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No broken bones, no bruises, but but but...football is here and so comes the pain.

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Ka boom. If you've thought four hours a day, minutes a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of the old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes, break free for something special. Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now on a Saturday. We are back at

it again. The podcast machine does not stop turning, does not stop turning, eight days a week, eight days a week, because four hours a night are not enough. Clearly not in office. We are in the air everywhere from a secret location in the north Woods. That's being the Saturday podcast, and a lot a lot to get to and we will get into it right now. Joined again from west of the four oh five. David, Get little Hot, Little Hot, Little Hot. I'm a little bummed out for this weekend's games.

I mean, obviously Week one for the NFL is here, but Man college football on a Saturday, No, not a not a consumer. Well, any game you bet on is a good game, so you can always find something to wage r. It'll spice it up a little bit. What's Alabama got Mercy or Mercer High School. Well, I think the teams that play Alabama have need the mercy rules.

What actually was there for Nick Saban the Clearinghouse. Uh, I'm probably done talking college football on the on the radio show because I know I did a several monologues about college football, and the one I did about Brian Kelly that actually that that did pretty well. But the other stuff, yeah, that's not so good. You can't be surprised though, with that ship right that people don't want to hear it, or Brian Kelly, Oh the briant that people don't know who old coaches are. Yeah, yeah, it's

it's disappointing. But you know, like John McCay's is really before my time. But I remember when I was a kid, we watched these NFL films documentaries and I remember Dick Romo called him dial a quote, and like he had so many amazing quotes John McKay, And he's been dead for a long time and people forget about you and life moves on. I get it. But that quote in particular, when when he was asked the question what do you think of your team's execution? Coach? And he replied, I'm

in favor of it. See the problem Brian Kelly didn't get asked that question, what do you He didn't get asked the same same question. But there were so many wonderful John McKay quotes from back in the day. And he remember when he said the kickers were like horse manure, they're all over the plane and uh and uh what was some of the other lines He said, we can't win at home, we can't win on the road. What

we need is a neutral site. That was one of the uh the ways there and uh, I mean it's it's just all of those those zingers and one liners um from back back in the day. And he he talked about coaching the Bucks when they were an expansion team and they had the pewter uniforms and the pirate helmet thing and all that, and he said it was a religious experience. He says, you do a lot of praying, but most of the time the answers no, and uh it was it was. And then the other one that

John McKay is lucky he didn't use this quote. Imagine if John mckayd used this quote the Bucks ending you know that he was asked about Tampa Bay ending its twenty six game losing streak, and he said at the time, his quote was three or four plane crashes and we're in the playoffs. Remember that, so can you the pussy willows on social media if they heard, uh notre dame coach Brian Kelly say three or four plane crashes and

we're in the National Championship game. Oh man. That's the problem though, right, because you have all these woke reporters now that that virtue signal. But the bitch and moan about a guy like Belichick who gives one or two word answers, then of course then they're up in air, up in arms. When you get Brian Kelly who just throws something out there like that, you think you can't cut it both ways. Yeah, and it sucks. Uh so,

but that that did pretty well the other models. I did a monologue about the targeting rule that didn't really connect about U C L A and the U s U c l A L s U game from last weekend. You have money on that, right, and uh I did, I did all right. But but but the college football thing, some people get upset. I know, below the Mason Dixon line. We don't talk college football southern freight football on the

on the radio show. But typically the way the show works, uh we yap yap lap lap, we talk mostly the NFL because the show's wrapped around the NFL we were guaranteed of having during the NFL regular season, there's game every Thursday night. We're on Thursday to Friday, so we do the post mortem on that, and then Sunday we come in and there's reacting to the Sunday games and that takes precedence over college football. And then Monday night is another night. So then the only time we'd really

be able to talk college football is Tuesday. But by then it's really old, so there has to be some kind of scandal or some kind of really amazing story that's got legs, which typically does not happen in college football. So that's it gets lost in the sholf, is what happens.

