December 6, 2022 • 31 mins
Rachel Bonnetta and company are back for a brand new episode of Benched with Bonnetta! To start, Rachel is joined by Kyle Brandt and they discuss Baker Mayfield (4:53) and what NFL team they'd want to own (13:39). After the break, Rachel looks ahead to Thursday night's game between the Raiders and Rams (19:40). Finally, Rachel tells you the best and worst thing she saw this week (23:30).
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
When I woke up this morning, I was feeling pretty
dangerous or on a Cincinnati. It's my team, it's my
corpett They are when we thought they were. You play
to win the gate. They want you to cook the dinner.
At least they ought to let your shot for some
of the grocery. And on the way up, we're gonna
buy a kneecap. All getting made playoffs. I'm just here
(00:22):
so I won't get fine. How could he not be
a romantic about football? After Hello, everybody, Welcome to the
Bench with Banetta Podcast. My name is Rachel Banetta, and
I'm sick as no. You know when you wake up
and you just feel it, You feel yourself, You feel
your your chromosomes and your body chromosomes or chromosomes, and
(00:45):
that's probably the thing I should know. Uh, you just
feel it. Thank you, thank you. You feel you feel them,
just like there's a battle. There is World War five
going on in my body right now. Um I think
I'm I think by Tuesday, I'm either going to make
a recovery and you're gonna see me walking down the
(01:05):
hall did thro or I'm gonna be in bed for
no one to ever talk to for the rest of
the week. Graver, do you go big time on Christmas decorations?
Do you have a tree up? Do you have lights?
Do you have camera? Do you have action? All of
those things? Um, I wouldn't say big time, but definitely
medium time. We have a tree up now, real tree
(01:27):
we got over the weekend. Decorated it with lights and ornaments,
very classy style, just like red and gold ornaments, not
like all kinds of creamy. So you don't have a
choogie tree. See, I think step number one of Christmas.
You've got to have a chugogie tree. You've got to.
You gotta have some like old ornaments that have like
a weird like handprint on them. It's like been just
passed down. You don't even know who the handprint belongs to.
(01:50):
At this point, are all at my parents house, so
we only have like nice looking We have a very
classy looking tree, and then we have a couple of
little decorations around, but it's not like over the top
super web. My mom's at the point in her life
that she's like, come and get your crap, and it
doesn't matter what it is. Like She's given me like
(02:10):
baby keepsakes that like she should probably have like to
look back. I'm like, oh, I want to remember my
daughter's first words. I don't care. She's like, it's yours now.
But I got all of my like really gross Christmas
tree decorations. But anyways, so my street it really doesn't
pop off with Christmas lights. I went to like South Bay,
which if you're not from l A, it's like kind
(02:31):
of like a boogier neighborhood. I went down to South
Bay yesterday. There's so many beautiful lights everywhere. The houses
are all decorated pretty and looking nice. And then I
come to my neighborhood and it's like me, except four.
There is one house that has just claimed ownership over
the entire neighborhood. They're like, Oh, it doesn't matter what
you guys are doing, I'm gonna own this. Anyways, they
(02:53):
had a ginormous skeleton in their yard for Halloween. And
I'm talking this thing was like a base, huge, bigger
than the house. Yeah, like would have gone viral on
TikTok if somebody had seen it, right um, and it
was just like looming in their yard over Halloween. And
then now they have dressed that skeleton. Had to have
the biggest ladder in the world. To do this, they
(03:15):
have dressed that skeleton in a Santa Claus outfit and
it is now hanging lights up a palm tree. So
I feel like, do I even try at this point
before Christmas kind of stuff there? It's actually really neat.
I love it, and I love that they've made the
transition from Halloween because we were also we were all
so impressed with the skeleton, but in actuality they were
(03:35):
probably like, I'm not taking that thing down yet, Like,
you know how hard it was to get that beast
up there. So I don't know. I either got to
go full Griswold and like, really, it's like get after
this and and stake my claim in the neighborhood, or
I just mail it in let them have it. What
do you think I should do? How much free time
(03:56):
do you have? How's the how's the absolutely zero? At
this one? Was the hot tub coming along? The hot
tub is almost done? Oh I gotta give you guys
an update. Oh man, I meant it. We just had
KB on the show, which is coming up very literally
any second now, and I didn't tell him about the
hot tub. Okay, the hot tub is done, but I
(04:17):
have to get the electrical all like suited and booted.
She done, baby. If you were just listening to this podcast,
you can see this on my Twitter. Um the podcast.
The hot tub is built, but I have to get
a certified electrician to come and plug that soccer in
or else I might go. Okay, let's get to KB.
(04:39):
We had a lot of things to talk about, including
Baker Mayfield. He was just released from the Panthers on Monday, um,
and of course I have to get his soup takes,
which honestly ruined my day, So stay tuned for that. Okay, Kabe,
we were just catching up and you told me that
you just got your Christmas tree. And I did not
think that this was a thing that people still it, um,
(05:01):
but you legitimately you went all out. You went to
a Christmas tree farm and cut that thing down. So
I've got so many questions. Did you bring your own saw? Like?
Do you have to bring a chainsaw? Do they provide
said saw? Like? What is the what's the breakdown of this? Yeah?
You get into the old four wheel drive sleigh and
you drive out through the majesty of a winter's morn
(05:22):
and there's a saw rack and it sounds like some
sort of torture chamber. But once you sign up and
sign your life away for the right to go on
the farm, there is a saw rack and there's a
sense rachel almost like of like bowling shoes or something
that's communal work. You want to get a good saw.
Like some of the saws have been around for a while,
and some of them are like I'll cut that bleeper
(05:43):
down right now? Is there like like oh, I feel
like I would be looking at the saws being like, hey,
which one is not like covered in blood like somebody
just having a fatal accident on this farm. Um, well,
I'm happy for you got your Christmas tree. It looks insane,
It looks ginormous um, but not everything is all cheery
and bright over here in the Bonetta household this morning. Okay,
(06:05):
I think a lot of people know I've made it
very clear on this podcast that I am a fan
of a certain person the plays in the NFL under quarterback.
His name is Baker Mayfield, and he was released from
the Panthers mere hours ago. We're recording this on Monday,
so by the time this comes out on Tuesday, it
might be a bit of old news. But it doesn't
matter because we need to break this down. Maybe. I
have so many questions for you, and the first being
(06:27):
where where did we go wrong? Where did this go wrong?
Because I fell in love with Baker. Uh they were
on hard knocks. He had such a big personality. He
went to the Browns, which was also a huge personality.
Where where did we get off course here with our
love of Baker Mayfield? Do you remember was there a
specific time, Was there a specific press conference? Was it
(06:47):
I woke up feeling dangerous? Was it the chugging of
the beer? Break it down from it that it happened fast?
