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Speaker 4: Guy?
Speaker 3: Welcome in to a brand new week of your life
and of off the bench. It is Monday, January thirteen,
twenty twenty five. I find myself in a great move
and not tell you sure why and feel very happy
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What's going on, guys, Jake, you had a very busy
few days, crazy weekend. You managed to make it to Houston.
Unfortunately your bolts maybe did not put the same effort
in that you did in fighting all the way over there.
No they did not, But I'll tell you what, it
was a great experience. Oh yeah, So.
Speaker 5: I was in Dallas. I had to get there early
because of this know, cover the Cotton Bowl. We did
like ninety seven shows. A lot of fun as it
always is, and then I had to wake up and
hope everything was on schedule. Flew from Dallas to Baton
Rouge early Saturday morning. Got to Baton Roies like at
ten Huddy was playing a basketball game kind of by
the airport. My eleven year old so Jackson rode with
him to the basketball game of Off Point Road. So
I landed, went swung by got him and then we
were on our.
Speaker 3: Way to Houston.
Speaker 5: And yeah, it was very cool for me because we
had you know, we got great seats. We got right
like right before kickoff. We kind of like walk in
to the stadium. But what was cool for me is like,
you know, for four hours, you know, it's just me
and my oldest son.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's awesome. You know, you don't get that very often.
Speaker 5: And then you know he's asking about like, hey, have
you ever played the Texans and you know, and so
I got to tell old war stories.
Speaker 6: You know to my oldest son.
Speaker 3: And I've had that memories with my father in credible memories,
some kind of chairs the most of my life.
Speaker 5: And also like I don't have San Diego to take
him and showing where Dad played, so like this was
the first pro stadium I think, because like we've been
to the Superdome. But when I played the Saints, it
was in the preseason. We played him in London, we
played him at home, and so it wasn't the same.
And so you know, to say, hey, I played here,
I played against Mario Williams in this stadium. Dad had
a pretty good day that day. Caught a couple of
screen passes had and so it was an experience that
I've never really gotten to have. And it was a
lot of fun even in the game, Like we sat
kind of, you know, towards the end zone where a
couple had a couple of big plays in the game,
and so we're kind of going back and forth talking
about those.
Speaker 3: We're talking about.
Speaker 5: Mario Williams and how he was not human and just
things like that. And I've never really had that opportunity. So, yes,
the Bolts did lose, they didn't really show up for
the game.
Speaker 6: It was certainly worth the time regardless.
Speaker 3: It's amazing, man, that makes you so happy. As I said,
I'm I'm blessed where I've been on the opposite side
of those interactions. And again I think Jacks will cheers
them uh in the same way that I do. And
then how about Taylor in the group text I could
have sending. So the big tagline from this game that
everybody knows is that justin Herbert only threw three picks
all year and then through four of this game, like
everybody that watch him Doesn't's all the body's talking about.
Immediately after the game, Dude, Herbart threw more picks in
this game the entire season.
Speaker 7: Just watching it on TV and it popped off and.
Speaker 3: So bad said thanks for the update. Problem I want.
Speaker 7: To say, I want to say.
Speaker 5: No bleeping bleep was the stadium and watched it all unfold.
Speaker 3: You know, Josein Herbert threw more picks today than ever
season combined. Uh is he trolling? So to be fair,
that is an insane stat that is actually crazy. It's
just it was, you know it, it was the It
was kind of like the main headline takeaway from uh,
from the the the entire game, it.
Speaker 5: Was woof it was you know, rough and Herbert had
two picks that were they were on him. He had
two that probably were on his teammates. But you know, regardless,
he throws four interceptions. The Chargers defense that have been
so good all season long, they got put in bad
situations and you know, Derek Stingley had a big game.
Speaker 3: He thinking stingly man, He's done incredible. By the way,
this year We've been talking about a lot on this show,
but he's been living up to all of that unreal
twenty nineteen potential that you saw so many moons ago.
Speaker 5: Yeah, First team all bro was he Yeah he was, Yeah, Wow,
Texan's got some Jimmy's even better now.
Speaker 3: They limped into the.
Speaker 5: Playoffs and they played bad against playoff teams, but when
they're on you can see who they can be.
Speaker 6: You look at Nico Collins and Joe Mixon and c. J.
Speaker 5: Stroud and Wading and got into you know, Stingley's and
the defensive player Daneil Hunter. So Jackson doesn't really like
he didnt like he knows the Nil Hunter went LSU,
but he's not old enough to remember. He's fifteen years old.
Speaker 3: I don't think anybody remembers Daniel Hunter LSU. That's very fair.
That's the whole Daniel Hunters story. I know.
