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Speaker 1: Wow. What is Welcome to another edition of the NFL

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Live Podcast. Is me and your man, nam G

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Speaker 1: Marcus Grants. And this is our last, I think, actual

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Speaker 1: preseason show. I mean when we're back next week, we'll

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Speaker 1: be into week one officially, So happy football season, everybody joined,

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Speaker 1: of course on the side of the glass. By I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna start calling you something like I don't want to

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Speaker 1: just call you Eddie Murphy, so I'm gonna start calling

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Speaker 1: you Sir Edward L. Murphy. Esquire. Does that? Does that

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Speaker 1: work works for me? I mean, no one calls you

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Speaker 1: by my actual name in this building. I'm either Spaghetti

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Speaker 1: That's fine. There you go, so you know he's back.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we are part of your your mighty duel

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Speaker 1: that I'll be taking you through the season and then

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Speaker 1: joining me on this side of the glass back for

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Speaker 1: his second tour of duty year. On the podcast, it

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Speaker 1: is Marcus Took. Welcome, Welcome back. So as I am

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Speaker 1: speaking to you, I'm multi tasking because I am on

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Speaker 1: my computer and I'm refreshing my countdown clock till kickoff,

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Speaker 1: and and we're looking at like six days, twenty three

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Speaker 1: ish odd hours, fifty eight minutes and thirty four That's right,

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Speaker 1: because as of a week a week from today, we

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Speaker 1: will have actual, live, it counts for real NFL football

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Speaker 1: like they will count in the standing, they will count in,

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Speaker 1: the statistics will matter. They will be for real, for real,

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Speaker 1: like we have made it through the long dark night

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Speaker 1: of summer. Uh. So that's uh, that is certainly exciting.

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Speaker 1: We got a plenty to talk about today. We'll have

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Speaker 1: Joe Pisapia, who is the author of the Fantasy Black Book.

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Speaker 1: You'll come on and talk some rookies, talk some of

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Speaker 1: the younger guys that kind of help you with some

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Speaker 1: of your dynasty stuff. I know we talked to Emory

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Speaker 1: Hunt last week. We'll get some more dynasty stuff for

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Speaker 1: you there. We'll do some best fantasy team names. I

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Speaker 1: know that's one that Eddie was looking forward to. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then we'll talk some draft strategies as well, plus

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Speaker 1: your level of confidence with certain players. As you know,

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Speaker 1: people are raping up their draft and getting ready for

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Speaker 1: the start of the season. I was gonna try to

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Speaker 1: go without any news, but something came across the wire

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Speaker 1: that I felt like was worth worth talking about. So

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Speaker 1: let's do a little bit of news. I know other

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Speaker 1: people who listened to the show who hate that, and

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Speaker 1: so they were hoping that I wasn't doing news today.

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Speaker 1: But sorry about your luck. So, UH, Jets Rickie quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald is named the starter for Week one for

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Speaker 1: the Jets at the Detroit Lions. It seemed mark like

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Speaker 1: it was sort of trending this way, but I guess

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Speaker 1: and different. How you feeling about this? I have mixed

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Speaker 1: feelings about this. I mean from a Teddy Bridgewater truth

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Speaker 1: was out playing Donald this preseason. But you knew that

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Speaker 1: given the fact that he was in a one year deal.

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Speaker 1: They invest the pick in Donald the he was the

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Speaker 1: or do you learn behind Teddy. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: Teddy's the guy you learned behind. I don't know that

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Speaker 1: I get that vibe of him as the the kind

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Speaker 1: this is his first year UH in New York. But Uh. Look,

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Speaker 1: from a Teddy perspective, I would have loved to have

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Speaker 1: seen him get an opportunity to be on the field

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Speaker 1: play do well this year. But I like Sam Donald

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Speaker 1: as a as a rookie quarterback. I hope he does well.

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Speaker 1: I think obviously you as a USC fan have some

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Speaker 1: want to see Sam succeed. As as for Teddy bridge

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Speaker 1: Water of course, if you don't know, he was traded

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Speaker 1: backup to Drew Breeze ostensibly there so it does clear

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Speaker 1: the way for Donald and I do I mean, I

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Speaker 1: know that with Donald there will be ups and downs.

