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Speaker 1: behind the Glass, what's up? Man? Not too much? The

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Speaker 1: three Amigos is right. I mean, we're kind of the

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Speaker 1: core of this podcast. We've had, you know, Fabs and

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Speaker 1: Rank and Harmon and Franchise and everybody dating through. But

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say the Big Three, the Big three too, Okay,

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Speaker 1: And I this is mean I'm like Dusty Bottoms. By

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Speaker 1: the way, man, which big three would we be going with?

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Speaker 1: I don't know? He said, three amigos. That's kind of well,

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Speaker 1: and what was I tell you last week? Man? Congratulations

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Speaker 1: on champions It's not over there only there. You know

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Speaker 1: Marcus sent us on Slack our inter office. I am client,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking about bargains. Marcus wrote a great

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Speaker 1: at thirty eight. Rogers is sitting at what thirty two

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Speaker 1: and he's like thirty two years old. He's like, if

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Speaker 1: I have to cut cheese out of my diet for

426
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Speaker 1: the next five years or whatever to to play at

427
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Speaker 1: that level till I'm thirty eight or forty done, ben heck. Yeah,

428
00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:47,800
Speaker 1: he's like, I want to win another title. So that's

429
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Speaker 1: what that is. It's not Eddie Lady. It's not Eddie Lacey.

430
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Speaker 1: By the way, you should get excited about Aaron Rodgers now,

431
00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:57,080
Speaker 1: I mean the guys. I think he's angry about last year. Yeah,

432
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Yeah, you talk about the

433
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Speaker 1: competitor shy. I think he's hissed about last year. He's

434
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Speaker 1: getting in shape, he's got some weapons coming back. Uh,

435
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Speaker 1: he's got developing talent as well. Yeah, I mean what

436
00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,240
Speaker 1: Chris Westling just said this. I was listening when I

437
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Speaker 1: was at the gym last night to the most recent

438
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Speaker 1: Round the NFL podcast and he actually said they had

439
00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:16,080
Speaker 1: there they had Fearless Predictions. You should download there two.

440
00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:18,439
Speaker 1: It's a great podcast, guys. But his was that the

441
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:21,000
Speaker 1: Packers offense this year will set records because, like you

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00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:24,080
Speaker 1: just said, when you think about everything that's coming back

443
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Speaker 1: this year, he's getting one of the best wide receivers

444
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Speaker 1: in Randall. Cobb is gonna go back to his more

445
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Speaker 1: natural position in the slot and is going to be

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Speaker 1: fully healthy. Time Montgomery developing Time Montgomery is gonna be

447
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Speaker 1: back and healthy. They've got Jared Cook now hopefully healthy.

448
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Speaker 1: If they get Eddie Lacey slimmed down again, he's a

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Speaker 1: top ten back in the NFL. Like and then you've

450
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Speaker 1: got Aaron. You've got Aaron Rodgers, who's, like I said,

451
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Speaker 1: just mad at the world, you know what I mean.

452
00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 1: He's two years ago they they were you know, jobbed

453
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Speaker 1: basically in the in the uh, in the over and

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Speaker 1: over time of going to the Super Bowl last year,

455
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:59,359
Speaker 1: everybody in his offense died. This year is a revenge. Yes,

456
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:03,600
Speaker 1: everyone did die. Uh No, you're right, man. It's it's

457
00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,880
Speaker 1: hard not to to really really like the green Bay

458
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Speaker 1: offense and Aaron Rodgers this year. I mean, of course,

459
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Speaker 1: everybody's got to stay healthy. I mean that's just kind

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Speaker 1: of a given. But you gotta love that the the continuity.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of the continuity, the third headline out of Green

462
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Speaker 1: Bay for me anyways, is that Aaron Rodgers is kind

463
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Speaker 1: of really delving back into the playbook because Mike McCarthy,

464
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Speaker 1: I guess, has changed the language system of his offense,

465
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Speaker 1: but a lot of continuity there. And again we're seeing

466
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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers really get refocused, uh into the game, putting

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Speaker 1: his head in there, really delving in. And there's been

468
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Speaker 1: reports out of Green Bay that he has a hundred

469
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Speaker 1: percent adopted this new language that they've installed into the

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Speaker 1: new offense and uh and and he's really buying in.

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Speaker 1: And the last thing working in the Packard's favor here,

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Speaker 1: UH is Mike McCarthy's back to calling place full time.

473
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Speaker 1: There you go. He stepped off of it last year

474
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Speaker 1: and took it over back late in the season. Offense

475
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Speaker 1: kind of stepped up to another level again. So I

476
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Speaker 1: like it. How convenient that when you know there are

477
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Speaker 1: no players there, when everyone's dead, Mike McCarthy backs off

478
00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,120
Speaker 1: the play call and now everybody's back. You know, hey,

479
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:14,520
Speaker 1: he took it last year when everybody still oh boy, yeah.

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00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 1: Out of New Orleans, Drew Brees is Ranton and raven

481
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Speaker 1: about rookie Michael Thomas out of Ohio State, he says,

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Speaker 1: he quote, he gets it, he gets it. His improvement

483
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,199
Speaker 1: over these six practices has been awesome. Breeze said in

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Speaker 1: The Times picka Yune. From day one until now, the

485
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:33,520
Speaker 1: same mistakes are not being made. He's onto the next

486
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Speaker 1: set of challenges and he's continuing to progress. Well, what

487
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:40,359
Speaker 1: are we making the news it? Do we love it? Sure?

488
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like so. I was not.

489
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Speaker 1: By the time this story came out last week. Will

490
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Speaker 1: Brinson at the CBS, I thought had a fun tweet.

491
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:50,840
Speaker 1: It just says NFL June, and it had, you know,

492
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Speaker 1: a bunch of scenarios. It seemed to happen every June.

493
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Speaker 1: First one was Breeze thrown with parentheses Saints rye wide receiver.

494
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Speaker 1: It's a great point. It's a great I mean, look,

495
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,520
Speaker 1: and I'm not saying Michael Thomas is you know who

496
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 1: wasn't last year? Was it Shanta Via something or other?

