McCarthy is a Safe Hire, Not a Great Hire
The Ben Maller Show
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2020
⏱️ 174 minutes
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Summary
Big Ben calls Mike McCarthy a boring but understandable hire by the Cowboys. Ben calls the Rooney Rule an oxymoron and delivers his solution, Gregg Popovich is unwilling to take ownership of "load management" and Kyle Rudolph admits to getting duped by a media member. All that and much more including #AskBen and Fact or Fiction.
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| 1:28.9 | Now let's get this party started. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. |
| 1:33.3 | Hey, it's Ben. |
| 1:40.9 | Hope you're having a fine day today, and I'm so glad you could check in with us on the radio version of the podcast. |
| 1:45.3 | I want to remind you that in addition to this podcast, coming up sometime today, |
| 1:51.9 | we will have the fifth hour with Ben Mallor, which is a spin-off podcast of the radio show, |
| 1:58.0 | except we can say dirty words. We can curse on that in that podcast, and that's kind of cool. |
| 2:01.2 | That's kind of cool to be able to do that. We have a lot of fun. |
| 2:05.2 | I think we'll be doing the Benny versus the Penny today, so you can check that out later, |
| 2:09.6 | get to your NFL picks, and even the college football pick for the championship game. But on today's show, the Dallas Cowboys welcome Mike McCarthy as coach. |
| 2:14.7 | Did Jerry Jones win the news conference? |
| 2:18.8 | We examined. The NFL is the news conference, we examined. |
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