You know, we we had this wonderful relationship and the
origin story of it is, you know, Baker coming on
the draft. It was like he was a candidate who
ran the perfect campaign and he said, I know, there's
this guy Josh Allen and this guy Lamar and these
(07:07):
two kids from l A. Rose and Donald, but like me,
you should take me. And they did. They took this
little short guy from Oklahoma number one. And then it's
crazy to think, Rachel, but twenty three months ago, twenty
three months ago, Baker Mayfield was in the second round
of the playoffs, battling the Chiefs and having them in
the game, and like they're like, I think he's gonna
(07:29):
win this game. My homes just got knocked out of
the game, and I think, oh my god, I think
the Browns are going to the title game with Baker Mayfield.
They lost, they never got back, and it all went
to hell in the following season after that, where he
got hurt and he has the fans game maybe weren't
best friends. And then now it's like, I feel like
he's five minutes from calling college football games for FS one.
I'm worried about him. No, I'm worried about him too,
(07:51):
But like I want to go back to that time
because I feel like that was such an exciting moment
for me. I had never really loved football, and then
they I sawn on to be a fan of this
crappy team, and um, they totally turned it around. And
after I kind of like signed up and even that
the last season when you said kind of things started
to turn and he got a little shaky with Kevin Savanski.
(08:13):
Obviously we don't know what happened in the locker room.
There was also father's involved. Oh, b J's dad was
making comments Kaream haunts Dad was making It was weird.
But what I saw as a fan, um, he he
got the crap beat out of him. He was so
injured and he was still like he had the braces.
He remember one game there was a breakdown of how
(08:35):
much equipment was holding his body together for that game,
and he still went out and like fought really hard
for that team. And then there was like, you know,
I know a lot of people hated on the letter
that he wrote when he left Cleveland, but that was
another sign of like you talk about this like campaign
that he ran. I think he ran a pretty tight
same campaign the entire way out. Like I don't think
(08:57):
that Baker changed. I think that he was the same
guy throughout. And then he goes to the Panthers. Obviously
that doesn't go as planned. Um, he gets a little
banged up there. And now obviously with the news on
Sunday the Jimmy g is out, We've got a whole
list of teams that could use a quarterback. The forty
is being at the top right now, the Rams with
(09:18):
Matt Stafford being out, John Wolford just went He's day
to day right now. I believe a concussion. Texans Broncos
could use a new quarterback of my band, honest um.
But with all that being said, where do you think
he's gonna go? Where would you like to see him go?
Rather well, I think it's so interesting that the details
of the releases that Baker asked for his release, so like,
(09:41):
I'm very here in the depth chart. You guys don't
want me, fine, I want to be released, and it's
just too thick of a fat viscus coincidence that he
wants to be released the day after the Niners thing
opens up. It's like, all right, you know this, this
beautiful woman or beautiful man whatever, all of a sudden
like becomes single. You're in your own crappy relation and
ship and you're like, I think we should break up,
(10:02):
like right now, immediately so I can go there before
someone else goes there and planning on breaking up with
you soon. But now, let's besides, a lot of people
do it before the holidays. You can get out of
giving the gifts and stuff, and then you get the
Valentine's do it now. But to answer your question, I
wanted to I want with San Francisco. I want him
bad and I'm with you, Rachel. Like there's a lot
of critics and a lot of people just straight up
(10:23):
don't like him. I am an unapologetic hand in the
air Baker Mayfield fan. I like the way he played
on that I love it, and like, listen if you
want to get into the football of it. When he
was winning over the Steelers in the playoffs and almost
beating the Chiefs, he was just like that team was loaded.
It was all this running game and these receivers and
Joe gou and Myles Garrett. Like that wasn't Carolina, it
(10:44):
was San Francisco. San Francisco has even reloaded. So like,
if you ever to take a number one over pick
talent and put him with that team, I really think
it could work. And everything San Francisco has done has
been like we're not gonna satisfied with like being fine,
we're gonna get McCaffrey, we're gonna do this, We're gonna
do that. For them to just sit there and go
with the last player taken in the draft when they
could have the first player taken in the draft, I
don't think that's done exactly. And I feel like so
(11:06):
many people are like a Baker can't throw, and Baker
is not like you know, obviously, he's not like a
Patrick Mahomes kind of quarterback. But there is something to
be said for grit and just like getting through it.
And I kind of likened that to Jimmy g as well.
Jimmy's battled through so many different injuries. He's like built
like a glass house at this point. It's really sad
and I really feel for him. I can't imagine what
(11:27):
he's feeling today with the just the surge that the
forty nine have been on lately. But Baker, I feel like,
I don't know how much Christian McCaffrey's eyes are going
to roll into the back of his head if he
does walk into that locker room. But I feel like
Baker can make that team stay on that path, don't
you Like? I feel like that's a really good But
let me ask you this. I feel like he's had
(11:49):
to have he had to for him to walk away
from the Panthers and be like, I want to break
up now there's don't you think that there's he knows
something like there there was may be like a very
quick conversation this morning or last night with somebody somewhere
that would indicate, Okay, I know I need to do
this now. Or do you think that this is a gamble. Well,
(12:09):
he is a bit of a gambler, um and it is.
It is a gamble to even do this hoping you're
gonna go to San Francisco. So you were you were
alluding to this, So this is the way that works.
This is guys. This is no different than in your
fantasy football league. When some player becomes available, the crappy
teams get the first cut at him and the best
teams get the last. So right now in the waiver order,
the Niners of twenty four Houston consigned Baker Mayfield as
(12:33):
soon as they want. And he's a Houston Texan and
his his worst nightmares come true. They could do that.
I don't think they will because they want the number
one pick and just don't mess with it. The sneaky
one that you mentioned is the Rams, who are like
the zombie Rams right now, I don't even recognize them.
I don't think they're interested in having Baker Mayfield come
in and lead their team, but I do think they're
interested in extending their middle finger to the forty Niners
(12:54):
in a sort of sun so art of war here
they be like, we don't want Baker Mayfield, but we
don't want you to have them dummies. And if you
have some an idea that you're gonna go on a
playoff run with the number one overall pick, we're just
gonna take him and stash him and then dump him
in the off season. That would be really shrewd. And
that's the one that, like, the only thing I want
more than the Rams Rams like anti sign them. Oh
(13:17):
my god. But that is not a personality match at all.
That's like when you're you know, rough and tumble guy.
I've got a friend that's like literally a cowboy and
he introduced me to his girlfriend one time and she
had Chanel. She was Gorgina like she was just like
pretty princess. And I was like, I give it a
couple of weeks. Like just totally not matched at all. Okay,
(13:38):
So next step on the list of things that I
want to discuss with you, Aaron Rodgers renewed his ownership
of the Bears, which is a fun storyline that's just
never ending. Apparently I wanted to ask you, and I'm
actually gonna go first because we were just talking about
this team. If we could have ownership over a team
in the NFL, who would we just want to irk
every single door? Who would it be? I'm gonna go
(14:02):
with the Rams. I love the Rams. I'm obviously in
Los Angeles, but I gotta say, I'm trying to think
of like, who's got the most obnoxious cheer? And you
know you got the Bucks setting off the cannons, which
is loud and abrupt and scary. I think the Chargers
do a cannon as well. Um, the Rams have whose house?
