December 23, 2022 • 36 mins
Rachel Bonnetta and company are back for a brand new episode of Benched with Bonnetta! To start, Rachel talks about the best Christmas gifts NFL players have given their teammates (4:58).
After the break, Rachel tells you which Week 16 games she's most excited about including Giants-Vikings (15:08), Seahawks-Chiefs (17:55), Eagles-Cowboys (20:17), and Packers-Dolphins (23:14). Rachel wraps the show up with a Mohan's Minute (26:48) and the best and worst things she saw over the last week (30:29).
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
When I woke up this morning, I was feeling pretty
dangerous for tonight. It's my corterback. 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 groceries. And on the way up, we're gonna buy
a knee cap off playoffs. You're kidding me. I'm just
(00:25):
here so I won't get fine. How could he not
be romantic about football? Oh? Welcome to bench with bonetas
the most wonderful time of the year. There is so
much football. We have football on Mondays, we have football
on Thursdays, we have football on Saturdays and Sunday's baby.
(00:46):
Uh guys, it's a couple of days before Christmas. The
studio is all decorated. Mo, when did you do this?
You just keep this up in your car? A little weirdo?
Hete justin. Who is that sitting beside you. We've got
a new friend on this show. Don't wait, Hey, I
want to introduce all of our listeners and viewers to Kendall.
(01:07):
Kendall works on the podcast team. She might fill in
for me every once in a while. If I can't
make it, so say hi Kendall. Hello Kendall. Kendall was
my internet box. No way this person, and you were
like willing to deal with him again. I would like
to say I was not specifically his intern. I was
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on his team. It's not like she was your intern.
What am I gonna should say our interns show? Welcome Kendall.
We're so happy to have you. And I was joking
before this podcast kicked off. We are slowly but surely
becoming an all female team. I don't know, ladies, can
you wave behind those two back? They're all girls on
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this show. I love to see it. Another straggler back there, guys.
That's what made me the most happy this year is
just having a wonderful team to put this show together
every single week, twice a week. Um Madison was a
newcomer this year. Welcome to Madison, NFL Network. I love
all you guys, so thank you for making this show
what it is. Um. I realized last week I came
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in hot on on Friday's show and I was like,
I'm going to see Brad Pitt. I'll tell you guys
everything that happened on Monday. And then we took the
day off. So, guys, Brad Pitt's in love with me.
I just I've been sitting on that egg all week.
He's not. I was actually told by my friend who
invited me to stop staring at him, and I had
to be escorted to the other side of the room.
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Did you approach Jenny Celebs? I didn't know I was standing.
We saw me and my girlfriend saw Olivia Wilde, so
we were like, okay, we need to be in her
vicinity and we just were just like hocus Pocus, were
like like just trying to suck up all of her
power and influence and creativity. Um. Who else we saw?
Everyone saw Marta Robbie saw Brad Pitt. Jean Smart was
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hanging out. Oh my god, who was the guy who was? Um,
Scooter McGavin, What's what'donald him? He was at the Boss.
I don't know. I think him and Jean are Are
they married? Are they just friends? They're dating? In um
Hollywood Reporter buzz together, so they already they were there. Um,
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Brad Pitt was canoodling with a lady. I don't know
who she was. I wish it would be what it wasn't,
But no, I was told to stop staring, so I
adn't got to see him a little bit. I didn't
get to smell him, which is what I really wanted.
But the main point why I bring this up, guys,
Babylon I cried so many times. I couldn't stop crying afterwards.
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Maybe I just had a specific experience. But during the
holiday season, I know there's a lot of people that
like to go and see Christmas movies. That's not something
that I do. But go and see Babylon. And you
said Avatar too is really good? Yeah, I liked it. Yeah, Like,
what is with people? We get it three hours out
of here? What's the maxim movie should be? I'm two
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hours and you better be blowing my socks off. Like,
if it's end Game, you can be too thirty. She
doesn't she knew it was Marvel though. That was pretty good. Whatever,
credit to you. Okay, I need to go see Avatar
two because this is Yeah, you have to see it
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in three D. Let me ask you this. Avatar one
blew our minds. Like visually, I was like, I'm seeing
things that I've never seen before. And guys will get
to the football in a second, but this is important stuff.
I'm seeing things that I've never seen in my life.
Is it the same same? Like? Is he breaking barriers?
For sure? And and I think the plot in two
is better than one. Well, the plot in one is
pretty like it's like the pot in two is better
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than in one. And the visuals are just Okay, there's
your bench tips of the of the year where a
movie podcast. Now, um, okay, we're going to continue this
gift giving. I know lot of people saw this online
on Twitter. This is my favorite time of year when
all of these posts start to come out of quarterbacks
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giving their old alignman. They're like big present at the
end of the year, thank you for protecting me. I'm
going to give you something in return. And it's always
so lavish and always ridiculous. You're like, oh my god,
these guys are so lucky. So we're gonna go through those,
and then I dug up some from the past that
are equally crazy, and let's just decide what the best
gift is. Okay, so let's go through some of these.
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Jamal Williams were kicking it off. Amazing gift. He gave
everyone custom robes with his face on them, which is amazing.
He got his entire offense uh players and coaches custom
robes and images of him flexing as a veteran gift,
and Jonah Jackson said, you know they're comfortable. I will
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not be wearing these again, but hey, if Jamal Williams
wants to send us some, I will happily wear them
on the pod every single day for the rest of
the year. Okay, So that's number one. Patrick mahomes See
seemingly looks like he got his entire team golf clubs. Like,
there's a lot of clubs here. I don't know who
he was giving them too, but he there was a
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bunch of clubs in the picture. I saw. It was
his offensive line. How many offensive linemen are on the cheese? Hey,
you gotta protect that money. Oh my goodness, look at
that tailor mate chout outs. Okay, um, this next one
is a little bit crazy and I disagree with it.
And we're going to talk about this later on in
the show, because I really want to get into this.
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Both Josh Allen and Zach Wilson gave their o lineman
mo pets scooters. I don't know what you want to
call him about their danger Russ what are we doing here? Okay,
those don't look as sketchy as the ones that Zach
Wilson got his team. By the way, they live in
New York. What are we doing here? But they got
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them scooters. I'd be like, bro, what are we doing here? Also,
this is the cringest video I think I've seen all year,
is Zach Wilson just being like, Yeah, what are those
those mopeds? They look like mopeds? Good? They look dangerous.
I said mopeds at the Zach Wilson and Motorcycles earlier.
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I didn't mean it. I didn't say it. Mohn stole
my Twitter and tweeted it, actually, but dangerous like people
are like people are. Do you guys remember a couple
of years ago when uh Patrick Mahomes is playing basketball
and everyone was just like, why are you playing more?
You have your people that are protecting you ripping around
a little mopeds? No chance? Um. I think one of
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my favorites this season is Jared Goff. He got a
bunch of different things for his guys. He got Louis
Baton bag, which is pricey, he got an a t V,
he got a very fancy wash, and he just like
let them pick their own gifts, although I feel like
that's caused for drama, like people would start getting into fights.
I can't participate in a white elephant, I can't participate
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in the santas eel. Feelings are getting hurt. I'm going
for the I'm going for the heart. Okay in those games. Uh,
Daniel Jones and se Quan, guys, what are we doing?
You got everyone's suits and shoes? Come on, and I
feel like everyone has their own style, and what are
we doing? I think they get to like go and
pick out their own style. And I get it. These
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are like big men, so it's probably difficult to find
a suit. But like, I don't know, that's a little
I want a cool watch man. I want a Louie bag.
I want to stroll in. Did you see Jason Kelsey
strolling in with his Louie bag and flip flops the game?
That's a video, I thought, tonight. Uh, and then Jalen
heard speaking of got everyone Louis Vuitton begs because that's
what you do. You get your boys looking good. Oh
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and then you got the quarterback rooms a bunch of Jay's. Okay,
So I wanted a deep dive. I wanted to go
back in time and see what are like some of
the craziest gifts that we have heard of in the past,
and I've got I'm just gonna rhyme a bunch out um.
