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Super Bowl Excitement and The Clubhouse Plans Episode 19 · Off the Bench - London

• Off The Bench London (00:02.615) What up? There we go. Back for another week. Those games are wild this week. There we go again. I feel like I say that every week, but like, man, I'm so glad you're wearing that. It's only fitting, right? As soon as, well, honestly at halftime, I was like, I don't know, man. I don't know if they can keep it going. And then one thing led to another and... Now you're for sure wearing well, it's not like I'm wearing a regular jersey, right? You have to wear a Yeah, engines when pigeons play like pigeons. This is true. This is true. I think there's gonna be a lot changes in that organization next year Let's talk about the changes happening So ladies and gentlemen, thank you for another episode off the bench. We're on episode 19 19. Holy card weekend We got one more game going on tonight. But before that No, we are always at the clubhouse Monday nights. So. Clubhouse every Monday. Yeah, man. 450 pints, high price wings. Great stuff. Can't go wrong with that. You know what I mean? Like, geez. But like for the Super Bowl, it's going down here, right? We'll be here that Sunday. Yeah, obviously. I usually host like a Super Bowl party, but this year it's definitely going to be my Super Bowl party is going to be at clubhouse. Man, this place is going to be wild. Tell me about it. Like, like first off, wall to wall screens. So you never miss a snap commercial or replay? I hope they have the American channels though. I don't know. I don't. I would assume they won't. I might have my own feed. Just for commercials. Just for the commercials. You know what I mean? What world are we living in? You know what? I'm not getting the right commercials. Actually the American commercials are sick. Well people overpay for those right? They also deliver. That is true. Like if you're paying an obscene amount to do a commercial. for sure. But like if you're going to pay for a ticket to come to Clubhouse, think of it. The whole app is for the whole venue here. You'll be playing the sound. So you won't have any other background noise. You'll be getting the game action. You'll be able to hear every hit, every snap, every hut, every Omaha. Off The Bench London (02:21.484) I don't think we're doing that again not until Not until arch gets in the league if he If he brings it back, that'd be great. Oh my oh my Like a bed or something. I don't know There maybe it was like some someone said I forget what it was Maybe it was like someone said they would donate to something everything every time he said it That was smart. Another thing is like it's going to be a tailgate style buffet. Oh, they got a buffet coming here. Yeah. So it starts a little bit earlier. So I believe doors open at three thirty. So you get to join in. Three thirty. Make sure you get here early. Yeah. Because this place is going to fill up. Link us to and pass. We'll probably give away a few tickets. Yeah. But like, you know, feel goal challenge. You know, we got the Sims right behind us. Yeah. Easy to do a sim. It's a field goal challenge. So we don't actually have to be in San Francisco for the Super Bowl to do a field goal challenge. But that's true. Also, it's inside. San Francisco's weather is going to be amazing. This is true. Right. So but all this is happening because FM 96 energy is in the building with Todd and Jim. I'm pumped for that. It's going to be a different experience for sure. Yeah. I didn't giveaways prizes dropped all night and not just at halftime like all throughout the day. yeah, it's gonna be This is gonna be the place to be for Super Bowl like The energy is gonna be electric 100 % the teams are gonna be New and not it's weird. It's not gonna be the Eagles and Chiefs I say it's gonna be new and then the Patriots are gonna somehow make it there and we'll be like that's a huge possibility though. possibility. Yeah, I picked them to make the Super Bowl. I have a sheet where the Patriots are winning the Super Bowl and I have one where San Francisco wins at home. Okay, yeah, that's interesting. Off The Bench London (04:30.603) It's gonna be tough sledding for them now just with like kiddle out to injuries injuries Yeah, well, I mean that's their whole but the way they skied. Yeah talk about that later, but like I Was impressed and like it's against my team. I was just like I hate it Like I see what a good coaching staff looks like it's not I can't say that about the But yo, so Wild card weekend. Obviously that was huge. Last week though was huge. You know, after week 18, was insane. It's the black Monday they call it. Yeah. And then it happened throughout the whole week. So it wasn't just on Monday that, you know, it's just coaches getting fired left, right and center, except for Zach Taylor. He gets extended. I complained about that last week already. Yep. Yep. Cause that was John Harbaugh finally got fired on our podcast. We didn't say he got fired yet. I told you who's gonna. I know, I know. There was this little meme that I saw on Instagram and it's a field goal and in the middle, it's Tomlin. It's Tomlin getting fired and then it's Harbaugh getting fired. both sides. So if it was wide left or wide right, we knew Harbaugh was getting fired. It was right at smack down in the middle, Tomlin was getting the fire. So what do think the Steelers are coating their entire field in holy water this week? They might need a lot more than that. Yeah. Cause like... They all gotta pray for Aaron Rodgers. Houston's defense is stellar. Like stellar. Like I'm even worried about the safety of Aaron Rodgers. I can see this game being like a 12 to 6 game. That'll be interesting. Because the Texans don't really have an offense. Correct. And the Steelers actually do have a really good defense. but the Texas defense