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100 Kellogg Lane & The Clubhouse Super Bowl Experience: A New Way to Watch · Off the Bench - London

• Off The Bench London (00:00) Howdy. How we doing? How's the game, ⁓ Yeah, it was something. How about them Pats, ⁓ my God, I am kind of disappointed. Remember that time yesterday when you were like, yeah, the Pats are totally going to for the storyline and the Seahawks aren't that good. I didn't say the Seahawks weren't good. I just thought. that it was going to be a very defensive game and that it was just one team's defense was significantly better. I was hoping that we didn't see like the the top miss of the Patriots all year that they were going to surprise us in the Super Bowl. Yeah, that's what I was expecting. Like not showing all your cards on the table. Well, during that Super Bowl, I can definitely say all the cards were on the table all season. That was something else. So it kind of just goes to show you how I... Great coaching, willpower, can get you to the dance, Amazing coaching. Also insane coaching and having better players is going to help. It really showed you, exposed some of those holes that the Patriots have. They weren't being noticed all year because they weren't playing the hardest teams. You could tell when they, even when they played the Texans, ⁓ they couldn't handle that defense. Like how many turnovers were in that game? If CJ Stroud didn't play like we would, then I don't think the Patriots would have gotten past them. I'm just caught off guard. Yeah, but hey, was, I was exactly what I said was gonna happen. I said it's gonna be hard defense. it's gonna be, no one's really gonna be going too far, but the Seahawks are gonna get closer and put points on the board. And that's all they did for the first half. was four field goals in the first half. Then they finally got a touchdown. And then they kicked another one, then they kicked another field goal, then they got that pick six. Yep. So I mean, it's pretty much. Well, at least I don't have to wear that jersey again. That's true. That's true. You put your wife's clothes back in her closet. I'm Malcolm the Milkman. I'm Scott the Visionary. And this is Off the Bench. Alright, alright. Before we actually actually really talk about the Superbowl. Yo, Clubhouse. This place is sick. This is the first time, because usually I would host the Superbowl party. It's true. Kinda did, but we did it at Clubhouse. And our viewers are probably wondering why this whole thing with tape and all that. Oh, we'll get to that. Yeah, we'll definitely get to that because that's hilarious. like that was really, really cool to have a Super Bowl experience at Club Host. I don't think I've ever been able to experience it before. I used to show up early when it was going for two, but always had people come to the host. It was kind of sweet, like just being able to come, everything's all here. Food's done, you don't have to do all this cooking at home, you don't have to do all this cleaning to get ready for people coming over. You don't have to move all your furniture around to find seats for 20 people in your There's tons of washrooms for everybody. Yeah, you don't have to clean your bathroom before and after. You know, all your buddies piss on the floor by accident. And then if there's a need for somebody to go and do a number two, they can go to the other bathrooms and not have to worry. Yeah, exactly. It's honestly just a vibe. It was cool. was cool. like the prizes are going on. Congratulations to Logan who won a trip to Seattle. Yeah, that's much better than going to New England. Yeah. As far as prizes go, like would you rather go to Boston or, I'd rather go to Seattle. Not gonna lie. I was kind of hoping my name got drawn out of that. Yeah. But it was cool, no. And I think the group of friends, the benchmobbers, you could say, they had a good time. Like, all you can eat buffet from 4 p.m. basically to 8.30 right after the halftime show. I think everyone went up at least twice. Yeah, yeah. you got that. You that popcorn going on. The catering was on point. It wasn't like clubhouse catering. It was downstairs catering that was feeding food up. and like us even having a sim, I think that adds a lot more value than going to like any other bar. cause it's massive. And honestly, one of the cool things was like at halftime, after the halftime show, we just threw the sim, like people flipped the sim on. People were starting kicking field goals, doing that. Like that's fun for everybody. It's fun for everyone to watch. There's TVs everywhere. So you didn't miss a second of anything. The sound was on the whole time. I think the only difficulties that I really had was I couldn't hear Taz and Jim. Oh yeah. Yeah, but that's just because of the acoustics of the building. It's a giant open space. So for you guys, we were in Sim 6. So Sim 6 is kind of hidden. All the other Sims are fed right into the middle of the clubhouse where Sim 6 is its own private room. And the acoustics were