January 20, 2023 • 37 mins
Rachel Bonnetta and company are back for a brand new episode of Benched with Bonnetta! To start, Rachel is joined by Colleen Wolfe and they reflect on what the world was like when all of the QBs in the Divisional Round were born (4:26).
After the break, Rachel and Colleen preview Divisional Round games including Jaguars-Chiefs (19:10), Giants-Eagles (21:49), Bengals-Bills (23:31), and Cowboys-49ers (26:00). Finally, Rachel tells you the best and worst thing she saw this week (30:12).
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
And when I woke up this morning, I was feeling
pretty dangerous. On the tonight they are when we thought
they were not about, Hello, you plenty to win the gate.
They want you to cook the dinner. At least they
ought to let your shop for some of the grocers.
And on the way up, we're gonna buy the kneecap
off playoffs. You're kidding me. I'm just here so it
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won't be fine. How could he not be romantic about football? Hell, everybody,
welcome to Benched with Bonetta and Colleen. What um, what's up? Buddy?
You're going to Buffalo? Going to Buffalo, Going back to Buffalo.
A couple of weeks ago. That was my first trip
ever to Buffalo, and I always wanted to see a
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game there and I was so excited. I felt like
I had the perfect Buffalo experience because it's snowed, snow
game I love. Then thrown onto set. Yes, we had
we had security guards shielding us from the snowballs that
were coming down, and then obviously we couldn't have that
when we started doing the show. But it was like
they won. It was great, it was perfect. I'm going
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back now and the Bills are playing the Bengals, and
you know that atmosphere is going to be wild and crazy,
and Kyle Brandt will be there. I can't wait. I'm
so excited for you guys. Did you get hit by
a snowball? I did? Okay, okay, right in the chest.
That was cool. I think I remember seeing a video
of it, and I think you just like totally and
so what do you think, like, I don't even think,
(01:30):
you know, I like the stink guy to the camera
and the crowd, and then I would have chucked one back. Now,
I know when you went the first time, you had
the whole setup. You had like electric pants, which sounds dangerous. Yeah,
what's the what's the from the head, from head to toe. Well,
I don't know exactly what I'm wearing yet, but I
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will underneath everything. I have electric pants. I have an
electric shirt, electric socks, electric gloves. I hate being cold
as it all battery powered? Are you? Well, you're plugged
into the battery, so like, I charge it all up
and you can't electrocute it on live television now, I mean,
I will risk it, but you can't fly with the
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lithium ion batteries because like you can't source them when
you get home. You have to get them in your
carry on, like if you check a bag, you can't
put them then. And also that's like eighteen batteries. It's
just to carry on full of batteries. You're gonna the
security like things and they're gonna be looking through like
you know what. This actually just happened to me in Vegas.
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The guys in front of me where they had car
parts or something like that. But I saw and they
had the hardcover like super heavy, like the cases if
you don't know what, Pelican cases where we can carry
our like super fancy expensive cameras. They had them in
Pelican cases and they were just like little small circular things.
And I was watching the woman watch it go through,
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and there's nothing sketchier than watching that happened before you
get on the plane. And she was like looking at it,
looking at it, and he's like, it's parts from my core.
And everyone's like that one that's going to be calling
this weekend with her, truly truly. A couple of years
ago at the draft, A D. D. Kinkawala, She's amazing
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and we both love plants, and so we were both
at the draft. I think it was in Cleveland, and
she brought me some plant clippings in this pot and
so I had to put it in my carry on.
I mean, listen, it's not not for me. I take
plant clippings from everybody, from all of my friends. I
go over to their house and if there's like and
then I plant it myself. And then it's like they're
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at my house. It's great. What I know, I know,
but it's going through green thumb struggling. Could you come
over and say, yes, you know you need a moisture meter.
That is like So the only thing about this was
as the plant was going through the X ray machine,
it literally looked like a head and the t s
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A agents started to like a freak out gathered around.
It's like, it's a plant. It's just a plant in there.
I know they hate when you yell stuff at them.
Because she these guys were trying to its car parts
and it's like, yeah, let her do her job please,
Um okay, let's get in the show. We're so excited
to watching and Buffalo. It's gonna be a great game.
I speaking of games, want to play one today? This
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is called um shoot, I don't have a name for
it amazing. Which young quarterback makes us feel worse about ourselves? Okay,
so there are a lot of young quarterbacks. All of
them are like under the age of thirty. Okay, Tom
Brady was our last hope for feeling young and fresh.
So I want to go through from oldest to youngest.
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I'm gonna tell you, like what was popular when they
were born. I was going to tell you what movies
were popping, what songs were popping. We're going to decide
which quarterback makes us feel worse about ourselves. We're old,
definitely the youngest. But okay, now then we're old. We're
just like I like at my peak. Right now, I
honestly feel the best that I've ever felt. So and
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I'm being genuine Like, as soon as you get into
your thirties, somebody told me, when you're thirty, it's like
your twenty, but you actually have money in your bank
account the most part, sufficient funds for most of my
twenties overdraft fees. Overdraft fees, yes, I know, but like
you also just stop caring about like dumb stuff when
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you're in your thirties, whereas like in your twenties, I
feel like I was just marred by like anxiety over
like the dumbest stuff, like I know myself better, I'm smarter,
you know what. Thirties. So let's make fun of these
young quarterbacks and they do have money though they do
have a lot of money. Um, okay, let's start with
Dak Prescott. He was born July twenty nine. I was too.
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This is what was happening when Dak was born. Pop
culture events of the year, The Got Milk campaign launched,
beanie babies were created. What did you have beanie babies?
Did not? I had so many? You didn't have a one? Okay,
So I have a really bad story. This girl in
my school really wanted to be friends with me, and
like I was just like, I don't know, you're like
kind of a bully, Like I don't really want to
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be friends with you. She showed up with two cardboard
boxes filled with beanie babies the next day and she's like,
these are all yours if you're friends with me. No,
she tried to buy her. She tried to buy me out,
and girl, I can be bought. So I took I
didn't sound like she was a bully. She was a bully.
She was weird vibes like I wasn't a bully and
that's why I was just like, I can't, I can't
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hang out with you. I saw you push somebody into
a wall the other day. I would be like, we
could be friends. Everyone was trying to be my friend.
And I took them home and then her mom called
my mom and she was like, Rachel has all of
my kids beanie babies. She needs to give them back.
How many beanie babies did you end up having two boxes?
Why what do you do with all of these? I
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gave them back, but I got to have a to
meeting babies for about twenty four hours. That was very exciting.
Sounds crazy, Um, okay, what else? Ryan Gosling and Justin
Timber like joined the Mickey Mouse Club. I feel like
this is like around our age. He doesn't make me
feel bad, this is this is fine. Though I throgot
that he was like closer to I thought you were
looking at the ages of all these guys. I always
think these quarterbacks are older than they are. They look older,
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like I feel like we're on the same page. Like
they mature a lot faster. It's like presidential years, like
you kind of I think you age faster when you're
a quarterback. Movie of the Year for Dak Prescott is
Jurassic Park and the song was I Can't help falling
in Love with You by You Be forty. I don't
even know that one. What I was too Jurassic Park.
Jurassic Park. That was like a huge year for Steven Spielberg.
(07:42):
I think he came out yeah, I mean obviously something
around on our best Um, okay, up next. Patrick Mahomes
is twenty seven. He was born was four Gangster's Paradise
by COOLi. Oh, oh my god. That was like one
of my first singles. We can't actually say ob suit.