It's a weird pivot for other guys because they will tend to stay on it for like seventy two hours, which is kind of we We've had guys that have worked at the Fox Sports Radio over the years that just loved college football and just would do it, and they would lead with it and it even on like an NFL Monday and it was very very odd. Yeah, it was very odd. Does not resonate? Yeah, does not does not resonate? I agree. So anyway, so that was

the the college football So you're dead until bowl season. Well, no, I'll watch, you understand, Like, even though I don't talk about it. I'll watch one or two big games. And usually if U c l A is good at USC is good, I I used to go to the USC games for years and I even went to the u c l A games, and so if they have a good team and there's something going on there, I'll watch that usually, and then I'll watch Alabama because Alabama's a machine. And then I'll usually pick one or other one or

two other games and I'll kind of scan them. Um. That's that's typically how that works on a college football weekend. But Saturday is one of my my days of rest, and so if if I have the the why she's working on Saturdays, so I have a hall pass to watch college football at least for the first couple of months of the season. After that, usually she wants me to do stuff with her, so I'll have to watch

on my phone, not that particular point. Now, do you do anything special traditional wise for Week one of the NFL? Maybe not the Thursday, but at least the Sunday or Sunday night. Do you do a special pizza especially? You know, I have that Fugais fasting thing that I usually do. Uh, and Sunday has typically been a day that I fast the last year, year and a half or something like that. But I'll I'll make the rare and appropriate exception to

h to partake there. But I love making my own red Zone channel, and you know, I got a million different websites up with them from games. I came to game and uh, I try to find the Siciliano of feed of the red Zone, but it's easier to find that other guy. What's the other guy's name? I get to Oh, the one that just signed that the deal right for five more years? Yeah, yeah they did. He like the generic TV looking guy. Uh, I don't know his name. He just looks like like a lot of

guys have this TV look to him. You know, they got the good hair, you know, kind of part of their Yeah, easy on the eyes, you know, they got to look for the camera. Um, he's so you're trying to say, Andrew Siciliano is not that. Look. No, I love Andrew Andrews a radio guy, but he's able, he's he's grandfathered in now he's been in television long enough fathered in, so good for him. Dude doesn't age either. He looks as young as hell. Yeah, we should get

him on the podcast. I have known Andrew. Andrew was actually the guy that showed me around, taught me the ropes at Fox Sports Radio when I started. He was the one that trained me. How old is he? Uh he was, he's around my age. He so, but he had he had been hired before and so they had he was. That was actually before he got I think he hadn't been put on the Tony Bruno show yet. He was just doing doing updates and stuff. And uh yeah,

he showed me, showed me the road. And not even at the main studio which has been there twenty years. We were the Michael Reagan Studio which was up on the bank. No, no, it was on the floor right across from the what used to be the Art Bell studio. The Premier Networks, which is I guess now has become vacant.

I think George No, no, George Norris in that studio now, and then the studio we used to be in is now vacant because Fox Sports Radio when they needed to shift us a couple of years ago, they shifted us to the old studio, which is like nobody's in. So yeah, nobody around here anywhere there's there's that. So just I have only one nothing really happened eventful this week the life of Mallard has some have called it here on

the Saturday podcast. There's only one thing that mildly I feel is rises to the level the podcast no I ever covered. My knee has recovered. I did have a my my gambling buddy Unter came over and he asked to see the corner of the desk. He had heard the podcast. He said he wanted to see where the

actual injury happened. So I pointed out, uh, the and I adn't even realized that it's actually it's not just would there's a metal drawer that I had taken out part of the drawer, and but there's a piece of metal. So that's that's actually the thing that cut me was the piece of metal, which I didn't even realize it just looks like a piece of wood, but there's a piece of metal lashed onto it. But there's no drawer there. I took the drawer away anyway, so he came in

and asked. But the only thing that really popped up here I had another lengthy fast. I had a almost seventy hour fast, sixty nine hour fast. Not doing that the brag, but at the end of it, I broke it at the Costco food court. A lot of my stories revolve around Costco, but a lot of time at Costco. I spent more time when they had free samples, but they had those briefly and now because of COVID, they

