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Speaker 1: a little bit later on in the show. Now that
Speaker 1: they are free from what I've called the van, the
Speaker 1: two million dollar noose around the franchise that was brock Osweiler,
Speaker 1: what does that mean for this offense? What does that
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Speaker 1: We got an interesting matchup today. We're also gonna talk
Speaker 1: about Roger Goodell had some things to say about players
Speaker 1: sitting for the national anthem. And also Giancarlo Stanton is
Speaker 1: going absolutely bunkers down in Miami. We're gonna talk though
Speaker 1: about a little something, a little detail about maybe why
Speaker 1: he won't be in Miami for too long and can
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Speaker 1: The top five, dead or alive. Got some news and notes.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start in Major League Baseball. And I said
Speaker 1: this before on the DFS Lineup Lock Show. I want
Speaker 1: to give a big shout out to Chad Bettis. He
Speaker 1: returned from cancer Okay, had missed about a year and
Speaker 1: he had a great start last night against the Atlanta
Speaker 1: Braves at coors Field. Seven shutout innings with two strikeouts.
Speaker 1: We at the Fantasy Freestyle on our tip our cap
Speaker 1: to Chad Bettis. Also Reds catcher Devin Mazaraco was hit
Speaker 1: by a pitch in his foot and he broke his toe.
Speaker 1: It looks like a stay on the d L is
Speaker 1: in fact imminent. This is a guy who has been
Speaker 1: injury prone for so long. It was a Fantasy darling, post, hype, sleeper,
Speaker 1: all the terms you want to put on it, but
Speaker 1: he will just never be able to stay healthy. Let's
Speaker 1: keep it moving. Another guy, diamondback starting pitcher Robbie Ray,
Speaker 1: a guy if you listen to Fantasy Freestyle, you know
Speaker 1: I have been on all season long. Remember he got
Speaker 1: uh in a scary fashion hit in the head by
Speaker 1: a line drive, and his last start out he was
Speaker 1: out on the seven day concussion list. He's gonna make
Speaker 1: a rehab start Thursday at Hi Ava Sala, and it
Speaker 1: sounds like if all things go well, he will be
Speaker 1: back in the Arizona rotation next week. Some other guys
Speaker 1: on the trail back Uh Astro shortstop Carlos Korea taking
Speaker 1: some swings and fielding grounders. It still sounds like he's
Speaker 1: three or four weeks away, but you can't expect him.
Speaker 1: Maybe in your fantasy playoffs. For owners like myself, I
Speaker 1: would love to have Carlos Korea back. Also, Royal stud
Speaker 1: catcher Salvador Perez. He's taking swings. Ned Yos, their manager
Speaker 1: says that no rehab stint will probably be needed for
Speaker 1: sal Perez. You may see him sooner rather than later.
Speaker 1: As we keep it moving here on the Fantasy Freestyle.
Speaker 1: One of the things I want to talk about. Earlier
Speaker 1: in the week, we talked about Marshawn Lynch, Michael Bennett.
Speaker 1: How they are you know, the term I use was
Speaker 1: using this platform, you know, to make a statement. It
Speaker 1: is so ripe right now with the conversation in our society. Um,
Speaker 1: you know about all sorts of things, whether it's police
Speaker 1: uh police, um, you know, assisted shootings, whether it is
Speaker 1: kind of the things we saw in Charlottesville. But these
Speaker 1: guys are not standing for the national anthem. Roger Goodell,
Speaker 1: the commissioner, was at a Arizona Cardinal season ticket event
Speaker 1: and was asked about players sitting for the national anthem.
Speaker 1: Here's what he said. It's one of those things where
Speaker 1: we have to understand that there are people who have
Speaker 1: different viewpoints. It's something that I think everybody wants. The
Speaker 1: national anthem is a special moment for me. It's a
Speaker 1: point of pride that's really important. But we also have
Speaker 1: to understand the other side that people do have rights
Speaker 1: and we want to respect those and that's the thing,
Speaker 1: you know, developing the brand of the NFL from the
Speaker 1: rights of the individuals. As we know if listened to
Speaker 1: fantasy Freestyle and Colin Kaepernick has been completely blackballed. If
Speaker 1: you tell me, fine, maybe he's not one of the
Speaker 1: best quarterbacks in the NFL, but to say he's not
Speaker 1: one of the best sixty and he's not one of
Speaker 1: the best seventy eight and couldn't be on a roster.
Speaker 1: I understand that you want your backup quarterback to be
Speaker 1: a humble guy and not cause a stir, but you
Speaker 1: know something's going on and was because of his stance
Speaker 1: now Bennett, now Lynch. So it's interesting, but I have
Speaker 1: actual data for you on this Florio. There may be
Speaker 1: other things that the commissioner when he's thinking about the
Speaker 1: brand of the NFL, have to consider. I've been talking
Speaker 1: about how everybody wants to cut the cord, how less
Speaker 1: people are watching games because they can get their information.
Speaker 1: They can get their stats in so many different ways now,
Speaker 1: whether it be social media, whether it be so many
Speaker 1: other streaming feeds. There was a survey done by J. D.
