Hour 2 - Just Ram It

“You don’t get to stink up the joint and have wet farts all over the field and then complain because somebody noticed the smell.” That was Ben Maller’s blunt response to Rams wide receiver Davante Adams, who called anyone panicking over Los Angeles’s pathetic Week 1 performance a “fool.” On this episode of The Ben Maller Show, Maller dissects three NFL storylines from the opening week, arguing that while it’s too early to bury the Rams, it’s absolutely fair to check for a pulse—and that players who lecture fans for noticing a bad product are missing the point of professional sports.

The Rams’ Vomit Comet and the Right to Panic

The central question of the hour was whether Davante Adams was right to dismiss panic after the Rams’ ugly loss to the 49ers in Australia. Maller’s answer was a firm “no.” He argued that Adams, who caught just three passes for 26 yards, is “welcome to modern professional sports,” where a terrible performance invites immediate hyperbole. The Rams, in Maller’s telling, “looked like they flew coach to Australia in the overhead compartment” and “played light.” He didn’t claim the Rams are doomed—he explicitly said “nobody that knows balls is burying the Rams”—but he insisted that after a game where the team “served dog food on a silver platter,” the public is allowed to ask questions. The real culprit, in his view, was the Rams’ own bonehead decision-