December 30, 2022 • 37 mins
Rachel Bonnetta and company are back for a brand new episode of Benched with Bonnetta! To start, Rachel rolls out the red carpet and hands out the Benched 2022 Messy Awards (5:22).
After the break, Rachel tells you which Week 17 games she's most excited about including Dolphins-Patriots (21:18), Jets-Seahawks (24:12), Rams-Chargers (26:12), and Bills-Bengals (28:55). Rachel wraps the show up by opening up her DMs to hear your New Year's Resolutions (31:17).
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
And when I woke up this morning, I was feeling
pretty dangerous on the scinnight. It's mc cock. They are
what we thought they were. Wet you plenty to win
the day. They want you to cook the dinner. At
least they ought to let your shop for some of
the groceries. And on the way up, we're gonna buy
the kneecap off playoffs. You're kidding me. I'm just here
(00:26):
so I won't get fine? How could he not be
romantic about football? Welcome to Benched with Bonetta. We are
back in studio. Oh my goodness, Happy holidays, my Christmas,
Happy New Year? Moh and my friend, when can you
start saying Happy New Year? When do you have to
stop saying Happy New Year? What are the order the
(00:48):
laws here? I think today is appropriate for Happy New Year? Okay,
so we record this podcast on the twenty nine, so
we're a couple of days away. You know, you might
not see those people after the New Year. And then
when do you stop? Because that's like people are still
throwing out Happy New Year's on January twenty. I think
that I think the fourth or fifth the fourth of
the fifth grade or what what's your cut off? Date.
There's no like hard cut off date. I think it's
(01:09):
like if you haven't seen someone in a few weeks
that you regularly see and it's the new year, then
you can say it, but like generally, probably like a
week or some names will not be named here. Okay,
but Mohamed and I used to work with somebody that
legitimately got furious if you said Happy New Year after
the third like a reasonable time to keep on saying
(01:29):
Happy New Year, would literally just stop dead in the
middle of the hallway and be like, no, we're not
doing that, outrageous. Um. Okay, guys, we're gonna kick I'm
really excited about this episode. Actually, I'm very excited. We
like to throw some awards out on this show. It's
the end of the year. Every podcast is probably doing
something similar, but we're gonna do things a little bit differently. UM.
(01:51):
Safe to say I had probably the messiest year of
my life. Okay, your girl got a little messy. I
want to go around around the table here first before
we kick things off. We're gonna talk with the messiest
teams of UM. But I want to put I want
to put it on us for a second before we
start poking fun at these teams in gossiping. What is
the messiest thing that you did all year? All kick
(02:12):
things off? I left some what is it called. It's
like weed killer, it's full poison, Okay. I left it
in my trunk and it got very hot this summer
and the plastic melted and it just oozed everywhere in
my trunk. There were two bottles, two big size bottles.
And I just had to drive around with a poison
car for a good couple of months before I was
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forced to get a new car because all the detailing,
all the cleaning, everything did not work. That's messy, that's
not taking care of yourself. Yeah, that's legitimately messy. Yeah.
I didn't like almost dad my house down or anything
like that. I just almost like poisoned myself. Mom, What
about you? I don't really had a pretty messy free
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at the schemer. I feel like you're the kind of
guy they might have exid somebody by accident. And I'm
not saying that I like know a story or not,
but like, you gotta have something messy going on, not
really think about it. Justin you said you have one.
I have one. I'm ashamed of this but I'll say
it on the podcast. Whatever. So I had tickets to
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see Weird Al perform because this new movie came out.
Like I was, I'm like, I like Weird Al, sure,
but I was never like I want to go see
him in concert. But I have really good friends. One
of my really good friends loves weird Al, and my
girlfriend did not get a ticket because she was like,
I don't want to do that, and I was like, well,
I already got a ticket, so I guess I'll go. Anyway,
the day came where it was time to go, and
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I was like, I really don't want to go to
this stupid concert. So I texted my friends, Hey, we
can't make it tonight. I have to go to dinner
with my old boss. Total lie. And then I stayed
home with Jessica and then I get a text from
my friends who are at the concert. I forgot I
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have my location sharing on, so I got fully caught
in this dumb lie that was pointless. I should have
just said I don't want to do this, but I
felt stupid. Why were they checking your locale? They were
a little sucks because were they mad at you, miss
weird They were just mad that I lied to them.
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Why are you sharing your location with every No, it's
just share my location with quite a few people, not everybody.
I do it with like three or five. My friend
likes to check in on us. She's like, I just
want to make sure you haven't been kidnapped or anything.
So I periodically check your location from time to I
have done. The massiest thing that you can do is
text somebody that you don't mean to, and I do
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that about once or twice a year. Yeah, it's bad.
Oh I'm very quick. I'm like if thank god for
improv classes. Baby. I remember I was wearing with a
producer one time. It was mean. We both know who
it is. He was mean and he was bossy, bossing,
and I went to text probably Mohan and don't drag
me into this guy's suit him. I texted him and
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I was just like And then I was like, oh no,
the floor manager is being very mean on this ship.
So I'm gonnat weaseling my way out of these situations.
But um, I'm known to send a send a ron
text every once in a while. Okay, enough is enough.
We are getting to the two messy awards. Baby, play
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the music while I put on my gowns this Okay,
for the record, Mohun refused to put this on. We
don't have a longer song than I'm not gonna get
it on. We're just gonna loop it till you're right there.
You go. Hello, and welcome to Messy Awards. Okay, it
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is the end of the year. It's time to look
back on the year fondly. And by looking back fondly,
we going to gossip. Okay, So I went through today
and I looked at every single division and I picked
the messiest team from each division. Okay, it's the Lord's work,
but I'm happy to do it. We're gonna start in
the a f C and we're gonna start a f
C East the messiest team. I think it's pretty easy
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to figure this one out. I'm going Jets baby. At
the beginning of the season, we had Zack Wilson with
the Mom's. The mom's friends were like, Okay, maybe this
guy is a little bit cheeky, maybe he's fine. He
like earned the respect of the of the locker room.
Then all hell broke loose. He blamed that if you
didn't say the d, if you didn't give problems with
the defense with everyone knows what happened, and then Mike
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White comes in. I don't know what's going on with
this Jets team. Now Mike White is back. I think
Joe Flacco was named as the backup, not even Zack Wilson.
Chaotic vibes, messy vibes. I've got to say, I think
that there's more than just the defense comment that sent
this over the edge. There has to be because it
is so small, and I think there's a bunch of
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things that we don't know about this team. But I
am crowning them messiest team of the a f C East.
You guys agree, I ultimately agree, but don't forget what's
happening in New England with their offensive coordinator situation. Matt
Patricia is like coordinating an offense. Apparently they have the
smallest coaching staff of any team in the league. And
then the Dolphins have a lot going on to in
terms of just like how they handled to his concussion stuff.
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I did have the Dolphins in there for a second,
but I just love the Dolphins so much. I didn't
want to put them in there because that's not me,
that's not drama. That's just like I agree, and don't
forget Mac Jones is a dirty player, and a lot
of people were saying at player. Okay, so you guys
are saying Patriots very close. I think Patriots could have
won another division. But everything that's going on with the
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Jets right it's just too much. It's just too much. Okay,
we gotta keep it grooving and moving because we're hitting
every single division today a f C West, We're going
to the opposite side. This was the easiest one. Broncos obviously.
I don't know if they came not a little while
ago that Russell Wilson had an office in a parking spot.
I feel like that was like a while ago that
was a reported on, but it got resurfaced again this week.
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Everyone's up in arms. Oh my god, I can't believe
this guy has an office in a parking spot. A
parking spot, I can understand. I kind of also understand
an office. Like, I don't really know why everyone's going
crazy about this. Jerry Judy was like, this guy's got
the most insane work ethic, Like, we don't care if
he has an office, like, let him do him. But
either way, they fired Nathaniel Hackett. They've been an absolute mass.