497
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 1: I don't. I feel like Nicktoon was one once upon

498
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:12,880
Speaker 1: a time, Brandon Coleman got here get this level of praise.

499
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 1: But when it was Brandon Cooks two years ago, it

500
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 1: was just like raining praise every day. I feel like

501
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,280
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a slightly different scenario only

502
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Speaker 1: because of the athletic profile of a guy like Michael Thomas, Right,

503
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,520
Speaker 1: I would agree, And I why I put this on here.

504
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,520
Speaker 1: I had actually before this article or that story came out,

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Speaker 1: I had pegged Michael Thomas as one of my deep

506
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Speaker 1: sleepers in the article, which we'll talk about later on

507
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Speaker 1: the podcast in a different episode. I mean, and it's

508
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Speaker 1: on the draft kit, but just because, like you said,

509
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Speaker 1: his athletic profile and where he landed, it was one

510
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Speaker 1: of my favorite fits out of the draft for a

511
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Speaker 1: prospect to a team, Because don't disagree. They had just

512
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Speaker 1: gotten rid of Marcus Colston, who was that big, not

513
00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 1: ultra fast, but a good route runner and a physical

514
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 1: guy operating out of the slot and in the red zone.

515
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Speaker 1: And that's what they have in Michael Thomas now. Because

516
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Speaker 1: you look at Willie Sneed and Brandon Cooks, they're they're

517
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 1: faster shift your guys both can be can go deep

518
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 1: and stuff. But you're gonna have Michael Thomas as this

519
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 1: chain mover now and this big target in the red zone.

520
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 1: And I for breeze, I mean, you have to take

521
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 1: all this stuff with a grain assault like it is June.

522
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:20,040
Speaker 1: As we said, they're they're playing against air. Basically, nothing's

523
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 1: come on. But in that article to Breeze specifically spoke

524
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 1: to how he gave him like a hand signal for

525
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,439
Speaker 1: a round adjustment, and as a rookie he made it.

526
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Speaker 1: Those are those little things that are gonna help Michael

527
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,719
Speaker 1: Thomas e the field early and often as a rookie

528
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:33,640
Speaker 1: and help him earn the trust of Drew Brees, which

529
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,639
Speaker 1: couldn't turn lead to some fantasy points. He's Keyshawn Johnson's nephew, nephew.

530
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Speaker 1: He's six three to ten. Uh played at Ohio State.

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Speaker 1: Was was was a I don't want to say he

532
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Speaker 1: was a spectacular player there because he wasn't. He was

533
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Speaker 1: a good player. There was like nobody in the passing

534
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Speaker 1: offense that was spectacular though, because that offense wasn't credicated

535
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Speaker 1: on the past. No, No, it's definitely true. Uh that

536
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 1: being said, Um, he wasn't. He just wasn't that guy,

537
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. He wasn't that guy that

538
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: took over a game. Um, he kind of sort of

539
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,160
Speaker 1: lets the ball get into his body a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Um And I'm and I'm sure you could drill that out.

541
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: That's fine. But again, we talked about the athletic profile.

542
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: Very athletic dude, six, three to ten, had great combine numbers.

543
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:17,240
Speaker 1: I won't bore you with all the forty times and

544
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 1: all that, but a big time guy and played in

545
00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 1: a big time program, and he knows about the NFL

546
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 1: game through his uncle Keishan Johnson Um and he's got

547
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Speaker 1: one of the best quarterbacks of all time and Drew

548
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 1: Breestro in the ball. Yeah, I gotta like it. So

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00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: that's that's why he's not somebody you're gonna be jumping,

550
00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:33,399
Speaker 1: you know, way up in your draft to get. But

551
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 1: depending on how the rest of the offseason goes. But preseason,

552
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:38,159
Speaker 1: he's either a guy that's gonna be a great late

553
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 1: round flyer or somebody to keep an eye on the

554
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 1: waiver wire if all of a sudden he starts to

555
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 1: make a splash. I mean, you gotta keep in mind

556
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 1: to Marcus Colston when he was in his heyday, was

557
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 1: catching you know, seventy to eighty five balls, no problem

558
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: in eight like every year, right, no problem? Right? So

559
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 1: like if you could find that magic again, why not? Absolutely?

560
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: Why not? Absolutely? Those are your top lines for today.

561
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the draft nfl dot Com slash draft kit.

562
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: Great content on there. As we mentioned, uh NFL dot

563
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Speaker 1: Com slash Fantasy if you want to do a mock draft,

564
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 1: A lot of fun as always. All right, let's get

565
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,880
Speaker 1: it to the bargains, Marcus, give me some guys. I'll

566
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 1: list off your the ten guys that you had listed.

567
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: Tavon Austin, DeShawn Jackson, Dion Lewis, Julius Thomas, Michael Floyd,

568
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: Eli Manning, Marcus Wheaton, Tevin Coleman, Travis Benjamin, and the

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Speaker 1: chronicles of Theo Riddicks are your bargains. I mean the

570
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: guy that I'm that I'm super hyper on. Give it

571
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 1: to me, Tavon Austin. And I can't believe I keep

572
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 1: keep saying it. And I still can't believe I keep

573
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 1: saying it. But you know, I think what I think,

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00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 1: I'm surprised. Well, I think what turns people off about

575
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 1: Tavon Austin is the fact that you draft him as

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00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: a wide receiver and his wide receiver numbers are not good. No,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a guy who had fewer than

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Speaker 1: five hundred receiving yards last year, had four d seventy

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Speaker 1: three receiving yards hundred thirty four rushing yards that over

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00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: Randa actually just over a nine hundred yards um. You know,

581
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 1: Matt math is hard um. But nine d seven yards

582
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: scrimmage yards, nine total touchdowns last year. And I think

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00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,959
Speaker 1: what it signals is that the Rams have finally figured out.

