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Baker Mayfield Predictions + Week 14 Preview · NFL Podcast Network Selects

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Speaker 1: But anyways, welcome to the Bench with Banetta Podcast. Happy
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Speaker 1: to be here, guys. Today is a day. Today is
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Speaker 1: a day to be alive. Listen. I'm gonna I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: break the fourth wall here for a second. We record
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Speaker 1: these podcasts on Thursday afternoons. Okay, so we never really
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Speaker 1: we always kind of pretend to like WHOA that Pursday
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Speaker 1: and football. It was crazy because our podcast go out
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Speaker 1: on Friday morning. But here's the thing, and here's our conundrum,
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Speaker 1: and mine right now is I really want to talk
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Speaker 1: about this Thursday night football game. So I was trying
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Speaker 1: to come up with ways that we can do it
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Speaker 1: because obviously, hold on, hold on, hold on, let's rewind.
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Speaker 1: On Monday, Baker Mayfield asked to be bye bye from
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Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. Okay, and when we recorded the podcast
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Speaker 1: on Monday with Kyle Brand, we had no idea where
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Speaker 1: he was going. So much has changed since then. But
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Speaker 1: let's listen to what Kyle Rand had to say on Monday.
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Speaker 1: The sneaky one that you mentioned is the Rams, who
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Speaker 1: are like the zombie Rams right now. I don't even
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Speaker 1: recognize them. I don't think they're interested in having Baker
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Speaker 1: Mayfield come in and lead their team, but I do
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Speaker 1: think they're interested in extending their middle finger to the
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Speaker 1: forty niners. In a sort of sun So art of war.
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Speaker 1: Here they be like, we don't want Baker Mayfield, but
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Speaker 1: we don't want you to have them, dummy. And if
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Speaker 1: you have some any idea that you're gonna go on
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Speaker 1: a playoff run with the number one overall pick, we're
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Speaker 1: just gonna take him and stash him and then dump
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Speaker 1: him in the off season. That would be really shrewd.
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Speaker 1: And that's the one that, like, the only thing I
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Speaker 1: want more the Rams the Ram like anti sign. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so obviously the things, the things happened, things moved, things shaped.
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Speaker 1: This week, Kyle was right, Um, and I'd like to
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Speaker 1: take back what I said, because way back when I said,
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Speaker 1: I don't even I can't see Baker in a Rams Jersey,
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Speaker 1: like just being in l A. He's rough and tumble,
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Speaker 1: he's like, you know, a little bit gritty. Los Angeles
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Speaker 1: is like the city of lights and Da da Da
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Speaker 1: da Dad. But the more that I think about it,
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Speaker 1: and the more that I think about the pairing of
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Speaker 1: him and somebody like Sean McVeigh, who's like young fun,
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Speaker 1: can like hang with the dude, can like really just
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Speaker 1: like I feel like he can jell with somebody like
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Speaker 1: Baker who is like notably had a lot of issues
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Speaker 1: on seemingly every team that he goes on. Um, I'm
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Speaker 1: starting to really really love this. So let's listen to
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Speaker 1: what Sean McVey had to say about Baker Mayfield this week.
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Speaker 1: I would say, I've I've always really liked him, Garrett.
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Speaker 1: I think you know what, I what I can say
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Speaker 1: in all sincerity is that there's an excitement about being
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Speaker 1: able to work with him for what we know is
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Speaker 1: five more weeks and um, whether he plays in five
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Speaker 1: games or four games is is to be determined. But
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Speaker 1: I'm excited about that, and I think as we continue
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Speaker 1: to accumulate that information, that kind of will answer itself. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so back to what I was saying. We've got Thursday
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Speaker 1: night football tonight, We've got Rams versus the Raiders, so
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Speaker 1: I know we can't talk about it really, but this
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Speaker 1: is what I want to do. I want to make
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Speaker 1: a fun prediction. I want to ask you guys, what
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Speaker 1: do you think the headlines on Friday morning will be
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Speaker 1: when this podcast comes out. Basically we're just saying, you
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Speaker 1: know who won last night. So this is what I think.
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Speaker 1: I think the headlines on Friday morning is going to
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Speaker 1: be woke up feeling dangerous. So I'll go to Hollywood Baker.
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Speaker 1: He starts, he plays, he wins the game. What do
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Speaker 1: you guys think about that? I love that so much. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I don't see how he could join the team and
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Speaker 1: then two days later run in effective offense, but maybe
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Speaker 1: he will because he has such a genius head coach.
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Speaker 1: So my headline is Baker cooks the Raiders. Who I
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Speaker 1: am liking this narrative? Mohan, what's yours? Okay? The headline
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Speaker 1: Friday will be LA is home to three Cleveland legends, Mohan, Mohan,
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Speaker 1: Lebron and Baker Manfield. I and I was the trend center.
