the available information, we have determined that Jalen Waddle's debut, he gets an F minus in F minus. We're giving lower than that, but we're told that's the lowest we can give him. So F minus for Jalen Waddle and we recommend he goes to summer school. We would recommend that he goes out and goes to summer school. We would recommend that. So the Broncos, they would have been better off in this game having an actual emperor penguin Waddle out there, right? Because at least that penguin would waddle with purpose and you'd like to see the penguin. You'd laugh at the penguin. You'd point at the penguin. You said, look at that funny penguin. That's kind of cool. Why not? Yeah. So wow, wow, wow, wow, Jalen Waddle and I liked him in Miami, put man alive Denver shiny new 76 million, 76 million dollars.

39:13He's their new toy for Sean Peyton and he had one more catch than you did in two more yards than you and I combined had on three targets. That's it. That makes by my analysis. And I don't think I'm wrong on this. Jalen Waddle, less of an offensive dynamo for Sean Peyton's Broncos and more like a very expensive decoy. What is up with that? Was he camouflaged? Was he painted like the Broncos uniforms and they couldn't see him when they were going out? I mean, I don't understand. Maybe he was like camouflaged in with the offensive lineman. I don't know what was going on. But my God. And now the good news is that Jalen Waddle can pull up a chair and sit next to AJ Brown and Miles Garrett in the corner of the room in the VIP section of high priced players, big off season pickups who went out and performed like flatulence.

40:14And the question now is will Jalen Waddle join AJ Brown and Miles Garrett in the injury tent? Those guys claimed, oh, I couldn't play because I'm hurt. So they're out with injuries. Does that mean Jalen Waddle who's also as bad as both those guys? Does that mean he's got to come up with one of those fake injuries and get out for a little bit? I don't know. I don't. Then you had the Commodo Dragon in the room. What was the Commodo Dragon in the room for Jalen Waddle? There were many, it was a comment that was seen as benign by Troy Ackman. However, I have a higher level of hearing than you from years and years of using headphones. So I have determined that this is something, not nothing. Now what am I talking about? So Troy Ackman delivered what seemed like a rather mild line. And it actually turned out to be Schrappnell. Schrappnell directed at Jalen Waddle. He had a drop pass. I think this was in, I think I wrote on my notes.

41:16It was in the second quarter. So I think it was in the same. He dropped a pass and Ackman, I'm going to paraphrase here. He essentially said terrific player, minor problem. And then he said his problem was catching the football. And I said, well, that's just a throwaway line. There's nothing to that. I say no. Because you got to remember the context here. Troy Ackman is just not a broadcaster. Troy Ackman is double dipping. Troy Ackman is on the Miami Dolphins payroll, the team that unloaded Jalen Waddle. Things that make you go, hmm, is it true that Troy Ackman was actually just regurgitating, regurgitating what he had heard in meetings with Dolphin Brass when they were deciding who to get rid of when they had the little fire sale. They're bonfire in Miami. Is it also true that that line was used, used by Miami insiders to describe Jalen Waddle

42:17that that's his weak spot here. And it makes you want, right? Like some exit interview when Waddle was let go and sent off to Denver and they said, well, this is something you don't do that well, catching the ball. You got to catch the ball. That's what it sounded like to me. And this is one of the issues. They NFL, they don't care anymore. Everything's changed and Tom Brady's running the Raiders wall broadcasting. Troy Ackman's working for the Miami Dolphins wall broadcasting. So when Brady says anything about a Raider or former Raider and he doesn't say any interesting, so you don't have to worry about that. But Ackman occasionally does. And so when Ackman says something about a Dolphin or former Dolphin and say, well, wait a minute here. What's going on with that? All right. Before we go to the Kansas City side of things as the chiefs get a three touchdown win at home. And the question for the chiefs is this should Andy Reed be encouraged or discouraged with

43:17the play of Patrick Maholmes for the chiefs in his return to the lineup. So this one gets a capital D discouraged. So what are you talking about, Mallor? The chiefs one by three touchdowns. I'm sorry. Tell me you didn't watch the game without telling me to watch the game. The idea was that Maholmes would hit the ground running and that did not happen. He hit the ground and face planted. Maholmes hit the ground and he face planted here. This was a pizza rea performance. A pizza rea performance. So there's a pizza chain in California called Shaky's. And it was a Shaky's type performance with extra Mojo, uh, oh potatoes. Great. Yeah. So Andy Reed was sleep shopping. Here's my theory. So Andy Reed was sleep shopping late at night and he went to the wrong website and he actually ordered. He for some reason decided to order off this kind of shady website and he ended up getting

44:18the team move version of Maholmes. And that's a few flashes. Just a few flashes of magic, the old Maholmes magic surrounded by a whole lot of cosplay as Jared golf. Like he's doing cosplay as Jared golf. And that is not a compliment by the way. That is not a compliment at all. The warm and fuzzy type feelings do come from Kenneth Walker, the former C.O.K. The ground and pound attack. I certainly think Seattle could use him as a bad job by somebody there in the Seattle front office to let that guy go when he wanted to stay. Who goofed? I've got to know on the Seahawks not retaining the Super Bowl MVP Kenneth Walker who looked amazing. And this was what we call high testosterone football by Kansas City here. Kakadoodle do for Andy Reed and the chiefs as they played with machismo, which is encouraging.