Jason Kelsey on the New Heights podcast. I believe told
everyone that Carson Wins when he was on the Eagles,
got them all shotguns and took them shooting, and the
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talk about dangerous what are we doing here? Yeah, I
forget about mopeds. You're just straight up buying them guns.
And then I remember, I think last year, I don't
know if it was for Christmas, but he got everyone
coolers with like tomahawks steaks in it. So he is
reeling it back in. He's like, Okay, the shotguns were
probably a bit much. Let me get everyone a yelly
YETI cooler. Um. Adrian Peterson, I don't know if this
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was for Christmas, but he did give everyone after I
think he won m v P the one season got
everyone's snowmobiles. I guess I used to have a snowmobile
parking lot at my high school, which really shows you
where I'm from. Okay, back in sixteen, Joe Flacco gave
the Art Systems, which I'm sure we're sussed back in
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just like a flat screen. No Avatar too, okay, Um,
Jared Goffent Todd Gurley combined to give these like supercards.
I don't even know what they are, but they're like
souped up golf hearts. Uh. Tom Brady gave out a
couple of outies in his day. But here's the ones
that I want to really dissect. And at first glance,
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one of them seems terrible and the other one's just
straight up bad. The Manning brothers, what are y'all doing
around Christmas? One? You're Eli man and gifted his old
Lineman custom jeans. We think suits are bad. Custom jeans.
I get it. These guys are big boys. But like, no,
I could go and get custom jeans, no problem. I
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want to fancy watch. I'll take a shotgun. Okay, I'll
take a day out on the shooting range with my boys.
How do you custom jeans? Come on? Also, when you
say custom jeans, it makes me feel like they're bedazzled,
Like it makes me feel like they've got some flare
to them. Yeah, like just giants on the butt. Maybe
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I'm back and also rude if giants on the butt,
I don't know how I feel about that, okay, And
then I wanted to hear what you guys think about this,
because at first I was like, wait, doing Peyton Payton,
I guess wrote these handwritten letters to not only like
around Christmas, but two guys that he played when they
retired that he played with, Guys that he played against.
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He would write them these hand written letters. And at
first I was like, at the time, you're probably like, oh,
cool letter from Peyton Manning. But like now I feel
like if you're a retired NFL player and like let's
say you like sacked him or intercepted him, or like
you played with him at one point and you have
a handwritten letter from Peyton Manning, like that's pretty big time, right,
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especially like you know, Tom Brady was up in arms
about somebody like asking for an autograph on an intercepted
ball a couple of weeks ago. I think that that's
really nice. He kind of goes above and beyond, and
you actually put thought into it, like sweat my credit
card and here you go. I think the handwritten notes
the way to go, because also, these guys have a
ton of money. They can go and buy their own rolexes.
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They can go and buy their own bugs, their own mopeds.
Can we go back to Zach Wlilson really quick, like
is he trying to buy the team's love or something.
If I were Zack Wilson's PR person, I'd be like,
get your old lineman, you know what you need to
get them and like have that's something that quarterbacks have
to do. You need to go and ball out whatever.
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Maybe it's a publicity stunt, whatever you need to do.
You need to spend money on that defense. Get something
for every single guy, right or if you hante the hand,
write them a know or save your money, Zach Wilson,
because I don't know, can we put justin in jail?
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It's the Christmas season? Okay? I got the Jets winning tonight,
so hopefully when comes out tomorrow, you deserve to be
put in jail. But I was thinking about putting you there.
Um No, you might be right. But if I were there,
if I were them, if I were Zack Wilson, I
think I would have spent a decent dollar on the defense.
But I don't know. They kind of like ruined his
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whole image this year, So maybe he's a little cold
towards them. Anyways, those are some of my favorite gifts
from years past. What I would give for a handwritten
letter from Eli Manning and some custom custom giants on
the bum jeans from Eli. Did I say that right?
Painted in the handwritten Yeah? Okay, guys, after the break,
we are picking some games this week. We're getting there.
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We are almost finito of the regular season, so don't
go any about We'll get to Okay. I first to
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mention one of the craziest ones, and it wasn't a
Christmas gift, but Russell Wilson when he signed his big contract,
you know, when he was in bed with cr and
he had that really weird video and everyone made everyone
really had after all, he gifted his old Lineman twelve
thousand dollars in Amazon stock and that was back in
and he said this whole thing like, I could get
you the watches, I can get you these cool gifts,
but I want to give you something that's gonna last lifetime.
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Can you imagine that? Like now, but ten years from
now when Amazon, oh, the entire world thank you, Russell Wilson,
maybe the best gift giver of all. Yeah, I think
we we gave Russell Wilson a little too much, you know,
teasing on every media platform because it's easy for Christmas.
I just hope Russell realizes that it's too easy and
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we will not like him. He's just made it too easy.
Low hanging fruit. Okay, let's get to these picks. Updated
standings met thirty and one, Mohan and one and right.
You you gotta make some moves, my friend and one.
(14:44):
You guys got to communicate before him. You you just
gotta go the other way to make some moves. We
both went five and oh last week, which is great
for you, Mohan, but didn't gain any ground. I'm waiting
for you to to lose mistake. This is going all
the way. Okay we need to Yeah, for sure, we
need to are picking all the games that we can
make up some ground. I think, oh, ky dunkey. We
are starting with Giants at Vikings. Vikings are favored by
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three and a half. Here is something that I've been
thinking about all week, and you guys tell me if
I'm a grinch or not. Everyone's like Vikings rid It's
come back of all time. Kirk Cousins is like, I
need a minute to process this. I can't believe this
is the biggest got back. It's right, guys, you put
yourselves into this position. Is this something to really celebrate?
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I get it, you Kirk Cousins played like a crazy
second half and all of that. Yes, yes, you guys
put yourself into that position, into that hole that you
had to climb out of. Is that really worth celebrating?
Am I a grinch? I shouldn't have been in that
position to begin with? Your right, I think you gotta
give him credit. I heard a story about Patrick Peterson
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in the locker room at halftime said all we need
is five touchdowns offense. We got you on the defense,
and he was right. And also the Vikings had two
pretty clear defensive touchdowns taken off the board by the
refs and they still manage the greatest come back in
NFL history. And I know, like, yeah, you shouldn't have
been down thirty three zero. But there was some weird
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fluky stuff going on where they like scored on what
do they score on? A blocked punt and a pick
six and some other like the Colts got some weird
touchdowns early on, so it was like they weren't really
out playing the Vikings that bad. Not thirty three nothing bad.
I said, I've been on the fence about this, like
should I just be like, wow, that was so cool?
Like what a fun football game. We're like, why is
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everyone celebrating this? That was a mess. That was an
absolute mass. But I got it. Okay, I'm a branch,
I get it. But I am picking the Vikings, but
I'm picking the Giants to keep it close. I have
Vikings twenty seven and twenty four. I think the Giants
they gotta do what the Colts did. They gotta get
in there early and stay up early and stay there
the whole time. But I ultimately think the Vikings win
because the Vikings are pretty good. I kind of agree
(16:53):
exactly with that. I think it's like a Vikings by
a field goal game. So I'm picking the Giants to
cover the three and a half. But both these games
playing nothing but close games. It feels like every week NonStop.
So if you're a Vikings fan, how have you lived through?
They're ten and oh and one score games, and it's
so crazy because last season it was like pretty much
the opposite. Every single loss was like by one score,
and they had a lot more losses last year, so
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it's very odd. What do you like? I'm also going
with the Giants. I think day Will will keep it close. Um.
The Vikings point differential this season is plus two, which
is insane because they're eleven and three and early in
the playoffs. Yeah, they're one. And they also have the
biggest the second biggest loss of any team this season,
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forty to three to the Cowboys. So that kind of
excuse the point. Okay, weird. See, maybe I'm not the grinch.