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00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 1: It took three seasons, but they finally figured out how

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00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 1: to use Tavon Austin a little bit. And that really

586
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: is kind of kind of the way we imagine Percy

587
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,159
Speaker 1: Harvin was going to be once upon a time when

588
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,359
Speaker 1: Percy Harvin was right, he was that guy who was

589
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,360
Speaker 1: about a runner and a receiver. And I think that's

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00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 1: what the Rams are going to do with Tavon Austin.

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00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 1: And I mean you don't you're not drafting him as

592
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 1: a wide receiver one, or even a wide receiver too.

593
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: He's probably more of a flex guy for you. But

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00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 1: this is a guy who has that dual threat ability,

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00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: has the ability to get into the end zone. And

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00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 1: you look at it his numbers, he was right up

597
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: there when you know with guys like Michael Crabtree and

598
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: a Marii Cooper. I mean, he had interesting kind of

599
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: top twenty five fantasy numbers as a wide receiver. But

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00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: you just look at him and you shrug your shoulders

601
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: because I mean, here it is he can't even get

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00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: five hundred receiving yards in a season. But I think

603
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: so interesting fifty two receptions and fifty two rushing attempts.

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00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: I know it's kind of weird, but I did hear

605
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: word word out of l A is that they want

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00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: to get Tavon Austin or they think they can get

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00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: him a hundred catches this year, which could be. It

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00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: could be. It could be a lot of dump boss,

609
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,960
Speaker 1: could be some bubble screen stuff that it could be.

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00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 1: It could be a Jarvis Landry type of hundred catches

611
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 1: where every pass he catches. No, he's not that guy.

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00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: He doesn't have he doesn't have that kind of running

613
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 1: ability in him. He's a bubble screen guy. He you know,

614
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: maybe maybe you throw him a flanker screen and stuff like.

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00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 1: I didn't say I believe it. I said that. Uh No,

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not even close to buying that. If

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00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: he gets too if he gets to seventy five, I

618
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: will be surprised. Even still, though, if you add you know,

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Speaker 1: twenty five more receptions onto his totals, they touchdown numbers

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00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,520
Speaker 1: might regress. Tamon Ston goes in what like the tenth

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Speaker 1: twelfth round. If that I don't I don't even know,

622
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Speaker 1: if I don't even know if he's going twelfth round,

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Speaker 1: is he like if I if I'm looking there, if

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00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: I've got you know, at that point, I've got several

625
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 1: wide receivers already. Um, if I'm just trying to grab

626
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: a wild card or somebody with like matchup based upside,

627
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: because Tavon Austin had several weeks last year where he

628
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: would drop twenty points he did. Um, that's that's a

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Speaker 1: great addition as a wide receiver, for a wide receiver. Five.

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Speaker 1: But let's see what our friends at Fantasy Calculator round round. Um.

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Speaker 1: No one in the Fantasy Stronghold other than Matt money

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Speaker 1: Smith has him in the top one hundred. Matt's got

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Speaker 1: him at eighty. I think, I think, to me, I've

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00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: got him in that one one fifteen range. Yeah, he

635
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:47,440
Speaker 1: wouldn't be far outside. Um. But uh, but again, I

636
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: think that has more to do with, you know, the

637
00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: versatility of the skill set and Jared Goff being there,

638
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:56,719
Speaker 1: and defense is having to worry about Todd Gurley. You're right,

639
00:30:56,760 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 1: I mean, the Russian numbers are definitely surprising, definitely surprising.

640
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: His rookie year, he ran for one one. His uh

641
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: second year he ran for four, and then last year

642
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: he ran for four thirty four. It's pretty good. Yep. Yeah,

643
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,479
Speaker 1: they're figuring out how to manufactures pretty good and out

644
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: of him. But I mean, too, this is a guy

645
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: they traded up for in the first round. Like, he

646
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: is extremely talented, he's athletic. There's gonna want give him

647
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: the ball. Last year was just his third season. You know,

648
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,479
Speaker 1: it feels like he's been around. Last year was just

649
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: his third season. Now, it's true, it's true. It's because

650
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: he had so much hype coming out of West Virginia too, though,

651
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 1: I mean that was the thing, you know what. I mean,

652
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: who else you like in the bargains? Another guy that

653
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 1: I really like in the bar? I mean, I think

654
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: I think Dean Lewis is one to keep an eye on.

655
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: I'm sort of hoping people forgot about him. I don't

656
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: think that's really going to be the case, but I

657
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: think I think it will be the case. I think

658
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 1: the injury will in bel tricks will will scare some

659
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: people off at least a bit. I don't know a

660
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: bit a bit. It depends on how how closely people follow,

661
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: like the big the big analysts and stuff. Because I

662
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: know over at ESPN they ranked him about their RB

663
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,040
Speaker 1: twenty on the season. We have him about as to

664
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: be twenty on the season. So when people are doing

665
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: drafts and that you know you're you're going, you're going

666
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: through that list, the draft list, Dean Lewis is gonna

667
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: be right there. But he's going. He's going right now

668
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:10,959
Speaker 1: in late fourth round in a lot of spots, you know,

669
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: which I think. I think it's good in the sense

670
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: that he can give you maybe fringe RB one numbers,

671
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: you know, if if that upside. I mean, let's remember

672
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: when he was healthy, he was the he was the

673
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: running back for the Patriots. Last year, they're really there.

674
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: There really wasn't the rotation. You didn't see a lot

675
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: of the Garrett Blunt or anybody else. It was when

676
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: Lewis got hurt that they had to start running different

677
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: bodies in there. But as long as he's healthy and

678
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: if they believe in him again, hopefully he has that

679
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: large share of the snaps and his his the biggest,

680
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: the big what gives him a safe floor and why

681
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:44,680
Speaker 1: I think we all have him so high as people

682
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: might question it is is his targets and his role

683
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: in the passing game like he was. He was catching

684
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: a ton of passes early in the season, and after

685
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: he went down, they threw fifty four balls to James White, right,

686
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: so they continue to throw. James White got fifty four

687
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: targets in New England last year, basically trying to be

688
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 1: a poor man's Dion Lewis. So I think the thing

689
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,200
Speaker 1: about Dion Lewis that was so impressive was his short

690
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: area quickness. Oh god, remember that touchdown he had where

691
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 1: under Yeah, his his short area quickness is he put

692
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: it on display in Week One's where he was. He

693
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: was putting the Steelers on their butts a lot in

694
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 1: that Week one game. No, No, it's true. Um, here's

695
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: the thing, four games without Tom Brady check down city

696
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: from Jimmy Garoppolo, Is it though? Why not? I mean,

697
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:35,960
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just you know it's I you

698
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: gotta figure Grons gonna get a line share of the targets.