They've just handed the Seahawks perhaps the third pick in
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the NFL draft this season, which is insane for Russell
Wilson um just a mess overall. They Russ spoke after
hacket gout fired and he was like, I haven't been
playing up to expectations so far this year. I'm actually
surprised at how much he gave. Nathaniel Hackett. He was like,
he was a great guy. Like I'm devastat. I think
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he used the word devastated. I'm really sad. The guy
was a great father. And I was like, Okay, I
wish I'd played better for him. What about a coach? Okay,
but messy, messy vibes all over messy vibes all over
af C North. Do we even need to talk about it?
Can we? Can? I just say two things? One, uh,
Watson has has led the Browns and forty three drives
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and has only scored three touchdowns and the offenses averaging
ten points per game. Since you all for what all for?
What is he going to have some kind of like
miraculous situation happened in the off season that he just
becomes this quarterback that they've all been waiting for him
to become I don't think oh, I do not think.
So this was such a waste of every like just
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just I don't want to talk about it because I've
talked about it enough on this here podcast. But the
Brown's easily the messies team in the A. C. North
and Baker one Blakelodeon m VP twice in three weeks.
Juster shining Baker is thriving. Okay, we don't care if
it's Nickelodeon m v P. Okay, that means that's it's
the highest of the of the achievements in our books. Okay,
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I know you're probably lifting your nose at Nicola d MVP,
but don't you dare on this show? But how sweet
is it that this is happening with Watson? Yeah, I
just love watching him be terrible karma, That's all I'll say. Okay,
uh AMC South Um, it's gotta be the quotes, right,
I mean the Jeff Saturday experiment. Jeff Saturday came and
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we all were expecting him to be somebody that's had
no NFL experience. They win their first game against the Readers,
and we're all right, let's just wait on this they
go on to lose five straight. Um, Jim er Say
tweeted sometime early November, all you critics, you criticize all
of us in the NFL for losing when we make
(10:41):
moves to win. You act so righteous? Who you crap in?
Jesuin baby. The Cults have been outscored ninety to nine
in the fourth quarters since Jeff Saturday. It's not just
that they're losing, They're losing in a very bad way.
And Jeff Saturday, what did you say? He had like
a easy quote when he first signed on. He was
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just like if I'm bad at this, unfron me like,
I don't care. And the biggest blown lead in NFL history. Oh,
who could forget? Who could forget? Cold Spikings? Um, so
I am crowning them the messiest team in the a
f C South, messiest team in the a f C
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in twenty twenty two, I would say the Browns, but
I'm going Broncos. I'm going to Broncos because I don't
want to give the Browns a prize of any sort,
even even a bad one. You know I'm going Broncos.
I know it says Broncos and Browns tie, but I'm
going Broncos, Okay, just give them the award. And also
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on top of it, you had all of these cringe
things from Russ all year, Danger Witch, Bronco's Country, Let's Ride.
It was the gift that keeps on giving. It's the
gift that yeah, please know, it's the gift that keeps
on giving. This show like we should be very thankful,
you know what. We hear a bench with Banetta. We
would to thank the Broncos and Russell Wilson for providing
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many a laugh all season long. Uh and you've provided
us lots of things to talk about, so for that
we thank you. But you are the winner of the
messiest team in the Okay, we went on to the NFC. Baby,
we got some more teams. We've got some more awards
to hand out NFC East. Now, usually we called this
award kind of we're just like automatically give it to
the Cowboys every single year because they seem to just
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be messy all year round. They're good, they're bad, no
one trust them. But but they're not that messy this year,
they're really not. They dabbled with some O b J
here and there, but I can't give them this award
in this was actually kind of the hardest one to
give out, and I think I'm going to give it
to the Commanders just because it's the Commanders and they've
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just got a lot of mess going on with the team.
But I will say than a lot off the off
the field mess. But Taylor, you know, I'm a fan
of Petty. I love the Petty sneaker thing that he
started to do in the latter half of the season.
Absolutely loved it. But they've kind of, I don't know.
They're a scrappy little team and they fought their way
through like the trenches this season, So I'm saying that
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they're the messiest team. But like I guess, I guess huh, um,
would you guys agree with this? Yeah, it's messy. Now
back to Wentz, It's like, what is the I don't know, yeh,
scrappy Like we saw Wentz already and it wasn't good.
We already on a couple of different teams in the
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last few years. Um, okay, NFC West, this is as
easy as the a f C North. Um, I'm going Cardinals, Cardinals, Cardinals, Cardinals.
Before this, I mean, where do we even? Where do
we even start. You got the preseason, you got the
letter from the agent, you got him playing call of duty.
Then you get into the season. You have Kyler calling
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plays in preseason because I don't know, Cliff wanted to
teach him a lesson, but he actually did pretty good.
Then you get into the season, de Hops suspended for
six games, you don't even have him. He shows up,
You got those two back together, and then it looks
like this, like what are we doing? And then unfortunately
this is terrible. Kyler has a season ending injury that's
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not going to be easy to recover from. But oh
my goodness. Then last week, I don't know if you
guys saw this, this is this article came out on
ESPN about how Cliff is being like encouraged to like
step down from the team. Then he says, I'm not
going anywhere like you can do. There's a lot of
bad vibes going on. And you didn't even mention the
whole mess in Mexico City where the I didn't even
(14:36):
want to mention that. But it's crazy what's happened with
the coach Sean Coogler, who was fired after allegedly groping
a woman in Mexico City, and then Steve Kim steps
away for personal health related reasons, and then Sean Coogler says,
I never did anything wrong. I think this is a
case of mistaken identity, and he looks just whatever. It's wild,
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it's wild. Literally the list goes on. I'm sure I'm
forgetting about ten different things with the Cardinals because it
has just been a messy, messy retired, well, no wonder,
but I don't want to deal with this again. Everyone's like, wow,
did you want retired? He could totally still play like
he looks amazing. I have an idea of why he's retiring.
He's getting the heck out of there. Um okay, NFC North,
I think this is also easy packers. We had the
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um the ayahuasca trips in the off season. Aaron's really
made a change the last few years, and like, good
for him if he's feeling like the most like himself
and there's a little conspiracy there. What do you think
he got his receivers for Christmas? That is a great call.
When I was like doing the deep diving on the
Christmas list. Apparently he loves gifting ugs. I hope that
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he would get them more. But if he got them
a jugs machine so they can catch better, he got
them crystals for real? Oh Chris, Yeah, he probably got
Chris old sage. Um, some teas, some yoga sessions. Who knows,
I would actually a trip to the desert that dancing
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under the moon. Everyone's naked. Um. I gotta go Packers,
NFC North. I mean, I think that's pretty obvious. But
are you a little bit worried about the Packers making
like some kind of crazy comeback right now? We're not
going to do that. They're not gonna do that. I
am rooting extremely hard for the Vikings this weekend. Yeah,
but it's the Vikings. I know. I'm rooting for the
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Packers this weekend. Just so it's interesting. I think I
might have the Packers. The Vikings are probably gonna win
on like a last second dumb fumble, flukey nonsense as
they do, baby as they do. Okay, and then finally,
NFC South. I was going to give this to the Panthers,
but the Panthers have actually kind of been piecing together
some nice wins the last few weeks, so I'm not
going to give it to the Panthers, even though they
had a messy first half of the season with Baker
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and sam Donald and Blaum firing that rule for get.
Oh my goodness, they have been through a lot. But
I think I have to give it to the box
because all of the I mean Tom Brady's offseason drama
took up every single I mean it was everywhere. It
was Twitter, it was on every single podcast, it was
on every single television show. It's all we talked about
for a good long while. And then now Tom Brady
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might be this could be like, what his first losing season.
That's wild. He's gotta I think he's gotta win out
for him to avoid that. Uh. And they almost lost
to the Cardinals da other night, which is like we
just heard us talking about them, okay, which leads me to, Okay, So,
messiest team in the NFC, I think it's gotta be
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the Cardinals. Come on, now, it's the Cardinals. But here's
the problem. Now, we got to pick the messiest team
in the NFL, and who do we think that is? Mohunt,
I'll let you choose, who do you think is the
messiest team? I gotta go with the Broncos. The Broncos
over the Cardinals over the Browns started with the expectations
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in the preseason with after getting Ross all like, they
slated all these primetime games for the Broncos and it's
just a mess, just like very like it's such a letdown. Graver, Yeah,
I agree. I mean the Cardinals are at least I
don't know they like you can blame injuries maybe a
little bit for what they are for at least what
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they are right now. The Broncos, like just the expectations
that came with Russell Wilson that have been so far
from Matt. I agree. Okay, the winner of the massiest
team in the NFL of two season is the Broncos,
Thank you very much, every is. I think it's the expectations.