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Speaker 1: I was the first one to come to l A
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Speaker 1: from Cleveland, and the other two followed me. And Baker
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Speaker 1: is gonna be. Um. There's a good chance that we
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Speaker 1: look like absolute dummies, be because Baker didn't even play
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Speaker 1: on this Thursday night football game. But I'm willing to
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Speaker 1: take that risk because we could also be right and
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Speaker 1: look like genius, says Steve Weish just tweeted about twenty
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Speaker 1: six minutes ago, Baker Mayfield just stepped onto the field
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Speaker 1: at so Far to warm up. We don't know if
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Speaker 1: he's starting, We don't know if he's even gonna play.
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Speaker 1: I can totally see him playing. Um, and oh, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna be just like watching. I just want this so bad.
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Speaker 1: I just want that I'm like back in love with Baker.
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Speaker 1: I feel like it's just all these feelings and just
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Speaker 1: come rushing back. This week I was like pretty out
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Speaker 1: on him. There's just too much drama with the Browns
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Speaker 1: and then he went to the Panthers and it was
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Speaker 1: all like a mess, but like now he's got a
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Speaker 1: fresh start. Um, we've got Sean McVeigh the leader at
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Speaker 1: the helm of this thing, and I think that it
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Speaker 1: could happen so in Um, while we're making these predictions,
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Speaker 1: I thought we would skip ahead to Monday as well,
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Speaker 1: and you guys tell me either of these headlines, because
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Speaker 1: I think that these are some other things that we
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Speaker 1: could see coming up. Newmero Una the headline in the
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Speaker 1: New York Post, And I tried to make these like
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Speaker 1: cheesy because there's always like whoever is writing the New
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Speaker 1: York Post headlines like do you think that they deserve
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Speaker 1: a razor? Are they absolutely awful? And it's just like
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Speaker 1: Choogi choogie as hell? Um number one, out with the old,
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Speaker 1: in with the new. The Bucks go down. The forty
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Speaker 1: Niners take down the Bucks with a backup QB. Jimmy
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Speaker 1: g is sadly out. Uh, you got pretty coming in
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Speaker 1: and I believe that he was. Tom Brady's been playing
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Speaker 1: football for longer than Pretty's been alive. He takes him down.
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Speaker 1: I know that the Bucks have this like epic. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if you guys saw this on Monday Night football.
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Speaker 1: It was fully stupid. This come back at the end
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Speaker 1: of the game. Everyone's gonna be excited and say Tom Brader.
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Speaker 1: It was Tom Brader. But they put themselves in that
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Speaker 1: position and they got lucky at the end. Okay, that's
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Speaker 1: what I'm thinking. Um, I think the forty Niners beat
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Speaker 1: the Bucks. What say you? Do you like that headline?
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Speaker 1: Are you buying that newspaper? I'm buying it off. I'm
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Speaker 1: buying it off the newsstand. You're right, brock Party twenty
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Speaker 1: two years old, Tom Brady is in his twenty third season.
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Speaker 1: That's insane. Um, I think. I mean, we're gonna get
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Speaker 1: to the game picks, so I'll save my official pick
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Speaker 1: for when we get there. But do you like the headline? Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go through these next two real quick. We're
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Speaker 1: not making game picks until later. You guys have to
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Speaker 1: stay tuned for that. Number two, No kneecap is safe.
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Speaker 1: The Lions are just hot right now and they're gonna
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Speaker 1: stay hot. And number three another headline that we will
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Speaker 1: see come Monday morning after week the fourth for whatever,
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Speaker 1: We thank you. They are who we in parentheses didn't
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Speaker 1: think they are Bengals another win? Guys, are the Bengals
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Speaker 1: the super Bowl? Because and hot at the right time.
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Speaker 1: That's a little bit nervous about it. I'm a little
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Speaker 1: bit nervous about it. I really like the Bengals right now.
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Speaker 1: They're on five year and for this weekend a little
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Speaker 1: a f C North matchup. Mohan, you and I used
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Speaker 1: to hate these games. We used to just watch them
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Speaker 1: between our fingers, like, oh my god, what is gonna happen?
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Speaker 1: Um Man, I hope the Bengals is ball out this week.
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrows never beaten the Browns. It's gonna be so
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Speaker 1: sweet to do it now against Mahomes and his own
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Speaker 1: four against the Browns. Who would have? Isn't so weird? Well?
