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We have been in the a f 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.440 C South all week long, and we continue with the 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:55.640 Houston Texans today. We're gonna talk all things Houston Texans 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.760 a little bit later on in the show. Now that 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.280 they are free from what I've called the van, the 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:05.360 two million dollar noose around the franchise that was brock Osweiler, 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.280 what does that mean for this offense? What does that 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:11.360 mean for guys like DeAndre Hopkins. What does that mean 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:15.440 for Tom Savage versus the rookie Deshaun Watson's development? What 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:21.639 does the Houston Texans defense look like with a healthy J. J. Watt, 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.280 former defensive m v P back in the fold. However, 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.000 they've lost a J. Bouyer. We are going to talk 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:31.360 about that as you know. We are also crowning the 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:35.520 greatest sports movie of all time here on the Fantasy 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:39.680 Freestyle this summer, and we had one whole one ticket 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:43.120 punched to the final four as White Men Can't Jump 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.160 was crowned as the greatest basketball movie of all time. 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.040 We got an interesting matchup today. We're also gonna talk 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:52.240 about Roger Goodell had some things to say about players 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:56.440 sitting for the national anthem. And also Giancarlo Stanton is 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:01.240 going absolutely bunkers down in Miami. We're gonna talk though 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:05.760 about a little something, a little detail about maybe why 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:10.239 he won't be in Miami for too long and can 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:15.079 you believe it's connected to Derek Jeter. We'll talk about 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:18.560 that when we come back on the Fantasy Freestyle right 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:23.360 here on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Okay. Also, 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.200 I told you guys yesterday that I wanted to give 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.480 a little bit of an update with my man Floyd 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.359 Mayweather and econom McGregor fight. We are going to do that. Florio, 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.760 you need to hold me to it, keep me a 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.280 man of my word. We're gonna talk Floyd Mayweather, Econo McGregor. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.360 That fight is only a week and a half two 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.440 weeks away. 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I don't think he had, you know, 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.960 like any ten second stretch that didn't include some explicit language. 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.960 So we are going to keep it moving as we 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.960 dropped stats over beats right here on the Fantasy Freestyle 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:03.720 on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network, Dane Martinez 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.320 speeds this fitting statistician, holding you down on a Tuesday 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.000 with my man Mike Florio on the ones and twos, 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:13.520 keeping it hot like liquid hot, Magma. Let's keep you going. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:15.800 The top five, dead or alive. Got some news and notes. 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.080 We're gonna start in Major League Baseball. And I said 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.440 this before on the DFS Lineup Lock Show. I want 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.400 to give a big shout out to Chad Bettis. He 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.760 returned from cancer Okay, had missed about a year and 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.279 he had a great start last night against the Atlanta 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:32.320 Braves at coors Field. Seven shutout innings with two strikeouts. 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.080 We at the Fantasy Freestyle on our tip our cap 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:39.160 to Chad Bettis. Also Reds catcher Devin Mazaraco was hit 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.000 by a pitch in his foot and he broke his toe. 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:43.960 It looks like a stay on the d L is 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.080 in fact imminent. This is a guy who has been 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:50.719 injury prone for so long. It was a Fantasy darling, post, hype, sleeper, 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:52.880 all the terms you want to put on it, but 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.640 he will just never be able to stay healthy. Let's 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.920 keep it moving. Another guy, diamondback starting pitcher Robbie Ray, 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.120 a guy if you listen to Fantasy Freestyle, you know 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.719 I have been on all season long. Remember he got 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.640 uh in a scary fashion hit in the head by 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.800 a line drive, and his last start out he was 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.160 out on the seven day concussion list. He's gonna make 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.279 a rehab start Thursday at Hi Ava Sala, and it 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:17.440 sounds like if all things go well, he will be 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:21.360 back in the Arizona rotation next week. Some other guys 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:26.760 on the trail back Uh Astro shortstop Carlos Korea taking 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:30.120 some swings and fielding grounders. It still sounds like he's 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.840 three or four weeks away, but you can't expect him. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.520 Maybe in your fantasy playoffs. For owners like myself, I 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.520 would love to have Carlos Korea back. Also, Royal stud 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:43.840 catcher Salvador Perez. He's taking swings. Ned Yos, their manager 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.920 says that no rehab stint will probably be needed for 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:51.280 sal Perez. You may see him sooner rather than later. 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.920 As we keep it moving here on the Fantasy Freestyle. 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.279 One of the things I want to talk about. Earlier 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.600 in the week, we talked about Marshawn Lynch, Michael Bennett. 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:01.919 How they are you know, the term I use was 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.480 using this platform, you know, to make a statement. It 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:11.400 is so ripe right now with the conversation in our society. Um, 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.680 you know about all sorts of things, whether it's police 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:19.600 uh police, um, you know, assisted shootings, whether it is 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:23.640 kind of the things we saw in Charlottesville. But these 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.640 guys are not standing for the national anthem. Roger Goodell, 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.280 the commissioner, was at a Arizona Cardinal season ticket event 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:34.320 and was asked about players sitting for the national anthem. 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.320 Here's what he said. It's one of those things where 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:39.520 we have to understand that there are people who have 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:43.160 different viewpoints. It's something that I think everybody wants. The 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.520 national anthem is a special moment for me. It's a 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.960 point of pride that's really important. But we also have 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.320 to understand the other side that people do have rights 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.720 and we want to respect those and that's the thing, 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.240 you know, developing the brand of the NFL from the 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.240 rights of the individuals. As we know if listened to 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.840 fantasy Freestyle and Colin Kaepernick has been completely blackballed. If 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:05.400 you tell me, fine, maybe he's not one of the 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.880 best quarterbacks in the NFL, but to say he's not 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:09.680 one of the best sixty and he's not one of 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.280 the best seventy eight and couldn't be on a roster. 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.360 I understand that you want your backup quarterback to be 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.600 a humble guy and not cause a stir, but you 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:19.920 know something's going on and was because of his stance 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.520 now Bennett, now Lynch. So it's interesting, but I have 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.880 actual data for you on this Florio. There may be 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.920 other things that the commissioner when he's thinking about the 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.600 brand of the NFL, have to consider. I've been talking 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.040 about how everybody wants to cut the cord, how less 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.440 people are watching games because they can get their information. 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.880 They can get their stats in so many different ways now, 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.760 whether it be social media, whether it be so many 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.199 other streaming feeds. There was a survey done by J. D. 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:55.280 Power and UM. They surveyed nine two hundred over nine 0:08:55.360 --> 0:09:01.320 thousand football fans florial of them said that they watched 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:05.959 less football this this past year. Of people said they 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.160 watched less football. So ratings are down, as we know, 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:14.119 interest is down. Of those people, this is a surprising 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.720 number of those people. Of about people who said that 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:23.320 they did watch less football, of them two seven of 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:27.560 them almost over said that the anthem and the Colin 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:32.440 Kaepernick protests around the anthem was the main reason they 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:36.319 stopped watching football last year. That was a little surprising 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:38.440 to me. So when you're Roger Goodell and the commissioner 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.040 and you gotta worry about this, maybe this is a 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.640 big deal. Maybe this is something they're really trying to 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.960 protect the brand against. I think they should allow their 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.640 players to do what they want and express their rights 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:53.120 and use the incredible platform of their professional athlete nets. 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:58.520 But maybe it is actually impacting a drop in ratings. 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.360 It's something to keep an eye on. We're gonna be 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.240 talking about this issue all season long. Right here on 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.040 the Fantasy Freestyle, we talk about Top five Dead or Alive. 