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I think we went into this season being like, oh
this defense, oh Jared Judy, Russell Wilson, Oh my goodness,
this could actually be very interesting. And they gave up
their draft pick. Well, I just watched this clip of uh.
I don't know who it was. I can't. I don't
think it was Nathaniel Hackett. I think it was somebody
else watching Russell Wilson highlights during the draft. They're like,
you know what, we're giving up our pick and we're
just gonna sit here. We're gonna watch Russell Wilson highlights
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and it's like, oh no, why, um, but I think
it's the expectations and where they are at now. It
is just messy Capital and uh okay, that was messy Awards.
We are going to be back after the break. We
are making some big game picks, guys. This week is exciting.
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There's a lot on the line for a lot of teams.
So don't go anywhere. We'll get to Okay. I have
(19:55):
to share this story. My mom is flying into l
A right now, which is like a miserable all the
flights that have gotten like delayed and canceled. Man shout
outs to all y'all if you guys traveled during the
holiday season, because it did not sound fun. I avoid it.
I just don't do it. I don't see my family
over the Christmas alliday. Um. But she's been delayed so
many times today and she just posted to Instagram. Piece
(20:16):
is the result of retraining your mind to process life
as it is rather than as you think it should be?
Is my mom? Aaron Roger for what goes on? Have
a breaking vodka soda and sit back and relax. It's okay,
she's in the air, she's on the way. Okay, let's
make some game picks, shall we. There are some really
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fun games. I picked four that I'm very excited about.
First off, we're gonna get to it. But the amount
of excitement that I am feeling for Monday night football already.
But I was like, one of the first things that
I said when I got into the studio was like,
Monday Night Football, Bills Bengals. Come on, now, we'll pick
that last Dolphins at Patriots. Oh, first off, our picks record,
um three and one? Is that more? That's you? Dang? Rachel? Okay,
(21:01):
moh one? Justin and one? Yeah, but we had a
bad week, Rachel. You and I each went one in three?
What did you went to into I ended a ten.
I had ten straight picks right in our spreadsheet that
tracks this thing until I missed three games. Okay, well,
I'm going for a straight, baby, I'm going for straight here.
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We call it. Dolphins at Patriots. Patriots are favored by
two and a half. And guess what, I have the
Patriots winning like an absolute maniac New England twenty one.
I want to say all the playoff implications here as
we go, because it starts to get a little bit muddy,
and it starts get a little bit confusing at this
time of year. So if the Dolphins win, they clinch
a playoff berth with a Jets loss of the Patriots
(21:44):
when they move into the playoff position and bumped the
Dolphins out, they cannot clinch this week two is not playing,
which I think moves the needle by a billion. Who's
their basket, Jacoby Teddy Bridge? That da um, Yeah, I
think so. I don't know. I feel bummed. I love
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to and I know since he got his first concussion,
he's probably hasn't been playing the same way as he
started off. But I don't know. There's something to just
like having the same crew over and over again, and
then you have a wrinkle. It's a new guy. It's
it's tougher. I mean for the defense to prepare. There's
less tape on Teddy's tendencies, although he's been in the
league a while. So the Patriots almost caught the angles. Yeah,
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I know that was an interesting end of that game.
But I feel like the Dolphins, if Teddy Bridgewater played
the second half against Green Bay, they probably win that
game because they lost because to Ah was throwing inexplicable interceptions,
probably because he was concussion. So oh, I heard this
really terrible story this week ab how Mike McDaniel, I
guess was like having a meeting with him and he's
(22:46):
just like, it's not himself right, and he was like,
you need to go to the doctor. And he's had
so many this year. Oh, we love too on the show. Um,
but I'm gonna go New England because I think it's
Bill Belichick and I think he's going to pull something out.
And if like, I just feel like the Dolphins they're
not a team that I would love to trust, especially
in this kind of position where they can clinch a
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playoff spot. Um, I guess they're depending on the Jets
loss as well, But what are you like in this one?
I'm going Dolphins. Um, do they know they're gonna They're
gonna they're gonna cover. I think McDaniel will get what
do they lose? Four and around now and this could
be like, oh, let's do it for two of them.
We're we win, We're in. I do love that. I
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am feeling with you on that, Mohan. I have the
Dolphins to cover. But I don't trust either of these teams.
The Patriots have scored so many points on defense this year.
There's no way that that is sustainable. But now they're
playing a backup quarterback, so maybe it is. I don't know.
It might be only one that didn't know that I
had a child. And did you guys see him like
kissing a small Everyone said, wow, it's being very cust
(23:52):
baby and gave like the baby a little kiss. And
I was like, okay, Mayor of Miami, like what is
going on? And then I I think we learned that
he has a full family, has a baby. Oh wow,
I didn't know that. Good for too are but I
was very surprised. To protect your brain, To protect your brain,
We love um. Okay. Next up, we got Jets minus
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one and a half of the Seahawks. The Jets are
eliminated with a loss. UM. I actually thought that this
was surprising. Seattle is not played well at home this season,
but they are at home this week and they are
a one and a half point underdog. UM Jets longest
active playoff drought in the NFL. The Seahawks are eliminated
if a bunch of different things happen. I won't go
through it because there's a lot, but I am taking
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the Seahawks twenty four to twenty one. Mike White's been injured,
we don't know exactly what he's gonna look like. Um,
and I just like the Seahawks. I kind of want this,
especially with the Broncos being a mess. I kind of
want this for Seattle and want them to get into
the playoffs. Have phone would that be? Well? What do
you like? I like Seattle. I think it's gonna be
really loud. You mentioned they're not playing well at home,
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but I think that turns around in this game. I
think it will take a miracle for them to get
in the playoffs, but I still think that they try. Yeah,
I think they will try. And like, I just had
such a tough time with all these picks. To be honest,
I ended up taking the Jets for the Mike White effect.
I want him to be amazing for the sake of
like the storyline that that would be. And I want
to see he has broken ribs he's gonna play through
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and how cool would it be if he let an
epic win. Listen, we do love Mike White, but Gino
playing the Jets, the team that wrote him off, and
he hasn't wrote that. Maybe this is the time that
he did. It does right back his paper. Um, what
is our old friend Zuster feeling about the Jets going
into He walcked the Jets. He saw his I saw
(25:41):
his tweet. It's like, I think they're actually gonna play
very well. But that's that tells me that Zuster is
not feeling good. That tells me he's actually nervous and
he's trying to put good energy out into the universe.
He's definitely on the Mic White train. He His theory
is that Zack Wilson was so bad that like his
teammates on the field offense and defense, like knew that
he wasn't to get the job done, so they were
less inspired to like play their best. That's why I
(26:03):
was a quick off with him. Huh um okay. And
then finally, no, not finally uh rams at Chargers. Chargers
are favored by six and a half. I am going
to this game. I am so excited to be able
to see Baker play once more. The last time I
watched him play in this so far stadium, he lost
against the Chargers, but it was the greatest thame in
(26:24):
my life and it was my birthday. So um, hoping
that we have a really great game. I don't actually
have the Chargers covering. I have the Rams covering. I
have the Chargers winning by not by more than six
and a half, I have Chargers. Last week, on my
show Game Debut, I picked the Rams to beat the Broncos,
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but as the thing came up, I said on television,
I was like, listen, I'm big on the Rams, but
if you talk to me in the street, I'm gonna
give you another answer. I'm gonna say that the Broncos
are gonna win. But the Rams actually took just the
scream grab of me picking the Rams on this show
and like tweeted it out. After the game. They're like,
you're not the only one but that I We're with you.
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But it's like if they actually listened to the clip
on the show, I said, I don't really like the
Rams to win this one. I like the Broncos, but
I'm gonna pick the Rams because I'm on the Baker train.