699
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman still there. Um, I don't know, it's it.

700
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: To me, it's a little bit scary taking him in

701
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: that fourth round area, only because I I know I'm

702
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: not gonna get Tom Brady four games. That's my only concern,

703
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: which potentially makes him more of a bargain if everybody

704
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: stays away from him. That's true. No, I I love him.

705
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: And and again, um the draft. Start the draft strategy

706
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:04,160
Speaker 1: right now, that's really popular taking wide receivers early. So

707
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: if you're taking those wide receivers super early, No, there's

708
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: no question Dean Lewis has got to be a guy

709
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 1: you're targeting. Um in that fourth fifth round range. There's

710
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,879
Speaker 1: just no question about it. Agree, all right, who else

711
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: you like? Uh, let's go Elisha Nelson man Man I

712
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 1: love this one. I love this one. I mean, and

713
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 1: and it was I think that was one of the

714
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: one of the big moments of our first mock draft

715
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 1: that we did altogether. That you know, here it is,

716
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: everybody takes their quarterback and everybody feels okay. And then

717
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 1: somewhere was it round ten or Levin Harmon got him?

718
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 1: You know later? Uh, round thirteen, round thirteen he gets

719
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: he gets Eli Manning, And I think all of us

720
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 1: stopped and looked at that and said, wow, just wow.

721
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously he's got Beckham there. I know a

722
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: lot of US are really big on Sterling Shepherd this year.

723
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 1: I just think the continuity with Ben McAdoo going from

724
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: O C to head coach but still keeping that same

725
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: offense intact and letting everybody get comfortable in it. I

726
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: think that that's so huge. And you know, Eli is

727
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 1: that guy that you know again sort of like Tavon Austin,

728
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: you kind of look at him and you're like, yeah, whatever,

729
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,320
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, unless you really love Manning face.

730
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: But then at the end of the year, elies in

731
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: the top ten and he's just hanging out there. So

732
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: to get a legit QB one in a double digit round,

733
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 1: you know, in the thirteenth round especially, that's a win.

734
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 1: Can we see more consistency out of Eli Manning? That's

735
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,439
Speaker 1: the only problems on a week to week basis, He's

736
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,759
Speaker 1: very inconsistent. I mean, you talk about him popping into

737
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: the top ten. I think a large part of that

738
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: was the fact that he had that seven touchdown game

739
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,240
Speaker 1: versus New Orleans, Right, I mean you take that away

740
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 1: and he's not in your top ten. Um, can we

741
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: get more consistency? I'll ask you that, whiz. Can can

742
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: we see more uh normalized production on a week to

743
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 1: week basis. I think that's that's the hope now that

744
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 1: he has that, now that he has more targets around him,

745
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:55,880
Speaker 1: is that he will he will even out a little bit,

746
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: because while he did have a few more peaks and valleys,

747
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,320
Speaker 1: he only had five games with over twenty or more points.

748
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: He did have like ten or eleven where he had

749
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: eighteen or above. But then he also he also had

750
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 1: some some stinkers in there that would sneak in, like

751
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 1: a six point game or a four point game. But

752
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,800
Speaker 1: with the fact that he now has, hopefully in Sterling

753
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,959
Speaker 1: Shepherd a consistent option aside from Odell Beckham and Victor

754
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: Cruz is a wild card. Like he's come back, he

755
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: could be great. I think that will allow him to

756
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: to open it up and produce at a more consistent

757
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: level as opposed to just funneling all the targets to

758
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: um Odell Beckham and having the complete dice roll of

759
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 1: throwing it near Reuben Randall. By the way, I know

760
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. That's gone. That was And the

761
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 1: thing about Ben McAdoo too, I I gotta believe they're

762
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 1: going to be more high tempo. I got to believe that. Um,

763
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 1: I think you know it's not gonna be full Chip Kelly,

764
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: but they're gonna run more offensive plays, meaning more opportunities

765
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: to put up stats and be more successful. I I

766
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: gotta think than Ben McAdoo is gonna run this offense

767
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: a lot more high tempo uh than we saw in

768
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 1: the old regime. That's that's my big thing. And and

769
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: and when you get more opportunities. Eli Manning, even again

770
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: under a Coughlin system that was relatively conservative, still put

771
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,760
Speaker 1: up borderline top ten numbers. What happens when he starts

772
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: running a lot more plays. I'd love you I Manning

773
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: this year. He's one of those guys again with Derek

774
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 1: Carr that if you're waiting on the quarterback and again

775
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 1: you have to wait on quarterback this year, guys, you

776
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,400
Speaker 1: gotta do it. I mean unless you just have a

777
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: man crush on Aaron Rodgers or Cam Newton. Okay, I

778
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 1: get it. But if it's not one of those guys,

779
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 1: you gotta wait. And Eli Manning is one of those dudes,

780
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 1: uh that I'm taking in those double digit rounds. He

781
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,479
Speaker 1: Derek car Kirk Cousins, that's that trio of quarterbacks when

782
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: I get into that tenth round and later I don't

783
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 1: feel bad about having any one of those guys. I

784
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 1: don't feel bad about having any one of those guys.

785
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 1: All right, should we get to breakouts? Yeah? Sure, breakouts.

786
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: This is Michael Fabriano production. He's got David Johnson, Ezekiel Elliott,

787
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:58,280
Speaker 1: Lamar Miller, Sammy Watkins, Carlos Hyde, Amari Cooper, Golden Tate,

788
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: Kobe Fleaner, Ladarius Green, and Marcus Mariota. Who do we

789
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,760
Speaker 1: like in terms of this list in terms of really

790
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: busting through? I mean the interesting thing too is he's

791
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: got two guys already there in the first round. Are

792
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: they going to really? Uh? I guess I think break up?