Maybe they're fraudulent team and Giants could win that game.
I mean I totally think they could. Totally Maybe the
Commanders right, uh, not that that's saying much. But next up,
Seahawks Chiefs Chiefs favored by ten um. I think that
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this is too much. I think the Chiefs have really
been weird the last few weeks, and so of the
Seahawks as well. But Chiefs listen. They beat the Texans
thirty to twenty four in over time. The fact that
that game even went into overtime is crazy to me.
That they beat the Broncos. Patrick Mahomes had what three
interceptions in that game alone? Um? Did he have any
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interceptions against the Texans? No, But that means he's still
at eleven interceptions on the season. He had thirteen all
season last year alone regular season. So I just feel like, uh,
They're just not like this, like steel solid team that
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they have been in the past. I am still taking
them to win, but definitely not by ten. I've got
the Chiefs thirty to seven over the Seahawks. Just somebody like,
I'm again, I agree with you. I think the Chiefs,
like in Patrick mahomes career, the last couple of years especially,
they have not been good at covering spreads. They've been
great at winning games. But Vegas knows that everyone thinks
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the Chiefs are good, so they inflate the spread a
little bit because they know the money is going to
be on Kansas City. So I'm taking the Seahawks as well.
I just I don't like this many points. It's too
many points in a weird year where it feels like
every week it's a bunch of close games. I also
feel that there is something to these interceptions, Like I
feel like, you know what we love about Patrick Mahomes
is he makes these like crazy throws and it's like
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magic and it's so fun to watch. But like he's
being put into that position to make those crazy throws,
and this year it's not worked out eleven times and
the same as last year, it got a little scrambly
as well. So I just feel like they're not like
that solid like oh, Patrick Moomes is all the time
in the world he has. He's like, it's more crazy scrambly,
you know, the magic that we love, but maybe sometimes
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it doesn't go that way. Well, I'm going to Seahawks
as well. You guys are talking to anti Chiefs and Homes.
I'm gonna go pro Genomes a pro bowler, a pro bowler.
Good for him and Mahomes. Mahomes on Gino said, every
throw he throws is a perfect spiral, which is sin.
You love to see it. Justice for Gino this year.
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I really love to see that so much. Good for him,
Good for him. There was a TikTok about Geno Smith
that made me cry last week. Wow, I'll show you
guys later. Um okay. Up next, we got Eagles at Cowboys,
which is hella interesting, Okay, the rivalry between these two teams.
And then we've got one of my favorites, Gardener Minshew.
I couldn't even say his name without laughing that man
(20:29):
right there, Uncle Coreco it's playing cornback. Let's go Jalen Hurts.
I hope quick recovery. You know we love Jalen Hurts
all of that stuff. But man, when Minshew mania fires
back up, let off the cannons. Baby. I love Gardner
Minshew so much. I'm not getting crazy. I still got
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the Cowboys winning this one because who knows what this
guy's gonna look like. But I have a fun game
for fun purposes thirty to seven. I think that if
the Eagles pull this off, wouldn't that just be so
to Christmas miracle? Wouldn't that be so fun? I think
they can. I mean, do you know what Gardner Minshew
has been doing this week? I don't know, eating eggs
raw so um. Rest in peace the Great Mike Leach.
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Gardner Minshew's college coach passed away a couple of weeks ago,
and Gardner Minshew was at the funeral giving a eulogy
to his college coach, Mike Leach. I think he is
going to ball out this week. He gets to honor
his his college coach with this start. I mean totally
happenstance that he gets to play this week. The week
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of that eulogy. But I think this is gonna be
an epic Gardner Minshew game. You know what I'm changing
my past? Well, I think you had them Puss four
and a half. They're winning this game out right. Yeah,
wouldn't that be so fun? Do you guys remember last
year when he came in and his dad, he had
that beautiful moment with his dad outside and then he
had this crazy like leather jacket like top of the
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ridiculous from me, this beautiful moment with his dad outside.
Oh my god, I just want this guy to win.
I'm going to Cowboys. Uh, it's a must win for
the Cowboys. You can't. There's no excuse. At home. You're
going against a backup quarterback. And if they lose the
Gardner Minshew, they're never going to hear that. But the
other thing about this, and I don't want to, I
don't want to take away from Jalen Hurts in the
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amazing season he's having. But this Eagles team is so
good in every aspect. Every position group is like a strength.
So as well as Jalen Hurts has done this year, Like,
I don't know if it's that big of a drop off.
I think it's going to be a drop off because
Hurts can run, they have the option, and then she
can't run, so that so that might compromise Sanders. I
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don't know, but you might be right, Graver, and we
might be heading into the playoffs being more like this
is such a solid team from front to back because
look at what they did with Gardner Minshew a couple
of weeks, right, and this could hurt Jalen Hurts m
v P Kase when it shows that he's not necessarily
the most valuable player compared to someone like if you
took Patrick my Homes out of the Chiefs, what even
are they? Yeah? Man, as much as I like would
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like to not work this weekend because it's Christmas, I'm
fired up for these games. Baby. I can't wait to
come to work on Saturday and Sunday. It's gonna be
so much fun. Okay. And then finally we've got Packers
at Dolphins. Dolphins favored by three and a half. Um,
you know I'm gonna go Dolphins here. I'm going Dolphinstour
covering it by a little bit. They're back in Miami. Listen,
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they the way that they played in Buffalo listen. I
know that Josh Allen was just like cold is cold.
Everyone feels the cold, but then when you get listen,
I am such a baby when I go home now
to the cold weather, like when you get used to
a certain climate. I think what they did in Buffalo
was like a pretty impressive feat people throwing snowballs, like
(23:47):
what are we doing here, and the fact that they
put up that big of a fight in that climate
against a really incredible team. Packers are not coming anywhere
near them. I'm sorry, it's just not happening. The Packers
beat the Rams, Okay, cool, everyone else could probably do
that too. We still love the Baker. I'm going Dolphins here,
justin what do you what do you like? I am
(24:08):
also taking the Dolphins to cover. This is a really
interesting game to me because the Dolphins have lost three
straight and I really don't they were kind of in
all of those games. Yeah they were, and I mean
they had an eight point lead in the fourth quarter
in Buffalo and they and they let it that one
get away. But the Packers have also you know, they're
trying to do that run the table thing where the
Aaron Rodgers wants to like make the playoffs for his
(24:28):
last I don't know if this is his last year
in in Green Bay, but it could be, so you know,
he doesn't want to give up easily, so this could
be a fun game. But I just feel like the
Dolphins have been looking for that get right week and
it's coming soon, and it could be this week and
they could put up like forty points on the Packers. Obviously,
to his concussion is so brutal on like so many levels,
(24:51):
but like it really bums me out because this season
could have been so much different. Like I feel like
the latter half of the season, they could have just
continued to be so strong and so dominant, and that
really just like kind of bumped me out. I like
the Dolphins to um And speaking of Pro Bowls too,
didn't make the Pro Bowl even though he led the
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fan vote, so that means the players and coaches didn't
vote him. Granted, Mahomes, Allen, and Burrow we are better
and they can only pick three and they deserve it.
They deserve it. But that being said, and also to
Rachel's point, if he played the whole season, he might
also just like a career of being slighted and and
it's like worked with him, Like, I don't really don't think.
Can someone explain the point of the fan votes if
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the top vote get or doesn't even make it like
they didn't carry enough to me, he's fired up. I've
never seen himself fired I don't know. I think it
just like probably makes the player feel like I'm sure too.
It was like, wow, that was really cool. Yeah, but
it probably made him feel really good. It probably would
have felt better if he got in. They'll be motivated, motivation,
(25:53):
it's not balanced correctly, Mike McDaniel, get him motivated in
the right way. That's true. I like it, that's true.