took those away. I have not seen samples in any kind of quantity here recently, but something bizarre happened, so I I ordered the traditional meal. I am a purist. If you've heard me talk about Costco over the years on the podcast of the radio show, I'm a purist. I like the hot dog drink combo slice of pizza. That is the authentic Costco food court experience, hot dog drink which comes together and then slice of pizza. I

don't live in Canada. I know we've had some Canadian listeners who have pointed out that they have chicken fingers in Canada. I don't live in Canada, um, so I don't have have chacken fingers. So anyway, this was This was back on Tuesday and it was pretty busy. Went there late in the afternoon, three o'clock, three thirty something like that. I ordered my food and you can only order at the kiosk at this costco you no human interaction. You only order the chiosk. So all the seats were full.

It was that busy. They didn't have that many seats. They've taken some of the seats away. So I ordered the food. Then you have to go the way where's you order you food, then to walk up to the counter and hand your receipt to the person who gives you food. So I get my pizza, I get my hot dog, I get my drink, and as I'm walking over, I see that there has been a seat that has

opened up, and so I went over. I sat down and I put my drink down, I put my my pizza down, and then I wanted to put some toppings on my hot dog. So I then walked over to the the container that I have with mustard, catchup and all that stuff, and I want to get some some stuff on the sausage. So I walked over there, and uh, I wasn't I was there like maybe a minute, and

it doesn't take long to do that. And I had turned my back for maybe thirty seconds, and much to my amazement, in the time that I got up walked over to put stuff on the hot dog and returned, some interloper had sat down at my seat where I had left the piece of pizza and the drink which was not eating. Pizza was not eating it was just I needed yet And uh, I'm still trying to figure

out how this schmuck what he was thinking. I mean, I would never, like I've never do if I see somebody putting, if anybody a piece of pizza down in a drink, they're saving the seed or whatever. There there's somebody's sitting there, and I'd never do that. Fresh pizza, pie and a soda anyway. Uh, to me, that's a sign that somebody sitting at the table. But so I

came over. I was pissed. I started huffing and puffing, and and then I went back to the table and I, uh, I sat down right across from the guy, and I gave the guy like this death stare. I grunted. Then I give a little side I and the guy had this like puzzle look like what it was? What was this yours? But but then at that moment when I was about to engage, and I thought, I weighed the pros and cons is it worth me getting in making a scene here? And I looked around. There were a

lot of people. It was a busy time. And then at that moment, two tables over, some guy was getting up. So I did a cost benefit analysis and I determined at that time it was not in my best interest to make a hula balue. So I grabbed the hot dog, the piece of pizza, and the drink and sprinted skidaddled over to the table that was opened up. So I

I avoided confrontation. I figured it wasn't it wasn't gonna be worth it to scream and shout at the guy with the pizza so or the guy that that took my my My sat my seat at the table because he's a douche. Guy said, that guy's a douche, and I moved on. Now, Uh, one thing, one thing, I would like to do. One thing I would like to do now is the Proper Palooza. This is a tradition

on the podcast. I used to do this on the radio show, but since football season NFL season, really I don't there was a game on Thursday, but it really begins on Sunday, and this being Saturday. So I love the exotic prop bets, and I thought this would be the perfect spot for a bunch of exotic exotic bets, and so we'll we'll do a few that A few of these the first coach to be fired. These are collected from random mostly off shore books. A lot of

these are from off shore books. Now, first coach to be fired, Cliff Kingsbury is tied with Matt Naggy for the third option at plus seven fifty. Mike McCarthy in Dallas is plus seven hundred. Vic Fangio is actually the favorite. Uncle Vic in Denver is at plus five hundred. Now that the guy that should be at the very top of this is not in the top three, and that would be Zach Taylor of the Bengals, but he is coming in at number five, actually number four on the