793
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,720
Speaker 1: In the article he defends them with David Johnson Lamar

794
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: Miller is that. Yeah, they finished, they finished highly last

795
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 1: year in terms of overall scoring, but neither had the

796
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: amount of touches that you would have thought they could get.

797
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: And if when Lamar Miller actually gets featured back touches

798
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 1: in Houston, as he should, and David Johnson is the

799
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: RB one for that team for the whole year, I

800
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 1: guess why FABS put them on here is because, like

801
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: they could easily, like jump past the numbers they put

802
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 1: up last year. All right, there you go. Um, But

803
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 1: other guys I like on this list are um let's

804
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: do let me talk about Carlos Hide on here all

805
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,280
Speaker 1: the time. Let's talk a little do well? I feel

806
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: like he's kind of going under there, or or if

807
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 1: we do talk about Carlos Hide, it's always with question

808
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 1: marks like is he gonna fit in this Trip Kelly system?

809
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: I think, I think, I think is it back from

810
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: his broken foot? I don't. I don't think there's any

811
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:58,719
Speaker 1: question about him fitting in the system. And I don't

812
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 1: think there's any you know. I I feel confident that

813
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: he's healthy. The question becomes what can the Niners do

814
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: in the passing game to prevent teams from just stacking

815
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 1: the box against Carlos Hide? Yeah, that makes me scared.

816
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 1: That makes me scared. The new offense makes me scared.

817
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: Uh again, are we seeing a de Marco Murray situation here?

818
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,399
Speaker 1: I don't know, a lot of question marks the guys,

819
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: the guys behind him would make me feel that this

820
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 1: is not going to be DeMarco Murray situation. This is

821
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: going to be more like the Lashawn McCoy years. With

822
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly where feeds Carlos Hyde And some people have

823
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 1: questioned his ability to catch passes and stuff, But I

824
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: think he's fine at that. I think I think he'll

825
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: still see the field, especially with how quickly that offense runs.

826
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 1: I don't know that they'd be rotating them out all

827
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 1: that often just to get in who sean drone to

828
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: catch passes? I don't know, Like, uh, Mike Davis, I don't.

829
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I would imagine they keep Mike

830
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: Davis still on the roster. Yeah, they when drafted him

831
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: like a year ago hadn't been long ago? God? Um,

832
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 1: so I really like Carlos Hides potential this year. And uh,

833
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 1: while yes, the fourty niners could be bad and they

834
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: could be playing from behind a lot with my not

835
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 1: mean a ton of carries for him. He's gonna get

836
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: fitted early. He's gonna be the guy on the goal line.

837
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: I think he'll get some passing work. And I mean

838
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,280
Speaker 1: you're drafting him in the in the RB two range,

839
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: Like heck, yeah there all day? All right? Who else

840
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: you like? Um? Who else do I like on this list?

841
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: Let's see. I I do like Ladarius Green. You know,

842
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: I feel like that. You know, maybe maybe that's stating

843
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:25,320
Speaker 1: the obvious right now, but with no Martavis Bryant, um,

844
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 1: you know, with Heith Miller retired, there are a ton

845
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 1: of targets out there available in the Pittsburgh offense, in

846
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 1: the offense that you know, it's arguably the most high

847
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: powered passing game in the league right now. It's certainly

848
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: up there. Um, you know, and we saw a little

849
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 1: bit of what Green could do last year at the

850
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,320
Speaker 1: start of the year when Antonio Gates was out with

851
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 1: a suspension and he was a little bit banged up. Um,

852
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 1: Green looked good. He certainly looked good in that in

853
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: that charger offense. I think going to Pittsburgh is going

854
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: to be a big help. So I think, you know,

855
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: this is a year that he finally takes that step

856
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: forward we've been waiting on. I guess the the downside

857
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:01,960
Speaker 1: for Green is that tight end is really deep this year,

858
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: and the other I guess that works. I guess that

859
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 1: works in your favor if you were drafting, because there

860
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,439
Speaker 1: will probably be some name that go off the board

861
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 1: ahead of him. Yeah, maybe he's going He's going the

862
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 1: eighth round, which is fine, Which is fine. I love

863
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:16,880
Speaker 1: him in that range, because remember when Martevis got suspended

864
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: on this podcast, I surmaminised that Ladarius Green would rock

865
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 1: it up into like the fifth round. So yeah, actually,

866
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I apologize. I was on a

867
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: twelve team mocker, on a ten team mock. He's going

868
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 1: in round ten even better, even better better. So he's

869
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: a guy that, like you said, Marcus with Heath Mail,

870
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 1: Heath Miller average like eighty eight targets over the last

871
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: several years there in Pittsburgh. He had five five tight

872
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 1: end one finishes in his eleven years in Pittsburgh. And

873
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: he was never the not like number one tight end,

874
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 1: but finishing is the top twelve tight end and he

875
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 1: was never the athlete that Ladarius Green is. So is

876
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: going to give them. It's going to give them a

877
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 1: much more dynamic element up the seam. He's going to

878
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: be able to do a little more after the catch.

879
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: And I think as assuming he and Ben get their

880
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: connection together, he could put up some really solid tight

881
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 1: end numbers. La. Darius Green has legit four five speed.

882
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: I mean that's like legit wide receiver speed. Yeah. Um,

883
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,720
Speaker 1: and he's a big body. Uh so Yeah, there's a lot.

884
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: There's a lot to like about Ladarius Screen and you're

885
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 1: telling me I can get him in the tenth round. Yeah,

886
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:20,879
Speaker 1: give me that. Give me that guy. We've all got

887
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 1: him ranked somewhere in the late seventies early eighties range. Um,

888
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 1: I think Matt money Smith, Oh, Matt money Smith doesn't

889
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 1: have him his top hunter. Oh, Rank doesn't have him

890
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 1: in his top hunter either. Interesting, those guys, those we'll see.