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Speaker 1: I feel like those games are always a little bit funky,
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Speaker 1: like Steelers Ravens, Browns Bengals. Like you always get up
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Speaker 1: for those games and you never you never really know
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Speaker 1: who's gonna take it. Like obviously the Bengals have been
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Speaker 1: a superior team to the Browns for a minute now,
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Speaker 1: but um, I just you never really know what's going
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Speaker 1: to happen. There was so many nights going into those games,
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Speaker 1: and I was like, I legit, don't know. It's it's
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Speaker 1: like something like magical kind of happens when it's like
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Speaker 1: your own division games things. It's like Rams and Seattle. Um,
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Speaker 1: when was that a week ago? Like these things, magical
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Speaker 1: things happen when you hate, when you hate each other,
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Speaker 1: you know. Um, Okay, we're making some picks after the break,
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Speaker 1: gonna give you some scores, some things that we're feeling
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Speaker 1: confident about. So don't go anyway. We'll get tonight. What man,
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Speaker 1: We have got some really fun games this weekend. Uh,
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna kick things off. Um, I'm getting closer, boys,
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Speaker 1: I'm getting closer. And thirty one Hunt and one justin
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Speaker 1: forty three and one. We're not doing too shabby on
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Speaker 1: this podcast. But here are game picks. We've got Jets
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Speaker 1: at Bills. The Bills are favored by ten, which, like,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, this seems like a little bit crazy.
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Speaker 1: That's it's like a steep number for the way that
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Speaker 1: these teams have been playing, Like all aboard Mike White, Christmas,
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Speaker 1: come on, buy in. I am going Jets plus ten. Um,
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Speaker 1: I know last year. I think that they were there
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Speaker 1: was a skame or there was a press conference and
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Speaker 1: somebody asked, Mike White, you know, what are your thoughts on,
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Speaker 1: like what happened last year? And he's like, what happened
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Speaker 1: last year? Um, he threw four interceptions. Yes to bills,
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Speaker 1: That's what happened last year. The bill absolutely spank Jets. Whatever.
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Speaker 1: It's a new year, it's a new Mike White. His
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Speaker 1: wife doesn't even recognize him. Um. I just feel like
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Speaker 1: this is like a fun chip on the shoulder narrative
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Speaker 1: for him, and you can just tell man, poor Zack Wilson,
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Speaker 1: like Mike White just has the entire locker room. He's
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Speaker 1: got some of his like, uh teammates coming out and
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Speaker 1: asking him questions, cute little questions. In the postgame press conference,
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Speaker 1: everyone's like laughing at everything. Um, I think the Jets
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Speaker 1: cover Uh yeah, you got the Mike White T shirts,
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Speaker 1: which I still think is mad disrespectful, but whatever, I'm
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Speaker 1: going Jets plus ten. What are you guys liking this one?
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Speaker 1: You know, it's crazy because the Jets one seventeen earlier
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Speaker 1: this year with Zach Wilson starting at quarterback, and now
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Speaker 1: they're ten point underdogs with a better quarterback. I see,
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Speaker 1: it's just weird. It is weird. I mean, I know
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Speaker 1: the Bills had been dealing with some injuries and they
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Speaker 1: got some defensive players back, but and now Von Miller
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Speaker 1: as out for the year. We learned alwa, that's a
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Speaker 1: that's rough for the Bills. But this game against the
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Speaker 1: Jets was the only game Josh Allen has not thrown
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Speaker 1: a touchdown pass in this season. The Jets defense is good.
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Speaker 1: They know this opponent, Like we just talked about with
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Speaker 1: division games. I mean, sure the Bills could win, but
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Speaker 1: by ten plus points, I don't know. I don't think so.
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Speaker 1: So you're saying Jets covered. Could the Jets possibly win?
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Speaker 1: They could? Am I hearing a little bit of Jets
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Speaker 1: fandom over here? I mean, it would be wild if
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Speaker 1: they swept the Bills. But they totally could. Why not.
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Speaker 1: They have a good defense and a better quarterback than
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Speaker 1: they had the last time they beat them. Um, oh,
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Speaker 1: what are you liking this one? I'm going I'm going
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Speaker 1: Bills blowout. They're going to covert with miracles? No I
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Speaker 1: do I Well, the Jets lost their rookie running back, right,
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Speaker 1: so he might they might have a better quarterback, but
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Speaker 1: they don't have a run game anymore. Did not through
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Speaker 1: for almost way through for almost four hundred yards this
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Speaker 1: week for the last game. Um so I think he's
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Speaker 1: liking to chuck it anyways. Okay, we got Vikings at Lions,
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Speaker 1: spicy Lions favored by two in this one. Um And
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Speaker 1: I was just kind of like looking at like, what
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Speaker 1: are the people saying on Twitter about this game? Josh
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Speaker 1: do them all? Famous person who likes the Vikings saying
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Speaker 1: Lions favored by two over Vikings this week? W t
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Speaker 1: F we are the Rodney danger Fields of the NFL,
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Speaker 1: And I'm okay with it. Keep underestimating the Vikings school.