is insane. we'll see where that goes. But Metcalf's back. So it'll be interesting for them. I don't think Metcalf is going to make that much of a difference. Yes, it's going to open up the doors for Kenneth Gainwell. Yeah, exactly. think if anything, he's a big distraction. And he can put downfield block like nobody else. defense over there in Houston is like, they're young. Off The Bench London (06:55.528) Yeah, right. So they're young they want to get after it. They have that energy. I don't I don't necessarily think That just having DK Metcalf is like that and peace and that team is so hot right now and it's all led by the defense and Defense wasn't winning championships isn't a joke. Sheesh but well sir Mike McDaniels was he fired when we talked last no. yeah He, I guess he interviewed so badly, like he had a meeting with the owner. He had a meeting with the owner and at the end of the meeting he fired him. because clearly like he was originally in talks like yeah he's helping with the GM search and this that and the other thing but that's kind of why some people are saying okay maybe Miami's it could be a good job because you can bring in your own GM. That's cool. That's a good concept. Because a lot of coaches, like there's a lot of coaches that like they want to bring in their guys. Well, obviously. Yeah. It's a safety net. Yeah. If you bring your own guy, maybe I won't get fired because like. not necessarily, but like at least you have that connection and you're not fighting an uphill battle like a guy in Cleveland. Okay. Right. We should fire the GM. How's Stefanski? didn't want to play a shooter of Sanders. Everybody else did. They drafted him even though he was trying to not draft him. It's, the way I view it though is like with the Stefanski situation, that was just messy across the whole board because no one was on the exact same page. But if a coach brings in a GM. At least the coach and the GM are on the same page, so the GM is looking for the things the coach wants. That could also be a negative though. Off The Bench London (09:00.541) Well, it's just tunnel vision almost. really needs to happen, the GM may not overstep their front. True, but when you're going to a team and trying to start something off, being on the same page is... You got to build something to be able to And then least when you bring in your own GM, it's going to help... The GM is going to analyze what you need and be able to build and draft accordingly. Hopefully it works and hopefully it doesn't. Yeah, I'm curious to see... what happens with the rest of the code? Like what's gonna happen with Tomlin after tonight? That's a huge question mark for me right What's gonna happen with Sirianni? Sirianni? Well, they're already talking about making some changes with offense. they had, like they're Kevin Petullo, your favorite guy. Yeah. The OC. Yeah. Obviously he... He does the play calling on offense. Fangio does the play calling on defense. What's Sirianni doing? Just getting mad at AJ Brown during the game? That seems like that was his only thing. Sirianni is like a micromanager in some aspects. He doesn't do play calling. Realistically, he doesn't really offer anything to the team. Exactly. He just makes sure that everything gets facilitated and things go to him. But, you know, if I was Nixie Riani, I would have made some big changes knowing that, you know, a first year play caller can't call plays or calls maybe about 15 plays. And then once that doesn't work, they kind of just go mute. like, Eagles came out hot. Yeah. And then got stagnant and didn't change. Because he couldn't figure it out on the fly. Now, the rumor is, and I know we're going a little bit off track, the rumor is, is because of Jalen Hurts, they were limited in how complex they can make their plays, blah, blah, blah. But as a coach, it doesn't matter if I feel like that. There's no way. No, he's he's a top 32 quarterback. And he's he's not an idiot. Off The Bench London (11:19.474) Thank you. Like, yes, he's very, he's not limited in what he does, but like, he can run, he can pass. Obviously he's not doing all these crazy trick plays, but like, I guess he is kind of the reason they keep it basic because he's just like generic stoic quarterback. Yeah, which there's nothing wrong with that. But like you have to be able to figure out how to work with that. True, true, true. I view it as the same concept as. you've had success with Jalen Hurts running the ball and using the RPO. And I can say the exact same thing about Lamar Jackson, where John Harbaugh started taking away some of those layers to help the durability of a quarterback. But the problem is you're taking away the identity of the quarterback when you don't allow them to do the necessary things. You have to let them do their thing. Yes. Now we also know that the offensive line for the Eagles was horrible. It wasn't the same as last year. Yeah, but the Niners weren't getting any pressure. And like if they had of drawn up more QB runs for Jalen Hurts, he would have broken them wide open because the Niners are on like six to seven string linebackers. This was the game for the Eagles to win. And I can also say this was the game that the Eagles wanted to lose. Yeah. You can tell that they wanted to lose. You can tell after the first half, they did the old reference in Ted Lasso, let's park the bus. Yeah, they tried. Let's play not to lose the game. And then you lost the game. Because they were like, yeah, the Niners aren't good in the second half. Kittles out. whatever. And then you got Juwan Jennings throwing trick plays. He threw more yards. He threw further than Jalen Hurts did. But. That was also due to the fact that the play calling was limited. then unfortunately, AJ Brown, I look at you and being like, I'm not a hater, but I'm very disappointed in some of those catches. He's gone. You're supposed