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:07.719 The next thing I want to get into is yo 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.760 Giancarlos stanton I talked about this last night, how Aaron 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.120 Judge is sort of falling off, striking out a little 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.760 bit more, not having the plate discipline that he had 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:19.720 at the beginning of the season and how Gencarlos Stanton 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:24.480 is going absolutely bonkers. Twenty two home runs and forty 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:28.040 three ribbys in his last thirty four games has become 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.240 insanely hot. And when we were talking about him last night, 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.640 while that was happening, he went yard for his forty 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.880 three home run of the season. Now, the other piece 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.160 that's interesting about this that I reported on the DFS 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:44.400 Lineup Block show previously with my man Tony Sencada, is 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.680 the fact that Stanton cleared waivers, which means that even 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:51.280 though we are past the trading deadline, Gen Carlo Stanton 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.680 can now be traded to a team. We've talked about 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:57.120 how the Miami Marlins are selling off okay, whether it 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.000 be David Phelps, whether it be atra Viria, There's been 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.520 a lot of talk that they're trying to trade as 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.839 much as their as they possibly can. Gencarlo Stanton has 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:10.680 ten years left on that mega contract and two hundred 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:16.360 and nine million dollars left on that contract. Do you 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:20.079 think any team would want to trade for Gencarlos Stanton? 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.800 I say, if you're the Miami Marlins, now is the 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:28.240 time to actually trade Gencarlos Stanton. It seems like four 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:32.040 teams have actually inquired on Stanton. Okay, if you want 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.079 to clear that money off the books. The reason I 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:35.440 said at the top of the show that this is 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:39.640 connected to Derek Gita is because, as you know, Derek 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:41.439 Jeter is kind of the face of a new group 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.360 that just bought the Miami Marlins. So this is the 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.640 new ownership coming in. The question do they want a 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:51.240 two hundred and ninety five million dollar contract kind of 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.480 as an albatross around their neck as they you know, 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.520 kind of put their stamp on their new franchise. I've 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.440 talked about this as relates to brock Oswidler and seventy 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.000 two million dollar news that he was I've talked about 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:05.760 this as related to Joe Kim Noah and the seventy 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.319 two million dollar news that he is around that do 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:10.840 you want to maybe unload him. You're never gonna get 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:14.240 a better chance. He's hot as hell right now, and 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.640 maybe a contender will say, yeah, I'll eat some of 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.240 this money, let me help clear the books. I actually say, 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.679 I think Derek Jeter will you know, kind of influence 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:28.400 this and make a move. I think Giancarlo Stanton could 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.360 be on the move in the next two weeks. Hey, 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.600 mikey Florio, I got a question for you if we 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:36.480 could bring you in real quick before we get to 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:40.520 our team by team previews. You know Derek Jeter becoming 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.440 one of the new owners of the Miami Marlins, following 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:46.720 in George Steinbrenner's footprints. I want to ask you something. 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.280 What do you think he's more likely to do now 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.360 that he's a new owner. Do you think he's more 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:56.280 likely to a give himself a World Series ring so 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.560 he has like five in a row, is four with 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.079 the Yankees and then that one would with the Marlins. 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:07.880 Or do you think he's apt to hire longtime Miami 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.760 guy Alex Rodriguez and his return to baseball is like 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:13.839 a hitting coach or something like that. Mike, which do 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:17.480 you think is more possible for owner Derek Jeter. I 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.920 would want to say neither, but my guests would be 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.679 hiring a Rod. Everyone says that a Rod. You know, 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.560 he just he knows everything there is. He's like a 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.280 baseball Yeah, like he is a great mind. A lot 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.640 of people think he will make a great coature manager 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:32.760 if he ever wants to one day. So I'll go 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.960 with be Jeter doesn't seem like the type who's gonna 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.800 give himself a ring. Fair enough, he does like to 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.440 put in the work that it takes. I'll give you that, 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.920 but it also does not you know. I mean, the 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.240 history of him and a Rod is long and documented. 