on the list. I guess whether there's a tie, so is either four or five, depending on how you know it. But Zach Taylor has been just useless. The Bengals are a joke and they're expecting Joe Burrow to lead them to some kind of competitive football and if they continue to suck, you gotta get rid of him. But the Bengals are an old school franchise there cheap, known not to make in season moves, So good luck, right, I'm

who do you think the first coach is gonna get fired? Well, the Broncos are pretty much run by a trust, so I don't consider them a legitimate option. Jerry Jones has been surprisingly pigheaded with coaches. If he wouldn't get rid of the Clapper. If he fires McCarthy mid season, he would be admitting that he totally screwed up. A name that's on here, and I like this guy. He's been very good the Gamblers over the years. Is Mike Zimmer

in Minnesota. The Vikings had a miserable exhibition season. They were mediocre last year. I know Zimmer did get a contract extension, but they've been local kind of just lulling around, treading water in mediocrity. And if they have a rock bottom season again, and Zimmer is a defensive coach and their defense wasn't very good last year, and that they've got issues. People are are out to get Kirk Cousins because he's an anti vax guy and people are out

to him trying to tear him down. And there's a lot of like weird stuff going around about the Vikes. I would put Zimmer higher up. He's plus nine hundred. Gruten's on here. I don't think that's why they're gonna happen. He's got the forever contract. And then there's always the wild card possibility of one of these dopes getting involved in a scandal, whether it be personal, financial, criminal, and

then they were to the very top. But the three coaches that are said to have the longest odds obvious one Belichick, Tomlin. Uh No, Tomlin actually is in the middle on this plus hundred. He's got the same odds as Matt Rule, Caroline. Do you even yeah, Matt Rule the Carolina coach there, So they have about I have fired Mike Tomlin every other year for the last eight years. I fired Mike Toms fired him last year. I did fire him last year. I fired him three years Ago.

I think I fired him, Yeah, I fired him. He's a good sound bite. But the Steelers have not They've didn't been stuck in that we're a playoff team but not really a real super Bowl threat type situation or a number of you who did you say? What other name were you mentioned? Uh? Sean Payton is plus twenty hundred. He has these same odds as Sean McVeigh. Sean mcveigh's not getting Ron Rivera. Sean McVeigh, Sean Payton all in

that group. John Harbaugh is in that group. Am I missing something out of that division where people are are expecting Dallas to just walk away with it? Well, that happens. The Cowboys every year get hyped up. Jerry Jones is the master hype man. So and the Cowboy fans are always delusional anyway, I know. But this is like a public favorite and so, but you have all them, you have both networks Fox and ESPN at nauseum. I understand that you know it's America's team or whatever, but it's

not even that like to me. It's first of all, it's the fact they have stars and and and they have a star in their helmet and Washington the team that used to be called the Redskins. They have a pretty good defense, but they don't have stars. There's no you know, like, you can't really be a big star on defense and on offense, we've got Ryan Fitzpatrick. You nobody gets excited about Ryan fitzpat Trick as your quarterback. You don't get fired up and said, that's the team

that's going to make the playoffs and that. But if he could play marginal football, marginal football, they're winning that division. No, I agree, And I think Washington is going to be a similarly good team. I think they'll be better than last year because the defense, well, it will be even better as they continue to it's like a wine maturing. Some of those younger guys keep getting more confidence and

get better, so they'll get better. But given the fact that you have Fitzpatrick that is a schizophrenic at the quarterback position, do you fear putting money on them? Well, I wouldn't bet on like an overall win total on Washington because Ryan Fitzpatrick will be the top. The same thing happens every time he says he's really good for four or five games. When that fitz magic thing happened, in Tampa a couple of years ago, and he was doing he came out dressed like Connor McGregor the news

conference and all that. It was great. And then like a month later he was taking a ride on the Vomit Comte and was it was terrible. So but it's it's really by process of elimination in the NFC East, because you figure Philadelphia is not even trying chance with Nick Serriani, and then the Giants are in this weird spot where they are seemingly trying and Joe Judge is one of those guys that seems like the kind of

