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Speaker 1: with my boys, the Stats Overbeat Cipher down there in
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Speaker 1: Mikey Florio down there in the fantasy pit of misery
Speaker 1: as well. We got a good show for you on
Speaker 1: a Tuesday. Here's what we're gonna do in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Let's and we've been doing little Bo Jackson, Dion Sanders,
Speaker 1: kind of two sport athletes at this point, and we
Speaker 1: continue like that here on the Fantasy Freestyle this week.
Speaker 1: Here's what we're gonna do on the NFL side. We
Speaker 1: got the combine popping off. Okay, they're down there in Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: They're doing you know, little drills in their underwear. They're
Speaker 1: running around cones. You know, they're putting up weights, they're
Speaker 1: jumping and slapping things. We're gonna talk about that specifically
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks. Okay, we're gonna talk about all the high
Speaker 1: profile quarterbacks that are going to the compine this week,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna give you my take on all of
Speaker 1: those quarterbacks and where they may wind up after the draft.
Speaker 1: The other thing we're gonna do is when we go
Speaker 1: to the Major League Baseball we are going to continue
Speaker 1: with our division by division previews. We started off on
Speaker 1: the Late Week pod last week on the Fantasy Freestyle
Speaker 1: with the American League Central. I talked a lot about
Speaker 1: the backs in the a L Central. Okay, the Edward
Speaker 1: and Carnacions of the world, the Miguel Cabreras of the world.
Speaker 1: How bad it was for Detroit to lose Ian Kinsel.
Speaker 1: We talked about all of that already. We're gonna switch
Speaker 1: gears and talk about a pitching in the American League Central,
Speaker 1: and then, as always, we put the fun and Functional
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. If you listen to the Fantasy Freestyle and
Speaker 1: the Stats Overbeat Cipher, you know that we do a
Speaker 1: little bit of things about rapping athletes. Well, we have
Speaker 1: another example of a rapping athlete, and me and my
Speaker 1: boys down there in the Fantasy Pit of Misery, we
Speaker 1: are going to critique the effort of a Minnesota Twins infielder.
Speaker 1: To give you a little bit of a hint. He's
Speaker 1: got a brother that was big news because he got
Speaker 1: traded to the Seattle Mariners. That will give you another
Speaker 1: little hint about who I might be talking about. We
Speaker 1: gotta pull question up as well. Hit me up on Twitter.
Speaker 1: You can always follow me at Spit and Speed. You
Speaker 1: can always ask me questions. I do my best to
Speaker 1: get back to you at the stats over beat Cipher
Speaker 1: while my people out there know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: But we gotta pull question up today. And here's the thing.
Speaker 1: When we talk about this combine, and we're gonna start
Speaker 1: talking about the quarterbacks that are going to this combine,
Speaker 1: I wanted to know from you guys, what do you
Speaker 1: think is the most important attribute for a quarterback to
Speaker 1: be successful in the NFL? Here are your options. It's
Speaker 1: the arms strength, okay? Is it to be able to
Speaker 1: fit it into tight windows, that sort of thing. Is
Speaker 1: it accuracy? Is it actually being accurate? You know, because
Speaker 1: you could be Chad Bennington, Pennington or Sam Bradford and
Speaker 1: put the ball exactly where you want. But are there
Speaker 1: other things you need to do? For example? Is it leadership?
Speaker 1: Is it intangible. Is that kind of stuff that really
Speaker 1: moves the needle for quarterback play? Or is the mental side?
Speaker 1: Is it having a high football i Q. Is it
Speaker 1: being able to read schemes, read defenses and know where
Speaker 1: the mismatches are where the ball needs to go. That's
Speaker 1: what I want to ask you guys. Hit me up
Speaker 1: on Twitter at spitting speeds and let me know what
Speaker 1: you think is the most important attribute in today's NFL
Speaker 1: for a quarterback, because it could also be mobility. You know,
Speaker 1: as time goes on, we see mobility being a bigger
Speaker 1: and bigger element of what we see needed from the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. But let's get it started right here with
Speaker 1: some news and notes from around the NFL. And let's
Speaker 1: get it started. Since last I spoke to you guys
Speaker 1: down in Jacksonville, they have gone ahead and signed Blake
Speaker 1: Borders to an extension. It is a three year, fifty
Speaker 1: four a million dollar deal, twenty six and a half
Speaker 1: million of which is guaranteed. Here's the deal with Bordles
Speaker 1: and the Jags. Okay, he his fifth year was gonna
Speaker 1: be fully guaranteed. They were gonna pick up his option
Speaker 1: if he couldn't pass a physical and he just had
Speaker 1: risk surgery. Okay, so they knew he wasn't gonna be
Speaker 1: able to pass physical So what they said is yo,
Speaker 1: mine as well doubled down on this and give him
Speaker 1: an extension. But here's the thing. I still think the
Speaker 1: Jags could be in the market for a quarterback. You say,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? Speeds. They just signed Borders
Speaker 1: the fifty four million. I direct you to Mike Glennan.
Speaker 1: At about this time last year, Mike Glennan signed the
Speaker 1: exact same contract, three years, four million. Then what did
Speaker 1: the Bears go out and do they still augmented their
Speaker 1: quarterback position number two overall in the draft getting Mitchell
Speaker 1: Don't call me Mitch Trobiski. Okay, So I actually believe,
Speaker 1: especially for a team like Jacksonville that had the cap
Speaker 1: space to spare, I do not believe that this is uh,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of takes them out of some of
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks that are out there. I think the Jags
Speaker 1: can still go ahead and get a Tyrod Taylor, still
Speaker 1: be in the running for a guy like Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: if they so choose. But Blake Bortles just got himself
Speaker 1: a little bit of cash. The Jags have also cut
Speaker 1: running back Chris Ivory. Listen, Ivory now goes, you know,
Speaker 1: on the scrap heap with a number of other running
Speaker 1: backs that we're reporting are gonna be looking for work.
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about the DeMarco Murray's of the world.
Speaker 1: We talked about the Frank Gore's of the world. We
Speaker 1: talked about Jeremy Hills of the world. You can go
Speaker 1: ahead and add Chris Ivory to that list. It's gonna
Speaker 1: save the Jaguars about three million in cap space keeping
Speaker 1: it moving in Miami. I told you about it last week,
Speaker 1: how Jarvis Landry got um the franchise tag. I talked
Speaker 1: about how the franchise tag it's really is is really um.
Speaker 1: You know, could be just an asset to them. He
Speaker 1: traded right because they weren't gonna come to a long
Speaker 1: term deal with Jarvis Lantry. So now they lock him up.
