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- 0:01Speaker 1: When I woke up this morning, I was feeling pretty dangerous.
- 0:03Speaker 1: We're on a Cincinnati it's my team, it's my quarterback.
- 0:07Speaker 1: They are we thought they were, and we got about
- 0:12Speaker 1: you play to win the day. They want you to
- 0:14Speaker 1: cook the dinner. At least they ought to let your
- 0:16Speaker 1: shout for some of the grocery. And on the way up,
- 0:18Speaker 1: we're gonna buy the kneecap all getting me playoffs. I'm
- 0:21Speaker 1: just here so I won't get fine. How could he
- 0:23Speaker 1: not be romantic about football? I'm sorry, it's just these
- 0:31Speaker 1: are happy tears. We get football. Football is back next week. Back,
- 0:39Speaker 1: Come on, Mohan a little smirk. I'm ready an it's
- 0:42Speaker 1: a little bit of excitement from you, my friend. Are
- 0:45Speaker 1: you just weirded out because you're all the way over there,
- 0:47Speaker 1: so far away. I just needed a little separation because
- 0:50Speaker 1: the energy is bad high today because football is back
- 0:54Speaker 1: next week. We have real things to talk about today,
- 0:57Speaker 1: people kind of not really, We're still silly as show
- 1:00Speaker 1: that we are, but we're gonna have football in mere days.
- 1:03Speaker 1: I had a meeting today about a preview show who
- 1:08Speaker 1: I'm back on TV next week. I feel like I'm
- 1:11Speaker 1: employed once again. I mean it's fun to do this podcast.
- 1:15Speaker 1: We did it all summer long. Thank you for being
- 1:17Speaker 1: in the trenches with me, boys and talking about you know,
- 1:21Speaker 1: I don't know shoewere of athletes. That's we got really
- 1:25Speaker 1: into the weeds this summer. But it's back. We have
- 1:27Speaker 1: football to talk about. We've got preview shows next week,
- 1:30Speaker 1: we got Thursday, and I have football. I'm very excited.
- 1:34Speaker 1: And I know what you are all here for today.
- 1:37Speaker 1: You're here to see if I have come to a
- 1:42Speaker 1: conclusion in my life. This has got to be the
- 1:47Speaker 1: silliest content that I've ever partook in. And I do
- 1:52Speaker 1: some dumb stuff. This season was This off season was
- 1:57Speaker 1: a roller coaster for your girl. Okay, she lost the
- 2:01Speaker 1: love of her life in the Cleveland Browns. So did Mohan. Alright,
- 2:05Speaker 1: they did us dirty, h And I really want I
- 2:08Speaker 1: love having a football team. I love it. We all do.
- 2:14Speaker 1: We need a team to root for. I watch all
- 2:15Speaker 1: the games. Okay, I'm there all day on Red Zone.
- 2:17Speaker 1: Shout out Sky Hanson. But I need somebody to fall
- 2:22Speaker 1: in love with. And so I started the Benched Bachelorette
- 2:26Speaker 1: a couple of months ago. This has been a journey
- 2:28Speaker 1: more than a couple. This has been a jerk me
- 2:31Speaker 1: from the beginning, and I wanted to end up right
- 2:34Speaker 1: before the season. Wow, so much of stuff has happened
- 2:36Speaker 1: right before the season. I wanted to find a new
- 2:38Speaker 1: team that I could buy all the way into. And
- 2:44Speaker 1: I am happy to sit here today. This is like
- 2:46Speaker 1: the This is like the aff of the Rose, because
- 2:47Speaker 1: if we all know who got the final rose, the
- 2:50Speaker 1: aff of the rose right now. I am happy to
- 2:53Speaker 1: sit here today to tell you that I have fallen
- 2:55Speaker 1: in love. I have found my squad, and I wrote
- 2:59Speaker 1: a little some thing so that you guys can see
- 3:03Speaker 1: who is roll the clip. Hi, I'm Rachel, and I
- 3:13Speaker 1: came on the bench Bachelor at looking for love, and
- 3:17Speaker 1: yes I found it. The road to get here has
- 3:23Speaker 1: not been easy. I had my heart broken. This is
- 3:26Speaker 1: bad business. I'm sorry, this is going to affect my
- 3:29Speaker 1: fandom for this team. I started this journey with thirty
- 3:33Speaker 1: two potential bachelors looking for my hand in football marriage.
- 3:36Speaker 1: There were some major contenders, the Ravens, the Lions, the
- 3:40Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. I'm just kidding. I never really thought it
- 3:43Speaker 1: with the Seattle Seahawks. So you're probably wondering who I chose, Well,
- 3:47Speaker 1: this team has got a whole lot of heart. They're
- 3:50Speaker 1: an electric they have an exciting young quarterback, a great
- 3:54Speaker 1: head coach, and to be honest, I just like kind
- 3:56Speaker 1: of love the Colors game. How could I not pick
- 4:00Speaker 1: this team? Wows Angeles Chargers? Will you accept this rose?
- 4:10Speaker 1: Great audio content? Right? No, right, you guys are living
- 4:12Speaker 1: for this on the pod Man this Okay, So I
- 4:25Speaker 1: made a whole sketch you guys, and it will be
- 4:27Speaker 1: on the all the socials so you can go and
- 4:29Speaker 1: watch that. But that that long pause there was me
- 4:32Speaker 1: trying to get a rose over the fence into so
- 4:34Speaker 1: far because Chargers are the one they are the one
- 4:40Speaker 1: that made it to the end. I this is a
- 4:43Speaker 1: team that I am very very excited about. I loved
- 4:45Speaker 1: watching them last year when they played the Browns on
- 4:49Speaker 1: my birthday. That was the one of the most fun.
- 4:52Speaker 1: That was the most fun football game I have ever
- 4:54Speaker 1: been to in my life. It was super high scoring,
- 4:58Speaker 1: uh the Chargers one. So that was kind of like
- 5:02Speaker 1: my first foray into seeing this team. And just like,
- 5:04Speaker 1: I love the underdog mentality. I'm an underdog gal, Okay,
- 5:07Speaker 1: that's why I loved the Browns. You go into so Fi.