Rams House? And I gotta say it sends me. It
(14:24):
sends me into an anxiety induced coma when I'm sitting
in sofy stadium and I thought of the perfect touchdown celebration. Okay,
when I'm way up on this team, I'm gonna run
to the sideline. Totally gonna get fined for this running
to the sideline. I'm getting a four sales sign, Okay,
I'm sticking it in the ground and then I'm gonna
point to everybody y'all for a sale and the I'm
(14:45):
gonna flip over the tab and it's gonna say so
tell me I you And oh that would bring me
so much joy. So who who do you want to
have ownership over? A not surprised that you picked the Rams,
even less surprised that you have a friend who is
an actual cowboy. What's going on there? We're burying the
(15:07):
lad retired cowboys now a comedian in l A. He's
one of my favorite people. Wow with like a rope
and chaps and spurs and all that. You know. If
he's like I'm sure he's from Amarillo, Texas. We call
him the bad cowboy. Um, I'm sure he's done some
roping things in his life, but he just walks around
a big He's a huge Longhorns fan. He has an
(15:30):
orange truck. He is the most cowboy cowboy that I've
ever seen. Um. And now he's just like turned into
a comedy writer, moved from Amarilla little Los Angeles. It's great.
I love this guy. Um. I should segue perfectly and
say it's the cowboys, but it's not because I was
listening to some of the same criteria that you were saying.
I want, Um, I want I want an obnoxious fan base,
(15:52):
and by obnoxious I mean passionate, and UM, I want
someone who's glamorous and listen, this is an easy choice
for me. If I had owners, so over anybody would
definitely be the Las Vegas Raiders. I want them. I
want their brand new stadium. I own the whole new stadium.
I own the Al Davis torch, I own the Mark
Davis Owner's box, and like at least once a year
(16:12):
I get to go to Vegas quick trip, just one
in the night, maybe two. And their fans are so
angry all the time. You want their slogan, whose house,
our house, their slogan of commitment to excellence, and they
almost never have excellence, and yet there's someone's committed to it.
I'm into that Raiders. I wouldn't own them, and I
love them best uniforms in the league, but I want
to own them. You're right, they all they always seem
a little bit grumpy and their whole demeanor like the
(16:34):
black and the silver, and they're always just like painted
rough and tumble, Like, Yeah, that would be fun to
to make those guys a little bit angrier. Okay, before
you go, kbe, we ruffled some feathers on this podcast
last week. I'm sorry to say I came out as
anti soup. I said it should be canceled. Um food
shouldn't be that wet. Where do you stand on the soup?
On this soup argument? You know what's funny. I thought
(16:57):
you were gonna say you came out as um anti
carry on baggage, which also piss some people off. So
um as far as the soup listen, I when I
go to a restaurant, let's let's just say, for argument's sake,
I go to a restaurant a hundred times a year.
I'm probably ordering soup nineties of those. Shut it down,
(17:21):
Shut it down, give me the soup that much nice
storm starter. I'm into it. Uh, tomato basil chicken noodle.
My wife's got me going on French onion with like
the just ridiculous cheese on top. Like I'm a soup guy.
I'm into it. So you you literally asked what's the
soup of the day, I'll have you know when I
(17:45):
go in copper bowl, sir, Oh, I'm gonna go with
a bowl. What do I look like here? No cup?
Give me a full ass ball and it eats like
a meal. I like soup. I was not expecting this
to come out of your personality. I thought this is
going to be another one something I'm gonna crunch them,
sprinkle them all over there, and I'm gonna go crazy.
(18:06):
I'm gonna do with the side of the spoon. I
love soup. I'm a super guy. I can't say it enough.
They still drink to mate. You might as a little
drink tomato out of a can like the made it
like the sick. It's sick. I'm not afraid of a
bloody Mary. I'll have you know that. I'm not bloody
marry over a warm soup. Especially Wait, if you're ordering
(18:28):
it ninety seven times a year, that means there's some
crossover into the summer, isn't it. You're sick? Oh you ever?
You ever gotten your lips on a little bit of
gaspacho cold soup? Log off. We're cutting this podcast short, Kaby,
We'll see you next week. What an awful answer. Thanks
for your team, No, thanks for that. I'm making the clean.
(18:49):
I'm setting this rule right now. If you are pro soup.
If you are that pro soup, not allowed on the pod.
Not allowed on the pod. Maybe Kbe will give an
exception to because he's a good friend. It. We need
to start when we're when we're going through who we
want on the pod. You know super Bowls around the corner.
We're probably gonna be on Radio Row. The question must
be asked, are you pro soup? Are you in the
(19:10):
middle or are you anti soup? Only anti soups and
in the middles can come on this podcast because you
can't just come on making outrageous claims that you eat
soup nineties seven times a year and this summer, Oh
my god. Okay, coming up after the break, we're gonna
preview Thursday Football. We got Raiders and Rams. I think
this one's gonna be a lot more interesting than you
probably think. Don't go anywhere look at all. Right, let's
(19:45):
break down Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime. You guys
can watch it eight pm Eastern Thursday. Ob the uh
this one. I feel like I may change my mind
on this A couple of different times. I watched this
Ramsey X game very closely. This week. I feel like
there was a lot on the line. You got Bobby
Wagner who was released from the Seahawks, and and I
(20:07):
think not even like a phone call has had so
he is he's going off. Okay, he is on this
team like madness. You can see. You can tell that
there was a little extra when he was taken on
the Seahawks. Now he's on the Rams. Jalen Ramsey was
super spicy. Like the Seahawks, who I thought were going
into this game, I thought this game was gonna stink.
(20:28):
I thought the Seahawks were just going to smash them.
But no, the Rams were in the game until the
very last second, and for a minute there, I thought
that we're gonna win without Matthew Stafford. John Wolford went
out for a minute or two with them. I think
a concussion. I think. I'm like, I might have that wrong,
but anyways, not not what I thought the Rams were
gonna do. And then you've got the Raiders, who, again
(20:50):
you're going into every single game. What you have kind
of like stamped in your brain this season is that
the Raiders have been pretty awful. Uh, Davante Adams going
was probably not what he thought this season was going
to be. I know they've had some issues with their
their head coach, adapting their um, but guys, the Raiders
have like quietly pieced together three wins in a row now,
(21:10):
And I had to look at that twice this morning,
being like, wait, they've been doing what? Um so I
feel like I still kind of want to go with
the Raiders, although I did see some nice things from
the Rams, but John Wilford's now day to day, uh,
he is the backup, so I don't know what they're
gonna look like on Thursday. Also, that is a very
short turnaround after a very tough game, like this game
(21:32):
was grueling, just back and forth and back and forth,
and the defense really kept the Rams in the game.
So I'm gonna go Raiders on this one. Is that
to obviously also have a short short play. I'm gonna
go Raiders to win. I believe that they are in
eights favorite six six favorites will move. I'm gonna go
(21:54):
win and Raiders cover. I think so too. The Rams
fought so hard, but it feels like one of those
games that they got up four that it's gonna have
a lasting effect afterwards. So I don't know. The Raiders
have been pretty impressive lately, like you said, the three
game winning streak, and they look a lot better and
they've been honestly, they've been good all season. They just
(22:15):
lost so many close games on like the final few plays,
and they're finally putting it together. So I do think
the Raiders will take care of business in this one.