Speaker 1: It's basically like kicking the can down the road for
Speaker 1: one year. But now you still have him as an
Speaker 1: asset just in case you do want to come around
Speaker 1: and flip him. There apparently are numerous teams interested in
Speaker 1: trading Jarvis Lantry, so you want to keep your eye
Speaker 1: out on that a trade was made though. In the NFL,
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Rams did
Speaker 1: business sending Pro Bowl cornerback Marcus Peters to Los Angeles
Speaker 1: for second and a fourth round pick. Now, let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. Marcus Peters is known as one of
Speaker 1: these top cornerbacks. But the thing is, really his game
Speaker 1: is such that he's a gambler. He gambles. Okay, he
Speaker 1: jumps routes because his interceptions. He has nineteen interceptions over
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, which is tops in the league. Right,
Speaker 1: But he's a gambler. He can also get burned. I've
Speaker 1: seen him get burned. But this is a nice little
Speaker 1: move for the Rams getting a guy like Marcus Peters,
Speaker 1: because remember Tremaine Johnson, their high level cornerback right now,
Speaker 1: is likely going to be a free agent, will likely
Speaker 1: test the open market, so they're bringing in another cornerback
Speaker 1: right away. Also, you know, this is the time of
Speaker 1: year where you're gonna hear a lot of reports out there.
Speaker 1: There were reports that the Steelers are gonna trade Martavis Bryant.
Speaker 1: Remember we heard that all season. Now we're hearing no, no, no,
Speaker 1: they are not trading him. Why would they? Why would they?
Speaker 1: When you think about it, he obviously plays a role there. Also,
Speaker 1: the Bills now are saying that they are not planning
Speaker 1: on cutting Tyrod Taylor. If I was t Mobile, I
Speaker 1: would I would defecate the mattress all over Buffalo. They
Speaker 1: didn't want me. They wanted to start Nathan Peterman in
Speaker 1: my place. If I'm Tyrod, I'm hoping they don't pick
Speaker 1: up my option. I'm hoping that I can have some
Speaker 1: opportunity to test my wares, whether it be in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: whether it be in Denver, or a number of other
Speaker 1: places that maybe the case. Also, we're hearing Cincinnati Bengals
Speaker 1: or former Cincinnati mangle tighten Tyler Eifford. Remember I call
Speaker 1: him one of my keya guys, okay, because he's always
Speaker 1: my neck, my back. He's always got something going on
Speaker 1: with Tyler Eiford, it was his back. But he has
Speaker 1: now been cleared for O t a s that will
Speaker 1: be going on. But he's a free agent. So my
Speaker 1: question for you is like, would you take the would
Speaker 1: you take the risk on a guy like Tyler Eifford?
Speaker 1: Would you go ahead and sign him knowing that he's
Speaker 1: made of whatever Chad Pennington's knees are made out of.
Speaker 1: I don't think I would. I don't think I would
Speaker 1: spend the money required to go ahead and get a
Speaker 1: guy like Tyler Eifford and then have him miss half
Speaker 1: the games. The other piece of news we gotta share is, uh,
Speaker 1: it came out as though Roger Goodell was gonna find
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones for like two million. That's not the case, okay.
Speaker 1: What is actually happening is there's a law that's been
Speaker 1: on the books by laws for the NFL for about
Speaker 1: twenty years already that they just recoup and share and
Speaker 1: reimburse any kind of um legal costs. Okay. And so
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones put the other owners in a bind where
Speaker 1: they had to um in essence, you know, pay lawyers.
Speaker 1: They had to pay lawyers, um. You know, when he
Speaker 1: was threatening about Roger Goodell's contract extension, when he was
Speaker 1: lobbying for the Ezekiel Elliott suspension. And so it's coming
Speaker 1: back on Jerry Jones. It looks like two million dollars.
Speaker 1: He'll be two million dollars lighter in his pockets, but
Speaker 1: you know he's got deep pockets. Competition Committee is also
Speaker 1: getting together this week, you know, with owners meetings and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. As the combine gets going in Indianapolis,
Speaker 1: Competition committee is looking at UM what is a catch?
Speaker 1: We've been talking about this on Fantasy Freestyle for a while,
Speaker 1: and what it looks like they might do is do
Speaker 1: away with that um going to the ground portion of
Speaker 1: the catch rule, because you know, that's really what stirs
Speaker 1: up a lot of the controversy. Then being able to
Speaker 1: help possession as they go to and through the ground. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they're looking at that, they're also looking at something
Speaker 1: that I think it's very interesting. I think I might
Speaker 1: make this a pole question for the next episode of
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle. They are debating if they want to change
Speaker 1: defensive past interference and instead of making it a spot foul,
Speaker 1: making it a fifteen yard penalty, so that this way,
Speaker 1: even if it's you know, a bomb down the field DP,
Speaker 1: I'll still also just be a fifteen yard penalty. I
Speaker 1: think that's very intriguing. We'll get into that on the
Speaker 1: late week episode of Fantasy Freestyle. The last thing I
Speaker 1: want to tell you is, as I mentioned, the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: are getting going into combine this week. Well, Sam Donald
Speaker 1: at the USC. He will not throw at the I'm
Speaker 1: binding most of the other top guys will. Sam Donald
Speaker 1: instead is gonna wait for his pro day and listen,
Speaker 1: in the pro day, everything stacked for you. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: your wide receivers, it's your field. You know, the wind
Speaker 1: conditions and that sort of stuff. So you obviously, uh
Speaker 1: probably put out a better effort on your pro day
Speaker 1: than you would out in the foreign areas of Indianapolis
Speaker 1: for the combine. But Sam Donald is not going to throw.
Speaker 1: But that brings me to Sam Donald, because what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do here on this episode of the Fantasy Freestyle
Speaker 1: inside Studio thirty four, here at Rock and Riley's, come
Speaker 1: on by. We got the good bartenders over here. We'll
Speaker 1: buy you a drink. Make it happen with drinking on
Speaker 1: a Tuesday, you know, the Fantasy Freestyle. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about some of the big time quarterbacks that are
Speaker 1: gonna be at this combine and give you my little
Speaker 1: thumbnail sketch on all of them, so you know a
Speaker 1: little bit about what you're looking for for some of
Speaker 1: these top guys that I think most will be first
Speaker 1: round picks. We're gonna move into the you know, second
Speaker 1: and third round with some of these guys. But maybe
Speaker 1: if your team is looking to replace you know, Ben
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger or Philip Rivers and Eli Manning, or if you're
Speaker 1: one of these teams that are just starved for a
Speaker 1: quarterback like the Jets, like the Cardinals, like the Bills. Um,
Speaker 1: these are some of the guys you may want to
Speaker 1: know about as we hit draft season. The first guy
Speaker 1: is Sam Donald, And if you listen to a fantasy freestyle,
Speaker 1: you know I've been talking about Sam Donald for over
Speaker 1: a year now. I thought the Jets were gonna tank
Speaker 1: and hashtag suck for Sam. They did not. They won
Speaker 1: five games, But Sam Donald, listen, this was like an
Speaker 1: early shot called by a boy speeds and spitting statistician,
Speaker 1: because I was saying he was gonna be on the
Speaker 1: top of draft boards at this time. And he's only
Speaker 1: a sophomore. Okay, he had kind of an up and
Speaker 1: down season, but his up, his good is like French Montana,
Speaker 1: It's all the way up. Okay. Um, so he's good
Speaker 1: is very good. He's only twenty years old, he's only
Speaker 1: a sophomore, and a lot of teams think that this
Speaker 1: kid is the prototypical guy that can be He has
Speaker 1: that kind of like leadership that it factor right, those intangibles.