- 5:09Speaker 1: It doesn't even belong to the Chargers. They've got this,
- 5:13Speaker 1: you know, even though they don't want to admit it.
- 5:14Speaker 1: I interviewed a bunch of Charges a couple weeks ago.
- 5:16Speaker 1: They don't want to admit there's some kind of rivalry
- 5:17Speaker 1: happening with Rams. But maybe I can from the inside,
- 5:20Speaker 1: I can infiltrate and make that rivalry a real thing.
- 5:23Speaker 1: Uh so, Chargers, you're stuck with me now, baby, I'm
- 5:27Speaker 1: looking forward to December eighteenth. Why because the Titans play
- 5:33Speaker 1: the Chargers. Do we go here? We should go as
- 5:37Speaker 1: a podcast and capture some content. Absolutely got to go.
- 5:40Speaker 1: And now I don't feel so bad because there was
- 5:41Speaker 1: this moment after the Chargers beat the Browns that I
- 5:44Speaker 1: came on telling all these people. For some reason, got
- 5:46Speaker 1: started sliding into my DMS, being like Justin, hey bird,
- 5:49Speaker 1: dear daddy. Um. And I didn't like that, and so
- 5:53Speaker 1: I went on television and said Justin remember stement daddy.
- 5:55Speaker 1: But no, it doesn't really impermit any I want to
- 5:58Speaker 1: just say something. There's been a lot of people in
- 6:00Speaker 1: my DM saying that Justin Herbert is my daddy. No
- 6:03Speaker 1: he is not. After last weekend's game. Okay, Justin Herbert
- 6:06Speaker 1: is not my daddy. Okay, Justin Herbert is my daddy. Confirmed,
- 6:10Speaker 1: he is my daddy. You and the father. Justin Herbert's
- 6:12Speaker 1: my daddy. I love it. I know you value my
- 6:15Speaker 1: opinion too, so I support your decision. Oh. I like
- 6:19Speaker 1: the Chargers and Austin Eckler is a short king, and
- 6:23Speaker 1: Austin Eckler is a short king, and you know for
- 6:25Speaker 1: short kings, we love short kings on this show. So
- 6:29Speaker 1: that is my final decision. I am going with the Chargers.
- 6:32Speaker 1: I'm very happy with this decision. I think, um, I
- 6:35Speaker 1: love their social media. It's just a team that I
- 6:37Speaker 1: want to cheer for. I love Justin Herbert. I think
- 6:39Speaker 1: that they're going to be really good this year. And
- 6:40Speaker 1: they are absolutely going to stomp on Graver's Titans. They
- 6:44Speaker 1: are going to rip them into shreds. Also, I have
- 6:47Speaker 1: the chance to go to football games like when I
- 6:49Speaker 1: was a fan of the I've never even got to
- 6:51Speaker 1: go to a Brown's game, which seems so silly because
- 6:53Speaker 1: I love them so much. I want to be able
- 6:55Speaker 1: to go and like go to a game. And for
- 6:56Speaker 1: the record, when this started, I said that you were
- 6:59Speaker 1: going to pick the chargers. I don't know where that
- 7:00Speaker 1: sound is something. I was gonna pick the charge with
- 7:04Speaker 1: caram wlax. Everyone knew it. Everyone knew it. Uh. Speaking
- 7:07Speaker 1: of relationships and love and all things good. Um, there's
- 7:12Speaker 1: some bad relationships happening in the league. Uh, and you
- 7:17Speaker 1: came to the right place to hear all about it.
- 7:19Speaker 1: Roll the clip. It's time for Benched Buzz. We're bringing
- 7:26Speaker 1: you all the hottest goss from the NFL world. Let's
- 7:30Speaker 1: go live to our feature correspondent, Rachel Vanetta. We gotta
- 7:36Speaker 1: find a way to get that in every single episode
- 7:39Speaker 1: of this podcast. Um, guys, I was right. I was
- 7:42Speaker 1: right last week. This was last week right. I led
- 7:45Speaker 1: the show with Tom and Giselle getting a divorce. That
- 7:49Speaker 1: was the buzz that I was hearing. I got a
- 7:50Speaker 1: text from her friend telling me that that is what
- 7:52Speaker 1: was going on. Now all of a sudden, Mama was like,
- 7:55Speaker 1: don't lead the show with that. That's dumb gosship. We're
- 7:58Speaker 1: not us Weekly, we're not the National Inquirer. That's what
- 8:03Speaker 1: you actually sound like it verbatim. Wow, it's what you said. No,
- 8:06Speaker 1: we're Benched buzz, baby, it's we led the show with
- 8:11Speaker 1: Tom and Giselle are getting a divorce last week, Adam Schefter,
- 8:15Speaker 1: you're late. Actually it hasn't been confirmed that they're getting anymore.
- 8:17Speaker 1: It's just confirmed that they were like the they're fighting
- 8:20Speaker 1: and all of this stuff. But what was fascinating right
- 8:22Speaker 1: after that episode came out, we are all in a
- 8:24Speaker 1: group chat and one of you guys sent me this
- 8:28Speaker 1: clip from Brady once he did finally show up to training.
- 8:30Speaker 1: Can we roll that and hear how sad he sounds?
- 8:33Speaker 1: It's all personal. You know, everyone's got different situations are
- 8:36Speaker 1: dealing with, so we all have really unique challenges to
- 8:38Speaker 1: our life in you know, we're I'm forty five years old. Man,
- 8:44Speaker 1: he's like going on. So you know, you just kind
- 8:47Speaker 1: of try to figure out like the best you can,
- 8:48Speaker 1: and um, you know, it's a continuous process. So, Bro,
- 8:56Speaker 1: I'm going the other way. He sounds broken, He sounds
- 8:59Speaker 1: so God, what do you mean You're going the other way? Now?
- 9:02Speaker 1: Now you agree with no, I'm I'm trending towards the
- 9:05Speaker 1: other way. I'm not fully there, but which way is?
