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3:00at FoxSportsRadio.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 Bend Mathers Show on Fox Sports Radio. Back to what we go in. We begin this hour with that Dallas Cowboys winning doubt, throw the Cowboys out because the Cowboys are good for business in these parts. And so that is what we're going to do. And there's one storyline that is bigger than all the other storylines with the Dallas Cowboys and it involves a certain disgruntled wide receiver. So if you haven't been following this story, the Cowboys recently, while we were away, placed the non-exclusive franchise tag on the back of George Pickens by George, which means that if you would like to get your hands on George Pickens, you can do that. You can negotiate a contract with Pickens however,

4:00you got to read the fine print. However, the Cowboys would have a chance to match any offer sheet that George Pickens agrees to. Not, if not, then the team that signs him would have to give the Cowboys not one but two, first round draft picks as compensation. So that's the deal on that. Now, if you've not been following the nitty-gritty on this and perhaps not, the state-funded NFL media saying that they do not expect, they do not expect George Pickens to sign the franchise tag this thing out. As is normal protocol, you sign at the very last minute if you're going to sign that at all, and that's how this goes. You crank up the drama O'Rama. Now, we hear the Pickens camp, the Pickens camp, we're going to try to play the match game, try to find a team that is a match for George Pickens

5:00on a long-term contract. And then it will be up to the Cowboys whether or not they want Pickens to actually leave or not, and how desperate they are to keep George Pickens. So that is a good, Jover Yacht Point. Let us discuss the question. Is how could George Pickens crowbar his way out of Jerry's world? How does he get out of Dallas? How does he get out of the Cowboy locker room? So my observations, I got all of these things together, and we are going to eat our own dog food. That's an old business saying. You got to eat your own dog food. You got to consume your own product and all that. A lot of people don't do that anymore. We do consume our own dog food though. We do on this show. So don't let the franchise tag horn swagger you. Do not allow the franchise tag to commit skulled doggery.

6:00Because it's not handcuffs. It's this idea. It's a handcuffs situation. It's not handcuffs. It is like a suggestion box that is decorated and wrapped in barbed wire. That's what it is. So the playbook for the great escape. Like a very traumatic. The great escape from Jerry's world. You start by poking the bear. You must poke the bear. It is a hullabaloo. You become the mosquito that is buzzing around Jerry Jones while he's sitting on those tremendously expensive Egyptian sheets that he sleeps on there at three in the morning. And you just bother him. And we've seen this before. It's a common movie. It's a common movie here. Micah Parsons. He did something similar. He stopped his feet. And he fell down just a little bit. Bang the drum and all that.

7:00And suddenly, Jerry flinched and traded his ass to Siberia to go play for the Green Bay Packers. The Holy Land of the Cheesecurd. And that was that. But Jerry, for a long time, we're going to keep Micah Parsons when I could trade him. And then he did. So we know that for Jerry, Chaos is really good. If, enough, if they were to get rid of George Pickens, they already have, in CD-LAM, a top-level wide receiver. So they can get somebody else in there to play wide receiver. But Pickens has to be willing to play the game. You got to play the game. If you really want to get it, I would love the franchise tech. If the company I work for wants to give me, you know, one year of cowherd money, I'd be very happy at that. And have a Cheshire cat smile up to these guys. These NFL players, they bitch so much about the franchise tag.

8:00It's such a hardship for these guys. It's so sad. It really is. It's just like working in a sweatshop, having to make the average of the last five years of players at your position or whatever it is. And what of the formula is? It's really difficult. I don't know how these guys sleep at night at night. He's got to, as you said, play the game. Send out some cryptic Instagram stories. Send out some stuff. Are you wearing different uniforms? That's always good this time of the year, right? Oh, yeah. Here's George Pickens wearing. Oh, look at that. Is that a, is that a raiders? Oh, he's wearing a raiders. He wants to play with others. The social media post that have the freemey vibes of them. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. You know what I call fruit of the loom? You know those t-shirts. I don't think they're like this anymore. But these make those t-shirts that had the label, they had the tag on the back. And it would poke and kind of tickle you