I also saw a quote from Bobby Wager that was
just like, I kept my emotions at Bay all week
and then on Sunday I just let them go, like
he could probably lose out for the rest of the
season and be like, at least I had that Seahawks game,
(22:37):
you know what I mean? Like, you're right, that is
absolutely a game that both of these teams get up for.
And it was a lot more exciting than I thought
it was going to be. So okay, Raiders and must
I said, can I just have a moment? Oh, no,
momenta poor and four? I went five season five and
it was a five and five. And oh in your
week thirteen picks against the spread. That's quite impressive. That
is very impressive. And now we are getting close. I'm
(22:59):
thirty six and one and you are for one. Congratulations
is very good and Mohan one. So on Friday show,
when we make some picks for the weekend, let me
just say I'm going out on some more limbs. Okay,
I am closing. I am closing the gap, all right.
Coming up after the break, we're gonna talk best and
worst thing that I saw all weeks going with beast.
(23:33):
All right, let's talk about the best and the worst
thing that I saw all weekend. Um. First off, we
we we dug into the archives a little bit. We've
we've been slacking. Okay, we just took a look at
all of your reviews. Five reviews my iad and we
had a good one that we that I wanted to read.
You guys, this is from my most mama something like that. Um.
(23:58):
She said, not sure if I like it yet, but
I can't stop listening. Hey, my mos mama will take that.
Thank you for the star review. Um. And guys, the
other best thing that I saw I love. We were
talking about Aaron Rodgers having ownership of the Bears, KB
having ownership of the Raiders, me having ownership of the Rams.
(24:19):
The Bengals beating the Chiefs this weekend again is just
like chefs kiss, absolutely beautiful. I love that this this
team just embodies underdogs like their Cincinnati. Um. They've had
a rough season the last few weeks, they have really
started to string together those like great wins and to
(24:41):
do it against the Chiefs like, I'm sorry, but look
the hell out for the Bengals. You got Jamaar Chase
back this weekend. Joe Mixon hopefully is around the corner.
I don't think he played this weekend. Um, but beating
the Chiefs is big time. Boys, Beating Chiefs is big time,
and I love that they keep on doing this. Chiefs,
(25:04):
you're good, we get it. You're good. Okay, let somebody
else have the limelight for once. Um. And then the
worst thing that I saw this truly broke my heart.
I literally just put this team into my Super Bowl
pick because they are so fun and I love the
story of Jimmy g being absolutely counted out. At the
beginning of the season. It was Trey Lance, Go, Go Go,
(25:26):
and then Tray Lance goes down, Jimmy comes back, They
get Christian McCaffrey, Deebo, Samuel is finding his health. It's
just all coming together perfectly. Um. And then Jimmy goes
down breaks apparently a few things in his foot um
or his ankle. No broken foot. Oh my god, that
just breaks my heart. This was such a fun story
(25:48):
and it's just very sad. And you can literally hear
Kyle Shannon had had a press conference after the game.
You can hear the emotion in his voice. Let's take
a list, um and Jimmy um foot, he'll be out,
he'll end up need surgery. Um broke a few things
in there. So I'm real unfortunate to have that so obviously,
I mean just hearing it, it's it's pretty crushing. Is
(26:10):
we know what Jimmy has been through, how hard he's
worked at this. You know, I got that news a
little in the second quarter. Um, So it was a
little different for me, even just how happy we were
with that game. That was a really cool game just
as a team and all the stuff that went on
throughout the game and just be able to overcome some
things and it was so such a special win. Um.
But definitely mixed emotions hearing about Jimmy. Um. I told
(26:31):
the guys right after the game, and so I know
that gave them some mixed emotions fast too. But um,
it's a hell of a job I brought coming in
stepping it up. He um did a real good job today,
and UM, I'm gonna be ready to do our best
overcome this. This honestly makes the win over the Dolphins
that much more like impressive that Kyle Shannion got the
(26:52):
news that his his really his backup quarterback because he
was backing up Trey Lance and came in and kind
of got the job done. Now he's gone, what are
they gonna do? Um, so we're gonna hear We're gonna
pay close attention to what these guys get up to
in the next few days. But this is just I
really feel for Jimmy, and I hope that next season.
(27:13):
It's just so sad knowing all the incentives that he
had to to like go to the playoffs, and like,
oh my god, it just sucks that Jimmy g movie
is going to be really something with this now it
is like the Dark Knight of the Soul part of
the of the script. Yeah, we better start writing that
bad Puppy Another bad thing that I saw, which is
a lot lighter of news here, but still this kind
(27:35):
of irked me. And I know that I am not
involved in the situation whatsoever. I'm not a Jets fan.
I'm curious to see what Dan has his things about this.
A few Jets players showed up wearing Mike White shirts
look and the Jets tweeted it out, which is also
kind of insane, Like this feels like, um, this is
(27:55):
kind of like feels like really immature, like elementary school,
like when you don't like some me and there's my
weight wearing a Tyler Conquin. Right, it just feels very immature,
and like I can't imagine. I kind of feel this
makes me feel bad for Zach Wilson, Like we get it.
He said something very quickly in a press conference that
he probably didn't mean because he was irked after the game,
(28:17):
saying that, you know, did you let the defense down? Know?
I didn't um, And now the whole team is like
kind of kind of like turned their back on a Garrett.
Wilson had a very strong take on Mike White. Rich
Chiminy tweeted this out. He was out there controlling the huddle,
never letting the moment get too big. It was cool
to see. Looking back on it now, it's cool to
(28:37):
think about. I know I'd go to war for that boy.
He's got something special about him. Greatby what do you think?
This is not looking good for Zach Wilson. I think
he's done. I think he's completely lost the locker room.
And I do not barring, you know, God forbid of
Mike White injury. I don't think he sees the field again,
Mike White's bawling out. And you can tell the players
like playing for somebody that throws them ball if you're
(29:01):
for almost four hundred yards yesterday, Yes, and that's two
weeks in a row that he's gone over three hundred.
And I mean the Jets didn't win that game, but
they made a heck of a second half comeback coming
down from or something like that. So I mean, if
you're a Jets player, wouldn't you like be hyped about
this guy coming off the bench who has been with
(29:22):
the organization for years and never really had a real
shot and now he's coming in and playing so well, Like, yeah,
it sucks. The t shirts and the tweets that just
I feel like that is a lot. It is like
treating Zach Wilson in real life. It's like tweeting like
like Zach Wilson, you're not wanted here, but then like
(29:42):
tagging him in the tweet, like you could just say,
Zach Wilson, you're not wanted here, but like he's gonna
see he's gonna see the shirt, everybody, What do you think?
Like that that bus ride over to the stadium must
have been a hell of quiet on his end. Yeah. Um, okay, guys,
does our show today. We're gonna be back on Friday,
previewing week. Oh god, don't don't make me say it.
(30:05):
Week four team, Come on, I'm not ready. I'm not
ready for the regular season to come to a close.
Week four team, Um, we are gonna be talking about
all of those games and talking about the week of drama.
