1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, you want experience during your football season, 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: We'll buckle up, sweet cheeks. We've got all the experience 3 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: in the world. This is I Want your Flex with 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:18,479 Speaker 1: Dan Byer and Mike Harmon. Mike and Dan break down 5 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: everything you need to set your lineups, from position rankings 6 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,840 Speaker 1: to starts and sits. The guys help you make those 7 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:29,639 Speaker 1: hard decisions. And now let's get your flex. 8 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:29,960 Speaker 2: Onde. 9 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,640 Speaker 1: Here's Dan Bayer and Mike Harmon. 10 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 3: It's our midweek episode off I want your Flex. Find 11 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 3: Mike on EXE Swollen Dome. You can find me at 12 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 3: Dan Byer on Fox. And Ian Roddy is our executive 13 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 3: producer at Ian Roddy Underscore. Just one winless team in 14 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 3: the National Football League. Sorry, Ian, it is your zero 15 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 3: to five Jets. No unbeaten teams as the Eagles and 16 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 3: Bills were handled their first loss of the season, so 17 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 3: we got a lot of the league is just kind 18 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 3: of there. I don't know if we've got extreme greatness. 19 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:05,680 Speaker 3: I don't even know if the Jets are awful. They're 20 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 3: not good, but I don't know if they're awful or not. 21 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 3: But it's kind of the state of the NFL right now. 22 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 3: Mike through five weeks of the season, where yeah, a 23 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 3: little bit as just scratching our heads on what we've 24 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 3: actually got as the product in the National Football League. 25 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:22,039 Speaker 4: Yeah, generally as we get to week five, week six, 26 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,479 Speaker 4: we usually do the I think we know what these 27 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 4: teams are, right, I think we could put them in 28 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 4: this bucket. Them in this bucket we put the elite. 29 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 4: But as we talked about last episode, right, the Eagles 30 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,440 Speaker 4: are four and one, do they seem like a great 31 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 4: team to wherevery not just the unrest and finger pointing 32 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 4: or whatever, but just in terms of x's and o's 33 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 4: and what they can put on a field. No, Buffalo 34 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 4: doesn't have a number one wide receiver, so it becomes 35 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 4: more on Josh Allen. We talk about the giant run 36 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,680 Speaker 4: of injuries, like in the AFC, as long as you're 37 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:04,639 Speaker 4: not winless, sorry Jets or the Raiders, like you're feeling 38 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 4: like you might still have a puncher's chance. Right, Cleveland's 39 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 4: defense is going to keep them in games, which is 40 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,560 Speaker 4: why the loss to the Vikings in week five was 41 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 4: so crushing. 42 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 5: Like you get a good spot from. 43 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 4: Dylan Gabriel, one of those guys we talked about last episode, 44 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 4: in terms of you know, waiver wire and potential. 45 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 5: Growth for him. 46 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 4: But if he's serviceable and they get the defense, there's 47 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 4: some of these games they're gonna be able to win 48 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:35,079 Speaker 4: in division and maybe steal a couple without So, you know, 49 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 4: do I think they're a great team. No, but they 50 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 4: could be fringe playoffs if things break right. The Ravens 51 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 4: have all these injuries, Now do they suddenly get healthy? 52 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 5: I don't know. 53 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 4: Pittsburgh, nobody believes in the Colts have been fun, Jacksonville's 54 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 4: been fun. But are they great teams? No, they're all flawed. 55 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 4: All your best, at least on paper teams are all 56 00:02:57,240 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 4: in the NFC right now, and even those you have 57 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 4: your wartz for the most part. Right Tampa Bay is 58 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:07,600 Speaker 4: four and one. Evans is banged up, missing time, but 59 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:09,799 Speaker 4: that's fine because Godwin comes back. 60 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,200 Speaker 5: Abukah's been all world. 61 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 4: Bucky Irving's hurt, Rashad White stepped in pretty nicely. Yeah, 62 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 4: so like you're finding the way. The plug's all Detroit. 63 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,640 Speaker 4: After that Week one against Green Bay, everybody was ready to, 64 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 4: you know, start the flaming dumpster fire down the river. 65 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 4: All of a sudden, there are four and one and 66 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 4: everything's clicking. So it's been a topsy turvy run. But 67 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 4: we from a fantasy perspective, with those quarterback injuries and 68 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 4: the brothers Harbaugh having, you know, whatever the hell's going 69 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 4: on in their respective locker rooms, like you see the 70 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 4: trickle down effect to where some of our fantasy stalwarts 71 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 4: and draft day heroes were already on the trade block 72 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 4: or trying to find lightning in the bottle elsewhere. 73 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 3: I always felt that, and this is prior to the 74 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:00,480 Speaker 3: seventeen game schedule, that week two's line so that we 75 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 3: would get from Las Vegas was you might as to 76 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 3: just pick all the underdogs, because I just always felt 77 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 3: that we really had no idea who these teams were 78 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 3: after one game, sure, and we would take something from 79 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,839 Speaker 3: that one game. That's just my amateur analysis. Please don't 80 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 3: take it for what it's worth. And then Week four, 81 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 3: what we thought we knew was turned on its head, 82 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 3: and then the rest of the NFL season kind of 83 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 3: took off. So after that first four weeks, you thought 84 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,239 Speaker 3: you knew, but you didn't know. After that, things kind 85 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,600 Speaker 3: of settle in at this point, and I'm not sure 86 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 3: if that's even the mode of operation anymore, because of 87 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 3: what the extra game is done. I'm going to take 88 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 3: a team like Denver right now. You guys know I 89 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,480 Speaker 3: picked them to win the Super Bowl, and I think 90 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,119 Speaker 3: if you were to look at Denver, you would say, 91 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 3: all right, maybe not a great start to the season. 