- 9:07Speaker 1: Which way is the other way? Are? You can't be
- 9:11Speaker 1: on bench buzz if you're sending mix signals you have
- 9:12Speaker 1: to give us a clear opinion. Do you think that
- 9:14Speaker 1: they're getting a dvors or not. I'm more towards that.
- 9:18Speaker 1: I think it's really like, oh, I don't want to
- 9:21Speaker 1: hear Tom isn't. I know, it's kind of a bomber
- 9:24Speaker 1: like that. They're a staple. They're what makes me feel
- 9:27Speaker 1: like love is still alive. Baby. But I gotta say, um,
- 9:31Speaker 1: this is a gross conversation, but I think that if
- 9:34Speaker 1: Brady does get a divorced, like look out everybody Football
- 9:37Speaker 1: has always been is like one true love, the thing
- 9:39Speaker 1: that he can fall back on. He couldn't even stay
- 9:41Speaker 1: retired from it. Like I think Brady's gonna be a
- 9:45Speaker 1: menace to society this year, or he's gonna care so
- 9:49Speaker 1: much about preserving his marriage and his relationship that he
- 9:53Speaker 1: re retires week four. He's gone, whoa as a hot
- 10:00Speaker 1: take clip that off because that might happen. Well, I mean,
- 10:03Speaker 1: that's not a man that seems fired out. Like the
- 10:06Speaker 1: thing about Brady is like, you know he really I
- 10:10Speaker 1: mean besides the obvious drama like Spygate and deflate Gate
- 10:13Speaker 1: and all of the gates, Um, it doesn't seem I mean,
- 10:16Speaker 1: correct me. If I'm wrong. It doesn't seem like he's
- 10:18Speaker 1: really let his personal life kind of like I'm sure
- 10:20Speaker 1: he's a human being. I'm sure like lots of stuff
- 10:22Speaker 1: has happened to him, Like he's always just seemed to
- 10:25Speaker 1: be like and even when the deflate gates and the
- 10:27Speaker 1: spy gates and all of that stuff was happening, he
- 10:29Speaker 1: was still like, wasn't it the year after Spygate? They
- 10:33Speaker 1: balled out? That was like the year that they won
- 10:35Speaker 1: like every single game in the season. Correct me if
- 10:38Speaker 1: I'm wrong. He was suspended for the first four games,
- 10:41Speaker 1: so maybe it was season. I can't remember, but he
- 10:44Speaker 1: balled out. Yeah, he always he balls out a lot,
- 10:47Speaker 1: So what one of that's true? But um, I feel
- 10:49Speaker 1: like he can turn that off and it's just about football.
- 10:53Speaker 1: Even when deflate Gate happened and they asked Belichick and
- 10:56Speaker 1: Belichick so you're gonna have to ask Tom about that
- 10:58Speaker 1: and they totally throwing him under the bus and he stole.
- 11:01Speaker 1: But maybe they're throwing him out there. Maybe they're tossing
- 11:03Speaker 1: him the bone because they know that he can handle it.
- 11:05Speaker 1: Either way, I'm sad. I'm sad to report on benched Buzz,
- 11:08Speaker 1: but I think that this is the real thing that
- 11:09Speaker 1: might actually be happening. Maybe once football season starts, he'll
- 11:13Speaker 1: get back into it and then he'll forget about her
- 11:15Speaker 1: and forget him hurt. What are you going to forget
- 11:17Speaker 1: about Giselle? Mom? What did you just say? It's Giselle?
- 11:20Speaker 1: Who do you think that Tom Brady could marry Kim? Oh? No,
- 11:26Speaker 1: Kim Kardashan Ready? No, I ship it? What's the opposite
- 11:31Speaker 1: of ship? I don't know. Seal it? I don't know. Okay,
- 11:37Speaker 1: Speaking of some other relationships, I guess Jimmy g is
- 11:40Speaker 1: sticking around with the forty nine ers. That's also some
- 11:42Speaker 1: news that came up this week. I just didn't get it.
- 11:44Speaker 1: I don't get it. I think that Kyle Shanahan, as
- 11:47Speaker 1: Cynthia said it once before, Kyle Shanahan is a lying
- 11:49Speaker 1: liar who lies and we just can't ever great. You
- 11:53Speaker 1: brought up a great point. What was it earlier this week?
- 11:56Speaker 1: Trey Sermon he was saying what was he saying? Last week?
- 11:58Speaker 1: He called Tray He just said really wonderful things about
- 12:01Speaker 1: how good Trey Sermon is, and then Tuesday, Trey Sermon
- 12:04Speaker 1: was cut from the team. I don't mean to laugh,
- 12:05Speaker 1: but ha ha ha, Like, what are we doing here,
- 12:08Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan. He just has some of my favorite in
- 12:12Speaker 1: season quotes, like the pr should really like scale back
- 12:15Speaker 1: the amount of times that he gets to talk to
- 12:17Speaker 1: the media because something is always cuckoo bananas with him.
- 12:21Speaker 1: He's always saying something like, I don't know if any
- 12:23Speaker 1: of us are going to be alive this week. I
- 12:25Speaker 1: don't know who's starting at quarterback, and like in the
- 12:27Speaker 1: midst of COVID like, honey, maybe you don't say something
- 12:29Speaker 1: like that. So now he's staying. He is currently the
- 12:33Speaker 1: highest paid backup in the league. He just gets to
- 12:36Speaker 1: sit on the sidelines. And I guess he's got incentives
- 12:38Speaker 1: in his contract, so if Trey Lance absolutely bombs and
- 12:41Speaker 1: Jimmy goes back in, he gets more money. But like,
- 12:44Speaker 1: this has just been such an interesting thing. I guess
- 12:46Speaker 1: they got kind of screwed over because of his injury
- 12:48Speaker 1: and they didn't know what was going on with that.
- 12:49Speaker 1: But congratulations, Jimmy ge you got a home, you got
- 12:54Speaker 1: a partner, and you got some money in your pocket.