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Speaker 1: I didn't mean to make that voice. I don't know
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Speaker 1: what he's sound. I think he's a cool guy. I've
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Speaker 1: actually been around him. Repeat him. Um, but he's people
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Speaker 1: are feeling spicy about this line. But I gotta say
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Speaker 1: Lions minus two. I love the van a favorite hop
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Speaker 1: on board. If you're not chairing for the Lions at
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Speaker 1: this point, what are you doing with your life? Talk
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Speaker 1: about believing in Christmas miracles? Also, everyone's like vinking learn
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Speaker 1: every single game is like a one score game. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: you might be right, you might be right. I remember
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Speaker 1: last year, well, it was like the opposite narrative, like
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Speaker 1: they kept on losing, but it was by one score.
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Speaker 1: And now they're obviously on the other side of that.
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Speaker 1: They keep on winning, but it's like very close games.
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Speaker 1: It's very funny how that's changed in such a short
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Speaker 1: amount of time. But they're It's true, they're not winning
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Speaker 1: like convincingly over many teams. So I'm going Lions because
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Speaker 1: that's the team that I want to see win. And
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Speaker 1: sometimes you just gotta go with your heart. Graver, what
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Speaker 1: are you going? I'm also picking the Lions. And this
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Speaker 1: is this the Vikings sitting at ten and two. They
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Speaker 1: currently holding two seed. There only one game back of
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Speaker 1: the Eagles, but I don't know how much we expect
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Speaker 1: the Eagles to falter down the stretch. So how important
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Speaker 1: is this game for the Vikings? Really? Like they have
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Speaker 1: the division locked up, they're making the playoffs, they're gonna
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Speaker 1: have a high seed. Meanwhile, the Lions are still two
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Speaker 1: games back of being in the playoffs right now. They
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Speaker 1: need this game. They lost to the Vikings in Week three.
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Speaker 1: It's hard to sweep a team in the NFL. The
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Speaker 1: Lions have gotten better and healthier since that last matchup. Plus,
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Speaker 1: like you said, they're way more fun. I'm going with
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Speaker 1: the Lions too. I also just feel like they're probably
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Speaker 1: looking out there around the like locker room. I love
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Speaker 1: every single like post game video of like Dan Campbell
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Speaker 1: just getting everyone fired up after a win. They're probably
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Speaker 1: just looking around the locker room. Like you know, obviously
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Speaker 1: they're probably thinking about playoffs, but like, who cares. We're winning.
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Speaker 1: We're winning for like the first time ever. Like that's
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Speaker 1: let's keep doing that. That feels good. Mom, What do
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Speaker 1: you like in this game? Don't kill us here, don't
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Speaker 1: We'll put you in jails. Let's go no jail for
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Speaker 1: Mohan today. Um. I love that. I love that the
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Speaker 1: Lions are happy. I love that my friends Cynthia Freeland
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Speaker 1: is happy for the first time. Okay, Cynthia Freeland absolute
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Speaker 1: genius UH analysts at NFL Network. If you don't follow her,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing with your life? She's my partner
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Speaker 1: in crime. On Sunday's we do like a lock of
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Speaker 1: the week at the end of each show on Sunday
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Speaker 1: and where we always have our pregame meetings on Saturday
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Speaker 1: and at the end of each call, they're like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: who do you guys want to lock? And I really
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Speaker 1: wanted to lock the Lions last week, but me being
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Speaker 1: the great friend I am, I had to make sure
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Speaker 1: because Cynthia never picks the lines like it's just like
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Speaker 1: not in her blood and not in her DNA. And
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Speaker 1: this week she locked the Lions and they want I
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Speaker 1: want good things from my friends, so Viva la Lions. Okay,
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Speaker 1: in the next game. I feel like I might change
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Speaker 1: my mind on this quite a few times. We got
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Speaker 1: Eagles favored by seven against the Giants. Um s Koan
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Speaker 1: Barkley was just added to the injury report this weekendink
17:45
Speaker 1: he's got something going on with his neck. But the
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Speaker 1: Eagles just seemed there was There's just been some weird
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Speaker 1: games where you know, obviously they started undefeated and then
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Speaker 1: there was some hiccups. I feel like they're getting back
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Speaker 1: on track. They're having fun. We saw Jason Kelsey show
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Speaker 1: up to the game in that outfit is past week.
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Speaker 1: He is quickly becoming I think he's gonna win. And
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Speaker 1: at the end of this season, I want to do
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Speaker 1: about the most, and just the people that we've enjoyed.