92 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 3: They're three and two, tied for the lead in the 93 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 3: AFC West and lost a game because of a personal 94 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 3: foul call on a leverage call. 95 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 2: On a kick. 96 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 3: Okay, so that's their one loss would have been And 97 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:08,960 Speaker 3: this isn't a would I could have should have There's 98 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 3: a point I'm going to make, but they would be 99 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 3: four and one right now in the driver's seat in 100 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,720 Speaker 3: the AFC West with that one loss to the to 101 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 3: the Chargers in LA. But what was the talk with 102 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:23,480 Speaker 3: the Broncos. I remember heading into the draft was like, man, 103 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:24,520 Speaker 3: look out for R. J. 104 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 2: Harvey. 105 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 3: This guy's the guy, right and right now they're running JK. 106 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,600 Speaker 3: Dobbins like they're running JK Dobbins twenty carries a game 107 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:36,880 Speaker 3: like he had this past weekend against Philadelphia. Do any 108 00:05:36,920 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 3: of us think that JK. Dobbins is going to hold 109 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:42,560 Speaker 3: up getting twenty carries a game throughout this season? Yeah, 110 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 3: no chance whatsoever. And so That's what messes with me 111 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 3: is I think, like Denver is playing for a bigger 112 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 3: prize and at some point down the stretch, I think 113 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:55,359 Speaker 3: they'll be really good. But now I'm sitting there looking 114 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 3: at you know, at where they are, who they are, 115 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 3: how we actually look at them. Some some people think 116 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 3: Bonix is good, some people don't. Some people question their playmakers. 117 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 3: And that's just with the Denver team. That again, that 118 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 3: I think could be pretty good if you have these 119 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 3: things with a mediocre team, my goodness. But yeah, I 120 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 3: think it's all over the map with a lot of 121 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:13,679 Speaker 3: these teams. 122 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you look at Denver specifically in division 123 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 4: right now, you look at the Kansas City Chiefs sitting 124 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 4: at two and three, Well, they're gonna get healthier. But 125 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 4: we talked about the defense. Is the defense gonna get 126 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 4: better or is it gonna be shootouts? Chargers are banged up, 127 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 4: that's not changing. Those tackles are gone. Yes, eventually Joel 128 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:35,360 Speaker 4: may come back, but is he going to be any 129 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:38,120 Speaker 4: how close to one hundred are we getting out of him? 130 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 4: And is the rest of the line bad enough to 131 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,359 Speaker 4: where that doesn't matter even if he comes back and 132 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 4: you lose Hampton for at least four weeks. And now 133 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 4: you're going and scraping a little bit further down the 134 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 4: barrel unless you go and make a bunch of moves 135 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:54,640 Speaker 4: in the trade market and find someone else to come in. 136 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 4: I mean, justin Herbert's is sitting duck and you got 137 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:00,359 Speaker 4: no run game for balance, which is what Harball wanted 138 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 4: to begin with. So you know, you look at and 139 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 4: the Raiders are no good. So division wise, the for 140 00:07:07,440 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 4: the Broncos, it's all there for the offering. Is it 141 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,720 Speaker 4: just We're going to grind with JK. Dobbins for as 142 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 4: long as his body will hold out, right, right, because 143 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 4: we've seen it for years, right of Hey, there's this 144 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,119 Speaker 4: big splash he play. 145 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 5: Ah, he's done. 146 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 2: Yeah. 147 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 3: And and I look like I look at the Cowboys, 148 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 3: who are firing pretty well offensively, right, you know, like. 149 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 5: You surmised with Dak Prescott. 150 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:35,960 Speaker 3: You know, and and and now that they're sitting there 151 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,840 Speaker 3: at two two and one, But I didn't expect that 152 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 3: their running game would be what it is, you know. 153 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 2: And Javonte Williams has been eight the. 154 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 5: Guy they thought he was going to be in Denver, Yeah. 155 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 3: Right, perfect transition, absolutely, and and so like so just 156 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 3: stuff like that of figuring out because this is also 157 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 3: the time of the year where you're trying to figure 158 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 3: out the stretch run. And I'm glad you up with 159 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 3: Marian Hampton because if you would have asked me after 160 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 3: the Giants game in Week four named the top three 161 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 3: players you would like down the stretch, Omari and Hampton 162 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 3: probably would have been one of the top three. 163 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 5: Yeah, the entire league as a runner and receiver, Yeah. 164 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And for what the Chargers want to do 165 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 3: now he's injured and you know, completely off of that train. 166 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 3: But it is a it is a mixed bag, and 167 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 3: it's week to week and it's tough to it's tough 168 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 3: to plan ahead in fantasy. But you know, maybe it 169 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 3: got to dig like into the Denver thing where I 170 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 3: think R. J. Harvey at some point is going to 171 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 3: have a you know, have a sort of role in 172 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:33,959 Speaker 3: the fantasy season. 