- 12:56Speaker 1: For now he's got a home. What this really So
- 13:00Speaker 1: they added in no trade clause, which is interesting because
- 13:02Speaker 1: It just gives Jimmy g the ability to say, no,
- 13:05Speaker 1: don't trade me to that dumpster fire team that has
- 13:07Speaker 1: no chance to win anything this year. But if a
- 13:09Speaker 1: team that is competitive loses their quarterback in Week six,
- 13:13Speaker 1: now his contract isn't so out so massive that a
- 13:18Speaker 1: team could actually trade for him. Absolutely if he agrees,
- 13:21Speaker 1: that's that's weird. I also still think that Jimmy's got
- 13:25Speaker 1: some spice in him. I think the tray and who
- 13:28Speaker 1: knows what trade's gonna look like. He was barely played
- 13:30Speaker 1: last season. When he did play, he didn't look good.
- 13:32Speaker 1: But all the offseason reports that we've heard are that
- 13:35Speaker 1: he like George Kittle was haying like, oh, this guy's
- 13:37Speaker 1: like he's not like what you saw of him last year,
- 13:41Speaker 1: and say what you want about Jimmy Groves like, well, obvious,
- 13:45Speaker 1: what they're doing for him him keeps him around for now.
- 13:51Speaker 1: Uh okay, well listen, Graver, I was trying to end
- 13:53Speaker 1: on like a happy relationship. No, but you're like, he
- 13:55Speaker 1: can help me trade it. Uh. Guys, love is in
- 13:59Speaker 1: the air is all that matters. Maybe not, maybe not
- 14:01Speaker 1: with Tom and Giselle, but love is in the air. Uh.
- 14:04Speaker 1: And love is especially in the air because we've got
- 14:06Speaker 1: a sponsored segment coming up. Baby Girl got a sponsor.
- 14:11Speaker 1: It's coming up after the break. Don't Go Anyway. We're
- 14:13Speaker 1: gonna make summer early early leans of the season because
- 14:17Speaker 1: the season preview show alf Don't Go Anywhere. Okay, it
- 14:31Speaker 1: is time for Pick six, presented by Draft King's Sports Book.
- 14:35Speaker 1: We're official, guys. We've got a sponsor on the show
- 14:38Speaker 1: for the season. For the season, I think, so for
- 14:40Speaker 1: the same in who maybe. Okay, so we are making
- 14:44Speaker 1: some early leans, some picks for this season. Uh and
- 14:47Speaker 1: maybe we can all kind of go around the horn
- 14:49Speaker 1: and see what we're thinking here. Super Bowl pick very
- 14:53Speaker 1: very early. Not a single game has been played, but
- 14:58Speaker 1: I think we are going to see the first game
- 15:00Speaker 1: get a little rematch in the Super Bowl. I'm going
- 15:03Speaker 1: Bills over the Los Angeles Rams. First off, how fun
- 15:09Speaker 1: of a Super Bowl would that be? It would be
- 15:12Speaker 1: I think that the Bills I've got like, oh some
- 15:15Speaker 1: vengeance this season with the coin flip. They got a
- 15:19Speaker 1: rule change in the off season. Really like Josh Allen,
- 15:23Speaker 1: I really love their culture, that whole squad. So I'm
- 15:27Speaker 1: going Bills over Rams. Who. I still think they just
- 15:31Speaker 1: like have an easy path to get the who's in
- 15:32Speaker 1: their way? Yeah? I like this, um like you just
- 15:36Speaker 1: said the Rams. Who's who's in the way for the Rams?
- 15:38Speaker 1: I mean the top contenders in the NFC. The Packers
- 15:41Speaker 1: lost DeVante Adams, the Bucks have all this drama going
- 15:44Speaker 1: on with Tom Brady, the Eagles, the Saints, other teams
- 15:46Speaker 1: that people like to make a leap this year. It's
- 15:48Speaker 1: just a projection. People like the Saints. Teams love the Saints.
- 15:52Speaker 1: The forty nine ers in the division with the Rams,
- 15:54Speaker 1: like Trey Lanes, is such a question mark. Again if
- 15:56Speaker 1: I'm really surprised to see how high of a favorite
- 15:59Speaker 1: the forty niners were actually, Yeah, what are they doing there?
- 16:02Speaker 1: What are you going with? I like the Chiefs? Well Patrick,
- 16:07Speaker 1: oh like taking the favor Where those are you not
- 16:09Speaker 1: only enjoy in your life? You don't want to excite
- 16:11Speaker 1: the Bills or the Favorite. I want to do something
- 16:13Speaker 1: different Bills. I have not been in a Super Bowl
- 16:16Speaker 1: and what was that sad twenty thirty two. I'm just
- 16:20Speaker 1: being really two years early nineties with Jim Kelly. I
- 16:24Speaker 1: think I would want the Bills, but I think Chiefs.
- 16:28Speaker 1: Chief's over. I'm gonna go forty nine ers. Oh wow,
- 16:32Speaker 1: so you're predicting a big Yeah, tray Lance will work out.
- 16:36Speaker 1: The defense is good. Stafford's elbow do we know? Or
- 16:40Speaker 1: his elbow? Right? You were? You were just worried about,
- 16:42Speaker 1: like Stafford staying in shape? No, his elbows? No, I know.
- 16:48Speaker 1: But he's also getting older too. It's already kind of
- 16:50Speaker 1: been through. He's won a Super Bowl? Like, how long
- 16:52Speaker 1: is he going to be? I'm done to do something
- 16:54Speaker 1: a little different. Okay, I actually really like that. That's fun.
- 16:57Speaker 1: Saw it a couple of years ago. Yeah, still a
- 16:59Speaker 1: little rematch. That's cool. It's fine. I like Rams over Ravens.
- 17:05Speaker 1: Who Hi, Lamar Jackson? I really love that. I think
- 17:10Speaker 1: that Lamar. I think that the Ravens are going to
- 17:12Speaker 1: be good this year. But also, what was does it
- 17:14Speaker 1: not concern you what happened with Lamar Jackson this week?