to be open, Mr. Open, like always open. Oh, he was open. And it just went through his hands. Yeah. No, he was wide open. You know what? If the Eagles trade them to the Patriots, you're playing into AJ Brown's hands. Off The Bench London (13:40.344) is that what they're talking about? That's some of the rumors that's going around now. would actually be insane. That would be scary. I don't want the Patriots to be the Tom Brady era again but the May era. Yeah he'd be... Wow yeah. I got a crazy crazy thought for you. I'm listening. Off The Bench London (14:02.488) What if your new OC was Mike McDaniels? Off The Bench London (14:10.15) Does that come with Pepsi? Like probably it's Philadelphia. Like Mike, can we say can we say that on here? I can edit it. cool cool cool. Change it so it says something else. But I don't know that might be interesting right because he remember when he was like He was a wild coordinate because he just like he's a schemer true and I think Miami he was just doing too much true and he needs to go back to his roots. Go as an OC? Yeah. Well, because I honestly think a lot of these coaches that are getting fired, it's not because they're not a good coach. It's because they're great coaches. They're being pushed away from what they're good at because they're they have to deal with too much other stuff. Their logistics is getting bigger and bigger and bigger. If you're an offensive coach. and you're focused so much on the offense, but then your defense is falling apart. Now you have to try and fix that. Well, your offense is going to fall off at the same time as you're trying to figure out the defense. And now your whole team is out of whack because your defense is trying to get up to speed and your offense is falling off because you're not focusing on it. I don't know, man. I think. I I think that'd be wild though. think if Mike McJaydos does become the OC of the Eagles, we wouldn't have to worry that he's gonna get a head coaching job somewhere else, because we know he can't do it. Exactly. Like that's the positive side of understanding that. like, we know you're not getting a head coaching job. You might get a new OC job, but you may not get another head coaching job. But it's like how, okay for example, Robert Sala. Jets. That's different. Didn't work. That's different. Yeah, but it's the obviously it's the Jets and then you went back to instead of being a head coach. Now he's just a coordinator and how good is that defense even though it's duct taped together? Okay, the Jets quarter bird Jets head coach Glenn. Professor memory Glenn. Something. Off The Bench London (16:39.013) It's gonna come back to you. Yeah, well, we'll see it in the news when he loses a job. You know, he got extended. He promised that he won't lose his job the Jets head coach Well, probably cuz they're tired of being stuck in the cycle. It's true. It's true But I look at it like this Detroit a great example Loses their offensive coordinator and loses their defensive coordinator Look who didn't make the playoffs. Yeah, right The Bengals. Look, look, look like they're a show themselves. Yeah. They looked horrible. Now they did. Now you take that into consideration. Jets. Every coach, every player goes there to die. That's their graveyard career. It really is. It's unfortunate. No one can save you when you go into the Jets. But then I look at Ben Johnson, who left the Lions and went over to the bears and the life, the energy, the overall vibe of the... That's working. I think that's the biggest stick in it to Detroit though, because you're like... Also sticking into the Packers. Well, he when he got the job, he called him out and being like, at least I get to play Matt Laffer twice a year. Got to play him three times a year this year. And, know, at the end of that game, it was a little bit of a bad blood. But yeah. Oh, man, I'm saying it's fun to watch. Like the Bears and Packers. I never thought I would be this much into coaching drama. Well, like with the way media works now. We know the whole scope of the team. We know when there's drama with players. We are media. We are media. Twitch streams, podcasts. We have a Twitch too? No, no, no. I'm saying Twitch streams with players going on Twitch streams, or streams, podcasts. You find out so much more. There's so much information being thrown at you that you can just pick and choose what you want. And in the memes, the memes go crazy. Off The Bench London (18:54.635) Every every night or every day. There's a new mean telling you the story about what's going on. Honestly, like those guys work fast Too fast like it's scary sometimes and they'll get the perfect clip and you'll see something crazy during the game and be like That actually happened and it'll just be like a random like a person that looks super weird It's crazy and you're just and there's instantly a meme about it. You're like how the how someone's just waiting Yeah, you're like clip clip clip It's intense, but it works. Like the amount of times they're flying out before the end of the game. It's true. But I kind of love it. I kind of love it. All right. Let's get back on track. Let's get back on track. Let's do our normal show. Rams and Panthers. So it was 34-31. Panthers almost won that game. They seriously did. They were like a minute away from like it took. a last minute touchdown that was a really, really nice touchdown to win that game. And the Panthers have shocked everyone. Even okay, there's some teams in the wild card that lost it. It's like, you're like, I, you know what? I saw you guys losing. Well, your, your effort was there. Yeah. They have one of them. barely getting in, meeting the Falcons that saved them and bring them in. then, then I think the Panthers were more impressive losing to the Rams than the Bucks would have been. I like that. I like that. I think it would have been a blowout if it