off. for the mic internally, but for the sound for the game, it was on point. ⁓ It felt like we were in our own house. And we were just able to like, we right behind the bathroom, so if you needed to go, you went. You had to walk a little bit to get the food. And then if you weren't really interested in the game, you can go and play mini golf or duck pin bowling, or try to win the $10,000 hole in one challenge. I think someone got like closest to the pin. they won that money. Yeah, I don't think anyone got the hole in one but I know if people were like within feet of the hole. And then Ethan won the kickoff challenge. So congratulations to Ethan who won that. like overall there was so much going on and like the doors opened at 3 and I didn't leave till midday. Yeah and like it was cool because like the game doesn't start until 630. Yeah. So everyone's just kind of showing up. grab some food, we all did mini golf. So it's kinda... Some did karaoke. Yeah. And I didn't realize how big the karaoke room is. Yeah, it's shockingly big. It's shocking and like you don't hear it. So for all y'all who don't like karaoke, don't worry, you won't hear it, but you can get a room that like, it's just like... Yeah, it's like a little private room. It's like a shipping container room. Yeah. In a sense. like the acoustics are internal so you can go in, do your karaoke, no one else hears it, they record you so you get it sent to your email. Oh, they record you and everything? Yeah. Oh man. So that's on point. So it records it so you can So it's like your own little mini recording studio. Exactly. So then you like you your kids or whatever want to go and do karaoke, you know, you'll have those lasting memories after. If you want to have your children record a song and then use it for their wedding day years later. Just to embarrass them. That would be hilarious. That is on point. Okay. Okay. Just a crazy idea. I like that. I like that. No, honestly, like, you know, the ticket prices to get in was $100. And I think I personally got my $100 worth. Oh, 100%. And I think a lot of other people did like whether it's like going to the buffets to make sure you're getting your worth, the mini pot, the duck pin, you know. Even just the prizes. And it still 450 pints, right? Or you could get a pitcher. So like, our group definitely drank a lot. Yeah, well. But like, honestly, I feel like a lot of people, you see a ticket of the price of 100 bucks for a Super Bowl party, you get that sticker shock. But like, it's so worth it. The vibe, like even like the prizes. Like, so we're doing everything and... Jim runs over at one point, and he's like, because they were just flying, handing out prizes left, right, and center, so he's going all the groups and giving stuff out. He's like, hey, did you win anything yet? Here's some passes. You win anything yet? Here's some mini golf. And then he looks over at one of the other guys. He's like, hey, did you win anything yet? Here's some Knights tickets. And we're just like, what just happened? Yeah. Yeah. Like, the amount of prizes that were given out was ridiculous. That was crazy. I think we're talking about prizes. Yeah, if anyone's wondering what this giant helmet thing, helmet looking shenanigans is. It was better yesterday. So at one point they came over and handed all of the the big groups a stack of cups, a roll of tape and a thing of straws and said best football helmet wins. And I was like, cool, we're starting that. And then I went to the bathroom. And then I came back. we were all trying to, everyone was trying to strap all this on Pat's head. Special K. Yep. As soon as I walked over, everyone had realized Pat has a large head. Way too big. And I have a smaller head than Pat. So I was thrust into the seat and immediately had cups strapped to my head. And your beard. And my beard. And yeah, that was the worst part. Actually, you know, the hardest part was like once the face mask went on. I needed to use one of the straws to drink my beer. But as you can see, and if you can use your imagination, y'all picture my head in that picture that out of everybody else, that actually looked more like a home in. yeah. Then the other ones did. So. I there's I think they're even saying the comment, ⁓ I actually think you could take a hit with that. Yeah, probably shouldn't. That thing was digging into my head like crazy because we were like, like really sticking it down. But hey, it was worth it. You got a gift card. Yeah, we won. So what did you because you got the prize for it? Yeah, we thrusted everything on you. So you were wearing that for about 45 minutes. I had that thing on for so long. Like we built it really, really quickly. Yeah, because we were everyone was rushing because they were like, we have to get this done by halftime. And we were done with like two minutes to go before half. Which, you know, if anyone knows football, the last two minutes of a quarter take forever. But no, it was at the end of the halftime show. So I got to watch Bad Bunny perform wearing