You know, he will wish what I wish. If I
could just like sit down and just be on a
be the waiter to Tuah and and Mike mc daniel
having dinner, Just be the waiter, just hey, is your
food okay? Everything's good? Yeah? No, okay, you're having fun?
(26:15):
You like that steak? Okay? I love it, And just
like kind of just like be folding napkins over here
and just listening to everything that they're saying. God, wouldn't
that be fun? Wouldn't that be fun? Okay? That is
our picks? Best of luck, to everybody going into this
week coming up after the break, the best and the
worst thing that I saw. Zach Wilson's involved in the
worst and he always will be. Billion of time. Don't
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go anywhere, guys. I'm so disappointed to say this on
this podcast, but everyone that works on this show apparently
calls it bagel. Yeah, said there's bagel. No, it's not
(27:00):
definitely bagel. My mom is Jewish. I think I would know. Okay,
you don't have to make it feel bad about it.
Got all right. In the spirit of getting things wrong,
I was just curious. I was thinking about is there
a thing or a saying or a lyric that you
got like I did wrong, or in your head thought
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was something else your whole life, like a song or
or even like for example, when I was little. I
don't know what I was thinking about this. When I
was little, I thought drinking and driving meant you can't
drink anything while you drive, So like when my dad
would take me to school, it would be drinking coffee,
and I would like get to school and be like,
oh my god, my dad drinks and draft, but I don't.
For some reason, I never asked him that, And then
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I was like old enough to realize, wait a minute,
you can you like drinking and driving is something else?
But that's a classic. I feel like that's a classic
missing misunderstanding. But I'm wondering if you guys had not
that specifically, but if there's anything a saying that you
thought was one thing? Song? What is it dude looks
like a lady? Or is it do it like a lady?
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Do it like a lady? It's dude looks like which,
to be honest, maybe we should change it to that.
In I thought that, um, my parents, I want to
go see spy kids when I was younger. Fantastic flick.
Add that to the movie Rex on this podcast, Um,
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and I thought that my parents were spies for a while.
This maybe isn't a good answer to that question, but
this is just what popped into my head. I thought
my I convinced myself that my parents were spies, and
then I didn't talk to them for a week upon
finding out that they were not. And I went into
my dad's truck and I was convinced that I was
going to be able to find like little gadgets and
like little but I was like looking at the events
I was like looking at the thing and I was
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just like, they're not spies, and that is devastating to me.
That's the only thing that comes to mind, though. There
was did you watch Goosebumps or read Goosebumps? There's one
It was don't go in the Basement and it was
like a garden thing. I'm gonna batch it. But the dad,
real dad was like in the basement and the other
dad that was walking around was like the fake dad.
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I remember that one for they did a they did
a video and that was a converted to TV. Yeah,
I thought my dad was my dad. This is gonna
be so annoying. This is gonna be the kind of
thing that we all come up with our answers that
like a midnight Tonight like yeah, well maybe I know
there's like a hundred things that I misconstrued, but I
can't think of any right now. On the spot, I
look old. There's justin I feel like you like justin
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timber Like. But there's a justin timber Like song. I
forget the name, but it was, um, I just can't
crack crack your code, and I thought it was I
just can't catch her cold. I thought it was Minneapolis
up until about two years ago. And you also thought
Bagel was bag old until about one thirty seconds ago.
(29:51):
I remember we were there for the Super Bowl and
I was there on a visa shoot and we had
this whole crew standing outside and the rain and the
cold starting to snow, and all I had to do
was like, welcome to Minneapolis, home of the super Bowl.
And I just kept on saying welcome to Minnianapolis, Welcome
to Minnianapolis. And they were like, just say the name,
and I couldn't. I have a friend who thought that
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you shook me all night long, was you should be
all night long? Like you should be all night long. Okay,
yours tops the list. That's the most ridiculous thing I've
ever heard. Okay, time for best worst. Thank you for that, Mohan,
the best thing I saw or heard all week. I'm
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sure everyone saw this. It was so beautiful. Jeremy Reeves
getting name to the Pro Bowl list. Do we have
the video? Let's all just have a little cry. Okay,
take a look at this Probabowl Special teams. Guy, you're
the starter. You already young man, and I know your
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mom would be proud you wearned a young man who
he wouldn't stop. All right, now, you earned it. Like
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I said, man, I just appreciate you trusting me for you.
I know you went to well. I appreciate you. I'm
very proud of you. I really am. Not you weren't
a young man so sweet? That was viral today and
then afterwards I saw this thing and Siciliana tweeted out,
you wonder why Jeremy Reeves got emotional when told by
(31:51):
riverboat round then he made Pro Bowl. Uh, just just
listen to this. I'm not gonna go all the way
through it because it's ridiculous. But signed as an undrafted
free agent, way sign of the practice squad, released from
the practice squad, signed of the practice squad, sign of
the active roster squad, waved in sign of the practice squad,
and it goes on and on or not. This guy
has been through so much all over the map, always
(32:12):
with Washington, with Philadelphia. UM. I think that that's why
he was getting so much. And I love that his teammate,
trust Wade wanted to be in the room so bad.
He was like more excited for his teammate to be
He also recently lost his mom, which is why Ron
Rivere is like, your mom would be so proud. It's
a really beautiful moment. It's really good. That's the best
thing that I saw all week and probably for the
(32:33):
rest of the year. Another good thing that I saw. Guys,
what are we doing? Really hard? Left turn? Gronk tweeted
saying he's bored. What are we doing? Uh? Gronk says
he's bored. You better be coming back with like I
want fireworks, I I want everything, I want the biggest
Does he go to the box? Where does he go?
Does he go back to the Patriots? He might be
(32:54):
so bored that he knew if he tweeted this that
we would be talking about even if no, Ye, yes,
Like Gronk is, I don't think. I don't think Brady
wants Mr Brady knows it's over. I mean, played pretty
decently well, a bunch of touchdowns. I mean, the Bucks
could use all the hell they could get right now,
I don't even do anything, and they're still on track
to at least make the playoffs and would probably play
(33:16):
the Cowboys in the first round. We called this, We
called this. We should have brought back the clips from
the summer because we're like, oh, he's retiring. But right
before the playoffs, Graver, I feel like you said this
he's Graver said Brady was going to retire. I did
say Brady would retire mid season, which I feel like
he was a coin flip away from possibly you said
that because you Rachel, you thought it was gonna be
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like a w W E return, right Gronk, I did
say it was okay. And then the final great thing
that I saw this week te Higgins. I guess his
mom said if the ball touches in your hand, catch it,
and then higintend my bad. Mom's right. Get more athletes
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parents on Twitter. You know, I don't even care if
it don't be Jay's dad, kareem Ons dad causing all
of the problems, or tee Higgins mom. I want to
see more athletes parents just chatting it up on Twitter
so that we have wanted to talk about just reacting
like fans. Uh. And then the worst thing I saw
has got to be this video. I can't stop watching
it because it's so painful. And Jack Wilson given these
(34:21):
dang mopens away for a Christmas gift to his alignment,
just like it's like it's like the rich kid. This
little hand just when you're growing up, the rich kid
from your neighborhood and he just like wants to like
buy expensive stuff to buy friends. Yes, in the cool group. Yeah,
likes what I'm saying, Like Zack, your teammates like Mike White,
(34:42):
they wore his T shirts better than they like. You.
Truly have watched that video like seventeen times today because
I keep on back to the biggest Jack Wilson, the
story that we've talked about, and I'm like, well, that's
the other thing. The other thing that makes Mohun's point
so good, is it it reminds you of a rich
kid in high schools because he looks like totally does
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Oh my gosh, Okay, we'll shout us. He looks like
the star of a Disney Channel high school football type
of maybe Disney you're watching Disney Channel. I love those steps. Okay, guys,
that is it. That is all. That's it for our show.