Speaker 5: So we're sitting there, we're talking to Neil Hunter during
the game, and like he knows who he is now
because he's done the research and watching him play, but
he didn't remember him at LSU and the Chargers could
not block him like the fullback. And then you know
the Chargers have like a d lineman that plays fullback,
so they got a big boy. Yeah, Daniel Hunter was
flat backing him all game long.
Speaker 3: I mean Daniel Hunter in college was the ultimate look
like Tarzan play like there was just no production. He
was the freakiest body I've ever seen in my life,
but no production. And now he's literally one of the
best sack getters, I mean probably an NFL history at
this point, or at least closing. I mean multiple double
digit sack seasons, one of the wilder college to NFL
production players that you will ever see. He's kind of
like a defensive version of Josh Allen and in some
ways a larder. What's up, girl, how was your weekend?
Speaker 5: It was great.
Speaker 3: I watched football and did nothing all weekends. Great weekend.
Speaker 7: He is just the best.
Speaker 6: Yeah, ready to get the week started.
Speaker 3: What about you? The problem? No problem, I'm tired of
the update. No problem, I got your fam.
Speaker 7: I thought that was a funny response.
Speaker 8: It was just I don't I don't understand a lot,
and if it makes Jake feel about my team wasn't
even in the playoffs, so like, you know, you gotta
do something for Victoria to be back home.
Speaker 7: Guys, I'm tired of like to take care of myself.
Speaker 3: This is ridiculous. Ye, it was like I had to
walk the dog every day.
Speaker 7: No, that's it's not what I said.
Speaker 3: I said that, like.
Speaker 9: All the stuff that like Victoria normally takes care of
throughout the day, I get to do this morning before work.
Speaker 7: So like it was at like five am.
Speaker 3: It just wasn't teas and peace.
Speaker 7: I know it wentn't for me, dude, T's.
Speaker 3: And piece for te guys. So I have a dirty confession.
I pulled one of the dumbest possible moves that you
could and I did it twice. So for some reason,
if there's one thing I hate about Hulu Live TV
is the guide can be a bit of a jumbled
mess trying to find what you want. You could just
use a search function. I suppose you know that's like
kind of annoying or whatever. But I always thought that
one of these NFL Wildcard games on NFL Network, Right
so Saturday afternoon, at the correct time of the game start,
I see Raven Steelers right on the guy and I'm like, oh, okay,
here we go. So I put it on. I'm kind
of taking care of the kids half a watch or whatever,
basically watch the entire game. Oh my god, it's a
replay of their game from like a month ago, from
the regular season. I'm like, oh wow.
Speaker 9: That's what was it the one that Steelers won, because
that would have been even funnier.
Speaker 3: No, it was not. I don't believe. But what's wild
is like the whole time I got these are some
low budget commercials, like how in the world that they
got this ad by? This is crazy? So as if
that wasn't dumb enough, yesterday I had the cannon over.
We're hanging out with kids, same thing, have fun watching
the games, and so I throw on Commy's Bucks and
we're sitting there watching the game, like, well, look at
that play whatever, and one put Dad's like how's Like,
how's you know? How's how's Marshall Lattimore Look, It's like
I don't know. I don't think he's hurt. I haven't
seen him. I haven't seen him play. And we're like
cage Georg Smiths and field goals like cade gotta get
it together. You know. I did the exact same thing.
I was watching the Week one Bucks Comedies game and
they're talking about Mike Evans first touchdown at twenty twenty four.
I'm like, guess I meant twenty five. That's odd bit
a slip of the tongue there, huh. And so I
basically watched the entire thing before I realized that, No,
the Eagles were up by like thirteen or whatever on
the Packers, and that was the ending actually on. It
was fascinating though, because I got to see the difference
in how people thought about Jade Daniels week one versut
how they thought about him come Wildcard week, and what
growth out of Daniels. I mean the entire Washington team,
but Jade and Daniels especially, I mean at the end
of that Week one game, they're talking about how like, oh, well,
you know, Jay, there's there's some good there's some things
you can work with. There definitely a rookie, and then
obviously by the end of last night, he might as
well have transcended humanity. The rare rookie quarterback that changes
an entire city's fortunes, a broken franchise that had not
won a playoff game since two thousand and five. Jade
and Daniels changed all of that, and in Week number one,
the Bucks ended up winning pretty handily in Tampa. Oh,
that was another funny bit. They're showing the thermostat on
the sidelines says eighty degrees. We're like, what it's eighty
degrees down there right now? How long did you watch this?
The whole game? The whole game. And then it's like,
I was like, I guess the Polar var texas like
a hard line kind of you know, just doesn't reach
down there to the middle of the floor. Even googled
it instead of just fifty degrees.