Speaker 1: Power and UM. They surveyed nine two hundred over nine
Speaker 1: thousand football fans florial of them said that they watched
Speaker 1: less football this this past year. Of people said they
Speaker 1: watched less football. So ratings are down, as we know,
Speaker 1: interest is down. Of those people, this is a surprising
Speaker 1: number of those people. Of about people who said that
Speaker 1: they did watch less football, of them two seven of
Speaker 1: them almost over said that the anthem and the Colin
Speaker 1: Kaepernick protests around the anthem was the main reason they
Speaker 1: stopped watching football last year. That was a little surprising
Speaker 1: to me. So when you're Roger Goodell and the commissioner
Speaker 1: and you gotta worry about this, maybe this is a
Speaker 1: big deal. Maybe this is something they're really trying to
Speaker 1: protect the brand against. I think they should allow their
Speaker 1: players to do what they want and express their rights
Speaker 1: and use the incredible platform of their professional athlete nets.
Speaker 1: But maybe it is actually impacting a drop in ratings.
Speaker 1: It's something to keep an eye on. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: talking about this issue all season long. Right here on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle, we talk about Top five Dead or Alive.
Speaker 1: The next thing I want to get into is yo
Speaker 1: Giancarlos stanton I talked about this last night, how Aaron
Speaker 1: Judge is sort of falling off, striking out a little
Speaker 1: bit more, not having the plate discipline that he had
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season and how Gencarlos Stanton
Speaker 1: is going absolutely bonkers. Twenty two home runs and forty
Speaker 1: three ribbys in his last thirty four games has become
Speaker 1: insanely hot. And when we were talking about him last night,
Speaker 1: while that was happening, he went yard for his forty
Speaker 1: three home run of the season. Now, the other piece
Speaker 1: that's interesting about this that I reported on the DFS
Speaker 1: Lineup Block show previously with my man Tony Sencada, is
Speaker 1: the fact that Stanton cleared waivers, which means that even
Speaker 1: though we are past the trading deadline, Gen Carlo Stanton
Speaker 1: can now be traded to a team. We've talked about
Speaker 1: how the Miami Marlins are selling off okay, whether it
Speaker 1: be David Phelps, whether it be atra Viria, There's been
Speaker 1: a lot of talk that they're trying to trade as
Speaker 1: much as their as they possibly can. Gencarlo Stanton has
Speaker 1: ten years left on that mega contract and two hundred
Speaker 1: and nine million dollars left on that contract. Do you
Speaker 1: think any team would want to trade for Gencarlos Stanton?
Speaker 1: I say, if you're the Miami Marlins, now is the
Speaker 1: time to actually trade Gencarlos Stanton. It seems like four
Speaker 1: teams have actually inquired on Stanton. Okay, if you want
Speaker 1: to clear that money off the books. The reason I
Speaker 1: said at the top of the show that this is
Speaker 1: connected to Derek Gita is because, as you know, Derek
Speaker 1: Jeter is kind of the face of a new group
Speaker 1: that just bought the Miami Marlins. So this is the
Speaker 1: new ownership coming in. The question do they want a
Speaker 1: two hundred and ninety five million dollar contract kind of
Speaker 1: as an albatross around their neck as they you know,
Speaker 1: kind of put their stamp on their new franchise. I've
Speaker 1: talked about this as relates to brock Oswidler and seventy
Speaker 1: two million dollar news that he was I've talked about
Speaker 1: this as related to Joe Kim Noah and the seventy
Speaker 1: two million dollar news that he is around that do
Speaker 1: you want to maybe unload him. You're never gonna get
Speaker 1: a better chance. He's hot as hell right now, and
Speaker 1: maybe a contender will say, yeah, I'll eat some of
Speaker 1: this money, let me help clear the books. I actually say,
Speaker 1: I think Derek Jeter will you know, kind of influence
Speaker 1: this and make a move. I think Giancarlo Stanton could
Speaker 1: be on the move in the next two weeks. Hey,
Speaker 1: mikey Florio, I got a question for you if we
Speaker 1: could bring you in real quick before we get to
Speaker 1: our team by team previews. You know Derek Jeter becoming
Speaker 1: one of the new owners of the Miami Marlins, following
Speaker 1: in George Steinbrenner's footprints. I want to ask you something.
Speaker 1: What do you think he's more likely to do now
Speaker 1: that he's a new owner. Do you think he's more
Speaker 1: likely to a give himself a World Series ring so
Speaker 1: he has like five in a row, is four with
Speaker 1: the Yankees and then that one would with the Marlins.
Speaker 1: Or do you think he's apt to hire longtime Miami
Speaker 1: guy Alex Rodriguez and his return to baseball is like
Speaker 1: a hitting coach or something like that. Mike, which do
Speaker 1: you think is more possible for owner Derek Jeter. I
Speaker 1: would want to say neither, but my guests would be
Speaker 1: hiring a Rod. Everyone says that a Rod. You know,
Speaker 1: he just he knows everything there is. He's like a
Speaker 1: baseball Yeah, like he is a great mind. A lot
Speaker 1: of people think he will make a great coature manager
Speaker 1: if he ever wants to one day. So I'll go
Speaker 1: with be Jeter doesn't seem like the type who's gonna
Speaker 1: give himself a ring. Fair enough, he does like to
Speaker 1: put in the work that it takes. I'll give you that,
Speaker 1: but it also does not you know. I mean, the
Speaker 1: history of him and a Rod is long and documented.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what kind of CNBC interviews they do
Speaker 1: in the last few months. I don't know if he'd ever,
Speaker 1: you know, turn the other cheek and welcome a Rod
Speaker 1: back in the one other thing I want to get
Speaker 1: into real quick before we go to break right here
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy Freestyle, we talk about how the Bucks
Speaker 1: cut uh second round pick Berto Aguayo. Their general manager,
Speaker 1: Jason Licked, is actually owning up to the fact that
Speaker 1: he made a tremendous mistake. He says, I'm owning up
Speaker 1: to it. I'm owning up to it by releasing him.