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but in the meantime, happy holidays, y
When I woke up this morning, I was feeling pretty
dangerous for tonight. It's my corterback. 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 groceries. And on the way up, we're gonna buy
a knee cap off playoffs. You're kidding me. I'm just
(00:25):
here so I won't get fine. How could he not
be romantic about football? Oh? Welcome to bench with bonetas
the most wonderful time of the year. There is so
much football. We have football on Mondays, we have football
on Thursdays, we have football on Saturdays and Sunday's baby.
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Uh guys, it's a couple of days before Christmas. The
studio is all decorated. Mo, when did you do this?
You just keep this up in your car? A little weirdo?
Hete justin. Who is that sitting beside you. We've got
a new friend on this show. Don't wait, Hey, I
want to introduce all of our listeners and viewers to Kendall.
(01:07):
Kendall works on the podcast team. She might fill in
for me every once in a while. If I can't
make it, so say hi Kendall. Hello Kendall. Kendall was
my internet box. No way this person, and you were
like willing to deal with him again. I would like
to say I was not specifically his intern. I was
(01:27):
on his team. It's not like she was your intern.
What am I gonna should say our interns show? Welcome Kendall.
We're so happy to have you. And I was joking
before this podcast kicked off. We are slowly but surely
becoming an all female team. I don't know, ladies, can
you wave behind those two back? They're all girls on
(01:50):
this show. I love to see it. Another straggler back there, guys.
That's what made me the most happy this year is
just having a wonderful team to put this show together
every single week, twice a week. Um Madison was a
newcomer this year. Welcome to Madison, NFL Network. I love
all you guys, so thank you for making this show
what it is. Um. I realized last week I came
(02:13):
in hot on on Friday's show and I was like,
I'm going to see Brad Pitt. I'll tell you guys
everything that happened on Monday. And then we took the
day off. So, guys, Brad Pitt's in love with me.
I just I've been sitting on that egg all week.
He's not. I was actually told by my friend who
invited me to stop staring at him, and I had
to be escorted to the other side of the room.
(02:34):
Did you approach Jenny Celebs? I didn't know I was standing.
We saw me and my girlfriend saw Olivia Wilde, so
we were like, okay, we need to be in her
vicinity and we just were just like hocus Pocus, were
like like just trying to suck up all of her
power and influence and creativity. Um. Who else we saw?
Everyone saw Marta Robbie saw Brad Pitt. Jean Smart was
(02:56):
hanging out. Oh my god, who was the guy who was? Um,
Scooter McGavin, What's what'donald him? He was at the Boss.
I don't know. I think him and Jean are Are
they married? Are they just friends? They're dating? In um
Hollywood Reporter buzz together, so they already they were there. Um,
(03:19):
Brad Pitt was canoodling with a lady. I don't know
who she was. I wish it would be what it wasn't,
But no, I was told to stop staring, so I
adn't got to see him a little bit. I didn't
get to smell him, which is what I really wanted.
But the main point why I bring this up, guys,
Babylon I cried so many times. I couldn't stop crying afterwards.
(03:39):
Maybe I just had a specific experience. But during the
holiday season, I know there's a lot of people that
like to go and see Christmas movies. That's not something
that I do. But go and see Babylon. And you
said Avatar too is really good? Yeah, I liked it. Yeah, Like,
what is with people? We get it three hours out
of here? What's the maxim movie should be? I'm two
(04:00):
hours and you better be blowing my socks off. Like,
if it's end Game, you can be too thirty. She
doesn't she knew it was Marvel though. That was pretty good. Whatever,
credit to you. Okay, I need to go see Avatar
two because this is Yeah, you have to see it
(04:21):
in three D. Let me ask you this. Avatar one
blew our minds. Like visually, I was like, I'm seeing
things that I've never seen before. And guys will get
to the football in a second, but this is important stuff.
I'm seeing things that I've never seen in my life.
Is it the same same? Like? Is he breaking barriers?
For sure? And and I think the plot in two
is better than one. Well, the plot in one is
pretty like it's like the pot in two is better
(04:47):
than in one. And the visuals are just Okay, there's
your bench tips of the of the year where a
movie podcast. Now, um, okay, we're going to continue this
gift giving. I know lot of people saw this online
on Twitter. This is my favorite time of year when
all of these posts start to come out of quarterbacks
(05:07):
giving their old alignman. They're like big present at the
end of the year, thank you for protecting me. I'm
going to give you something in return. And it's always
so lavish and always ridiculous. You're like, oh my god,
these guys are so lucky. So we're gonna go through those,
and then I dug up some from the past that
are equally crazy, and let's just decide what the best
gift is. Okay, so let's go through some of these.
(05:28):
Jamal Williams were kicking it off. Amazing gift. He gave
everyone custom robes with his face on them, which is amazing.
He got his entire offense uh players and coaches custom
robes and images of him flexing as a veteran gift,
and Jonah Jackson said, you know they're comfortable. I will
(05:49):
not be wearing these again, but hey, if Jamal Williams
wants to send us some, I will happily wear them
on the pod every single day for the rest of
the year. Okay, So that's number one. Patrick mahomes See
seemingly looks like he got his entire team golf clubs. Like,
there's a lot of clubs here. I don't know who
he was giving them too, but he there was a
(06:09):
bunch of clubs in the picture. I saw. It was
his offensive line. How many offensive linemen are on the cheese? Hey,
you gotta protect that money. Oh my goodness, look at
that tailor mate chout outs. Okay, um, this next one
is a little bit crazy and I disagree with it.
And we're going to talk about this later on in
the show, because I really want to get into this.
(06:30):
Both Josh Allen and Zach Wilson gave their o lineman
mo pets scooters. I don't know what you want to
call him about their danger Russ what are we doing here? Okay,
those don't look as sketchy as the ones that Zach
Wilson got his team. By the way, they live in
New York. What are we doing here? But they got
(06:52):
them scooters. I'd be like, bro, what are we doing here? Also,
this is the cringest video I think I've seen all year,
is Zach Wilson just being like, Yeah, what are those
those mopeds? They look like mopeds? Good? They look dangerous.
I said mopeds at the Zach Wilson and Motorcycles earlier.
(07:15):
I didn't mean it. I didn't say it. Mohn stole
my Twitter and tweeted it, actually, but dangerous like people
are like people are. Do you guys remember a couple
of years ago when uh Patrick Mahomes is playing basketball
and everyone was just like, why are you playing more?
You have your people that are protecting you ripping around
a little mopeds? No chance? Um. I think one of
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my favorites this season is Jared Goff. He got a
bunch of different things for his guys. He got Louis
Baton bag, which is pricey, he got an a t V,
he got a very fancy wash, and he just like
let them pick their own gifts, although I feel like
that's caused for drama, like people would start getting into fights.
I can't participate in a white elephant, I can't participate
(07:59):
in the santas eel. Feelings are getting hurt. I'm going
for the I'm going for the heart. Okay in those games. Uh,
Daniel Jones and se Quan, guys, what are we doing?
You got everyone's suits and shoes? Come on, and I
feel like everyone has their own style, and what are
we doing? I think they get to like go and
pick out their own style. And I get it. These
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are like big men, so it's probably difficult to find
a suit. But like, I don't know, that's a little
I want a cool watch man. I want a Louie bag.
I want to stroll in. Did you see Jason Kelsey
strolling in with his Louie bag and flip flops the game?
That's a video, I thought, tonight. Uh, and then Jalen
heard speaking of got everyone Louis Vuitton begs because that's
what you do. You get your boys looking good. Oh
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and then you got the quarterback rooms a bunch of Jay's. Okay,
So I wanted a deep dive. I wanted to go
back in time and see what are like some of
the craziest gifts that we have heard of in the past,
and I've got I'm just gonna rhyme a bunch out um.
Jason Kelsey on the New Heights podcast. I believe told
everyone that Carson Wins when he was on the Eagles,
got them all shotguns and took them shooting, and the
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talk about dangerous what are we doing here? Yeah, I
forget about mopeds. You're just straight up buying them guns.