I'm sure we're gonna talking about Baker Mayfield. I'm sure
we're gonna be talking about forty Niners. And I don't
know what we're gonna be talking about. So you better
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(30:28):
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(30:50):
we will see you guys on Friday. Love you by
gonna say the Battle on Battle put Battle the Battle
of the Battle. But dat
When I woke up this morning, I was feeling pretty
dangerous or on a Cincinnati. It's my team, it's my
corpett They are when we thought they were. You play
to win the gate. They want you to cook the dinner.
At least they ought to let your shot for some
of the grocery. And on the way up, we're gonna
buy a kneecap. All getting made playoffs. I'm just here
(00:22):
so I won't get fine. How could he not be
a romantic about football? After Hello, everybody, Welcome to the
Bench with Banetta Podcast. My name is Rachel Banetta, and
I'm sick as no. You know when you wake up
and you just feel it, You feel yourself, You feel
your your chromosomes and your body chromosomes or chromosomes, and
(00:45):
that's probably the thing I should know. Uh, you just
feel it. Thank you, thank you. You feel you feel them,
just like there's a battle. There is World War five
going on in my body right now. Um I think
I'm I think by Tuesday, I'm either going to make
a recovery and you're gonna see me walking down the
(01:05):
hall did thro or I'm gonna be in bed for
no one to ever talk to for the rest of
the week. Graver, do you go big time on Christmas decorations?
Do you have a tree up? Do you have lights?
Do you have camera? Do you have action? All of
those things? Um, I wouldn't say big time, but definitely
medium time. We have a tree up now, real tree
(01:27):
we got over the weekend. Decorated it with lights and ornaments,
very classy style, just like red and gold ornaments, not
like all kinds of creamy. So you don't have a
choogie tree. See, I think step number one of Christmas.
You've got to have a chugogie tree. You've got to.
You gotta have some like old ornaments that have like
a weird like handprint on them. It's like been just
passed down. You don't even know who the handprint belongs to.
(01:50):
At this point, are all at my parents house, so
we only have like nice looking We have a very
classy looking tree, and then we have a couple of
little decorations around, but it's not like over the top
super web. My mom's at the point in her life
that she's like, come and get your crap, and it
doesn't matter what it is. Like She's given me like
(02:10):
baby keepsakes that like she should probably have like to
look back. I'm like, oh, I want to remember my
daughter's first words. I don't care. She's like, it's yours now.
But I got all of my like really gross Christmas
tree decorations. But anyways, so my street it really doesn't
pop off with Christmas lights. I went to like South Bay,
which if you're not from l A, it's like kind
(02:31):
of like a boogier neighborhood. I went down to South
Bay yesterday. There's so many beautiful lights everywhere. The houses
are all decorated pretty and looking nice. And then I
come to my neighborhood and it's like me, except four.
There is one house that has just claimed ownership over
the entire neighborhood. They're like, Oh, it doesn't matter what
you guys are doing, I'm gonna own this. Anyways, they
(02:53):
had a ginormous skeleton in their yard for Halloween. And
I'm talking this thing was like a base, huge, bigger
than the house. Yeah, like would have gone viral on
TikTok if somebody had seen it, right um, and it
was just like looming in their yard over Halloween. And
then now they have dressed that skeleton. Had to have
the biggest ladder in the world. To do this, they
(03:15):
have dressed that skeleton in a Santa Claus outfit and
it is now hanging lights up a palm tree. So
I feel like, do I even try at this point
before Christmas kind of stuff there? It's actually really neat.
I love it, and I love that they've made the
transition from Halloween because we were also we were all
so impressed with the skeleton, but in actuality they were
(03:35):
probably like, I'm not taking that thing down yet, Like,
you know how hard it was to get that beast
up there. So I don't know. I either got to
go full Griswold and like, really, it's like get after
this and and stake my claim in the neighborhood, or
I just mail it in let them have it. What
do you think I should do? How much free time
(03:56):
do you have? How's the how's the absolutely zero? At
this one? Was the hot tub coming along? The hot
tub is almost done? Oh I gotta give you guys
an update. Oh man, I meant it. We just had
KB on the show, which is coming up very literally
any second now, and I didn't tell him about the
hot tub. Okay, the hot tub is done, but I
(04:17):
have to get the electrical all like suited and booted.
She done, baby. If you were just listening to this podcast,
you can see this on my Twitter. Um the podcast.
The hot tub is built, but I have to get
a certified electrician to come and plug that soccer in
or else I might go. Okay, let's get to KB.
(04:39):
We had a lot of things to talk about, including
Baker Mayfield. He was just released from the Panthers on Monday, um,
and of course I have to get his soup takes,
which honestly ruined my day, So stay tuned for that. Okay, Kabe,
we were just catching up and you told me that
you just got your Christmas tree. And I did not
think that this was a thing that people still it, um,
(05:01):
but you legitimately you went all out. You went to
a Christmas tree farm and cut that thing down. So
I've got so many questions. Did you bring your own saw? Like?
Do you have to bring a chainsaw? Do they provide
said saw? Like? What is the what's the breakdown of this? Yeah?
You get into the old four wheel drive sleigh and
you drive out through the majesty of a winter's morn
(05:22):
and there's a saw rack and it sounds like some
sort of torture chamber. But once you sign up and
sign your life away for the right to go on
the farm, there is a saw rack and there's a
sense rachel almost like of like bowling shoes or something
that's communal work. You want to get a good saw.
Like some of the saws have been around for a while,
and some of them are like I'll cut that bleeper
(05:43):
down right now? Is there like like oh, I feel
like I would be looking at the saws being like, hey,
which one is not like covered in blood like somebody
just having a fatal accident on this farm. Um, well,
I'm happy for you got your Christmas tree. It looks insane,
It looks ginormous um, but not everything is all cheery
and bright over here in the Bonetta household this morning. Okay,
(06:05):
I think a lot of people know I've made it
very clear on this podcast that I am a fan
of a certain person the plays in the NFL under quarterback.
His name is Baker Mayfield, and he was released from
the Panthers mere hours ago. We're recording this on Monday,
so by the time this comes out on Tuesday, it
might be a bit of old news. But it doesn't
matter because we need to break this down. Maybe. I
have so many questions for you, and the first being
(06:27):
where where did we go wrong? Where did this go wrong?
Because I fell in love with Baker. Uh they were
on hard knocks. He had such a big personality. He
went to the Browns, which was also a huge personality.
Where where did we get off course here with our
love of Baker Mayfield? Do you remember was there a
specific time, Was there a specific press conference? Was it
(06:47):
I woke up feeling dangerous? Was it the chugging of
the beer? Break it down from it that it happened fast?
You know, we we had this wonderful relationship and the
origin story of it is, you know, Baker coming on
the draft. It was like he was a candidate who
ran the perfect campaign and he said, I know, there's
this guy Josh Allen and this guy Lamar and these
(07:07):
two kids from l A. Rose and Donald, but like me,
you should take me. And they did. They took this
little short guy from Oklahoma number one. And then it's
crazy to think, Rachel, but twenty three months ago, twenty
three months ago, Baker Mayfield was in the second round
of the playoffs, battling the Chiefs and having them in
the game, and like they're like, I think he's gonna
(07:29):
win this game. My homes just got knocked out of
the game, and I think, oh my god, I think
the Browns are going to the title game with Baker Mayfield.
