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Off The Bench London - Episode 1 · Off the Bench - London

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  Ha ha ha. first episode of off the bench with
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  your hosts malcolm the milkman noel and scott
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  all right week one we're at the clubhouse we're
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  doing our first ever episode uh we have a special
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  guest later on coming up um but we're just doing
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  little quick things right now so basically um
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  i'm the milkman born in london ontario uh we're
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  just doing a quick episode now um probably gonna
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  be here every week uh every mondays So we will
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  be giving out jerseys to one lucky guest that
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  comes to Clubhouse to watch football. Tonight
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  we got the Minnesota Vikings and the Chicago
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  Bears playing, and that's me. Hi, so I'm Scott,
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  also from London. I grew up playing lots of sports,
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  so there was lots of coming off the bench. Yes,
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  Terry, we're on now. So we're going to break
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  down some of the games that happened over the
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  weekend and then talk about what we think is
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  going to happen throughout the game today. And
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  let's get at it. All right. So, you know, basically
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  we had the re reigning Super Bowl champs, the
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  Philadelphia Eagles versus those. Sad, pathetic
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  Cowboys is what I usually would say. But, you
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  know, after one of our key players spits on another
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  player, it changed the whole momentum of the
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  game. I would say definitely Cowboys came out
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  a lot hotter than I expected. Dak Prescott actually
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  looked really good. And I can't believe I'm ever
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  saying that as a Philadelphia Eagles fan. I said
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  Dak Prescott and good are in the exact same sentence.
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  That has never happened in, like. I can't say
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  Tommy Romo ever played well. You know what I
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  mean? Overall, three key drops by CeeDee Lamb
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  kind of changed the whole trajectory of everything.
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  But overall, I think the Eagles played a decent
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  game, but overall it could have been a lot better.
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  I think it was a solid game. A little bit of
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  the weather delay in there. Kept it going late
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  night, so hopefully everyone caught the end of
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  it. I know C .D. Lamb didn't. A few moments there,
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  we really thought the Eagles weren't going to
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  take it, but you can always count on the Cowboys
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  to let themselves down in the end. You sound
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  like Stephen A. Smith over here. All right, so
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  moving on, we have the other game that we kind
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  of want to talk about. It's the Chiefs and the
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  Chargers. That's a fun game. Hosted by YouTube.
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  That was kind of weird. And it's in Brazil. Yeah,
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  that was a change. I don't understand all this
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  stuff that the NFL is doing these days. Trying
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  to make it international? Throwing everything
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  on different streaming services so you never
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  really know where you can watch the game. But
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  it was a really good game. My favorite part was
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  probably the first five, six minutes Chargers
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  marched it all the way down the field after the
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  Chiefs' offense fizzled out. Travis Kelsey managed
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  to injure their top receiver. Now I was a little
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  bit confused with that one. Wasn't Taylor Swift
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  on the podcast before talking about how she...
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  Yeah, she was really excited about him. She sounds
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  like she might have been changing sides, but
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  he wasn't having any of it. Ooh, a little jealousy
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  in the house, eh? Maybe a new album coming soon?
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  Yeah, yeah, who knows? Either way, it's always
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  a really good time when the Chiefs aren't winning.
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  Yes. I had to say that was probably my favorite
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  six minutes of football since the Super Bowl
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  when they lost to the Eagles really bad. Fair,
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  fair. Now, is this Kansas City losing the game?
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  Or are we seeing the birth of a new team that's
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  actually really good in the L .A. Chargers? I'm
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  starting to think that they're kind of pulling
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  through. With Harbaugh, obviously he's not going
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  back to college anytime soon. Kind of bent. And
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  he's got his feet wet last year, and now he's
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  got a little bit more experience. Justin Herbert,
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  you can... He's definitely solid. He's just been
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  let down by coaches and teammates. They had a
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  few players come back this year. They had Keenan
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  Allen come back, which is gigantic for them.
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  He's always solid. They've got a new running
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  back. And Johnson managed to catch the ball this
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  week. I think I saw seven targets and five receptions,
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  which last year would have been like taking him
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  four weeks to do. Fair. That's fair. Well, not
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  the targets. I get you. I get you. All right.
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  All right. I know this one's kind of close to
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  you. I'm kind of wearing them right now. Yeah.