- 17:17Speaker 1: What about the guaranteed? About all the money stuff? And
- 17:20Speaker 1: then he was like liking a photo of he had
- 17:22Speaker 1: a Dolphins jersey, Like what are we? I think he's
- 17:25Speaker 1: like subtly negotiating member. He doesn't have an agent, so
- 17:29Speaker 1: his mom and him sort of represent him. Yeah, so
- 17:35Speaker 1: I think Lamar is going to be motivated by all
- 17:37Speaker 1: this contract talk to go out there and show that
- 17:40Speaker 1: he deserves this kind of a fully guaranteed deal. I
- 17:43Speaker 1: like the Rams. I just mentioned why I love the Rams.
- 17:44Speaker 1: I think the Rams offense could be better this year
- 17:46Speaker 1: with Alan Robinson who's there for the full season. I
- 17:49Speaker 1: think Alan Robinson is at his peak, a better receiver
- 17:52Speaker 1: than Robert Woods, who's really good and now with TS.
- 17:55Speaker 1: But you know Odell Beckham joining mid year. I think
- 17:58Speaker 1: Alan Robinson is better than what you got out of
- 18:00Speaker 1: a late season run with Odell last year too. Aaron
- 18:03Speaker 1: Donald came back for one reason to win another Super Bowl.
- 18:07Speaker 1: This team, I think is motivated, and I just the
- 18:09Speaker 1: NFC is so wide open for like strong competition. Aaron
- 18:13Speaker 1: Donald seems like he's got a lot of pent up energy.
- 18:15Speaker 1: Lab Yeah that was wild and hell was that? Do
- 18:19Speaker 1: you see what we were talking about? Swinging helmets at practice?
- 18:23Speaker 1: That was pretty crazy? Yeah, two helmets, Miles had one. Uh,
- 18:29Speaker 1: you don't think Cooper couple haven't regression. He's not gonna
- 18:32Speaker 1: have that. Statistically he probably will, But I don't think
- 18:35Speaker 1: the offense like I think the offense overall everyone around him.
- 18:38Speaker 1: Cam acres healthy for the full season. You hope at
- 18:41Speaker 1: least he doesn't have a torn achilles right now like
- 18:42Speaker 1: he did this time last year. And there there's some
- 18:46Speaker 1: question marks on the offensive line, but overall, I think
- 18:49Speaker 1: the Rams have There's just nobody that stands in their way.
- 18:51Speaker 1: I agree. I love how you said my pick was
- 18:53Speaker 1: boring and you and you're picking the team that won
- 18:56Speaker 1: last year. Okay, I have them in there, but I
- 18:58Speaker 1: want yeah, repeat city. One of the hardest things to
- 19:03Speaker 1: do in sports is repeat as Super Bowl champions. Yeah,
- 19:06Speaker 1: that's at least an interesting storyline. Mo one um Okay, MVP.
- 19:10Speaker 1: Most Valuable Player Aaron Rodgers has one of the last
- 19:13Speaker 1: two years in a row. Guys, I think he might
- 19:16Speaker 1: go or a third. Listen, hear me out, hearing me out. Okay,
- 19:21Speaker 1: he's trying all of these new things in the off season.
- 19:24Speaker 1: He's on ayahuasca. He's like really centering himself. He's very
- 19:28Speaker 1: he got a cool tattoo. I just feel like he
- 19:32Speaker 1: is really he is like heightening himself and it's is
- 19:36Speaker 1: reminiscent of Tom Brady when he really started to get
- 19:38Speaker 1: in like crazy like as he started getting older, he
- 19:42Speaker 1: started getting in this like crazy shape. I think Aaron
- 19:44Speaker 1: Rodgerson is doing that and getting in like crazy mental
- 19:46Speaker 1: shape as well. Maybe we don't agree with the antics
- 19:50Speaker 1: and the non vaccination and all the things and all
- 19:54Speaker 1: all of the things, um, but I don't know. I
- 19:58Speaker 1: think he's got an interesting head on his show and
- 20:00Speaker 1: he could win it a third time. Who are you
- 20:01Speaker 1: guys going? I like this pick because narrative wise, such
- 20:04Speaker 1: a narrative driven award, like what the press writes determines
- 20:08Speaker 1: how people. I was so like, Oh, Aaron Rodgers isn't
- 20:10Speaker 1: gonna win the year that he like tells everyone that
- 20:13Speaker 1: he's an anti vax or, like it's exactly like the
- 20:16Speaker 1: media votes on this stuff. But like third year in
- 20:19Speaker 1: a row when he's like zen and out and like
- 20:22Speaker 1: doing yoga on the field, I'm I'm into that. And
- 20:25Speaker 1: the fact that he doesn't have Davante Adams. If he
- 20:28Speaker 1: puts together a statistical season like the last two, people
- 20:31Speaker 1: are gonna be like, oh wow, this is all Rogers.
- 20:35Speaker 1: He deserves the MVP again because he carried this team
- 20:38Speaker 1: of looking exactly Because that's what I was thinking, we
- 20:41Speaker 1: don't even know what what Aaron Rodgers is gonna look
- 20:43Speaker 1: like without his biggest weapon this year. Um, but let's
- 20:47Speaker 1: I don't know if I have a feeling he can
- 20:48Speaker 1: fall out. He I just feel like he loves proving
- 20:51Speaker 1: us all wrong. And I don't know. It's interesting. What
- 20:54Speaker 1: do you think, mo? I like Herbert? Okay, that's gonna
- 20:59Speaker 1: take yeah, sit it inappropriate that I keep on calling Yeah,
- 21:02Speaker 1: just like age wise. Maybe because he's like twenty four.