Movie of the Year toy Story. Pop culture events of
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the year O J no Way, Drew Barrymore flashes David
Letterman on Late Show. Who could forget Brad Pitt's first
sexiest man Alive? This year is thriving. This is my
favorite year so far. Was a great year. The very
first online dating site, match dot com was created. Wait
in nine. That did not happen until two. Oh no,
(08:26):
I guess not dot com baby, Oh my god, no idea.
This is my favorite year so far is too close
to my year, like fine wine. Yeah, okay, so this
is good. Okay, Josh Allen, he is twenty six the man.
The man collectively looks fourteen and somehow, somehow fourteen sixteen
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not six. Al Right, what was going on in ninety six? Okay?
Movie of the Year? Independence Day? Um, want to be
Spice Girl? Okay, that's banger. Cowboys win Super Bowl thirty
Um alright. P Tupac Tickle me Elmo is released Sickos Loose.
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Tiger Woods made his professional debut. Wow, that was a
huge moment. Umunk. That's that's how we can think that
was That was the popular song. But I have to
say the next one. I have to say the next line,
Joe Burrow exactly the same. They are the exact same age.
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Use that's just turned into colleens prep for this weekend.
Amazing work back in. But you didn't know the song
of the year. I did. I didn't know that they
were the same exact age they were. It seems like
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Joe Burrow is older for some reason, Joe Burrows actually younger.
Josh was born in May and Joe was born in December. Okay,
so there you go. Um, Okay, Daniel Jones, do you
know how old Daniel Jones is? Oh, he's like, how old?
Does he looks like he's little baby? He's twenty five?
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I was six. Song of the Year, Bob Movie of
the Year, ty Tannique, Really yeah, Sexy is mantled five
George Clooney. Of course that should just be the marker
for all of these guys. Award Ellen Degenerous came out,
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was Monu Mental for television. It was um first Harry
Potter book came out. There were so many and Mike
Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear off. I mean, honestly, that
was the market a year. A year was a huge milestone. Okay, next,
jen Wan Hurts he is twenty four. Babes Saving Private,
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Ryan Slaps Still Slaps such a good one. Pop Culture
Events of the Year. Britney Spears releases her debut single
Baby One More Time. Oh my god, I remember I
found out Britney. I can still picture myself on the
school bus when I found out that what Britney Spears's
birthday was, and it was the exact same as my brother's,
and I started bawling my eyes out, and I was like,
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why can't you just date her? Like why can't you
be my sister? That's my sister's birthday And he was
on the bus with me and he was mortified. Britney
Spears was just like such a huge part of my
child it maybe she was a part of Jalen Hurts
as well. Um Sex in the City, Dosson's Creek and
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tr L all premiered. I did not have that in Canada.
Did audition for the Canadian version of tr L multiple
times and never got it. What did that entail? It
was the same thing. It was like hot VJs. They
had like sayings and like really cool those and then
they got to like hang on Justin Bieber, it was like,
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you remember like anything about your audition, like what you wore,
talked about a Nicki Minaj music video. No, God, I
would set myself on fire if that's somehow got out.
I remember talking saying, I remember talking to myself in
the mirror being like and up next, we've got a
Nicki Minaj and you know what she's famous for something something,
something I don't even remember. But it was bad and
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I did not get it. I mean, I feel like
we all kind of had those auditions. This moment there
Miss Trevor Lawrence. His birthday is two days away from mine.
He was born in NW. We're starting to get now,
we're starting. I don't like I was starting at a
little nicky. Knew the Blair Witch Project premiered. That's like
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my Instagram stories. What do you mean they just look
like the Blair Witch Project. That's my inspo. Um. Everyone
was panicking about Y two k Oh my gosh. My
best friend's mom had a all set up in her
basement of food water. She freaked me out so bad.
She was like, the prison gates are gonna open. You
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are like, everything is gonna go wrong, nothing's gonna work,
everything's gonna malfunction. Like you have to come. I was
so petrified, telling she was prepper, yes, and I would
go home to my parents and I was like, we
don't have anything. We're not prepared. The prison gates are
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us a serious and it was I wish that I
could just have a live camera on every Doomsday prepper,
like the day was supposed to happen, just like just waiting, waiting, waiting,
thank God, right God we were wrong? Um wow, Okay,
So that is Trevor Lawrence. He was born when I
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was eight. Okay, Jerry Hawk was his pro skater franchise
launches same as Brock Pretty they are the same age,
which I did not know Trevor Lawrence and brockt. Trevorlawrence
and Brock Purty are just a couple of months away.
Trevor Lawrence was born in October. Brock Purtty was born
in December. Wow, you know, Brock Purty, We're just learning
so much about him. I love it. I love it too.
He really doesn't need to do much. He just like
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slipped right in where Jimmy and it just it kind
of looks bad on Jimmy because he didn't really need
to do much. There's the rest of the team, Arounnis.
It's definitely just like at this point with Kyle Shanahan,
like plug and play, let's go. Okay, So, out of
all those quarterbacks that are gonna be starting this weekend,
who makes us feel the worse about ourselves? I mean
the fact that I knew it was going to be
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the youngest, Like, I think it's Trevor Lawrence actually, because
pretty hit it. Trevor Lawrence has been you know, winning
championships and going into the playoffs and dealing with urban Meyer.
He's feel like he's out a different one. He's you
said three years I was such a hot mess at
twenty three years old. I can't imagine having the poise
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that these quarterbacks do. Trevor aren't being in this situation,
carrying a team, being on a national stage, like being
the face of a franchise. Oh my god. And you
know what, that leads me to a good thing, because
we've we've got actual stock footage of when we were
twenty three years old. And if you were not watching
this on video, I'm sorry to say you are. You
were missing a lot. Are we gonna start with Colleen?
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Are we gonna start with me? I don't even know
which ones you picked either. I don't know. I just
handed them over. They might show all of them. Okay,
so that was what I was living. I just moved
to l A. You had so many friends. I'm sure
I had so many friends. If you're just listening to this,
I have just am dancing to Drake in a Canadian flag.
I don't even know what that is. That was made
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on a cardboard. I was gonna say, this looks like
some type of cardboard box. Did you paint this yourself,
like I did have to paint it. It looks like
more pathetic about it. It kind of reminds me of
the vessel that French fries come in when you go
to a fast food place. Like just look at McDonald's canister.
I was doing, no, I listen, I was was that
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four I don't even remember. I don't even remember. That
was like when I just first started at Fox Sports,
I had moved away from home. But that's basically the
summation of my entire twenties is just doing very dumb
things in front of a camera. Because I dropped out
of college. I got out of there quick. I feel
like a lot of people were still doing college. That
was so smart of you, Like, I'm not even joking.
(16:20):
I just finished paying off my student loans. Well, hey, graduation,
what you do you just want to say, like when
colleges tell you that you should do a five year program,
don't listen to them, like you don't need it. I
graduated with a degree in corporate communications, and look at
you communicating to corporate Okay, So Colleen, what were you
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up to in your twenties? Well, I was getting a
very expensive education. Well, I mean definitely too. Well, I'm
sure you saw the picture. I was living on a beach. Um. Yeah, oh,
I was working so my first official job in sports.
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I was at all I was at a lot of bars.
I was having a great time. I was getting my
pilots license. Hold on, you have your pilot's license. Well
not yet, but I'm still working on it. My goodness.
Why those batteries yourself? Right? Um? Okay that you that
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are listening colleens just having a great old time in
her twenties, and that's what we're supposed to do. It
has to be a professional football player. Nothing has changed exactly. Um.