Speaker 1: I know it was a bold move and it didn't
Speaker 1: work out. I don't know what else to say. I
Speaker 1: have the support of my coach and my ownership. He
Speaker 1: goes on. At the time, I was bound and determined
Speaker 1: to get the best kicker we possibly could. I thought
Speaker 1: Roberto had a chance to be a special kicker in
Speaker 1: the league for a long time. When we took him,
Speaker 1: we essentially anointed him. He actually says that if he
Speaker 1: could do it again, it wouldn't be going up to
Speaker 1: the second round to get him. It would be he
Speaker 1: would have brought in competition so that he wasn't like
Speaker 1: this anointed kicker that he would still have to kind
Speaker 1: of own, you know, kind of earn it. Oguayo, however,
Speaker 1: has signed now with the Chicago Bears. Okay, he's gonna
Speaker 1: compete with Connor Barth for the kicking duties in Chicago.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, if I was Connor Barth, I'd
Speaker 1: be like, Yo, what are you talking about? We're gonna
Speaker 1: bring in this guy to try and unseat me. I
Speaker 1: don't know about it, but the Bucks admitting their mistake.
Speaker 1: We'll see how it plays out on hard knocks. Florio
Speaker 1: and I'll talk about it a little bit tomorrow when
Speaker 1: we come back, though, we go to the a f
Speaker 1: C South. We're talking all things Houston, Texans when we
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Speaker 1: Network Company boy Dane Martinez speeds the spitting statistician holding
Speaker 1: you down On a Tuesday. I got my guy Mike Florio,
Speaker 1: and we're about to talk all things Houston Texans. Okay,
Speaker 1: but we got a poll question up right now at
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Speaker 1: the season wind toll for the Houston Texans is eight
Speaker 1: and a half. This is a team that has been
Speaker 1: kind of in that nine and seven space over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. They they beat the Oakland Raiders
Speaker 1: in the playoffs last year. Remember Derek Carr was already
Speaker 1: down with that broken leg. So they they won a
Speaker 1: playoff game at home, and then they went to New
Speaker 1: England and I don't know if you remember this, but
Speaker 1: you know New England was struggling in the first half
Speaker 1: of that playoff game in the Division round against the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. That was a team though last year that
Speaker 1: was without J. J. Watt, the former defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year in the NFL. I think with this team
Speaker 1: it all comes down to the quarterback position, but differently
Speaker 1: in a way. When we talked about the Jacksonville Jaguars, Okay,
Speaker 1: to me, it all comes down to when or if
Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson, their rookie at A Clemson takes over. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is this is the way I feel about the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans in general. We're not talking about fantasy football
Speaker 1: right now. We're talking about their prospects to you know,
Speaker 1: be in the a f C Championship game and and
Speaker 1: and get past the New England Patriots. I feel like
Speaker 1: they are similar to Kansas City and and Florio follow
Speaker 1: my logic here. This is a team that has a
Speaker 1: stud defense is decent you know in a lot of places,
Speaker 1: has some playmakers things like that. But at quarterback they
Speaker 1: have a choice. They have a choice between a game
Speaker 1: manager quarterback or do they want to swing and try
Speaker 1: and hit a home run. Tom Savage is a you know,
Speaker 1: in his limited action was serviceable. Okay. DeAndre Hopkins certainly
Speaker 1: loves having Savage there because he gets like thirteen targets
Speaker 1: a game. When Tom Savage is a quarterback, it depends
Speaker 1: on do they want to like throw DeShawn Watson in
Speaker 1: right away or early in the season. They have I
Speaker 1: think a buy in week they have an early buy
Speaker 1: but they have buy in week seven? Do they want
Speaker 1: to wait that long and then let Deshaun Watson go?
Speaker 1: But this is a team. Later on, Mike, as we
Speaker 1: go through their schedule, I think they can get off
Speaker 1: to a good start with a game manager quarterback on
Speaker 1: the strength of their defense, and then if they're in
Speaker 1: good position and in playoff position, maybe they have found
Speaker 1: a formula that works for the two thousand and seventeen
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. So when it comes to fantasy I fade
Speaker 1: the entire quarterback position because I don't know how many
Speaker 1: games Tom Savage is gonna play this year, and I
Speaker 1: don't know how many games Deshaun Watson is gonna play
Speaker 1: this year. This is one of, in my opinion, three
Speaker 1: legitimate quarterback competitions. Okay, I think the one here in Houston,
Speaker 1: the one in Cleveland where Deshaun Kaiser will ultimately be there,
Speaker 1: and then the one in Denver where we don't know
Speaker 1: if it's gonna be pack then Lynch or Trevor Simeon,
Speaker 1: I think are the three legitimate competitions. So because of that,
Speaker 1: I fade these guys at the quarterback position in dynasty leagues. However,
Speaker 1: I do think Deshaun Watson is someone who you can
Speaker 1: try and get on your team because he will grow.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, when we look at the running back position,
Speaker 1: this is a place I'm telling you right now, I
Speaker 1: am high on Lamar Miller. I am probably higher than
Speaker 1: most people on Lamar Miller. This is a guy that
Speaker 1: will wind up on some of my redraft leagues. And
Speaker 1: here's why. Lamar Miller was actually RB nineteen last year. Okay.