guy that you would pull for, like in theory. But they have Daniel Jones who sucks and s Kwon Barkley is questionable now from here on out. Yeah, well he's a running back and so he's always uh game time decision week after we anyway. So that's those are the odds of the first coach to be fired. Let's see most new quarterback passing yards Week one, Stafford. Stafford is actually second. Jamis Winston is the favorite at plus two fifth against the Green Bay Packers. I would not bet

on Winsteon for two reasons. Number One, if you look at the samet depth depth. They don't have Michael Thomas. He's not gonna play for the first month or so of the season, at least it would seem. And the wide receivers don't have the wild factor. Now Alvin Kamara will get you a lot of yards after the catch, and Winston has a bazooka. The Packers defensively aren't horrific right there. They've got a decent defense in Green Bay. Stafford Ryan Fitzpatrick actually is the third option among the

quarterbacks that changed teams. The lowest option is obviously Andy Dalton. I would put Dalton the head of Tyrod Taylor because he sinks and and he's gonna be well. Fuller's out, he's out for a game with a suspension, So they have nobody there. Their win totals four and I don't know how it hits four. The Texans, Yeah, this is this is a tough game to start because he's that's a winnable game. On Sunday, Texans and Jags. I like Jacksonville in the game, as we talked about on Benny

versus the Penny. I like Jacksonville. I think Urban will be okay, and the Texans are a bad team, and I don't Trevor Lawrence. I think we'll get off to a decent start, and all you need is decent to beat the Texans. But that is a messed up situation. Which rookie quarterback will have the most passing yards week? One of the three top hot shot rookie quarterbacks starting Trevor Lawrence, Mac mac Jones, Zack Wilson. Lawrence is the favorite at plus one Jacksonville's. I think they got a

pretty good running game going there. At least it got some some value in the running game. I I would take a flyer with Zax Sison. I would be very surprised if mac Jones does does much gaudy in the passing year. I think Belichick is gonna gonna dumb down the play book a lot of running. The Patriots gonna be more of a running team here in the Max gonna need a lot of yak a lot of yards after catching the Patriots, even though they're better at the white opposition, I do not see a lot of yakty

yak for for those guys like Jack Wilson. Yeah, I mean, just because you figured they're gonna be trailing anyway, I don't know about that. They're playing Carolina. Carolina is to meet Carolina is not that good, and they have Sam Donald. So the count. The counter argument that is that Sam Donald is good for one or two mistakes that in that short yardage turnovers and so you're not gonna have

a long field to rack up the passing yards. Al right, first player to miss a game due to COVID nineteen protocols. So this is not getting COVID. This is violating the protocol. So this means you're unvaccinated. Lamar Jackson is the favorite at plus four hundred, Cole Beasley at plus five, Kirk Cousins at plus five seventy five, Adam Feeling. I guess he's not vaccident. I don't know. I don't really obsess with that, but some people do. Plus six hundred, DeAndre

Hopkins plus six, Joe Mixon at plus six fifty. What you should do, Gascon is put together an unvaxed fantasy team. There's enough guys that you could have. Feeling Hopkins, Now, which quarterback Joe Mixon will be your running back? Alan Rob You're gonna have naj Harris though, Naga Harris then Christian McCaffrey's not vaccinated. Apparently he's on the list. So what defense? Then that's a good question. San Francisco, who's oh yeah, because Abosa? Is he not? Maybe? Is he

not vaccident? I don't know who. I really don't keep track of it. I don't really care whether your vaccinating or not. So wh who are the people that are not vaccinated? On defense? I know the offensive guys because the media about them. Maybe Tennessee. Did Tennessee have like seven guys or nine guys that were out including Rabel? Yeah he had it, but I think he was vaccinated, thank you. I'd have to do some more research on that.