Speaker 1: That's why I asked that on the poll questions got
Speaker 1: high football, I Q he can make all the throws,
Speaker 1: but the thing is he makes some crazy throws and
Speaker 1: he has them just dud games. Okay, um speeds. I
Speaker 1: think he's He's gonna take time to develop, but he's
Speaker 1: the kind of the verbial mold of Clay. A lot
Speaker 1: of teams want to have that and then mold them
Speaker 1: for their organization. And I think Sam Donald is going
Speaker 1: to be one of those, not like true elite quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: but gonna be in tier two. He's gonna be a
Speaker 1: serviceable NFL veteran for the next eight to nine years.
Speaker 1: Sam Donald, You're not gonna go wrong. He has the pedigree,
Speaker 1: he has the skill set. Yeah, he throws some duds
Speaker 1: in there, but I think he'll be able to iron
Speaker 1: that out. Sam Donald definitely going to be, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: a top ten pick at the upcoming draft in February.
Speaker 1: The next guy I want to talk about is Josh Rosen.
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen is out of U c. L A. This guy.
Speaker 1: He is the best in my opinion, pure passer, okay, footwork, mechanics,
Speaker 1: arm strength, accuracy. As a pure passer, Josh Rosen is
Speaker 1: the top of the list. Okay. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of knocks against Josh Rosan that we
Speaker 1: gotta cover. One is that he's had a bit of
Speaker 1: an injury history already. Okay, he's missed some time last
Speaker 1: year at u c l A. He also went through
Speaker 1: a couple of coaching changes at U c l A,
Speaker 1: so he never really had the time to fully digest
Speaker 1: list system, fully get his feet with. But the other
Speaker 1: thing where people are saying about Josh Rosen is that
Speaker 1: their concerns about his attitude. Maybe he's a little bit
Speaker 1: of a brat. There is one a f C executive
Speaker 1: that has come out and already said anonymously, of course,
Speaker 1: that he is just in fact a spoiled brat. A
Speaker 1: lot of people wonder about his attitude. He has been
Speaker 1: a little bit outspoken. I remember, you know, during college
Speaker 1: football season, he came out talking about why college athletes
Speaker 1: should in fact be paid, that they're not really trying
Speaker 1: in school, and he was saying basically what was the truth.
Speaker 1: But people don't like that because he was pretty much
Speaker 1: outspoken about it. I'm gonna say this, he's getting comparisons
Speaker 1: right now to Matt Ryan. And if you can grab,
Speaker 1: you know, draft yourself the next Matt Ryan, I say
Speaker 1: do it. I think the New York Football Giants at
Speaker 1: number two overall are gonna wind out with Josh Rosen.
Speaker 1: So giant fans out there right here in New York.
Speaker 1: I know the some outside right there and Rock and Riley's,
Speaker 1: They're gonna be getting ready for Josh Rosen. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: you know, the injuries, the coaching change, the attitude notwithstanding,
Speaker 1: this guy has the tools arm strength, football footwork, mechanics, accuracy,
Speaker 1: and I've seen a couple of U c l A
Speaker 1: games this year. It translates. Okay, it definitely does. Josh
Speaker 1: Rosen is gonna be the kind of prize stud kind
Speaker 1: of like a Jared goff was. You know, that California
Speaker 1: kid type casted as as a quarterback. So let's see
Speaker 1: how Josh Rosen does. The next guy I want to
Speaker 1: talk about, his quarterback out of Wyoming named Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: And this guy is gonna get you know, kind of um.
Speaker 1: There's a wide range of opinions. When it comes to
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Okay, this guy is your prototypical like big,
Speaker 1: like you know, farm boy, country strong kind of kid. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's got a cannon attached to his shoulder, one of
Speaker 1: the best arm strength we've seen. So that's why arm
Speaker 1: strength is a option on our poll right there on Twitter.
Speaker 1: You know, so he's got the arm strength. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing. You only completed fifty of his passes. Granted
Speaker 1: it was at Wyoming, Granted it was D two competition
Speaker 1: that he was facing, right, but there were a couple
Speaker 1: of games where they stepped up Wyoming and played uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Division one schools, and he defecated the mattress
Speaker 1: left and right. So I don't know if he was
Speaker 1: able to step up to the competition. This could be
Speaker 1: a case of a guy who dominated lesser competition. But
Speaker 1: is he gonna be a Carson Wentz. I'm not sure that.
Speaker 1: Comparing him to guys like Carson Wentz, comparing him to
Speaker 1: guys like big Ben Roethlisberger, comparing him to guys like
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers because he's kind of unrefined with his notion,
Speaker 1: but he's a big you know, go get it. Kind
Speaker 1: of kid. Um. I'm not going to be the guy
Speaker 1: who takes a chance on him, and I don't want
Speaker 1: my Jets to do it either. You know. I think
Speaker 1: this is gonna be the exact, you know, type cast
Speaker 1: of a guy who has all the talent in the
Speaker 1: world but then couldn't put it together. Whether it's like
Speaker 1: the defenses and schemes they see not in Division two,
Speaker 1: the step up in the speed of the game coming
Speaker 1: from Division two. You also asked my boy Emery Hunt
Speaker 1: at f game Plan, and he says that he does
Speaker 1: not like Josh Allen. He thinks it's kind of too
Speaker 1: much clay to mold and that it will take too
Speaker 1: much time. And then you know, the head coach and
Speaker 1: the GM that winds up drafting him, they're gonna get
Speaker 1: fired before Alan fully develops. This kid is a three
Speaker 1: to four year project, okay. And if you're drafted in
Speaker 1: the top five, top ten, you are not a good team.
Speaker 1: You don't have three to five years to mold some kid.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get fired before that. I would stay away
Speaker 1: from Josh Allen out of this group. He is my
Speaker 1: fool Gazey, the guy to forget about. Let's go on
Speaker 1: to Oklahoma quarterback Heisman Trophy winner Baker Mayfield. A lot
Speaker 1: of people are now starting to connect Baker Mayfield with
Speaker 1: the Jets, calling him Broadway Baker. I think mel Kiper's
Speaker 1: first draft or latest draft came out, had him going
Speaker 1: number six overall to the Jets. Here's the thing, Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield can make all the throws, had the completion percentage,
Speaker 1: had the intangibles, the it factor, the fiery leadership. Right.