173 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 5: Yeah. 174 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 4: I think some of it goes back to the trend 175 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 4: that we've certainly have seen in the leagues that I've 176 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 4: participated in, where to try to promote activity, the benches 177 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 4: have gotten one or two slots shorter, and anytime someone 178 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,400 Speaker 4: tries to proposal of a move like in one of 179 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 4: the leagues, you know, the industry leagues, was all right, 180 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 4: can we propose that anybody that's declared out early enough 181 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 4: can go to an IR spot. I'm like, no, it's 182 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:02,520 Speaker 4: the idea of having a bench. Yeah, So I immediately 183 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 4: voted nay. I was the negative guy, and then a 184 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 4: bunch of folks came on my side and we didn't. 185 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:08,440 Speaker 5: Add the slot. 186 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 4: But it's just the idea of, you know, where you 187 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 4: can stash. I'd love to see the composition of most 188 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 4: people's benches, because I gotta imagine it's eighty percent running 189 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,360 Speaker 4: backs at this point, just down the wing, and a 190 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:22,199 Speaker 4: prayer that you have one or two weeks that a 191 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 4: guy gets fifteen touches in just the right week, or 192 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 4: someone else in the league gets desperate enough that you 193 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 4: can actually swing a trade, because I don't know how 194 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 4: popular those are in a lot of leagues anymore, you know, 195 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 4: because you don't want to be the guy that makes 196 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 4: the move that costs you the league or that all 197 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 4: important matchup in week fourteen. It's like, ah, remember that 198 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 4: guy you traded me, Yeah, he just scored eighty four points. 199 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 5: Beat it. 200 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:49,800 Speaker 4: But it's that kind of thing of looking at depth, 201 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 4: and we're really chronicling the target counts a little bit differently. 202 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 5: I mean some of these I mean. 203 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 4: Look at let's take your jets for instance, seeing this 204 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 4: week you had ten different guys with at least one target. 205 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 4: I mean that and and that's becoming the norm though, 206 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 4: Like if you go box score to box score, yeah, 207 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 4: you're running out every possible combination of guys and guys 208 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 4: are getting one. 209 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 6: Look so surprised there's even ten guys that are you. 210 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 7: Know, yeah the target. That's wow, Mason Taylor and that's it. 211 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 7: But it is Justin Field doesn't mean they have to 212 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:28,559 Speaker 7: be open to a good point. He just throws into 213 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 7: matter what. 214 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 2: Two of those guys were on the Cowboys. So no, 215 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:32,400 Speaker 2: I'm kidding. 216 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 3: Well, Justin Fields was great for me in week five. 217 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 3: I have I have zero complaints in in what he 218 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 3: did and he wasn't picked off of that game. 219 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 4: But but but but the point is well taken, right, 220 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 4: is that you're you're going and putting putting the ball up. 221 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 4: Like I'm looking at just picking box score after box score, 222 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 4: it's like almost to every one of them has at 223 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:58,560 Speaker 4: least eight guys getting it getting a target. 224 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:01,319 Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna give you that. I'm gonna give you. 225 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,960 Speaker 3: I feel because my old time league and for those 226 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,719 Speaker 3: that may be new to the podcast are just or forgotten. 227 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 3: I've said it enough around Ian and Mike that they 228 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,680 Speaker 3: know it's a ten team league. We're in our twenty 229 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:17,080 Speaker 3: eighth season. It's a standard league. We don't have PPR. 230 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,680 Speaker 3: You know, the ten team league is funky as it is. 231 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,720 Speaker 3: We actually added a starting lineup spot this year because 232 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 3: everybody's team was the same basically, like there's just you 233 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 3: needed some variation. The point being that you're making about 234 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 3: the running backs taking off the guys on IR like 235 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:39,600 Speaker 3: James Connor and Trey Benson and Austin Eckler and Braylan Allen. 236 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 3: These are the top guys available. Brian Robinson Junior who 237 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 3: probably should be picked up. Caleb Johnson, Justice Hill, Jerome Ford, 238 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:55,359 Speaker 3: Tank Bigsby, Dylan Samson, Jaden Blue. 239 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 4: Ross, Yeah Simpson or Samson Simpson Simpson A No, did 240 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 4: I say I'm right? 241 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: No? 242 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 5: No, I did, so that's mocking me. 243 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 4: Samson has at least been in the red zone a 244 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 4: few times where they've looked his way, but not enough 245 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 4: to where it's critical mass, right, Like he's the only 246 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 4: name that stood out as you were. 247 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, and that's the like, that's the state. And 248 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 2: that's in a league where there's a lot like we 249 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:25,319 Speaker 2: don't have. 250 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,360 Speaker 3: A lot of teams, right, you know, so like to 251 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 3: your point of like who people are stashing on their benches, 252 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 3: they're stashing those running backs and that's that's where we 253 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 3: are right now. 254 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:40,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just that that curiosity going forward, the attrition, 255 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 4: like I always bemoan the lack of cohesive line play, 256 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 4: and I think every year I'm proven right by my 257 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 4: lamentation of the Yes, let's give up even more work 258 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 4: days for meager gains on the cbas because that'll. 259 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 5: Help the product. 