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Hour 2 - They're Alive!

from The Ben Maller Show Hosted by Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts

Ben Maller discusses if this counts as a statement win for Matthew Stafford and the Rams, how the MVP campaign is going for Brock Purdy after the 49ers loss to the Falcons, if the Ravens are already out of the AFC North race without Lamar Jackson, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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We start out in Sin City as the Rams get a win over the Raiders. Does this count as a quote statement win for Matthew Stafford and the Rams, the media, some saying that's the case. Also, how is the MVP campaign going for 49er quarterback Brock Purdy after a wretched performance against the Atlanta Falcons? And without Lamar Jackson, are the Ravens already out of the AFC North race? They lose another divisional game blowing yet another lead.

We'll talk about that. And more right now also Mallardly third degree. Here we go. It's our number two. Well, it turns out the reports of the Rams death have been greatly exaggerated.

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The hockey team wins every once in a while Vegas. The football team there she blows. And again, and again, but the Rams in town, if you saw this game or not part of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association, Chris Myers had the call on Fox. So Matthew Stafford and the Rams left for dead. All the injuries piling up.

Miles Garrett only playing one game. He's out Pukka, Nakuza got hurt on Friday. He ended up playing in the game. The Rams, would they be able to survive in Vegas? Well, yeah, they did Matthew Stafford 195 yards, not one, not two, but three touchdown passes.

And he became the LA Rams career leader in passing touchdowns as law's, I'm just beat the snot out of those pathetic Raiders 35 21 on Sunday. So if you didn't see it, you missed some of the activity there. Matthew Stafford has one of the quirkiest stats that will be almost impossible to duplicate anytime soon in our lifetime. Matthew Stafford is now the Rams and the Detroit Lions all time career leader in passing touchdowns. There's only 32 of these teams.

And Matthew Stafford is leading two of them. And neither one of them is an expansion team. It's not like the Houston Texans or the Jacksonville Jaguars. No, no, the last couple of the trench teams years ago. These teams have been around for a long, long time.

So the Rams and yet you look at it. And Matthew Stafford, the King, the LA Rams, the rear leader in passing touchdowns also the Detroit Lions career leader. Now the headline, I want to react to the headline here that's bouncing around the New York Post. I guess they've got the California Post now. I don't know when it reads that.

They get a couple of newspapers. They claim, big headline here. The claim was that this was a quote statement win, statement win for Sean McVay's team. So the question does, keep it simple. It's a good jumping all point.

Let us discuss the question. Does this count as a quote statement win for Matthew Stafford and the RIMs? So my observations, I've got inflatable palm trees, campaign bus, and Chef Boy RD. And we will combine all of these things together. And we'll give you the ABCs and the 123s.

Now number one. Number one. Number one. Number one. Number one.

Number one. Two words. No way. Those are the words. No way.

Stafford was not exactly climbing Mount Everest in this particular game. He was not. He was like taking an escalator across the street from us at the Sherman Oaks Galleria is what he was doing. OK. That's it.

Quote, the Pepsi principle. This for the Rams, this game was the Pepsi principle. What is the Pepsi principle? It's a got to have it win, not a got to brag about it when there is a difference. You got to have it, but you don't have to brag about it.

You don't got to brag about it. The Rams did not go out and slay a dragon. They beat a tomato can. That should not be newsworthy. The fact that you lost to a pathetic cardinal team the week prior, that's the story.

As we said, the dog bites man, not a story. Man bites dog. That's a story. So they stepped on a cockerroach that was already upside down. And that's what the Rams did.

They just beat him like that. And let's face it, the Raiders remember they were 3 and 0. We tried to tell you. Oh, you're just the overnight guy. You don't know what you're talking about, Mallard.

OK. The Raiders celebrate a winning list of the Raiders. That's got to be as pathetic as it gets. The Raiders at one point though, they were 3 and 0. And they had more props propping them up than a carrot top show in Vegas.

Smoke machines over to the right, trap doors underneath. They had inflatable palm trees. The whole production to get off to that 3 and 0 start. The silver and black now, for those of you that have forgotten, the Raiders when they were 3 and 0, they had beaten the dolphins, chargers, and saints to begin the season. Those teams have a combined 3 and 16 record.

That is a 158 winning percentage. And yeah, this up at that franchise fan bases, the Raider fanboys were celebrating. Now we tried to be the voice of reason. They were having none of it. Oh, you don't know what you're talking about.

Oh my god. OK, losers. Yes, the Raiders early record was obviously inflated like those inflatable palm trees against the very weak competition. The market correction was inevitable. And here it is.