They lost, they never got back, and it all went
to hell in the following season after that, where he
got hurt and he has the fans game maybe weren't
best friends. And then now it's like, I feel like
he's five minutes from calling college football games for FS one.
I'm worried about him. No, I'm worried about him too,
(07:51):
But like I want to go back to that time
because I feel like that was such an exciting moment
for me. I had never really loved football, and then
they I sawn on to be a fan of this
crappy team, and um, they totally turned it around. And
after I kind of like signed up and even that
the last season when you said kind of things started
to turn and he got a little shaky with Kevin Savanski.
(08:13):
Obviously we don't know what happened in the locker room.
There was also father's involved. Oh, b J's dad was
making comments Kaream haunts Dad was making It was weird.
But what I saw as a fan, um, he he
got the crap beat out of him. He was so
injured and he was still like he had the braces.
He remember one game there was a breakdown of how
(08:35):
much equipment was holding his body together for that game,
and he still went out and like fought really hard
for that team. And then there was like, you know,
I know a lot of people hated on the letter
that he wrote when he left Cleveland, but that was
another sign of like you talk about this like campaign
that he ran. I think he ran a pretty tight
same campaign the entire way out. Like I don't think
(08:57):
that Baker changed. I think that he was the same
guy throughout. And then he goes to the Panthers. Obviously
that doesn't go as planned. Um, he gets a little
banged up there. And now obviously with the news on
Sunday the Jimmy g is out, We've got a whole
list of teams that could use a quarterback. The forty
is being at the top right now, the Rams with
(09:18):
Matt Stafford being out, John Wolford just went He's day
to day right now. I believe a concussion. Texans Broncos
could use a new quarterback of my band, honest um.
But with all that being said, where do you think
he's gonna go? Where would you like to see him go?
Rather well, I think it's so interesting that the details
of the releases that Baker asked for his release, so like,
(09:41):
I'm very here in the depth chart. You guys don't
want me, fine, I want to be released, and it's
just too thick of a fat viscus coincidence that he
wants to be released the day after the Niners thing
opens up. It's like, all right, you know this, this
beautiful woman or beautiful man whatever, all of a sudden
like becomes single. You're in your own crappy relation and
ship and you're like, I think we should break up,
(10:02):
like right now, immediately so I can go there before
someone else goes there and planning on breaking up with
you soon. But now, let's besides, a lot of people
do it before the holidays. You can get out of
giving the gifts and stuff, and then you get the
Valentine's do it now. But to answer your question, I
wanted to I want with San Francisco. I want him
bad and I'm with you, Rachel. Like there's a lot
of critics and a lot of people just straight up
(10:23):
don't like him. I am an unapologetic hand in the
air Baker Mayfield fan. I like the way he played
on that I love it, and like, listen if you
want to get into the football of it. When he
was winning over the Steelers in the playoffs and almost
beating the Chiefs, he was just like that team was loaded.
It was all this running game and these receivers and
Joe gou and Myles Garrett. Like that wasn't Carolina, it
(10:44):
was San Francisco. San Francisco has even reloaded. So like,
if you ever to take a number one over pick
talent and put him with that team, I really think
it could work. And everything San Francisco has done has
been like we're not gonna satisfied with like being fine,
we're gonna get McCaffrey, we're gonna do this, We're gonna
do that. For them to just sit there and go
with the last player taken in the draft when they
could have the first player taken in the draft, I
don't think that's done exactly. And I feel like so
(11:06):
many people are like a Baker can't throw, and Baker
is not like you know, obviously, he's not like a
Patrick Mahomes kind of quarterback. But there is something to
be said for grit and just like getting through it.
And I kind of likened that to Jimmy g as well.
Jimmy's battled through so many different injuries. He's like built
like a glass house at this point. It's really sad
and I really feel for him. I can't imagine what
(11:27):
he's feeling today with the just the surge that the
forty nine have been on lately. But Baker, I feel like,
I don't know how much Christian McCaffrey's eyes are going
to roll into the back of his head if he
does walk into that locker room. But I feel like
Baker can make that team stay on that path, don't
you Like? I feel like that's a really good But
let me ask you this. I feel like he's had
(11:49):
to have he had to for him to walk away
from the Panthers and be like, I want to break
up now there's don't you think that there's he knows
something like there there was may be like a very
quick conversation this morning or last night with somebody somewhere
that would indicate, Okay, I know I need to do
this now. Or do you think that this is a gamble. Well,
(12:09):
he is a bit of a gambler, um and it is.
It is a gamble to even do this hoping you're
gonna go to San Francisco. So you were you were
alluding to this, So this is the way that works.
This is guys. This is no different than in your
fantasy football league. When some player becomes available, the crappy
teams get the first cut at him and the best
teams get the last. So right now in the waiver order,
the Niners of twenty four Houston consigned Baker Mayfield as
(12:33):
soon as they want. And he's a Houston Texan and
his his worst nightmares come true. They could do that.
I don't think they will because they want the number
one pick and just don't mess with it. The sneaky
one that you mentioned is the Rams, who are like
the zombie Rams right now, I don't even recognize them.
I don't think they're interested in having Baker Mayfield come
in and lead their team, but I do think they're
interested in extending their middle finger to the forty Niners
(12:54):
in a sort of sun so art of war here
they be like, we don't want Baker Mayfield, but we
don't want you to have them dummies. And if you
have some an idea that you're gonna go on a
playoff run with the number one overall pick, we're just
gonna take him and stash him and then dump him
in the off season. That would be really shrewd. And
that's the one that, like, the only thing I want
more than the Rams Rams like anti sign them. Oh
(13:17):
my god. But that is not a personality match at all.
That's like when you're you know, rough and tumble guy.
I've got a friend that's like literally a cowboy and
he introduced me to his girlfriend one time and she
had Chanel. She was Gorgina like she was just like
pretty princess. And I was like, I give it a
couple of weeks. Like just totally not matched at all. Okay,
(13:38):
So next step on the list of things that I
want to discuss with you, Aaron Rodgers renewed his ownership
of the Bears, which is a fun storyline that's just
never ending. Apparently I wanted to ask you, and I'm
actually gonna go first because we were just talking about
this team. If we could have ownership over a team
in the NFL, who would we just want to irk
every single door? Who would it be? I'm gonna go
(14:02):
with the Rams. I love the Rams. I'm obviously in
Los Angeles, but I gotta say, I'm trying to think
of like, who's got the most obnoxious cheer? And you
know you got the Bucks setting off the cannons, which
is loud and abrupt and scary. I think the Chargers
do a cannon as well. Um, the Rams have whose house?