260 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 4: Sure, right, Hey, here's another week of practices. We don't 261 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 4: know what's it do? All right, for the first five 262 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 4: weeks of the season, offensive lineman will look like they're 263 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 4: introducing each other. 264 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 2: It's true. 265 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 3: I mean, the the the lack of practice, which, by 266 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 3: the way, I thought I would be all for when 267 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 3: I was younger. Right, Yeah, no practice again, awesome, Yeah, No, 268 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:23,839 Speaker 3: it's hurt the it's hurt the league. And then we'll 269 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:25,680 Speaker 3: have to see how things go in the eighteen game 270 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:26,920 Speaker 3: schedule comes around, right, what. 271 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 4: Are they gonna give up another We'll take another week 272 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:30,439 Speaker 4: off a training camp? 273 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 3: You know there was yeah, there, you know there was. 274 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 3: There was something interesting that happened a couple of weeks 275 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 3: ago when Colleen Wolfe of the NFL Network, who was 276 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 3: once our our celebrity picker. Yeah, this is way before 277 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 3: you We would have celebrities send in their lineups for 278 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 3: the week, and Colleen Wolfe was on was one of 279 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 3: our lineup guests. One week, she was interviewing the commissioner 280 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:57,600 Speaker 3: and she asked Roger Goodell about the eighteen game schedule. 281 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:01,080 Speaker 3: And the reason that is unique is because it happened 282 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 3: on the NFL Network. 283 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: And. 284 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 3: You know that Roger Goodell knew all the questions, Like 285 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 3: there was not going to be like a gotcha moment. 286 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 2: And it's not meant to knock Colleen at all. 287 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 3: It's just that you knew, like Roger Goodell knew what 288 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:17,679 Speaker 3: he was getting into when he's at the desk, Like 289 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:19,800 Speaker 3: there's a reason why he's at the desk, and there's 290 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 3: certain things that he wants to say, and when they 291 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 3: bring up an eighteen game schedule, while he doesn't answer 292 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 3: the question. He doesn't shoot it down and that says enough. 293 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 3: So it's coming like it is, it is, it is, 294 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 3: It is going to be there. I think it was 295 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 3: about maybe about like you know, the President's Day or 296 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 3: something like that. It may have been last weekend of 297 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 3: the weekend before, but yeah, those the eighteen game schedule 298 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 3: is coming. It's going to be here sooner than you think. 299 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 4: And then we figure out what the bye weeks are 300 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 4: and maybe that'll be to our benefit. 301 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 2: M hmm. 302 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:54,320 Speaker 4: Right to your point about the Lamar Jackson injury, maybe 303 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 4: we get a more finite we know of what he's 304 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 4: going to be. Like, I'm I'm going at the end 305 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 4: of the month, right, that is still the plan for 306 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 4: me to go watch the Bears and the Ravens, and 307 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 4: I sure as hell hope no disrespect to Cooper Rush. 308 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 4: I'm sure he's a wonderful human being. I want to 309 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 4: watch Lamar Jackson against Caleb Williams. 310 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, I want to. 311 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 4: See the heavyweight fight, especially if the Bears do anything 312 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 4: coming out of the bye week to show that any 313 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 4: kind of continued growth, good, better, best and all that 314 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 4: fun stuff that Ben Johnson doing that he's a Cub 315 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 4: fan so I'll have to forgive him for that. 316 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 5: But all of that to say, you know, like we 317 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 5: want our stars. 318 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 4: It's like why I never bemoaned any of the stuff 319 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 4: in baseball when people were hand ringing over this guy 320 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 4: may have done this, that or the other to get 321 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 4: back on the field. I'm like, I don't care. I 322 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 4: want guys on the field. It's entertainment. 323 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, what Lamar went down on week four and 324 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 3: you have a buye in week seven? 325 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 2: You know he's out weeks five and six. 326 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's other point even asking John Harball like they're 327 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 3: not they're not going to put him on the field. 328 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 2: Just it's not gonna happen. 329 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, he's he's in a bad spot at this point. 330 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 4: He's getting really testy, starting to sound like his brother 331 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:13,239 Speaker 4: a little bit more, whereas Jim sounded like, you know, someone. 332 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 5: Had just stolen his dog. 333 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 4: Sure after that loss on on Sunday, he was also 334 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 4: wearing a hat that was very much not a Jim 335 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 4: Harbaugh hat. Whatever they the team issued that looked like 336 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 4: a cosmic kind of glowy, multi colored thing that that 337 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 4: was the But I mean, he looks sad, whereas John 338 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 4: Harbaugh is now fighting everybody because they're pointing out the 339 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 4: fact that the Ravens roster was declared to be far 340 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 4: and away the best, and well here they are. 341 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, not not good. 342 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 3: And I'm not sure if help is coming quickly, especially 343 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 3: if it is uh not Lamar Jackson. 