Speaker 1: He had one thousand, seventy three yards. He had five touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He also had thirty eight catchers. Here's the thing, Lamar
Speaker 1: Miller only played in fourteen games. This guy was on pace.
Speaker 1: He had about fourteen points a game over fourteen games.
Speaker 1: If you pay that out for sixteen games, he right
Speaker 1: away becomes RB eleven, jumping a lot of players. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is a guy, Lamar Miller, who at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season, the Texans were giving like twenty five
Speaker 1: carries a game. They were gonna ride Lamar Miller. Their
Speaker 1: plan going into last year was to be a run
Speaker 1: heavy team with Lamar Miller. You know what happened. Brock
Speaker 1: Osweiler proved that he was not an NFL starting caliber
Speaker 1: quarterback and a lot of things deteriorated offensively for them
Speaker 1: because of that. And one of the things that happened
Speaker 1: was that defense is knew that Brock was not gonna
Speaker 1: go down the field to a guy like DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1: He was not gonna have accuracy to a guy like
Speaker 1: Will Fuller, and defenses started to creep, creep, creep, and
Speaker 1: Lamar Miller, um, you know, kind of was the ultimate
Speaker 1: you know, not beneficiary, but opposite of that, the ultimate
Speaker 1: casualty of that. I think Lamar Miller, now second year
Speaker 1: in the system, even if with a game manager kind
Speaker 1: of quarterback like Tom Savage, he will have something that
Speaker 1: defenses have to respect a little more. I think that
Speaker 1: a healthy Lamar Miller could creep his way into the
Speaker 1: top ten of running backs. I have him as my
Speaker 1: RB ten. My man Corey Parkson, the fantasy executive, is
Speaker 1: not as high, but still he loves the theory of
Speaker 1: last year's trash. He has Lamar Miller at his RB twelve.
Speaker 1: I think it's also interesting to look at if you
Speaker 1: think Lamar Miller is a candidate for injury, and that's
Speaker 1: very possible, then you need to watch Houston Texans preseason
Speaker 1: games because there is an interesting battle shaping up for
Speaker 1: the second running back on that team. Alfred Blue has
Speaker 1: been the backup for a few years now, but this
Speaker 1: rookie Dante Foreman could be the real deal and could
Speaker 1: be the actual handcuff to Lamar Miller, so keep an
Speaker 1: eye out on that. But I am high Lamar Miller
Speaker 1: is a diamond in the rough. And my opinion was
Speaker 1: RB nineteen last year with if he had sixteen games,
Speaker 1: like I said, would have been higher. I think he
Speaker 1: could be RB nine or ten this year. He is
Speaker 1: someone that I would draft in the second round if
Speaker 1: I needed a running back if we go to the
Speaker 1: wide receiver position, though I'm even higher on DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, in my opinion, is going to have a
Speaker 1: huge bounce back for the same reason he is not
Speaker 1: dealing with brock Osweidler as his quarterback. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. When he had Tom Savage in in PPR leagues,
Speaker 1: you needed DeAndre hop I like to call him. Did
Speaker 1: you ever see Flora If you ever saw the movie,
Speaker 1: um uh, it was one of these Adam Sandler movies
Speaker 1: where he had the kid he was raising like the
Speaker 1: little kid, and um he had there was a piece
Speaker 1: of that's right, he was big daddy. And uh he
Speaker 1: had the other guy like Rob Schneider being like the
Speaker 1: delivery man and they were trying to teach both of them,
Speaker 1: and one of the words that he was trying to
Speaker 1: teach him how to spell was I think hippopotamus. And
Speaker 1: ever since that movie, I called DeAndre Hopkins d hop
Speaker 1: the d Hoppopotamus. So I I appreciate and I I've
Speaker 1: loved DeAndre Hopkins for a long time. He's been on
Speaker 1: my teams, and I want him on my teams this year.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna get a ton of targets, but
Speaker 1: he's gonna get targets from a quarterback that can actually
Speaker 1: get him the ball. Last year he was white out
Speaker 1: twenty seven. He had a like bad year for d
Speaker 1: hop the d Hoppopotamus, but he still had seventy eight catches,
Speaker 1: nine hundred and fifty four yards and only four touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I believe we're gonna see some positive regression in the
Speaker 1: touchdown category. And here's the other thing. Like I said,
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins caught seventy eight balls Florio. He had a
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty one targets. His targets were actually seventh
Speaker 1: highest in the NFL. I'm gonna do a little quick
Speaker 1: math for you. Seventy eight catches and a hundred fifty
Speaker 1: one targets he only caught fifty one percent of the
Speaker 1: targets that went his way. I'm gonna go out on
Speaker 1: a limb and say that wasn't DeAndre Hopkins fault. That
Speaker 1: was brock Oswiler's fault. That's why I expect him to
Speaker 1: bounce all the way back up to my wide receiver twelve.
Speaker 1: I believe he is a low end wide out one,
Speaker 1: high end wide out two. He is lobbying for Tom
Speaker 1: Savage to be his quarterback. If Tom Savage is oh.
Speaker 1: I love DeAndre Hopkins on the flip side, though, I
Speaker 1: do not like the second wide receiver. I don't know
Speaker 1: who it's gonna be. Is it gonna be Fuller, Is
Speaker 1: it gonna be Braxton Miller, Is it gonna be Jalen Strong.