9:01while you wore the shirt. It was very annoying. So you gotta do that. You gotta be annoying. You gotta poke and annoy Jerry Jones. And make it uncomfortable. Make it loud. And messy. And Jerry will enjoy that for a while. That's the point of demarcation there. And as far as the window shopping, you're free to roam around the NFL. Try to work out a deal. You gotta go to Buffalo first. Now nobody really wants to live in Buffalo if they have a choice. But that's the team. You go in there as the number one option at wide receiver. They don't have a number. They don't have a number two receiver in Buffalo. You go in there. Get paid a ton of money. You got a top level quarterback. You're good to go. And the Super Bowl. They don't have a assassin at wide receiver. Go to New England. Now I mentioned the Raiders. They're starving for anything. They're relevant. If the Raiders were a show on Vegas on the strip, they'd be canceled.

10:01Because they're terrible. Then you got teams like the Titans who sock that need help. The Ravens who have a star quarterback that need a big time wide receiver. So George Pickens is the shiny toy. The price. All of my draft picks. I don't give an F about draft picks. Now me want to Indianapolis. We go the scouting combine is. Oh, V E R. It's all over the comma. How are we going to go on with our lives? All those nugs. All the nuggets all week every day. 15,000 stories popping out of the scouting combine. With its corporate sponsor there in Indianapolis. All those NFL people running up expense accounts at the two or three high end restaurants in downtown Indianapolis. So the combine is over. Another year is in the books. Another one bites the dust. Another one bites the dust. So I don't know how much you consumed. Of the combine. I very little.

11:01Very little. I had. I will admit I had it on in the background. I think it was Thursday. I had it on the background. I did not really pay attention to it. So that's it. And I did monitor some of the names that are being hyped up. For example. If you did not partake in the NFL scouting combine. Consuming it. From what I understand. I could be completely wrong about this. But from what I understand. Got the most buzz or Notre Dame running back. Jeremiah love. That's the name of a star. Jeremiah love. That's the star's name. You better not suck when you're named Jeremiah love. That's a big time name. The golden domer. And then you've got Cincinnati wide receiver Jeff Caldwell. Who? Jeff Caldwell. Who had scouts drooling at the combine. You might want to see a doctor.

12:01A question. What are your takeaways. From the nuggets that came out of the scouting combine. What are the big takeaways on this. So the annual underwear Olympics. The closing ceremonies. Which includes something with Rich Eisen. Who used to work here back in the day. But the whole thing has been commandeered. And in the last 15 years. This is not new. This is not a fresh take. But the last 15 years this thing has been commandeered. It's a marketing junket. It's a marketing junket. They roll out the runway. You got the red carpet. They shine the spotlight on. The players that are entering the NFL. And they parade them out. It's like fashion week in Perry. It's it's fashion week. They're wearing not shoulder pads. They're wearing spandex. But that's it. That's what they did. And they run around. And they shake their tookus.

13:01That's how they do it. Right there. Boom. On fashion week. NFL's fashion week. The NFL executives. Polk and prod. They bring in their trainers. And their doctors. And they get all the measurements. And then the wings man. And it's kind of like going to whole foods and buying a cantaloupe. They won the weekend allegedly. From what I read, maybe I read it wrong. But they won the weekend. They look like Marvel superheroes. So I'm sure they do. Mazeltaugh. They look great. And it's the NFL going full Hollywood. Hooray for Hollywood. Hooray for Hollywood. It's Warner Brothers with the 40 yard dash. Is what it is. And the draft is at this point. And it's been this way as long as the draft's been around. They've had some fireworks. And everyone's got a sob story in the draft. They all came from bad parts of town.

14:01They all had no money. If anybody is drafted who has a lot of money, they're shamed. I think what's wrong with you? Anyway, the point of all this is the NFL draft is when you break it down to its essence. And you go back to bedrock. It's old dudes reading names off a card. That's what the NFL draft is. There's nothing exciting about it. Nothing. Let's just have somebody walk up to a podium and read names. That's it. That's all. Now they can add fog machines. They've tried that. Right? Hype videos. You know, the whole thing. And this is important. You got to start pumping up. This is the biggest event of the offseason. You got to pump up these players. You got to have that. He's built like hey man. That old. It's the, it might as well be produced by the people of Tootsie Roll who make that fluffy stuff cotton candy.