344 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 2: That's tough. That defense is having a tough time. All right. 345 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 3: He's Mike carbon I have Dan Byer, that's Ian Roddy. 346 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,400 Speaker 3: I've got a tidbit about the double Buys that you'll 347 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 3: wanna you'll want to hear about. Plus we dive into 348 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 3: more of what's ahead in the twenty twenty five NFL 349 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:06,960 Speaker 3: season and maybe how to help you in this middle 350 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:10,159 Speaker 3: section of your fantasy regular seasons. That's next here and 351 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:16,080 Speaker 3: I Want Your flex Welcome back to I Want Your Flex. 352 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:19,679 Speaker 3: I like these midweek episodes because Mike Harmen, Ian Roddy 353 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 3: and myself Dan Beyer, it doesn't always focus on who 354 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 3: to play and who not to play. That's the type 355 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 3: of podcast that it is. We're going to get to 356 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 3: that stuff. We always give you the hot plays and 357 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:33,119 Speaker 3: the rankings at the end of the week. We always 358 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 3: talk about players and stuff at the beginning of the week. 359 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 3: Our middle week episodes are sometimes a little fun, and 360 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 3: we started talking about the two days that we could 361 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 3: be having in an eighteen week season. And in nineteen 362 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 3: ninety three, Ian was not even close to being born, 363 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 3: and Mike and I remember this time, but I don't 364 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:57,479 Speaker 3: even remember this happening, but I was reminded of it 365 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 3: a few years ago. And in nineteen ninety three they 366 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:07,680 Speaker 3: had a double by teams had two buys that season, 367 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,439 Speaker 3: and so I did a did a search, a Reddit 368 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 3: search and some other stuff. And again, this is the 369 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 3: league that only had twenty eight teams, so you only 370 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:21,000 Speaker 3: had fourteen games a week. Anyway, now, there may not 371 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:24,880 Speaker 3: have been the different windows that we've had them in, 372 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 3: but I thought that there at that time there was 373 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 3: a Thursday night window because remember my games were on 374 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 3: TNT for like the first half of the year. And 375 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 3: then I remember I went I went to a Bears 376 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 3: Packers game in nineteen ninety one on a Thursday night 377 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,119 Speaker 3: that aired on TNT. I think we've talked about this 378 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,160 Speaker 3: game before, but the point being is in nineteen ninety 379 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 3: three and I saw this Reddit post they said, in 380 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 3: one word, it was a disaster because CBS and NBC 381 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 3: had their ratings plummet because there just weren't enough good 382 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:00,919 Speaker 3: teams and good games when teams were playing multiple buyes. 383 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 3: They also tried to do it by division, and sometimes 384 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 3: teams were having two bys in a span of five weeks. 385 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:11,639 Speaker 3: So they did try a two by format in nineteen 386 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:14,840 Speaker 3: ninety three, but they ditched it the next year because 387 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:18,679 Speaker 3: of how awful it was. I don't even remember that 388 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:19,480 Speaker 3: at that point. 389 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:21,880 Speaker 5: I don't either now. 390 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:22,960 Speaker 2: I remember when. 391 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 3: We had an odd number of teams in the NFL 392 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:29,600 Speaker 3: before Houston came in, so there were bys in week 393 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 3: one and week seventeen, and I think you were still 394 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:36,600 Speaker 3: too young to realize that. 395 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, but I remember. 396 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 3: I think one year, like Cleveland had a bye in 397 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 3: Week one, which was just like, all right, you don't play. 398 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,720 Speaker 3: It was so funky in some of some of the 399 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,879 Speaker 3: schedule stuff that the NFL had back in the past. 400 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:53,919 Speaker 3: But to talk about the two bys, the NFL is 401 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 3: going to have to figure out a better way to 402 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 3: do it, at least better than they did it in 403 00:19:57,119 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 3: nineteen ninety three. 404 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 5: Yea, it's always the curiosity. 405 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:03,520 Speaker 4: And look, I complain about the schedule, probably more than 406 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 4: more than most. Just I don't like the division game. 407 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 4: Like the made for TV moments at the start of 408 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 4: the year. We don't need them. You've waited for football 409 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 4: for six months. You're showing up. 410 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:20,320 Speaker 3: I agree, and Mike, after you're done, I have a 411 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 3: new schedule complaint that I found. 412 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 5: Oh you got a new one. 413 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 2: Awesome, Okay, right. 414 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 5: At the end of year. 415 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:29,439 Speaker 4: Hey, let's have you Like I'll be the Dolphins for 416 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,360 Speaker 4: a second, and I'm not looking at their current schedule, 417 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 4: but to say I play the Jets in week fifteen, 418 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,879 Speaker 4: then I play I don't know, pick an NFC team 419 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 4: in week sixteen, and then I come right back to 420 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 4: play the Jets in week seventeen. 421 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:45,280 Speaker 5: That makes no sense to me. And we always have 422 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 5: a bunch of those. 