891
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. Like I said, tight end is one

892
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: of those high variance positions, so it doesn't necessarily surprise me. Um,

893
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,359
Speaker 1: I'm sure they're hanging around that top one hund there's

894
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,839
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Um. All right, gil Hard, who

895
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 1: else do you like on this list? I want to

896
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: talk about Mark Cooper little and we were giving some

897
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 1: love to his quarterback in the news section. But Mark Cooper,

898
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: like everybody, we were so spoiled with the Odell Beckham,

899
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 1: Mike Evans, Calvin Benjamin rookie by receiver class that some

900
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: people like would view Amari Cooper's hundred forty point seven

901
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: fantasy points as a rookie is somewhat of a disappointment

902
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: because he was kind of inconsistent, but the guy still

903
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 1: played very well and he came into the he came

904
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: into the league already is the most polished wide receiver

905
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 1: in that class. Like we saw him if you watched

906
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 1: if you watch the all twenty two of him and

907
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: just watch him, he puts cornerbacks on skates more often

908
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: than many wide receivers of his age should. So him

909
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 1: taking that next step, He's got, you know, a full

910
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 1: another full off season, a rep same offense, more rapport

911
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 1: with Derek Carr. The one thing we need to see

912
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 1: jump up for him are his red zone targets, because

913
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: Michael Crabtree and others owned him there. But if those

914
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:38,719
Speaker 1: even out a little bit more, man, I think a

915
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,239
Speaker 1: Marii Cooper could definitely jump up to the to the

916
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: bottom end of that wide receiver one status. I like

917
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: him a lot. I mean, what a great what a

918
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: great landing spot for him to write go to to

919
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 1: pair up with Derek on quarterback. Yet it's great. I

920
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:55,280
Speaker 1: absolutely love it. Um. I know Fambs has been ridiculously

921
00:43:55,960 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 1: high on Kobe Fleaner, and I feel like we've talked

922
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: about him a little bit, But do you agree that

923
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 1: Kobe Fleiner could be in line for a big time

924
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:09,800
Speaker 1: season this year. Uh, Marcus, you take the floor first.

925
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he will give you better numbers

926
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 1: this year than he has in the past. But I

927
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: don't know that suddenly he jumps in. Certainly he's I mean,

928
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,359
Speaker 1: he's not Jimmy Graham. I'm not even sure that he

929
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: gives you what Ben Watson gave you, Like, I mean,

930
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: Watson kind of came out of nowhere to put up

931
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 1: big time you put up career numbers and that that

932
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: just came out of nowhere. And I don't know necessarily

933
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 1: that Kobe Fleiner jumps in and does that. I mean,

934
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: I would think that if he was capable of that,

935
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:41,839
Speaker 1: he would have shown you something. And you know, I mean,

936
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 1: you go back to what he did in Indianapolis, and

937
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 1: it's not like he was always competing with Dayne Alan Duyne.

938
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: Allan spent a lot of time hurt and not available

939
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:53,759
Speaker 1: for the Colts, and Fleiner was playing with a really

940
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: good quarterback, and Andrew Luck and he's still never put

941
00:44:56,719 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 1: together those big time numbers. So I'm not sure. And

942
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,840
Speaker 1: their former teammates they had, hey, they were roommates at Stanfords.

943
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 1: You might have heard. I don't know that Joe Ryan

944
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick was a Harvard nor um, So I don't know.

945
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 1: I mean, he just he'll be good, He'll be better

946
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: than he has been, But I don't know that all

947
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 1: of a sudden he jumps in and is immediately a

948
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,800
Speaker 1: must have tight end. Last year with the Colts, Kobe

949
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 1: Flinner had fifty four receptions for four hundred and ninety

950
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: one yards and three touchdowns. Obviously that was a disappointment.

951
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:32,479
Speaker 1: But Ben Watson, to Michael Fabiana's point that last year

952
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:36,919
Speaker 1: again Ben Watson Folks had seventy four receptions and eight

953
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:40,360
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five yards to go along with six touchdowns.

954
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: That's really good. The big hope with Kobe Fleaner is

955
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 1: that he just assumes all the tight end targets that

956
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: have been going to Jimmy Graham and then Ben Watson

957
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: over the years. But that's that's jumping on the assump,

958
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 1: jumping on the assumption that he is that level of player,

959
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: like he is not a Jimmy Graham, and I'm not

960
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,360
Speaker 1: even sure he's a Ben Watson like. Kobe Fleaner is

961
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,319
Speaker 1: a big athletic guy. But markus point, we have not

962
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,799
Speaker 1: seen him put it all together at the NFL level.

963
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: Yet isn't he kind of that in between type tight

964
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: end too, like like Jimmy Graham is is amazing as

965
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 1: a move tight end, right, amazing, he can he can

966
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,319
Speaker 1: catch it with the best of him. Right. And then

967
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 1: Ben Watson was on the field a lot because he

968
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 1: was such a great blocker um and his production was

969
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: almost a I don't know, I guess as a side

970
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: piece to to his ability to be able to block.

971
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 1: That's why he's on the field. Kobe Fleaner's kind of

972
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: in between. He's not quite a good as good at

973
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 1: blocking as as Ben Watson, and he's not quite as

974
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 1: good to catch the ball as Jimmy Graham. I'm kind

975
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 1: of confused by the skill set that that's fair and

976
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: my other concern with At first, I was like, well,

977
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:45,799
Speaker 1: I might I might be willing to take a late

978
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 1: round flyer and Kobe Fleaner just because he could be

979
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 1: the red zone monster for them, being six five or

980
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: six six or whatever he is. Out Then they went

981
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 1: out and drafted Michael Thomas, who I also think it's

982
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: going to get a bunch of rest and I've just

983
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 1: never been Kobe Fleaner's as fine NFL player, but I've

984
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,879
Speaker 1: never been like enamored with his game at the NFL level,

985
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 1: so I I'm probably from the fantasy Yeah, I'm probably

986
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 1: not going to be jumping on the Kolbe Fleaner bandwagon.