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Speaker 1: He will make some plays that will frustrate Jets fans.

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Speaker 1: will be a learning curve. There will be some ups

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Speaker 1: But I'm sort of with you and that the Jets

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Speaker 1: spent the number three overall pick on Sam Donald, and

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Speaker 1: for as good as Teddy was, I don't think that

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Speaker 1: he was good enough to overcome the number three pick. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's you know, kind of uh, damned if you do,

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Speaker 1: a question mark about what you're doing with your first

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Speaker 1: with the what the contract situation is with Teddy Bridgewater.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna ride him to the super Bowl this year,

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Speaker 1: let's be honest. So they just decided, I think, to hey,

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Speaker 1: And that's understandable. Yeah. No, So we'll see what happens

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Speaker 1: Week one, Jets at Lions. Sam Donald will make his start,

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Speaker 1: and I believe this will make him the youngest quarterback

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Speaker 1: what it is. He just turned twenty one, Like he's

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Speaker 1: he's only barely able to exactly, He's only barely able

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Speaker 1: but it'll be interesting to watch. I think he's got

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Speaker 1: better value as a kind of a dynasty league quarterback

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Speaker 1: there you go. So I know that most people did

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Speaker 1: But there's still one more weekend before the season starts,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure there'll be plenty of drafts this week. Mark.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how many different types of leagues you've

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Speaker 1: off the wall, uh scoring systems beyond the the general

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Speaker 1: league format? I did? I had, Well, my my first

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Speaker 1: now in terms of quarterbacks. You have almost every you know,

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Speaker 1: be the guy. They drafted him for a reason. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: I don't think Peyton Barber is gonna you know, rush

429
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,639
Speaker 1: for a downsing yards and gonna push uh Ronald Jones

430
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Speaker 1: decide that. That's just my take on it. I mean,

431
00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,080
Speaker 1: I think the the encouraging part, if you were big

432
00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:15,000
Speaker 1: on Ronald Jones, and people have pointed this out through

433
00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:17,680
Speaker 1: the preseason, is that he's been playing behind a second

434
00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:20,480
Speaker 1: team offensive line that just has been bad. Um, flat

435
00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,359
Speaker 1: out bad. I think he has uh, you know, if

436
00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:24,960
Speaker 1: you look at his next gen stats, I think he

437
00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,919
Speaker 1: has the you know, the smallest number of yards before

438
00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,760
Speaker 1: contact were on on average, he's getting hit in the

439
00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,480
Speaker 1: backfield by defenders because they're just not they're not keeping

440
00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:36,600
Speaker 1: defenders off of him. So you would hope that if

441
00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,399
Speaker 1: he gets some opportunities with the first team offense, that

442
00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:41,560
Speaker 1: maybe that improves a little bit. And I still believe

443
00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,640
Speaker 1: that at least by mid season this could be more

444
00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,960
Speaker 1: of a committee. So I haven't been able to completely

445
00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:49,760
Speaker 1: buy in on Peyton Barber. Mike Williams with the Chargers,

446
00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:53,000
Speaker 1: his the his ADP has gone up. He's been getting

447
00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:54,800
Speaker 1: talked up by a lot of people, including you know

448
00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:58,800
Speaker 1: people in this building. Um. They like his size, they

449
00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,520
Speaker 1: like his athletic ability. You know, he obviously had injury

450
00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:04,879
Speaker 1: issues his first year. But Mark with the Hunter Henry

451
00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,040
Speaker 1: gone with a team that could throw the ball a

452
00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,879
Speaker 1: whole lot. Maybe this is the Mike Williams breakout year. Well,

453
00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,120
Speaker 1: it feels like all of the optimism when he uh

454
00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:16,040
Speaker 1: went to the Chargers that was there his first year

455
00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:18,280
Speaker 1: should should carry over. I mean, it was injuries that

456
00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:20,800
Speaker 1: made it difficult for him, and you gave you the

457
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,959
Speaker 1: numbers that you see eleven catches for nine yards, no touchdowns.

458
00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,280
Speaker 1: I mean, really hard to get much worse than that.