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  Yeah, I always got to. Okay. I got to ask, did
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  the Bengals win this game? Or did the Browns
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  lose this game? You're probably wondering why
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  I asked that question. Did the Bengals deserve
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  to win this game, this week one game? I feel
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  like they didn't deserve to lose, but they also
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  didn't deserve to win. Okay. The offense kicked
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  off super hot. Okay. They were running all over
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  the field, not what anyone expected. The offensive
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  line was looking decent at the beginning and
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  it seemed to just kind of fizzle out. I was super
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  concerned at the very beginning when the Bengals'
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  offense spent literally 30 minutes without snapping
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  the ball. You're sitting there and the offense
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  just starts to get super cold because you're
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  thinking, oh God, the Bengals' defense. It's
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  going to be the same defense as always. They
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  always do that. Bend, don't break. But then they
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  just bend so far that the offense never gets
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  back on the field. But then, somehow, second
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  half, new game, Bengals offense got like, I don't
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  know, seven yards in the second half. Not a lot.
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  They couldn't stop anything on the O -line. But
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  the defense, they decided to actually step up.
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  Some of the rookies seem pretty good. I got you.
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  And they got a couple nice turnovers. They're
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  awesome tips, so that's kind of partially. Contribute
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  that to the Browns being the Browns. True that,
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  true that. All right, all right. But we'll see
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  how the rest of this year comes out. But, like,
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  when you really look at it, the Browns did miss
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  some key kicks. Oh, yeah, no, their kicking was,
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  like, in the Bengals' favor for sure. They had
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  a rookie kicker. He hit a field goal, hit an
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  extra point, got his first ones, missed his second
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  ones. True. All right, so taking that consideration.
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  Did the Bengals really win this game? They probably
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  shouldn't have. But at the end of the day, they
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  have a history of losing these stupid close games.
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  They couldn't grind one out last year. I think
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  last year they lost six, seven one -point games.
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  This year they've won one. So things are looking
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  up. Yep. End of the day, when it comes to playoff
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  time, nobody cares what the score was week one.
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  Everyone just cares if you won. True, true. So
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  it's September. The win's a win. You guys got
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  one win. Yeah. It's still September. How many
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  other wins are you going to get? I don't know.
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  Zach Taylor has never won a week two. All right,
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  so if you're a betting man. Fun fact. If you're
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  a betting man. Do not bet on the Bengals in this
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  week coming up. Or do they're playing the Jacks?
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  But, okay, okay. So being a Bengals fan, do you
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  think you're going to lose? I always think I'm
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  going to win. Or are you going to be a loyal
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  fan and always say win no matter what and just
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  deal with the heartbreak? Yeah, yeah, pretty
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  much. That's fair. When we're sad, we're sad
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  together. That's fair. Next game I kind of want
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  to talk about quickly, Steelers versus the Jets.
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  The return of Aaron Rodgers to MetLife. And we
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  have Justin Fields playing against his old team,
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  the team that didn't want him. Very emotional
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  game. When you look at it, it's like great for
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  TV drama. I'm starting to wonder if WWE and NFL
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  are joining partnerships because the storylines
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  are just too perfect right now. There was quite
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  a few real good storylines. It's almost like
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  the scriptwriters are emptying the bag right
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  now. But, hey, we're not mad. Nobody's mad. Everyone
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  can agree that's the game that we wanted to see
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  Aaron Rodgers play. And part of everyone was
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  like, Is he going to get injured again in that
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  life? That's fair. That's fair. But it turns
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  out it was like I don't think anyone would have
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  expected the Jets and Steelers to put up as many
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  points as they did. At one point, I thought that
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  was the game of the week. Yeah. Yeah, it was
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  shocking. Aaron Rodgers had four touchdowns.
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  He's the first. I mean, it's not super shocking,
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  but the first Steelers quarterback. since 2020
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  to put up four touchdowns. True, true. Now, Aaron
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  Rodgers, he could be drinking some, like, what's
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  that guy's name? MGK. MGK. Because him and that
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  girl from Transformers, they were drinking blood
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  or something to keep them young. Is Aaron Rodgers
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  starting to do on this tip as well? Oh, yeah.
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  No, he's definitely sacrificing people. I mean,
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  I'm sure if you ask him, He believes a lot of
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  these conspiracy theories. He's just going to
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  be part of them. That's right. So if you talk
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  about something enough, it just kind of gets
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  involved in your life. That's right. That's right.