Speaker 5: We're like, I don't know, you didn't think about like
Cade York playing for the being guy.
Speaker 3: I know, That's what I'm saying. Like afterwards, we noticed
and we're like, oh my god, it was hold. It
was in front of our face, me and the kidnon
you were like with kids, taking care of kids and everything, right,
it just shows you what good parents and grandparents. Yeah,
for sure, locked into the kids. But yeah, I watched
the entire game thinking I was watching a playoff game,
even though there was so much evidence to the contrary.
But then I can't get to watch the actual playoff
game and it was awesome. So that was a dumbty.
And I remember I'm joking to my dad as we're
watching the wrong game. I'm joking to about how yesterday
afternoon I watched the wrong game completely unaware that I'm
in the midst of doing the exact same thing. I mean,
really next level dumb.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got nothing for you, Like I want to
stick up for you.
Speaker 3: I want to here is a good teammate for you.
I can't in this situation.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know the eighty degrees, the Cade York,
there's Marshaw Lattimore. Yeah, but he's been hurt, so I
can give you a pass on that one about Chris Godwin,
Like when he made a catcher, You're like, oh, he's back.
Speaker 3: No, no, no no. The only catch that really stood
out in my mind was the Mike Evans touchdown catch
where they're like, first touchdown in twenty twenty four, and
I was like, oh, you know it must have been
twenty five. Still still stuck in last year. Unreal.
Speaker 9: Doing it twice is insane, insane, so funny to me, insane.
Speaker 6: I actually like the AFC North one.
Speaker 5: I feel like the Ravens and Steelers play every single week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, every single week. True.
Speaker 5: See there you goes stick up for me exactly, you know,
just like in the NFC West, I'm pretty sure the
Seahawks and Rams play every single week. The same situation
with the Steelers and Ravens. I can actually with that
one outside of maybe you know, I don't know if
the weather was in that first game that you watch,
but I can get behind that one. Okay, Sure, we'll
figured out a lot of the same players. The comedy's
in the bucks. That one is wild Behavior.
Speaker 3: It's I look, man, I don't do Yeah, I mean
it was exactly because it was a week one game
that eight and in greasing. I swear that is so funny.
Me and my wife and my dad are all talking
about it, were looking it up and I literally was like,
I guess the polar vortex just like you know, circle,
it's kind of a hard line. I guess Florida's still Florida.
I must still be pretty warm down there, dude. Yeah.
Speaker 6: The only thing that could have made if it was
like an old, old game.
Speaker 5: It was like the Washington football team, and I guess
they changed it.
Speaker 3: Get back to the Redskins for the playoffs. Wow, that's crazy, man.
I mean I knew the political wins were kind of shifting.
I didn't know we were going all the way back
there right for the playoffs.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Cleveland's gonna be the Indians, the whole deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just unreal, unreal, a lot of people saying Guvey's
look heist. Relax. Okay, okay, everybody relaxed.
Speaker 7: Did you ever tell your dad that it was the
wrong game?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so fine.
Speaker 7: I'm not saying what if he left early.
Speaker 3: And be like, gosh, Justin Field started for the Steelers.
I noticed when he was reading to quad and and
putting him to sleep. I finally realized what I had done.
And so when he came out, I was like, Dad,
you're not gonna believe this, but uh, we've been watching
the week one matchup on NFL Network. But then we
got to sit down and watch the actual game, and
he signed the first half of the next hit and
it was great, Like I said, the funny dude. And again,
it's the commercials, just low budget, you know, small ad
buys random standard definition commercials or the black lines uppear
on the side of the screen, and I'm just like,
huh wow, I don't understand advertising economy. This is crazy.
I thought it would be nice to commercial the Super Bowl. Yeah,
like I guess, like an NFL network thing, you know,
and I'll never get there one game. It's it's odd,
duh um uh.
Speaker 5: At least it was a really good game by the
time you got there too, though.
Speaker 3: No, no, I caught the whole game. I missed Eagles, I
missed all the Eagles, Eagles packs, I get you. Yeah,
And Saturday I missed all. Honestly, Saturday miss all.
Speaker 5: But you didn't miss Eagles, Taylor, I'm gonna whip your
ass if you don't know.
Speaker 10: He's taking he said, Eagles packers, he said, though, I said,
but he meant both. He did miss you didn't miss much.
Is exactly what Cowboys love him. Dion Hayton lego man
looking is about to catch his hands.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, are the NFL playoffs broken?
Speaker 4: Dude?
Speaker 3: Do we put too many teams?