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Speaker 1: Jason Kelsey is going to be at the top of
18:15
Speaker 1: this list because he is my favorite player in the
18:17
Speaker 1: NFL right now. Um So I'm gonna go Eagles. I'm
18:21
Speaker 1: gonna go Eagles to cover the seven. I think that
18:23
Speaker 1: they're gonna They're not like you were just saying, Graver,
18:24
Speaker 1: I don't think that the Eagles are gonna really falter
18:27
Speaker 1: down the stretch. I think they need to start like
18:28
Speaker 1: tightening their bootstraps before the playoffs. But um, I don't know.
18:31
Speaker 1: I could see this one being a little bit wonky,
18:33
Speaker 1: and I feel like I might change my mind a
18:34
Speaker 1: couple of times, Graverer, what are you going with? I
18:36
Speaker 1: am also taking the Eagles minus seven, and I'm with
18:39
Speaker 1: you on changing your mind too, because I had the
18:41
Speaker 1: Giants plus seven like thirty minutes ago, and I sat
18:44
Speaker 1: there and thought about it, and I just think the
18:47
Speaker 1: Eagles are gonna be too dominant on both sides of
18:50
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, offensive line, defensive line. I know
18:54
Speaker 1: Cavon Thibodeaus and playing well for that Giants defensive front,
18:58
Speaker 1: but there's no offensive line as good the Eagles and
19:00
Speaker 1: the depth on their defensive line that's really where the
19:02
Speaker 1: games are won. And then you add on the se
19:05
Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley questionable status. We have to pick the game now.
19:08
Speaker 1: We're not picking the game Sunday morning when we know
19:10
Speaker 1: everything right, So right now, I'm gonna right yeah, listeners, MO,
19:15
Speaker 1: what do you like in this morning? I'm going to
19:17
Speaker 1: Eagles as well. Uh, not to throw some shade at
19:21
Speaker 1: Justin here, but A J. Brown literally made the Titans
19:25
Speaker 1: fire their GM after beating them last week, and Justin
19:31
Speaker 1: Hurts did it himself. They didn't have a running game,
19:34
Speaker 1: so I don't know. Hopefully, Um, the Giants gym is
19:38
Speaker 1: gonna be okay, He's just the GM killer Gravers just
19:45
Speaker 1: thinking about pressing the jail button. Um, I'm looking at
19:48
Speaker 1: the Giants like scores the last few weeks, and like
19:50
Speaker 1: back in October, they were so hot and they were
19:53
Speaker 1: so fun, and then end of October, beginning of November
19:56
Speaker 1: kind of like after they're by it looks like things
19:58
Speaker 1: started getting a little wonky. They lost to the Lines,
20:01
Speaker 1: and they lost the Cowboys twenty and then they just
20:04
Speaker 1: tied the Commanders. Um, so I feel like we were
20:06
Speaker 1: all so hot on the Giants at the beginning of
20:08
Speaker 1: the season, like we were picking them to win every
20:10
Speaker 1: single game. But um, I don't know, I just feel
20:12
Speaker 1: like they haven't been as trustworthy as usual, uh the
20:15
Speaker 1: last few weeks. Okay, and then finally we've got a
20:18
Speaker 1: really interesting one on our hands and we're gonna talk
20:20
Speaker 1: a lot about it. Um coming up in best thing
20:21
Speaker 1: that I heard, because there was some fun soundbites that
20:25
Speaker 1: came out about Brock Party this week. But um box
20:29
Speaker 1: at forty niners. Forty Niners still favored, which I think
20:33
Speaker 1: is also interesting after the Monday night football game with
20:36
Speaker 1: Tom Brady come back by three and a half, Um,
20:39
Speaker 1: I am going forty niners to win comfortably with this one.
20:44
Speaker 1: Like I said, I think at the you know, we're
20:46
Speaker 1: all we're all back on the Brady bandwagon after he
20:49
Speaker 1: just like was an insane person and won this game
20:53
Speaker 1: with three minutes and five seconds left or whatever it was.
20:57
Speaker 1: It's so funny. I had this game on and I
20:59
Speaker 1: was kind of like, you know, walking back. It was
21:01
Speaker 1: very low scoring, nothing was really happening. I think the
21:03
Speaker 1: Bucks had like three points for the majority of the game.