And so yeah, Shawn Niggves dinged up Ram Squad, just confirmed that what anyone with two working eyeballs already knew, it's not about the Rams, the Raiders stinking. And now they're talking about just giving up on the season and playing that developmental quarterback, Bernando Mendoza, and playing him, and getting ready to bench their chatter about benching Kirk Cousins. All right, meanwhile, to Atlanta, we go where Michael Penn X Jr through not one, not two, but three touchdowns. And Atlanta taking advantage of the very generous 49er team. As the Niners, most games are lost, not one.

The Niners gave that game away. Four turnovers, Atlanta scored 13 points, courtesy, of the generosity of San Francisco. And so the Falcons get a legitimate win, 29, 20, the final, and the previous unbeaten 49ers at 6-1 now. And they had committed just six turnovers, the previous six games. And now they turn the ball over four times in this game.

And already thin it, received it. They lost Christian McCaffrey for much of the first half. There's varying reports about how bad his injury is going to be going forward for the 49ers. But either way, the question. Let's look at the quarterback position.

We had some people chiming in this past week talking about how the 49ers had an MVP quarterback. So let's address that. So the question, how is the MVP campaign going? We're 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy following the loss to the Falcons. So let's see.

Let's try to think. What did we tell you in a previous episode of the Ben Malisho? What did we say? What did we talk about Brock Purdy? Remember?

Do you want to go back and check your notes? You don't take any notes? All right, that's fine. So the MVP coronation of Brock Purdy. Well, that was a wee bit, just a wee bit premature, just a little premature.

That's a little bit. So it appears our skepticism was more than justified here as Purdy went out there and rode the vomit comet. Couple of interceptions, no touchdown passes, and enough sloppy football to fill a landfill somewhere outside of Atlanta. So Brock Purdy, that's more of what we thought. This guy's a system quarterback.

That's fine. He makes a lot of money. System quarterback guy. And you have to prove that you can overcome when things aren't going well and very rarely is Brock Purdy. Do that.

And the quarterback's as a rule elevate their teams. When everything's going sideways, they make a couple of plays to win the game. Brock Purdy, you're not that guy, you're not that guy. You're not that guy. Things go sideways there.

And the 49ers played like somebody put sweet tea in their Gatorade bottles. It was a hot mess for the Niners. But Brock Purdy, you're supposed to be the calming force, the force multiplier, and all that. You were not that. And here's Brock Purdy blaming his teammates.

Take a listen. They're new guys and stuff. So it's like, yeah, yeah, learn how they run routes and how they play and stuff. For sure. That's a real thing.

But I think just with all preparation and how Kyle goes about the week with getting us ready as an offense and stuff, I think it's pretty not easy. But he makes it pretty smooth. He's coming in and learning what they need to do and be on time and all that kind of thing. OK, sounds like he's blaming other people. The campaign bus.

We looked at it. There's a big sign on the side. It says the Brock Purdy campaign bus there for MVP. It actually hit a pothole out in the sticks outside Atlanta there in Georgia. And one of the wheels fell off on the campaign bus there.

So that's not good. And the driver is actually blaming the electrical substation. The driver of the campaign bus for Brock Purdy. But it's not his fault. It's the electrical substation fault.

OK, now I'm not going to say even say Brock Purdy's illuminated from MVP conversation. I'm not saying that. However, the campaign headquarters for the Brock Purdy MVP campaign turn out the lights. They're going on holiday right now. They're going on a little holiday.

That's it. So the MVP candidacy for Brock Purdy downgraded. I will give him employee of the month. See, I'm Benny Brightside, Brock Purdy employee of the month. Way to go, Brock.

You get a gift certificate for a yogurt, a nice yogurt. Enjoy that. Enjoy that employee of the month. The 49ers play the way they played on Sunday, as we often say here. Should have been sponsored by Tide because everything needs to be cleaned up there.

That was Elle Cinco for the Niners. But Brock Purdy, he's the face of the franchise. You all tell me that face of the franchise. I didn't go so well. All right, final point speaking, not going well to Baltimore for the hometown team.

And nobody gags up more leads than Baltimore. They did it again. Joe Burrow had not one, not two, not three, but four touchdowns as Cincinnati rallied down 13 nothing at halftime. And they ended up bringing the hammer to the once proud Baltimore franchise, 35, 13, 35, 13. The Bengals scored touchdowns on their first five, or the first five second half possessions.

Touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown. However, the better story is in the losing locker room, where the Baltimore Ravens are down and out at this point here, the Ravens without Lamar Jackson dropped a four and three on the season. They blew a double digit second half lead for the second consecutive week. And the 10 times since 2022, they lead the way in gagging up games, the Baltimore football team, the Ravens, second consecutive division of loss now for Baltimore in another spectacular choke job. In the second half, same old story, the coaches have changed, the players have changed, the common denominator is what the Ravens do in these spots.

So the question without Lamar Jackson, are the Ravens already out of the AFC North race back to back division losses for the Baltimore football team? So I'm going to nod my head, yes, because it doesn't seem like Lamar Jackson is going to be playing all that much. Now they say he may come back in the next Ravens game, and even if he does come back, do you trust that he'll be out there? Lamar does not have a contract past this particular season. So you wonder how motivated he's going to be to get back out there.

Let's wait another extra week here. Let me just see, make sure I want to make sure I'm all the way back. Yes, that's what I want to do. No one can question this. You're not allowed.

That's taboo to question that. So mathematically, the Ravens are not out of any kind of a race, but realistically, the division is on life support. You lose back to back divisional games. And the Ravens have gone from Edgar Allan Poe to Edgar Allan No. Real quick, without Lamar Jackson Baltimore's office, with Tyler Huntley serving up a bowl of Chef Boy RD.

They've got the mini spaghetti rings, and that's it. No meatballs, no spice, no explosiveness, none of that stuff. And just a bunch of check downs floating around in tomato sauce. And it's like a cheesy spinoff movie for the Ravens. You've got Honey Eye Shrunkley offense starring Tyler Huntley.

Wait a minute. Now where's my evidence? I'll give you my evidence. In 14 quarters with Lamar Jackson, when he's played, the Ravens have scored 116 points and 14 offensive touchdowns. When Lamar has been out, 14 quarters with Tyler Huntley, Baltimore has scored just 53 points and five touchdowns.

For those of you not really keeping track because you're doing something else, that means with Tyler Huntley instead of Lamar Jackson, the Ravens offense is measurably worse. How much worse? 54.3% less productive in terms of points scored for the Ravens offense from Lamar Jackson to Tyler Huntley. And in terms of touchdowns, they're 64% worse. Side by side.

So that is what happens when your entire offensive identity, everything that you are, the ethos of the Ravens, is dependent on one guy staying healthy. That's it. That's all Lamar is the guy running the fireworks factory in Maryland and Tyler Huntley operating a discount candle shop. And that's the difference. It is the Ben Mallor show.

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Interesting. Isn't that special? All right. What else we have? We have Eileen blaming the stupid substation.

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We all know Dan Campbell to be loving meathead guy. However, when it comes to listening to the analytics, he always goes for it. He always goes for the analytics. It's wild. Josh says, if the Lions have lost that game on that idiotic fourth down call, does Dan Campbell get fired?

He says, also happy early birthday to the arena. Now Dan Campbell's not getting fired. Thank you. Because then they're going to bring back his Wayne fonts to the live. They're going to bring Wayne fonts back.

Oh, let's go to the phones. Let's say hello to, let's go to Mike who's in Green Bay and he's on the Ben Mallor show on Fox. Hello, Mike. Welcome. Hey, how's it going?

If I was any better, I'd be loved, but not Jordan love. Because we'll have a real good time up here at Green Bay tonight. Yeah. What's the mood? Give me the mood.

Pulse of the people. Oh, I mean, I was barking tonight. And it was pretty pretty somber. I got it in halftime and people seem pretty disinterested between the midfield goals and the other where you just penalty calls. Yeah, it's like Jordan love is not terrible.

He's just not as good as they thought he would be. He's somewhere he's just kind of near the middle, the lower end of the middle. He's I think that's I think that's unfair. I think we've seen what he can produce when things are right. But that's not but that's not how you judge a quarterback when things are right.

Anyone looks good. It's what when things aren't right. That's how you judge a quarterback. It's not when the offensive lines perfect and the receivers are great and everything's wonderful. Anybody can do that.

These guys are all like the top player and their pop Warner team and high school team and college team. It's what happens when things aren't going right and Jordan love gets exposed every time. He's only he's only good when everything's great around him. I think you have to look at the Vikings and that quarterback situation is still bad. Callamory is still not good.

But yet the team is perfect. Well, I don't think I'll be. But that's their offense is not their offense is terrible. They're not going to win anything. They're not it's not sustainable.

The Vikings they can't win with that offense. They're going to lose there because at some point their defense is not going to play well on the playoffs and they're going to need some offense and Kyler Murray is unable to do it. The guy sucks. Now if they need to win a video game tournament, they're in pretty good shape. They're in a football game.