That's pretty funny. I wonder if Ricky Hollywood Erica Tampos
she had something to do with it. I think she
had something to do with it. What do you like
in this one? I like the Rams baker, the Chargers
already clenched. I can't imagine them trying too hard. They
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can still. I mean, if the Chargers win and the
Ravens lose, they have a chance to take different seed
spots seed. If they lose and the Dolphins win, they
have a chance to fall to the seventh seed, which
would mean, as things stand right now, they would face
Kansas City in the first round. Who would want to
do that? So I think they're gonna like try to
to win because so it's like this like l a derby,
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Like we've only seen this one other time and it's
not been at so far. I was at the other
one that was at the State, the us of the thing. Um,
this is big and for the Chargers to win in
like it's the Rams. How else I've said this a
million times, it's the Ram. Don't don't play it. You
set yourself that you should be betrayed. But this is
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kind of a weird deal because it's like a home
game for the Rams, but it counts as a road
it's a Chargers home game. They don't get to play
who's there in the stadium. It's kind of word um,
but I am taking the Rams to cover just because
it's so many points, Like, yeah, the Chargers will try
to win, but they aren't going to try the same.
I mean, it's not the same as clinching your playoff spot.
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Do you have the Rams winning? No, No, no six
and a half? Because they all have the Rams and
we all have the Rams covering the Chargers and cam
Akers has been running so well and the Chargers can't
stop the run. So I do think that's gonna be
And Biker, may I just I just wanted to be exciting, man, Baker.
All the Rams have been so fun in the past
few weeks. Okay uh. And then finally the big Monday
night football game, I think the best Monday night football
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game of the entire season. We've got Bills at Bengals.
Bills are favored by one and a half. Um, I've
got since you now, Eddie, but only by one. I
think that this is gonna be such I pray and
I hope that this is as fun of a game
that we are all expecting. So they've both obviously clinched,
but they are actually both still in the hunt for
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the one seed in the a f C. The Bills,
the Bengals, in the Chiefs are in a three way
race for the a f C S one seed. Buffalo
can clinch the one seed with a win over Cincinnati
and Ksey loss versus Denver in Week seventeen, which I
can't see happening by who knows. Weird Weird things happen sometimes. Um,
what are you like in this one? I'm going Bengals
to win. Joey b stay hot. They finished the end
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of last season win by a lot, went by a
little meek. Well, they're underdogs. Yeah, so I think they're
gonna it's gonna be close, but hope it's a close game.
I am taking the Bills in this one. This is
what the Bills thought the a f C Championship games
should have been last year. The Bills thought they had
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secured it right and then Moms had an amazing you
know whatever overtime and they didn't get to touch the
ball in overtime. So to them, this is like, in
some way revenge game because like they think they probably
would have beat the Bengals and gone to the super
Bowl last though, no, it has nothing to do with
the Bengals as much as the Bills. Like the Bills
control their fate. If they win out they get the
one seed, they know that they're gonna be locked in.
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Josh Allen has been a little up and down lately,
a little weird. But I feel like this is the
kind of game where it's like playoff atmosphere, locked in.
It's going to be good and I think they're gonna
like win on the last second field goal. Um, I
can't wait. I'm gonna be so excited to watch this game.
WHOA Okay? Coming up after the break? Um, we're not
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doing best and worst thing that I heard all week.
I actually asked you guys to send in what are
your New Year's resolutions for your teams? What do you
guys want your teams to do next year in order
to win a game, many games, the super Bowl, all
of the messy, messy Award three, whatever you guys want.
You sent it in and I'm going to read some
of them next. So don't go anywhere. This is safe space.
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Tell me your deepest, darkest secret d M is now open. Okay,
because this is a safe space, I just thought of
a very random question to ask moment, moan, would you
rather be a famous model or a famous actor? Why
wouldn't you rather get away with your good looks? I
can do both. Okay, I don't know a actor in
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the world. You didn't say that, either a model or
the ugliest actor in the world. But like, okay, but
even if I'm an ugly actor, I can still get
endorsements and stuff ugly for an actor straight up, still
an actor. Wow Wow, Okay, jail you you be a model.
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You just asked me that be a model. Modeling seems
like okay, shout us all a model bather, I don't
mean pretty like you have to be constantly objectified in
like the most you are an object whenever you get
to go to cool parties. Yea as an actory cool parties.
But you're ugs man. I don't want to be huggs. Okay,
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say save space, save space. Back to football, Back to football. Okay. Um.
I asked you guys your New Year's resolutions. Jordy Harris,
I actually really liked this. As a Rams fan, I'm
honoring the promise I made myself last year after the
Super Bowl win that I won't complain about the team
for two full years. So far somehow holding strong. I
think that that should be a rule for the next
two years following a Super Bowl win, you cannot complain
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about your team. I like that. Jordy uh Donald Horne says,
Gronk back with Brady. Not sure how that's a new
Year's resolution, but I like it't um okay, somebody said
with what team? I think he said the box, but
I didn't put that in there because I don't think
the Brady is going to go back to the box.
I think he's gonna be elsewhere. So Gronk's going somewhere.
He's just teaming back up with And maybe next next
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week we should do like where are they going to be?
Where are they going to go? Next year? That's gonna
be fun. Um okay. I'd like Dallas to get some
jumble size curtains a bed bath and beyond and put
them up so players can stop feeling like they're an
event Horizon every game from four till six. Okay. I
didn't know what event Horizon was, but I looked it up.
It's a very frightening movie. And I don't know how this,
but I just actually learned about these windows. Like last
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week for some reason, I did not know they existed.
How could you possibly play football? They built the stadium
east west instead of north south. What do we do
in jewelry world? Give you some curtains up there, bed
back and be on. You can get them on discounted.
Oh my goodness, I couldn't imagine playing football under these circumstances. Okay.
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And then finally, oh yeah, A bunch of people just
wished for a new quarterback, most specifically Jets fans and
and also Dolphins. Wait. I don't like that either. I
got multiple multiple messages and tweets saying that I want
a new I want a more reliable quarterback for the Dolphins.
The Dolphins have two quarterbacks that Jets fans would kill
for trying to make the rules here. I just read
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the tweets. Okay, but that barely bummed me out. You
didn't want this who wanted to prove the haters wrong,
and we wanted that for him as well. He was
doing it. Um. Okay, guys, this is gonna be the
last thing you hear from us before New Year's resolution.
My New Year's resolution probably to put you in jail more.
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Don't do it, don't do it stuff this year of
right justin jail? What the heck? I don't think. No,
my New Year's resolution is to be happy and healthy,
and I know how I'm going to do that. Um,
but that's what I'm focusing on, happy and healthy. I'm
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fealing that. Yeah, I know that's boring and there's it's layered.
But I'm being called basic and I'm a little private baby. Okay, whatever,
I don't care. I just want to work on my happiness.
I want to work on my brain. Parker wants to
see the sunset twice a week. You should called us
basic a twizzling. I'm just kidding, Parker, we love you.
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What's I don't know? Read more? And maybe what do
you always say? I'm not impulsive enough, It'll be a
little bit more impulsive. Are you gonna take a little trip?
I don't think so. No, not impulsive, spontaneous, spontaneous? Are
you gonna take a little trip? I don't know. Just
I would like to take one solo trip by myself.
Nobody bother me. Well, you scared you're gonna get kidnapped.
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There's a lot of things that can go like what,
I don't know, I get bored jail now we're all like,
oh my god, yeah, no, you know, be kidding, O
find myself word, I already great? Do you have a nearslution? Yeah?
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I'm stealing yours. Oh yeah, happy and health, Happy and healthy,
and you know what, we wish all of our listeners
and viewers the same. We hope that you're happy and
healthy next year. We love you. Thank you so honestly.
I don't mean to be cheesy, but thank you so
much for listening to this podcast. I read all of
your messages and your d m s and your tweets
about the show. Nothing makes me happier, guys than when
we put up a podcast and I immediately have things
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in my Twitter mentioning something that we said in the show,
which is just so crazy that you listen to us
talk every single week. We love you. Come back next week.
We're gonna have Kyle Brandt on the show on Tuesday.