Speaker 5: I don't know that people are talking about He's blowouts
in this first round? Oh man, that is that's a
wild story. But at least you did get to see
the polar ar text Hordline.
Speaker 6: You know, at least you did get to see the
comedy's game.
Speaker 3: And I saw it from a perspective that was actually
fascinating to watch two tam tams play in Week one
and then watched him all the way here and what
do we in week nineteen, week twenty, whatever it is?
So the growth was actually and how they talked about
the teams was wild because at that point they didn't
know Baker Mayfield was going to be a top five
quarterback this year, and didn't know Jayden Daniels was gonna
be great. And I remember thinking, like, God, these that
should have been kind of harsh on him. On Jayden,
I thought they'd just be like head over heels in
love with them, and they're just kind of like, oh,
he's doing okay, you know, like okay, sure do whatever.
Speaker 5: I mean, he played, and I know we'll get into
it throughout the show, but he, I mean, he just
continues to amaze everyone, including so he had a chance
to so chill in the pocket.
Speaker 3: It is wild.
Speaker 5: He'll just sit back there almost like its routes on air,
and nobody's coming after him with bad intentions.
Speaker 3: It is amazing.
Speaker 5: And there's so many different stats, and again, I know
we'll dive into it, but the only quarterbacks that have
ever engineered an offense on the road in the playoffs
that had.
Speaker 6: No punts and no turnovers? Repeat that? Sorry, repeat that
all right?
Speaker 5: So there's only two quarterbacks that I've ever engineered an
offense on the road in the playoffs with no punts
and no turnover.
Speaker 3: Wait, they didn't punting it, They did not punt. How
many times you're gonna do that this season? He needs
to relax? Is it him and Tom Brady?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Close? Kurt Warner farther away? Who would be closer to
Kurt to Tom Brady before the weave pay Manning? Yeah? Yeah,
two thousand and three in pretty good sat break down
by you, Like I understood the scale of Tom Brady
to Kurt Warner, Right, Peyton Manning's.
Speaker 5: More close, Yeah for sure, two thousand and three Peyton
Manning and then twenty twenty five Jayden Daniels.
Speaker 3: Geez them, jeez, It's just it's just crazy. He entered
a flow state somewhere last season that just has not
gone away. When when would the Jade and Daniels And
I'm sorry now we're gonna go a break, but when
would Jade Daniels flow state have kicked in?
Speaker 11: Like?
Speaker 3: Was it the after the Tennessee game or was it
in the Tennessee game where they got their ass kit?
Speaker 6: No, he was in the Tennessee game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what that's what coach, That's what coach Kelly
always points to.
Speaker 5: It was in the Tennessee game at home Day game
Death Valley. From that moment on, because he had made
plays before then, but consistently, it wasn't there. But after
that moment right where Coach Kelly met him at the
numbers and it's like you got one on one coverage,
throw the football. It was that moment and then after
that and because at media day this year, like you know,
Coach Kelly talked about that moment, you go back, yeah, now, honestly,
you go back to the media day from a couple
of years ago where you know, Jayden was there.
Speaker 6: They both talked about it. If you remember that, they
were like, no, this was.
Speaker 5: The moment that we knew things had to change, they
had to be more consistent. And from that moment on
he has been one of the best quarterbacks in the world.
My best rookie quarterbacks, not best college one of the
best quarterbacks in the world.
Speaker 3: Absolutely insane. Manhouse, Man, I know I can't not today.
I'm in a good mood. I feeling, like I said,
I'm feeling overwhelming gratitude, and so I'm not gonna think
about Madhouse. When we get back here on O TV,
we can actually get the show started to keep you
luck on one four five p off.
Speaker 4: The bench, coming out of my cage and out and
doing just fine.
Speaker 1: God, Welcome back to the ninth ranked morning sports show
in America. Off the bench.
Speaker 3: What's happening y'all? Welcome back to oh TV. Hope you're
having a voondabar morning. Uh, it seems like the warm
weather's kind of back. It's actually not cold outside. That's fine.
I guess it's a fun week. I hope the polyarvord
text comes back. Firstly, I haven't. I still don't think
I've gotten enough use out of my new sweaters. But
you know, here we are whatever. I had real snow.
Yeah wait in Dallas, huh. I know you were seen
as videos getting all yells. Dude, poor kids never see snow.
Speaker 5: It was like snow snow too. It wasn't like ice,
and it was like snowflakes. And we don't get that
very often here in the South. Like we'll call a
good old ice storm snow, you know, and we'll pick
it up and we'll make you know, ice balls, never
really snowballs.
Speaker 3: But this was actually snowflakes. Did it stick? Yeah? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 6: First day whatever, Thursday?