- 21:05Speaker 1: I mean, I don't mean it in a weird He
- 21:08Speaker 1: don't need to make it weird. I think he is
- 21:10Speaker 1: twenty four. That's pretty good. Huh So, wait, is your
- 21:14Speaker 1: pick Aaron Rodgers as well? No, my pick is back
- 21:16Speaker 1: to my Super Bowl pick, Lamar Lamar Jackson MVP. Lar
- 21:21Speaker 1: Jackson does it again into that spice. I'm all in
- 21:25Speaker 1: on Lamar having like a season to shut up everyone
- 21:28Speaker 1: who's ever doubted him. Who was the runner up of
- 21:31Speaker 1: MVP last season? Brady? Yeah, m interesting. Um, okay, let's
- 21:38Speaker 1: move on. Comeback Player of the Year. This is what
- 21:40Speaker 1: I was thinking. I remember thinking last year, Oh, Dak's
- 21:43Speaker 1: got it in the bag. I was at NFL Honors
- 21:46Speaker 1: and I was sitting and I saw Dak and I
- 21:48Speaker 1: was just like, oh, I'm gonna kind of like, you know,
- 21:50Speaker 1: when you're at a wedding, you like want to watch
- 21:52Speaker 1: the bride come down the aisle, but you also like
- 21:54Speaker 1: want to take a peek at the groom. I was
- 21:56Speaker 1: just like, I'm just gonna watch Dak and I'm gonna
- 21:58Speaker 1: watch the whole thing happen. And he didn't get called
- 22:02Speaker 1: who won again, Joey b Joe Burrow one right right right,
- 22:06Speaker 1: joe one comeback Player of the Year, And I'm watching Dak,
- 22:09Speaker 1: And even Dak was like what the like had could
- 22:13Speaker 1: not contain his reaction and actually reacted to him not
- 22:17Speaker 1: winning Comeback Player of the Year. So that was Chef's kiss,
- 22:19Speaker 1: A beautiful moment in the night. My comeback Player of
- 22:22Speaker 1: the Year is your guy. Derreck Henry. What a sad
- 22:26Speaker 1: day when he went down last season. He was bawling
- 22:30Speaker 1: out eight games, nine hundred and thirty seven rushing yards,
- 22:34Speaker 1: ten touchdowns. He was gonna have a doozy of a season.
- 22:38Speaker 1: He goes down. Then all of a sudden, everyone looks
- 22:41Speaker 1: to Jonathan Taylor, Thomas, our guy. Jonathan Taylor starts to
- 22:44Speaker 1: ball out, and we're like, oh my god, could you
- 22:46Speaker 1: imagine if Jonathan Taylor and Derrick Henry We're both just
- 22:48Speaker 1: running crazy in the league. That's gonna be so much
- 22:50Speaker 1: fun football. I am saying that Derek he sees Jonathan Taylor,
- 22:54Speaker 1: he sees those numbers that he's putting up, and he's like, no,
- 22:57Speaker 1: no, no no, no, this is my title. This is my
- 22:59Speaker 1: I am king Henry, this is my crown. Uh and
- 23:03Speaker 1: he could have a really fun season. So I'm going
- 23:06Speaker 1: Derek is my comeback Player of the the Year. Are you
- 23:07Speaker 1: with me? I am with you. We did. We did
- 23:10Speaker 1: a similar segment picking awards and stuff on around the
- 23:12Speaker 1: NFL the other day, and four people out there to choose.
- 23:16Speaker 1: None of them had Henry as comeback Player of the Year.
- 23:18Speaker 1: We were their options. They had Brian McCaffrey. McCaffrey was somebody,
- 23:24Speaker 1: who's your comeback layer of year Chris mcava. No, no,
- 23:27Speaker 1: it's a it's a shot, but it's a fun shot.
- 23:29Speaker 1: I'm gonna I want to go Baker. And the problem,
- 23:32Speaker 1: Oh could I miss that? Oh my god, I'm loyal.
- 23:38Speaker 1: I change my pick. I change my dang pick Mohan.
- 23:43Speaker 1: But the problem is, if Baker and the Panthers do well,
- 23:46Speaker 1: everyone's gonna say that it's McCaffrey because of McCaffrey that
- 23:49Speaker 1: they're doing well. I feel like people love to hate
- 23:51Speaker 1: Baker and they wanted, like all of these excuses for
- 23:53Speaker 1: him playing bad last season to be like anything else,
- 23:55Speaker 1: but like that his body was absolutely broken. Maybe we
- 24:00Speaker 1: were too close to the situation so we know how
- 24:02Speaker 1: badly he was injured. But like, oh my god, I
- 24:04Speaker 1: love that pick. Yeah, that's a good pick. That's like
- 24:07Speaker 1: one of those like when the year Philip Rivers won
- 24:09Speaker 1: after just having a down year, like he wasn't actually injured,
- 24:12Speaker 1: Like come back Player of the Year. You don't necessarily
- 24:13Speaker 1: have to be coming back from injury. You can just
- 24:15Speaker 1: come back from a down year. The NFL dot Com
- 24:18Speaker 1: newsroom writers voted Jamis Winston as the most likely like
- 24:22Speaker 1: he get the most votes with eight interesting, McCaffrey behind
- 24:25Speaker 1: him with seven votes. Derrick Henry had three votes. Sa
- 24:27Speaker 1: Quon Barkley Khalil Mack each got two votes. JK. Dobbins,
- 24:30Speaker 1: ju Ju Smith Schuster, and Michael Thomas Quans also on
- 24:33Speaker 1: my fantasy team. This is this gotta be the last year, right,
- 24:36Speaker 1: this is it's got to be. No votes for Baker
- 24:40Speaker 1: from the NFL staff. Uh, okay, Offensive Player of the year.
- 24:50Speaker 1: Who do you guys like, all you guys go first?
- 24:52Speaker 1: So for this I always get confused. Is the MVP
- 24:55Speaker 1: gonna be like it should be the offensive players? I believe, Oh,
- 24:59Speaker 1: you think it should be hand in hand. I think
- 25:01Speaker 1: seven of the last ten I might not be exactly right.
- 25:04Speaker 1: I think seven of the last ten the same same
- 25:06Speaker 1: have been the same. But usually what happens is when
- 25:09Speaker 1: Derrick Henry runs for two thousand yards, for example, when
- 25:11Speaker 1: Michael Thomas sets a single season reception record, when something
- 25:14Speaker 1: crazy Cooper last year, when somebody does something crazy that
- 25:18Speaker 1: isn't a quarterback, they like reward them with Offensive Player
- 25:21Speaker 1: of the Year because you basically have to be a
- 25:23Speaker 1: quarterback to an MVP. Yes, um, okay, well here's here's
- 25:26Speaker 1: my pick. I'm gonna go Jonathan Taylor. I think he's
- 25:28Speaker 1: gonna have an even more exciting season next year if
- 25:31Speaker 1: we're not doing same same MVP Offensive Player of the Year.