Speaker 1: But here are the knocks on Baker Mayfield. One is
Speaker 1: that he's only around six foot tall. Okay, and if
Speaker 1: your name and Russell Wilson, if your name and Drew
Speaker 1: Brees in the NFL and you only around six ft,
Speaker 1: people worry about you. People were like, oh, how will
Speaker 1: you be able to see over the defensive line and
Speaker 1: make throws? I think that's nonsense, Okay. I think if
Speaker 1: you got the skills, you got the skills, and I
Speaker 1: think Baker Mayfield does in fact have the skills. My
Speaker 1: question though, is he was in the Big twelve and
Speaker 1: all they do there is that spread offense. It's pretty
Speaker 1: much like a seven on seven drill. Nobody plays defense
Speaker 1: in that you know conference, And so my question for
Speaker 1: you is very simple. What big twelve quarterback has come
Speaker 1: out and been successful. We heard like Bryce Petty put
Speaker 1: up video game numbers at Baylor. We saw a Johnny
Speaker 1: Manzel did in that conference, didn't do it in the pros.
Speaker 1: So is he gonna be able to take this step?
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I'd rather take my chances on
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield than Josh Allen. But I also am a
Speaker 1: little bit skeptical about make Baker Mayfield to see, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he can make the throws. Yeah, he's done big game
Speaker 1: things in college like Deshaun Watson did, but also like
Speaker 1: Vince Young did and it didn't work out too well
Speaker 1: of Vince Young, right, so we will see about him
Speaker 1: right now, though I would have Rosen, I'm excuse me,
Speaker 1: I'd have Donald and Rosen as a tear. I'd have
Speaker 1: Alan and Baker Mayfield below that. Then we get into
Speaker 1: another controversial quarterback that we got to talk about, Louisville
Speaker 1: starter Lamar Jackson. This kid is basically the exact opposite
Speaker 1: of Josh Allen. Josh Allen is saying, you know, his
Speaker 1: fifty six completion percentage, but he's got all the tools
Speaker 1: and he's a coach's son, and he's got the discipline,
Speaker 1: and he's Caucasian. Lamar Jackson has the athleticism, dynamic also
Speaker 1: the same fifty seven completion percentage played in the A
Speaker 1: C C against better competition. Yet Bill Polian is out
Speaker 1: there saying he needs to be a wide receiver because
Speaker 1: of his athleticism and his uh, you know, his excitement,
Speaker 1: but that he can't develop to make the throws and
Speaker 1: be an NFL quarterback. I think that's a little ridiculous,
Speaker 1: right hashtag All quarterbacks matter, and so does Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: Someone's going to take a chance on him. And to
Speaker 1: me in two thousand eighteen, you need mobility. Think about
Speaker 1: these guys, the Russell Wilson's, the Aaron Rodgers, even Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz had mobility. You know Cam Newton as well. Some
Speaker 1: of your top quarterbacks outside of Breezon Brady, they all
Speaker 1: have mobility. Matthew Stafford has pocket mobility. Avon Rodgers has
Speaker 1: pocket mobility. Yes, Lamar Jackson, in the same way as
Speaker 1: r G three cannot just rely on running the ball. Okay,
Speaker 1: if we say that r G three is on one
Speaker 1: side of like couldn't hack it because he was just runner,
Speaker 1: and we say on the other side that, like Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson is a quarterback who uses his legs effectively, right,
Speaker 1: and maybe Cam Newton is in the middle. I expect
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson to be closer to Russell Wilson then to
Speaker 1: r G three, And if he is, you have a
Speaker 1: fantasy asset because he's gonna run for four or five, six, seven,
Speaker 1: eight hundred yards. He's to score some touchdowns running. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm actually on Lamar Jackson. If he's in a
Speaker 1: situation where he's starting from day one, it may not
Speaker 1: look pretty, but as a fantasy owner, I think Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson is someone to definitely go out and grab. Um
Speaker 1: my boy. Emery Hunt certainly thinks that he is the
Speaker 1: top quarterback in this draft. But I want to talk
Speaker 1: about two other quarterbacks who you're gonna see this week
Speaker 1: in the combine in Indianapolis. First is Mason Rudolph. There
Speaker 1: is a guy from Oklahoma State, another big twelve quarterback. Okay,
Speaker 1: this guy and only like about forty games, had two
Speaker 1: touchdowns and only picks. Okay, so the stats are get
Speaker 1: their video game numbers. Okay, straight video game numbers. But
Speaker 1: this is another big twelve quarterback, not even with the
Speaker 1: athleticism of Baker Mayfield. So the question is will he
Speaker 1: be able to kind of continue his development or will
Speaker 1: he wind up like Bryce Petty. Will he wind up
Speaker 1: like Landry Jones and other people in the Big twelve
Speaker 1: who had huge college stats but never can make an
Speaker 1: impact at the next level. The next guy I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask you about, though, and this is a guy that
Speaker 1: I want everybody to keep an eye on. Okay, Kyle Loletta.
Speaker 1: Kyle Loletta is the quarterback out of Richmond, the Richmond Spiders. Okay.
Speaker 1: And if everybody's talking about Josh Allen out of Wyoming
Speaker 1: and how great Josh Allen can be even against the
Speaker 1: D two competition, then what about this kid, Kyle Aletta.
Speaker 1: Kyle Loletta was the m v P and best looking
Speaker 1: quarterback at the Senior Bowl a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: This is a guy, Okay. He's six two to fift
Speaker 1: not the prototypical size for a quarterback. But he doesn't
Speaker 1: have a cannon army either. Not overly athletic. But here's
Speaker 1: what he does. He understands the game. He's got those
Speaker 1: intangibles right, he knows schemes, he knows defenses, he does
Speaker 1: the film work. He's from a military family, right, he
Speaker 1: knows the game, that sort of stuff. He has the
Speaker 1: desire to get better. A lot of people are very
Speaker 1: much impressed with Kyle Loletta out of Richmond. So those
Speaker 1: are a few quarterbacks to check out. Sam Donald, Josh Rosen,
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen. Those are the five
Speaker 1: that I think are gonna go in the first round.
Speaker 1: And then you got Mason Rudolph. And don't sleep on
Speaker 1: Kyle Loletta out of Richmond. Someone is gonna draft this
Speaker 1: kid in the third or fourth round. And remember people
Speaker 1: in the third or fourth round pop off every couple
Speaker 1: of years, Russell Wilson, Dak Prescott. So think about Kyle Loletta.
Speaker 1: But if you ask me, I don't want the statue
Speaker 1: that is Josh Rosen behind the pocket. I think he's
Speaker 1: full gazy, even though his arm and his mechanics are there.
Speaker 1: You need to have some mobility. So that's why I'm
Speaker 1: off Rosen, um off Allen. I don't think he makes
Speaker 1: the cut. But give me Baker Mayfield, give me Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: and give me Sam Donald. What I want to do
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Speaker 1: On the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Network. You
Speaker 1: know what your boy, Dame Martinez speeds the spitting statistician.