15:02With throw some lollipops in there. Some Tootsie pops are good to go. Here's the reality check, though. Nobody knows anything. Nobody knows anything when it comes to the NFL draft. It is a spin of the roulette wheel. You draft because somebody looks like the incredible hawk. They've got the measurables that you like. And that don't guarantee anything. You're not going to be a superstar because you have the measurables. And as the old line goes from back in the day, you can have the body of tarzan. But if you don't play like tarzan, if you play like, yeah, it's not well. It's not well. There you go. Play like Jane. What you don't know is the point of all this. And you don't know what you got until you open the box. What's in the box? You don't know. Sometimes it's a franchise level player. And sometimes it's a honey suckle turkey. It cuts both ways. All right, now final point.

16:02As the event of 2026 came to an end, I did notice the chatter. That there are many NFL staffers who think they're on thin ice. Now why is that? Well, a popular topic by popular people, the scouting combine, artificial intelligence. Oh, no. Yes. And that it is spreading like a fungus. Not the fungus hut, but it's spreading like a fungus there in the question whether or not. AI, not Alan Iverson, but AI will knock jobs for scouts. There'll be fewer scouts. And there'll be less coaching jobs. And that's that because of AI. And the many of the jobs that are currently done, the low level jobs in the NFL are jobs that could easily be replaced with AI. It would be more accurate. And so this is the concern that you have with people working the NFL who are trying to make their way up the ladder that the ladder will be chopped down.

17:11And they're going to fall down. So let us discuss this the question on this one. How do you see this AI take over the NFL working out? So my first thought is I absolutely love this story. No, you hate in my job eventually will go. There'll be AI here. I'll lose my job to AI. I am convinced of that at some point. I believe that to be true. That said, this having covered the NFL for years back when they had those fat guys that used to play that smoked cigars and wore Hawaiian shirts. And they were the scouts with the radar guns and all that. And the stopwatches like that crowd, they got replaced. Almost all of those guys got replaced by the Ivy League crowd. The analytical crowd came in. They flooded the league with spreadsheets. And now they're the ones that are now in danger of getting eaten by their own creation. How great is that? The irony is just outstanding. So the same analytical crew that took the NFL by storm.

18:15Those nerds that flooded the NFL with all this stuff. They built this monster in the lab where you put in all the numbers and all that stuff. And now they're in danger of being escorted out of the building with one cardboard box with all their stuff in it. I've made that walk by the way. It's not a fun walk. It's not a fun walk. I've made that walk before. But they sold everyone on process over people. This was the argument. I don't care about the human beings. It's all about the process. Okay. Great. Wonderful. Well. Oh yeah. Yeah. Now the process is starting to replace the people. It's the corporate hunger games. The corporate hunger games of the NFL. And maybe odds be ever in your favor. Chad from Cornell or Mike from Harvard or Steve from Yale or whoever. Good luck on that. And eventually it doesn't happen right away. I know in radio it happens right away.

19:15But in other businesses, the NFL's got a lot of money. So they can afford to have no show jobs, which these jobs pretty much are no show jobs and all that stuff. Heck, the Vikings GM who just got let go was supposedly drafting players based on pro football focus. So whatever it was. And that was who he was drafting based on what they recommended rather than actually doing his scouting. This is essentially what this would be. A.I. says to draft this guy. Okay. It says, well, draft that guy because that's what A.I. said. And then if anybody questions it, you say, well, the A.I. said to draft it. So just blame A.I. Okay. Change A.I. is there. Okay. We'll change A.I.s. They just do whatever they're told. So but the cost cutting does eventually happen. It happens in every business. And it's like they pay roll slash and burn. Would be what this is. And there's so many more coaches now than there used to be in all of these sports. So many more. And you can trim the fat away.

20:15I do a little slash and burn situation and get rid of some of these guys. And that's corporate America 101. And that's I've worked at big corporations for my entire adult life. And that's how they operate. But if the robot can write the scouting report, then why have the scout? Right? If the robot, if A.I. can do what the nerds can do, but they can do it quicker and they can do it better than what's the point. So my point is my thing is this like A.I.s a fine tool. I'm not against it. The problem is when you start running these things like it's a madden franchise. You're just setting it up and franchise mode. And that's that and all. The problem is that. And then it's like they try to make this like a science fair, which is also not great. And it's like a science fair. And you know, it's it should be a bar fight. Not a science fair as far as the NFL is concerned there. And you A.I. can measure the wingspan. They can do that. They can say, well, how many jumping jacks can this guy do? Okay, he can do that.