- 25:34Speaker 1: I'm going Jonathan Taylor Thomas. I think he can have
- 25:39Speaker 1: a really fun season. What do you guys think. I
- 25:40Speaker 1: think that's a good pick. Yeah, but I've got Justin Jefferson. Yeah,
- 25:44Speaker 1: that guy name of my name, Buddy, We're both Justin's
- 25:51Speaker 1: and uh, I love having him and I've drafted him
- 25:54Speaker 1: in fantasy this year. I think they're gonna throw more.
- 25:56Speaker 1: They're gonna with Kevin O'Connell take an overhead coach in Minnesota.
- 25:59Speaker 1: For fantasy heads out there, how when you're filling your roster,
- 26:03Speaker 1: are you filling them with guys that you want to
- 26:04Speaker 1: root for? Guys that you just think you're gonna win
- 26:06Speaker 1: every single week? It's funny. I helped Mohan with a
- 26:09Speaker 1: fantasy Hey, fantasy drafts this wo No, no, we were
- 26:16Speaker 1: It was just like I was freaking out, stressing out.
- 26:19Speaker 1: So I was on my computer texting him and he
- 26:21Speaker 1: didn't respond for a while, for like three hours. Sweet
- 26:24Speaker 1: that you guys have formed this little bond. It was fun.
- 26:27Speaker 1: That's Key's easy to get along with cuties. Okay, So
- 26:33Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, who you're going? Justin Jefferson, who are you going? No,
- 26:37Speaker 1: I was gonna I was gonna go Justin Jefferson, whoa
- 26:40Speaker 1: front of the pot deed Okay, okay, And finally the
- 26:43Speaker 1: sixth pick that we are going to talk about his
- 26:46Speaker 1: coach of the Year. I love doing this. I don't
- 26:48Speaker 1: know why I was out of my dang mind last year,
- 26:51Speaker 1: Sean Payton as my Coach of the Year last year
- 26:55Speaker 1: and then you just like randomly retired. That was weird.
- 26:58Speaker 1: I am going my guy Lee, leader of my team,
- 27:01Speaker 1: my squad, Brandon Staley, who just so happens to be
- 27:03Speaker 1: the favorite to win Coach of the Year, followed by
- 27:06Speaker 1: Brian Dable. That's an interesting one. I think that this
- 27:09Speaker 1: is very interesting. I was confused as to why he
- 27:12Speaker 1: is so high in the favorites category. But who do
- 27:17Speaker 1: you guys like? I like Doug Peterson in Jacksonville. I
- 27:22Speaker 1: think this is another one that's very narrative driven. Mike
- 27:25Speaker 1: Vrabel won it last year because it was a huge
- 27:27Speaker 1: story that Derrick Henry got hurt and the time still
- 27:29Speaker 1: got one seed, and everyone perceives Ryan Tannehill is not
- 27:32Speaker 1: that good, so it's like, oh, Mike Vrabel one with
- 27:34Speaker 1: all this. Despite that, I think that like coming in,
- 27:38Speaker 1: a first year coach wins this award a lot over
- 27:40Speaker 1: half the time in the last ten years, this has
- 27:42Speaker 1: gone to a first year head coach, and just coming
- 27:45Speaker 1: off of what Jacksonville was last year, Doug Peterson can
- 27:48Speaker 1: be like an average level head coach, and the contrast
- 27:52Speaker 1: to how much better Jacksonville will get because of the
- 27:54Speaker 1: disaster that Urban Meyer was. I love this, and to
- 27:58Speaker 1: piggyback on this, I think I might change my pick
- 28:00Speaker 1: to Josh McDaniels. Oh there you go coach of the
- 28:03Speaker 1: Raiders this season, because, oh my goodness, we've talked about
- 28:07Speaker 1: this on this show, the stuff that they went through
- 28:09Speaker 1: last season. I feel like they could be a fun
- 28:11Speaker 1: team this year. With the addition of Davante Adams Derek Carr,
- 28:16Speaker 1: this could be a fun squad. Josh McDaniels is, like,
- 28:18Speaker 1: you know, I know, he's been back and forth on
- 28:20Speaker 1: the head coaching thing. That's an interesting storyline. I feel
- 28:23Speaker 1: like he wouldn't take a head coaching job unless, you
- 28:25Speaker 1: unless he was really well yeah, because he's had that
- 28:27Speaker 1: opportunity to before. Um, so yeah, that's a good point.
- 28:31Speaker 1: He wouldn't take this job unless it was something that
- 28:33Speaker 1: he really believed in. Your coach, I'm gonna go Mike McDaniel.
- 28:36Speaker 1: I think he's the most entertaining out there, fun and
- 28:40Speaker 1: I'm rooting for two of this year, and I think
- 28:43Speaker 1: if he can help to a and that narrative would
- 28:45Speaker 1: be nice. I do like Mike McDaniel. I think he's awkward,
- 28:48Speaker 1: but in like a fun way. He was fun to
- 28:50Speaker 1: meet in India when we went to the combat was
- 28:52Speaker 1: he cool? He was was a sneaker game interesting. I
- 28:55Speaker 1: don't remember what his sneaker game was like. I think
- 28:59Speaker 1: I just remember We're saying, like, you're the man, Mike,
- 29:01Speaker 1: we're all rooting for you, and he went like totally,
- 29:04Speaker 1: I gotta turn my mic down because he just went
- 29:06Speaker 1: whoa yeah, and it was like, what the heck? Okay, yeah,
- 29:10Speaker 1: we're all behind you, man. I love that a little sweetie.
- 29:15Speaker 1: I loved it. Okay. Drafting sports Book is an official
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- 29:28Speaker 1: Those are our picks for a preseason. Okay, before we leave,
- 29:33Speaker 1: there was a lot of stuff that happened this week,
- 29:35Speaker 1: some good, some bad. Maybe some slipped through the cracks,
- 29:37Speaker 1: maybe you didn't see some of them. It's time for
- 29:40Speaker 1: the best thing and the worst thing that I heard
- 29:41Speaker 1: A week's based one of the worst things slash. Honestly,
- 29:48Speaker 1: I'm let me be honest about this. It looks interesting.