That's a problem. No, I listen the Vikings have their last undefeated team. Do you think the Vikings are like enemy going against the vice? Oh my god, we can't we can't beat them. No, because you know it'll be a low scoring game because their defense will be good and the Viking offense sucks.

So you're going to have a chance to beat them every single time. I'll do the Ravens win with a pretty terrible offense. They took all the way one at a great defense back in with Trent over in Ray Lewis. That's a long time ago. That's a long time ago.

Well, we've seen good defense scary things like this and it can be sustainable. It shouldn't be but it can be. Well, if you were betting, would you bet on that working or against that work? I know, right? Yeah, exactly.

So anything could work, right? You could, yeah, there are teams. Remember the Rams, the greatest show on turf, they had a terrible defense. They won the Super Bowl one year years ago and you're supposed to have a decent defense. Like everyone.

So yeah, there's there's an exception to the rule. All right. So are you in Greenberry? You an Appleton, were you? Yeah, which I think Greenberry.

Okay. My brother is over in Appleton. So that's why I was asked. So thanks. Yeah, there you go.

All right. Well, thank you. Thanks Mike. Appreciate that. There you go.

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I don't know what else we have. Let's see here. Can't read that. That's what I have to phone. Let's say a lot.

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It was the moon. And let's go to our astrology insider. Nobody else has this. The astrology inside. Let's find out what cosmic events are taking place right now because it's not just a full moon.

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Enjoy. Thank you. Those Scorpios are trouble, man. Let me tell you, let me tell you, let me tell you, let me tell you, let me tell you, let me tell you, let me tell you, let me tell you, let me tell you, let me tell you, let me tell you. They're intense.

You got to appreciate the intensity. It's a science transformation. And while I was in the opposite of Charrias, I'm okay with that. So yeah, obviously the track, they also learn a lot from each other. So we have the full, you know, we like to form a zalman act.

So we have the full moon and we have Mercury retrograde. Oh, oh, oh, Mercury retrograde. Everyone we mean freaked out one year because you have Mercury in retrograde and you was having a panic attack. That was great moments in show history. Yes.

Well, Mercury is retrograde. This started beta October 24 in November 13th. Okay. I did a sports associate podcast on 49ers with my colleagues, set our laws and it came up with the 49ers birthday June 6, 1944, San Francisco, California, third Gemini, Moon, Scorpio, and Mercury retrograde on their Moon, Scorpio. And they lost their first game if you, you know, I do not remember the 49ers first game.

I apologize. I'm a bad guy. I thought you meant the first game they ever played. I was like, I don't know. I was around for that.

So I don't know. Yeah, I mentioned the 1944 birthday. Now they lost the first game of the season here and it was kind of a challenging game that they played. So we had the full moon, Mercury retrograde on their Moon. And it's just, you know, kind of been quite aligned for that.

So it was just interesting to see the frustrations and what a bounded with the full moon and Mercury retrograde. So, oh, and Venus is retrograde too. So we got Mercury and Venus. It's double your pleasure. Double your fun two for one special right now.

Two for one special. It's a way to put it. Mercury's communication, transportation, technology, Venus is a relationships, finances, values. So are we thinking a lot of things and the formula is thinking something is the combination. So it would be interesting to see what ends up transpiring.

So the folklore around the 400 moon October 26th, 2026, and the farm is all monastic. It's the first full moon after the fall equinoc. So it pinks today as we're talking and it's just in Scorpio and, you know, wearing Scorpio season in the full moon since Horace. And I wasn't really about it being called the Hunter's Moon, but it's just called that because leaves are falling and animals are, you know, apparently I'm looking at the farmer's home and that's easier to spot. No, but landscape here and wildlife that end up over the summer.

Oh, okay. No, we don't like the hunting aspect, but it is called Hunter's Moon. There you go. Hunter's Moon. All right.

Well, we've been there. Andrea, thank you Virgo in service on X. You can say hello to our astrology insider there. She goes, Andrea is going to start the bathtub here and she'll be on her way on her way. Let's say hello to Hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hello, Hollering James. Benny, you're awake again. What's the, what's the technique going on? Can I talk to your doctor? What kind of medication are you now on?

What's going on with you? You used to sleep all the time. Now you're wide away. As before, I'm taking my a-gra and I'm ready for Lorena. All right.

Thank you for that. So the Minnesota Vikings blitzed on a total of 85.2% of the Indianapolis dropbacks in the game. Obviously on Sunday, that is the highest rate ever recorded in the NFL's next gen stats here. Now it's rather obvious that Brian Flores realizes Daniel Jones cannot handle the blitz. So if he can handle the blitz blitz blitz blitz blitz blitz blitz blitz blitz full attack mode repeatedly sending an extra defensive player to attack the Andrew Jones and it worked.