And then I remember, I think last year, I don't
know if it was for Christmas, but he got everyone
coolers with like tomahawks steaks in it. So he is
reeling it back in. He's like, Okay, the shotguns were
probably a bit much. Let me get everyone a yelly
YETI cooler. Um. Adrian Peterson, I don't know if this
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was for Christmas, but he did give everyone after I
think he won m v P the one season got
everyone's snowmobiles. I guess I used to have a snowmobile
parking lot at my high school, which really shows you
where I'm from. Okay, back in sixteen, Joe Flacco gave
the Art Systems, which I'm sure we're sussed back in
(09:49):
just like a flat screen. No Avatar too, okay, Um,
Jared Goffent Todd Gurley combined to give these like supercards.
I don't even know what they are, but they're like
souped up golf hearts. Uh. Tom Brady gave out a
couple of outies in his day. But here's the ones
that I want to really dissect. And at first glance,
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one of them seems terrible and the other one's just
straight up bad. The Manning brothers, what are y'all doing
around Christmas? One? You're Eli man and gifted his old
Lineman custom jeans. We think suits are bad. Custom jeans.
I get it. These guys are big boys. But like, no,
I could go and get custom jeans, no problem. I
(10:30):
want to fancy watch. I'll take a shotgun. Okay, I'll
take a day out on the shooting range with my boys.
How do you custom jeans? Come on? Also, when you
say custom jeans, it makes me feel like they're bedazzled,
Like it makes me feel like they've got some flare
to them. Yeah, like just giants on the butt. Maybe
(10:52):
I'm back and also rude if giants on the butt,
I don't know how I feel about that, okay, And
then I wanted to hear what you guys think about this,
because at first I was like, wait, doing Peyton Payton,
I guess wrote these handwritten letters to not only like
around Christmas, but two guys that he played when they
retired that he played with, Guys that he played against.
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He would write them these hand written letters. And at
first I was like, at the time, you're probably like, oh,
cool letter from Peyton Manning. But like now I feel
like if you're a retired NFL player and like let's
say you like sacked him or intercepted him, or like
you played with him at one point and you have
a handwritten letter from Peyton Manning, like that's pretty big time, right,
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especially like you know, Tom Brady was up in arms
about somebody like asking for an autograph on an intercepted
ball a couple of weeks ago. I think that that's
really nice. He kind of goes above and beyond, and
you actually put thought into it, like sweat my credit
card and here you go. I think the handwritten notes
the way to go, because also, these guys have a
ton of money. They can go and buy their own rolexes.
(11:55):
They can go and buy their own bugs, their own mopeds.
Can we go back to Zach Wlilson really quick, like
is he trying to buy the team's love or something.
If I were Zack Wilson's PR person, I'd be like,
get your old lineman, you know what you need to
get them and like have that's something that quarterbacks have
to do. You need to go and ball out whatever.
(12:17):
Maybe it's a publicity stunt, whatever you need to do.
You need to spend money on that defense. Get something
for every single guy, right or if you hante the hand,
write them a know or save your money, Zach Wilson,
because I don't know, can we put justin in jail?
(12:38):
It's the Christmas season? Okay? I got the Jets winning tonight,
so hopefully when comes out tomorrow, you deserve to be
put in jail. But I was thinking about putting you there.
Um No, you might be right. But if I were there,
if I were them, if I were Zack Wilson, I
think I would have spent a decent dollar on the defense.
But I don't know. They kind of like ruined his
(12:58):
whole image this year, So maybe he's a little cold
towards them. Anyways, those are some of my favorite gifts
from years past. What I would give for a handwritten
letter from Eli Manning and some custom custom giants on
the bum jeans from Eli. Did I say that right?
Painted in the handwritten Yeah? Okay, guys, after the break,
we are picking some games this week. We're getting there.
(13:21):
We are almost finito of the regular season, so don't
go any about We'll get to Okay. I first to
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mention one of the craziest ones, and it wasn't a
Christmas gift, but Russell Wilson when he signed his big contract,
you know, when he was in bed with cr and
he had that really weird video and everyone made everyone
really had after all, he gifted his old Lineman twelve
thousand dollars in Amazon stock and that was back in
and he said this whole thing like, I could get
you the watches, I can get you these cool gifts,
but I want to give you something that's gonna last lifetime.
(14:03):
Can you imagine that? Like now, but ten years from
now when Amazon, oh, the entire world thank you, Russell Wilson,
maybe the best gift giver of all. Yeah, I think
we we gave Russell Wilson a little too much, you know,
teasing on every media platform because it's easy for Christmas.
I just hope Russell realizes that it's too easy and
(14:24):
we will not like him. He's just made it too easy.
Low hanging fruit. Okay, let's get to these picks. Updated
standings met thirty and one, Mohan and one and right.
You you gotta make some moves, my friend and one.
(14:44):
You guys got to communicate before him. You you just
gotta go the other way to make some moves. We
both went five and oh last week, which is great
for you, Mohan, but didn't gain any ground. I'm waiting
for you to to lose mistake. This is going all
the way. Okay we need to Yeah, for sure, we
need to are picking all the games that we can
make up some ground. I think, oh, ky dunkey. We
are starting with Giants at Vikings. Vikings are favored by
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three and a half. Here is something that I've been
thinking about all week, and you guys tell me if
I'm a grinch or not. Everyone's like Vikings rid It's
come back of all time. Kirk Cousins is like, I
need a minute to process this. I can't believe this
is the biggest got back. It's right, guys, you put
yourselves into this position. Is this something to really celebrate?
(15:28):
I get it, you Kirk Cousins played like a crazy
second half and all of that. Yes, yes, you guys
put yourself into that position, into that hole that you
had to climb out of. Is that really worth celebrating?
Am I a grinch? I shouldn't have been in that
position to begin with? Your right, I think you gotta
give him credit. I heard a story about Patrick Peterson
(15:49):
in the locker room at halftime said all we need
is five touchdowns offense. We got you on the defense,
and he was right. And also the Vikings had two
pretty clear defensive touchdowns taken off the board by the
refs and they still manage the greatest come back in
NFL history. And I know, like, yeah, you shouldn't have
been down thirty three zero. But there was some weird
(16:11):
fluky stuff going on where they like scored on what
do they score on? A blocked punt and a pick
six and some other like the Colts got some weird
touchdowns early on, so it was like they weren't really
out playing the Vikings that bad. Not thirty three nothing bad.
I said, I've been on the fence about this, like
should I just be like, wow, that was so cool?
Like what a fun football game. We're like, why is
(16:31):
everyone celebrating this? That was a mess. That was an
absolute mass. But I got it. Okay, I'm a branch,
I get it. But I am picking the Vikings, but
I'm picking the Giants to keep it close. I have
Vikings twenty seven and twenty four. I think the Giants
they gotta do what the Colts did. They gotta get
in there early and stay up early and stay there
the whole time. But I ultimately think the Vikings win
because the Vikings are pretty good. I kind of agree
(16:53):
exactly with that. I think it's like a Vikings by
a field goal game. So I'm picking the Giants to
cover the three and a half. But both these games
playing nothing but close games. It feels like every week NonStop.
So if you're a Vikings fan, how have you lived through?
They're ten and oh and one score games, and it's
so crazy because last season it was like pretty much
the opposite. Every single loss was like by one score,
and they had a lot more losses last year, so
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it's very odd. What do you like? I'm also going
with the Giants. I think day Will will keep it close. Um.
The Vikings point differential this season is plus two, which
is insane because they're eleven and three and early in
the playoffs. Yeah, they're one. And they also have the
biggest the second biggest loss of any team this season,
(17:34):
forty to three to the Cowboys. So that kind of
excuse the point. Okay, weird. See, maybe I'm not the grinch.
Maybe they're fraudulent team and Giants could win that game.