21:15Many that sounds good. Can this guy do the old flip? I don't know if he can do the flip. Let's find out. We'll ask A.I. And all that. But you cannot measure. This is the thing A.I. cannot measure. And we'll never be able to measure. Is whether or not player X has any guts. Right. Well, he has that. And you can't measure who's going to panic in front of 75,000 people on a Sunday night in the fourth quarter. Because they have tight took a syndrome. There's no A.I. program that will tell you that is going to happen. Right. But it does happen. And oftentimes you find that information out by the scouting community. So it's like a chainsaw thing realized. It's like a chainsaw, which is useful until you forget it's, you know, it's sharp. And then you can get hurt by it. You know, you can get hurt by it. Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern 11 p.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHard Radio app.

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25:43right there. The landing with a great Malor meet and greet a couple years back. There was awesome. I had a couple of Malor meet and greets in Kansas City over the years. Well, Travis Kelsey. Yeah, did he retire? No, he did not retire. He did not supposedly the latest is Travis Kelsey and the chiefs are in deep conversation about the plans for the 2026 season. Have you been following this? No, because you have a life. You're not following this. Let me fill you in. All right, so if you missed it, now canza city expects Travis Kelsey to play supposedly, although they haven't gotten the official word. Oh, the drama. So they haven't gotten the official word. They want a decision by the end of the week, by the end of the week. And they want to say, okay, so good. Okay. Now that would give them if Kelsey decides to say it's nay on the football. A that would give them time to go out and turn over some rocks and try to find another tight end.

26:45And look at the draft the 2026 NFL draft. If they need to find a successor kind of obvious there. But wait, there's more as every grade infomercial, the late night staple, the classic, but wait, there's more from Ron Popeo, who was supposed to appear on my podcast. And he decided not to do it and then died. How dare him? Anyway, state funded NFL media. State funded NFL media tells us that the chiefs general manager, Brett Vitch. Brett Vitch, the GM there. Now he wants to make sure that Travis Kelsey is all in. If he does end up playing in 2026. So that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. The chiefs, according to this report saying they want full commitment from Travis Kelsey for the 2026 NFL season. How are you interpreting this?

27:48So I've got subpoena, jello salad and dodgeball. And we will combine all of these things together. And we are going to have a delicious grilled cheese sandwich is what we're going to have with the cheese on the outside and the inside of the grilled cheese. Now a looking at the situation in Kansas City, the chiefs kingdom as they call it from 30,000 feet looking down here. And then getting a little closer and a little closer and a little closer. I see a house divided. Oh, the drama. I do. I see a house divided. Right. To me, this one doesn't pass the smell test. Now to the average consumer, you'll say, wow, what are you talking about? Mal or your big donkey? You don't know what you're talking about. There's just nothing. I think there's something there because I have a better schnauz than you do. I can smell. I can smell better than you. So this smells like the scent of passive, aggressive behavior.

28:52It's a power play, power play, if you will, at one arrowhead drive there before they moved to Kansas. Now the chiefs, she am here. Brett Vich, the man of the hour. He's out there playing Mr. Niske. It's good cop bad cop. He's being the nice guy, you know, good cop and all that. However, if you listen between the words, if you read between the lines, shall we? What do you say here? When the jam, the general management NFL team comes out and announces his list, I need this player to be a thousand percent all in. I need this player to be there. That is not a compliment. That is not a compliment. That is like issuing a subpoena is what it is. It's like, hey, think about it. Seriously, when you peel back the onion, what do you get? Right? You don't have to ask the guy who's already in the gym at six in the morning if he's committed to the team. So by doing this, the obvious conclusion, you connect the dots on this one,

29:56and the obvious connection is that this, you ask this guy who spent the last couple of years in a jet setting where it was the iris tour traveling around the globe, game show, cheesy game shows, bad acting with Adam Sandler, all that stuff. Right? And he spent more time, got more miles, more air miles than he did yards. His numbers say a lead balloon. I was not good. He was not good. So, you know, you look at the tight end, 2025 Travis Kelsey was not good enough. He was multitasking and the brand and all that stuff. And so the chiefs, if you want to get next level traumatic, they're in the swifty standoff, if you will. Ooh, because that big celebrity wedding coming up in the spring here, and we're all, I mean, not that far away, right? We're closing in on that. And so they need the tailor effect, the business side, they need that, right?