459
00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,520
Speaker 1: But look the guys that number seven overall picked for

460
00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:31,959
Speaker 1: a reason. And I think the fact that he's had

461
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,280
Speaker 1: a stellar camp, the Chargers need him to be a

462
00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:39,119
Speaker 1: productive member of that wide receiver room. You know where

463
00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:41,879
Speaker 1: he fits in this year. I obviously that remains to

464
00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,040
Speaker 1: be seen, but I think there's nowhere to go obviously

465
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,160
Speaker 1: than up from where what he was last year. And

466
00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:50,840
Speaker 1: the question marks at tight end mean they need reliable

467
00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:53,600
Speaker 1: guys to catch the football. Yeah. Like I said, I

468
00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,880
Speaker 1: think he's a guy in the late later rounds has

469
00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,240
Speaker 1: a lot of upside. I don't know if you you know, Eddie,

470
00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,239
Speaker 1: how you're feeling about Mike Williams kind of yeah, kind

471
00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,120
Speaker 1: of like what Margaret just saying, Like without the tight

472
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,680
Speaker 1: ends there, somebody has to catch balls in the red zone.

473
00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,000
Speaker 1: I think he could be a good uh target, you know,

474
00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:11,560
Speaker 1: in when they get inside they're just throw up jump

475
00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,879
Speaker 1: balls to him, big body. Um. I mean he's a

476
00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:16,680
Speaker 1: really good shot of being the number two behind Keenan Allen.

477
00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:18,360
Speaker 1: And I think the Charge offense is gonna be great.

478
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,800
Speaker 1: I'm pretty high in the Charge of this year overall. UH.

479
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:22,880
Speaker 1: And like I said, if somebody's covering Keenan Allen, they're

480
00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,399
Speaker 1: double teaming him. I think Big Mike is gonna be

481
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,639
Speaker 1: the ones getting a lot of those UH targets. I

482
00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,199
Speaker 1: think the bigger question is just does he continue to

483
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:31,800
Speaker 1: work his way up the depth chart and is he

484
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:33,920
Speaker 1: gonna get the opportunities because, as you said a minute ago,

485
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,520
Speaker 1: you don't want to just be the guy who happens

486
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,320
Speaker 1: to be catching balls. You wanted to be because you're

487
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:40,480
Speaker 1: bringing something to the table. Yeah, you know, like I

488
00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,760
Speaker 1: think we've kind of forgotten about Tyrelle Williams in this offense,

489
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 1: who ostensibly is the number two guy right now. But

490
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,640
Speaker 1: you know, we love Mike Williams and I see a

491
00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,560
Speaker 1: high ceiling for him potentially. I think with the Chargers,

492
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:55,240
Speaker 1: they're just gonna stay healthy. I mean, they just have

493
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 1: to keep bodies on the field. Like that has been

494
00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:01,280
Speaker 1: their biggest obstacle more than anybody else in their division.

495
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 1: They have been their own worst enemy because they just

496
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,000
Speaker 1: they can't stay healthy. I feel like they're one of

497
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:06,959
Speaker 1: those teams too, because you know that their defense has

498
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 1: the potential to do some good things on that side

499
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:10,640
Speaker 1: of the football, but they're going to throw the ball

500
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 1: no matter what. So you're not as worried about that

501
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 1: being a fact. I mean, you know the beauty of

502
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: you know, having your home base b Los Angeles that

503
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:18,600
Speaker 1: you can throw the ball in December. You know, you're

504
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 1: not worried about whether and we wind and rain and

505
00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,440
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. Uh, speaking of throwing the ball

506
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,760
Speaker 1: in weather and wind and rain. Russell Wilson, Uh, he

507
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,159
Speaker 1: has been he's been my QB two for most of

508
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,239
Speaker 1: the off season, but he has seen sort of a

509
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:35,199
Speaker 1: decline in his a DP and maybe it's, you know,

510
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:37,560
Speaker 1: the Baldwin's injury, and maybe it's people just kind of

511
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 1: scared about what that offense is. I still believe in

512
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:44,120
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, but it seems like I am I won't

513
00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 1: say in a minority, but it feels like people don't

514
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 1: have the same level of confidence in Russell Wilson that