423 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 4: Or we have just the disbursement of the division games, 424 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 4: two of the teams in the division will play three 425 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:58,919 Speaker 4: of them right off the jump, whereas everybody gets hurt 426 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 4: and now one or two of the teams in the 427 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 4: division have a decided advantage when they go head to 428 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 4: head in division, if division's still gonna have great consequence, 429 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 4: or they're all stacked at the back. 430 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 5: End again like we do again, we're. 431 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:18,120 Speaker 4: Watching, Okay, we're watching, we're betting, we're playing fantasy, all 432 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 4: of those things, and either folks are in or they're out. Yeah, 433 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 4: I don't know how many casuals you're dragging in just 434 00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 4: because you know that divisional game has great meaning in 435 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:29,159 Speaker 4: week seventeen or eighteen. 436 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 5: That's just me. 437 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 4: But you know all of that, to say it's the 438 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:38,360 Speaker 4: two buy would be curious, right, just to see that 439 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,199 Speaker 4: algorithm go to work and see what it brings. We 440 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 4: talk about the disparity in travel. You add all these 441 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 4: extra international games, which is the other consideration that comes 442 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:50,439 Speaker 4: into all of this. I know of like Minnesota just 443 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 4: did two games overseas. Okay, now you get your bye week. Yeah, 444 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 4: it's just the oddities of it, all right, the travel 445 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:03,160 Speaker 4: miles right that the Chargers in Week one to Brazil 446 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 4: had already traveled twice as many miles as a couple 447 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:07,640 Speaker 4: of teams will do for a year. 448 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 5: You know that kind of thing. 449 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:15,200 Speaker 3: It's the travel. We've talked about, divisions, the whole deal. 450 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 3: We also were at a stretch here where the forty 451 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,920 Speaker 3: nine ers were playing, you know, and we've seen this 452 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 3: with other teams playing three games and like a you know, 453 00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 3: eighteen day stretch or whatever the case is. Here is 454 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:34,360 Speaker 3: my schedule gripe for a team trivia time. 455 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 2: Guys. 456 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 3: Sorry to put you on the spot because I hate 457 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 3: it when people do it to me. But between November 458 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:43,199 Speaker 3: seventh and November twenty ninth, how many games do you 459 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 3: think the Broncos will play. 460 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:45,399 Speaker 2: During that time? 461 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 5: Seventh through twenty ninth? 462 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:53,840 Speaker 3: Yes, November seventh and November twenty ninth, we would think three, right. 463 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,880 Speaker 2: It's twenty two days. Yeah, they play. 464 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,119 Speaker 5: One one game. 465 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 3: They play on Thursday night, November sixth at home against 466 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 3: the Raiders. They then play home to Kansas City November sixteenth, 467 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,160 Speaker 3: Then they have a bye week, and then they play 468 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 3: again Sunday, November thirtieth against Washington. So you're giving them 469 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,280 Speaker 3: the extra arrest by playing Thursday, and then they'll get 470 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 3: that extra days to play Kansas City, only to then 471 00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:28,160 Speaker 3: have another bye week off. Like, looking at it, I'm like, what, 472 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 3: Like how how does San Francisco play three games in 473 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 3: nineteen days or whatever it is and Denver plays one 474 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:36,960 Speaker 3: in a span of twenty two Like, there's got to 475 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 3: be a better way to figure out. 476 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 4: Sean Dat's got friends on the competition committee. 477 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 2: He must, he must. 478 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 3: I don't even know if i'd want that if I'm Denver, right, like, 479 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 3: I mean, spread it out a little bit, give me 480 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 3: a Thursday game either earlier or later on in the season. 481 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,119 Speaker 2: I don't even think it's good for Denver to have that. 482 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,920 Speaker 6: But it lends itself to your super Bowl picked in 483 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 6: helps that out should be healthy again. 484 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 3: Again, I'm not even sure if it does. But yeah, 485 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,080 Speaker 3: it's just there's I mean, who would want that? 486 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,439 Speaker 2: Right? Well, guess what, we have a short week, so 487 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 2: we got to prepare. 488 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:09,560 Speaker 3: Then we're gonna have a little bit of a break 489 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,640 Speaker 3: to play for Kansas City, and then if we win 490 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 3: that game and have any momentum, we're gonna have another 491 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 3: two week break. 492 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:16,239 Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know. 493 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:21,439 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's messy like that, There's no question about it. 494 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 4: And you know, I I as much as people used 495 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,480 Speaker 4: to abhor the the Thursday schedule where they were division games, 496 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 4: particularly when we see the teams of the AFC South. 497 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 4: Sorry fans of the AFC South, but you know, those 498 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 4: were always the examples used as to how horrid the 499 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 4: product was. And Eddie al Michaels would just quit at 500 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:46,399 Speaker 4: that point if it went back to it. But you know, 501 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 4: they how everybody's got to play and some of those concessions. Look, 502 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 4: you got TV partners coming in for billions of dollars, 503 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 4: so you got to make those concessions and understand that. 504 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,880 Speaker 4: But wondering if that doesn't solve some of it. Right, 505 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:04,200 Speaker 4: see the familiarity, we get some strange, strange bedfellows and 506 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,360 Speaker 4: finishes like we did with San Francisco and the Rams. 507 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 4: Great competitive game and they're both at the same disadvantage 508 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 4: or advantage as it were by having the long week 509 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 4: till the next I don't know, but it's as we expand, 510 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 4: adding the double, adding the bye, adding you know, the 511 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 4: international flavor to it. Then we continue to they've they've 512 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 4: got more challenges and that formula gets harder and harder 513 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:33,399 Speaker 4: to crack. 