31:01And so the talent sheet says, let's go for it. Let's do it. The football side. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The football side sees a 36 year old or something like that, asset that's running on fumes, you know, whatever Kelsey is, he's getting up there. And the GMs essentially saying the way I use the mallard Dakota ring, the general manager bread beach there is essentially saying, hey, Travis, yeah, it's me. And the GM and the chiefs, okay, hey, what's going on? The rock star life or the first hubby of the rock star life, that can wait. Right? So either you put the glitter away, put the glitter away, hit the weights and all that stuff, or go be the first hubby full time. You know, it's an awkward pickle is what it is. There's never really a good pickle. So it's an awkward pickle. But Kansas City, you know, they want the afterglow, the chiefs. They want to continue this as long as they can of the Taylor Swift effect.

32:04However, they need an upgrade on the field. That's the problem. That's the conundrum. That's the conundrum right there. It's time to decide, you know, Hall of Fame career, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I hadn't made a Hall of Fame level player the last couple of years though, Kelsey. And so what are you going to do? What are you going to do? All right, meanwhile, speaking of what are you going to do? Now, when I saw this, I thought, well, this must be satire, this story out of Minnesota. Well, there's a lot of stories out of Minnesota that make me roll my eyes. But this one in particular, so the Vikings are window shopping for a savvy veteran starting quarterback, at least a former starting quarterback. So they know they need some insurance. They need a little bit of insurance there for McCarthy. They actually need a lot of insurance for J.J. McCarthy. Not a little bit of a lot of insurance for J.J. McCarthy. And the story that was very arrogant was like, wow, they think that they've got such great coaches and they've got Justin Jefferson that they can pretty much bring in any schmo

33:10and whatever dingleberry they pick will put up big numbers and lead them to victory because they've got talent and they've got coaching and all that stuff. And the name that popped up here, the name that popped up, I saw that. Did you see this? No. Geno Smith. Geno Smith. Is that not comedy gold? My God. So good. Yeah, the Raiders Corps. So the quarterback Geno Smith, who was not very good in Seattle and approved, he wasn't very good with the Raiders. And he is a person of interest for the purple people eaters. All right, question. So the Vikings, if you believe the chatter are interested in Raiders quarterback Geno Smith, who will likely be released, better known as fired from his job there in Vegas.

34:12So how does that taste? How does that take the fact that the Vikings are being connected? Get your skull out right now to Geno Smith. So you're telling me that's the grand plan. Come on. Like that's the big Nordic reboot in Minnesota. This is what you're going to do and you got JJ McCarthy. Well, we're going to bring in Geno Smith. Really? Is that right? You know what that tastes like? It tastes like liver worst and in yellow salad is what it tastes like, right? It's stomach turning. It's absolute stomach turning. It's puking your mouth. And I got nothing. I got nothing. I'm not a Viking guy or anything like that. I don't have a Viking fan. I have friends in Minnesota and all that, but my God. This is so over the top. You want to believe that this was one of those stories that was put out there by the agent, hoping that it leads to something, right? The agent leaked it. And that says, hey, float the Minnesota connected to Geno Smith. Maybe someone will bite there in Minnesota and say, that's a good idea.

35:15Now, the alternative is also redoculous Kyler Murray. Yep. Fun size quarterback Kyler Murray. He comes with a booster seat. If you get him in a trade, the cardinals will throw that in the booster seat. So there is that. Can you imagine choosing, if those are your options, you've got Kyler Murray and Geno Smith. So what I rather have the mutant fungus, which is over here, or do I want the bubonic plague bacteria, which is over here, which one would I like? That is such a horrific combo dish. If those are your options, you're considering if you're the Vikings, my unsolicited advice would be to go out and get Kurt Cousins and bring him back. Not that he's any good, but I'd rather have him than Geno Smith or Kyler Murray. At least he likes football, unlike Kyler Murray, and Geno Smith is just bad.