this helmet. But yeah, I still can't believe like that halftime show, was pretty good. It was it was good. Like, I mean, I don't speak Spanish at all. I have no idea what you're saying. Could not name a single song. No, neither could I. Like it was a vibe. But it's definitely a vibe. It reminded me of like those high school dances when like the Spanish songs came on and like the rhythms. Good. The vibe is good. Exactly. And what is it? You actually pay attention to that music. It's like, ⁓ you actually appreciate us. But I think I think it was funny, though, because like everyone's going. Like people were hating on the halftime show because this is America's game. And then at the very end, he listed off all of the American countries, like every country that's in North and South America. South America. America. Yeah. So it's not just like, if you want to be like, it's America's game. Like, America. Yeah, yeah, I thought that part was kind of Yeah, no, it was even like, you know, shutting out like Jamaica and like shutting out like seeing the flag of Trinidad in there and like Grenada was like, oh, like, this is like the world game. Yeah, it was cool. Because they're trying to make it all international, right? earlier to the earlier yesterday, they announced that they're doing nine international games. Yeah. Right. So we have you it is if you're going to be giving out nine international games because you're trying to expand the brand, you have to take it in as well. And bringing Bad Bunny, know, viewership's gonna go off the hook. yeah, I it was like... $155 million. Yeah. $155 million. Which is crazy. Which the second highest was Michael Jackson. Yeah. Right? ⁓ But now you're tapping to that international market because people now, you know... Brazil, they get a game every year and they started the year. So why not do a half hour show that represents the Brazilians. At some point we might even get someone from Germany, someone from England, someone from like, it's gonna expand the games. Someone from China now or Australia. Well, probably not China. I don't think they go on that word. Is that great right now? You know what I, Korea. so. South Korea. which don't ban us. ⁓ But you know, it's expanding the game. So if you're going to make it a world game, yeah, yes, it's United States, like football game, but you're trying to expand it and explore your market. You do that by bringing artists. So then the people can, you know, watch it and then get that experience. Like when Bad Bunny was with WWE for a year, WWE blew up. Yeah. Right? Because you were tapping into the new market and now they signed up and got a triple A Mexican league going on. I'm pretty sure that's why the NFL was like, we got to get this guy. It's proven. He draws in numbers. He's a superstar. There's a reason why he won the Grammys that he did. ⁓ 100%. I just was caught off guard that Lady Gaga said. Yeah, that was kind of weird. Like, I get it. Kind of, I don't know. It was cool. It was cool. But like Ricky Martin made more sense. Okay, that man does not age at all. He looks younger than he did when he first came out. He ages like Pharrell. It must be that some vampire blood that they're sucking up or something. oh 100%. I swear, but yo, like I was impressed. But it was good, honestly, it was great. to see like, you know, culture being at the forefront. Yeah. So. Well, that those people actually got married at the halftime show. Yeah, that was actually like a legit. They invited him to their wedding and he said, no, I can't. And then invited them to get married at his halftime show, which is kind of sick. Love is love. Yeah. Make love, war. Yeah. So yeah, that was sweet. That was sweet. It was good. And like for the people who were turning into the alternative. ⁓ To watch Kid Rock, obviously lip syncing. You know what? badly. I get it. You know, some people like, you know, they want to have a Super Bowl with music that they appreciate. All I'm going to say is sometimes it's always good to experience other cultures because you don't know what you're missing out. Maybe Spanish music is not your That's fine. But the energy and the vibe, I say the players in the back were listening to that halftime show because the second half was a lot more exciting than the first half. they needed something to pump everyone up. mean, was exciting. halves were exciting. If you like defense. Hold up, hold up. The offense of both teams woke up after the halftime show. Bad Bunny scored the first touchdown. Yes, he did. Also, he had more rushing yards than the half-time towards the Patriots. Yeah. There's a funny fact. What is it? 124 yards compared to the 79 of the Patriots? Yeah, something like that. Man. That part made me laugh. honestly, I as far as back to the game, I Patriots are gonna have to pay Gonzalez, Christian Gonzalez. Yeah. They're gonna have to. If Patriots won the Super Bowl, he would have got it. Yeah, because he was like locking everything down. Like the first half would have been blown up. Completely blown