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  All right. All right. So then we'll do a quick
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  segue over to the Ravens and Bills. I think that
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  was game of the year, to be honest. And it's
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  only week one. But the way that... Both quarterbacks
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  came out. Lamar Jackson showed that he should
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  have been an MVP last year until the end of the
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  game. And then Josh Allen showed that he is the
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  MVP from last year. Okay. You had Derrick Henry,
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  who showed up. You had DeAndre Hopkins with the
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  amazing one -handed catch. Lamar Jackson running
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  the field. That was bad coaching, though, at
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  the end of the game. Like, I don't understand
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  how you give up a 40 to 25 week. Yeah, situationally,
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  the Ravens kind of have a history of tanking
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  these kind of situations. I know we talked, I
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  mentioned the other Harbaugh earlier, but he's
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  lost, I think the most, I think it's the most
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  double digit deficits. double -digit wins, he's
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  lost in history. Yes. Or at least until, like,
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  dates back until when they first started doing
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  these stats. So, who knows? Maybe somebody else
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  did, lost more, but... Part of me, part of it
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  kills me talking about the Ravens and the Steelers
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  being good. But it is also fun to talk about
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  them losing. True, true. Because historically,
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  this kind of shit would happen to the Bengals
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  all the time. You just want to share the wealth.
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  Yeah, I like when it happens to not us. That's
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  fair, that's fair. All right, so we're here before
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  the Monday night game at Cal Ops Clubhouse. So
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  make sure you check us out every Monday. We have
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  the Vikings and the Bears. What's your prediction?
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  It's hard to say. McCarthy never played last
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  year. True. I think the Bears are going to be
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  a fairly different team from last year. Caleb
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  Williams did get his feet wet a little bit last
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  year, so he's going to... Probably be better
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  adjusted to the pace. But he does have a habit
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  of holding the ball way too long. And the Vikings
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  are probably going to be all over him. So we'll
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  see how that works out. But the Vikings, I really
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  have no idea what to think about their offense
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  yet. Because it really depends on how McCarthy
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  ends up shaping out. Their number two, Addison,
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  won't be playing for a little bit. Luckily for
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  myself, he doesn't come back until after they
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  play the Bengals, so that's kind of nice. And
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  I get John Landry. But we'll see how it shapes
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  out. Personally, with Caleb Williams, I think
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  he's every quarterback who's getting drafted.
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  And if you're a rookie and you're starting, you
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  have to have your ego. You are 100 % correct.
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  He was holding the ball a little bit too long.
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  It was kind of annoying, actually. But it didn't
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  really look like last year he was taking any
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  actual accountability for how bad he was actually
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  playing. It was kind of like he was brushing
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  it off to his other teammates. And then I see
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  JJ, who now he's a rookie because he got injured
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  last year. And how Sam Donald played last year.
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  It was like the second coming of Christ. It was
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  ridiculous how they were moving. I would say
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  it was more like the second coming of Kirk Cousins.
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  Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, because Kirk Cousins
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  basically did the same thing the year before.
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  It's true, it's true. Yeah, once you have a good
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  coach that actually schemes accordingly, things
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  are actually on the up for him. And then he's
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  now in Seattle, which they lost their first game.
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  But JJ, we have nothing on him because, you know,
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  from college to the NCAA game, or from the NCAA
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  to the football, it's totally different. Yeah,
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  so my thoughts with the Bears, though, it's really
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  going to depend on how Ben Johnson and Caleb
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  Williams sync up. Caleb wants to play hero ball,
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  but Ben Johnson wants to play like he has Goff
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  still. Goff and Caleb Williams, very different.
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  One likes to sit in the pocket and throw it quickly.
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  The other doesn't. Sure, sure. All right, so
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  as you can see, we have the game playing behind
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  us. So, you know, we're already in it. These
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  are one of the many benefits that you can get
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  when you come to the clubhouse. If you rent one
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  of these units, you can also put the game on.
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  So if you have a bunch of friends that actually
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  want to come out, watch the game, and have their
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  own private room, like their own den, come out
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  and check out Kellogg's. But yeah, other than
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  that. Yeah, you come out, have a space of your
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  own, have someone come over, bring you beer,
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  have a wall -sized TV. In New Jersey? Yeah, so
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  now we'll be going around to everybody out here
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  who's watching the game. Give them ballots so
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  they can win a Justin Jackson jersey. So make
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  sure, you know, this is obviously not happening
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  live. We'll be presenting this off a little bit
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  later. So if you want to check this out, that
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  would be great. But, yeah, every week we will
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  be going live. So, yeah, looking forward to see
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  all y 'all come out. This is episode one. Yeah,
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  episode. That's a wrap. Off the bench. That was
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  not hard. There you go. All right. All right.
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  Well, peace and love from us. Off the bench.