36:18At least occasionally Kurt Cousins is halfway decent. Geno Smith, you think about his signature momma with the Raiders. It was giving the bird to Raider fans. That was it. And then in Seattle, his signature momma was after the first game he played against the Broncos when he gave this big speech about how nobody believed in me and all that. And then the rest of his time in Seattle proved that those people were right by being a middling quarterback. So good. Anyway, so that's where we are. That's where we are. Geno Smith, when the pocket collapses, he is gift-rapting turnovers. It's like he's Santa Claus there. You get a turnover. You get a turnover. You get a turnover. Good luck on that. And the decision making, which melts faster than the ice over there on Lake Minnetonka in April. And he's been bad, Geno Smith. Geno Smith last year was like the new level of bad. He was the new level of bad. Fewer yards, more interceptions. The team was terrible.

37:19He was horrific. So they say, well, he's a bridged quarterback. I love him. Geno Smith is a bridged quarterback. It's a draw bridge to nowhere with a hole in it. And that's the kind of draw bridge quarterback he is. Meanwhile, to Motown, we go, we got a trade. We got a trade hours after. We did a mall or mall or at least part of a mall or monologue about David Montgomery. He's a running back. David Montgomery. He's been traded. By bye to Detroit. I didn't want to be traded. Lions trading running back. David Montgomery to the Houston Texans for offensive lineman juice. Scroggs. Any relation to Newy Scroggs? I don't know. Juice Scroggs and a couple of draft fix. Nothing really worth our time of fourth round pick. If you're into fourth round draft fix, I recommend a nice therapist is what I recommend. Also a seventh round draft. Well, that's even better.

38:19And that's not till 2027. So my Montgomery on the move. Question. Who got the better of this David Montgomery trade between the Lions and the Texans? So after eight minutes long deliberation of the available information. I've seen some people say, well, the Lions got the better of the trade. I'm like, really? I didn't see it that way. It's cute. Like the whole trade. It's not a big trade or anything like that. I'm going to talk about it for a couple of minutes because we talked about David Montgomery in a previous episode of the show. This comes after he had said that he had the report was he wanted out of Detroit and he said, no, he refuted that report. And then hours later, he's trading. And so the winner's corner. To me, the arrow is pointing towards Houston. It's a slight lean. It's not like this is going to change all that much. But the slight lean there David Montgomery is not some spare part. That Houston found in the trunk. Next to the spare tire.

39:19It's it's not that. The moment. And this is what really leaned it. The direction of the Texans for me. The moment I saw the messaging from the Lions front office, the whispers of salary cap relief. And we saved some money getting rid of David Montgomery. That is called playing dodgeball with the truth. And anytime I hear a team say we got rid of this player because of the salary cap, I know bullcrap. I know it's bullcrap. It's the magic phrase that you can use to justify anyone leaving your team. Anything that maybe will be deemed unpopular. That might be unpopular. It was well, you know, it's the perfect boogeyman. You go, yeah, but it's sour cap. You have it. You have it. You have it. You have it. You have it. You have it. You have it. You have it. You have it. You have it. And then dumb people, they just believe it. They accept it. They move on.

40:19And they say that's that. And do I think Detroit believes that my rubber has cooked? Absolutely. They didn't want to say that. So they said, ah, salary cap relief. No. They thought he was still good. He'd be on the team. They think he's not. Do you trust the Detroit Lions? Do they know what they're doing? Do they know? I would thinking he can still be at least a short yardage goal line guy and get touched. guy and get touchdowns that way and be a wrecking ball type running back to even my company on these 29 next season. So the the lions again, the cap excuse. This is just my default programming when you hear the cap excuse, dead, get white, dead, get white, that they are reshaping the narrative there. They're manipulating the narrative to fit it because they're little scared. I was like, wow, we just say the salary cap, salary cap, salary cap, salary cap, salary cap, salary cap, salary cap. Be sure to catch live additions of the Ben Mallorch show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern 11 p.m. Pacific. This dog salon, operational excellence,