But there's some good white outs. You could have DeAndre Hopkins, Allen Robinson and feeling uh and Cole Beasley you know he's not that good, but DeAndre Hopkins feeling just right there, Matt McCaffrey in the backfield, and Lamar Jackson. You're gonna win, You're gonna win. The unvaxed team will beat the vax team. I need an unvaxed kicker and good look on that. I don't no the kickers. How many kickers could you name? Are these in da Hoss brothers ayans manus default even

my def Minitary's gone for twenty something years. It was Adam Vinitary and then it was the guy that replaced Vinitary who was also gone. The guy was with the Tennessee Titans last year. It was a guy's name Ryan suck Up. No, no, no, not suck Up. There was the other guy that was the old Patriot kicker that whom are the type of Gostkowski? Yeah, Stephen Gaskowski. I think he's out of the NFL. Now. Think they do my my Kicker depth chart. Make it do Chicago's defense

the Bears. Yeah, maybe they don't seem like a lot of guys that will be faxed. Uh. Yeah, it's some name name players there that reminds me since Week one is already here. Who won? Um? Who won the U the infamous yearly um? Uh? Fantasy Pool with you guys. I believe Eddie one. Oh, I don't know. I think Coop has to. Maybe he crunched the numbers and I forgot, But I think I think Eddie. Eddie had like a rash of guys that got got in trouble with the law and I'm I'm done. Handicap and that every year.

I spent hours handicapping it and what's the point. What's the point? As Dick Stockton taught us, he taught me and I passed it on. Is it that to tell you what has happened, not what's going to happen? It's one of the great lines ever. Have you stolen that as your own? No? No, you know what it said. Fortunate no one's picked up on that bit nashally though, because there's got to be some virtue signaling reporter that has to be appalled by that segment that yeah, yeah, yeah,

we we we get told every once in a while. Well, as soon as the uh, the lunar tune, luny tunes, you start obsessing about this, we'll have to cancel the segment. I had a producer I will not reveal the prucer's name that made us stop doing one of my favorite bits on the show during NASCAR, which lap will Dana erect and we would pick like five random laps during the course of a NASCAR race and inevitably we we would get very close or have a winner every week.

It was very rare that danikad finished the race and a producer I had back in the day that said, hey, you can't do that because she she could die in one of these recks, and then if she dies, they're gonna go back and say it was what lap will she reckon? You know? I was like, come on, yeah, and Fox obviously has a good partnership with NASCAR, so that's really good. So who came up with that idea? Was that yours? That was I think it was a It was my idea. I was inspired by a listener

if I remember correct. Uh, and we went We went with that, all right. Moving on a few other proper puloosers. Here we have will a team fourfeited game to COVID No. No's minus five thousand. Yes is plus one thousand. That implies a nine point one percent chance. Will DeShawn Watson be active for a game this year? Yes? Is plus one fifty That implies at chance, I don't think he will be. I'm gonna go with no, which is minus

two hundred minus two hundred on that. How many players will be suspended during the regular season over under four that's close, that's right around where it usually is. I'll go I'll go under to be different. How many NFL players will be arrested during the regular season. I'm gonna go under under minus my unders five five point five. Take the under, which will be higher. Los Angeles team wins, Rams,

Chargers or New York based teams. They're they're talking to New York City here, so that even though they play in New Jersey. The Giants and the Jets, well, that's oh, I think they might. Yeah, maybe they have the bills in there all that they have to write. Nobody would Yeah, so you figured the Bills are gonna be good for ten or eleven. At least the Jets and Giants combine might win seven seventeen games, so maybe they win seven or eight. So if the Bills win ten, I'm taking

the Alants Rams. The Rams is like a twelve and five type. Yeah. I think the Charges are winning ten, Charges winning ten, so that will put them at the twenty. Yeah, it seems it seems about right. Uh. Super Bowl champion will come from rich Which state a red state or a blue state? It's tough for you. Why is that?

Because I have the blue state the blue state. Here's the question, though, what's that if a recall goes through here in a couple of days, it becomes a red does become a red state, well, the governor becomes here. But Florida, I believe it or not, is the favorite. That's just because if they have the most teams, well, they have Tampa Dolphins or Jacksonville is going to Tampa. California second, Rams, Chargers and Niners. Third is Missouri with

the Chiefs. Maryland they have two teams. They have the Washington football team and the Ravens. The state with the worst odds should be easy. I'm gonna say Las Vegas. Uh, that's that's a city. Uh No, it's Michigan Giants plus fifteen thousand, Carolina North Carolina at plus eight thousands tied, same odds with Georgia or the I don't know, same ads with the Nevada. Rather, the Raiders are plus eight thousand.