Speaker 1: I think this is all DeAndre Hopkins. I think the
Speaker 1: d hop the d Hoppopotamus, is a target monster for
Speaker 1: two thousand and seventeen, and he's gonna have a quarterback
Speaker 1: throwing it in the same general time zone and vicinity,
Speaker 1: so he'll be right back to elite status. You can
Speaker 1: get him at value DeAndre Hopkins. I think, unfortunately, though,
Speaker 1: the fact that the offense will be getting better. I
Speaker 1: think the casualty. Here will be c J. Fedora with
Speaker 1: it's c J. Fedorro, which I think we'll have less
Speaker 1: targets this year because remember he's I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be dealing with a better offense, and so Brock had
Speaker 1: to go to that security blanket a little bit too much.
Speaker 1: My diamonds in the rough for the Houston Texans Lamar
Speaker 1: Miller and DeAndre Hopkins. I also listen, I love the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans defense. With the return of J. J. Watt,
Speaker 1: They're gonna now have J. J. Watt and ascending Jadeveon
Speaker 1: Clowney and Whitney Merciless coming full steam ahead at opposing quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I love this defense. The only problem is you're not
Speaker 1: gonna see me drafting a defense until the last or
Speaker 1: the second to last round. Somebody in your draft is
Speaker 1: going to draft the Houston Texans defense, like in round
Speaker 1: twelve or round thirteen. It's okay, let them have the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans defense. Okay, here's the here's the deal, Floria.
Speaker 1: I want to get your opinion on the Houston Texans
Speaker 1: when we come back. But let me tell you, this
Speaker 1: schedule starts off pretty good. This is why I think
Speaker 1: Tom Savage needs to start the season because I think
Speaker 1: he can build a little bit of momentum. Week one
Speaker 1: home opener for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Week two at Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: I think they can win. I think that defensive line
Speaker 1: that they have overpowers the piss poor Cincinnati Bengals offensive line,
Speaker 1: and I think that's a win. Then they go on
Speaker 1: the road to the New England Patriots. That's a loss.
Speaker 1: Then they have three games in a row at home
Speaker 1: before thereby that I think are all interesting and pet
Speaker 1: aventually winnable. Home for Tennessee in a Big Division showdown,
Speaker 1: home for the Chiefs, and home for the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1: I see potential for the Houston Texans to be four
Speaker 1: and two or even five and one after that stretch
Speaker 1: where they go into their by. So I ask you
Speaker 1: for um florio, when we do that, what will happen?
Speaker 1: When will they bring in Deshaun Watson? Will this be
Speaker 1: a true red shirt year for him? Will they try
Speaker 1: to rush him back right after the bye? Because right
Speaker 1: after the by, their first game is at Seattle. That's
Speaker 1: not necessarily where you want to throw your young rookie
Speaker 1: in either. When we come back right here, dropping stats
Speaker 1: over beats on the Fantasy Freestyle. We are going to
Speaker 1: go through the schedule with my man Mike Florio. We're
Speaker 1: gonna see if we think we can get above the
Speaker 1: eight and a half wind total for the pole. And
Speaker 1: we're gonna also ask him if he agrees with my
Speaker 1: love for DeAndre Hopkins and Lamar Miller all that when
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Speaker 1: Mike Florio on the ones and two season for Chris Pavona.
Speaker 1: Given it so hot that we sweat steam. We've been
Speaker 1: talking about the Houston Texans in the last segment, and
Speaker 1: I want to bring in my man, Mike Florio right now.
Speaker 1: I got a couple of questions for you. I think
Speaker 1: the biggest question as it relates to the Texans is
Speaker 1: like when and if we see Deshaun Watson. So after
Speaker 1: I gave you that first six games, I really think
Speaker 1: a game manager, I think the Houston Texans can go
Speaker 1: four and two in that stretch and then if you're
Speaker 1: four and two and competing, you don't throw them in
Speaker 1: at Seattle. So when, if at all, do you think
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson sees the field and how do you think
Speaker 1: that impacts the Texans hopes and fantasy football owners hopes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, if they're four and two, they can't make
Speaker 1: a change there because they're gonna look at it as
Speaker 1: all right, we're getting by with Tom Savage. We he
Speaker 1: doesn't turn the ball over, we could trust their defense.
Speaker 1: It's a lot like the in my opinion, Denver situation,
Speaker 1: where they trust their defense and and you know the
Speaker 1: weapons around them, that they go with the quarterback who's
Speaker 1: not going to turn the ball over rather than the
Speaker 1: guy who fantasy owners want to see, because it may
Speaker 1: lead to more volume, better, stronger armed, more deep down
Speaker 1: the field throws, but yet more turnovers, more more careless
Speaker 1: plays from the youngster. All right, and absolutely and as
Speaker 1: I told you everybody, I'm high on Lamar Miller and
Speaker 1: on DeAndre Hopkins. I think it's absolutely ridiculous. Florio, I've
Speaker 1: never seen a percentage this low. Okay, he caught seventy
Speaker 1: eight balls, d hop, I'm talking about on a hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty one targets. That has to with Tom Savage
Speaker 1: get a lot better. And if you put DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: back up over nine hundred balls, you know he's gonna
Speaker 1: get yards after the catch. You know he's gonna score touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Are you do you agree with me that we can
Speaker 1: expect to bounce back year from the d hop the
Speaker 1: d hoppopotamus I have him a little bit lower than you.