Speaker 1: What I want to do is get into baseball real quick.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you I feel like Bo Jackson. I feel
Speaker 1: like Brian Jordan's Dion Sanders, you know, doing the two sports.
Speaker 1: You talked a little bit about football. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the news and notes that we're going on there. I
Speaker 1: gave you my preview on some of the quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: are going in the Combine this week. As we go
Speaker 1: to base ball though, um, we got some news and
Speaker 1: we want to also preview the arms of the a
Speaker 1: L Central. So here's what I gotta tell you. First
Speaker 1: of all, in Minnesota, Logan Morrison has agreed to a
Speaker 1: new deal, a one year, six and a half million
Speaker 1: dollar deal. You're gonna start to see a little slow
Speaker 1: drip drip drip of some of the veterans latching on
Speaker 1: places now that pictures and catchers and spring training has
Speaker 1: popped off. There are reports that the Toronto Blue Jays
Speaker 1: they have come to a deal with closer sing Uan. Oh.
Speaker 1: Remember this is a guy he had a deal with
Speaker 1: the Rangers that look like but then the Rangers saw
Speaker 1: we were doing his physical as m R. I, and
Speaker 1: they saw that he had ucl damage. Toronto Blue Jays
Speaker 1: that were like, man, that's all right, come on in
Speaker 1: you could be down for us. Looks like, oh, may
Speaker 1: wind up. I need to have Tommy John in his future.
Speaker 1: But for now, they're gonna let him rock and he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna slay in there in the bullpen for Toronto
Speaker 1: in the eighth or ninth inning. Similar to Logan Morrison,
Speaker 1: the Indians have signed Mike Napoli to a minor league deal.
Speaker 1: This is not a guaranteed contract for six million like
Speaker 1: Lomo got with Minnesota in Cleveland. The Indians have signed
Speaker 1: Napoli to a minor league deal. Okay, and this is
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen for some of these veterans that don't
Speaker 1: get to latch on. They're gonna have to earn their
Speaker 1: way in. Okay. Napoli's thirty six years old. He only
Speaker 1: hit one ninety four last year. Okay, so he probably
Speaker 1: is on his last legs. But he did bang twenty
Speaker 1: nine home runs. And everybody with these three true outcomes.
Speaker 1: So if you need a little bit of pop in
Speaker 1: the Indians, listen, they have some power bats. We talked
Speaker 1: about them in the offensive preview of the Al Central.
Speaker 1: We talked about Francisco Lindor and Jose Ramirez as m
Speaker 1: VP candidates. We talked about Edwin Encarnacion with his second
Speaker 1: year walking the parrot in Cleveland, his streak of like
Speaker 1: thirty five home run seasons that will probably continue this week. Okay,
Speaker 1: we talked about additions, not additions, but we talked about
Speaker 1: supporting cast like Jason Kittness, Michael Brantley. Um, So you
Speaker 1: can add Napoli to the mix as well. But what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do is we're gonna talk arms here. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk arms in the A L Cent trill for
Speaker 1: a hot second. Um, As you know, I told you
Speaker 1: I think the Cleveland Indians are going to win the
Speaker 1: AL Pennant this year. I believe they will win the
Speaker 1: AL Central in a runaway. I believe the AL Central.
Speaker 1: I think the Cleveland Indians will actually have the largest
Speaker 1: division lead of anybody of any division. I think it
Speaker 1: will be the least competitive division in all of Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball, certainly in the American League. Okay, I think
Speaker 1: the Indians, by you know, the fourth of July will
Speaker 1: already have something like thirteen fourteen game lead and they'll
Speaker 1: be in cruise control from there on in. And to
Speaker 1: be honest, they're pitching is the top of this division
Speaker 1: as well. You know about Corey Kluber, Okay, and by
Speaker 1: the way, your boys Peez has been in. Statistician called
Speaker 1: that Corey Kluber would win the a ls A young
Speaker 1: last year. Okay. Corey Kluber then went on to have
Speaker 1: a two point to five yr a struck out two
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five guys, and this is basically what
Speaker 1: he does every year since two thousand thirteen. So that's
Speaker 1: no big deal. Here's why I think the Indians are
Speaker 1: studely and it really comes down to starting pitchers two
Speaker 1: through four. Okay. When you think about Carlos Carrasco, when
Speaker 1: you think about Danny Salazar, when you think about Trevor
Speaker 1: Trevor Bauer, when you think about Mike Clevinger, these are
Speaker 1: guys that I think are gonna be a competitive advantage
Speaker 1: in that division. Okay. These are guys like Salads or
Speaker 1: Carrasco is gonna be going up against other teams number
Speaker 1: twos and threes, Trevor Bauer is gonna be going up
Speaker 1: against other teams threes and fours. I think that is
Speaker 1: an advantage. And here's the other thing I like, especially
Speaker 1: for fantasy. You know about Corey Klueber already. But the
Speaker 1: strikeout rates for these guys are out of control. Carrasco
Speaker 1: two hundred twenty six ks and two hundred innings pitched.
Speaker 1: That's over k per nine. Okay, that's over nine ks
Speaker 1: per nine. It's over a strikeout per inning. You gotta
Speaker 1: like that, okay. Salazar only one a hundred and three
Speaker 1: innings pitch, but twelve point six strikeouts per nine innings. Okay,
Speaker 1: and he was heard a lot, remember, Okay, So if
Speaker 1: he stays healthy, he's gonna fan two hundred guys as well.
Speaker 1: That's what you're looking for in fantasy baseball, Okay, you're
Speaker 1: looking fine power arms that are not the kers saw
Speaker 1: and synder guards because those guys are gonna go early. Okay.
Speaker 1: So Carrasco is one, Salazar is one. Trevor Bauer would
Speaker 1: ten to eleven strikeouts per nine innings as well. Okay,
Speaker 1: These high strikeout guys with room to improve. These are
Speaker 1: guys that I like. So I love Bower, I like Carrasco,
Speaker 1: I love Salazar. And here's the other thing. They are
Speaker 1: playing the American League Central. So last week when I
Speaker 1: gave you my offensive preview, and I said that I
Speaker 1: thought the Royals might be one of the worst offenses
Speaker 1: in all of Major League Baseball. Well, the Indians get
Speaker 1: eighteen or nineteen games against them. When I told you
Speaker 1: that the Chicago White Sox have a piss poor offense
Speaker 1: outside of like a Breyu and Garcia and Mankada, well
Speaker 1: these starters are gonna get to face them eighteen times.