- 29:51Speaker 1: It looks enticing. No, don't shake your head. We all
- 29:53Speaker 1: know about my love of hot dogs. On this show.
- 29:56Speaker 1: I believe it was Oscar Meyer weener who came out
- 30:00Speaker 1: with a nice A nice um, I don't know, a
- 30:02Speaker 1: nice football treat. Is that what we are calling this?
- 30:05Speaker 1: I hope not. What is it? It's a popsicle that's flavored?
- 30:09Speaker 1: Hot dog flavored popsicle? Is that what we're dealing with?
- 30:12Speaker 1: With mustard on? Well, and you're the one that found this,
- 30:15Speaker 1: why don't you even eat hot dogs? I thought this
- 30:17Speaker 1: was your We do love hot dogs here. But you
- 30:20Speaker 1: know what I saw that when I first saw this
- 30:22Speaker 1: in the rundown, it made me think of somebody captured
- 30:25Speaker 1: a guy at a baseball game turning his hot dog
- 30:28Speaker 1: into a straw that he drank his beer out of.
- 30:30Speaker 1: I love that for him. That actually sounds quite tasty looking. Okay,
- 30:35Speaker 1: so some call it stupid, many call it genius. Introducing
- 30:38Speaker 1: the Oscar Meyer cold Dog, a hot dog flavored frozen popsicle.
- 30:44Speaker 1: It is toasty outside and it looks like it's got
- 30:48Speaker 1: mustard on it. But I want did they freeze like hot?
- 30:51Speaker 1: Here's the thing like when you eat a frozen treat,
- 30:54Speaker 1: even I say no to that. How often are you
- 30:57Speaker 1: going for a savory frozen treat versus a swim eat? Listen,
- 31:01Speaker 1: I don't know if I've said this on this podcast before.
- 31:03Speaker 1: I don't eat ice cream. I don't think it's good.
- 31:05Speaker 1: So I don't like. I don't like. I don't like
- 31:09Speaker 1: cold things to begin with. Whether it's sweet or savory,
- 31:12Speaker 1: I'm not into it. Um, But I would dabble with this,
- 31:15Speaker 1: so Oscar Meyer. We were talking about sponsors earlier. If
- 31:17Speaker 1: you want to hop on the show, if you want
- 31:19Speaker 1: to send us some cold dogs, we will eat them
- 31:23Speaker 1: live on the show. We will eat them live on
- 31:24Speaker 1: the shower at least well, and we'll laugh at that.
- 31:26Speaker 1: It would. But I will gladly try this. Okay, So
- 31:32Speaker 1: that is the worst slash. Honestly, that's enticing to me,
- 31:35Speaker 1: Like I would be interested in trying that. Another food
- 31:40Speaker 1: announcement sauce. Gardener signed a deal with Buffalo Wild Wings
- 31:43Speaker 1: and will have his own signature sauce called the Sauce Sauce.
- 31:48Speaker 1: If you could have okay, let me ask you this
- 31:50Speaker 1: off the top of my head, if you could have
- 31:51Speaker 1: like one deal with some kind of like fast food
- 31:54Speaker 1: brand chain. What would it be because there's all these
- 31:57Speaker 1: like pop stars having deals with McDonald's. Um, Sauce has
- 32:01Speaker 1: got this with Buffalo Wild Wings. What would you what? What?
- 32:04Speaker 1: What kind of partnership would you want to do? Because
- 32:06Speaker 1: you know you're getting free food all the time. UM.
- 32:09Speaker 1: I think that I would do some kind of like
- 32:11Speaker 1: special chicken McNuggets situation because I can mess up many, many,
- 32:16Speaker 1: many chicken nuggets. That's a good pick. One of my
- 32:21Speaker 1: favorite food items on the planet, fast food or otherwise
- 32:25Speaker 1: is the sausage, egg and cheese mcgirdle from McDonald's. I
- 32:29Speaker 1: didn't think I could respect any more. Yes, mcgriddles are aware.
- 32:35Speaker 1: It's at not so God that I'm hungover a lot
- 32:38Speaker 1: because I'm a I'm a professional woman, a professional woman.
- 32:42Speaker 1: But if you are experiencing these things, mcgriddle will save
- 32:45Speaker 1: your dang life. What are you going? Are we all
- 32:48Speaker 1: just going McDonald's. I like mcflurries. But if Wilson special
- 32:58Speaker 1: over here? That was Zack will Centery. Zach Wilson how
- 33:00Speaker 1: to deal with Chipotle? Did he he had a special bull? Oh? Yeah,
- 33:04Speaker 1: I think kids interesting? Okay, Chipotle and McDonald's all right, Well,
- 33:08Speaker 1: if either of those people want to reach out, there
- 33:10Speaker 1: are welcome. Okay, that is our show, guys. Football starts
- 33:14Speaker 1: next week. Uh, and soon we are going to have
- 33:17Speaker 1: two episodes per week. I don't know if I'm allowed
- 33:21Speaker 1: to say we're also hitting the road this year. Am
- 33:24Speaker 1: I allowed to say that? Say it? If we can,
- 33:27Speaker 1: I'll cut it out. We're going to London. We're going
- 33:30Speaker 1: to London, going to Germany. We're going to be around
- 33:35Speaker 1: the globe everybodday. Well, you're gonna come here and fit
- 33:39Speaker 1: my suitcakee, Yeah, what's I'm going to London for two weeks,
- 33:45Speaker 1: and then we are also going to Munich to cover
- 33:48Speaker 1: that game International Games. Baby gonna be hanging out with
- 33:51Speaker 1: the Aten boys, gonna be hanging out with my guy Graver,
- 33:54Speaker 1: Gonna be hanging out with my girl, the Queen. Just kidding,
- 33:59Speaker 1: Queen Elizabeth, she'd be weird vibes. You should be weird vibes.
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