Speaker 5: Yeah, whatever, that Thursday morning was like it was on
the ground and nobody was out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's why we had to get there.
Speaker 5: So the Dallas Airport after nine am shut down, so
the whole day was closed and so that's why, you know,
all the media had to go a day early. And
there was a couple of flights like the show Pony
Chris Chylders made it like in the last flight that landed,
but since they landed after the airport technically closed down,
they waited for two and a half hours on the
plane to find a gate and to get everybody off
the plane.
Speaker 3: Yeah. See says apparently there's going to be a chance
to know next Monday. Ben Rouge. Oh, let's go all right, Uh,
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I think we run I mean, we're obviously gonna mainly
talk the comedies game here, but I think we can
run through the others real quick. So you get started
with and well, maybe I have the orders wrong, but
Chargers Texans Saturday Texans. We already kind of mentioned it,
you know, do you have any fun facts or stats
from that game?
Speaker 7: A little turnovers?
Speaker 3: Other than that? Wait, did you all see so Justin
Herbert actually threw more picks Saturday, and he threw in
the entire seventeen game season. Wow, four to three. I
had not seen that anywhere. I never heard that.
Speaker 5: I've never heard of I was actually at the game
in the number. I didn't put that together.
Speaker 3: So other games that went down, you had Lions Vikings.
Uh wait no, sorry, no, no, no, back it up?
Put Yeah, I probably should exactly. I've had a very
rough and had a very rough wild Card weekend. You
had Bill's Broncos in which the Bills dominate, and the
play here to me was the fourth and one touchdown
where Josh Allen extends, extends, extends, throws in the back
of the end zone. How that man managed to like
the body control of NFL receivers is mind blowing. Yeah,
exactly right, just NFL players. He slides in the back
of the end zone. It's a tough catch just to
slide and catch the ball and keep your hands underneath it.
But he somehow even lifts his little ankles up so
that thing don't touch the white it's a touchdown and
the Broncos really didn't stand a chance after that. It
was an amazing play.
Speaker 5: And again it's a really good third down back, so
he obviously knows how to run routes and catch the football.
But still running back shouldn't be able to do that,
like even the best running backs should not be able
to do that because to to know where you're at,
to know the situation, to know, you got to lift
your ankles up and you can't.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was an incredible play.
Speaker 5: I mean, Josh Allen, look, I was a doubter, and
y'all know that, like a doubter as far as top
tier now, I thought it was really good. Thought he
was an elite quarterback. But I always was reluctant because
you want to put him in Tier one, Yeah, because
of the playoff situation that he had gone through and
he hadn't yet. Now he still got to go out
there and beat one of the big boys, I Mahomes
or someone like that.
Speaker 6: But and I don't want to sound disrespectful, but he's
doing it.
Speaker 5: With some duct tape and super glue. Yeah, as far
as weapons, for sure. That's the most incredible part to
me is he doesn't really have a number one receiver now.
James Cook is an RB one and he's been great,
But Josh Allen is doing it with guys that an
average casual NFL fan wouldn't know.
Speaker 3: He's He's definitely. I mean, that's that's kind of how
a lot of times Drew Brees was in his prime,
where he could elevate all those roundom Allens in that
in that mode right now, the only thing about him
needed to beat Mahomes. I still always maintained that he
did beat Mahomes, but his defense betrayed him. But he'll
have to do it again because obviously you're not getting
get credit for a loss anyway now, Uh, And you know,
but that's a crazy That's what's crazy about the AFC
right now though, Jake. I mean, all the big dogs
are still hanging out. Allen's there. Lamar and the Ravens
beat the Steelers twenty eight to fourteen, and they look great.
I mean, the Derek Henry element again just cannot be stated.
What a difference he has made on that team, how big, strong, fast,
he's still got it. Now he's playing for something that
matters after years of NFL purgatory there in Tennessee. You
can know he's playing very inspired. And do we count
this like so we have that bar for Josh? Is
it just like that for Lamar too? Because this is
a playoff win and we normally say, oh, well, Lamar
struggles in the playoffs, but this is another win here now.
But he needs to win. I mean, he has to
win a big one. I guess he does.
Speaker 5: He's got to be one of those quarterbacks and I
think he's got to go, you know, to a super
Bowl because when you look at who's been to a
super Bowl, you know, Mahomes has been to one and
Burrow has been to one. And that's kind of the
category that he's put in you got to continue.
Speaker 3: You got to go win some games, right, and he's
like the greatest regular season quarterback we've maybe ever seen
in terms of wins and losses.