Let's talk about some quarterback movements next week. That sounds
like a lot of fun. Everybody in the control room, Mohan,
I love all of you guys. Happy New Year. We'll
see you next week. To death, the pedal, the pedal,
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hat pattle, the patter,
And when I woke up this morning, I was feeling
pretty dangerous on the scinnight. It's mc cock. They are
what we thought they were. Wet you plenty to win
the day. They want you to cook the dinner. At
least they ought to let your shop for some of
the groceries. And on the way up, we're gonna buy
the kneecap off playoffs. You're kidding me. I'm just here
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so I won't get fine? How could he not be
romantic about football? Welcome to Benched with Bonetta. We are
back in studio. Oh my goodness, Happy holidays, my Christmas,
Happy New Year? Moh and my friend, when can you
start saying Happy New Year? When do you have to
stop saying Happy New Year? What are the order the
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laws here? I think today is appropriate for Happy New Year? Okay,
so we record this podcast on the twenty nine, so
we're a couple of days away. You know, you might
not see those people after the New Year. And then
when do you stop? Because that's like people are still
throwing out Happy New Year's on January twenty. I think
that I think the fourth or fifth the fourth of
the fifth grade or what what's your cut off? Date.
There's no like hard cut off date. I think it's
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like if you haven't seen someone in a few weeks
that you regularly see and it's the new year, then
you can say it, but like generally, probably like a
week or some names will not be named here. Okay,
but Mohamed and I used to work with somebody that
legitimately got furious if you said Happy New Year after
the third like a reasonable time to keep on saying
(01:29):
Happy New Year, would literally just stop dead in the
middle of the hallway and be like, no, we're not
doing that, outrageous. Um. Okay, guys, we're gonna kick I'm
really excited about this episode. Actually, I'm very excited. We
like to throw some awards out on this show. It's
the end of the year. Every podcast is probably doing
something similar, but we're gonna do things a little bit differently. UM.
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Safe to say I had probably the messiest year of
my life. Okay, your girl got a little messy. I
want to go around around the table here first before
we kick things off. We're gonna talk with the messiest
teams of UM. But I want to put I want
to put it on us for a second before we
start poking fun at these teams in gossiping. What is
the messiest thing that you did all year? All kick
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things off? I left some what is it called. It's
like weed killer, it's full poison, Okay. I left it
in my trunk and it got very hot this summer
and the plastic melted and it just oozed everywhere in
my trunk. There were two bottles, two big size bottles.
And I just had to drive around with a poison
car for a good couple of months before I was
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forced to get a new car because all the detailing,
all the cleaning, everything did not work. That's messy, that's
not taking care of yourself. Yeah, that's legitimately messy. Yeah.
I didn't like almost dad my house down or anything
like that. I just almost like poisoned myself. Mom, What
about you? I don't really had a pretty messy free
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at the schemer. I feel like you're the kind of
guy they might have exid somebody by accident. And I'm
not saying that I like know a story or not,
but like, you gotta have something messy going on, not
really think about it. Justin you said you have one.
I have one. I'm ashamed of this but I'll say
it on the podcast. Whatever. So I had tickets to
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see Weird Al perform because this new movie came out.
Like I was, I'm like, I like Weird Al, sure,
but I was never like I want to go see
him in concert. But I have really good friends. One
of my really good friends loves weird Al, and my
girlfriend did not get a ticket because she was like,
I don't want to do that, and I was like, well,
I already got a ticket, so I guess I'll go. Anyway,
the day came where it was time to go, and
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I was like, I really don't want to go to
this stupid concert. So I texted my friends, Hey, we
can't make it tonight. I have to go to dinner
with my old boss. Total lie. And then I stayed
home with Jessica and then I get a text from
my friends who are at the concert. I forgot I
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have my location sharing on, so I got fully caught
in this dumb lie that was pointless. I should have
just said I don't want to do this, but I
felt stupid. Why were they checking your locale? They were
a little sucks because were they mad at you, miss
weird They were just mad that I lied to them.
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Why are you sharing your location with every No, it's
just share my location with quite a few people, not everybody.
I do it with like three or five. My friend
likes to check in on us. She's like, I just
want to make sure you haven't been kidnapped or anything.
So I periodically check your location from time to I
have done. The massiest thing that you can do is
text somebody that you don't mean to, and I do
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that about once or twice a year. Yeah, it's bad.
Oh I'm very quick. I'm like if thank god for
improv classes. Baby. I remember I was wearing with a
producer one time. It was mean. We both know who
it is. He was mean and he was bossy, bossing,
and I went to text probably Mohan and don't drag
me into this guy's suit him. I texted him and
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I was just like And then I was like, oh no,
the floor manager is being very mean on this ship.
So I'm gonnat weaseling my way out of these situations.
But um, I'm known to send a send a ron
text every once in a while. Okay, enough is enough.
We are getting to the two messy awards. Baby, play
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the music while I put on my gowns this Okay,
for the record, Mohun refused to put this on. We
don't have a longer song than I'm not gonna get
it on. We're just gonna loop it till you're right there.
You go. Hello, and welcome to Messy Awards. Okay, it
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is the end of the year. It's time to look
back on the year fondly. And by looking back fondly,
we going to gossip. Okay, So I went through today
and I looked at every single division and I picked
the messiest team from each division. Okay, it's the Lord's work,
but I'm happy to do it. We're gonna start in
the a f C and we're gonna start a f
C East the messiest team. I think it's pretty easy
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to figure this one out. I'm going Jets baby. At
the beginning of the season, we had Zack Wilson with
the Mom's. The mom's friends were like, Okay, maybe this
guy is a little bit cheeky, maybe he's fine. He
like earned the respect of the of the locker room.
Then all hell broke loose. He blamed that if you
didn't say the d, if you didn't give problems with
the defense with everyone knows what happened, and then Mike
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White comes in. I don't know what's going on with
this Jets team. Now Mike White is back. I think
Joe Flacco was named as the backup, not even Zack Wilson.
Chaotic vibes, messy vibes. I've got to say, I think
that there's more than just the defense comment that sent
this over the edge. There has to be because it
is so small, and I think there's a bunch of
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things that we don't know about this team. But I
am crowning them messiest team of the a f C East.
You guys agree, I ultimately agree, but don't forget what's
happening in New England with their offensive coordinator situation. Matt
Patricia is like coordinating an offense. Apparently they have the
smallest coaching staff of any team in the league. And
then the Dolphins have a lot going on to in
terms of just like how they handled to his concussion stuff.
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I did have the Dolphins in there for a second,
but I just love the Dolphins so much. I didn't
want to put them in there because that's not me,
that's not drama. That's just like I agree, and don't
forget Mac Jones is a dirty player, and a lot
of people were saying at player. Okay, so you guys
are saying Patriots very close. I think Patriots could have
won another division. But everything that's going on with the
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Jets right it's just too much. It's just too much. Okay,
we gotta keep it grooving and moving because we're hitting
every single division today a f C West, We're going
to the opposite side. This was the easiest one. Broncos obviously.
I don't know if they came not a little while
ago that Russell Wilson had an office in a parking spot.
I feel like that was like a while ago that
was a reported on, but it got resurfaced again this week.
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Everyone's up in arms. Oh my god, I can't believe
this guy has an office in a parking spot. A
parking spot, I can understand. I kind of also understand
an office. Like, I don't really know why everyone's going
crazy about this. Jerry Judy was like, this guy's got
the most insane work ethic, Like, we don't care if
he has an office, like, let him do him. But
either way, they fired Nathaniel Hackett. They've been an absolute mass.
They've just handed the Seahawks perhaps the third pick in
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the NFL draft this season, which is insane for Russell
Wilson um just a mess overall. They Russ spoke after
hacket gout fired and he was like, I haven't been
playing up to expectations so far this year. I'm actually
surprised at how much he gave. Nathaniel Hackett. He was like,
he was a great guy. Like I'm devastat. I think
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he used the word devastated. I'm really sad. The guy
was a great father. And I was like, Okay, I
wish I'd played better for him. What about a coach? Okay,
but messy, messy vibes all over messy vibes all over
af C North. Do we even need to talk about it?
Can we? Can? I just say two things? One, uh,
Watson has has led the Browns and forty three drives
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and has only scored three touchdowns and the offenses averaging
ten points per game. Since you all for what all for?