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.840 It doesn't matter what kind of CNBC interviews they do 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:51.920 in the last few months. I don't know if he'd ever, 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.760 you know, turn the other cheek and welcome a Rod 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:56.560 back in the one other thing I want to get 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.800 into real quick before we go to break right here 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:00.760 on the Fantasy Freestyle, we talk about how the Bucks 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:05.680 cut uh second round pick Berto Aguayo. Their general manager, 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.000 Jason Licked, is actually owning up to the fact that 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:12.160 he made a tremendous mistake. He says, I'm owning up 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.400 to it. I'm owning up to it by releasing him. 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.080 I know it was a bold move and it didn't 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.360 work out. I don't know what else to say. I 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.120 have the support of my coach and my ownership. He 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.920 goes on. At the time, I was bound and determined 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.040 to get the best kicker we possibly could. I thought 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.120 Roberto had a chance to be a special kicker in 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.720 the league for a long time. When we took him, 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.280 we essentially anointed him. He actually says that if he 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.160 could do it again, it wouldn't be going up to 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.440 the second round to get him. It would be he 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.880 would have brought in competition so that he wasn't like 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.560 this anointed kicker that he would still have to kind 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.400 of own, you know, kind of earn it. Oguayo, however, 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.840 has signed now with the Chicago Bears. Okay, he's gonna 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.000 compete with Connor Barth for the kicking duties in Chicago. 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:54.960 I gotta tell you, if I was Connor Barth, I'd 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.280 be like, Yo, what are you talking about? We're gonna 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.680 bring in this guy to try and unseat me. I 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.320 don't know about it, but the Bucks admitting their mistake. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.440 We'll see how it plays out on hard knocks. Florio 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.720 and I'll talk about it a little bit tomorrow when 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:09.320 we come back, though, we go to the a f 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:13.040 C South. We're talking all things Houston, Texans when we 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.200 come back right here on the Fantasy Freestyle, come on 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:26.320 right back. It's the summer, but you can already feel 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:28.240 the how the winter wind. 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I got my guy Mike Florio, 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.520 and we're about to talk all things Houston Texans. Okay, 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.160 but we got a poll question up right now at 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.280 F and T s Y Radio on Twitter at Spitting 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.840 Speeds on Twitter as well. Okay, the over under for 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.960 the season wind toll for the Houston Texans is eight 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.439 and a half. This is a team that has been 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.159 kind of in that nine and seven space over the 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.920 last couple of years. They they beat the Oakland Raiders 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:14.879 in the playoffs last year. Remember Derek Carr was already 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.960 down with that broken leg. So they they won a 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.080 playoff game at home, and then they went to New 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:24.399 England and I don't know if you remember this, but 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.119 you know New England was struggling in the first half 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.199 of that playoff game in the Division round against the 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.080 Houston Texans. That was a team though last year that 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:37.480 was without J. J. Watt, the former defensive Player of 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:41.480 the Year in the NFL. I think with this team 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:46.280 it all comes down to the quarterback position, but differently 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.920 in a way. When we talked about the Jacksonville Jaguars, Okay, 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:53.040 to me, it all comes down to when or if 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:57.440 DeShawn Watson, their rookie at A Clemson takes over. Okay, 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.240 this is this is the way I feel about the 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.160 Houston Texans in general. We're not talking about fantasy football 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:04.800 right now. We're talking about their prospects to you know, 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.160 be in the a f C Championship game and and 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.080 and get past the New England Patriots. I feel like 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:14.520 they are similar to Kansas City and and Florio follow 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:16.439 my logic here. This is a team that has a 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:20.680 stud defense is decent you know in a lot of places, 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:24.280 has some playmakers things like that. But at quarterback they 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:28.560 have a choice. They have a choice between a game 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:32.920 manager quarterback or do they want to swing and try 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:37.359 and hit a home run. Tom Savage is a you know, 0:18:37.480 --> 0:18:42.040 in his limited action was serviceable. Okay. DeAndre Hopkins certainly 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.400 loves having Savage there because he gets like thirteen targets 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.400 a game. When Tom Savage is a quarterback, it depends 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.080 on do they want to like throw DeShawn Watson in 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.639 right away or early in the season. They have I 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.520 think a buy in week they have an early buy 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.080 but they have buy in week seven? Do they want 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.600 to wait that long and then let Deshaun Watson go? 