Speaker 5: Yes, so you got to go do it in the playoffs,
you know how it is? He The NFL is all
about the playoffs. Eli Manning in the regular season. Yeah,
in the playoffs to super Bowls, and he's gonna be
a first Baut Hall of Famer because of those, not
because of anything he did in the regular season.
Speaker 3: Well, in a pretty juicy divisional round matchup, we will
get Josh Allen for SAMR. Jackson. That's going to be fantastic.
But yeah, the Ravens looking great, and of course the Steelers,
who basically ended the season like a limping wet fart,
kind of continue that into the playoffs. Now, of course
you'll know I didn't see this game, but Eagles twenty two,
Packers ten. The weird part about this one is, like
every Eagles game, there's still negativity and weird subtweeting going
on in the locker room after the game. AJ Brown's
reading a book of the Sunlight, which I take it
at face value. He's talking about how this is a
book about like performance and it's how he finds kind
of grounds himself, finds himself that he carries it all
the time. They never seen him that, y'all, never just
saw him read him before. Jan hurts hosbou out the game.
Dale hurts like, I think he's like, yeah, he carries
the Boground've never seen him read it before, but he
carries it around here until you get to the flow state. A. J. Brown,
as Jalen Hurts, says, yeah, you know, I think Jalen
knows there's a lot of plays that he would want back,
but I thought he did pretty good. Like, I've never
seen a team win so much, and yet the guys
so publicly don't really seem to have each other's back.
Speaker 6: It's a weird dynamic there, and it starts at the
top right.
Speaker 5: It doesn't seem like the head coach is, you know,
got a great chemistry with his players, and something's a
little bit off. But somehow they continue to win. I mean,
they're the two seed. They dominate the Green Bay Packers.
And that's what you get Flynn for sending all those
Charger jokes on Saturday night. He was and I said, oh,
just wait, Jordan Love will blow it tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Karmick Justice guys, that's what you called that.
Speaker 5: And of course Flynn classic spin zones like, well maybe
the Packers are the Chargers of the AFC is Like
you don't get to eight mile me sir, no, I
remember those texts on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Well, so like that's like some real stolen valor by
the Packers there. Yeah, like you're one of the most charts,
You're one of those charming franchises in existence. Yeah, we
don't get the We've been the one super Bowl in
the history of that. You know, you don't get to
claim charger pain. Now you literally had two Hall of
Fame quarterbacks back to back and they have a really
good one in the third. Ye, So no, get the
hell up out of here. All right, let's just let's
go to break and then we'll dive into comedies bucks
when we get back NFL playoffs, we'll ride along. Keep
it locked on.
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Speaker 11: Bench with Hester and t Bop.
Speaker 4: This week.
Speaker 3: Is pop punk having a comeback?
Speaker 7: Is that what you're laughing at?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I haven't heard this in a long time. I mean,
I don't know, I you know, I the one time
with the friends this year, I saw the band Neutral
Snap and then I ended up listening to them a
lot on Spotify and they're like a great like modern
pop punk that I found to be very enjoyable. Actually,
oh Man, song just brings up so many junior high emotions.
Speaker 6: Yeah, see, this is a lot of people.
Speaker 5: And you know, I was in the minority, but a
lot of people this was what their go to was
like in high school. And I was still R and
b usher, jagged Edge, all that kind of stuff, and
so like, this is not for me, but it was
for a lot.
Speaker 6: Of people in my high school, no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: It's for me in the same way that eating like
just a giant bag of Zapp's Crowtator chips are. I know,
it's not good for me, a little cheap, little greasy,
but god, I do get a little bit of enjoyment
from it. It kind of hits the spot, Yeah, it
really does. It really does.
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was Jimmy, how could you not.
Speaker 5: Like the entire place a pretty good wedding song? Yeah,
everybody knows.
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so WILDCARDE weekend up until last night kind of a
little bit of a bust. I mean, you know, you
still have great performances, but no great games per se.
And then you get Commies bucks to end it all
and once again the Cardiac Commies come through. I mean,
how about it. The Commander's in the regular season with
five straight wins, three of which occurred on the last
play from scrimmage and a fourth which ended with them
stopping a two point conversion on the final play. Of
course we know where that game took place. They also
had the Week eight hell Mary, they had a Week
two gab witty field goal against the Giants. I mean, Jake,
it is insane and dan Quinn talking about this a
ton half games and sometimes it's like the can be
a bit hard to try to replicate a year in
year out right because generally, like oncere close games like this,
you're supposed to be a fifty to fifty affair. They've
come out almost every time on top this season, but
dan Quinn said this year look more than any other
year when he's been a head coach. They have focused
on situational, late game football, and for whatever it's worth,
that focus appears to be paying huge dividends.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you got to have a quarterback that can
be able to go out there and handle it, and
they certainly have that in Jayden, and they just never
get off their marker too much where they can't make
a comeback or where they can't stay in a game,
and they just thrive down the stretch.