515
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 1: they used to. So that this is where it's interesting,

516
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,680
Speaker 1: because what what does confidence mean when you're talking about

517
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson is gonna be a top one, two or

518
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,159
Speaker 1: three quarterback when it's all said and done at the

519
00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:00,240
Speaker 1: end of this year, maybe not, but he's still might

520
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: be top five. I think it's more one of those

521
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 1: deals where you can throw the roster out the window,

522
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 1: throw the statistics out the window. He is one of

523
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 1: those guys, as we talked about on NFL Fantasy Live,

524
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:13,800
Speaker 1: that produces year and year out and is seems to

525
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 1: be constantly underestimated by opposing defenses and maybe fantasy managers

526
00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: as well. So it's one of the situations where I

527
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:23,600
Speaker 1: feel like, if you're gonna say, is he gonna be

528
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: top one or two qbs when it's all said done,

529
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,119
Speaker 1: you can make an argument why that would be the case.

530
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Speaker 1: But I don't want to ever sleep in right. I

531
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: don't want to be that guy. That's how I mean,

532
00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 1: That's how I feel like. I'm I'm about I'm still

533
00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,960
Speaker 1: about that Russell Wilson life. Man. I he's like one

534
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 1: of those guys where if they go five dred he

535
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:44,920
Speaker 1: should win the m v P because it's basically hand

536
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 1: but almost in a fantasy sense. I'm not sure if

537
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 1: I love it, because I think the injury risk with

538
00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 1: the online not being great, that there's kind of a

539
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 1: mess in the backfield. I mean, yeah, he has Doug Ballwin,

540
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: who's great and still underrated, but I don't know if

541
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Speaker 1: there's enough to Like He's not like built a Cam

542
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 1: Newton where he can kind of do it all himself.

543
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 1: And I'm kind of afraid. I'm afraid for Russ of

544
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,680
Speaker 1: what will happen when he's like just you know, scrambling

545
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 1: out there by himself. So, like I said, there five

546
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 1: D give the MVP because that's amazing, But fantasy, I

547
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 1: don't know if I would take him over some other

548
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 1: guys at the key P position. But I think that's

549
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,439
Speaker 1: that's the key is, like, Okay, where are you picking him?

550
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: Who else is on the board, Because if you're thinking

551
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:22,880
Speaker 1: that he's going to be your one or two guy

552
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 1: in the league, I feel like the downside outweighs the

553
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 1: likelihood of that happening. But you know, depending on where

554
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,800
Speaker 1: you are with other quarterbacks, if you're later on the upside,

555
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,680
Speaker 1: is it tilts the scales if you get value for him, sure,

556
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 1: but if it do not, I would not reach from

557
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,200
Speaker 1: in a fantasy sense. It just not makes sense. Here's

558
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 1: a kind of weird fun stat about Russell Wilson from

559
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 1: last year. Between his touchdown passes and his touchdown runs,

560
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: he accounted for all but one of the Seahawks offensive

561
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: touchdowns last year. That I mean, it's an insane number,

562
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,359
Speaker 1: you know, Like he had thirty four touchdown ass he

563
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,320
Speaker 1: ran for three more. The Seahawks as a team scored

564
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: thirty eight offensive touchdowns and Russell Wilson was involved in

565
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: thirty seven of them. So I'm saying, m D man,

566
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 1: I'm making Aaron Rodgers money, right, and who knows. I'm

567
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: sure the Seahawks saw that Aaron Rodgers contract and thought,

568
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 1: uh so, the next one up for me? Derrick Henry

569
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 1: and Mark I know you and I think sort of

570
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 1: feel the same about Derrick Henry. I was, you know,

571
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 1: when DeMarco Murray left, I thought, this is it, this

572
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 1: is the moment, and then Dion Lewis showed up, and

573
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: then so far in the preseason, Derrick Henry has done

574
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,680
Speaker 1: nothing to bolster my confidence. Um, his his a DP

575
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: is falling. I think that a lot of people have

576
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 1: kind of looked at this and and they don't feel

577
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: great about it. Right earlier, it's shot up. Like you said,

578
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:47,399
Speaker 1: when DeMarco Murray leaves, the number of think pieces you

579
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,360
Speaker 1: could read about how this is gonna be Derrick Henry's year,

580
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,639
Speaker 1: He's gonna be the guy, his numbers are gonna skyrocket,

581
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 1: uh or there were many, but I feel like one.