21:06
Speaker 1: And then I sat down to where I was like, Okay,
21:08
Speaker 1: last few minutes watch I want to watch the postgame
21:10
Speaker 1: press conferences, whatever, postgame interviews on the field. Um. And
21:13
Speaker 1: then Brady had an insane comeback, and I was just like,
21:15
Speaker 1: what are the odds that I just sat down for
21:17
Speaker 1: this moment. It's like I had the Brady Spidy senses
21:20
Speaker 1: were just like a tingling in my body. Um. But
21:23
Speaker 1: I think that you know that team, they have a
21:25
Speaker 1: lot of running back issues. I think they have a
21:26
Speaker 1: lot of issues on offense. So I'm gonna go forty
21:28
Speaker 1: Niners and Black Purty to shine, baby Graver. What do
21:32
Speaker 1: you like see? I think this line is where it
21:34
Speaker 1: is because the forty Niners quarterback play hasn't been what
21:40
Speaker 1: carries down this year. They have so many playmakers. It's
21:43
Speaker 1: such a good defense. Watching the Bucks play offense for
21:46
Speaker 1: the first fifty five minutes of that Monday night game
21:48
Speaker 1: was like fighting was what's a bad thing, I don't know,
21:52
Speaker 1: clawing nails on a chalkboard or something. It was just
21:57
Speaker 1: it was so hard to watch them try to play
22:01
Speaker 1: offense for fifty five minutes and then for five minutes
22:03
Speaker 1: they were like a machine. But against this Niners defense.
22:07
Speaker 1: I don't see that machine coming out. I think the
22:09
Speaker 1: Niners are gonna make Brady look old. And I like
22:15
Speaker 1: your headline. Back to my headline, what was it? Out
22:18
Speaker 1: with the old, in with the new. So give me
22:20
Speaker 1: the Niners to cover. Yeah, I'm going I'm going the
22:24
Speaker 1: Niners too. I'm going to the Niners too. And I
22:26
Speaker 1: know everyone's giving Brady love and everything from Monday, but
22:29
Speaker 1: I think it's just as much the Saints blowing it
22:31
Speaker 1: than Brady actually doing it. And I think the Niners
22:35
Speaker 1: are they They made too, who was the hottest quarterback
22:39
Speaker 1: in the league, look not great on Sunday, and now
22:42
Speaker 1: they're going against old Brady, who might have some you know,
22:45
Speaker 1: false confidence, beating the Saints who aren't great. So I'm
22:49
Speaker 1: going to the Niners. We had all the same picks
22:52
Speaker 1: except for Mohan picking Buffalo. Everything else we were in
22:56
Speaker 1: complete alignment. That seems Yeah, I don't. I didn't feel
22:59
Speaker 1: like making moves this weekend. Next weekend, I'll be back
23:01
Speaker 1: to my uh every every other week. I also love
23:05
Speaker 1: the DEVO said the forty Niners defense had to a
23:07
Speaker 1: throwing gimmes out there. They're super fun to watch um. Okay,
23:12
Speaker 1: coming up after the break, we got Mohun's minute. He's
23:16
Speaker 1: coming out of jail, Baby, he's broken free. He's talking
23:19
Speaker 1: about something weird and the best thing I saw and
23:22
Speaker 1: heard all week. That'll go anyway, okay, baby, the moment
23:44
Speaker 1: you've all been waiting for Mohun's minute. Mo, what do
23:48
Speaker 1: you got for us today? I'm I'm gonna get roasted,
23:52
Speaker 1: but I'm just gonna say it. I don't enjoy any
23:55
Speaker 1: holiday candies. I think. I think canny corn, candy canes,
24:01
Speaker 1: peeps like, they're all horrible candies. And then why, like,
24:06
Speaker 1: why can't holidays have better candy? Like, no one, no
24:09
Speaker 1: one's like I can't wait to go home and have
24:11
Speaker 1: a candy cane. This is not a horrible take. Honestly,
24:16
Speaker 1: I'm kind of like you, and I'm being quiet because
24:18
Speaker 1: I'm trying to rack my brain to think of if
24:20
Speaker 1: there is a holiday candy that I love, so I
24:23
Speaker 1: like down, Yeah, I'm fine with candy corn, like I
24:26
Speaker 1: think a lot of people have issues with it. Candy
24:28
Speaker 1: canes absolutely awful. They're like worst lollipop. Now there are
24:35
Speaker 1: like sweet and flavored candy canes that are like not
24:38
Speaker 1: your traditional red and white that are okay. I enjoyed
24:41
Speaker 1: as a child, but as a currently as a thirty
24:44
Speaker 1: year old, I don't eat any kind of candy cane anymore. Yeah.
24:47
Speaker 1: Do you guys remember candy canes that were like orange
24:50
Speaker 1: crush and purple crt like the soda flavored candy canes
24:54
Speaker 1: I could do, Like the mini ones are fine. Yeah.
24:57
Speaker 1: Now I will say, after eating a big candy cane
24:59
Speaker 1: for ten minutes, what am I doing? Oh? Thank you?
25:02
Speaker 1: There are Christmas candies that are okay, peppermint bark, chocolate
25:06
Speaker 1: peppermint bark, like the gear. I don't think it's candy.
25:11
Speaker 1: That doesn't or just it's candy, it's chocolate. It's just
25:15
Speaker 1: not holiday. Or the idea of like hanging chocolates on
25:19
Speaker 1: the Christmas tree like my grandma used to do this.