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:03.720 But this is a team. Later on, Mike, as we 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:05.680 go through their schedule, I think they can get off 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:09.199 to a good start with a game manager quarterback on 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:11.439 the strength of their defense, and then if they're in 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.359 good position and in playoff position, maybe they have found 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:17.119 a formula that works for the two thousand and seventeen 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:20.600 Houston Texans. So when it comes to fantasy I fade 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:23.360 the entire quarterback position because I don't know how many 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:25.760 games Tom Savage is gonna play this year, and I 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:28.800 don't know how many games Deshaun Watson is gonna play 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.359 this year. This is one of, in my opinion, three 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:36.000 legitimate quarterback competitions. Okay, I think the one here in Houston, 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:39.400 the one in Cleveland where Deshaun Kaiser will ultimately be there, 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:41.240 and then the one in Denver where we don't know 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.520 if it's gonna be pack then Lynch or Trevor Simeon, 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.840 I think are the three legitimate competitions. So because of that, 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:51.080 I fade these guys at the quarterback position in dynasty leagues. However, 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.320 I do think Deshaun Watson is someone who you can 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:57.760 try and get on your team because he will grow. 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:00.840 In my opinion, when we look at the running back position, 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.359 this is a place I'm telling you right now, I 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:07.280 am high on Lamar Miller. I am probably higher than 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.560 most people on Lamar Miller. This is a guy that 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.800 will wind up on some of my redraft leagues. And 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:19.960 here's why. Lamar Miller was actually RB nineteen last year. Okay. 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:23.520 He had one thousand, seventy three yards. He had five touchdowns. 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:26.159 He also had thirty eight catchers. Here's the thing, Lamar 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:29.320 Miller only played in fourteen games. This guy was on pace. 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.159 He had about fourteen points a game over fourteen games. 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:35.040 If you pay that out for sixteen games, he right 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:40.119 away becomes RB eleven, jumping a lot of players. Okay, 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:42.760 this is a guy, Lamar Miller, who at the beginning 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:46.040 of the season, the Texans were giving like twenty five 0:20:46.160 --> 0:20:49.600 carries a game. They were gonna ride Lamar Miller. Their 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.480 plan going into last year was to be a run 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:56.080 heavy team with Lamar Miller. You know what happened. Brock 0:20:56.200 --> 0:21:00.560 Osweiler proved that he was not an NFL starting caliber 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:04.680 quarterback and a lot of things deteriorated offensively for them 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:07.439 because of that. And one of the things that happened 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:10.240 was that defense is knew that Brock was not gonna 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:13.160 go down the field to a guy like DeAndre Hopkins. 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:15.960 He was not gonna have accuracy to a guy like 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:19.639 Will Fuller, and defenses started to creep, creep, creep, and 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:22.880 Lamar Miller, um, you know, kind of was the ultimate 0:21:23.320 --> 0:21:26.199 you know, not beneficiary, but opposite of that, the ultimate 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:30.800 casualty of that. I think Lamar Miller, now second year 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:33.920 in the system, even if with a game manager kind 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:37.000 of quarterback like Tom Savage, he will have something that 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:40.119 defenses have to respect a little more. I think that 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:43.600 a healthy Lamar Miller could creep his way into the 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:46.960 top ten of running backs. I have him as my 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:50.959 RB ten. My man Corey Parkson, the fantasy executive, is 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:54.119 not as high, but still he loves the theory of 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:58.240 last year's trash. He has Lamar Miller at his RB twelve. 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:00.679 I think it's also interesting to look at if you 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:03.920 think Lamar Miller is a candidate for injury, and that's 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:08.159 very possible, then you need to watch Houston Texans preseason 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:10.879 games because there is an interesting battle shaping up for 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:13.880