582
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Speaker 1: He is one of those guys that needs to get

583
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: the football, needs to get a lot of touches, and

584
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: you don't bring in Dean Lewis if that's gonna be

585
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 1: the case, especially in Matt Lafleura's offense, which is geared

586
00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: towards a guy like Dean Lewis to do well. And

587
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: I look at the numbers last year where Dean Lewis was,

588
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 1: you know, put up stellar fantasy numbers, especially relative to

589
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: DeMarco Marie, and Derrick Henry was still getting snaps behind him.

590
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: So I just I need to see it on the field,

591
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,120
Speaker 1: and I haven't seen it yet. I mean, I think

592
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,120
Speaker 1: there's something to be said, Eddie for the fact that

593
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 1: for as much as we like Derrick Henry, he's got

594
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: this huge build that you know, to three years in

595
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: a row now, the Titans coaching staff hasn't believed in

596
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 1: him enough to just give him the job. I'm a

597
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 1: huge Dean Lewis, especially be in a PPR guy. I

598
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 1: love Dean Lewis this year, and I think he makes

599
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: he makes more sense in that often, especially with a

600
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 1: quarterback like Mariotta Derrick henry Is. I mean, will you

601
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 1: get maybe the goal line touchdowns? I think sure, uh.

602
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: And I do agree with Markot like he needs to

603
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: just pound the rock with him a bunch and then

604
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 1: that's when he'll gain the yards. But I think for

605
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: their offense and just being kind of, you know, a

606
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 1: fast pace and a quarterback like Mario, like I said,

607
00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:59,280
Speaker 1: he's gonna want to you know, get the ball in

608
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 1: shock and dump off to Dion Lewis. And I don't

609
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,640
Speaker 1: like it's a really bad fit team wise for Derek

610
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: the numbers two and I don't have him in front

611
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,439
Speaker 1: of me. But I feel like last year Dion Lewis

612
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,360
Speaker 1: got more calls in the red zone, uh than any

613
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 1: other Patriots running back. You know that that he was

614
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 1: the red zone guy. So I'm not sure that that

615
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 1: flips this year with Derrick Henry Well and Lewis was

616
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:22,760
Speaker 1: a guy. I mean, everybody thinks of him as a

617
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 1: third down back, but you go back, the Patriots used

618
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,400
Speaker 1: him a lot on first and second down, so he

619
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 1: has the potential to be out there for all three downs.

620
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 1: And the thing that frustrates me the most about Derrick

621
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 1: Henry watching him play is that for as big and

622
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: strong as he looks, he he sort of runs like

623
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 1: a smaller back, you know, like I want him to. Dude,

624
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: You're built like a defensive end man. You're built like

625
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: a pass rusher, like rush like run like that, like

626
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: don't run like like you are a Dion Lewis type back. Uh.

627
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 1: It's frustrating. And I don't know if that has any

628
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 1: impact on how a random aside, but I wonder sometimes

629
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 1: about guys who were always so much better than anybody

630
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: they played again, and you look at Derrick Henry. He

631
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: is a physical specimen and he ran through people at

632
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: the high school level. Obviously, you play behind that big

633
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 1: offensive line in Alabama and you're doing the same thing

634
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 1: there even against SEC defenses. And I just wonder if

635
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: you build up the skill set that can help you

636
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: really be a grinder. And it's good question, really fight

637
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: for those yards, the yards that came so easily for

638
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 1: you in high school. At the college level, it just

639
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: seems like you have to evolve. I don't know that

640
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: I've seen him evolved yet I haven't seen it yet either,

641
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe that's the reason we're talking about

642
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 1: a time. So that's what hurts him too. I also think,

643
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 1: just to quickly add is like people have this in

644
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: their mind of like, oh, that's what he did in

645
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: high school. Also he did at Alabama and then now

646
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: obviously do it here. Sure he's gonna do it here.