up. Like he definitely, he prevented a couple like long ones like at least two touchdowns. There was a couple that the throws were just missed. like at the same time, I think Sam Darnold played great. He played exactly in that game managing style like you need. He played exactly the way you needed him to play. Well, that's all. Yeah. 100%. All he did, all he had to do was not turn the ball over. You know how he the most turnovers? the most, yeah, I think it was the most interceptions throughout the season. Did he actually? I think so. But zero turnovers in the playoffs. Well, he had something to prove. Yeah, but I'm sure they were just like, okay, all we have to do to win the game is just don't turn the ball over. Yeah. Because if we don't turn the ball over, we kick it, our punter is amazing. Like their punter was Insane. Mm-hmm putting them in great field position on defense their defense was locking them down and then they would get the ball back closer and then they would Get it a little bit closer. So they only had to go like get like 35 yards true Then they can kick a field goal And that if that game plan worked out perfect for them. Yeah, well it did. Like they had the Patriots to zero points through three quarters. That game. was 19-0 going into the fourth. That was the first time in a long time that I've seen the shutout in the Super Bowl. Yeah. Like, that was three points. See, I'm still feeling the effects of yesterday. But I was caught off guard. I liked it though. It was fun, like defense wins championships and that was the definition yesterday. ⁓ 100%. ⁓ I thought I was going to see more defense from the Pax. They tried. Those first couple drives, like they were jumping routes, like, cause they knew if we get down, we're not coming back. Yep. Because the Seahawks defense was all over them and like they were, they were only rushing four. Yep. The whole game. And that's all they needed. they were like, if you're getting six sacks, would have been seven sacks. The one was an interception. Hey, my quarterback was in the Superbowl. Jalen Hurts, because he was there in the pre. Your quarterback was there because your record got beat by Drake May because he was sacked in the playoffs 20 times now. Was it 20 times? Something like that. 20 plus, 20 plus. Yeah, it was. Yeah, ⁓ glad we don't have that record anymore. Thank God. Thank God. And fun fact, Patriots had a record. Yeah, they have the most Super Bowl losses now. They set a record. Break records. But there's so many, there's, that's one thing I love about Super Bowl. There's so many, like you go on and they're like, The memes are coming out instantly and they're gold. ⁓ man. Well, okay. So if you're, if you're listening to this, we did a bonus episode and that'll be released out of order. My apologies. Today was busy. ⁓ but we made a few profits. Yeah. And I only landed on one. Yeah, the coin flip the coin the 50-50 you picked tails and I picked head and Fandil was doing actually a huge thing on that where it was just like ⁓ Depending on how many people bet on on that you get a portion of the one milk So guess and I got $18 directly from it sick on top of my original bet nice, so like it was like that tells you how many people were actually bet so like I it's like people weren't betting on FanDuel a lot or just on that system. But it was cool to be like, I actually won more than 18 cents. Or I thought I was gonna win like 10 cents or something like that. It was actually like a huge portion of like, oh, cool. All right. What other ones were there? Gatorade, was yellow. was lemon, lemon citrus Gatorade. Come on. It's a solid color. So just blue it was on book. Yeah, that was the best one. How's the obvious pick? That was the obvious pick. It was too That didn't pick I didn't pick What's her name? Lady Gaga coming out. I had Carter be Headlining in there. She was there. I knew she was there. So it was almost made sense You know, yeah have her mic'd up and do like a quick performance. She could have be Spanish as well Yeah, but that's too obvious, right? So there's a There's a few of those, but she was, yeah, she was in the halftime show. She was dancing with Carol G, whoever that is. I don't know. Jess Galva was there. Pedro Pascal was there. It was cool. It cool. Honestly, the halftime show was really good. ⁓ Let's talk about Sam Donovan though. ⁓ It's over. It's over. Yeah. His, the, His story is done. He had the craziest redemption arc. going from... This is what just goes to show, he was actually, he was drafted before Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson. Yep. To the Jets. Yep. And just shows you the difference between poverty franchises, not poverty franchises, but franchises that just always kind of suck. You could say that... They're just a constant rebuild. Immature yeah, they're not mature franchise. Yeah. Yeah, they're just constant rebuild terrible situation for someone to have to walk into and Goes from that gets bounced around the league is is humbled by being cut wave Traded is goes