The last picture was me. Um. It's called Aaron Express
in Philly, and it's just like for every St. Patrick's
Day weekend, everyone gets like completely after obliterated. And you know,
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now Aaron Express is an absolute nightmare. Like you're in
the city and you're like, oh no, it's that weekend again.
But when you're in or twenties, it's like, this is amazing,
so funny to think back on the places that we
used to love to go and we were like these
guys ages and now we think about it in our
thirties and I'm like, I would never we can pay
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me to go to my favorite bar, Like my shoes
would be sticking to the floor, and then I would
the next morning wake up and go to flight school.
That is concerning, you know, that is actually quite concerning. Okay,
we're gonna go to break coming up next, we are
previewing those young guns. We're going to talk about this
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weekend slate games. Don't we'll get all right, we're talking
to visional round. We've got we really are running out
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of football and I'm kind of starting to panic about it.
What are we supposed to do besides like, okay, let's
break down some of these games. Jags versus Chiefs. Chiefs
are an eight and a half favorite. I'm actually surprised
with all of the lines in these games, Like the
lines are really large for a divisional round, you know, weekend.
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I feel like these teams are usually more like evenly
matched and you see like maybe minus three, you know,
not seven, eight five. Kind of crazy to me. But
let's start with this first game Jags Chiefs. Um. I
I really want the Jags to keep this close. I
feel like in the latter half of the season, the
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Chiefs had some weird games and we're way too close
than they should have been. But you're going against Andy Reid,
you're going against Patrick Mahomes, You're going against Travis Kelsey,
who has had like the greatest season of his career. Seemingly, Um,
I cannot bet against the Chiefs. I can't do it,
but I do the Jags keep it within eight points,
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I think, Well, it's tough because, first of all, Andy
Reid this is the most cliche thing ever, but it's
so true. He's so good off of a bye all
the time. So now they had this this time to
put together all sorts of crazy plays, and you know
that that is what Andy Reid loves to do. The
last time we saw the Chiefs, they were doing their
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snow globe play, or they were all on the huddle
and like did a little ring around the rosie. And
of course you know that didn't result in a touchdown
because of a hold or something something, but way more hilarious.
I mean, that's all anyone talked about with this game
was the touchdown that wasn't actually a touchdown. But the
last time these two teams played, like Patrick Mahomes had
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one of his best games of the year, Like you
can't hold him back. And I don't think that Juju
Smith Schuster even finished that whole game. So now they
have him too, and I just don't think that the
Jags are going to be able to stop the Chief's offense. Plus,
if Trevor Lawrence has any type of issues like he
did this past week, starting the game with any type
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of turnovers, the Chiefs are gonna immediately take advantage. And
for sure that's a scary team to play. I love that.
So Trevor Lawrence went to a waffle house after the
win last week, Why wouldn't you? Patrick Mahomes says that's
a baller move. He was asked what he did after
his first playoff win, and he's like, hmm, I can't
remember so long ago. I've just one so much because
like I probably had a probably Gore's lights. But then
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he was just like maybe if I win. He's like,
maybe if I win, I'll think of something fun to
do this weekend. Like just like, maybe if I win.
He knows. I feel like he has like his whole
schedule planned out are exactly. He already knows where the
parades going in Kansas, Okay. Giants, Eagles, Eagles are favored
by seven and a half. I'm gonna let you take
this one because I know who you're gonna pick. Do
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the Giants keep it close? Do you anticipate stressing out
on Saturday? Yes, because I always stress out when I
watched the Eagles play, and you know, we've watched this
past weekend. We saw a couple division rivals play each other,
and it's just different when you play a third game
against the same team, like you can keep this close.
You the teams know each other so well, so that
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makes me a little nervous. I mean, plus this game
was when they played in Week eighteen, it was close
and the Giants were resting starters and Jalen Hurts obviously
wasn't one, and hopefully he will be better now. But
that is the concern, and it's a major one for me.
That's stressing you out. That jail is not like way
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back to. I mean, he just took so much time off.
That is the concern, Like why not start to I mean,
I guess you want him to be as healthy as
you can have him in the postseason, but like I
don't know, start to get some reps here and there.
If you're able to I feel like they're just they
were just trying to like bubble wrap them a little bit.
And hopefully Lane Johnson on the offensive line will be
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healthy and good because like the Giant's front can can
get after quarterbacks. So that is something that is definitely
on the radar. So on Barkley, he's so good too,
like this whole season. And Daniel Jones was using his legs.
Dany Jones famous. Actually I can't even remember his age.
Now I have the Eagles, but I have them very close.
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I have twenty four, So I feel like the Giants
cover and they keep it close. But it's gonna it's
gonna stress all of us how it's gonna be close.
Favorite Bengals Bills. Bills are favored by five and a half.
I thought that this was gonna be like minus one,
minus three. I don't know. There's just like I know
that the Bills have so much to play for. And
Kyle and I were talking on Tuesday's episode that like,
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could you imagine, I guess the Bills have like a
Buffalo great come out before every single game and like
get the crowd hyped up. Imagine if it's du Mars. No,
I can't plays game go crazy. Oh my god, that
would just be so feel good. Um, so obviously the
Bills have it onto play for. But like the Bengals
went through this as well, Right, the Bengals went through
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the exact like maybe they weren't his teammate, but they
were on the field, they were hugging each other, they
were Jesus distraught. Their reactions were. We're just as animated,
Like you could feel how upset they were, how scared
they were, how stressed they were, how how just like
jarred everyone was. Um, I'll never forgot Joe and Josh
hugging everything, watching everything felt so surreal from that night.
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And yeah, they played for like nine minutes before that happened,
and in those nine minutes it felt like Cincinnati had
all of the momentum in the game and that Cincinnati
and Joe Burrow was just going to have one of
his great games. And then obviously they didn't finish it out.
But I think a lot has changed in a short
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period of time, as in the offensive line for Cincinnati
is going to be a major issue. I think in
this game, even without the Bills having Von Miller, I
still think that they are going to get after Joe Burrow,
and he's not going to have a ton of time,
I know, but I feel like the first couple of
seasons that we followed Joe, who's like Joe has been
hit the most out of any quarterback in the league,
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like over and over and over again. So like that
gives me a little bit of faith. And then also
I've got the Bengals, by the way, I'm taking them
by thirty one thirty. I think it is going to
be such a fun and close game. But then the
Bills they almost lost to the Dolphins. That was scary.
I don't know what that was about. It was very close.
Its weird. Also like against named Skyler. The last time
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the Bills played the Dolphins um in the regular season,
that was the game I was at with the snowballs
and everything else, and that was a close game too,
So I mean they're match up, it's just like not
a great matchup. Are you able to give your prediction
for this game? Are you going to save this one
was the most difficult to pick for me, and I
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went back and forth, But I'm picking the Bills. I'm
sure I will change my mind several times before the game,
all right, Finally, let's get into the playoff preview presented
by DraftKings sports Book. The Cowboys head to the Bay
Area to take on the forty Niners and the second
NFC divisional playoff. The Niners are three and a half
point favorites and have covered the spread in each of
their last six postseason games. That's wild. The over under
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for this game is set at forty six and a half.
Each of the forty niners last four games have gone
over the point total. One player to keep an eye
on for the Cowboys is tight end Dalton Schultz a
Dalton Schultz anytime touchdown is on the board at plus
two forty five. Shalts four touchdowns in his last three games,
and you can grab the same game parlay over at
draft Kings sports Book for plus eight fifty. These two
teams I think are really really good right now. I
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did have the forty Niners winning twenty seven to twenty four,
but I've changed my score forty nine twenty. I think
the Cowboys can can cowboy themselves, you know what I mean?