Speaker 1: When I told you that the Detroit Tigers are gonna
Speaker 1: regrets this year offensively, well these guys are gonna see
Speaker 1: them eighteen times. Right. So I like those starters, and
Speaker 1: I think that when you think about co Asco and
Speaker 1: Salazar and Bower, these are going to be guys that
Speaker 1: I think are very viable, that look like they're just
Speaker 1: SP twos or s P three's, but are in fact
Speaker 1: definitely viable for your fantasy team. Let's talk about the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins for a hot second. In Minnesota, listen, you
Speaker 1: got Burrios and then you gotta step down. But honestly,
Speaker 1: to me, Jose Burials is a fantasy foo Gazzi. He's
Speaker 1: someone you need to forget about. In my opinion, this
Speaker 1: is a guy. This is a guy who three years
Speaker 1: ago had a hundred sixty five innings, then two years
Speaker 1: ago a hundred seventy innings, last year a hundred seventy
Speaker 1: five innings. Do you think he is ready in his
Speaker 1: age twenty four season to go ahead and put on
Speaker 1: a bigger load. I am not so sure. This is
Speaker 1: a guy who was out of control good in the
Speaker 1: first half, but then really kind of fell off in
Speaker 1: the second half of the year. Okay. Will he be
Speaker 1: able to sustain that in the second half this year?
Speaker 1: I don't know. And here's the thing, this is why
Speaker 1: I don't like these guys, the same with Detroit Tigers
Speaker 1: like Michael Fulmer in years past. Okay, you get a
Speaker 1: guy remember that year when like Ubaldo Jimenez was something
Speaker 1: like fourteen and one in the first half of the
Speaker 1: season and then defecated the mattress for the second half.
Speaker 1: That's what we could see in Burrios this year. So
Speaker 1: if you go ahead and get Burrios, do me a favorite.
Speaker 1: Just trade him in July, okay, because you don't want
Speaker 1: to have to try to win your Fantasy Baseball championship
Speaker 1: on the back of someone who's hitting the rookie wall
Speaker 1: as a twenty four year old. Okay, And I don't
Speaker 1: believe in the rest of these guys. Here's the other
Speaker 1: thing that happens that's a problem with the Twins Arms. Okay,
Speaker 1: they got too many these other veterans that they have
Speaker 1: that are supposed to bolster this rotation and support a
Speaker 1: guy like Burrios. They're already hurt. Irwin Santana already on
Speaker 1: the d L Michael Planeta already, you know, dealing with injury.
Speaker 1: This guy is made of tissue. Okay, guys like Phil Hughes,
Speaker 1: you know, do you trust Kyle Gibson to really be
Speaker 1: like your number two or number three starter? I don't
Speaker 1: think so. I think the Minnesota Twins actually regret rests
Speaker 1: a little bit because Irwin Santata had a great year
Speaker 1: for them, and he's already banged up. So that's a problem.
Speaker 1: I am staying away from Minnesota Twin Arms, including Burials.
Speaker 1: I think he hits the wall. He's one of the
Speaker 1: fool gazies. For me, I think you need to forget
Speaker 1: about him. Same thing in Kansas City. You got Danny
Speaker 1: Duffy and then not a lot else. Okay, I'm okay
Speaker 1: with Danny Duffy. Sure Danny Duffy can be your sp
Speaker 1: three on your fantasy team. I got no qualms with that.
Speaker 1: But then there's nobody else there who do you like?
Speaker 1: Ian Ian Kennedy, Jason Hamill. I do not like these guys.
Speaker 1: And also remember this is also gonna be pictures that
Speaker 1: get no kind of run support because the Royals are
Speaker 1: one of the worst offenses in all of Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna ask Ian Kennedy to go out there
Speaker 1: and hold opponents to one or two runs. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's capable of that. I don't think they get wins.
Speaker 1: I think the Kansas City Royals take a dramatic step
Speaker 1: back when it comes to their win total this year.
Speaker 1: Remember they also lost Lorenzo king Osmer. These are guys
Speaker 1: that were bats in that line up to help with
Speaker 1: run production that are just no longer there. And it's
Speaker 1: gonna rely on the pictures and you got Danny Duffy
Speaker 1: and not a whole lot else. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about Detroit. I think it's the same thing in Detroit.
Speaker 1: I know my boys over at the Fantasy BFFs today,
Speaker 1: they were talking about the Detroit Tigers, and they talked
Speaker 1: about guys like Matt Boyd. You know they talked about
Speaker 1: Mike Fires, they talked about Jordan's Zimmerman. I don't trust
Speaker 1: these guys. These are guys that are gonna sit with
Speaker 1: like a four point four e er, a a one
Speaker 1: point three whip. Jordan Zimmerman was great back in the
Speaker 1: day in the National League. Ever since he's been in
Speaker 1: Detroit with that fat contract, he has not delivered in Detroit.
Speaker 1: You're talking about Michael Fulmer and nobody else. And in
Speaker 1: the same way I said it with Barrios in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Fulmer the last couple of years has hit the wall
Speaker 1: after about a hundred fifty innings. Is this the year
Speaker 1: he gets over that hump and can be more durable? Maybe,
Speaker 1: but I'm not taking a chance on this. There are
Speaker 1: not many pictures that I like in the American League
Speaker 1: Central outside of Cleveland. One that I will take a
Speaker 1: chance on there too. In Chicago, though, that I'll take
Speaker 1: a chance on. The first is uh Carlos Rondon. Now,
Speaker 1: I know, I know he's on the d L, you know,
Speaker 1: similar to Santana and Pineda and some other guys. But
Speaker 1: this is a guy who if he comes back, I
Speaker 1: think he's worth a statch on your d L spot
Speaker 1: because this is an effective picture. Okay, this is a
Speaker 1: guy who I think can come back. It was him
Speaker 1: and Kintana about two years ago that we're both UM
Speaker 1: All Star caliber, right, and I think Rodon can in
Speaker 1: fact replicate that if he sees the mound again, he's
Speaker 1: already you know, likely going to be on the d
Speaker 1: L to start the season. I think he had like
Speaker 1: a triceps injury last year, came back but maybe reaggravated.
Speaker 1: It was a little too early for him to come back,
Speaker 1: so I would watch out for that. But the other
Speaker 1: guy I like is Lucas Giolito. This is a guy
Speaker 1: who was in the I believe it was the Nationals
Speaker 1: farm system, and I think he came over to the
Speaker 1: White Sox maybe in the Adam eating deal. I have
Speaker 1: to have my man Mike Florio check me on that,
Speaker 1: but I think he came over in the Atom eating
Speaker 1: deal with the Nationals. And this is a kid that,
Speaker 1: you know, huge prospect at the level of some of
Speaker 1: those Pittsburgh Pirates prospects, you know, like the Glass Nows
Speaker 1: of the world. You know that you really have heard about.