as a backup. Yep goes to Minnesota is in a much better situation Lights it up plays great They fall in the playoffs early and everyone's like, he can't handle big situations. The Vikings must have at least kind of agreed because they let him walk because they didn't want to pay him $30 million. Such an idiotic decision. Because they wasted their draft capital getting JJ McCarthy. I'm sure they're kicking themselves now. mean, Sam Darnold has gotten what, three GMs fired? But it's probably even more now due to the fact that he just won a Super Bowl. We might even hear more due to the fact that he actually won. Yeah. exactly. Because I look at it like this. ⁓ But he just he played exactly the way he needed to play. Yeah. There is no rhyme or reason why he shouldn't have still been on the Vikings. ⁓ At this point, there is no rhyme or reason. He did enough. for him to still be in that building. But that's the thing, like when you boil it down though, last year the only reason he was actually starting for the Vikings is because JJ got hurt. Because JJ got hurt and they didn't have anyone else. Actually they did have... Did they have Daniel Jones? Yeah, Daniel Jones. Yeah, they had Daniel Jones for a bit. but okay, you're right. But... That's gotta hurt as a... The hot hand was still Sam Donovan. Oh yeah, exactly. Like he showed last year that he still has so much in the tank. And I think if he's smart, he will not be like, I want a massive extension. He's gonna go the Kirk Cousins route and just play. He's gonna- You don't wanna go the Kirk Cousins route. No, but I mean, he's just gonna be in the league for a long time. Not making- like absolute ridiculous top tier money. He's just gonna make consistent money. He's gonna be like, I just want 30 million a year. I don't need 60 million a year because then you can't put anyone around me and the team will be struggling. He is a great example of a quarterback that if you put the right weapons around him, he can make it work. ⁓ he can't make it work with nothing, but he can make it work with good players. Right. And I think that was like, ⁓ St. Donald come to Seattle. We have everyone. I was shocked because they got Sam Donald, but then they shipped DK Mecca. And I was just like, Mecca, because I love big receivers. At least you didn't say big white receivers. Pause. I like, you know, a big target so you know they're physical. Yeah they could be aggressive and like AJ Brown. You can just throw it up and they'll go get it. They go go get it where it's not like Jackson Smith and Jigba. He reminds me of a Cooper Cup a Cooper Cup but a sneaky clean route runner. Yeah right. He can. I mean look who he's paired up next to. Cooper Cup which is also like the white, cleanest, rep runner. He is cleaner than Puka Nakua, but Puka Nakua is a freak athlete who's young and can run a rep, but it's not clean. It's messy, but messy is good in this situation. Yeah, I don't know. think he just picked the perfect time, and they had drafted. Really well the last few years. They were a competitive team with Gino. Yes. And you look at where's Gino now? Vegas with the first pick in the draft? Hindsight, could Gino, could this have been the same story if Gino was there? Theoretically, but probably not. Hindsight 2020, obviously, but like... But that's exactly what it is. Gino was throwing lots of interceptions. Not in Seattle. is, well, that's true. But, I don't know. I just think he just landed in the right situation, the right time. Mike McDonald's second year coach. He's got his culture set. Got the expectations set. They just needed that final piece. They got that final piece and it worked out great for them. And that defense. The Legion of Boom 2.0. That ⁓ was... That was, that's a scary defense. Okay. I love watching football for the defense and seeing how they were flying out there. They were flying out there, but it was also like, was sneaky. What they were doing is they were masking that it was a zone. then then they just, I would just take off Drake May's cadence. They, it's like they all the film they had, they knew his cadence and knew how he was. The moment he said it like, one of his cadence, it flipped and then like from going from a zone in the pocket, he would call a hut, sacked. It was like they knew exactly what was going on, like they had the script. Remember that time? Listening. That you said, there's so much tape on Sam Darnold, they'll know all of his cadences. They don't know that about Drake May yet. He's so young. I was wrong. You heard it here first. I was wrong. Sam Donald didn't have to do much for the first three quarters in a sense. There wasn't any real... Well, there was only one sack against him and it was one of those ones that they just got through and he's like, all right, yeah, I'll just take a sack and just like lay down. He didn't get hit. Wasn't anything drastic. You were expecting more from the Patriots defense, like they just couldn't. They didn't know what was going on, right? And like Walker was like the second