25:21
Speaker 1: You'd like tie the candies to the Christmas tree and
25:23
Speaker 1: they were like your standard candies, but we ate them
25:25
Speaker 1: because they were on the tree because it was Christmas.
25:28
Speaker 1: So that's kind of a weird gray area. Um. I
25:32
Speaker 1: will say, there is absolutely nothing worse than a peep
25:35
Speaker 1: like whoever created those jail immediately, I wish that we
25:39
Speaker 1: could have I wish that we could send. Hey, bench
25:42
Speaker 1: Vanetta would love to meet you, the creator of peeps,
25:45
Speaker 1: and we just bring them on to do that to
25:46
Speaker 1: put anti. They have no idea what's going on? Okay,
25:50
Speaker 1: let me I feel like they get Oh they're nasty.
25:55
Speaker 1: Who was buying those except for like a grandma's who
25:58
Speaker 1: are blind? Um? Let me ask you guys this, are
26:01
Speaker 1: you into Christmas cocktails? Because I know this is gonna
26:04
Speaker 1: sound discussing and I am anti nog Okay, we I
26:07
Speaker 1: don't think we've talked about this on this but I
26:10
Speaker 1: talked about my dad and you were like, oh, thanks
26:12
Speaker 1: for your parents. Sorry, Mr Graver. But I will say,
26:19
Speaker 1: like a white Russian with peppermint schnaps and then you
26:22
Speaker 1: crush up a candy cane and you put it on
26:24
Speaker 1: the rim of the glass like a margaritea salt. Guys,
26:27
Speaker 1: you're laughing. You are partying in the streets, baby, and
26:31
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna have a stomach later because you drank milk.
26:33
Speaker 1: But who cares? Who? Yeah, I'm into that. I'm peppermint snaps.
26:40
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll have some of our Christmas party, a rogue
26:42
Speaker 1: Christmas party. Um, okay, guys, time for the best thing
26:45
Speaker 1: that I heard all week, and this is basically all
26:48
Speaker 1: about Brock Purty said. I asked Brock Purty what his
26:53
Speaker 1: thoughts are that he'll make his first start against Tom Brady,
26:56
Speaker 1: and he said, it's gonna be pretty cool. He's been
26:58
Speaker 1: playing football longer than I've been alive. In fact, Party
27:02
Speaker 1: was born four days before Brady played his final game
27:04
Speaker 1: at Michigan. This is a little bit spicy. I don't
27:06
Speaker 1: know if he meant to make it spicy, but I
27:09
Speaker 1: think it might be a little bit spicy. I'm sure
27:10
Speaker 1: he was just saying, like, how cool is this thin?
27:12
Speaker 1: It's to play against Tom Brady, But like, also the
27:14
Speaker 1: backhanded compliment is, h he's old as hell and I'm
27:18
Speaker 1: playing his dusty ass this week. Um, I absolutely love it.
27:23
Speaker 1: And then our own bridget uh content, She tweeted out
27:28
Speaker 1: something about Trent Williams. Let me take a look at this.
27:32
Speaker 1: You would think he's been in the league fifteen years,
27:34
Speaker 1: is what Trent Williams said about Brock Party. If you're talking,
27:37
Speaker 1: he'll say, shut your ass up. He ain't no timid
27:40
Speaker 1: rookie feeling this his way around. He will get on
27:43
Speaker 1: your ass. You would think he's like Peyton Manning or something.
27:46
Speaker 1: I absolutely love this, like blind confidence. I don't know
27:49
Speaker 1: how human beings have it, but it's always very fascinating
27:52
Speaker 1: to me. So I really hope that he wins this game.
27:54
Speaker 1: And then the worst thing that I saw guys, oh
27:58
Speaker 1: he like, oh b J has kind of been the
28:00
Speaker 1: leader of our worst things lately. But he recently tweeted this,
28:04
Speaker 1: which is like what chess pawn situation, Play chess, play
28:10
Speaker 1: chess with all of us. Um, So I wanted to
28:12
Speaker 1: kind of do a quick little rehash of like what
28:16
Speaker 1: is going on with O b J. So he went
28:18
Speaker 1: to Dallas this week. Okay, we all kind of thought
28:20
Speaker 1: that that was going to be the landing spot, but
28:21
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold on. We saw him with
28:24
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons and and Trayvon Digs at the going to
28:26
Speaker 1: the MAVs game, and everyone was chanting fun, fun, fun,
28:31
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Jerry Jones is like popping champagne basically
28:35
Speaker 1: before O b J even got there. But then oh
28:37
Speaker 1: b J got his physical done and things then started
28:41
Speaker 1: to kind of take a turn. Then Jones said afterwards,
28:43
Speaker 1: he says, I'm not confident at all. That's the issue
28:46
Speaker 1: we've got a good beat on that. We've got a
28:48
Speaker 1: great read on his career. It has to be addressed
28:51
Speaker 1: and that's when you see if you can make a
28:53
Speaker 1: deal or not. So I don't know what's gonna happen
28:55
Speaker 1: anymore than he tweets this because he's on the way
28:57
Speaker 1: to the Giants. I think he's spending Thursday and Friday
28:59
Speaker 1: with the Giants and then maybe this weekend with the Bills.