What is he going to have some kind of like
miraculous situation happened in the off season that he just
becomes this quarterback that they've all been waiting for him
to become I don't think oh, I do not think.
So this was such a waste of every like just
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just I don't want to talk about it because I've
talked about it enough on this here podcast. But the
Brown's easily the messies team in the A. C. North
and Baker one Blakelodeon m VP twice in three weeks.
Juster shining Baker is thriving. Okay, we don't care if
it's Nickelodeon m v P. Okay, that means that's it's
the highest of the of the achievements in our books. Okay,
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I know you're probably lifting your nose at Nicola d MVP,
but don't you dare on this show? But how sweet
is it that this is happening with Watson? Yeah, I
just love watching him be terrible karma, That's all I'll say. Okay,
uh AMC South Um, it's gotta be the quotes, right,
I mean the Jeff Saturday experiment. Jeff Saturday came and
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we all were expecting him to be somebody that's had
no NFL experience. They win their first game against the Readers,
and we're all right, let's just wait on this they
go on to lose five straight. Um, Jim er Say
tweeted sometime early November, all you critics, you criticize all
of us in the NFL for losing when we make
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moves to win. You act so righteous? Who you crap in?
Jesuin baby. The Cults have been outscored ninety to nine
in the fourth quarters since Jeff Saturday. It's not just
that they're losing, They're losing in a very bad way.
And Jeff Saturday, what did you say? He had like
a easy quote when he first signed on. He was
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just like if I'm bad at this, unfron me like,
I don't care. And the biggest blown lead in NFL history. Oh,
who could forget? Who could forget? Cold Spikings? Um, so
I am crowning them the messiest team in the a
f C South, messiest team in the a f C
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in twenty twenty two, I would say the Browns, but
I'm going Broncos. I'm going to Broncos because I don't
want to give the Browns a prize of any sort,
even even a bad one. You know I'm going Broncos.
I know it says Broncos and Browns tie, but I'm
going Broncos, Okay, just give them the award. And also
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on top of it, you had all of these cringe
things from Russ all year, Danger Witch, Bronco's Country, Let's Ride.
It was the gift that keeps on giving. It's the
gift that yeah, please know, it's the gift that keeps
on giving. This show like we should be very thankful,
you know what. We hear a bench with Banetta. We
would to thank the Broncos and Russell Wilson for providing
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many a laugh all season long. Uh and you've provided
us lots of things to talk about, so for that
we thank you. But you are the winner of the
messiest team in the Okay, we went on to the NFC. Baby,
we got some more teams. We've got some more awards
to hand out NFC East. Now, usually we called this
award kind of we're just like automatically give it to
the Cowboys every single year because they seem to just
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be messy all year round. They're good, they're bad, no
one trust them. But but they're not that messy this year,
they're really not. They dabbled with some O b J
here and there, but I can't give them this award
in this was actually kind of the hardest one to
give out, and I think I'm going to give it
to the Commanders just because it's the Commanders and they've
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just got a lot of mess going on with the team.
But I will say than a lot off the off
the field mess. But Taylor, you know, I'm a fan
of Petty. I love the Petty sneaker thing that he
started to do in the latter half of the season.
Absolutely loved it. But they've kind of, I don't know.
They're a scrappy little team and they fought their way
through like the trenches this season, So I'm saying that
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they're the messiest team. But like I guess, I guess huh, um,
would you guys agree with this? Yeah, it's messy. Now
back to Wentz, It's like, what is the I don't know, yeh,
scrappy Like we saw Wentz already and it wasn't good.
We already on a couple of different teams in the
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last few years. Um, okay, NFC West, this is as
easy as the a f C North. Um, I'm going Cardinals, Cardinals, Cardinals, Cardinals.
Before this, I mean, where do we even? Where do
we even start. You got the preseason, you got the
letter from the agent, you got him playing call of duty.
Then you get into the season. You have Kyler calling
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plays in preseason because I don't know, Cliff wanted to
teach him a lesson, but he actually did pretty good.
Then you get into the season, de Hops suspended for
six games, you don't even have him. He shows up,
You got those two back together, and then it looks
like this, like what are we doing? And then unfortunately
this is terrible. Kyler has a season ending injury that's
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not going to be easy to recover from. But oh
my goodness. Then last week, I don't know if you
guys saw this, this is this article came out on
ESPN about how Cliff is being like encouraged to like
step down from the team. Then he says, I'm not
going anywhere like you can do. There's a lot of
bad vibes going on. And you didn't even mention the
whole mess in Mexico City where the I didn't even
(14:36):
want to mention that. But it's crazy what's happened with
the coach Sean Coogler, who was fired after allegedly groping
a woman in Mexico City, and then Steve Kim steps
away for personal health related reasons, and then Sean Coogler says,
I never did anything wrong. I think this is a
case of mistaken identity, and he looks just whatever. It's wild,
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it's wild. Literally the list goes on. I'm sure I'm
forgetting about ten different things with the Cardinals because it
has just been a messy, messy retired, well, no wonder,
but I don't want to deal with this again. Everyone's like, wow,
did you want retired? He could totally still play like
he looks amazing. I have an idea of why he's retiring.
He's getting the heck out of there. Um okay, NFC North,
I think this is also easy packers. We had the
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um the ayahuasca trips in the off season. Aaron's really
made a change the last few years, and like, good
for him if he's feeling like the most like himself
and there's a little conspiracy there. What do you think
he got his receivers for Christmas? That is a great call.
When I was like doing the deep diving on the
Christmas list. Apparently he loves gifting ugs. I hope that
(15:48):
he would get them more. But if he got them
a jugs machine so they can catch better, he got
them crystals for real? Oh Chris, Yeah, he probably got
Chris old sage. Um, some teas, some yoga sessions. Who knows,
I would actually a trip to the desert that dancing
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under the moon. Everyone's naked. Um. I gotta go Packers,
NFC North. I mean, I think that's pretty obvious. But
are you a little bit worried about the Packers making
like some kind of crazy comeback right now? We're not
going to do that. They're not gonna do that. I
am rooting extremely hard for the Vikings this weekend. Yeah,
but it's the Vikings. I know. I'm rooting for the
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Packers this weekend. Just so it's interesting. I think I
might have the Packers. The Vikings are probably gonna win
on like a last second dumb fumble, flukey nonsense as
they do, baby as they do. Okay, and then finally,
NFC South. I was going to give this to the Panthers,
but the Panthers have actually kind of been piecing together
some nice wins the last few weeks, so I'm not
going to give it to the Panthers, even though they
had a messy first half of the season with Baker
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and sam Donald and Blaum firing that rule for get.
Oh my goodness, they have been through a lot. But
I think I have to give it to the box
because all of the I mean Tom Brady's offseason drama
took up every single I mean it was everywhere. It
was Twitter, it was on every single podcast, it was
on every single television show. It's all we talked about
for a good long while. And then now Tom Brady
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might be this could be like, what his first losing season.
That's wild. He's gotta I think he's gotta win out
for him to avoid that. Uh. And they almost lost
to the Cardinals da other night, which is like we
just heard us talking about them, okay, which leads me to, Okay, So,
messiest team in the NFC, I think it's gotta be
(17:41):
the Cardinals. Come on, now, it's the Cardinals. But here's
the problem. Now, we got to pick the messiest team
in the NFL, and who do we think that is? Mohunt,
I'll let you choose, who do you think is the
messiest team? I gotta go with the Broncos. The Broncos
over the Cardinals over the Browns started with the expectations
(18:01):
in the preseason with after getting Ross all like, they
slated all these primetime games for the Broncos and it's
just a mess, just like very like it's such a letdown. Graver, Yeah,
I agree. I mean the Cardinals are at least I
don't know they like you can blame injuries maybe a
little bit for what they are for at least what
(18:23):
they are right now. The Broncos, like just the expectations
that came with Russell Wilson that have been so far
from Matt. I agree. Okay, the winner of the massiest
team in the NFL of two season is the Broncos,
Thank you very much, every is. I think it's the expectations.
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I think we went into this season being like, oh
this defense, oh Jared Judy, Russell Wilson, Oh my goodness,
this could actually be very interesting. And they gave up
their draft pick. Well, I just watched this clip of uh.