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44:30You're in a year. This is a very important game to me. You're not going to, you're not going to fudge around with this, right? You're going to try, you know, your sports, you're ready to go. Yes. I'm 100% let's go. 100% and what is your level of confidence that you're going to win the game? I say 100%. Let's do this. Okay. All right. Who would you like to partner up with there? D block? You got me, Ben or the Koopaloo? The way you turn. All right. It's good choice by you. And we have a Jed who actually was online to play. Malor's money. Hello, Jed. Welcome back. I mean, I see a metaphor for Mr. Crepe and that of me. And I'm not supposed to stick up for the agency or what? All right. All right. Come back. Justin Cooper or Ben, are you whoever wasn't mentioned? I'm sorry. I like you other guy. I like you. Okay. What are you? What are the categories? I said, I said, we're going to win. I won't pick. No, Lorraine. Good. Okay. This is Malor's Mountain of Money, the Method Man edition. Method Man. Not Method Man, Jed. Method Man.

45:31He turned 55 years old on Monday. Oh, 55. Yes. Double Nichols. That's right. The categories are protect Yannick. Creme or C-R-E-A-M. I believe that's cash rules, everything around me. I love that song. Judgment Day and still on it. And Deep Lock. Deep Lock. Deep Lock. On the year. Hold on a second. He punched this game. And Deep Lock. Hello, Deep Lock. Which category would you like, Deep Lock? Let's go cream. All right. And Jed, how about you? Hey, eyes near Steinets. Let's go judgment day. All right. All right, gentlemen, stay. Do not hang up or you will be, you will lose. Do not curse or you will lose. So those are the rules. Very simple rules. Not that deep. It's not that deep. Okay, we are moments away. Well, minutes away from having this amazing competition. You got Jed, who fled from the Redneck River era. And then Deep Lock. So it's an all-floor to match up. A Floridian match up here.

46:32So we will guarantee someone from Florida is going to win this game. Someone from Florida is going to win the game. You got Jed, who fled with coop. The team is going to win Deep Lock in Miami and myself. And we will get to that and we will do it next. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk line up in the nation. Catch all of our shows at FoxSportsRadio.com. And within the IHARDS Radio app, search F-S-R to listen live. Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Mallor Show. Moments away from Mallor's mountain of money. A reminder that you are never out of reach of the IHARDS Radio app, which means you're never out of reach of the Ben Mallor Show. Because we are broadcast on the IHARDS app on Fox Sports Radio's channel. All night, every night, you can hear the Ben Mallor Show live and in stereo. We're available. So check it out. Be sure also to select. In addition to the Fox Sports Radio channel, the Ben Mallor Show podcast, the fifth hour podcast.

47:34Have those as your presets. You can literally become a P1. On the IHARDS Radio app, it will always pop up at the top of your screen. Now, Mallor's mountain of money. Do you have what it takes to get to the top? Probably not. Now let's get right back to the game. The matchup is set. Deep lock is in Miami, Miami, Miami. And he's teamed up with me. And he's going to play the man he's talking to someone else right now, but he's on the air. And we have Jed who fled. Hello, Jed. Okay. I'll put you on hold, man. That's a good point. Yeah. You'll chop it. Okay. All right. Let's do it. Here we go. It's the method man edition and deep lock. You pick cream. Yes. Yeah, third. All right. Very good. These athletes all held out for more money. We put 45 seconds on the clock. Are you ready to block?

48:35Yes, sir. All right. Let's do it. Here we go. Quarterback. He just came out of a time. I'm going to play with a colts this year at the end of the year. Oh, Philip River. Yes. All-time NFL leading rusher for the Dallas Cowboys. And it's meant. Yes. Pittsburgh sealer running back. He missed an entire year to go hang out in your town of Miami and ride jet skis. It'll have to be on bail. Yes. Greatest left handed pitcher for the Dodgers. Played with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Also the LA Dodgers. Jewish guy. And he called. Yeah. Good job. But you achieved linebacker. Currently he's with the Chiefs defensive star. He held out for a big contract a couple years ago. Generic name. Fab five guy. He coached the Washington Wizards for a while. Oh, good. Ah, coach. You got 100. You got 100. You want? Yeah. Yeah. That's too late. Too late. Too late. Chris Jones was the, uh, the candidate. Chris Jones. Yeah. Yeah. All right. All right. Uh, Jets. That's too late.