Like they have they have a tendency of lasts swing
themselves into a loss. Yeah, So I don't know. I
got real nervous watching the fort are the Cowboys the
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past week, Dak Prescott and the offense like Dac was dealing,
he looked so good handled the Bucks, I mean. And
also you can't really, I don't know. It's tough because
the Bucks. I don't have a ton of faith in them,
and I think a lot of us are like exactly like,
and they're hosting a playoff game. Come on, it's just
like a bad division all around. But the Cowboys just
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looked like they finally hit that stride that they needed
at the exact right time. And like the defense too,
with Michael Parsons flying all over the place. Laton vanderessh
so good in this game. But the Niners have won
eleven straight games, like they have had the momentum for
almost the entire season. It feels like, and they're playing
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with brock Purty, and they're making brock Purty look great.
Because when things are going bad for brock Purty like
they were in that first half against Seattle, Kyle Shanahan
uses all of these different ways to scheme up ways
to get brock Purty in a good situation. With Christian
McCaffrey and Deebo Samuel using r P O s and
all of the different tricks in his bag to kind
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of keep the defense off balance. So you also got
to remember the prettiest twenty three not only not only
did he come in and have his first season, he
was the very last person draft that He's in his
first playoff game, Like, I want to give him a
little bit of a like space there to figure it out, like, Okay, yeah,
you had you had your half to screw up and
(28:28):
let the Seahawks kind of play with you guys, and
then I feel like this game he'll look much better.
I'm picking the Niners, but I did think for a
second about picking the Cowboys because in my heart of hearts,
what I would love to truly happen is for the
Eagles to beat the beat the Giants this week and
then play the Cowboys for the title game. I'm not
(28:51):
gonna be able to be around to the Super Bowl.
You and HERV would just be on suffer they've got
If that happens, they have got to send you two
to that game. Okay, that would honestly be I'm sure
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We were talking about the best and the worst thing
all week and wouldn' the best? All right, this is
the best the worst thing that I saw all week.
(30:18):
Colleen does not know what these are. She is blind reacting.
First things first, here is the best thing that I saw.
Blessed kickers. Okay, God, bless kickers. They do not have
an easy job. Brad ma Her on Monday night missed
how many for Yeah, yeah, but this is this is
what I loved to see. Okay, check out ceedee Lamb
(30:39):
trying to make him feel a little bit better. Good,
good good that I can't I can't imagine walking back
after the fourth miss and just being like, wow, that
is rough, and then to have CD there. I mean,
(31:00):
you saw Dax reaction. It wasn't that for two. It
was not for that. I mean I was like shocked
that Mike McCarthy kept rolling him back out, And I
guess when you're in that situation and you're up big,
you kind of have to just keep putting him out
there to have him go through whatever demons and kind
(31:21):
of get through whatever he needs to because you're going
to need him down the line. He said, You've build
us out plenty of times. Like but I feel like
there is there like a headier position in all of
sports other than like a picture. Oh well, I guess
a quarterback, but you've got multiple chances to you and
(31:43):
you bring the kicker in, especially when it's like a
game winning I couldn't imagine. I could not. I am
not good under pressure. Are you know, I'm I don't know.
It depends, okay, breg like pressures make diamonds. Okay. I
don't really know if I want to put this in
the best category, and I don't know if I want
to put this in the worst category. So it kind
(32:03):
of goes somewhere in the middle. Um, we've got a
clip about Aaron Rodgers talking about something. Let's let's roll. No,
we had all the conversations like we wanted to have
about about football for now. Um, you know they're not
pressing for any type of specific, you know answer, and
I'm not you know, mentally or emotionally at that point
(32:27):
to give one. Do I still think I can play?
Of course? Of course the highest you can win m
v P again, Right situation? Um, right situation? Is that
Green Bay? Or is that somewhere else? I'm not sure.
So he's coming back, right, That is him telling us
that he is for sure going to continue playing football.
(32:48):
Why would you not if you've got that like bone
in your body, that like really competitive bone, which he
said he has, why would you not. I kind of
hope he doesn't go somewhere else. I would love to
see him in a different situation. I mean, I think
Tom Brady asked. I think he probably wants to see
himself in a different situation, and he's probably only going
to come back to Green Bay if they decide to
(33:11):
reload instead of rebuild in like the draft and free agency.
That's going to have a huge part of his decision.
But I hate the fact that he's constantly talking about
m v P titles, Like I don't think that that
it should be. I want a championship right, Like he's
just playing for him That's what an m v P is, Like,
(33:31):
you just want your individual accolades, like you can still
play at a high level and m v P level
that's great. That just really shows the kind of it's
just kind of all my radar a little bit. Okay,
and then the worst thing that I saw all week,
which is which just wasn't necessary, has nothing new with sports,
but it's a real bone that I have to pick. Um.
Do you remember Mr Feenie Wait? Who Mr Finie from
(33:55):
Boy Means World? Oh? Yeah, his wife Okay, I'm wisp spicy.
He's wife came out this week and so that they
have an open marriage really and they do weird stuff. Okay,
So we didn't need it. It's all I'm saying. I
could have done without knowing that that personal detail. Um,
(34:16):
and I think the world probably could have done without it.
But is that just taking applications again? Crazy? Oh my god, spicy,
I had no idea was born in n seven? That
can't be true. So math how old does he hold on?
William Daniels was born? This can't be true. It is
(34:42):
he can't be alive. Yes, he can be a lot.
It's seven is old. No, that's not true. He was
born in fifty two. I was going to say, like,
he looks great. Understand how this is possib and he's
got an open marriage. You know, when we stray from football,
(35:03):
I make sure it's worth it. Okay, just so we're
all on the same page. Okay, that is it. That's
our show. Oh wait, hold on, no, take out the music.
Take out the music. Okay, okay, alright. I asked our
good friend Kyle Rant on this show a question on Monday,
and he refused to answer it. And so now I
have to ask every single person that comes on this
podcast nervous. Are you ready? No? But time? This is
(35:27):
what I didn't tell Kyle, take your time find the
answer that you really want to talk about. Okay, all right,
you die, alright, not not in a scary way. You
just float off. You're dead. You get to come back
to Earth for thirty minutes, and you can't see anyone
that you love because if they saw you, they'd be
like Colleen, you can actually talk to people and people
(35:49):
can see you and you can see them. Okay, so
you're not going to see anybody that you love, no friends,
no family, nothing. Thirty minutes is all you have. You
can eat a meal, you can go to your favorite
bench and have to sit on your favorite place in
the world. And if it doesn't involve any anyone that
I know, No, you can't see anybody that you know
(36:10):
would freak them out. I could go anywhere, anywhere, go
anywhere I want. Is there a place that you've never
been that you just want to take one last glimpse. No,
I would want to go somewhere that I've been so
I know that it's going to be good, and so
I would probably I feel like one of one of
the most beautiful places I've ever been is like the
(36:31):
Positano Coast, and so I would probably go back there
and take like a boat ride all along the coast
and drink some wine and look at the water and
just like, see how beautiful it all is. All it takes, folks.