coming of beast mode. Yeah, he was great. He was running clean. He like, well, there was one where he blew it. It would have been like a 70 yard touchdown, but it called back for a hold. Yeah. Thank you. Like there was so many times in that game that it could have been blown wide open. Yeah. Well, thank you refs for letting the boys play because there was not many calls during the game. It was one of the cleanest football games I've ever seen. And I appreciate that the rest did not screw this up. Well, usually like half like the Super Bowls and stuff like you see there's always a ridiculous call that everyone's like, oh, that's ridiculous. Like that should have gone the other way. That shouldn't have been a penalty. But like all the calls were actually good. Even that one, Ramondre Stevenson touchdown, when he picked it up off like a millimeters off the ground and they actually made the right call. And Drake May thought it would hit the ground. So he wasn't even celebrating. Ramondre Stevenson wasn't even celebrating because he thought and the replay shows that there was that much and he it. Fantastic. Yeah. Fantastic. It was like, it's almost easier as a ref to call it as a touchdown and then we'll view it than to just automatically say it hit the ground. Cause then, but, and the Patriots needed that. Yeah. They needed everything they could get. man. Like that game, but so many of their like yards points, it was all in the fourth quarter and it was all after Seattle was like, yup, we win. Like we're up 19 nothing and we are having our way with you. Yep. Then there was that like glimpse that maybe. Yeah. There was that, ⁓ they one by Matt Collins. Yeah. I was like, is this the, like the Tom Brady moment? Is this like the Patriots way? Yeah. And then the Seattle defense went back on and just was like, absolutely not, sir. I was like, hold that home. I beer. No. ⁓ No, it was honestly that's when the defensive touchdown came in and we like I we knew that was gonna happen We knew there was gonna be one. Yeah, we knew I I thought there's gonna be more From both sides because I was saying over and under five and over and under three, but ⁓ Man like the one where Drake may was getting sacked and It was going to be a fumble But instead... He tried to throw it. He did get the throw out, but it hit somebody and just landed right in Alignment's hands. And then boom. And he's just gone. And the thing, like if he didn't actually catch that, I think that would have been an incompletion. Because he was getting hit and he was throwing, it was moving forward. Yeah, was fun to watch. But yeah, it was a good game. It was good. I'm happy I got to... We got to see it. I don't think there's anything. I think there's only one of the things like when you look at ⁓ Sam Donald. ⁓ Sam Donald, okay. So compare Sam Donald to, you know, maybe a Super Bowl MVP of last year. Yeah, okay. Yeah, this is what I saying. So Sam Donald, his stats versus Jalen Hurts last year. Everyone was like, did Jalen Hurts won the Super Bowl MVP? Yeah. Yes, he did. Yeah. And obviously the Eagles put up 40 points last year. Yep. We won't go out there. Yeah, and it easily could have been that way if it wasn't for Christian Gonzalez. Correct. So, okay. So if it wasn't for Christian Gonzalez, then he would make a case that Sam Donald could have won MVP. Yeah. Like I know, so Jalen Hurts last year, what did he have? He had 221 yards, two touchdowns, one interception, two sacks, and then he threw 17 for 22. Yeah, so yeah, that's like, what, like 85 % something like that. Where Sam Donald threw for 202, one touchdown, one sack through 19th to 38. Yeah, so 50%, but the Patriots defense was playing actually really well. So were the Eagles defense? No, not the Chiefs defense. Yes, okay. Yeah, that's what you get. My apologies. Because, but mind you, the Eagles had blown them out like completely. That game was over so fast. But that's exactly what this game could have been if Christian Gonzalez wasn't playing the way he was. Yes, yes. Like there was a few plays where you're just like, man, that was close. But yeah, I, but everyone's talking about how Jalen Hurts is the superstar quarterback versus Sam Darnold who everyone's like, he's just a guy. He's a game manager. But like their stats are kind of similar. That's very, very similar. Obviously it's a little bit different when you look at like the, the plastic completion. ⁓ But yeah. I just hate to see it how everyone's going and looking at it and Undervaluing Sam Donald. Yeah. They're like, look, you can win a Super Bowl even if you don't have a good quarterback. No, you need a good quarterback because Sam Donald is a good quarterback. He proved it last year. Exactly. But everyone, just because he lost two games back to back, the two most important games back to back, they diminished them and said, you can't get it done. You can probably do it in a regular season, but once it... Like they Stephen A Smith them. you know, I mean they journalists out there in media just say he can't do