I mean I totally think they could. Totally Maybe the
Commanders right, uh, not that that's saying much. But next up,
Seahawks Chiefs Chiefs favored by ten um. I think that
(17:58):
this is too much. I think the Chiefs have really
been weird the last few weeks, and so of the
Seahawks as well. But Chiefs listen. They beat the Texans
thirty to twenty four in over time. The fact that
that game even went into overtime is crazy to me.
That they beat the Broncos. Patrick Mahomes had what three
interceptions in that game alone? Um? Did he have any
(18:21):
interceptions against the Texans? No, But that means he's still
at eleven interceptions on the season. He had thirteen all
season last year alone regular season. So I just feel like, uh,
They're just not like this, like steel solid team that
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they have been in the past. I am still taking
them to win, but definitely not by ten. I've got
the Chiefs thirty to seven over the Seahawks. Just somebody like,
I'm again, I agree with you. I think the Chiefs,
like in Patrick mahomes career, the last couple of years especially,
they have not been good at covering spreads. They've been
great at winning games. But Vegas knows that everyone thinks
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the Chiefs are good, so they inflate the spread a
little bit because they know the money is going to
be on Kansas City. So I'm taking the Seahawks as well.
I just I don't like this many points. It's too
many points in a weird year where it feels like
every week it's a bunch of close games. I also
feel that there is something to these interceptions, Like I
feel like, you know what we love about Patrick Mahomes
is he makes these like crazy throws and it's like
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magic and it's so fun to watch. But like he's
being put into that position to make those crazy throws,
and this year it's not worked out eleven times and
the same as last year, it got a little scrambly
as well. So I just feel like they're not like
that solid like oh, Patrick Moomes is all the time
in the world he has. He's like, it's more crazy scrambly,
you know, the magic that we love, but maybe sometimes
(19:44):
it doesn't go that way. Well, I'm going to Seahawks
as well. You guys are talking to anti Chiefs and Homes.
I'm gonna go pro Genomes a pro bowler, a pro bowler.
Good for him and Mahomes. Mahomes on Gino said, every
throw he throws is a perfect spiral, which is sin.
You love to see it. Justice for Gino this year.
(20:07):
I really love to see that so much. Good for him,
Good for him. There was a TikTok about Geno Smith
that made me cry last week. Wow, I'll show you
guys later. Um okay. Up next, we got Eagles at Cowboys,
which is hella interesting, Okay, the rivalry between these two teams.
And then we've got one of my favorites, Gardener Minshew.
I couldn't even say his name without laughing that man
(20:29):
right there, Uncle Coreco it's playing cornback. Let's go Jalen Hurts.
I hope quick recovery. You know we love Jalen Hurts
all of that stuff. But man, when Minshew mania fires
back up, let off the cannons. Baby. I love Gardner
Minshew so much. I'm not getting crazy. I still got
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the Cowboys winning this one because who knows what this
guy's gonna look like. But I have a fun game
for fun purposes thirty to seven. I think that if
the Eagles pull this off, wouldn't that just be so
to Christmas miracle? Wouldn't that be so fun? I think
they can. I mean, do you know what Gardner Minshew
has been doing this week? I don't know, eating eggs
raw so um. Rest in peace the Great Mike Leach.
(21:14):
Gardner Minshew's college coach passed away a couple of weeks ago,
and Gardner Minshew was at the funeral giving a eulogy
to his college coach, Mike Leach. I think he is
going to ball out this week. He gets to honor
his his college coach with this start. I mean totally
happenstance that he gets to play this week. The week
(21:36):
of that eulogy. But I think this is gonna be
an epic Gardner Minshew game. You know what I'm changing
my past? Well, I think you had them Puss four
and a half. They're winning this game out right. Yeah,
wouldn't that be so fun? Do you guys remember last
year when he came in and his dad, he had
that beautiful moment with his dad outside and then he
had this crazy like leather jacket like top of the
(22:00):
ridiculous from me, this beautiful moment with his dad outside.
Oh my god, I just want this guy to win.
I'm going to Cowboys. Uh, it's a must win for
the Cowboys. You can't. There's no excuse. At home. You're
going against a backup quarterback. And if they lose the
Gardner Minshew, they're never going to hear that. But the
other thing about this, and I don't want to, I
don't want to take away from Jalen Hurts in the
(22:22):
amazing season he's having. But this Eagles team is so
good in every aspect. Every position group is like a strength.
So as well as Jalen Hurts has done this year, Like,
I don't know if it's that big of a drop off.
I think it's going to be a drop off because
Hurts can run, they have the option, and then she
can't run, so that so that might compromise Sanders. I
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don't know, but you might be right, Graver, and we
might be heading into the playoffs being more like this
is such a solid team from front to back because
look at what they did with Gardner Minshew a couple
of weeks, right, and this could hurt Jalen Hurts m
v P Kase when it shows that he's not necessarily
the most valuable player compared to someone like if you
took Patrick my Homes out of the Chiefs, what even
are they? Yeah? Man, as much as I like would
(23:04):
like to not work this weekend because it's Christmas, I'm
fired up for these games. Baby. I can't wait to
come to work on Saturday and Sunday. It's gonna be
so much fun. Okay. And then finally we've got Packers
at Dolphins. Dolphins favored by three and a half. Um,
you know I'm gonna go Dolphins here. I'm going Dolphinstour
covering it by a little bit. They're back in Miami. Listen,
(23:25):
they the way that they played in Buffalo listen. I
know that Josh Allen was just like cold is cold.
Everyone feels the cold, but then when you get listen,
I am such a baby when I go home now
to the cold weather, like when you get used to
a certain climate. I think what they did in Buffalo
was like a pretty impressive feat people throwing snowballs, like
(23:47):
what are we doing here, and the fact that they
put up that big of a fight in that climate
against a really incredible team. Packers are not coming anywhere
near them. I'm sorry, it's just not happening. The Packers
beat the Rams, Okay, cool, everyone else could probably do
that too. We still love the Baker. I'm going Dolphins here,
justin what do you what do you like? I am
(24:08):
also taking the Dolphins to cover. This is a really
interesting game to me because the Dolphins have lost three
straight and I really don't they were kind of in
all of those games. Yeah they were, and I mean
they had an eight point lead in the fourth quarter
in Buffalo and they and they let it that one
get away. But the Packers have also you know, they're
trying to do that run the table thing where the
Aaron Rodgers wants to like make the playoffs for his
(24:28):
last I don't know if this is his last year
in in Green Bay, but it could be, so you know,
he doesn't want to give up easily, so this could
be a fun game. But I just feel like the
Dolphins have been looking for that get right week and
it's coming soon, and it could be this week and
they could put up like forty points on the Packers. Obviously,
to his concussion is so brutal on like so many levels,
(24:51):
but like it really bums me out because this season
could have been so much different. Like I feel like
the latter half of the season, they could have just
continued to be so strong and so dominant, and that
really just like kind of bumped me out. I like
the Dolphins to um And speaking of Pro Bowls too,
didn't make the Pro Bowl even though he led the
(25:11):
fan vote, so that means the players and coaches didn't
vote him. Granted, Mahomes, Allen, and Burrow we are better
and they can only pick three and they deserve it.
They deserve it. But that being said, and also to
Rachel's point, if he played the whole season, he might
also just like a career of being slighted and and
it's like worked with him, Like, I don't really don't think.
Can someone explain the point of the fan votes if
(25:32):
the top vote get or doesn't even make it like
they didn't carry enough to me, he's fired up. I've
never seen himself fired I don't know. I think it
just like probably makes the player feel like I'm sure too.
It was like, wow, that was really cool. Yeah, but
it probably made him feel really good. It probably would
have felt better if he got in. They'll be motivated, motivation,
(25:53):
it's not balanced correctly, Mike McDaniel, get him motivated in
the right way. That's true. I like it, that's true.
You know, he will wish what I wish. If I
could just like sit down and just be on a
be the waiter to Tuah and and Mike mc daniel
having dinner, Just be the waiter, just hey, is your
food okay? Everything's good? Yeah? No, okay, you're having fun?