I love the water. See. I thought you were going
to say that I could come back for a half
(36:52):
hour and be any to be anyone, and be anyone
I wanted for that half hour. Maybe if I asked
that question he would have answered, because in my mind,
I was like, Beyonce have a halftime show. Yeah, oh
my god, that'd be so cool, or like Lady Gaga
for you all of us would be like, what's wrong
with be Okay? That is our show. You see how
(37:13):
easy that was, people, I'm not out of my mind. Uh,
don't forget to subscribe to the show. Follow us on
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we were talking about. Um, I don't care about some
twenty three year old quarterback. I'm thriving in my thirties
thanks to Colleen. You're coming well, yeah, you next week.
And when I woke up this morning, I was feeling
pretty dangerous. On the tonight they are when we thought
they were not about, Hello, you plenty to win the gate.
They want you to cook the dinner. At least they
ought to let your shop for some of the grocers.
And on the way up, we're gonna buy the kneecap
off playoffs. You're kidding me. I'm just here so it
(00:25):
won't be fine. How could he not be romantic about football? Hell, everybody,
welcome to Benched with Bonetta and Colleen. What um, what's up? Buddy?
You're going to Buffalo? Going to Buffalo, Going back to Buffalo.
A couple of weeks ago. That was my first trip
ever to Buffalo, and I always wanted to see a
(00:48):
game there and I was so excited. I felt like
I had the perfect Buffalo experience because it's snowed, snow
game I love. Then thrown onto set. Yes, we had
we had security guards shielding us from the snowballs that
were coming down, and then obviously we couldn't have that
when we started doing the show. But it was like
they won. It was great, it was perfect. I'm going
(01:09):
back now and the Bills are playing the Bengals, and
you know that atmosphere is going to be wild and crazy,
and Kyle Brandt will be there. I can't wait. I'm
so excited for you guys. Did you get hit by
a snowball? I did? Okay, okay, right in the chest.
That was cool. I think I remember seeing a video
of it, and I think you just like totally and
so what do you think, like, I don't even think,
(01:30):
you know, I like the stink guy to the camera
and the crowd, and then I would have chucked one back. Now,
I know when you went the first time, you had
the whole setup. You had like electric pants, which sounds dangerous. Yeah,
what's the what's the from the head, from head to toe. Well,
I don't know exactly what I'm wearing yet, but I
(01:51):
will underneath everything. I have electric pants. I have an
electric shirt, electric socks, electric gloves. I hate being cold
as it all battery powered? Are you? Well, you're plugged
into the battery, so like, I charge it all up
and you can't electrocute it on live television now, I mean,
I will risk it, but you can't fly with the
(02:14):
lithium ion batteries because like you can't source them when
you get home. You have to get them in your
carry on, like if you check a bag, you can't
put them then. And also that's like eighteen batteries. It's
just to carry on full of batteries. You're gonna the
security like things and they're gonna be looking through like
you know what. This actually just happened to me in Vegas.
(02:35):
The guys in front of me where they had car
parts or something like that. But I saw and they
had the hardcover like super heavy, like the cases if
you don't know what, Pelican cases where we can carry
our like super fancy expensive cameras. They had them in
Pelican cases and they were just like little small circular things.
And I was watching the woman watch it go through,
(02:56):
and there's nothing sketchier than watching that happened before you
get on the plane. And she was like looking at it,
looking at it, and he's like, it's parts from my core.
And everyone's like that one that's going to be calling
this weekend with her, truly truly. A couple of years
ago at the draft, A D. D. Kinkawala, She's amazing
(03:17):
and we both love plants, and so we were both
at the draft. I think it was in Cleveland, and
she brought me some plant clippings in this pot and
so I had to put it in my carry on.
I mean, listen, it's not not for me. I take
plant clippings from everybody, from all of my friends. I
go over to their house and if there's like and
then I plant it myself. And then it's like they're
(03:38):
at my house. It's great. What I know, I know,
but it's going through green thumb struggling. Could you come
over and say, yes, you know you need a moisture meter.
That is like So the only thing about this was
as the plant was going through the X ray machine,
it literally looked like a head and the t s
(04:03):
A agents started to like a freak out gathered around.
It's like, it's a plant. It's just a plant in there.
I know they hate when you yell stuff at them.
Because she these guys were trying to its car parts
and it's like, yeah, let her do her job please,
Um okay, let's get in the show. We're so excited
to watching and Buffalo. It's gonna be a great game.
I speaking of games, want to play one today? This
(04:27):
is called um shoot, I don't have a name for
it amazing. Which young quarterback makes us feel worse about ourselves? Okay,
so there are a lot of young quarterbacks. All of
them are like under the age of thirty. Okay, Tom
Brady was our last hope for feeling young and fresh.
So I want to go through from oldest to youngest.
(04:50):
I'm gonna tell you, like what was popular when they
were born. I was going to tell you what movies
were popping, what songs were popping. We're going to decide
which quarterback makes us feel worse about ourselves. We're old,
definitely the youngest. But okay, now then we're old. We're
just like I like at my peak. Right now, I
honestly feel the best that I've ever felt. So and
(05:10):
I'm being genuine Like, as soon as you get into
your thirties, somebody told me, when you're thirty, it's like
your twenty, but you actually have money in your bank
account the most part, sufficient funds for most of my
twenties overdraft fees. Overdraft fees, yes, I know, but like
you also just stop caring about like dumb stuff when
(05:32):
you're in your thirties, whereas like in your twenties, I
feel like I was just marred by like anxiety over
like the dumbest stuff, like I know myself better, I'm smarter,
you know what. Thirties. So let's make fun of these
young quarterbacks and they do have money though they do
have a lot of money. Um, okay, let's start with
Dak Prescott. He was born July twenty nine. I was too.
(05:53):
This is what was happening when Dak was born. Pop
culture events of the year, The Got Milk campaign launched,
beanie babies were created. What did you have beanie babies?
Did not? I had so many? You didn't have a one? Okay,
So I have a really bad story. This girl in
my school really wanted to be friends with me, and
like I was just like, I don't know, you're like
kind of a bully, Like I don't really want to
(06:14):
be friends with you. She showed up with two cardboard
boxes filled with beanie babies the next day and she's like,
these are all yours if you're friends with me. No,
she tried to buy her. She tried to buy me out,
and girl, I can be bought. So I took I
didn't sound like she was a bully. She was a bully.
She was weird vibes like I wasn't a bully and
that's why I was just like, I can't, I can't
(06:35):
hang out with you. I saw you push somebody into
a wall the other day. I would be like, we
could be friends. Everyone was trying to be my friend.
And I took them home and then her mom called
my mom and she was like, Rachel has all of
my kids beanie babies. She needs to give them back.
How many beanie babies did you end up having two boxes?
Why what do you do with all of these? I
(06:58):
gave them back, but I got to have a to
meeting babies for about twenty four hours. That was very exciting.
Sounds crazy, Um, okay, what else? Ryan Gosling and Justin
Timber like joined the Mickey Mouse Club. I feel like
this is like around our age. He doesn't make me
feel bad, this is this is fine. Though I throgot
that he was like closer to I thought you were
looking at the ages of all these guys. I always
think these quarterbacks are older than they are. They look older,
(07:20):
like I feel like we're on the same page. Like
they mature a lot faster. It's like presidential years, like
you kind of I think you age faster when you're
a quarterback. Movie of the Year for Dak Prescott is
Jurassic Park and the song was I Can't help falling
in Love with You by You Be forty. I don't
even know that one. What I was too Jurassic Park.
Jurassic Park. That was like a huge year for Steven Spielberg.
(07:42):
I think he came out yeah, I mean obviously something
around on our best Um, okay, up next. Patrick Mahomes
is twenty seven. He was born was four Gangster's Paradise
by COOLi. Oh, oh my god. That was like one
of my first singles. We can't actually say ob suit.