Rams House? And I gotta say it sends me. It
(14:24):
sends me into an anxiety induced coma when I'm sitting
in sofy stadium and I thought of the perfect touchdown celebration. Okay,
when I'm way up on this team, I'm gonna run
to the sideline. Totally gonna get fined for this running
to the sideline. I'm getting a four sales sign, Okay,
I'm sticking it in the ground and then I'm gonna
point to everybody y'all for a sale and the I'm
(14:45):
gonna flip over the tab and it's gonna say so
tell me I you And oh that would bring me
so much joy. So who who do you want to
have ownership over? A not surprised that you picked the Rams,
even less surprised that you have a friend who is
an actual cowboy. What's going on there? We're burying the
(15:07):
lad retired cowboys now a comedian in l A. He's
one of my favorite people. Wow with like a rope
and chaps and spurs and all that. You know. If
he's like I'm sure he's from Amarillo, Texas. We call
him the bad cowboy. Um, I'm sure he's done some
roping things in his life, but he just walks around
a big He's a huge Longhorns fan. He has an
(15:30):
orange truck. He is the most cowboy cowboy that I've
ever seen. Um. And now he's just like turned into
a comedy writer, moved from Amarilla little Los Angeles. It's great.
I love this guy. Um. I should segue perfectly and
say it's the cowboys, but it's not because I was
listening to some of the same criteria that you were saying.
I want, Um, I want I want an obnoxious fan base,
(15:52):
and by obnoxious I mean passionate, and UM, I want
someone who's glamorous and listen, this is an easy choice
for me. If I had owners, so over anybody would
definitely be the Las Vegas Raiders. I want them. I
want their brand new stadium. I own the whole new stadium.
I own the Al Davis torch, I own the Mark
Davis Owner's box, and like at least once a year
(16:12):
I get to go to Vegas quick trip, just one
in the night, maybe two. And their fans are so
angry all the time. You want their slogan, whose house,
our house, their slogan of commitment to excellence, and they
almost never have excellence, and yet there's someone's committed to it.
I'm into that Raiders. I wouldn't own them, and I
love them best uniforms in the league, but I want
to own them. You're right, they all they always seem
a little bit grumpy and their whole demeanor like the
(16:34):
black and the silver, and they're always just like painted
rough and tumble, Like, Yeah, that would be fun to
to make those guys a little bit angrier. Okay, before
you go, kbe, we ruffled some feathers on this podcast
last week. I'm sorry to say I came out as
anti soup. I said it should be canceled. Um food
shouldn't be that wet. Where do you stand on the soup?
On this soup argument? You know what's funny. I thought
(16:57):
you were gonna say you came out as um anti
carry on baggage, which also piss some people off. So
um as far as the soup listen, I when I
go to a restaurant, let's let's just say, for argument's sake,
I go to a restaurant a hundred times a year.
I'm probably ordering soup nineties of those. Shut it down,
(17:21):
Shut it down, give me the soup that much nice
storm starter. I'm into it. Uh, tomato basil chicken noodle.
My wife's got me going on French onion with like
the just ridiculous cheese on top. Like I'm a soup guy.
I'm into it. So you you literally asked what's the
soup of the day, I'll have you know when I
(17:45):
go in copper bowl, sir, Oh, I'm gonna go with
a bowl. What do I look like here? No cup?
Give me a full ass ball and it eats like
a meal. I like soup. I was not expecting this
to come out of your personality. I thought this is
going to be another one something I'm gonna crunch them,
sprinkle them all over there, and I'm gonna go crazy.
(18:06):
I'm gonna do with the side of the spoon. I
love soup. I'm a super guy. I can't say it enough.
They still drink to mate. You might as a little
drink tomato out of a can like the made it
like the sick. It's sick. I'm not afraid of a
bloody Mary. I'll have you know that. I'm not bloody
marry over a warm soup. Especially Wait, if you're ordering
(18:28):
it ninety seven times a year, that means there's some
crossover into the summer, isn't it. You're sick? Oh you ever?
You ever gotten your lips on a little bit of
gaspacho cold soup? Log off. We're cutting this podcast short, Kaby,
We'll see you next week. What an awful answer. Thanks
for your team, No, thanks for that. I'm making the clean.
(18:49):
I'm setting this rule right now. If you are pro soup.
If you are that pro soup, not allowed on the pod.
Not allowed on the pod. Maybe Kbe will give an
exception to because he's a good friend. It. We need
to start when we're when we're going through who we
want on the pod. You know super Bowls around the corner.
We're probably gonna be on Radio Row. The question must
be asked, are you pro soup? Are you in the
(19:10):
middle or are you anti soup? Only anti soups and
in the middles can come on this podcast because you
can't just come on making outrageous claims that you eat
soup nineties seven times a year and this summer, Oh
my god. Okay, coming up after the break, we're gonna
preview Thursday Football. We got Raiders and Rams. I think
this one's gonna be a lot more interesting than you
probably think. Don't go anywhere look at all. Right, let's
(19:45):
break down Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime. You guys
can watch it eight pm Eastern Thursday. Ob the uh
this one. I feel like I may change my mind
on this A couple of different times. I watched this
Ramsey X game very closely. This week. I feel like
there was a lot on the line. You got Bobby
Wagner who was released from the Seahawks, and and I
(20:07):
think not even like a phone call has had so
he is he's going off. Okay, he is on this
team like madness. You can see. You can tell that
there was a little extra when he was taken on
the Seahawks. Now he's on the Rams. Jalen Ramsey was
super spicy. Like the Seahawks, who I thought were going
into this game, I thought this game was gonna stink.
(20:28):
I thought the Seahawks were just going to smash them.
But no, the Rams were in the game until the
very last second, and for a minute there, I thought
that we're gonna win without Matthew Stafford. John Wolford went
out for a minute or two with them. I think
a concussion. I think. I'm like, I might have that wrong,
but anyways, not not what I thought the Rams were
gonna do. And then you've got the Raiders, who, again
(20:50):
you're going into every single game. What you have kind
of like stamped in your brain this season is that
the Raiders have been pretty awful. Uh, Davante Adams going
was probably not what he thought this season was going
to be. I know they've had some issues with their
their head coach, adapting their um, but guys, the Raiders
have like quietly pieced together three wins in a row now,
(21:10):
And I had to look at that twice this morning,
being like, wait, they've been doing what? Um so I
feel like I still kind of want to go with
the Raiders, although I did see some nice things from
the Rams, but John Wilford's now day to day, uh,
he is the backup, so I don't know what they're
gonna look like on Thursday. Also, that is a very
short turnaround after a very tough game, like this game
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was grueling, just back and forth and back and forth,
and the defense really kept the Rams in the game.
So I'm gonna go Raiders on this one. Is that
to obviously also have a short short play. I'm gonna
go Raiders to win. I believe that they are in
eights favorite six six favorites will move. I'm gonna go
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win and Raiders cover. I think so too. The Rams
fought so hard, but it feels like one of those
games that they got up four that it's gonna have
a lasting effect afterwards. So I don't know. The Raiders
have been pretty impressive lately, like you said, the three
game winning streak, and they look a lot better and
they've been honestly, they've been good all season. They just
(22:15):
lost so many close games on like the final few plays,
and they're finally putting it together. So I do think
the Raiders will take care of business in this one.