Speaker 1: And this maybe the year because the White Sox they
Speaker 1: are in kind of, you know, rebuild mode. They want
Speaker 1: to see what they have in the kids. And so
Speaker 1: what you gotta do with a kid like Lucas Giolito
Speaker 1: is you gotta let him go out there. You gotta
Speaker 1: have this be the year where he throws a hundred
Speaker 1: thirty innings, so that next year he could go one
Speaker 1: fifty and then two years when you're ready to contend,
Speaker 1: he's ready to be your number two starter or something
Speaker 1: like that, because it will not be small game. James Shields, Okay,
Speaker 1: this guy hasn't pitched in one in a big game
Speaker 1: since about two thousand eight with the Tampa Bay Rays,
Speaker 1: So there you have it. Okay. In Chicago, I like
Speaker 1: Geolito Rondon. In Detroit, I'm wary of them. In Minnesota,
Speaker 1: Barrios is a fool gazzy for me, you need to
Speaker 1: forget about him. He hit the wall. And in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: I love these arms. Listen. I love Corey Kluber as well.
Speaker 1: But if you can get yourself a little Salazar, a
Speaker 1: little Bower, a little Carrasco, I like. I like it's
Speaker 1: very much like it's very very much and closers out there.
Speaker 1: I like also, I like Herrera in Kansas City. But
Speaker 1: how many chances will he get? You know, because Royals
Speaker 1: aren't gonna win many games. I like Shane Green in Detroit,
Speaker 1: Tigers aren't gonna win many games. Yeah, Sauria in Chicago,
Speaker 1: White Talks aren't gonna win many games though. But when
Speaker 1: you look at Cleveland, you also have you have the
Speaker 1: Cody Allen, but then got Andrew Miller, right, I mean
Speaker 1: Andrew Miller last year. Check this out. Thirteen point six
Speaker 1: strikeouts per nine innings. Okay, he is an absolute beast,
Speaker 1: and I love how Terry Francona uses him in the
Speaker 1: right situations, in the highest leverage positions. I love what
Speaker 1: they're doing in the bullpen in Cleveland and in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I'm staying away from it because you got you got
Speaker 1: um Addison Reid and Fernando Rodney. Fernando Rodney has made
Speaker 1: a career out of being like, not the best pitcher
Speaker 1: in that bullpen, but getting saves. And I don't know
Speaker 1: how they're gonna play in Minnesota. I can see, I
Speaker 1: can see saves getting mixed in with a number of pictures.
Speaker 1: So I would stay away from that situation all together.
Speaker 1: But there you have it a little bit of a
Speaker 1: look at the arms in the American League Central. When
Speaker 1: we start, when we do the late week pod on
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle, We're gonna go to another division. It will
Speaker 1: be the n L West. We're gonna go out to
Speaker 1: the NL West. I'll tell you surprisingly, which uh contract
Speaker 1: year Colorado Rocky I actually think could be a fool
Speaker 1: gazzy And I'll tell you which rotation I like the best.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a hint, and it is not the
Speaker 1: one that flaunt Clayton Kershaw at the top of the rotation.
Speaker 1: I go elsewhere and I have another surprise team that
Speaker 1: I think might come out um and actually make the
Speaker 1: playoffs in the National League from the n L West.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are not giving this team love.
Speaker 1: So keep it locked and tune into the late week
Speaker 1: pod of the Fantasy Freestyle. Let you know who I'm
Speaker 1: thinking about there in the National League West. All right,
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Speaker 1: there in the fantasy pit of misery down there, who
Speaker 1: we're gonna do is put the fun in functional sports radio.
Speaker 1: So I got a couple of things I want to
Speaker 1: ask you guys about, and I want to hear your
Speaker 1: you know, your feedback, Danny Otto, because Danny, as you know,
Speaker 1: one of the things we do here on the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Freestyle is, um, we engage with athletes who think that
Speaker 1: they're rappers, right, and we've heard everybody from Lonzo Ball
Speaker 1: to lave On Bell, to Damian Lillard to uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Marvin Bagley, the third Cole Beasley have been out there.
Speaker 1: All of them are better than our boy, Chris Venture
Speaker 1: the analyst, and we've established that and none of them
Speaker 1: can do what our boys can. A cashman over at road,
Speaker 1: aware my my bench better than your starters or young
Speaker 1: cos the effect the trap game. My estros who will
Speaker 1: holding me down on the stats over beat cipher all
Speaker 1: football season long. But we have another entry that we're
Speaker 1: gonna get into, and I would love to We're gonna
Speaker 1: play a little bit of it. This is Nick Gordon
Speaker 1: a k a. G. Sinco. He's a middle end fielder
Speaker 1: for the Minnesota Twins. He is the brother of d Gordon,
Speaker 1: the newly minted center fielder of the Seattle Mariners. That's
Speaker 1: right center fielder, not second basement. And so what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do is this song is called I Do It All.
Speaker 1: We're gonna play a snippet of it for you, and
Speaker 1: then uh, Danny and Florio down there, I'd love to
Speaker 1: get some of your reaction about Nick Gordon, also known
Speaker 1: as g Sinko. We're about to play a little bit
Speaker 1: of I Do It All from Nick Gordon down there
Speaker 1: in the fantasy pit of misery. Let's make a pop.
Speaker 1: It's for my city, from It's for my squad. We're
Speaker 1: never gonna fall. My boy's gonna ball. This is how
Speaker 1: we're moving. You see my phone and cars zinco with stars.
Speaker 1: Do you know who you are? I do it flex
Speaker 1: all and so hard. I do it kid before a
Speaker 1: new car. I do it. I kip Daddy with me.
Speaker 1: I do it, and I'm true to the team. I
Speaker 1: do it. I'm gonna flex. I read through with Jack
Speaker 1: and I got my knee come all right, all right.
Speaker 1: So that's a little bit of it's a little bit
Speaker 1: of Nick Gordon, also known as g Sinko. I do
Speaker 1: it all. I gotta tell you, I wish I had
Speaker 1: my man, the manimal, Chris Bavona, because he coined the
Speaker 1: phrase that I think I'm gonna have to use here
Speaker 1: when we talk about all these kind of like Southern
Speaker 1: drawl rappers and this kind of He called it lazy,
Speaker 1: you know, And I think, listen, it's not horrible. When
Speaker 1: Nick Gordon did it wasn't horrible, But I call it
Speaker 1: lazy rap, you know. Uh. And he's got that auto
Speaker 1: tune down there? Hey, who do I have down there
Speaker 1: in the fantasy pit of misery? Do I got any Florio?
Speaker 1: Do I got any Danny down there? How you guys
Speaker 1: doing is busy at the moment. That's fine, that's fine, Danny.
Speaker 1: What do you think about Nick Gordon? Ge Sinko? What
Speaker 1: do you think about that track? I think it was
Speaker 1: a little I call it that lazy Southern rap. A
Speaker 1: lot of auto tune involved too. I don't know you're
Speaker 1: a musician. How do you feel about auto tune? Danny? Um? Well,
Speaker 1: when used to like move things just right. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: for it because it works. But if you if you
Speaker 1: go crazy, but you can't make a whole song auto too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't don't fake being able to do any right? Right?