Speaker 1: I have him around wide receiver fourteen or fifteen, just
Speaker 1: because I am still little bit afraid. Tom Savage is
Speaker 1: better than bruck Osweiler, but he's still not a great quarterback.
Speaker 1: The weapons around him, I actually think, got a little
Speaker 1: worse because Will Fuller got hurt. So now, like you said,
Speaker 1: we don't know who's gonna be lining up opposite or
Speaker 1: what they could bring to the table. I also do
Speaker 1: worry a little bit because even two years ago when
Speaker 1: he had that monster season, a lot of that damage
Speaker 1: came in the first eight games. So it's really been
Speaker 1: like a year and a half that we haven't seen
Speaker 1: d Hoppy, the d hop that we want him to be.
Speaker 1: This is true. I still believe that there is no
Speaker 1: way we won't see a significant jump from him converting
Speaker 1: on more than more than fifty of the targets that
Speaker 1: come his way. Let's go through this schedule real quick,
Speaker 1: though Floria will remember, the over under on them is eight.
Speaker 1: I want to try and find out how you think
Speaker 1: their season plays out and ultimately when or if DeShawn
Speaker 1: sees the field. Okay, so I gave you their first
Speaker 1: six games home games against Jacksonville, Tennessee, k C in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: I think they can win three of those four home games, Mike,
Speaker 1: and I really think they can go on the road
Speaker 1: and beat Cincinnati. I think style makes fight, and the
Speaker 1: incredible defensive line and pressure of the Texans can overwhelm
Speaker 1: that piss poor Seattle UM Cincinnati Bengal offensive line. I
Speaker 1: think they can go on the road and win that game.
Speaker 1: Week two, I'll give them a loss at New England. Clearly,
Speaker 1: in those games, do you see uh, do you see
Speaker 1: a path to four or five wins as well? Or
Speaker 1: now I see either being three or four wins with
Speaker 1: the one UM ifian is the Cincinnati game, just because
Speaker 1: I love the weapons that are surrounding Andy Dalton, fair enough,
Speaker 1: But if Andy Dalton doesn't have two seconds to throw
Speaker 1: the ball, then I do not trust Andy Dalton. Okay,
Speaker 1: but you have met three and three. I am at
Speaker 1: four and two. After the bye at Seattle, I'm giving
Speaker 1: them a loss same all right. So I have them
Speaker 1: four and three, You have them three and four home
Speaker 1: for Indianapolis. You gotta figure at this point Andrew luck
Speaker 1: should be back. Yeah, that one's tough, because look, if
Speaker 1: he's back and and how long has he been back.
Speaker 1: So with all those questions, if luck is back, I
Speaker 1: think the Colts pull it out. Okay, So you have
Speaker 1: them at three and five. I have now also think
Speaker 1: that could be a loss. I have met four and
Speaker 1: four at the Los Angeles Rams. I think they get
Speaker 1: that one to go to five and four. I agree, okay.
Speaker 1: Um home for the Arizona Cardinals, I think they get
Speaker 1: that one and overwhelmy geriatric Carson Palmer. I think they
Speaker 1: get that one to go to six and four, just
Speaker 1: because their home. I'll give them this, okay. At Baltimore,
Speaker 1: I am low on the Baltimore Ravens. They do not
Speaker 1: excite me. Um, I think they can get that one
Speaker 1: as well. I think they go to seven and four.
Speaker 1: I agree, all right. At Tennessee here, I don't think
Speaker 1: they get a division rival second road game in a
Speaker 1: row late in the season. I think they drop a
Speaker 1: game here to Tennessee to go to six and five.
Speaker 1: And another thing, Mike, real quick, they go at all
Speaker 1: their division rivals, Okay, in the end of the season,
Speaker 1: Week thirteen at Tennessee, Week fifteen at Jacksonville, and they
Speaker 1: finished Week seventeen at Indianapolis. I think they lose this
Speaker 1: game and are six and five UM at this point
Speaker 1: at Tennessee, I think is a loss. I I'd have
Speaker 1: to agree with you. I'm giving them the win against
Speaker 1: the Titans at home. I division rivals, TELF I like
Speaker 1: the Tennessee's weapons. I'm gonna give them the l here
Speaker 1: fair enough. I got them winning home week fourteen against
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty Niners. Do you agree? Cool? At Jacksonville?
Speaker 1: I think by this time UM, their quarterback will not
Speaker 1: be Blake Bordles, which actually makes this a little bit
Speaker 1: of a harder matchup. But I still think that the
Speaker 1: Texans will be in contention. The Jaguars will not. They'll
Speaker 1: be mailing it in and looking for tea times. So
Speaker 1: I give them a road road win at Jacksonville week fifteen,
Speaker 1: I agree, okay um home. However, on sixteen for the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers, I do not think that is when I
Speaker 1: think Ben is gonna have the offense humming with all
Speaker 1: of their weapons. I have that as a loss, putting
Speaker 1: them at I believe eight and seven going into the
Speaker 1: last game of the year. Yeah, I'm giving them an
Speaker 1: L two. I love the Steelers offense so do I
Speaker 1: think they are the most dangerous offense in the NFL
Speaker 1: if we get sixteen games out of all the bees, um,
Speaker 1: and then at Indianapolis last game of the year, Um,
Speaker 1: I think that can go either way. That's a game.