Georgia with the Falcons is plus seventy. Illinois plus sixty six hundred, So that those are some of the odds. I like California. I actually do like the Chargers, Rams and the fort but all l A super Bowl in l A, Chargers Rams in Los Angeles, well in Inglewood in the hood. Now can you imagine the uniform combination too? For that m M would be good. That's the first team to lose. First team to lose a Buccaneers or the Chiefs. I have to look at the schedule on

this one. I've not looked at the I would assume the Chiefs have a tougher schedule because they are minus one fifty and the Buccaneers are plus one ten on that first team to win, Lions or Texans. Detroit Texans are minus one fifty yea because people think they got shot against. At least golf can win you a game, right like golf can get you one. Last undefeated team, last undefeated team. This is a surprise. It's it's not Tampa Bay second at plus sixty six fifty. The forty Niners.

The forty Niners are the They have the the top outs at plus six hundred. Wow in that Division two. That's interesting. Yeah, So let's go to the schedule here and see they must play the hostess schedule to start the year. The Forts a regular season schedule. No, it's not. They played the Lions and the Eagles the first two weeks, so that those should be gimmis. Although I like the Lions is a sneaky good underdog play I don't think the Niners should be favored by that much over the Lions.

And then they play Green Bay at home Seattle little so, I don't know why the forty Niners are the top choice on that and decimated last year because of injuries though, my Manya, and that was last year, my man, and it's a brand new year. I think they'll be good this year. I think that's an eleven win football team, the Niners. I don't. I don't know. They'll end up having the usual injuries. They don't have the depth. Hell, their secondary doesn't have any depth. They brought in Josh Norman.

A bad sign when a week before the season you're bringing in Josh Norman, who's has been good in six years. Tell you what I'm I'm just licking my chops to see Kyler Murray run wild this reason here he could have a monster, little Kyler. He's gonna have a great here under the Is it gonna be the same thing? You're gonna text me every time he has a good game, and then he doesn't have a good game, your phone will be shut off and be on airplane mode? Is that how this is gonna work? My photo is so

bad my airplane mode does not even work. No, really, you don't have airplane mode. Yeah, when you put it on, it's still I still get calls and text messages. It's awful. I got you, I got you. There's a bunch of other props and we don't need to get in like that. Those are the good ones. Those are the juicy ones. I love the exotic props. Yes, and it's a tradition, yet another Mallard proper palooza on this the Fifth Hour podcast. And we'll have the mail bag on Sunday, Sunday Sunday,

and we'll put the baby to bed. If you missed the Friday podcast, Ah, if it goes without saying, you better listen. And this is that was a rare get on the Friday podcast. Yeah, you'll know what I mean when you go back and and download the Friday podcast. But anyway, I have a great rest of your Saturday niting and remote guest Twitter handals. Uh. Yeah, if you have Ben Mallor on Twitter and you're if you haven't, If you haven't dvyard episode one of season three of

The American Crime Story, go ahead and do that. Yeah. I had had people point out they saw you had some emails saying, hey, I saw a guest on The Disheveled, so you there were people watching the show? How did the show? Do? Do you know? How the show? Do you know? It's weird. The two reporters that you mentioned, both of them I think got cut out or no, one of the two got cut out. Oh and the other one only had one line. It was interesting. I don't know. I didn't watch it. Come on, you watch

did it? Why would you not watch? Because I don't want I don't want to watch myself. You don't listen to yourself after the show's over, do you? No? But you you don't have to listen. You could like turn you could have the TV on and have the sound down. Yeah you do that? Yeah yeah yeah. Anyway, Uh, listen, have a great rest of your Saturday. Will be back on Sunday with a big mail bag and we will catch you then.

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