I don't know who it was. I can't. I don't
think it was Nathaniel Hackett. I think it was somebody
else watching Russell Wilson highlights during the draft. They're like,
you know what, we're giving up our pick and we're
just gonna sit here. We're gonna watch Russell Wilson highlights
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and it's like, oh no, why, um, but I think
it's the expectations and where they are at now. It
is just messy Capital and uh okay, that was messy Awards.
We are going to be back after the break. We
are making some big game picks, guys. This week is exciting.
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There's a lot on the line for a lot of teams.
So don't go anywhere. We'll get to Okay. I have
(19:55):
to share this story. My mom is flying into l
A right now, which is like a miserable all the
flights that have gotten like delayed and canceled. Man shout
outs to all y'all if you guys traveled during the
holiday season, because it did not sound fun. I avoid it.
I just don't do it. I don't see my family
over the Christmas alliday. Um. But she's been delayed so
many times today and she just posted to Instagram. Piece
(20:16):
is the result of retraining your mind to process life
as it is rather than as you think it should be?
Is my mom? Aaron Roger for what goes on? Have
a breaking vodka soda and sit back and relax. It's okay,
she's in the air, she's on the way. Okay, let's
make some game picks, shall we. There are some really
(20:37):
fun games. I picked four that I'm very excited about.
First off, we're gonna get to it. But the amount
of excitement that I am feeling for Monday night football already.
But I was like, one of the first things that
I said when I got into the studio was like,
Monday Night Football, Bills Bengals. Come on, now, we'll pick
that last Dolphins at Patriots. Oh, first off, our picks record,
um three and one? Is that more? That's you? Dang? Rachel? Okay,
(21:01):
moh one? Justin and one? Yeah, but we had a
bad week, Rachel. You and I each went one in three?
What did you went to into I ended a ten.
I had ten straight picks right in our spreadsheet that
tracks this thing until I missed three games. Okay, well,
I'm going for a straight, baby, I'm going for straight here.
(21:24):
We call it. Dolphins at Patriots. Patriots are favored by
two and a half. And guess what, I have the
Patriots winning like an absolute maniac New England twenty one.
I want to say all the playoff implications here as
we go, because it starts to get a little bit muddy,
and it starts get a little bit confusing at this
time of year. So if the Dolphins win, they clinch
a playoff berth with a Jets loss of the Patriots
(21:44):
when they move into the playoff position and bumped the
Dolphins out, they cannot clinch this week two is not playing,
which I think moves the needle by a billion. Who's
their basket, Jacoby Teddy Bridge? That da um, Yeah, I
think so. I don't know. I feel bummed. I love
(22:05):
to and I know since he got his first concussion,
he's probably hasn't been playing the same way as he
started off. But I don't know. There's something to just
like having the same crew over and over again, and
then you have a wrinkle. It's a new guy. It's
it's tougher. I mean for the defense to prepare. There's
less tape on Teddy's tendencies, although he's been in the
league a while. So the Patriots almost caught the angles. Yeah,
(22:26):
I know that was an interesting end of that game.
But I feel like the Dolphins, if Teddy Bridgewater played
the second half against Green Bay, they probably win that
game because they lost because to Ah was throwing inexplicable interceptions,
probably because he was concussion. So oh, I heard this
really terrible story this week ab how Mike McDaniel, I
guess was like having a meeting with him and he's
(22:46):
just like, it's not himself right, and he was like,
you need to go to the doctor. And he's had
so many this year. Oh, we love too on the show. Um,
but I'm gonna go New England because I think it's
Bill Belichick and I think he's going to pull something out.
And if like, I just feel like the Dolphins they're
not a team that I would love to trust, especially
in this kind of position where they can clinch a
(23:07):
playoff spot. Um, I guess they're depending on the Jets
loss as well, But what are you like in this one?
I'm going Dolphins. Um, do they know they're gonna They're
gonna they're gonna cover. I think McDaniel will get what
do they lose? Four and around now and this could
be like, oh, let's do it for two of them.
We're we win, We're in. I do love that. I
(23:28):
am feeling with you on that, Mohan. I have the
Dolphins to cover. But I don't trust either of these teams.
The Patriots have scored so many points on defense this year.
There's no way that that is sustainable. But now they're
playing a backup quarterback, so maybe it is. I don't know.
It might be only one that didn't know that I
had a child. And did you guys see him like
kissing a small Everyone said, wow, it's being very cust
(23:52):
baby and gave like the baby a little kiss. And
I was like, okay, Mayor of Miami, like what is
going on? And then I I think we learned that
he has a full family, has a baby. Oh wow,
I didn't know that. Good for too are but I
was very surprised. To protect your brain, To protect your brain,
We love um. Okay. Next up, we got Jets minus
(24:14):
one and a half of the Seahawks. The Jets are
eliminated with a loss. UM. I actually thought that this
was surprising. Seattle is not played well at home this season,
but they are at home this week and they are
a one and a half point underdog. UM Jets longest
active playoff drought in the NFL. The Seahawks are eliminated
if a bunch of different things happen. I won't go
through it because there's a lot, but I am taking
(24:35):
the Seahawks twenty four to twenty one. Mike White's been injured,
we don't know exactly what he's gonna look like. Um,
and I just like the Seahawks. I kind of want this,
especially with the Broncos being a mess. I kind of
want this for Seattle and want them to get into
the playoffs. Have phone would that be? Well? What do
you like? I like Seattle. I think it's gonna be
really loud. You mentioned they're not playing well at home,
(24:56):
but I think that turns around in this game. I
think it will take a miracle for them to get
in the playoffs, but I still think that they try. Yeah,
I think they will try. And like, I just had
such a tough time with all these picks. To be honest,
I ended up taking the Jets for the Mike White effect.
I want him to be amazing for the sake of
like the storyline that that would be. And I want
to see he has broken ribs he's gonna play through
(25:20):
and how cool would it be if he let an
epic win. Listen, we do love Mike White, but Gino
playing the Jets, the team that wrote him off, and
he hasn't wrote that. Maybe this is the time that
he did. It does right back his paper. Um, what
is our old friend Zuster feeling about the Jets going
into He walcked the Jets. He saw his I saw
(25:41):
his tweet. It's like, I think they're actually gonna play
very well. But that's that tells me that Zuster is
not feeling good. That tells me he's actually nervous and
he's trying to put good energy out into the universe.
He's definitely on the Mic White train. He His theory
is that Zack Wilson was so bad that like his
teammates on the field offense and defense, like knew that
he wasn't to get the job done, so they were
less inspired to like play their best. That's why I
(26:03):
was a quick off with him. Huh um okay. And
then finally, no, not finally uh rams at Chargers. Chargers
are favored by six and a half. I am going
to this game. I am so excited to be able
to see Baker play once more. The last time I
watched him play in this so far stadium, he lost
against the Chargers, but it was the greatest thame in
(26:24):
my life and it was my birthday. So um, hoping
that we have a really great game. I don't actually
have the Chargers covering. I have the Rams covering. I
have the Chargers winning by not by more than six
and a half, I have Chargers. Last week, on my
show Game Debut, I picked the Rams to beat the Broncos,
(26:44):
but as the thing came up, I said on television,
I was like, listen, I'm big on the Rams, but
if you talk to me in the street, I'm gonna
give you another answer. I'm gonna say that the Broncos
are gonna win. But the Rams actually took just the
scream grab of me picking the Rams on this show
and like tweeted it out. After the game. They're like,
you're not the only one but that I We're with you.
(27:04):
But it's like if they actually listened to the clip
on the show, I said, I don't really like the
Rams to win this one. I like the Broncos, but
I'm gonna pick the Rams because I'm on the Baker train.