49:35Yeah. Up there. All right. Flip with my guy and hold on. Jets. Uh, the block and hold it. We have judgment days. Is that correct? Yes. It is. Even your. All right. I will file for you. All right. These, uh, these athletes will be Hall of Fame eligible next year. So 2027, they will be Hall of Fame eligible. 45 seconds on the clock. Let's begin. Superbowling quarterback. For the Pittsburgh Steelers. Inoffice runners. Yes. Uh, this guy was the power Ford for the Clippers during the lob city days. Boy driven. Yes. This guy was the catcher for the giants like forever. I'm going to post the FSU. Yes. This guy was a cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks during the Legion of Boom era. Richard. Uh, Richard. Yep. Charming. Yep. This guy, uh, beat cancer. He was a pitcher for the Red Sox and the Cubs. One world series with both of them. Chris Taylor, maybe? No. Um, all right. We'll skip that one. Uh, this guy had the, uh, same, um,

50:37all right. He was with the 76ers originally. He won finals MVP with the Warriors. Oh, man. How many was that, Lorraine? Not good. That's like one one. No, it was one hundred. Look at very strong. She's looking at that. And my god. Lorraine, you got the test. Oh my god. Lorraine. We're tied. All right. That's, uh, oh, yeah. You're all right. Uh, I was trying to come up with ways. He could have came up with, uh, answer to this. Hey, hey, you're, you're, you're. Okay, come back. Uh, let's see. Deblock. We have protect your neck and still on it. Uh, protect your neck. All right. Protect your neck, uh, very good. All right. These athletes all had major neck injuries. Major neck injuries. Are you ready? Yeah, sir. All right. Before 45 seconds in the clock, where we did first and last name, and we are out of our way. And, uh, go. Here we go. All right, uh, Colts quarterback who played with the Broncos

51:39at the end of his career. One of Superbowl. Colts court back. Come on, uh, the playmaker for the Cowboys. Uh, uh, Michael. Yes. Uh, Cecil's son, baseball player, played for the Brewers and the Tigers. Did a lot of home. Um, pretty sure they're. Yes, uh, former Pittsburgh student defensive back. He's a loud mouth on ESPN now. He's a talking head. He's as a podcast. He thinks he has answered all the wise problems. No, uh, not Shannon, but the, uh, the other brother who played for the Packers. Uh, 30 cars. Yes. Uh, good job. A third base for this jump is third baseman for, ah, darn it. All right. All right. Two 10 total. Two 10. All right. Jed. All right. Jed, uh, we have still on it. These athletes are some of the oldest. These are some of the oldest at all stars of all time.

52:41All right. 45 seconds on the clock. Let's begin. He's the king on the Lakers right now. This is a broad game. Yes. The all time hit king. He rode. Yes, easy. Uh, this guy was the Sandman Closer for the Yankees. Easy. Mori on his revenge. Oh, easy. Uh, this guy was a quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens. He won a Super Bowl with them. He's still playing in the NFL. Did you get, uh, yes? Like a different guy. Yeah. Oh, man. Oh, I'm in it. All right. This guy is a left-fielder for the Red Sox. Uh, he played 23 seasons back in the day. Um, the 3000 hits. Uh, all right. This guy was a point guard. This guy was a point guard for the Celtics in the 50s. Oh, Jen Chote. Jen who fled Chote. I'm absolutely happy. That means that Joe Flacco. Joe Flacco. G-block. You won D-block.

53:42You get a goal to take it. You get a goal to take it. You get a goal to take it. Good job by you, D-block. Yes, I'm shocked. You took down, Jen, who fled. Jen, how embarrassed? He's not going to leave you. He's not going to leave you. What do you, what do you, what do you, I don't know. What are you yelling about? What are you? I said you're going to burn hell. Go back and check it. I definitely said Joe Flacco. No, you're not saying. You did not say, you said, John. You said, James, I think you said, Jim. Oh, even, even if you, even if you did, that wasn't enough points. Even if you didn't see that, Jen. What are you saying, you said, Jim? All right. Shut up. About G-block, uh, anyone you want to thank D-block for this win. Unbelievable win, man. Go Bears, the whole city of Chicago, the dude. All right, all of Chicago. Look at that. He's in Miami. His heart's back in Chicago there. Hey, it's Jonas Nox. And every business has its own rhythm, rushes, loals, moments when every second count, running a business isn't about doing one thing well. It's about making sure everything works together.

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