was the Bucks in there. Yeah. Puka had another crazy game, but like, but still on the, still on the Panthers, like they have a pretty bright future to looking ahead of them. Took them one bad year last year. I worry about like Bryce Young is alright He's adequate. He's adequate That may be their only big hole But you can also but he's functioning if you have a good coach Exactly. It doesn't matter is like they've developed the run game. They're their defense is solid their run game solid Their wide receiver core is pretty good Off The Bench London (21:14.988) But I think, what do think? We're just counting down the days until they make Stafford the official MVP? Ooh, I don't know. That's tough. You don't know? I don't know. Wild card games aren't supposed to count for MVP voting. I know they don't count, but he earned it before. Drake may have earned it, in my opinion. All right. I'm still saying Drake May is MVP. See, I don't know. It's hard to say just because of the strength of schedule difference. Because like the Patriots, their schedule was like legendary easy. Like the easiest schedule that there's been in a very long time. Here's my take then. If wild card games count, I would put another name in the hat. Taylor Williams. Yeah, only if wild card only if wild card games count for the whole regular season He was up and down but like from start to now his growth as a player is Shocking. Yeah, right yours could win most improved. I like that. I like that I Really like that about that concept But yeah, I think Stafford's Been throwing touchdowns like crazy all year long But it's also like. And they had a very difficult schedule. They did. They did. They had a real hard schedule. So I think that's what makes them ready for the playoffs. Apparently, the Panthers nearly beating them twice this year is the weirdest part. Yeah. I don't know man, it's tough because I look at it and Matthew Stafford had Pukunukua, Devontae Adams. Their run game was good. Yeah, they have a really good run game. Matthew Stafford is Mr. Fourth Quarter. Don't give him the ball in the fourth quarter or he will show up. So you take all that in and it's like, okay, yeah, I can be on board. Off The Bench London (23:29.985) I don't really think there is anyone else I can really say other than Drake May. Well did you hear what he said in the fourth quarter? Let's go crush some dreams. I think it was something like that. He's used to being on the other end of that. Yeah. So until you went to LA and then it's been all city lights since. okay. Okay. You know what I think would be, I don't think it's going to happen. but what would be a neat storyline nfl if you're watching please don't make this happen but ram steelers super bowl because then it's erin rogers versus stafford because they played each other so many times badminton because stafford was on the lions while he was on who you going to be years who and then if If the Ram, if Stafford and the Rams slap them around, that'd be great. Yeah, but the Steelers can't get that far. They're never going to make it that can't get that far. Yeah. I'm just saying that'd be a wild story. know what? Talking about that then let's go Packers versus Bears, 2731. Doesn't look like Packers own the Bears anymore. Okay. I wish. They owned them in the first half that was for sure I wish I owned like a cheese grater and got some cheddar just so I can grate it right now Yeah, like the bad blood I'm telling you the bad blood man. It's been bad blood for years like the Packers have always been chirping the Bears mercilessly. Okay, what I'm saying though is so it's just it's just right that when the Bears win They get to do it back. I'll say this though The president of the bears and the gm of the bears great calling hiring ben johnson because he eats the packers andy the one that your biggest rival and he comes in with that you go from the stars say i get the pretty powerful for target of a battle for a person i think you actually said i get to be not look for yeah here are you do and and and accomplish and then come in Off The Bench London (25:50.144) blow them out of, like not blow them out, like knock them out of the playoffs and have that energy. For a lot of people, it's going to be like, oh, like this is the type of energy that's not good. That's not professional. But if you're a coach with like Caleb Williams, who needs that raw, gritty attitude, like you would get from Detroit. Yeah. Man. Who else to pull? Who else? else? Like they made a great choice and I'm glad because that whole team is playing as a collective and it's like they have when they have that never give up Like how many teams give up when they're down documentaries on 21 to 3 at half. Yeah. Yeah, but like It was it's just insane there like the amount of comebacks they've had like that seven. Yeah So it's just showing you that They are that team and it's like some of these throws that he was making insane. True. Well, let's say this when I was with the Bears winning this year, I didn't I didn't see this coming. I thought realistically that the Packers were going to own the Bears. It's playoff, you know, experience. Micah Parsons not being there was a little. Well, that's what I saw in the first half. Like I looked up and I was like, oh, all right, it's 21 to three. guess that's that's it. Yeah. And then I look over again and I like What's happening? But like the off balance throws, it's like someone has to play Patrick Mahomes if he's not going to be in the playoffs. He's absolutely an athlete. So it's great to see. Like he can throw on the run, makes him so dangerous. Like that's something that when Ben Johnson was in Detroit with golf, he never had that luxury. He's like, I'm designing all these plays for a pocket passer. Pocket pass and that you can only do so much but Ben Johnson when he was on Detroit if he knew that his quarterback