Speaker 1: So I have them going eight and eight and seven,
Speaker 1: then going into a fifty fifty kind of game with
Speaker 1: the over under of eight and a half game. So
Speaker 1: I am going to say pass it is a good
Speaker 1: line on the over under of eight and a half.
Speaker 1: What say you, Florio? Yeah? I agree. There was a
Speaker 1: couple of games where I think could go either way.
Speaker 1: They could easily. This is a team that could easily
Speaker 1: be seven and nine, nine and seven, So that eight
Speaker 1: and a half, that that's I don't really want to
Speaker 1: mess with that. Yeah, I agree with you. I don't
Speaker 1: want to mess with that. I say passed that it's
Speaker 1: a good line. Only twenty three percent of the people
Speaker 1: agree with me, um, Florio, I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: seen the poll, but it's heavy. Fifty six percent say
Speaker 1: take one way or the other. Which way do you
Speaker 1: think the people voted? Given that the QB position is
Speaker 1: up in the air, I'm gonna say they take get under. Yeah,
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right. Fifty six percent of people say take
Speaker 1: the under on Like the two time defending a f
Speaker 1: C South champions, they won the division with Brock Oswiler,
Speaker 1: They're getting J. J. Watt back. I understand there is
Speaker 1: kind of um open questions at quarterback, but I think
Speaker 1: both options are better than Brock Oswiler. We will see
Speaker 1: what happens with the Houston Texans. This is what we
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Speaker 1: still writing for roto Experts? What's the last thing you wrote?
Speaker 1: My men? It actually came out yesterday, Yeah, tell us
Speaker 1: about it. It is an article of five players that
Speaker 1: I am avoiding and five players that I am targeting
Speaker 1: this fantasy football season at any position. Uh well, the
Speaker 1: quarterback not I'm sorry, running back, wide receiver, tight end. Okay,
Speaker 1: running back, wide receiver, tight end, and uh my man,
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins is not one of them because you think,
Speaker 1: uh you think he will not He'll only catch fifercent
Speaker 1: of targets that come his way. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: gonna catch that. He is not a player that I
Speaker 1: wrote that I am targeting or avoiding. Like I think
Speaker 1: where he's going is a fair value. Fair enough, fair enough. Listen, Mikey,
Speaker 1: as you know, we are also crowning the greatest sports
Speaker 1: movie of all time. Here in the Fantasy freestyle this
Speaker 1: summer and we're in the wild Card region. Okay, yesterday,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're happy about this, my but White Men
Speaker 1: Can't Jump punched its ticket to the Final four winning
Speaker 1: the basketball region as the three seed. That was actually
Speaker 1: my pick for to win it all in that region.
Speaker 1: So I am misstatic that White Men Can't Jump continues
Speaker 1: to go on with the Stookey Brothers and my girl
Speaker 1: Rosie Perez. We're in the wild Card region today and
Speaker 1: this was a matchup in the regional final, Mike of
Speaker 1: a one seed versa two seed. We have the one seed,
Speaker 1: Rocky Rocky Balboa, Yo Adrian. If he dies, he dies,
Speaker 1: going up against the number two seed Caddy Shack. Now,
Speaker 1: Caddy Shack is an all star cast. Okay, Rodney danger Field.
Speaker 1: I mean it is deep. But I gotta tell you something, Rocky,
Speaker 1: someone pointed out to me last week. I think Chris
Speaker 1: Pavona also said it is the only movie that actually
Speaker 1: it won the Oscar for Best Picture in nineteen seventies six.
Speaker 1: I think you could also win the award for like
Speaker 1: most sequels so far. But here's something that I never knew, Florio.
Speaker 1: Did you know that not only did Sylvester still loan
Speaker 1: acting all of them as Rocky. Did you know that
Speaker 1: he wrote the first five Rockies? I knew he wrote
Speaker 1: the first one. I didn't know he wrote all five.
Speaker 1: He wrote the first five Rockies. I think that's amazing.
Speaker 1: And also check this out. There was like Rocky five
Speaker 1: and then the six one, Rocky Balboa was nine years
Speaker 1: later or six excuse me, sixteen years between Rocky five
Speaker 1: and then ultimately in two thousand six Rocky Balboa. Then
Speaker 1: another nine years when they did the spinoff of Creed
Speaker 1: Whore you're voting for in this one? Uh, Mike, this
Speaker 1: is easy for me. I mean it's it's a little
Speaker 1: unfair because I've never seen Caddy Check. But Rocky is
Speaker 1: just one of those movies. Every time you see it's
Speaker 1: like you're flipping through the guy or whatever. You see
Speaker 1: it's on. You just sit down, you watch it. It's
Speaker 1: easily Rocky for me. It is easily Rocky for Mike Florio.