987
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 1: I know, I know plenty are and I understand the logic,

988
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: but there are other places I would rather go than

989
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 1: Kobe Fleaner looking for that sort of production. All right,

990
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: let's do daily DAP to get out or is there

991
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 1: another player that you like? I think that's good. We

992
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 1: can send people back to the draft kit to read

993
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: all of Fabriano's analysis and more, and we will all

994
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: be adding our top ten lists to these pieces on

995
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,720
Speaker 1: the draft kits soon, because, like James you wrote busts

996
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 1: Marcus Milk bargains, we're gonna be collecting everybody else's top

997
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 1: ten lists and putting them at the bottom of those

998
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 1: so you have more expert lists to draw expert I

999
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: hate that term, more analysts lists to draw from as

1000
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: you're preparing for your drafts. But let's let's get to depths.

1001
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: Let's do it. He depth depth alrighty, Daily depth time,

1002
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 1: Marcus Grant, MG, my guy, what's up? Oh? A couple

1003
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: quick things. I guess both semi said. I mean today

1004
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 1: would have been Prince's birthday. Really yeah, today he would

1005
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 1: have he would have turned fifty eight years old. So

1006
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 1: it's uh, I guess it's unofficially Prince to Day on Twitter. UM.

1007
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:12,760
Speaker 1: So you know, I don't know, throw on some purple

1008
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 1: rain or something, um, and uh, you know, just rock out,

1009
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:19,400
Speaker 1: enjoy the day. Other daily dap I think for me

1010
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: obviously goes to Muhammad Ali. Uh, just the the greatness

1011
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: that was and uh, you know, you know, my dad

1012
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 1: and I spent a lot of time talking talking about

1013
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: it over the weekend. I know that he was a

1014
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 1: huge Ali fan, and you know, I was up in

1015
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: the Bay Area this past weekend, UM, and you know,

1016
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: we spent a lot of time just kind of watching

1017
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 1: the remembrances on TV and just kind of a lot

1018
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 1: of great bottoms, a lot of great pieces, a lot

1019
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: of great stuff for a an incredible man who, uh

1020
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 1: was way more complex than I think you know, he's

1021
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 1: being portrayed to be. And I think that I think

1022
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: that applies to anybody who lived the kind of life

1023
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 1: that he did. Um. But a man who I think

1024
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,719
Speaker 1: was honestly maybe the most famous person of our lifetimes.

1025
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 1: It's a very good point, you know, I mean worldwide,

1026
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 1: no matter where you went in the world, you'd say

1027
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 1: the name, you show the picture, and and everyone knew

1028
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,359
Speaker 1: who he was. So yeah, speaking to that complexity, man,

1029
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,839
Speaker 1: I mean I get that he um was a hero

1030
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,800
Speaker 1: to a lot of folks. Um, But man, it's interesting.

1031
00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 1: There's a lot of stories too about how he was

1032
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,920
Speaker 1: a jerk to a lot of people too, Um. And

1033
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: he was a very complex guy. Um. You know the

1034
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: fact that he was in his position and said no,

1035
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 1: I will not fight in a war that he deemed

1036
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: to be immoral to me, that speaks more about his

1037
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 1: character than anything else. Yeah. Well, and he's in his

1038
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 1: part of his arms man too. As he said, my

1039
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:42,359
Speaker 1: war is not over there, My war is right here

1040
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: right with you know, with the civil rights movement, in

1041
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: the racial division in her own country. And and for

1042
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:50,919
Speaker 1: him to stand up. Can you imagine a modern day

1043
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:54,439
Speaker 1: athlete in today's is that doing something like that? There's

1044
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 1: just cam Newton did that right now if and said

1045
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 1: now I'm gonna go to jail for a couple of years,

1046
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 1: and who's two years of my prime earning potential because

1047
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:07,880
Speaker 1: of something that I believe in. Can you imagine anybody,

1048
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 1: any athlete be insane? Can you imagine anything? They would

1049
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 1: probably be vilified. Honestly, in this look, Cam Newton is

1050
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: getting killed for dabbing. You know, you have soccer moms

1051
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 1: writing angry letters because Cam Newton dances after he scores

1052
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 1: a touchdown. So yeah, it's just not although I will

1053
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:29,919
Speaker 1: say that, you know, while we'll never see that part,

1054
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:33,320
Speaker 1: I think of an athlete again. Uh, Ali did inspire

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00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 1: a lot of the you know, the trash talk and

1056
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: a lot of the you know kind of where showmanship

1057
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 1: was the greatest. He was absolutely the greatest that it.

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00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 1: But he certainly inspired a lot of the showmanship that

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00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: we see from from professional acts, which especially from the

1060
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:51,840
Speaker 1: boxing world, which is terribly unfortunate because people just it's like,

1061
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:55,319
Speaker 1: you're not good at it, man, stop trash talking Like, no,

1062
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:59,319
Speaker 1: your trash talk is weak, it doesn't work. Um wis kid?

1063
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 1: What's up? Uh? Two dapths for me? First one, I'm

1064
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 1: probably gonna dap it again once the season is over,

1065
00:51:04,560 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: but I just want to throw out a DAPSI Game

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00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 1: of Thrones this year. I think it's been fantastic. We've

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00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 1: been through seven episodes now, and everybody keep talking to like,

1068
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:14,839
Speaker 1: oh my god, I can't believe we're so it's going

1069
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 1: so fast. I'm like it because every episode is great.

1070
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 1: There haven't been they episodes where like, oh man, I

1071
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:21,680
Speaker 1: can't like everybody's can't like I can't wait till next week.