514 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,639 Speaker 3: Well, I do want to, uh, I do want to 515 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,400 Speaker 3: pay off this tease as we were talking about it. 516 00:25:40,119 --> 00:25:44,960 Speaker 3: Here's a sample of the two thousand NFL regular season schedule. 517 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 3: Started out great primetime game, Titans at Buffalo's Sunday Night, 518 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,879 Speaker 3: Denver at Saint Louis when Monday night football was the 519 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:57,119 Speaker 3: real show in town, right, So Denver at Saint Louis. 520 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:01,399 Speaker 3: The Bengals had a buye so since the heady didn't 521 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:06,159 Speaker 3: open their season until they faced Cleveland at home in 522 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:10,719 Speaker 3: week two. Now you say Cleveland, Yeah, well Cleveland had 523 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,639 Speaker 3: their season end a week early. They didn't play in 524 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,359 Speaker 3: week seventeen, so they were done a week before everybody else. 525 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,239 Speaker 3: Now their season was practically over, so there was They 526 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 3: were a new expansion team. 527 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 2: They weren't good. Pittsburgh had a buy in week two. 528 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 3: Week three, they gave three team s byes because again 529 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 3: you had to have odd numbers because you had an 530 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:32,439 Speaker 3: odd number of teams in the league at thirty one 531 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:36,280 Speaker 3: at that point. Yeah, just a really funky schedule. But 532 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,639 Speaker 3: the most amount of teams that we had on buye 533 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 3: each week were three and then they staggered. They had 534 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 3: those basically from weeks three until nine, and then the 535 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,119 Speaker 3: rest of the way it was just one team on 536 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,120 Speaker 3: buy on the way out. 537 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:54,640 Speaker 2: Crazy the NFL. Yeah, and think. 538 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 3: About being Philadelphia, and I can't remember. I think Philadelphia 539 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 3: was good, but they played up until week fifteen, then 540 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 3: had to buy in week sixteen, and then had to 541 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 3: go on play in week seventeen. Like to have like 542 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,320 Speaker 3: your week off the one day, you know, the one 543 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 3: week before you could be done with the season. 544 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,880 Speaker 2: Crazy as well. But yeah, that was an NFL world. 545 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 2: We lived in it one time. 546 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 6: I like the concept of a week one bye is 547 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,520 Speaker 6: that that's what you're saying with the Browns getting weak 548 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,639 Speaker 6: with that's that's so insane to me because it's like 549 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 6: you've been waiting the entire you know, nine months yes 550 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 6: season to play football and I have to wait another week. 551 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 4: You don't even get the advantage of the run up 552 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,679 Speaker 4: for the teams you're gonna yeah, the run up. 553 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,399 Speaker 6: People always talk about how the preseason there's important, you know, 554 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:39,439 Speaker 6: in playing some of your starters, there's a you know, 555 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,600 Speaker 6: there's something to be said about that, and just having 556 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 6: Week one bye and then having to play the rest 557 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 6: of the season without a break is insane. 558 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,199 Speaker 3: I think they did try to make it in a 559 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 3: way where like bad teams were going to be put 560 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 3: on the book ends or you know, on each end 561 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 3: of the of the schedule, because I don't think that 562 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 3: they wanted to get have better teams playoff by or 563 00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 3: or if you had to buy in the last week 564 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,919 Speaker 3: and let's say you were the number one seed, you 565 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 3: would have two weeks off before playing and if you 566 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,439 Speaker 3: had clinched, maybe you weren't playing your starter, you know, 567 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 3: so there could have been a whole whole month, but 568 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,399 Speaker 3: I don't think they wanted like the good teams, so 569 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,120 Speaker 3: they put like bad teams. That's why you had Cincinnati 570 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 3: and Cleveland kind of bookend, because they weren't They weren't 571 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,320 Speaker 3: any good at that point. But yeah, to your point, 572 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,400 Speaker 3: you're so excited for Week one and then your team 573 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:31,800 Speaker 3: doesn't play like one an absolute bummer. We had it 574 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 3: for a couple of seasons. 575 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,199 Speaker 4: I want to know who was in who were in 576 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,399 Speaker 4: those meetings. It's like, all right, you three, you're a 577 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 4: blue ribbon committee. Who are the four worst teams in 578 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 4: the National foot. 579 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:44,200 Speaker 2: Oh? 580 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 5: My goods, tell us right now. 581 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 3: Then the Texans came into the league in two thousand 582 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 3: and two and that solved the problem with the the 583 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 3: odd number of teams. But that was the way that 584 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,320 Speaker 3: we lived for a little while in the National Football League. 585 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 5: And David Carr just got sacked again. 586 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,480 Speaker 3: But remember they won their first game. They beat the 587 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 3: Cowboys on Sunday night football. As crazy as that was. 588 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 5: Remember how height that was the Battle of Texas. Yes, 589 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 5: Oh that was awesome. 590 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was great stuff. 591 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 3: And then then it was all downhill from there for 592 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,880 Speaker 3: for David Carr and the Texans. 593 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:23,120 Speaker 5: I can taste my spleen. 