Random Shots From Week 11

Joe Bryant looks at the fun from last week's action.

Joe Bryant's Random Shots From Week 11 Joe Bryant Published 11/19/2025

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Hi Folks,

We do a ton of insightful, thoughtful, and serious features here at Footballguys with smart people thinking deeply for you.

This is not one of those features.

This is Random Shots, and it's a few pages of me sharing all the random goofiness from this week. With maybe a music note and sometimes a "soap box" wrap at the end.  

Here's to Football.

J

They say open with your best shot.

This is my best shot.

 

I could stop right there, and this column would be a win this week.

But I won't.

My Guy.

 

 

It's a beautiful game.

 

Taco Bell needs to be all over this one.

 

The internet remembers.

 

The internet especially remembers from two weeks ago. 

If Lane Kiffin ever retires, Random Shots is going to be on the Struggle Bus. 

 

Camera Crew folks putting in work when Jahmyr Gibbs is on the field.

 

Music Note this week is a long-time favorite and one I've shared before. But worth another play this year.

"Wait So Long" by Trampled By Turtles hits me every time. One doesn't normally think of music with a banjo and fiddle and mandolin as this high energy. But they rip. This song grabs you by the throat three seconds in.

I spent much of my life working in the rural South, and the near punk rock type energy here is not a coincidence. This is not a happy song. This is a song of frustration and despair. That can happen sometimes in small towns.

Not to be too dramatic, but it's almost like a bluegrass/punk rock version of a psalm with singer Dave Simonnet wailing and lamenting how long he must wait. You can hear it in his voice and in the instruments from the rest of the band. Just as much, you can see it in their faces. 

If you've ever known anyone who's felt trapped or unhappy with where they are, Simonnet spitting the "t" in "town" at the 1:32 mark on "Nothin' happens in this burned out town anymore" stings.

In some ways, it's a little like U2's "40" actually based on Psalm 40. Here's a baby-faced Bono and The Edge from 1983.

We all love U2, but I much prefer the rawness and grit from Trampled By Turtles. 

And that's the Music Note for this week.

 

It doesn't show in the record, but the Raiders have a built-in unfair home-field advantage...

 

It's not always good. (2024 anyone?)

But when Christian McCaffrey is rolling, it's something to see.

 

One. It's time for an intervention.

 

Two. Being forced to join an adult cheerleading team sounds like a fantastic league punishment. 

Something New.

 

Something Old.

 

Marcus Mariota may not be great.

But my guy is All-Pro consistent.

 

Who did this?

 

My dad might have told you this also applies sometimes to non-baseball players...

 

Yup. 

 

Trey McBride is this year's poster guy for Value Based Drafting. 

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