45:20That first half and the success they had on the running game was absolutely smashmouth football for Kansas City here. And you can see that working in the cold weather in January, a game at Arrowhead when the players are out there running around, you can see your breath that kind of day. And in the multiverse and we do believe in the multiverse in these parts, this had this has to be part of the new reality. Now they can't win every game like this. That's not sustainable in the euro that we're in right now. However, if you have that ability and my homes is going to play the way my homes played, you really have no other choice than to have to try to lean on Kenneth Walker and ride him into the ground essentially. And that's just it because with my homes, not yet the magician he used to be and maybe never getting back to that player. Plus you got Travis Kelsey, who's busy working in the room with Taylor Swift and her bestie, Tom Cruise, Schmoozing and little Schmooze fast going on there.

46:22So Kansas City, they're going to have to become a chameleon here. They're going to have to find some other people that will make plays because you can't depend on Kelsey. And you certainly at this point, based on what we saw from my homes, you can't really depend on my homes either. He was throwing behind receivers. It was, it was a mess. It was a hot mess is what it was. And so if show time my homes, my home, patching my homes is not going to come back. Then Andy Reed is going to have to learn how to win with the my homes matinee, not to be infused with the show time above the fold that type thing here above the marquee. No, no, no, no. This is something else. Be sure to catch live additions of the Ben Mallor Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific. Hi, it's Marcus Allen, pro football Hall of Famer NFL in DP and Super Bowl champion. I played football for a long time. One thing I've learned is nobody really knows what's going to happen next. Before the snap, you can study the defense, you can know the play, and you can see the opening. But eventually, you have to make a decision and go.

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52:28Good morning. Good morning to you, Mike. You want to play with Koo, poor Lorraine, Mike. I'll play with Koo. All right, Koo. You all right. Go ahead. All right, gentlemen, this is Mellers mountain of money. Nause edition. He turns 53 years old today. I'm happy birthday. The categories are New York state of mind. One love. If I ruled the world and nothing lasts forever. Jason, you were on first, which category would you like? Nothing lasts forever. All right. And Mike, how about you? I'll go with the song, the Fire Rule, the World. All right. All right, very good. We are up first here, Jason. You picked nothing lasts forever. These team legends ended their careers with another team. We need first and last name. Are you ready, Jason? Let's go. All right. Here we go. Greatest quarterback of all time for the New England. 45 seconds to learn. Yes. All right, we're going to quarterback for the Patriots. He went to the box at the end of his career. I'm ready. Yes. A greatest running back in NFL history in terms of rushing yards.

53:29He was with the Cowboys. He ended with the Cardinals. Emmett Smith. Yes. French guard for the San Antonio Spurs in the 2000s in the, no, little guard. All right. The star from Kansas played for the Boston Celtics and then bounced around the NBA with the Clippers and the Nets and all that. I don't know. All right. Nuckelball pitcher in the 70s and the 80s. His brother was named Joe. He threw a Nuckelball. He ain't got it. No. Safety for the real. You got 30 points. All right, Jason. You missed Tony Parker and Paul Pierce. Oh, dear. And Phil. Oh, Phil Negro. Not that's N-I-E-K-R-O. Negro. All right, Mike. We have, if I ruled the world, these athletes went on to become GMs. 45 seconds on the clock. Let's begin. Best quarterback in Broncos history.

54:30John L. Wake. Yes. This guy was the logo, the NBA logo. Very wet. Yes, the best point guard in Detroit Pistons history. I think it's on it. Yes. This guy was a great safety for the Bucks and Broncos. He's the GM of the 49ers now. John Lynch. Yes. This guy was a tight end for the Browns. He was a GM for the Ravens for a couple of Super Bowls. Oh, he knew them. Yes. This guy was the Hebrew Hammer. He later became GM of the Giants. How many kilo broo? No, there's a different Hebrew hammer. Or hammering? I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong about that one. I think that you're confusing. You're too far. I am. I am. That's fair. You got 160. Brian Braun, I thought. Wasn't he the... 160. Yep, Jason and Ben. It's back to you. All right, what do we got here? We got... New York State of Mind or One Love, Jason? All right, Jason. Al Rosen was also the Hebrew Hammer. I guess every Jewish baseball player... Yes.

55:30You can do it. That's what I'm going to do. All right. Yes. One Love. One Love. All right. These athletes played for only one team. Their whole career. You better get more than 30, Jason. I'm going to track you down. Here we go. 45 seconds. Quarterback for the Miami Dolphins. Greatest Dolphins quarterback of all time in the 80s. Three now. Yes. Greatest point guard for the Utah Jazz with Carl Malone. Point guard. I'm talking. Yes. Linebacker for the Ravens. Where's the white suit? Where's the white suit? Ah, really good. Yes. The Sandman, closer for the Yankees. The Hall of Fame, closer. First guy to ever be a unanimous Hall of Famer. Oh my God. That was his name. I don't know. You got to tell me. Slugger for the Rocky. Slugger for the Rockies he played. Ah, we're out of time. We win. We win again. We win again. Ah, come on. He only got 30. The first draft. First draft, Kings. draft, Kings. Hi, it's Marcus Allen, pro football Hall of Famer,

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