(26:15):
You like that steak? Okay? I love it, And just
like kind of just like be folding napkins over here
and just listening to everything that they're saying. God, wouldn't
that be fun? Wouldn't that be fun? Okay? That is
our picks? Best of luck, to everybody going into this
week coming up after the break, the best and the
worst thing that I saw. Zach Wilson's involved in the
worst and he always will be. Billion of time. Don't
(26:36):
go anywhere, guys. I'm so disappointed to say this on
this podcast, but everyone that works on this show apparently
calls it bagel. Yeah, said there's bagel. No, it's not
(27:00):
definitely bagel. My mom is Jewish. I think I would know. Okay,
you don't have to make it feel bad about it.
Got all right. In the spirit of getting things wrong,
I was just curious. I was thinking about is there
a thing or a saying or a lyric that you
got like I did wrong, or in your head thought
(27:21):
was something else your whole life, like a song or
or even like for example, when I was little. I
don't know what I was thinking about this. When I
was little, I thought drinking and driving meant you can't
drink anything while you drive, So like when my dad
would take me to school, it would be drinking coffee,
and I would like get to school and be like,
oh my god, my dad drinks and draft, but I don't.
For some reason, I never asked him that, And then
(27:42):
I was like old enough to realize, wait a minute,
you can you like drinking and driving is something else?
But that's a classic. I feel like that's a classic
missing misunderstanding. But I'm wondering if you guys had not
that specifically, but if there's anything a saying that you
thought was one thing? Song? What is it dude looks
like a lady? Or is it do it like a lady?
(28:05):
Do it like a lady? It's dude looks like which,
to be honest, maybe we should change it to that.
In I thought that, um, my parents, I want to
go see spy kids when I was younger. Fantastic flick.
Add that to the movie Rex on this podcast, Um,
(28:26):
and I thought that my parents were spies for a while.
This maybe isn't a good answer to that question, but
this is just what popped into my head. I thought
my I convinced myself that my parents were spies, and
then I didn't talk to them for a week upon
finding out that they were not. And I went into
my dad's truck and I was convinced that I was
going to be able to find like little gadgets and
like little but I was like looking at the events
I was like looking at the thing and I was
(28:47):
just like, they're not spies, and that is devastating to me.
That's the only thing that comes to mind, though. There
was did you watch Goosebumps or read Goosebumps? There's one
It was don't go in the Basement and it was
like a garden thing. I'm gonna batch it. But the dad,
real dad was like in the basement and the other
dad that was walking around was like the fake dad.
(29:07):
I remember that one for they did a they did
a video and that was a converted to TV. Yeah,
I thought my dad was my dad. This is gonna
be so annoying. This is gonna be the kind of
thing that we all come up with our answers that
like a midnight Tonight like yeah, well maybe I know
there's like a hundred things that I misconstrued, but I
can't think of any right now. On the spot, I
look old. There's justin I feel like you like justin
(29:31):
timber Like. But there's a justin timber Like song. I
forget the name, but it was, um, I just can't
crack crack your code, and I thought it was I
just can't catch her cold. I thought it was Minneapolis
up until about two years ago. And you also thought
Bagel was bag old until about one thirty seconds ago.
(29:51):
I remember we were there for the Super Bowl and
I was there on a visa shoot and we had
this whole crew standing outside and the rain and the
cold starting to snow, and all I had to do
was like, welcome to Minneapolis, home of the super Bowl.
And I just kept on saying welcome to Minnianapolis, Welcome
to Minnianapolis. And they were like, just say the name,
and I couldn't. I have a friend who thought that
(30:13):
you shook me all night long, was you should be
all night long? Like you should be all night long. Okay,
yours tops the list. That's the most ridiculous thing I've
ever heard. Okay, time for best worst. Thank you for that, Mohan,
the best thing I saw or heard all week. I'm
(30:34):
sure everyone saw this. It was so beautiful. Jeremy Reeves
getting name to the Pro Bowl list. Do we have
the video? Let's all just have a little cry. Okay,
take a look at this Probabowl Special teams. Guy, you're
the starter. You already young man, and I know your
(30:59):
mom would be proud you wearned a young man who
he wouldn't stop. All right, now, you earned it. Like
(31:28):
I said, man, I just appreciate you trusting me for you.
I know you went to well. I appreciate you. I'm
very proud of you. I really am. Not you weren't
a young man so sweet? That was viral today and
then afterwards I saw this thing and Siciliana tweeted out,
you wonder why Jeremy Reeves got emotional when told by
(31:51):
riverboat round then he made Pro Bowl. Uh, just just
listen to this. I'm not gonna go all the way
through it because it's ridiculous. But signed as an undrafted
free agent, way sign of the practice squad, released from
the practice squad, signed of the practice squad, sign of
the active roster squad, waved in sign of the practice squad,
and it goes on and on or not. This guy
has been through so much all over the map, always
(32:12):
with Washington, with Philadelphia. UM. I think that that's why
he was getting so much. And I love that his teammate,
trust Wade wanted to be in the room so bad.
He was like more excited for his teammate to be
He also recently lost his mom, which is why Ron
Rivere is like, your mom would be so proud. It's
a really beautiful moment. It's really good. That's the best
thing that I saw all week and probably for the
(32:33):
rest of the year. Another good thing that I saw. Guys,
what are we doing? Really hard? Left turn? Gronk tweeted
saying he's bored. What are we doing? Uh? Gronk says
he's bored. You better be coming back with like I
want fireworks, I I want everything, I want the biggest
Does he go to the box? Where does he go?
Does he go back to the Patriots? He might be
(32:54):
so bored that he knew if he tweeted this that
we would be talking about even if no, Ye, yes,
Like Gronk is, I don't think. I don't think Brady
wants Mr Brady knows it's over. I mean, played pretty
decently well, a bunch of touchdowns. I mean, the Bucks
could use all the hell they could get right now,
I don't even do anything, and they're still on track
to at least make the playoffs and would probably play
(33:16):
the Cowboys in the first round. We called this, We
called this. We should have brought back the clips from
the summer because we're like, oh, he's retiring. But right
before the playoffs, Graver, I feel like you said this
he's Graver said Brady was going to retire. I did
say Brady would retire mid season, which I feel like
he was a coin flip away from possibly you said
that because you Rachel, you thought it was gonna be
(33:38):
like a w W E return, right Gronk, I did
say it was okay. And then the final great thing
that I saw this week te Higgins. I guess his
mom said if the ball touches in your hand, catch it,
and then higintend my bad. Mom's right. Get more athletes
(33:58):
parents on Twitter. You know, I don't even care if
it don't be Jay's dad, kareem Ons dad causing all
of the problems, or tee Higgins mom. I want to
see more athletes parents just chatting it up on Twitter
so that we have wanted to talk about just reacting
like fans. Uh. And then the worst thing I saw
has got to be this video. I can't stop watching
it because it's so painful. And Jack Wilson given these
(34:21):
dang mopens away for a Christmas gift to his alignment,
just like it's like it's like the rich kid. This
little hand just when you're growing up, the rich kid
from your neighborhood and he just like wants to like
buy expensive stuff to buy friends. Yes, in the cool group. Yeah,
likes what I'm saying, Like Zack, your teammates like Mike White,
(34:42):
they wore his T shirts better than they like. You.
Truly have watched that video like seventeen times today because
I keep on back to the biggest Jack Wilson, the
story that we've talked about, and I'm like, well, that's
the other thing. The other thing that makes Mohun's point
so good, is it it reminds you of a rich
kid in high schools because he looks like totally does
(35:05):
Oh my gosh, Okay, we'll shout us. He looks like
the star of a Disney Channel high school football type
of maybe Disney you're watching Disney Channel. I love those steps. Okay, guys,
that is it. That is all. That's it for our show.
We already be back sometime next week. We hope that
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(35:27):
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I totally understand if you want to look away during
that decison video because it was bad. But check it
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