Speaker 1: I am also voting for Rocky as the one seed
Speaker 1: to advance. I got my man Howie Balaban out there
Speaker 1: on Twitter. He's usually responding to these polls, and he
Speaker 1: actually says this one for him is also easy, Rocky
Speaker 1: all the way. He then goes on to say, just
Speaker 1: fifty two seconds ago, hopefully he's out there listening right
Speaker 1: now to the Fantasy Freestyle. He says, frankly, any movie
Speaker 1: that can spawn five sequels and a new franchise and creed,
Speaker 1: it wins, period. I guess it's not going up against
Speaker 1: the Fast and the Furious. Would you have thought that
Speaker 1: was a sports movie? I don't know. You still have
Speaker 1: time to vote. We're gonna come out with the polls,
Speaker 1: and I promise we're gonna get to this. Conomcgregor Floyd
Speaker 1: Mayweather talk when we come back. It's the Fantasy Freestyle
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Speaker 1: us because we're close to the as we're trying not
Speaker 1: to lose our head. Huh yeah, it makes me want
Speaker 1: to It makes me feel like I'm I can't keep
Speaker 1: him going under. You know what I mean. It's the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestop right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network,
Speaker 1: day Martinez dropping stats over beats. Yo. We've had these
Speaker 1: polls up right now. I'm surprised fifty six percent of
Speaker 1: you guys still say take the under on the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: You do not have faith in Tom Savage to be
Speaker 1: a game manager. Maybe think to Shahn Watson is going
Speaker 1: to be thrown to the Wolves. And right now, sixty
Speaker 1: three percent of you are taking Rocky to advance to
Speaker 1: the final four of the greatest sports movie of all time,
Speaker 1: agreeing with Mikey Florio, agreeding with the spitting statistician, and
Speaker 1: agreeing with my man Howie Balaban, who I think we
Speaker 1: might have on this show a little bit later this
Speaker 1: week to break down the final four. He's been chiming
Speaker 1: in on all of these matchups. One thing though, that
Speaker 1: I've been talking about for the last couple of days. Listen,
Speaker 1: Floyd Mayweather gave an interview, and he actually gives the
Speaker 1: edge on paper in this fight coming up in two
Speaker 1: weeks to Connor McGregor. If you could believe that, he says,
Speaker 1: and I quote, he's a lot younger when you look
Speaker 1: at myself and Connor on paper, he's taller, has a
Speaker 1: longer reach, he's a bigger man. He's a lot younger.
Speaker 1: I've been off a couple of years. I'm in my forties,
Speaker 1: so it leans towards Connor McGregor. Could he be just
Speaker 1: like you know, putting in built in excuses for if
Speaker 1: he loses. I don't know, but it's possible that he's
Speaker 1: lost the steps. I mean, he hasn't fought in a while.
Speaker 1: He hasn't knocked anyone out since two thousand and eleven.
Speaker 1: He says. Though I didn't say I couldn't fight. I
Speaker 1: just said I'm not the same Floyd Mayweather I once was.
Speaker 1: Now here's the thing, I think this is all just
Speaker 1: the pr They gotta keep it in the news. Right.
Speaker 1: We had that promotional tour and then there was kind
Speaker 1: of a buzz where everyone was saying that there's no chance,
Speaker 1: no chance, Connor McGregor will never even you know, h
Speaker 1: Floyd Mayweather that there was like, you know, no chance
Speaker 1: for him to win, that he was getting knocked down
Speaker 1: and sparring, that sort of thing, so you gotta keep
Speaker 1: it live. So out comes Floyd saying, hey, maybe I've
Speaker 1: lost the step, maybe Connor does have a chance. I
Speaker 1: think this is to just keep everybody interested in the fight.
Speaker 1: Remember there was beef about a week or two ago
Speaker 1: with Paul malin Agy and how you know he looked
Speaker 1: like he got knocked down and sparring. But then he
Speaker 1: said no, that that was just a push, that that
Speaker 1: was being kind of doctored to alter the narrative. But
Speaker 1: now poly malin Agy is out on the radio and
Speaker 1: TV circuit pretty much still promoting the fight. It's keeping
Speaker 1: this all all in the news, okay. And I gotta
Speaker 1: give props because up next on the Fantasy Sports radio network,
Speaker 1: my man Gabe Morante of Red Heat and Rage, he
Speaker 1: was on this. He said from the beginning that Floyd
Speaker 1: was gonna try to talk himself down and hype Connor up.
Speaker 1: That is what keeps this fight in the news, That's
Speaker 1: what keeps everybody laying money on Connor McGregor. The line
Speaker 1: continues to not move. It's still a ridiculous line. We're
Speaker 1: talking Floyd Mayweather is minus like six hundred. He should
Speaker 1: have been where he started minus twenty one hundred. He
Speaker 1: has no shot. What I need you to do? Florio?
Speaker 1: When they do red Heat and Rage up next, you
Speaker 1: gotta ask him that Dane is wondering, does he think
Speaker 1: this line is gonna go any lower than where it
Speaker 1: is right now? At minus six hundred minus five seventy
Speaker 1: five minus five fifty. Should I take that number or
Speaker 1: should I wait a little bit longer because it's gonna
Speaker 1: drop even more as soon as you know, all of
Speaker 1: Ireland comes in to bet on Connor McGregor now that
Speaker 1: they're you know, releasing video of him tired after a
Speaker 1: late night workout, when he's saying, oh, I'm in my forties,
Speaker 1: when we're saying, oh, he hasn't been in the game,
Speaker 1: hasn't fought in a year or two, Oh he hasn't
Speaker 1: knocked anyone out since two thousand and eleven, that he
Speaker 1: has the edge on paper, with the reach, with the age,
Speaker 1: with being the bigger man. We're all just setting up contrived,
Speaker 1: manufactured um beliefs that Connor can win. But if so,
Speaker 1: does that mean that the number is going to continue. Florio,
Speaker 1: I need you to ask Gabe Morante that on Red
Speaker 1: Heat and Rage and let me know. Tomorrow we will
Speaker 1: be back dropping status over beats on the Fantasy Freestyle.
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Speaker 1: guys tomorrow. Go out there and vote Rocky H