Speaker 1: But so, what do you think about Nick Gordon? Here?
Speaker 1: What do you think about Gie Sinko? In terms of
Speaker 1: some of the other rappers that we've heard, the leavy
Speaker 1: On Bells, the Cole Beasley's, the Chris Ventres of the world. Um,
Speaker 1: what do you think? I hear a little bit of
Speaker 1: laughing out of my fantasy best friend forever right there.
Speaker 1: What do you think about? What do you think about
Speaker 1: Nick Gordon? How does he stack up for some of
Speaker 1: the other ones we've heard so far? He's definitely not
Speaker 1: the worst, He's not the worst. Fair enough, fair enough,
Speaker 1: but uh, is he the best? All right, so we
Speaker 1: got him somewhere in the middle as well. Danny, check
Speaker 1: this out. I got another topic I want to bring
Speaker 1: to you as we put the fun and Functional Sports
Speaker 1: Radio here for another few minutes, right here on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle, right here on the Fantasy Sports Network, which
Speaker 1: your boy, Dame Martinez speeds the spitting statistician. I don't know, um,
Speaker 1: And I asked you, Danny, because I know you're you know,
Speaker 1: you were in the market for love. We were talking
Speaker 1: about your Tinder profile the other week. And um, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you saw, but there was a dramatic
Speaker 1: episode of The Bachelor last night. I did not. I
Speaker 1: guess I missed this. Are you aware of what took
Speaker 1: place on The Bachelor last night? Oh? My god? Let
Speaker 1: me tell you. Okay, so they're down to two women.
Speaker 1: They're down to two women left right, And first of all,
Speaker 1: the bachelor is Ari lion Dyke, former Formula one race
Speaker 1: car driver. Okay, so they're all, you know, going after
Speaker 1: his affections and whatnot. And they're not in these two
Speaker 1: girls that are going on there like fantasy dates or whatever.
Speaker 1: And check this out there down in Peru. Okay, him
Speaker 1: in one girl. Her name is I think Becca. Okay,
Speaker 1: they're down in Peru and get this, her ex boyfriend
Speaker 1: of seven years. She had a seven year relationship. Her
Speaker 1: ex boyfriend found them in Peru and stormed the set
Speaker 1: of The Bachelor. I was like, nah, I'm coming to
Speaker 1: win her back. And they had a whole scene where
Speaker 1: this this other dude just like finds them. He brings flowers,
Speaker 1: and the woman wanted no part of it. Check this
Speaker 1: out though. The guy's name is Ross Gurgle. He's an
Speaker 1: assistant coach on the Stanford football team. So sports coming together.
Speaker 1: It's a very sporty season of The Bachelor. You got
Speaker 1: a Formula one driver and you have that one of
Speaker 1: the coaches of the Stanford football team thought that he
Speaker 1: was gonna make a grandiose gesture and kind of win
Speaker 1: his girl back. Danny, I'll give you one guest. Do
Speaker 1: you think it went well? I do not know. It
Speaker 1: didn't go It didn't go well. She like threw his
Speaker 1: flowers away, said get away. He started crying and was like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm doing here, and then bounced
Speaker 1: and they're in lies. You're a Bachelor. Update to to
Speaker 1: next week to find out who takes Ari Liondike's affection.
Speaker 1: What's going on and popping off this week? Danny? Uh,
Speaker 1: this week is actually the week before Comic Con season kills.
Speaker 1: I know that's big for you, Comic Con. It's gotta
Speaker 1: be uge for you guys a little bit. Yeah, Emerald
Speaker 1: City Comic Con happens this this upcoming weekend. Now we're
Speaker 1: gonna be previewing a bunch of stuff there and uh,
Speaker 1: it's still going over reacting to Black Panther and and
Speaker 1: other movies like that. All right, fair enough, sounds good.
Speaker 1: Sounds good, and check this out Danny. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: with me next Tuesday. I'm gonna give people a little
Speaker 1: bit of a plug. Okay. You can still get the
Speaker 1: late week pod of Fantasy Freestyle and do me a favorite.
Speaker 1: Subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, Audio, Boom, Stitcher wherever you get
Speaker 1: your podcast, okay, and always you can check me out
Speaker 1: on Tuesday's the video version right here inside Studio thirty four,
Speaker 1: whether it be on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, all those places
Speaker 1: the kids go these days for all their fun video content. Um.
Speaker 1: But next week, because because you know, Danny, we talked
Speaker 1: about the quarterbacks, right they're gonna be at the combine
Speaker 1: throwing and all that stuff. But one of the biggest
Speaker 1: things that happened also in preparation for the draft is
Speaker 1: uh the Wonderlick Test. And this is a test that
Speaker 1: all the football players get to see kind of like
Speaker 1: their i Q and to see if they can be
Speaker 1: a football smart, you know, because some of those guys
Speaker 1: not too smart. So so Danny, would I want to
Speaker 1: do on some on next week's episode of the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Freestyle video is uh, I want you to take the
Speaker 1: Wonderlicks text live. How do you feel about that? I
Speaker 1: am nervous to see how I am. I think you're
Speaker 1: gonna do better because here's the thing, Danny. After after
Speaker 1: you take the test, it gives you like a percentile.
Speaker 1: So we'll get a we'll get a response right away
Speaker 1: and we'll see exactly how dumb or smart you are. Okay,
Speaker 1: but you're in for it right. Sounds good. So next
Speaker 1: week on the Fantasy Freestyle, we're gonna have Danny doing
Speaker 1: the Wonderlick Test. We're gonna have the n L West preview.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about what we had out of UH,
Speaker 1: you know, out of the combine News and notes as well.
Speaker 1: Will be almost starting at the Free Agency, so we'll
Speaker 1: preview some of that as well. But as we get
Speaker 1: out of here. You know, Danny, I didn't realize, you know,
Speaker 1: we were talking rapping at eats. I don't know if
Speaker 1: people notice that the last couple of weeks to outro music,
Speaker 1: you've been using um Haw's your Boy Speeds and Spitting
Speaker 1: Statistician in it too. Uh. Do people know about drinking
Speaker 1: on a Tuesday from Chronicle? It's it's our it's our
Speaker 1: new favorite song down here. Yeah, all right, we'll check
Speaker 1: this out. It is Tuesday, we're gonna be drinking. It's
Speaker 1: my time to get on out of here, but check
Speaker 1: it out. I'm gonna let you guys know. This is uh,
Speaker 1: you know, friends of the show. Dilley, Dilley, I'm out
Speaker 1: of here. Catch me on the Late Week Pod, catch
Speaker 1: me on at Spitting Speeds, hit me up, shout out
Speaker 1: to the stats over Beat Cipher. I'll see you on
Speaker 1: later this week. Listen up.