594 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,640 Speaker 3: I remember when the Browns came back and Drew Carrey 595 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 3: was on the field, and you know, the the hype 596 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 3: of the Browns being back in and they were only 597 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:37,120 Speaker 3: gone for you know, three four years. 598 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh man, good times. 599 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 5: And now he's been hey. 600 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 4: You know today as we record this, the anniversary of 601 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 4: them taking away the ability on Central on game shows. 602 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 5: The Wheel of Fortune. 603 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 4: Remember how I used to be able to go on 604 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 4: a shopping spree nineteen eighty seven, the October sixth seventh, 605 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,720 Speaker 4: that was the end of that where now you just 606 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 4: got money. 607 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 3: That was where you had to buy like porcelain dogs, exactly, yes, 608 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 3: and if you couldn't buy anything else, you'd get the 609 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 3: Gucci gift certificate. That's right again. Stuff that happened before 610 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 3: Ian was born. But yeah, there would be a showcase Ian. 611 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 3: They would turn around, you would solve the puzzle. You 612 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 3: would have won twenty four hundred dollars worth of stuff, 613 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,280 Speaker 3: and then they had priced tags on like a living 614 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 3: room set with a whole bunch of different things, and 615 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:27,440 Speaker 3: you had to bid on those things or you would 616 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:28,080 Speaker 3: buy those things. 617 00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 5: You would buy those another two bucks. 618 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 6: I'm learning so much. 619 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, the only dog that got adopted was the one 620 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 4: from friends. 621 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 3: Oh that's what they had though. And those things are 622 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,479 Speaker 3: like if you had six hundred bucks, there was a 623 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,920 Speaker 3: one item. There was one item that was five point fifty. 624 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 3: You could not say I want the six hundred dollars 625 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 3: in the Gucci gift certificate. You had to buy whatever 626 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:52,920 Speaker 3: piece of crap was. 627 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 5: On that stage, and it was always priced perfectly. 628 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you left with your fifty dollars and 629 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,160 Speaker 3: a Gucci gift certificate. It that's the way it was, 630 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 3: and you're gonna like it. Yes, the good times. I oh, Man, 631 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 3: wheel of Fortune so great. I saw the Wheel of 632 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,080 Speaker 3: Fortune set. Once there was a there was an NBA. 633 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 3: It was an NBA Players Week, NBA and w NBA 634 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 3: players week, and they sent me over there to get 635 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,840 Speaker 3: guests for Fox. So it was on the Sony Lot, 636 00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 3: you know, don on Culver City and Carmelo Anthony was there. 637 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 2: I remember Becky Hammond was. 638 00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,320 Speaker 3: One of the w NBA players at this point. Melo 639 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,840 Speaker 3: was mellow was the big name though, And and I 640 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:41,600 Speaker 3: asked the person because we were in a in a 641 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 3: stage next door. I said, can I just go and 642 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 3: look and just see what it's like. They're like, yeah, yeah, sure, 643 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,719 Speaker 3: go ahead. So, like I went across and the wheel 644 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,760 Speaker 3: was just so small. I thought it was like this 645 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 3: enormous wheel. But I walked in and I was able 646 00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 3: to like peek around like where the puzzle board was 647 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:00,800 Speaker 3: and just saw where like the set was. But I 648 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,240 Speaker 3: was just so astonished at how small the actual wheel was. 649 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:04,800 Speaker 2: That you spun. 650 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 5: That is awesome. 651 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, pretty cool. 652 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 5: Yeah. 653 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 4: I got to two tapings of the Prices Right one 654 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,720 Speaker 4: mob one with Drew Carrey. Oh man, I wanted to 655 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,840 Speaker 4: steal part of the wallpaper because it was the seventies 656 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,680 Speaker 4: brown with the logo on It's glorious. But I took 657 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 4: my mom to a taping once and like they take 658 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,840 Speaker 4: you through and they ask you to say something entertaining, 659 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:31,960 Speaker 4: and my mom just laughs, goes, doesn't they look like 660 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,080 Speaker 4: Drew Carrey. I'm like, I don't think that's getting us 661 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,320 Speaker 4: up on stage. I don't think they want that question. 662 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 4: I don't think they want that mom. 663 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:43,600 Speaker 3: Oh man. I love the Prices right, and I just 664 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 3: I could not. I would be so afraid I would 665 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:47,640 Speaker 3: just make a fool of myself. 666 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 4: And I just yeah, no, we'd all show up to 667 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,280 Speaker 4: support you for that one though. We should do a 668 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:56,160 Speaker 4: group outing to a taping man. 669 00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 2: That's well, that's the spot. 670 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,240 Speaker 3: Love it Now that they're filming in a different studio, 671 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,960 Speaker 3: no longer at Television City, they're looking Glendale. So anyway, 672 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 3: all right, that's gonna do it. Yeah, that's how we'll 673 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,880 Speaker 3: end this episode of I Want Your Flex. I love 674 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,480 Speaker 3: the midweek episodes, but I digress. We'll get back to 675 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,000 Speaker 3: the real football stuff coming up in our next episode, 676 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:17,800 Speaker 3: where we get you set for week six and all 677 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 3: the rankings and the plays that you need. Ian's already 678 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,640 Speaker 3: working on the streaming defenses and we'll have a survivor 679 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 3: pick for you as well. So for Ian, Roddy and 680 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,480 Speaker 3: Mike Carmen, I am Dan Beyer. Talk to you next 681 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,080 Speaker 3: time here and I Want Your Flex