Speaker 6: Offense, defense, special teams. It just does not matter.
Speaker 5: And it can be guys that really haven't done anything
all game long, and they'll still step up in that moment. Yeah,
you know what I mean, Like in those fourth quarter moments,
like it just seems like they've had somebody step up,
and it's been a different guy every time as well,
Like in this game, it was a big Austin Eckler game. Yeah,
Austin Eckler's been hurt, you know, most of the year,
but coming in to a playoff situation. You heard them
talk all week, Hey, we're gonna count on this guy,
like we're going to need him to make a play. Well,
he makes an eighteen yard catch there on that final drive,
Jayden kind of throws it. The defender has his back turn,
so Jayden kind of throws it over his head like, Okay,
he can't make a play, but it needs you to
go make a play. Austin Eckler jumps over the guy,
kind of grabs it from the back of his helmet
and then turns around and runs down the field of
such a big play in that game, who set him
up for the game winning field goal? And so like,
they have different guys with different skill sets that always
seem to step up. And so I can see how
dan Quinn's like, No, we work on this, We're not
scared of the moment.
Speaker 3: We know what we want to get done.
Speaker 5: Because when your entire team buys into that and they're
not scared to make the play, that's what you.
Speaker 3: Can have well. And then what creates that belief more
than anything, the quarterback, the general, the leader of men.
And it's so fascinating to hear his teammates, these veteran
teammates who have been at it for years. And it's
always an interesting feeling when you're an older guy, be
high school, college, NFL, Like, it doesn't matter the level
at which you're playing, you can appreciate this when you're
an older guy and one of these young guys come
in and is so phenomenal that you find yourself wanting
to follow him. This is how I always described Tired
Matthew one of the only people that I've ever seen
that as a true freshman, true sophomore, could speak and
everybody would listen. Well, in that same way, here you
have these long time NFL vets, and they just have
so much belief in Jaden Daniels. There's a great rite
up in ESPN today. Here's a little excerpt from it. Quote, well, first,
I'm talking about this point. So he was asked about
the final moments what he said to Mark's Mariota during
the break of the two minute drill, Damnsbay said he
couldn't he couldn't recall, he couldn't recall his emotion when
he saw the kick go through through the through the uprights.
He said, quote, I don't know. I don't even think
I smiled. You just kind of find that zone. And
that's the thing about Jade Daniels. His ability to be present,
which is a superpower, not worried about the outcome, not
worried about results, cess or failure, but present in the moment.
What do I need to do now? Is maybe his
greatest ability. And here's the extra quote. Washington's players and
coaches have mentioned Daniel's ability to stay the same no
matter the situation. Daniels had led. Has led five game
winning drives, two that ended in lasting and field goals,
and three others in which he threw a touchdown pass
on the final play for scrimmage. And so, I mean,
there it is the guy. Just the moment's never too big.
His heart rate doesn't change, something dan Quinn talked about
after the game. Then they moditor that. I mean they
literally look at his heart rate. Yeah, and it barely changes.
It's he just has complete ice in his ear. You
know what he has. I'm calling it. It's the clutch
g guys, clutch ging's hard to find. Not everybody has.
Jaden Daniels, without a doubt, has the clutch ging. It's official.
Speaker 6: No, I think it is, as skip, I bet you
skip and tell you the same thing.
Speaker 3: I think it is.
Speaker 5: This reminds me of the John Canzano tweet Kenzano Gonzano
doesn't really matter Oregon Radio personality on November the nineteen,
twenty twenty three stop with the Jade and Daniels hype.
He'd hold a clipboard at both Oregon and Washington.
Speaker 3: Oh, Joanna bo j Now, to be fair, all three
quarterbacks are pretty good in the NFL thus far. By
Johnny One, Come on now, Brah, come on now, Brah.
We told you it was a terrible take of the time.
Preston Guy did his Preston guyde thing and put you
to bed, but it only ages worse. Agent like milk
over here. Yeah to any thoughts in this game for me, b.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you and I were talking about it on Friday
before Jake top one, and you know it was like,
it's not his ability to throw the deep ball, it's
not even his ability to run. Jaden Daniels's best attribute
is his composure. Every single game, He's never two high,
he's never too low. I mean, I was told you
didn't break. My dad and brother were supposed to come
over to my house and watch the game. We wound
up not doing it. But he calls me, like four
minutes to go, He goes, what's gonna happen. I'm like,
Jane's gonna win this game with like ten secondstuff. Guys
like you've seen it time and time again. Now they
wound up winning it with no time left on the clock.