1072
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 1: But it's not like, Okay, that episode is kind of

1073
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: a bummer, like I can't wait till next week. It's

1074
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,360
Speaker 1: just every episode has been good. There's been good dramatic

1075
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:30,840
Speaker 1: arcs with all the characters. Uh Ian McShane was on

1076
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: this week's episode, one of my favorite actors from from Deadwood,

1077
00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:36,240
Speaker 1: and it's been it's been great. So I'm very very

1078
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 1: enjoying that, very much enjoying the season. And then my

1079
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 1: second DAP goes to Big Bear, California. You ever come

1080
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 1: out to California? Hit it up? Hit it up? It's

1081
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 1: worth a little sip. It's a sleepy little town on

1082
00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: the top of a mountain around a man made lake,

1083
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:51,319
Speaker 1: and uh some friends and I we started it when

1084
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 1: we were all transplants. We moved out here. We're like,

1085
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 1: let's get out of l A for a weekend. Takes

1086
00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 1: like nine minutes to get there. Like, yeah, it's like

1087
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 1: two hours, two hours to get up to Big Bear.

1088
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 1: You drive out the mountain. It's just this little town.

1089
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:02,080
Speaker 1: We we we always rent a cabin. We get up, we

1090
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 1: grill out, play some sports, go swimming, whatever. It's just

1091
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 1: a great little place to to get out of it.

1092
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 1: One of the many things I like about California and

1093
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 1: living in Los Angeles. Everybody's always like, oh, Hollywood, Hollywood,

1094
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 1: when I'm like, this area has so much to offer.

1095
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 1: Drive a couple of hours and that's what they saying.

1096
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:19,359
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's it's one of the few

1097
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 1: places in the world where you can go from the

1098
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,880
Speaker 1: mountains to the beach in the same day, right, you know,

1099
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 1: in winter you could go skiing and then be like,

1100
00:52:26,239 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 1: let's go surfing and drive across to the beach. So

1101
00:52:31,239 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: it's a very good point. Uh. Game of Thrones and

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00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: Big Bear four the wi You know. For me, it's

1103
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:38,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'll give a daily dap to Kimbo Slice.

1104
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 1: I know he wasn't the greatest um fighter in the world,

1105
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 1: but man was he entertaining. Oh yeah, man was he in? Yeah?

1106
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: And r I p to Kimbo Slice. Kevin Ferguson UM

1107
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:51,279
Speaker 1: heard that news that came down. He was in his

1108
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 1: early forties, passed away suddenly, and UM, I was bummed out.

1109
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:58,279
Speaker 1: I was like, man, really, Kimbo Slice that. Uh that

1110
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: did kind of bump me out there, but it inspired

1111
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:02,799
Speaker 1: me to go back and look at some of his

1112
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 1: crazier YouTube videos when he was not a professional fighter

1113
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:11,560
Speaker 1: but a uh an underground fighter fighting in the backyard. Um,

1114
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: for any young fight fans out there, if you haven't

1115
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 1: seen Kimbo Slice, this guy I he I really honestly

1116
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 1: believe he was one of those guys that helped YouTube succeed.

1117
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and helped the sport of like m A

1118
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:26,919
Speaker 1: succeed because you would tune in just be like, what's

1119
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 1: Kimbo gonna do? What's Kimbo gonna do? Yeah? No, he was.

1120
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:34,719
Speaker 1: It was crazy, highly entertaining. Dude was Kimbo Slice. So

1121
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen some of his YouTube videos, and

1122
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:41,760
Speaker 1: it's not for the kiddies, it's not uh it's probably

1123
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:44,800
Speaker 1: not safe for work either. But but that being said,

1124
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 1: I did go down to Kimbo Slice wormhole on YouTube

1125
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:51,320
Speaker 1: last night, so uh, daily dapths to him, undapths to

1126
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 1: the UFC speaking staying with the m M A theme,

1127
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:59,759
Speaker 1: undap to the UFC for just randomly picking on and

1128
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:03,760
Speaker 1: holding the credentials of aerial hill Wani, and they banned

1129
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 1: them for life for what did you hear the second

1130
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: part of that story, though he admitted to being there

1131
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 1: like paid chill Well, I saw the dead Spin headline.

1132
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily agree. Um, having worked in the end

1133
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:18,879
Speaker 1: of that that side of that industry myself, and and

1134
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 1: being even in the industry where we are today, UM,

1135
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily agree with that assessment. I get where

1136
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:29,800
Speaker 1: they went to get that, I get it, but yeah,

1137
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. I listened to the entire m M

1138
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: A hour with Aeriel Hwani yesterday. It was highly emotional.

1139
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:39,280
Speaker 1: H gave a lot of revealing things about what happens

1140
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:41,799
Speaker 1: backstage and and and I can confirm a lot of

1141
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:44,879
Speaker 1: that stuff uh in terms of the field and UH

1142
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 1: and and basically how they run their operation. UM. I

1143
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:53,400
Speaker 1: kind of described the UFC PR staff UH kind of

1144
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:59,040
Speaker 1: as like a bipolar girlfriend. They are amazing at times,

1145
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 1: I mean just amazing. There's no there's no professional sport

1146
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 1: that will get you closer to their championship level athletes

1147
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:10,319
Speaker 1: than the UFC. I mean, they will really go out

1148
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:12,359
Speaker 1: of their way to make sure that you could get

1149
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:16,920
Speaker 1: that media time. That being said, there's also not a

1150
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:21,399
Speaker 1: more controlling uh entity in terms of you know how

1151
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 1: they want to control the media message. So they've done both. Uh.

1152
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: They've done a great job but by making their athletes accessible.

1153
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:32,400
Speaker 1: But again they've just done a huge disservice uh to

1154
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:36,600
Speaker 1: their fans by basically blackballing Aerial Hawani for breaking a

1155
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 1: couple of pieces of news. I mean, it just I

1156
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: don't know, man, It's just to me as a guy

1157
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 1: who was a journalist first, um and kind of I

1158
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:49,360
Speaker 1: guess a media personality air quotes included. Second, I just

1159
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 1: was disappointed. I was really disappointed by that, and I

1160
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:54,799
Speaker 1: really do hope something changes, but it doesn't look like

1161
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: it will. So uh for now on depths of the

1162
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 1: UFC and support for Aerial want ain't no doubt about it.

1163
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Speaker 1: All Right, So there you go. That's our show for

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