it. can't do it. He can't do it. And now he just went on this redemption tour. And now what are they going to say? he can do it. ⁓ I'm curious to see what they're going to say about him next year. Like come beginning of the season next year. Are they going to be gassing him up and or just diminishing his they have to to gas him. There's no doubt about it. He's a Super Bowl champion. The only thing they will say is that, ⁓ he didn't win MVP. So like he just did what he needed to do, but he's still a superstar, but he didn't win MVP. And it's like, no, he was going to like, this could have been a Super Bowl with the Vikings instead. That's all I'm going to say. The Vikings, you guys could have been in the Super Bowl this year because Sam Donald could have got you there. Yeah, could have. Because the Vikings defense is really good. They just didn't have a quarterback. Yeah. Well, they had nine. They had nine quarterbacks this year? Jeez. No. No, yeah, I know. Yeah, I don't know. We'll see what everything comes up with this year. I moving forward, we'll start getting excited about the NFL draft soon. NFL draft's coming up. So once the dust settles. Yep. think the other thing that I was thinking is, know, might want to Combine, yeah. For us, it changes a lot because like, this is like a full, like we could start up season two. you know, soon necessarily, football season's over. You know, now we're gonna go into a little bit of our off season, practice, or you can get better for boxing now. We got boxing coming up. But it's like, you know, what's your favorite episode or what's your favorite moment so far off the bench season one? Right? Because like, it's over now. You know, what was your greatest moment? What was your? I don't know. It's hard to say because there's things where I'd like to like go back and listen to it again. Be like, what were our opinions at the beginning of the year? Cause like what were our thoughts on Seattle and the Patriots at the beginning of the year? True. You know? Yeah. That'd be interesting to do. But yeah, I think moving forward, we're going to start doing a little bit more boxing. I know we're talking about trying to organize a Boxing event, we'll see. Hopefully we can get that into the works, that would be pretty cool. We have a great location in mind that we want to do it at. Yeah, I think that would be sick if we can... I mean, I have no idea what the logistics behind organizing a boxing event would be, but we know some people, we'll make some calls. Make some calls. See what we can do. I think it could be very, very huge. It'll definitely make a huge impact. Knowing how like Boomers and MPT are now doing it, you know, if we can do it from the outside and find a charity that we actually both support, make it a reality. I thought about it last year, ⁓ but it's going to be a lot of work. So we might need to add to the team. So I know Special K wants to get on board. I know a few other people who said that they want to get on board with ⁓ Off the Bench. We might get them on board just to help us rock this event and what we can do. think we we got a lot of a lot of really cool stuff coming forward. So yeah, yeah. Honestly, who knows? Maybe. I think we're have to get some more merch going to. We need to get some more merch. Yes. Once our photo shoot is done, have photos done for the box and we can play off of that as well as. Maybe we, you know, for punch I think we should drop all those at the same time. Maybe for punch out we get a booth and I get a special guest on and live stream it or something off the bench at the event. We could probably do something like that. Yeah, but I mean it's hard when we're in the event. Well, it depends on which day someone's on. That's true. This is true. Because I may not be on day one. Well, I guess we'll see. There's rumors about that. I may not be on day one. ⁓ I'll be on the different showcase. Interesting. ⁓ know at least one of us should be fighting. Yeah, yeah. One of us will be on one show and the other one will be on the other show potentially. Yeah, but so that was the one thing. Like I noticed like you had said before, like ⁓ now is that time when people start coming less and less. So it's gonna be interesting. It already started. Yeah, that's what I mean. And sparring hasn't even really started. I know. It always happens. Like some of these people have never been hit in the face before. That's the thing. I'm a little different because I train at a different gym. There's some people who train at other gyms and who come in. The ones who have never boxed before are the ones who are not showing up and they need it the most. Yeah. And I'm like, what are you doing? this isn't like, you miss a class here and there, I get it. If you miss like three or four in a row, it's like, you're setting yourself behind. And like, there's no time to miss, because like, what we do this week, like you typically, like so what I've noticed so far is that the Tuesday and Thursday classes will be very similar if not the same. But