647
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: So then people are drafting him, you know, maybe like

648
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 1: late second or early third run. And that's this problem

649
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: to it. You You gotta pay a premium to draft him,

650
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: and that's what hurts him. If he if you were

651
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: taking him later, it's like, sure, it'll be great, but

652
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: I think the better value. I don't think it's a

653
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: question is Deanon Lewis without about, No, without about And

654
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: that's why I you know, like you guys, I've been

655
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: started targeting Dean Lewis in as many spots as I can.

656
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: Last one on my list J and he's he has

657
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: been a head scratcher for me throughout the pre season.

658
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: You know, some people say they love him and he's

659
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: poised for big things. I look back at last year

660
00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: and he was still kind of a committee back with

661
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 1: Corey Clement and some of those guys back there, and

662
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: now he has this mysterious lower body injury that the

663
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: Eagles aren't being specific about, but it's kept him off

664
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 1: the field. Um, I don't know if it's the confusion.

665
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's just that I'm sort of

666
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: down on j JI, but Mark, I'm I'm kind of

667
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: just backed away from this guy altogether. I just pulled

668
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 1: up his career stats because to me, his career has

669
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 1: felt like the roller coaster ride, the J J I

670
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: ride of of enthusiasm and then some regression and then

671
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: excitement and then it falls back. And I was just

672
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,440
Speaker 1: kind of curious, like, what are how his numbers line

673
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 1: up with that? And again, uh splitting time last year

674
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 1: between the Eagles and the Dolphins. It was a fine year,

675
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: but like, I think you're talking yourself more into the

676
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 1: Eagles right than you are J g I, And that,

677
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: to me, I have some bigger question marks about. You know,

678
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: we have not seeing anything impressive from that team this

679
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: preseason so far. Obviously they've been without Carson Wentz and

680
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: that's the worry is that we're not even guaranteed will

681
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 1: see him in Week one, and if we don't, then

682
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: where does this offense go. I mean there's so many guys.

683
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: I you talk about Carson Wentz, We're not sure when

684
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: he's going to be back. Ji is kind of banged up.

685
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: Alshon Jeffrey could miss the first couple of weeks. I mean, Eddie,

686
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: I know he's a Giants fan. You're not necessarily crying

687
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: any tears about this, But I mean from a fantasy perspective,

688
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: there there's just a lot of questions. I think, yeah, exactly,

689
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope the Eagles from a fantasy perspective

690
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: don't do well at all. But um, if you're wearing

691
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: your giant by the way, uh yeah, I had to

692
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: give him my guy some love. Odell Beckham, Um no,

693
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: I think, uh kind of with the Carson Wentz. If

694
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: if Carson Wentz comes back, I think it hurts Jgis.

695
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: I just think they're gonna start slinging the ball around.

696
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: Um with fold. I'm not a huge falls guy. I

697
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: know he won, but I think that almost helps JJI

698
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,520
Speaker 1: because they'll look to him to just kind of carry

699
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: the rocking and build the offerings through him. But the

700
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: thing that hurts j G I is, I mean, how

701
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: many running backs in their backfield, like touched the ball

702
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: in a pergame basis like last year, like there was

703
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: like three four different guys he would come out. They

704
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: have Darren Sprawls back uh smallwood Corey comment. Like we said,

705
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: like there's so many guys there, it's like there's no

706
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: real bell callagery, just gonna be rotating through who's the

707
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: fresh guy in in the scenario, the down where they

708
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: are in the field, that all comes into effect with them.

709
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: So I again, it's he's just like a value pack.

710
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: Do I think he'll be solid? Sure, but I would

711
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: not pay a premium for j J. I. Well, I

712
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: think that's another thing though, Like like you said with

713
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, a giant is a guy you're going to

714
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: have to try and get earlier in your drafts. I mean,

715
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 1: he's a guy that you know is coming off the board.