Movie of the Year toy Story. Pop culture events of
(08:03):
the year O J no Way, Drew Barrymore flashes David
Letterman on Late Show. Who could forget Brad Pitt's first
sexiest man Alive? This year is thriving. This is my
favorite year so far. Was a great year. The very
first online dating site, match dot com was created. Wait
in nine. That did not happen until two. Oh no,
(08:26):
I guess not dot com baby, Oh my god, no idea.
This is my favorite year so far is too close
to my year, like fine wine. Yeah, okay, so this
is good. Okay, Josh Allen, he is twenty six the man.
The man collectively looks fourteen and somehow, somehow fourteen sixteen
(08:51):
not six. Al Right, what was going on in ninety six? Okay?
Movie of the Year? Independence Day? Um, want to be
Spice Girl? Okay, that's banger. Cowboys win Super Bowl thirty
Um alright. P Tupac Tickle me Elmo is released Sickos Loose.
(09:15):
Tiger Woods made his professional debut. Wow, that was a
huge moment. Umunk. That's that's how we can think that
was That was the popular song. But I have to
say the next one. I have to say the next line,
Joe Burrow exactly the same. They are the exact same age.
(09:37):
Use that's just turned into colleens prep for this weekend.
Amazing work back in. But you didn't know the song
of the year. I did. I didn't know that they
were the same exact age they were. It seems like
(09:57):
Joe Burrow is older for some reason, Joe Burrows actually younger.
Josh was born in May and Joe was born in December. Okay,
so there you go. Um, Okay, Daniel Jones, do you
know how old Daniel Jones is? Oh, he's like, how old?
Does he looks like he's little baby? He's twenty five?
(10:18):
I was six. Song of the Year, Bob Movie of
the Year, ty Tannique, Really yeah, Sexy is mantled five
George Clooney. Of course that should just be the marker
for all of these guys. Award Ellen Degenerous came out,
(10:40):
was Monu Mental for television. It was um first Harry
Potter book came out. There were so many and Mike
Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear off. I mean, honestly, that
was the market a year. A year was a huge milestone. Okay, next,
jen Wan Hurts he is twenty four. Babes Saving Private,
(11:01):
Ryan Slaps Still Slaps such a good one. Pop Culture
Events of the Year. Britney Spears releases her debut single
Baby One More Time. Oh my god, I remember I
found out Britney. I can still picture myself on the
school bus when I found out that what Britney Spears's
birthday was, and it was the exact same as my brother's,
and I started bawling my eyes out, and I was like,
(11:21):
why can't you just date her? Like why can't you
be my sister? That's my sister's birthday And he was
on the bus with me and he was mortified. Britney
Spears was just like such a huge part of my
child it maybe she was a part of Jalen Hurts
as well. Um Sex in the City, Dosson's Creek and
(11:42):
tr L all premiered. I did not have that in Canada.
Did audition for the Canadian version of tr L multiple
times and never got it. What did that entail? It
was the same thing. It was like hot VJs. They
had like sayings and like really cool those and then
they got to like hang on Justin Bieber, it was like,
(12:03):
you remember like anything about your audition, like what you wore,
talked about a Nicki Minaj music video. No, God, I
would set myself on fire if that's somehow got out.
I remember talking saying, I remember talking to myself in
the mirror being like and up next, we've got a
Nicki Minaj and you know what she's famous for something something,
something I don't even remember. But it was bad and
(12:26):
I did not get it. I mean, I feel like
we all kind of had those auditions. This moment there
Miss Trevor Lawrence. His birthday is two days away from mine.
He was born in NW. We're starting to get now,
we're starting. I don't like I was starting at a
little nicky. Knew the Blair Witch Project premiered. That's like
(12:47):
my Instagram stories. What do you mean they just look
like the Blair Witch Project. That's my inspo. Um. Everyone
was panicking about Y two k Oh my gosh. My
best friend's mom had a all set up in her
basement of food water. She freaked me out so bad.
She was like, the prison gates are gonna open. You
(13:10):
are like, everything is gonna go wrong, nothing's gonna work,
everything's gonna malfunction. Like you have to come. I was
so petrified, telling she was prepper, yes, and I would
go home to my parents and I was like, we
don't have anything. We're not prepared. The prison gates are
(13:30):
us a serious and it was I wish that I
could just have a live camera on every Doomsday prepper,
like the day was supposed to happen, just like just waiting, waiting, waiting,
thank God, right God we were wrong? Um wow, Okay,
So that is Trevor Lawrence. He was born when I
(13:51):
was eight. Okay, Jerry Hawk was his pro skater franchise
launches same as Brock Pretty they are the same age,
which I did not know Trevor Lawrence and brockt. Trevorlawrence
and Brock Purty are just a couple of months away.
Trevor Lawrence was born in October. Brock Purtty was born
in December. Wow, you know, Brock Purty, We're just learning
so much about him. I love it. I love it too.
He really doesn't need to do much. He just like
(14:13):
slipped right in where Jimmy and it just it kind
of looks bad on Jimmy because he didn't really need
to do much. There's the rest of the team, Arounnis.
It's definitely just like at this point with Kyle Shanahan,
like plug and play, let's go. Okay, So, out of
all those quarterbacks that are gonna be starting this weekend,
who makes us feel the worse about ourselves? I mean
the fact that I knew it was going to be
(14:34):
the youngest, Like, I think it's Trevor Lawrence actually, because
pretty hit it. Trevor Lawrence has been you know, winning
championships and going into the playoffs and dealing with urban Meyer.
He's feel like he's out a different one. He's you
said three years I was such a hot mess at
twenty three years old. I can't imagine having the poise
(14:58):
that these quarterbacks do. Trevor aren't being in this situation,
carrying a team, being on a national stage, like being
the face of a franchise. Oh my god. And you
know what, that leads me to a good thing, because
we've we've got actual stock footage of when we were
twenty three years old. And if you were not watching
this on video, I'm sorry to say you are. You
were missing a lot. Are we gonna start with Colleen?
(15:18):
Are we gonna start with me? I don't even know
which ones you picked either. I don't know. I just
handed them over. They might show all of them. Okay,
so that was what I was living. I just moved
to l A. You had so many friends. I'm sure
I had so many friends. If you're just listening to this,
I have just am dancing to Drake in a Canadian flag.
I don't even know what that is. That was made
(15:38):
on a cardboard. I was gonna say, this looks like
some type of cardboard box. Did you paint this yourself,
like I did have to paint it. It looks like
more pathetic about it. It kind of reminds me of
the vessel that French fries come in when you go
to a fast food place. Like just look at McDonald's canister.
I was doing, no, I listen, I was was that
(16:00):
four I don't even remember. I don't even remember. That
was like when I just first started at Fox Sports,
I had moved away from home. But that's basically the
summation of my entire twenties is just doing very dumb
things in front of a camera. Because I dropped out
of college. I got out of there quick. I feel
like a lot of people were still doing college. That
was so smart of you, Like, I'm not even joking.
(16:20):
I just finished paying off my student loans. Well, hey, graduation,
what you do you just want to say, like when
colleges tell you that you should do a five year program,
don't listen to them, like you don't need it. I
graduated with a degree in corporate communications, and look at
you communicating to corporate Okay, So Colleen, what were you
(16:46):
up to in your twenties? Well, I was getting a
very expensive education. Well, I mean definitely too. Well, I'm
sure you saw the picture. I was living on a beach. Um. Yeah, oh,
I was working so my first official job in sports.