couldn't do it He had two running backs to do it. Hey, Chicago has two running backs there Understand that but like in Detroit it was Sonic and Knuckles. You didn't know what was going on with Sonic and Knuckles Yeah, now you had their version of Sonic and Knuckles and the quarterback. Yeah Because he can at any point in time he can scramble he can Off The Bench London (28:14.386) He's getting out of these sacks Off The Bench London (28:24.702) So like a long time ago. Yeah. Well, I he probably doesn't have an ego now. No, no, he can't. Bill's versus Jags, 27 to 24. Man. I feel bad for Trevor Lawrence. I feel bad for. We would have felt bad for Josh Allen. Not really. No? No. I wouldn't have felt as bad for Josh Allen because his organization puts him in this situation every year. That's honestly the biggest problem I have with Buffalo because they're just like, we got Josh Allen. We got Superman. It's fine. We Superman. Nothing's our kryptonite. It's like this continuous motion. It's like perpetual motion that always happens with them. And like, I'm looking at the jegs and I'm like, man, like... The way that coach, Cohen, coached that team, Liam Cohen, it Yeah. Yeah, Liam Cohen. The way he coached that team this year, like the reporter that, you know, him was awesome. you know, great job, you know, Duval, like, you know, you know, keep up the hard work. You're giving positivity to the whole, you know, state, you know, all the fan base. Like, what he was doing and what he did with Trevor Lawrence. He gave all his fans hope that Trevor Lawrence can play his contract now. And honestly, as fans, that's all we want. We just want to have hope. We want to be able to sit down and watch the game and not just be watching it going through the emotions and just going through the, well, I'm going to put the game on because I put the game on. I want to watch the game and be like, my team's going to win. Have be able to have that mindset. It's like watching game knowing that your team can win. Yeah, when you watch a game and you're like, yeah, my team doesn't have a chance. It's not fun to watch because you're like, anything good happens. You're immediately like, all right, when's the other shoe going to fall? Now, I have question for you. Did Buffalo deserve to win this game? Off The Bench London (30:35.357) not really uh... sorry buffalo ferns. Allen deserved to win the game thank you but nobody else did enough the rams do have a really good run defense which kept James Cook in check you jegs? yes that's what I the jegs defense run defense is really good So they kept James Cook in check. Josh Allen didn't go do any crazy runs. But man, that tush push when they needed what a yard and a half and got 10. It's not. It's not a tush push. That was a stampede. Yeah. Like he got picked up and just carried. Shout out to Calgary Stampede because I think I just watched it on TV. Man. But the things that Josh Allen had to do to win that game, I don't know that's sustainable next week. No, he also got banged up pretty good. Yeah. Like you see he hit his finger off a helmet. His throws weren't exactly, weren't the same right after that. We'll see. Like obviously it's a lot of adrenaline. We'll see how this week treats him. then he got his, his knee rolled up on it. So we'll. We'll see how he holds out, but I gotta ask. Did you think the Jags made the right call in letting them score? Yes. I do. Because you're not predicting the interception at the end. True. Right. And the way Trevor Lawrence has been playing. I wasn't sure what was going happen on that play on that first down. I wasn't sure if the... Well I knew Buffalo was going to run it. But the Jags could have stopped it. They had three timeouts. They could have stopped them three times. Made them kick the... No, they couldn't have kicked the field goal. Because they were down by four. Exactly. But I guess them letting them... Off The Bench London (32:57.804) score. It kind of makes sense. It's like trusting your offense to win the game. You know what I mean? Like it's it's Josh Allen. Like let's get to a point where we're just going to trust. But it was also wondering if the Bills would go, no, we'll just we'll make them burn their timeouts. Fair. Because like if they didn't want to score right away, they're like, we'll just run it a little bit for closer but not score a little bit closer but not score and then it's like the defense is trying to let them score and the offense is trying to not score It's weird. It's a logistics game. Yeah and unfortunately Yeah, you don't plan for getting a Yeah, that was Trevor Lawrence's Ego in a sense coming in He can fit it in the pocket properly and he got tipped and then he's an athlete But his accuracy is not as good as you'd think like with bad coaching with Inconsistency with not having always the great wide receivers to help him out. It's true. He's had a he's had a hard career He had he's had no real culture. What is in Clemson? It was already built for him. All you had to do was show up. yeah now like well, man some of the kind It sounds weird, but some of the guys in college have had better teams than they have had in the NFL. Yeah. Okay. I like how you say that because it's like there's tears to it because like we know that everyone in the NFL is at the peak of their career at that position for that team. Right. The biggest go ahead. It's very rare that an NFL team will be like We have the top three receivers in the entire country. We have the best O-line in the entire... You know what I mean? You're right, you're right. But take this in consideration. Just because you have the top athletes in every position, you can have the best wide receiver, best quarterback, best O-line, best quarterback, best everything, best coach. Yeah. All of that could be there. We'll say it's Madden. Everyone's a 99. Off The Bench London (35:20.761) The one stat that most people don't pay attention to, including people who watch NFL, is chemistry can destroy a 99 rating. If you don't have chemistry, if you can't go to the bar with your quarterback or your own line and have great banter, then your 99 doesn't mean anything because you're playing as an individual, you're not playing as a team. But that's kind of why I think college can be better because all these guys are the same age. Yeah, exactly. They have one goal, to get signed and make the next person look good so then, you know, me and my left tackle, you know, we're on the same page because we both want to get drafted. Yeah, because if I make him look good, he makes me look good. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. But when you're in the NFL, it doesn't matter. You're looking at the other guy, you're like, you better make me look good. Not. Yeah, I get it. need my incentive. You know, you're holding me back from me getting my incentive. Look at AJ Brown starting off topic. he's getting mad because he he's not going to reach his incentives because he's not getting the ball. That's all he can They throw the ball and it goes through his hands. So like it is what it is. So that's what I'm saying. Like, yes, in college, you make the choice to commit to that school because you have one goal. I want to learn the culture. the team needs me and we have so many weeks to build chemistry with each other and we're on the team for four years, three years if you declare to clear for the job. Yeah. So you know that someone may not take your spot unless someone else commits. Yeah, I feel like the transfer portal has totally changed all that. Well, next week we'll be doing our show and it'll be the national football game. and it's going to be recruiting versus transfer portal. Indiana is a transfer portal team where they're just going to take more mature players who couldn't get an opportunity on another team, build off of that and that's where Indiana I think it's insane how like how few five stars they have. Chemistry plays a huge game. Yeah. It happens in football, happens in soccer, happens in every team sport. If you don't have good chemistry. Off The Bench London (37:45.721) If you don't have good chemistry, it doesn't matter how good of a player you are. You can score 10 goals. Your goalie may not like you and may let in 20 goals as well. You know what I mean? As a collective, you have to build a culture. You have to like each other. You have to be able to get angry with each other and blow it off. And be able to take criticism. Well yeah, the Eagles have had a struggle with that all year. They were getting angry at each other and then not letting it go. But then you had two people not saying anything and I think, wish, you know, high-taste 2020, I wish, I guess we can flip that, 49ers pigeons, 2319. Yeah, let's move on. All right, there we I wish the Eagles... had more voices speak from Devonte Smith, Sequon Barkley. Nick Sirianni, Kevin Plutillo, I wish they spoke a lot more so the media can analyze Jalen Hurts doesn't say anything. Jalen Hurts is... He's a PR guy. He's a PR guy, correct. Nick Sirianni, PR guy. All he does is yell at people. The only other people who were talking was AJ Brown, and he predicted exactly what we just watched. Yeah. You want to be in Super Bowl team, we're not going to be able to get there. We all knew that. We can see it. You guys are playing a very mediocre game and trying to play... best ball we think we're the best guys hey best ball would have worked if he caught it if he was the best yeah i also think it's very very weird how they were inserting johan dotson so much this season and it's just like last year was between the three you guys now you're trying to spread the ball out with they're trying to spread it out too much like it's Off The Bench London (39:42.585) I don't know what works figure out what your own line wants build that chemistry. Yeah, I really think the Nick's hearing on II. I'm sorry. I don't want I don't wish for people to lose their jobs But you might need to step down Be a coordinator be but he doesn't call plays be something They need a play call you remind you of John Harbaugh Yeah. You know what mean? Yeah, but at least John Harville calls plays. No, he doesn't. he doesn't? No, he doesn't. No. If you have an issue with your team on the Ravens, he will make a call. Yeah. To make that happen. That's Nick Sirianni. Like, I looked at Dan Campbell this year. His OC couldn't get the job done. So what did he do? He stepped in and played, started doing play calls. Where was that Nick Sirianni? Yeah. You are supposed to be the face of the team because everyone is biting on your teachings, your leadership, your goals. Well, imagine like if your job is on the line, would you want to put your job on the line? Like let someone else put your job on the line? Woo! Playing for the Eagles, being the coach of the Eagles, you would think you're always on the hot seat because in how we trust, he moves on from people very, That's why I wouldn't shock me if somebody's leaving. But here's the other thing that pisses me off. Why did, how we do something throughout the whole season? He barely did anything. Like, we made some trades. He's- Yeah, he got some pretty good trades. But he didn't step in with the coaches, because he could. Off The Bench London (41:30.773) Yeah, I'm really surprised that they didn't move AJ Brown during the year. Smart watch. I'm glad they didn't. They can get more from in the offseason than they could. But here's the other thing. Pay attention to this offseason because last Super Bowl, everyone got their payday. gave Saquon Barkley his thank you for coming onto the team. We gave you an extension. There's only one person who didn't get an extension last year. Who? Jalen Hurts. yeah. I am very curious to see what he's going to do with Jalen, if