716
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: I mean right now he's probably fallen back to maybe

717
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: the fourth or fifth round, but you know, still still

718
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 1: a lot. You know, when you've got other guys you know,

719
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: either on that roster or on other teams that you

720
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: can get probably at a better value, they have more

721
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: confidence exactly. And so that's so there we go. That's

722
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: our confidence level on a handful of guys there. So

723
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: now we are at the point where as I mentioned,

724
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: a lot of people have drafted, so for a lot

725
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 1: of you, your rosters are set already. Of course, there's

726
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 1: always those guys you pick, maybe late in the draft,

727
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: or maybe you just you know, had a panic moment

728
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: sometime in your draft and you made a pick and

729
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,959
Speaker 1: you're looking at it and you don't feel great about it,

730
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: and you're like, what am I? Why did I Why

731
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: did I take player X? What am I gonna do? Now? Well,

732
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: the good news for you is that the waiver wire

733
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: is open and a lot of leagues. So I came

734
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: through the list of potential waiver wire guys that you

735
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 1: can pick up, and so I want to get your

736
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: thoughts on them. How you guys feel about some of

737
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: these Tyler Lockett, you know, we talked about Russell Wilson

738
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: and the pass catchers in Seattle. Everybody keeps saying that

739
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: this is the year for Tyler Lockett, which we said

740
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: last year. I think we said the year before that,

741
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: and maybe even the year before that. But this is

742
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: the year, this is finally it. This is the year

743
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: that Tyler Lockett finally steps up and does something big

744
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: in the Seattle offense. I mean, Mark, the opportunity is there,

745
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,480
Speaker 1: will we see the production sort of match that well?

746
00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: I like to Uh, you know, when we've talked to

747
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,280
Speaker 1: our former NFL dot Com colleague Matt Harmon, I know

748
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: he's a big Tyler locket. We have seen his ADP

749
00:33:55,720 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: shoot up in recent weeks. I again, this is my

750
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: college bias, which I own up to. Uh. He's one

751
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: of those guys where I feel like when he's gotten opportunities,

752
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,399
Speaker 1: he has produced, and the opportunities will be increased this year.

753
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,760
Speaker 1: You expect in Seattle, so I expect that he'll produce

754
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: as well. And what does he owned in what half

755
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: of leagues on NFL dot Com? Yeah, like he's still

756
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 1: he's still available on a lot of places. Yeah. I

757
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 1: do think he's one of those guys where, to me,

758
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: he would be worth taking a flyer on. Uh. I

759
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,320
Speaker 1: I like him. I think he's into that game. You

760
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: don't like him enough. I actually I like him enough

761
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 1: to even draft him maybe, But if he's on the

762
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: waiver wire, I would definitely take a shot at him

763
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 1: because I think with wide receivers, I feel like I

764
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: can't have enough wide receivers on my roster, just because

765
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: you never know which one of these guys is gonna

766
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: pop uh and do something. I don't know if how

767
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: you feel about him, but it's it's kind of like

768
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:49,840
Speaker 1: you said, kind of going back to the Russell Wilson thing.

769
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 1: I mean, he's so good, it's almost you have to

770
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: be like, Okay, he's gonna make play. Somebody will catch

771
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: a ball from Russell Wilson, so why not pick a

772
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,959
Speaker 1: guy like Tyler lock it up? But on the flip side,

773
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: it's just it's almost like I want to see the

774
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 1: player a couple of games before him and like, Okay,

775
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: that's what the offense is gonna be. Like I'm just

776
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 1: I'm I I'd be really nervous if I was a

777
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: Seahawks fan. I just don't trust their line. I don't

778
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: trust their their backfield, and I think that just is

779
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: ultimately going to hurt um their their passing attack. And

780
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: like we said, you know, Doug ball wint the number

781
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: one option, so you're gonna lose targets there. I'd like

782
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 1: maybe like week two, weeks three, if they actually look

783
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: pretty confident, then I would target him heavily. I would

784
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:27,359
Speaker 1: say with the lock of The one thing I'll say

785
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: about Locket is that he seems if you play in

786
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 1: a Best Ball League or what have you, he's a

787
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,320
Speaker 1: boom or bust guy. Um, he's one of the I

788
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: created kind of my own series of awards, the MG Awards,

789
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: and and he is. He would be a candidate for

790
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 1: what I call the Joey Galloway Award, right Like he's

791
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: just a home run hitter. Like he'll he'll give you

792
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: weeks where you could get three catches for like a

793
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 1: hundred and ten yards and a couple of touchdowns, and

794
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 1: then he'll give you like a four for nineteen. You know.