(17:09):
I was at all I was at a lot of bars.
I was having a great time. I was getting my
pilots license. Hold on, you have your pilot's license. Well
not yet, but I'm still working on it. My goodness.
Why those batteries yourself? Right? Um? Okay that you that
(17:30):
are listening colleens just having a great old time in
her twenties, and that's what we're supposed to do. It
has to be a professional football player. Nothing has changed exactly. Um.
The last picture was me. Um. It's called Aaron Express
in Philly, and it's just like for every St. Patrick's
Day weekend, everyone gets like completely after obliterated. And you know,
(17:52):
now Aaron Express is an absolute nightmare. Like you're in
the city and you're like, oh no, it's that weekend again.
But when you're in or twenties, it's like, this is amazing,
so funny to think back on the places that we
used to love to go and we were like these
guys ages and now we think about it in our
thirties and I'm like, I would never we can pay
(18:13):
me to go to my favorite bar, Like my shoes
would be sticking to the floor, and then I would
the next morning wake up and go to flight school.
That is concerning, you know, that is actually quite concerning. Okay,
we're gonna go to break coming up next, we are
previewing those young guns. We're going to talk about this
(18:33):
weekend slate games. Don't we'll get all right, we're talking
to visional round. We've got we really are running out
(18:56):
of football and I'm kind of starting to panic about it.
What are we supposed to do besides like, okay, let's
break down some of these games. Jags versus Chiefs. Chiefs
are an eight and a half favorite. I'm actually surprised
with all of the lines in these games, Like the
lines are really large for a divisional round, you know, weekend.
(19:19):
I feel like these teams are usually more like evenly
matched and you see like maybe minus three, you know,
not seven, eight five. Kind of crazy to me. But
let's start with this first game Jags Chiefs. Um. I
I really want the Jags to keep this close. I
feel like in the latter half of the season, the
(19:39):
Chiefs had some weird games and we're way too close
than they should have been. But you're going against Andy Reid,
you're going against Patrick Mahomes, You're going against Travis Kelsey,
who has had like the greatest season of his career. Seemingly, Um,
I cannot bet against the Chiefs. I can't do it,
but I do the Jags keep it within eight points,
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I think, Well, it's tough because, first of all, Andy
Reid this is the most cliche thing ever, but it's
so true. He's so good off of a bye all
the time. So now they had this this time to
put together all sorts of crazy plays, and you know
that that is what Andy Reid loves to do. The
last time we saw the Chiefs, they were doing their
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snow globe play, or they were all on the huddle
and like did a little ring around the rosie. And
of course you know that didn't result in a touchdown
because of a hold or something something, but way more hilarious.
I mean, that's all anyone talked about with this game
was the touchdown that wasn't actually a touchdown. But the
last time these two teams played, like Patrick Mahomes had
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one of his best games of the year, Like you
can't hold him back. And I don't think that Juju
Smith Schuster even finished that whole game. So now they
have him too, and I just don't think that the
Jags are going to be able to stop the Chief's offense. Plus,
if Trevor Lawrence has any type of issues like he
did this past week, starting the game with any type
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of turnovers, the Chiefs are gonna immediately take advantage. And
for sure that's a scary team to play. I love that.
So Trevor Lawrence went to a waffle house after the
win last week, Why wouldn't you? Patrick Mahomes says that's
a baller move. He was asked what he did after
his first playoff win, and he's like, hmm, I can't
remember so long ago. I've just one so much because
like I probably had a probably Gore's lights. But then
(21:28):
he was just like maybe if I win. He's like,
maybe if I win, I'll think of something fun to
do this weekend. Like just like, maybe if I win.
He knows. I feel like he has like his whole
schedule planned out are exactly. He already knows where the
parades going in Kansas, Okay. Giants, Eagles, Eagles are favored
by seven and a half. I'm gonna let you take
this one because I know who you're gonna pick. Do
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the Giants keep it close? Do you anticipate stressing out
on Saturday? Yes, because I always stress out when I
watched the Eagles play, and you know, we've watched this
past weekend. We saw a couple division rivals play each other,
and it's just different when you play a third game
against the same team, like you can keep this close.
You the teams know each other so well, so that
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makes me a little nervous. I mean, plus this game
was when they played in Week eighteen, it was close
and the Giants were resting starters and Jalen Hurts obviously
wasn't one, and hopefully he will be better now. But
that is the concern, and it's a major one for me.
That's stressing you out. That jail is not like way
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back to. I mean, he just took so much time off.
That is the concern, Like why not start to I mean,
I guess you want him to be as healthy as
you can have him in the postseason, but like I
don't know, start to get some reps here and there.
If you're able to I feel like they're just they
were just trying to like bubble wrap them a little bit.
And hopefully Lane Johnson on the offensive line will be
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healthy and good because like the Giant's front can can
get after quarterbacks. So that is something that is definitely
on the radar. So on Barkley, he's so good too,
like this whole season. And Daniel Jones was using his legs.
Dany Jones famous. Actually I can't even remember his age.
Now I have the Eagles, but I have them very close.
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I have twenty four, So I feel like the Giants
cover and they keep it close. But it's gonna it's
gonna stress all of us how it's gonna be close.
Favorite Bengals Bills. Bills are favored by five and a half.
I thought that this was gonna be like minus one,
minus three. I don't know. There's just like I know
that the Bills have so much to play for. And
Kyle and I were talking on Tuesday's episode that like,
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could you imagine, I guess the Bills have like a
Buffalo great come out before every single game and like
get the crowd hyped up. Imagine if it's du Mars. No,
I can't plays game go crazy. Oh my god, that
would just be so feel good. Um, so obviously the
Bills have it onto play for. But like the Bengals
went through this as well, Right, the Bengals went through
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the exact like maybe they weren't his teammate, but they
were on the field, they were hugging each other, they
were Jesus distraught. Their reactions were. We're just as animated,
Like you could feel how upset they were, how scared
they were, how stressed they were, how how just like
jarred everyone was. Um, I'll never forgot Joe and Josh
hugging everything, watching everything felt so surreal from that night.
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And yeah, they played for like nine minutes before that happened,
and in those nine minutes it felt like Cincinnati had
all of the momentum in the game and that Cincinnati
and Joe Burrow was just going to have one of
his great games. And then obviously they didn't finish it out.
But I think a lot has changed in a short
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period of time, as in the offensive line for Cincinnati
is going to be a major issue. I think in
this game, even without the Bills having Von Miller, I
still think that they are going to get after Joe Burrow,
and he's not going to have a ton of time,
I know, but I feel like the first couple of
seasons that we followed Joe, who's like Joe has been
hit the most out of any quarterback in the league,
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like over and over and over again. So like that
gives me a little bit of faith. And then also
I've got the Bengals, by the way, I'm taking them
by thirty one thirty. I think it is going to
be such a fun and close game. But then the
Bills they almost lost to the Dolphins. That was scary.
I don't know what that was about. It was very close.
Its weird. Also like against named Skyler. The last time
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the Bills played the Dolphins um in the regular season,
that was the game I was at with the snowballs
and everything else, and that was a close game too,
So I mean they're match up, it's just like not
a great matchup. Are you able to give your prediction
for this game? Are you going to save this one
was the most difficult to pick for me, and I
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went back and forth, But I'm picking the Bills. I'm
sure I will change my mind several times before the game,
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did have the forty Niners winning twenty seven to twenty four,
but I've changed my score forty nine twenty. I think
the Cowboys can can cowboy themselves, you know what I mean?