But I mean, did anybody think when Daniels got that
ball four forty left in the game that he wasn't
going to win the game. I didn't think there was
a chance in Hill the Bucks were gonna win that game.
Once Jayden got that ball with the time game, I
mean he's done.
Speaker 1: Though.
Speaker 3: I thought maybe he shot even done it.
Speaker 9: So many times like early in his career, I mean,
you just can't.
Speaker 3: Well, we all three talked about it on Friday, and
I was the only one that said that the Commanders
were going to win because I like, oh, wow, Jayden. Well,
but that's what I was saying though, that Jayden has
no heartbeat and he has ice in his veins. Like
I yeah, I mean, you're right, you're right. Objectively, you're right.
I thought the Bucks being you know, having a little
more experience at more success as a franchise, being at home,
I thought this was their spot and Jaden Daniels continues
to just overcome it all.
Speaker 9: So we were talking about it, like me and Lodge
were talking about it this morning, and we're like, you know,
like the reason I picked the Bucks was like home field.
But like we were when we were picking the games,
We're like, this is the toughest one, Like Jaden's the
most dangerous quarterback in the NFC.
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Sports sun Net again guys, free site you know, powered
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And today's subject is Patrick Payton out of FSU Jake
and this player is as exciting as anybody that you
are adding to this football team. Another massive guy here.
So remember two years ago when Florida State went undefeated
in his sophomore season. Now, granted, this was a line
that featured Jared Vers to featured Braden Fitfts, right, so
that's a very good line to be a part of.
But two years ago, in that undefeated season as a sophomore,
Peyton had seven sacks and fourteen and a half tiffles.
For his career, He's got thirty one and a half tiffles,
sixteen sacks, He's six five, two fifty, great body, big boy,
elite talent, top ten of its event in the country
coming out of high school. Last season, however, a market
step back only four sacks, three of which came against Cal.
So here you have a player who looked like he
was on the road to being a top ten NFL pick,
much your first round, much like his teammates in Fisk
and Verse and Fisk and Verse Lead, it's now his show.
But like everything with FSU, everything goes awry and just
the year does not go as planned. He's trying to
find his fortune elsewhere, comes down to LSU, and the
question immediately becomes, Jake can Kevin Peeoples worked the same
magic that he did with Braden Swinton and Savian Jones.
Where he got those guys playing at a higher level
than they ever had to this point in their career.
What can you now do with a player who has
a sophomore I forget about that. With a player who
has sixteen sacks and thirty one half tivals for his career, Like,
that's a potentially very high ceiling. Yeah.
Speaker 5: This so this is a player that has certainly had
big moments in college football. You just laid out all
of his stats coming out of high school. He was
a very highly recruited guy. So the talent is there,
and you're right, he did thrive when he had a
first and a second rounder next to him. You have
to see you have to go back, you have to
watch the tape. Okay, what did he do really well
in that year?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 5: Maybe what did he struggle with in the next year
when he didn't have those guys?
Speaker 6: What did teams do to him in that year they
didn't do the year before.
Speaker 5: But you have a group of coaches that when you
look at I think Braiden Swinson's going to be the
best example.
Speaker 3: He was.
Speaker 6: He was a player, he was an ok player on
your team. He turned into an All SEC player eight and.
Speaker 3: A half sacks thirteen tifles for Brayden Swimson, which I
think is a good bar for I mean, you know
it's a very high bar, but like that's like Peyton
has that potential to hit those numbers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think Patrick payton seiling is higher
than Swinton. Now, Switch one's great again, love him, loves
a player, love him. He grew this year. But Peyton
does have a higher ceiling than an edge rusher you've
had in a long time.
Speaker 3: I think, I honestly I agree. I mean I have
it written right here like he could be les us
most dangerous pastor in a while, and I feel that's
a bit I don't want to be disrespectful to Swinson,
but I do agree the raw physical potential is higher. Switch, Like,
can people's maximize once again?
Speaker 5: I'll say the one thing that for me studying Patrick
Payton watching him on tape, at the point, he's gonna
have to set the point a little bit better than
he did this year, like Saviian Jones was. He was
different because he was such a massive body. Now he'd
get to the quarterback, but he was there to set
the edge. I think Patrick Payton doesn't have to be that,
but he's got to be better at setting the edge.
That is a part of being an edge rusher that
you have to be really good at. Swinton was good
at this year. We know you can rush the quarterback,
can you set the edge. That's gonna be something they
need to make sure they get from the six five
two fifty Patrick Payton.
Speaker 3: Our one in the books. Hour two of Off the
Bench coming up next. Keep it locked, guys, off the bench.