I also saw a quote from Bobby Wager that was
just like, I kept my emotions at Bay all week
and then on Sunday I just let them go, like
he could probably lose out for the rest of the
season and be like, at least I had that Seahawks game,
(22:37):
you know what I mean? Like, you're right, that is
absolutely a game that both of these teams get up for.
And it was a lot more exciting than I thought
it was going to be. So okay, Raiders and must
I said, can I just have a moment? Oh, no,
momenta poor and four? I went five season five and
it was a five and five. And oh in your
week thirteen picks against the spread. That's quite impressive. That
is very impressive. And now we are getting close. I'm
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thirty six and one and you are for one. Congratulations
is very good and Mohan one. So on Friday show,
when we make some picks for the weekend, let me
just say I'm going out on some more limbs. Okay,
I am closing. I am closing the gap, all right.
Coming up after the break, we're gonna talk best and
worst thing that I saw all weeks going with beast.
(23:33):
All right, let's talk about the best and the worst
thing that I saw all weekend. Um. First off, we
we we dug into the archives a little bit. We've
we've been slacking. Okay, we just took a look at
all of your reviews. Five reviews my iad and we
had a good one that we that I wanted to read.
You guys, this is from my most mama something like that. Um.
(23:58):
She said, not sure if I like it yet, but
I can't stop listening. Hey, my mos mama will take that.
Thank you for the star review. Um. And guys, the
other best thing that I saw I love. We were
talking about Aaron Rodgers having ownership of the Bears, KB
having ownership of the Raiders, me having ownership of the Rams.
(24:19):
The Bengals beating the Chiefs this weekend again is just
like chefs kiss, absolutely beautiful. I love that this this
team just embodies underdogs like their Cincinnati. Um. They've had
a rough season the last few weeks, they have really
started to string together those like great wins and to
(24:41):
do it against the Chiefs like, I'm sorry, but look
the hell out for the Bengals. You got Jamaar Chase
back this weekend. Joe Mixon hopefully is around the corner.
I don't think he played this weekend. Um, but beating
the Chiefs is big time. Boys, Beating Chiefs is big time,
and I love that they keep on doing this. Chiefs,
(25:04):
you're good, we get it. You're good. Okay, let somebody
else have the limelight for once. Um. And then the
worst thing that I saw this truly broke my heart.
I literally just put this team into my Super Bowl
pick because they are so fun and I love the
story of Jimmy g being absolutely counted out. At the
beginning of the season. It was Trey Lance, Go, Go Go,
(25:26):
and then Tray Lance goes down, Jimmy comes back, They
get Christian McCaffrey, Deebo, Samuel is finding his health. It's
just all coming together perfectly. Um. And then Jimmy goes
down breaks apparently a few things in his foot um
or his ankle. No broken foot. Oh my god, that
just breaks my heart. This was such a fun story
(25:48):
and it's just very sad. And you can literally hear
Kyle Shannon had had a press conference after the game.
You can hear the emotion in his voice. Let's take
a list, um and Jimmy um foot, he'll be out,
he'll end up need surgery. Um broke a few things
in there. So I'm real unfortunate to have that so obviously,
I mean just hearing it, it's it's pretty crushing. Is
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we know what Jimmy has been through, how hard he's
worked at this. You know, I got that news a
little in the second quarter. Um, So it was a
little different for me, even just how happy we were
with that game. That was a really cool game just
as a team and all the stuff that went on
throughout the game and just be able to overcome some
things and it was so such a special win. Um.
But definitely mixed emotions hearing about Jimmy. Um. I told
(26:31):
the guys right after the game, and so I know
that gave them some mixed emotions fast too. But um,
it's a hell of a job I brought coming in
stepping it up. He um did a real good job today,
and UM, I'm gonna be ready to do our best
overcome this. This honestly makes the win over the Dolphins
that much more like impressive that Kyle Shannion got the
(26:52):
news that his his really his backup quarterback because he
was backing up Trey Lance and came in and kind
of got the job done. Now he's gone, what are
they gonna do? Um, so we're gonna hear We're gonna
pay close attention to what these guys get up to
in the next few days. But this is just I
really feel for Jimmy, and I hope that next season.
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It's just so sad knowing all the incentives that he
had to to like go to the playoffs, and like,
oh my god, it just sucks that Jimmy g movie
is going to be really something with this now it
is like the Dark Knight of the Soul part of
the of the script. Yeah, we better start writing that
bad Puppy Another bad thing that I saw, which is
a lot lighter of news here, but still this kind
(27:35):
of irked me. And I know that I am not
involved in the situation whatsoever. I'm not a Jets fan.
I'm curious to see what Dan has his things about this.
A few Jets players showed up wearing Mike White shirts
look and the Jets tweeted it out, which is also
kind of insane, Like this feels like, um, this is
(27:55):
kind of like feels like really immature, like elementary school,
like when you don't like some me and there's my
weight wearing a Tyler Conquin. Right, it just feels very immature,
and like I can't imagine. I kind of feel this
makes me feel bad for Zach Wilson, Like we get it.
He said something very quickly in a press conference that
he probably didn't mean because he was irked after the game,
(28:17):
saying that, you know, did you let the defense down? Know?
I didn't um, And now the whole team is like
kind of kind of like turned their back on a Garrett.
Wilson had a very strong take on Mike White. Rich
Chiminy tweeted this out. He was out there controlling the huddle,
never letting the moment get too big. It was cool
to see. Looking back on it now, it's cool to
(28:37):
think about. I know I'd go to war for that boy.
He's got something special about him. Greatby what do you think?
This is not looking good for Zach Wilson. I think
he's done. I think he's completely lost the locker room.
And I do not barring, you know, God forbid of
Mike White injury. I don't think he sees the field again,
Mike White's bawling out. And you can tell the players
like playing for somebody that throws them ball if you're
(29:01):
for almost four hundred yards yesterday, Yes, and that's two
weeks in a row that he's gone over three hundred.
And I mean the Jets didn't win that game, but
they made a heck of a second half comeback coming
down from or something like that. So I mean, if
you're a Jets player, wouldn't you like be hyped about
this guy coming off the bench who has been with
(29:22):
the organization for years and never really had a real
shot and now he's coming in and playing so well, Like, yeah,
it sucks. The t shirts and the tweets that just
I feel like that is a lot. It is like
treating Zach Wilson in real life. It's like tweeting like
like Zach Wilson, you're not wanted here, but then like
(29:42):
tagging him in the tweet, like you could just say,
Zach Wilson, you're not wanted here, but like he's gonna
see he's gonna see the shirt, everybody, What do you think?
Like that that bus ride over to the stadium must
have been a hell of quiet on his end. Yeah. Um, okay, guys,
does our show today. We're gonna be back on Friday,
previewing week. Oh god, don't don't make me say it.
(30:05):
Week four team, Come on, I'm not ready. I'm not
ready for the regular season to come to a close.
Week four team, Um, we are gonna be talking about
all of those games and talking about the week of drama.
I'm sure we're gonna talking about Baker Mayfield. I'm sure
we're gonna be talking about forty Niners. And I don't
know what we're gonna be talking about. So you better
come back on Friday, tune into the show. And also,
(30:28):
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(30:50):
we will see you guys on Friday. Love you by
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