Like they have they have a tendency of lasts swing
themselves into a loss. Yeah, So I don't know. I
got real nervous watching the fort are the Cowboys the
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past week, Dak Prescott and the offense like Dac was dealing,
he looked so good handled the Bucks, I mean. And
also you can't really, I don't know. It's tough because
the Bucks. I don't have a ton of faith in them,
and I think a lot of us are like exactly like,
and they're hosting a playoff game. Come on, it's just
like a bad division all around. But the Cowboys just
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looked like they finally hit that stride that they needed
at the exact right time. And like the defense too,
with Michael Parsons flying all over the place. Laton vanderessh
so good in this game. But the Niners have won
eleven straight games, like they have had the momentum for
almost the entire season. It feels like, and they're playing
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with brock Purty, and they're making brock Purty look great.
Because when things are going bad for brock Purty like
they were in that first half against Seattle, Kyle Shanahan
uses all of these different ways to scheme up ways
to get brock Purty in a good situation. With Christian
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all of the different tricks in his bag to kind
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of keep the defense off balance. So you also got
to remember the prettiest twenty three not only not only
did he come in and have his first season, he
was the very last person draft that He's in his
first playoff game, Like, I want to give him a
little bit of a like space there to figure it out, like, Okay, yeah,
you had you had your half to screw up and
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let the Seahawks kind of play with you guys, and
then I feel like this game he'll look much better.
I'm picking the Niners, but I did think for a
second about picking the Cowboys because in my heart of hearts,
what I would love to truly happen is for the
Eagles to beat the beat the Giants this week and
then play the Cowboys for the title game. I'm not
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gonna be able to be around to the Super Bowl.
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We were talking about the best and the worst thing
all week and wouldn' the best? All right, this is
the best the worst thing that I saw all week.
(30:18):
Colleen does not know what these are. She is blind reacting.
First things first, here is the best thing that I saw.
Blessed kickers. Okay, God, bless kickers. They do not have
an easy job. Brad ma Her on Monday night missed
how many for Yeah, yeah, but this is this is
what I loved to see. Okay, check out ceedee Lamb
(30:39):
trying to make him feel a little bit better. Good,
good good that I can't I can't imagine walking back
after the fourth miss and just being like, wow, that
is rough, and then to have CD there. I mean,
(31:00):
you saw Dax reaction. It wasn't that for two. It
was not for that. I mean I was like shocked
that Mike McCarthy kept rolling him back out, And I
guess when you're in that situation and you're up big,
you kind of have to just keep putting him out
there to have him go through whatever demons and kind
(31:21):
of get through whatever he needs to because you're going
to need him down the line. He said, You've build
us out plenty of times. Like but I feel like
there is there like a headier position in all of
sports other than like a picture. Oh well, I guess
a quarterback, but you've got multiple chances to you and
(31:43):
you bring the kicker in, especially when it's like a
game winning I couldn't imagine. I could not. I am
not good under pressure. Are you know, I'm I don't know.
It depends, okay, breg like pressures make diamonds. Okay. I
don't really know if I want to put this in
the best category, and I don't know if I want
to put this in the worst category. So it kind
(32:03):
of goes somewhere in the middle. Um, we've got a
clip about Aaron Rodgers talking about something. Let's let's roll. No,
we had all the conversations like we wanted to have
about about football for now. Um, you know they're not
pressing for any type of specific, you know answer, and
I'm not you know, mentally or emotionally at that point
(32:27):
to give one. Do I still think I can play?
Of course? Of course the highest you can win m
v P again, Right situation? Um, right situation? Is that
Green Bay? Or is that somewhere else? I'm not sure.
So he's coming back, right, That is him telling us
that he is for sure going to continue playing football.
(32:48):
Why would you not if you've got that like bone
in your body, that like really competitive bone, which he
said he has, why would you not. I kind of
hope he doesn't go somewhere else. I would love to
see him in a different situation. I mean, I think
Tom Brady asked. I think he probably wants to see
himself in a different situation, and he's probably only going
to come back to Green Bay if they decide to
(33:11):
reload instead of rebuild in like the draft and free agency.
That's going to have a huge part of his decision.
But I hate the fact that he's constantly talking about
m v P titles, Like I don't think that that
it should be. I want a championship right, Like he's
just playing for him That's what an m v P is, Like,
(33:31):
you just want your individual accolades, like you can still
play at a high level and m v P level
that's great. That just really shows the kind of it's
just kind of all my radar a little bit. Okay,
and then the worst thing that I saw all week,
which is which just wasn't necessary, has nothing new with sports,
but it's a real bone that I have to pick. Um.
Do you remember Mr Feenie Wait? Who Mr Finie from
(33:55):
Boy Means World? Oh? Yeah, his wife Okay, I'm wisp spicy.
He's wife came out this week and so that they
have an open marriage really and they do weird stuff. Okay,
So we didn't need it. It's all I'm saying. I
could have done without knowing that that personal detail. Um,
(34:16):
and I think the world probably could have done without it.
But is that just taking applications again? Crazy? Oh my god, spicy,
I had no idea was born in n seven? That
can't be true. So math how old does he hold on?
William Daniels was born? This can't be true. It is
(34:42):
he can't be alive. Yes, he can be a lot.
It's seven is old. No, that's not true. He was
born in fifty two. I was going to say, like,
he looks great. Understand how this is possib and he's
got an open marriage. You know, when we stray from football,
(35:03):
I make sure it's worth it. Okay, just so we're
all on the same page. Okay, that is it. That's
our show. Oh wait, hold on, no, take out the music.
Take out the music. Okay, okay, alright. I asked our
good friend Kyle Rant on this show a question on Monday,
and he refused to answer it. And so now I
have to ask every single person that comes on this
podcast nervous. Are you ready? No? But time? This is
(35:27):
what I didn't tell Kyle, take your time find the
answer that you really want to talk about. Okay, all right,
you die, alright, not not in a scary way. You
just float off. You're dead. You get to come back
to Earth for thirty minutes, and you can't see anyone
that you love because if they saw you, they'd be
like Colleen, you can actually talk to people and people
(35:49):
can see you and you can see them. Okay, so
you're not going to see anybody that you love, no friends,
no family, nothing. Thirty minutes is all you have. You
can eat a meal, you can go to your favorite
bench and have to sit on your favorite place in
the world. And if it doesn't involve any anyone that
I know, No, you can't see anybody that you know
(36:10):
would freak them out. I could go anywhere, anywhere, go
anywhere I want. Is there a place that you've never
been that you just want to take one last glimpse. No,
I would want to go somewhere that I've been so
I know that it's going to be good, and so
I would probably I feel like one of one of
the most beautiful places I've ever been is like the
(36:31):
Positano Coast, and so I would probably go back there
and take like a boat ride all along the coast
and drink some wine and look at the water and
just like, see how beautiful it all is. All it takes, folks.
I love the water. See. I thought you were going
to say that I could come back for a half
(36:52):
hour and be any to be anyone, and be anyone
I wanted for that half hour. Maybe if I asked
that question he would have answered, because in my mind,
I was like, Beyonce have a halftime show. Yeah, oh
my god, that'd be so cool, or like Lady Gaga
for you all of us would be like, what's wrong
with be Okay? That is our show. You see how
(37:13):
easy that was, people, I'm not out of my mind. Uh,
don't forget to subscribe to the show. Follow us on
Instagram and Twitter at bench Underscore pod see everything that
we were talking about. Um, I don't care about some
twenty three year old quarterback. I'm thriving in my thirties
thanks to Colleen. You're coming well, yeah, you next week.
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