29:02
Speaker 1: But then Ken Dorsey, who works for the Bills, he
29:06
Speaker 1: recently came out and said, we're pretty happy with our guys, Like,
29:09
Speaker 1: anytime we can add another piece on offense that could
29:11
Speaker 1: help us win the Super Bowl, we're not going to
29:13
Speaker 1: not look at it. But we're pretty happy with our guys.
29:15
Speaker 1: So I legitimately don't know where he's gonna go. And
29:18
Speaker 1: I think that O. B J is starting to get
29:19
Speaker 1: a little bit nervous, and that's why he's tweeting about
29:21
Speaker 1: the pawn thing, playing chess or he's saying like I'm
29:24
Speaker 1: a piece. I'm your chess piece, use me somebody, No No.
29:29
Speaker 1: I think, as the resident chess expert on the podcast
29:34
Speaker 1: Chess Master Never Forget, I think he's like, I'm playing
29:37
Speaker 1: chess and everyone's playing checkers, Like I'm gonna be okay,
29:40
Speaker 1: but this kind of makes me feel like, you know,
29:42
Speaker 1: when you're like dating somebody new and like maybe you're
29:44
Speaker 1: worried that they're not that into you. Like you're posting
29:46
Speaker 1: that THIRSDT trap. You are hitting them. You are popping
29:49
Speaker 1: the booty for the Graham. You want them to see
29:51
Speaker 1: what you've got. You want your You're like doing some
29:54
Speaker 1: stories out and about like, oh I don't need you.
29:56
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm having drinks of this other plays with
29:58
Speaker 1: these other people, putting out the vibes. Okay, I think
30:01
Speaker 1: that that's what ob J is doing. If I had
30:04
Speaker 1: to guess right now, I'd say Giants are the move.
30:07
Speaker 1: I think they lose Cowboys anymore. I think the Cowboys,
30:11
Speaker 1: like they just put up fifty points on the Colts
30:13
Speaker 1: last week. They don't need o b J. They got
30:16
Speaker 1: enough stuff going on the Bills. Same deal. The Bills
30:19
Speaker 1: are rolling. I mean, we'll see how they do against
30:21
Speaker 1: the Jets, but the Bills don't need another receiver. They
30:23
Speaker 1: have enough weapons on offense. The Giants have been struggling
30:27
Speaker 1: to find a go to receiver all season long. They're
30:31
Speaker 1: probably gonna lose to Philly. They're gonna be trying to
30:33
Speaker 1: make this last playoff push. Why not bring back the
30:37
Speaker 1: one of the best receivers you've ever drafted and see
30:40
Speaker 1: if you can make it happen. And I think O
30:42
Speaker 1: J is all salty that the Cowboys leaked the information
30:46
Speaker 1: about his knee too, for sure. I mean maybe he's
30:50
Speaker 1: just like and And also if I were O b J,
30:53
Speaker 1: see he's had some weird weeks, man, I would probably
30:56
Speaker 1: I was feeling like pretty confident going into the Cowboys.
30:59
Speaker 1: Jerry was probably here, boys, here a couple of basketball tickets.
31:01
Speaker 1: Why don't you guys go and enjoy the game court side.
31:03
Speaker 1: He probably had like the equal meetings with like Dac
31:06
Speaker 1: and Zeke and um, it's probably pretty exciting to be there,
31:09
Speaker 1: to be honest, And then all of a sudden, it's like, whoa,
31:11
Speaker 1: you're not hot on me anymore? Like I thought, just
31:13
Speaker 1: like a week ago, you were like the ink was
31:15
Speaker 1: ready to go. The ink was like, you know, fired
31:18
Speaker 1: up in then, and let's sign this baby. And didn't
31:23
Speaker 1: they say even if he does come back, he won't
31:25
Speaker 1: play until January. And in that case, like you'd have
31:29
Speaker 1: to go deep in the playoffs. I think that wasn't
31:32
Speaker 1: Mica Parsons that came out and said that he was
31:34
Speaker 1: going to be ready to go in like five weeks.
31:36
Speaker 1: Like O b J told Mike that he was getta
31:38
Speaker 1: be ready to go in five weeks. So I don't know. Yeah,
31:43
Speaker 1: this is a big mystery. We're going to figure it out. Um, guys,
31:46
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