he's going to be full Jalen or full AJ. One of them is gone. That's why I'm also saying be prepared. He might go somewhere else because they didn't extend them. Why didn't they extend them? Yeah. You know what I mean? Like there there's opportunities going out there. Maybe there might be a side and trade. Maybe there will be a package deal with AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts somewhere else. AJ Brown would throw a fit. I would love to see that. Both in Miami. I would love to see. like the call that AJ Brown gives, hey, we're trading you to Miami. but they don't have a quarterback. They sure do, buddy. We're sending you with your favorite quarterback. What I'm saying is, Howie Roseman, remember a few years ago when he fired Doug Peterson and got rid of Kirsten Wentz the same year. Yeah. couldn't get along. You know what mean? Now this is different. We're all blaming Kevin Pettullo. Nick Sarriani, I know you're not causing any backlash, but now... But he could have been doing a lot more to help... Exactly. Be like, hey, what are you doing with these plays? Why are we making it so basic? Our guys aren't idiots. The defenses we're playing aren't idiots. They'll figure it out. 20 plays into the game. And overall, that team was super bold. Yeah. Off The Bench London (43:44.235) That team, there's no reason why they're Like they had the players. So I'm, we may not hear about it this week. They may wait. They may have other plans. But the door is open for a lot of players right now. Players and coaches. There's going to be a lot of movement. mean, guess they're really, realistically there's a lot of movement every year. Yeah. But I don't know. I felt like. There weren't a lot of crazy ones this year, aside from like, Mike Parsons. That's pretty much the only big But the Eagles called. Of course they called. They called for everybody. The other thing I'll say is, 49ers... Honestly, every team is dumb if they didn't call. That's true. 49ers could win... Kyle Shanahan could win Coach of the Year. He could will it to... When you look at how injured they were. how relevant they were. Like. Yeah, were better than last year. And they were more banged up this year. And more banged up. To the point where your star quarterback barely played. So you played Matt Jones as quarterback. And we're like. man, that was. I forgot about that. That was such a funny. I was like, what do you do with two adequate quarterbacks like that? Matt Jones just showed you he shouldn't be a backup because he's willing the team to win. Yeah. With the banged up offense had no number one right receivers had no tight end like which they don't have now which they don't have now as well. Blake the way it all worked out. I'll just say we're always talking about teams that made the biggest leap. New England, Chicago. They made the biggest leaps. But the Niners made the biggest leap. in the craziest way. Yeah, they made the biggest leap with less. significantly less. They didn't have their star players, didn't have all this, and they're still relevant. So that's what saying. He might win Coach Lanier due to the fact that, you know, willing his way. He's not winning it over Ben Johnson or I'm just saying it's possible. Yeah. It's possible. I mean, he could, his name could be in the running, but he's definitely not going to win. Off The Bench London (46:03.862) But then here's the other argument is, know, Kevin Stefanski, what's your excuse? Because you're going to be in the same conversation as Kyle Shanahan. Kyle Shanahan wanted to win. What are you doing, Kevin Stefanski? If you're not trying to win, because I see teams are doing it with less. Well, right now he's not doing anything. I know. You know what I mean. But like, that's why he got fired. I'm just saying a lot of these coaches who said, I don't have this, I don't have that, I don't have that. Find a way. Exactly. That's what a coach of year does. Like he's showing, like there's a reason Shanahan has one coach of the year before and how many of his, of people from his coaching tree are either head coaches or high end coordinators. Like there aren't, think about how many head coaching jobs there are in the NFL. In the NFL, between head coach, defense, and offensive coordinator, there is less than 100 jobs. how many people are trying to get these jobs? And how many of them have learned from him? There are. Exactly. There are. And the only ones who have been are the ones who are coming in from college. Yeah. Who want the payday. Or one of the other coaching legends. I'm staying with this game. This is the last time I'm to say about it is, oh, he's definitely wearing it. He is definitely wearing it. Oh no. 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This game was pretty much exactly what I was expecting. I'm gonna say this. When it comes to the Chargers, they were ahead of their time. They shouldn't have been there. shouldn't have. I honestly think they just willed themselves into getting in the position they were in. And they need to work on their own line real bad. You shouldn't be that banged up on your own line to the point where your offense can't. Off The Bench London (50:51.175) You know what? I can't say this because I'm sitting next to a Bengals fan. Did you see the stats of their guards and their center? Provide it. The three of them were all bottom. I think the best one was bottom four at his position this year. The best one. So they had like the worst center. second or third worst left guard and third worst right guard is not like you can't I would I would like you to do some research after this. Rank those players versus the Bengals of last year of last year and this year and where it's not stuff but like I mean they were kind of reminding me of when the Bengals made it to the Super Bowl because There was that one game when we beat the number one Titans. Yes. And