That's pretty funny. I wonder if Ricky Hollywood Erica Tampos
she had something to do with it. I think she
had something to do with it. What do you like
in this one? I like the Rams baker, the Chargers
already clenched. I can't imagine them trying too hard. They
(27:26):
can still. I mean, if the Chargers win and the
Ravens lose, they have a chance to take different seed
spots seed. If they lose and the Dolphins win, they
have a chance to fall to the seventh seed, which
would mean, as things stand right now, they would face
Kansas City in the first round. Who would want to
do that? So I think they're gonna like try to
to win because so it's like this like l a derby,
(27:47):
Like we've only seen this one other time and it's
not been at so far. I was at the other
one that was at the State, the us of the thing. Um,
this is big and for the Chargers to win in
like it's the Rams. How else I've said this a
million times, it's the Ram. Don't don't play it. You
set yourself that you should be betrayed. But this is
(28:08):
kind of a weird deal because it's like a home
game for the Rams, but it counts as a road
it's a Chargers home game. They don't get to play
who's there in the stadium. It's kind of word um,
but I am taking the Rams to cover just because
it's so many points, Like, yeah, the Chargers will try
to win, but they aren't going to try the same.
I mean, it's not the same as clinching your playoff spot.
(28:31):
Do you have the Rams winning? No, No, no six
and a half? Because they all have the Rams and
we all have the Rams covering the Chargers and cam
Akers has been running so well and the Chargers can't
stop the run. So I do think that's gonna be
And Biker, may I just I just wanted to be exciting, man, Baker.
All the Rams have been so fun in the past
few weeks. Okay uh. And then finally the big Monday
night football game, I think the best Monday night football
(28:52):
game of the entire season. We've got Bills at Bengals.
Bills are favored by one and a half. Um, I've
got since you now, Eddie, but only by one. I
think that this is gonna be such I pray and
I hope that this is as fun of a game
that we are all expecting. So they've both obviously clinched,
but they are actually both still in the hunt for
(29:14):
the one seed in the a f C. The Bills,
the Bengals, in the Chiefs are in a three way
race for the a f C S one seed. Buffalo
can clinch the one seed with a win over Cincinnati
and Ksey loss versus Denver in Week seventeen, which I
can't see happening by who knows. Weird Weird things happen sometimes. Um,
what are you like in this one? I'm going Bengals
to win. Joey b stay hot. They finished the end
(29:38):
of last season win by a lot, went by a
little meek. Well, they're underdogs. Yeah, so I think they're
gonna it's gonna be close, but hope it's a close game.
I am taking the Bills in this one. This is
what the Bills thought the a f C Championship games
should have been last year. The Bills thought they had
(30:00):
secured it right and then Moms had an amazing you
know whatever overtime and they didn't get to touch the
ball in overtime. So to them, this is like, in
some way revenge game because like they think they probably
would have beat the Bengals and gone to the super
Bowl last though, no, it has nothing to do with
the Bengals as much as the Bills. Like the Bills
control their fate. If they win out they get the
one seed, they know that they're gonna be locked in.
(30:21):
Josh Allen has been a little up and down lately,
a little weird. But I feel like this is the
kind of game where it's like playoff atmosphere, locked in.
It's going to be good and I think they're gonna
like win on the last second field goal. Um, I
can't wait. I'm gonna be so excited to watch this game.
WHOA Okay? Coming up after the break? Um, we're not
(30:44):
doing best and worst thing that I heard all week.
I actually asked you guys to send in what are
your New Year's resolutions for your teams? What do you
guys want your teams to do next year in order
to win a game, many games, the super Bowl, all
of the messy, messy Award three, whatever you guys want.
You sent it in and I'm going to read some
of them next. So don't go anywhere. This is safe space.
(31:21):
Tell me your deepest, darkest secret d M is now open. Okay,
because this is a safe space, I just thought of
a very random question to ask moment, moan, would you
rather be a famous model or a famous actor? Why
wouldn't you rather get away with your good looks? I
can do both. Okay, I don't know a actor in
(31:46):
the world. You didn't say that, either a model or
the ugliest actor in the world. But like, okay, but
even if I'm an ugly actor, I can still get
endorsements and stuff ugly for an actor straight up, still
an actor. Wow Wow, Okay, jail you you be a model.
(32:10):
You just asked me that be a model. Modeling seems
like okay, shout us all a model bather, I don't
mean pretty like you have to be constantly objectified in
like the most you are an object whenever you get
to go to cool parties. Yea as an actory cool parties.
But you're ugs man. I don't want to be huggs. Okay,
(32:35):
say save space, save space. Back to football, Back to football. Okay. Um.
I asked you guys your New Year's resolutions. Jordy Harris,
I actually really liked this. As a Rams fan, I'm
honoring the promise I made myself last year after the
Super Bowl win that I won't complain about the team
for two full years. So far somehow holding strong. I
think that that should be a rule for the next
two years following a Super Bowl win, you cannot complain
(32:57):
about your team. I like that. Jordy uh Donald Horne says,
Gronk back with Brady. Not sure how that's a new
Year's resolution, but I like it't um okay, somebody said
with what team? I think he said the box, but
I didn't put that in there because I don't think
the Brady is going to go back to the box.
I think he's gonna be elsewhere. So Gronk's going somewhere.
He's just teaming back up with And maybe next next
(33:21):
week we should do like where are they going to be?
Where are they going to go? Next year? That's gonna
be fun. Um okay. I'd like Dallas to get some
jumble size curtains a bed bath and beyond and put
them up so players can stop feeling like they're an
event Horizon every game from four till six. Okay. I
didn't know what event Horizon was, but I looked it up.
It's a very frightening movie. And I don't know how this,
but I just actually learned about these windows. Like last
(33:45):
week for some reason, I did not know they existed.
How could you possibly play football? They built the stadium
east west instead of north south. What do we do
in jewelry world? Give you some curtains up there, bed
back and be on. You can get them on discounted.
Oh my goodness, I couldn't imagine playing football under these circumstances. Okay.
(34:05):
And then finally, oh yeah, A bunch of people just
wished for a new quarterback, most specifically Jets fans and
and also Dolphins. Wait. I don't like that either. I
got multiple multiple messages and tweets saying that I want
a new I want a more reliable quarterback for the Dolphins.
The Dolphins have two quarterbacks that Jets fans would kill
for trying to make the rules here. I just read
(34:26):
the tweets. Okay, but that barely bummed me out. You
didn't want this who wanted to prove the haters wrong,
and we wanted that for him as well. He was
doing it. Um. Okay, guys, this is gonna be the
last thing you hear from us before New Year's resolution.
My New Year's resolution probably to put you in jail more.
(34:47):
Don't do it, don't do it stuff this year of
right justin jail? What the heck? I don't think. No,
my New Year's resolution is to be happy and healthy,
and I know how I'm going to do that. Um,
but that's what I'm focusing on, happy and healthy. I'm
(35:07):
fealing that. Yeah, I know that's boring and there's it's layered.
But I'm being called basic and I'm a little private baby. Okay, whatever,
I don't care. I just want to work on my happiness.
I want to work on my brain. Parker wants to
see the sunset twice a week. You should called us
basic a twizzling. I'm just kidding, Parker, we love you.
(35:29):
What's I don't know? Read more? And maybe what do
you always say? I'm not impulsive enough, It'll be a
little bit more impulsive. Are you gonna take a little trip?
I don't think so. No, not impulsive, spontaneous, spontaneous? Are
you gonna take a little trip? I don't know. Just
I would like to take one solo trip by myself.
Nobody bother me. Well, you scared you're gonna get kidnapped.
(35:51):
There's a lot of things that can go like what,
I don't know, I get bored jail now we're all like,
oh my god, yeah, no, you know, be kidding, O
find myself word, I already great? Do you have a nearslution? Yeah?
(36:12):
I'm stealing yours. Oh yeah, happy and health, Happy and healthy,
and you know what, we wish all of our listeners
and viewers the same. We hope that you're happy and
healthy next year. We love you. Thank you so honestly.
I don't mean to be cheesy, but thank you so
much for listening to this podcast. I read all of
your messages and your d m s and your tweets
about the show. Nothing makes me happier, guys than when
we put up a podcast and I immediately have things
(36:34):
in my Twitter mentioning something that we said in the show,
which is just so crazy that you listen to us
talk every single week. We love you. Come back next week.
We're gonna have Kyle Brandt on the show on Tuesday.
Let's talk about some quarterback movements next week. That sounds
like a lot of fun. Everybody in the control room, Mohan,
I love all of you guys. Happy New Year. We'll
see you next week. To death, the pedal, the pedal,
(37:03):
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