Daniel Jones choked. He couldn't handle it. It was terrible. He suffocated and the Indianapolis Colts suffocated their passing. They're passing off his Jones at just 108 yards passing.

We're going to talk more about this game next hour. But 13 conflations, 22 attempts, Indianapolis had just 10 points and it was a winable game because Minnesota has no offense. But Daniel Jones, my God, the Vikings defensively with Brian Flores, they dared Daniel Jones to beat the pressure. And he was not up to the challenge. Couldn't do it.

Couldn't get it done failed miserable. I spent my other show on that number though. That's the number 85.2% for the blitz by Minnesota's defense against Indianapolis on dropbacks. And I don't know how many years they've done a few years. They've done the next gen nerd stats.

So it's not been that long. But Brian Flores, they didn't really design some exotic defensive plan. It's like, all right, they he can't play against pressure. So it's just blitz early and often against Daniel Jones. And we'll bring the entire state of Minnesota to come after him.

And it worked. And so as long as that keeps going, the Viking six and all best start for them. Top start for the Viking since 09, barely alive back in 09, so long ago. It is the Ben Mallor show as we press on and on and on. Time now for the in-stock trivia.

And here we go. Baker Mayfield through for just 64 yards, Tampa Bay, 143 to 13 over those pathetic Carolina Panthers. Hey, where's Gunner, by the way? We were Gunner as he was in the Mr. Carolina Panther fanboy.

No, yes, he's busy. It's odd how he's always busy when the team plays poorly. It's not how that works. Anyway, Baker Mayfield just 64 yards passing. And Tampa Bay is 43, 13 win over those pathetic Carolina Panthers breaking blanks, Super Bowl era record for the fewest passing yards by a starting quarterback in a game where his team scored 40 or more points.

Again, Baker Mayfield, the Bucks, he had just 64 yards passing, Tampa Bay gets a 43, 13 beat down to Carolina. And that breaks blanks, Super Bowl era record for the fewest passing yards by starting quarterback in the game where they're we're his team, we're his team scored 40 or more points. That's the instatrivia. The answer, if you know what on X at Ben Mallor, we'll get to that. And we will do it.

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Thank you. Thank you. All right. Time now for the Insta trivia. And here it is.

Baker Mayfield had just 64 yards passing. Tampa Bay gets a 30 point win this word over 40. Beaten up Carolina. Breaking blanks. Super Bowl era record for the fewest passing yards by a starting quarterback in a game where his team scored 40 or more points.

And that is the question. What is the answer? And let's see. Does anyone know the answer? Andrea, the astrological disaster, I think.

Is that what you said? Another problem? What else do we have? Paige down. Marty Bergen is the answer from Althe Alien.

Oh, punters. Got a fun fact. We don't have time for that right now. Femi going with Tim Tebow, Neil Lomax from Polyd Vince Ferragamo from JT, the wingman. What else do we have?

Paige down. Connie Chung from Arturo. Wow. Ever in that name in a while. The late great Lawrence McCutchen, Ram Legend from Larry D.

That's his answer. Full moon. Where's Blind Scott from Truck Stop? What's that? You were the rain up.

San Arnold. No, the correct answer is Cam Newton with the Patriots in 2020. Cam Newton. Here we go. It's real quick.

It's real quick. How about that? To the third degree. You're a little bit. Ben North Carolina State.

Fire their coach for over 14 seasons. Yeah, it was a name. Dame Dohren. I guess I can ask for the top candidate to replace him. Philip Rivers.

There you go. Why not? Do you think he's going to end up a head coach? I mean, that's a good program. Why not?

You know, these college teams at this point, they're just throwing crap against the wall because NIL. So people know who Philip Rivers is. I guess he just played last year for the Colts. Why not? Next.

All right. Now, earlier this weekend, they said that Arch Manning might forego the NFL draft and possibly leave Texas. Do you think that would be the case? I think that's a long shot. I think he leaves.

He goes to the NFL. Always make a lot of money in college, though. And these NIL changes everything. But I would think you'd want to go. He's not ready for the NFL, but I think you just want to go to the NFL and get that life started next.

A little too early NBA talk. People are saying that Anthony Davis makes the Wizards a playoff contender. Do you think that's the case? Everyone makes the playoffs. Coopits the NBA.

Everyone gets in. That's easy. How do we do? You pass. That's how we put it on the board.

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