Joe Burrow got sacked like seven times. Herbert got sacked six times. Yes he did. And was just getting absolutely destroyed. Like they weren't like sacks where you're fine. Like he was like there was one sack on a third down. They punted right after but I was like he's dead. He's literally, he's not getting up. Like his team literally picked him up off the dirt and carried him off the field. There was no hope for him though. No. And like they didn't have, they don't have good enough receivers for him to just be like, just turn and hook in a direction. Like no one else was making plays. Their run game wasn't... was doing terrible obviously because zero holes are opening up. And the Patriots are just eating them alive. I was expecting the Patriots to show up and go crazy. They were very civil. Yeah. I was kind of shocked. But the Chargers defense was good. They were really, they also got five sacks. Yes. So Chargers defense showed up. Drake may show up. Off The Bench London (53:17.49) And that's why he's my candidate for MVP Unfortunately, I can't believe I'm saying that about a patriot After going for so many years of hating the Patriots to me like that's your book. It's an MVP candidate But I think it's really funny where when you're just like yes the Patriots as the national anthem is going off in the background I Hope y'all can't hear that. I hope yeah, they probably can't Maybe they can Who knows? You might be able to hear it. Just faintly? Yeah. But. But yeah, that game was pretty much exactly what I was expecting. I... Frabel is definitely the perfect coach for that team. for sure, for sure. Did you see it like when they were celebrating, he got his lip all busted open. He's like, whatever, it happens. He's a I don't know how many times he's headbutted a helmet this year. Like didn't he his nose busted too? Yes. He's not human. He's not human at all. He's type of coach that you want to play for. like, let's say it as this. I think it was like the same thing with Dan Campbell. That style of player makes a great coach. I'll say this though, is if there's only one coach in the world who can fix digs, it's very Yeah, well don't don't do this digs legs too much. no. Yeah Wait what depends what we're Where's the hand? All right, so obviously it's a Texas versus the Steelers tonight DK Metcalf is activated He's off his suspension from hitting a fan in Detroit. I feel like that just kind of fizzled out and like no one really talked about it. No, we're grown. We don't care. That's all these now. Yeah. Like two weeks out. You're like, whatever. We don't care. Is this? I'm sure the fan got paid out with an NDA. Otherwise, he would probably be pretty loud still. Is this going to be Aaron Rodgers last game in the NFL? Off The Bench London (55:41.201) Very well could be. The Texans may kill him. I have no hope for the Texans offense. It's okay. They're average. That defense scares the hell out of me. And I don't want to see Ann Rogers in a hospital or being carted off after being hit by that defense. That own line has got to learn how to block accordingly. Well, at this point, it's too late to learn. They just have to do it. It's either they do or they don't. like what the Steelers have done. You have DK Metcalf, have Adam Thielen. Adam Thielen was a great addition. You want that someone who can read a playbook and execute accordingly? Yeah. So like... He's not gonna make these crazy plays, but he's a smart guy. You're utility player. Well that's like how I... The Ravens had Hopkins. They didn't use him right. No, they really did. No, no. But I'm looking forward to this game. It's going to tell the story for the rest for the division around and so forth. But who do you have? I think the Texans are going to I'm going to Houston as well. As a Bengals fan, I would like to see the Texans win. It's true. I this isn't Aaron Rodgers' last game in the NFL. I don't know where he'll go after this. he have a... Was he just a one-year contract? I think he was just a one-year. I don't know, he might get something. He still... This year... Another offseason of Aaron Rodgers drama like he likes... He loves that. He basks in it. He does. I will say... He's keeping the tradition for the Steelers. If they lose, normal courts for them. So what do you think if they lose, Tomlin's gone? No, because they made the playoffs. Yeah, but I mean, I guess he got the double digit wins. Yeah, it wasn't nine and eight. That was wrong there. Ten and seven. So they just did enough. He should be fired after this year. Off The Bench London (58:04.835) due to the fact that there's no rhyme or reason why Cleveland should have beat you? Well, no. That game they 100 % sold out to stop the record. Which is not something that you should do. I agree. But... Because I feel like all the fans... The fans didn't go to that game to not see the record broken. They went to see the Steelers win and make the playoffs. So instead they just made sure a record didn't happen. Yeah man. But yeah, so we might as well enjoy the game. You know what's funny? We can actually enjoy the game because we're not giving out jerseys today. I mean it. I miss it though. I do. I miss. It's nice. I like to do the jerseys. But we do have a bunch of people here. Yeah. you? Should I? Say why they're all here might as well. Yeah, everybody's here. We're all celebrating Malcolm's birthday. He's officially what 37 37 I was gonna say a joke number but yes, you're 37. We'll just go with 37. Yeah But yeah, no, yeah, so we bunch of people from my soccer team football team are here Yeah, so we're just gonna watch some football. They say they're supporting us exactly. So on that note Happy birthday to me I guess. Yeah I was gonna say aren't I supposed to say that? Happy birthday to you. Cheers! That's bad luck though. I'll get another one. And on that note, that's an episode. That's a wrap. Peace!