if you miss one day, if you miss Tuesday, then you miss Thursday, then you're coming to the next Tuesday. You have no idea what we weren't looked at last week. So then when people are trying to do all these combinations, it's like, okay, we're doing this, then this, then this, and they explain it quickly because you should know it. It's just a quick refresher. But they're just like, okay, I have to learn this all from scratch. It hurts both parties, the one who went to class and hurts the one who doesn't know it. Exactly, because it sucks when you're teaching. When you're having to try and work with someone and you're like, I'm not really learning myself because you're having to work with someone. I mean, it's. You do find out how much you know and how much you don't know when you have to show walk someone else through it, which can be kind of nice. That's probably how you feel when you're trying to teach me stuff, but. but you feel like you're not getting the same workout in you would if you could do things full, not like full speed, fuller speed. Like when you're just walking through, trying to get the motions in, it's different than actually throwing things. Correct. But. No. Yeah. You're going to see the full experience. ⁓ So March is a towel. Yeah. Marge, you will know who your opponent is. if they're actually taken in serious. And you're gonna like figure out your style right now in those classes. It's like the fundamentals Yeah, because you're not gonna have any bad habits The moment you have your first fight, you start maintaining bad habits because it's easier. Because you're just going off of muscle memory and instinct. ⁓ But then inspiring is when you have to really get, like, drill in everything because that's when it really gets intense. And usually that's on Sundays. ⁓ Where you get to see other people's styles. and see if you're actually gonna work. And your goal in those sparring sessions is to lose. more you lose, your ego comes down and you want to learn more. So then by the time you get into the ring. No, that's fair. And like, yeah, sparring, yes, it can be helpful if you're just like hitting combos and like, but like if the person you're sparring against is just like completely exposing themselves, you're like, I might as well just be hitting a bag. No, because you're the point in those sessions is If they're not, you know, if you're inspiring with somebody and they're not, they're lifting up their hands, keep hitting them in the head. Cause you're seeing that. you get used to that. Then it's going to force them to, all right, I'll keep my hands up. All right. Now I'm going to find a way to get a combination. I'm going to hit your body so you can drop your hands and get lazy again. And then might fake to the body and hit you in the head again. Like you're going to learn so much more. of like how you're going to change your stance accordingly to like lazy fighters or very experienced ones. And like I've had moments where like I've gone in the ring with a very experienced person and they're super, super quick. I'm like, I wasn't expecting that from you, but they have the experience and so forth. And then it's just like, all right, how am going to change my game? All right. I'm not going to try to do the Philly show. I'm just going to go old school. Yeah. So. I'll take the body hits and try to last as much as I can and then hit you with my power. Yeah, I don't know. I'm excited for everything that's coming up. No, yeah. You, well, from what I've seen, you've excelled way faster than I thought you would. But you're taking it really, really serious. Well, yeah, yeah, I have to. I don't want to lose. for sure. I told you this from the beginning. I told you don't make me sign up for this because I will have to do this all. ⁓ I know, I know. The only thing I'm going to say is dial back on Thursdays and do the sparring. Yeah. Don't. Yeah, I think I'm to just do the one on like I might do the five. I'll do the five or the seven and then do the sparring because I think that's going to be more beneficial. Yeah. Right. Because getting the cardio and all that's great. You need to get to a point where you're getting extremely... Sparring is crazy cardio, it's fine. Well yeah, a sparring session, like after an hour, you're drenched. Yeah, exactly. think I might try and do the... I don't know, we'll see. We'll see this week. We'll see how I'm feeling. The world's your worcester, so you'll figure it out. Whatever works in the schedule. But other than that. But thanks for watching everybody. Great Super Bowl. Thanks for joining us through the entire football season. Start to finish week one to week Super Bowl. Yeah. Super Bowl and a recap. We've been here every single Monday. Yeah. Since September. That's crazy. We have some bonus episodes that will also be going up either today or tomorrow. Most likely today once I get home. But yeah. Thanks for watching, like, subscribe, like, subscribe, follow us, take care everybody, send us a message, we'll see you guys next time.