795
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: So I think that's just kind of what you have

796
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: to deal with. But again, you're talking a waiver wire guy.

797
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:59,879
Speaker 1: You're not expecting him to be your your wide receiver. One.

798
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 1: Another guy who has that boomer bus potential, but I like,

799
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: I like a lot a lot is John Brown. And

800
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: I've talked about the Joe Flacco renaissance, the fla connaissance

801
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 1: as I'm calling it myself. Um, and part of it is,

802
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: you know, Michael Crabtree and and the resurgence of John Brown.

803
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 1: And I think we've seen some good things from him

804
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,399
Speaker 1: in the preseason, Mark and I I believe I feel

805
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: like he should be getting actually drafted, but he's on

806
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: the waiver wire. I I can't pass him up. His

807
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:28,279
Speaker 1: ADP has been increasing recently, but still, uh, you know,

808
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: like around ownership in a lot of leagues. I just

809
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: have a hard time with the injury history and not

810
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: believing in Joe Flacco. But so he's a little it's

811
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: a little scarier for me. But look, he's one of

812
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 1: those guys, like you kind of said before, if it

813
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 1: could be feast your famine, and if it feasts, you

814
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 1: could have a nice meal. I mean, yeah, are you

815
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 1: sitting down to the table. I'm with you, Marcus. Joe

816
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: Flacco is back against the wall. Uh, some issues of

817
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: the tight end position, so you need receivers a step

818
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: of and and and catching footballs. And I think John

819
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: doun Um along with the other guys are broughting like crabshare.

820
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: I think I think I actually like the Ravens this year.

821
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: H strangely enough out of the actual North, but I

822
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 1: think John Bryan actually, if he's on the waiver wid

823
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta scoo him up. Yeah, No, I'm

824
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 1: with that one. All right, So this is one I

825
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: think I'm trying to talk myself into. And I'm sitting

826
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: here with a Cowboys fan and a Giants fan, So

827
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: I don't feel like you guys are gonna give me

828
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 1: any support on this one. But Rob Kelly, uh, in Washington,

829
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson is there, you know, Chris Thompson is there.

830
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 1: But you know, all these reports just say Rob Kelly

831
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: just sort of hanging around and then he still has

832
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 1: something of a role there. And I guess, because I

833
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: don't a hundred percent believe in Adrian Peterson's resurgence, I

834
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: can talk myself into a scenario where Rob Kelly still

835
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: has some value. But maybe maybe I'm just maybe I'm

836
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 1: just making this up, Mark, I don't know, man, Like

837
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: I I buy the Washington offense. Actually I like some

838
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: of the pieces there. Uh. I think the fact that

839
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,879
Speaker 1: and I'm not on board the Adrian Peterson bandwagon. But

840
00:37:56,480 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: he he's had some some nice flashes yes this reseason,

841
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 1: which just makes me think, Man, he's like we talked

842
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: about Russell Wilson earlier, never count them out. Adrian Peterson

843
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: is like that, you know, guy that comes back from

844
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: the dead. Uh, when he's been counted out in the past. Um,

845
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 1: I there's other people. I look at first, you're feeling

846
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 1: the same skin. The skin's offense as a whole just

847
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: doesn't really do much for me. I'm just don't. I

848
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: don't trust them. I don't trust the backfield. There's just

849
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: too many moving parts there. I mean, Alex Smith is

850
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: kind of underwhelming, and I think it's a it's a

851
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: pretty uh, it's a you know, they downgraded from Kirk Cousins,

852
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: and I just I don't. I don't love that offense.

853
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: I have been weirdly invested in that offense, but not

854
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: not not at any like great rates. Like I'm not

855
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: paying any you know, big draft prices for any of

856
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: these guys. I mean, I'm waiting to get Alex Smith

857
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 1: as a quarterback, right, I'm waiting until, you know, late

858
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: late in the draft to maybe take a flyer at

859
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: Josh Doxon or something like that. Like I I've kind

860
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: of made an investment, but it's been a minimal investment

861
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,879
Speaker 1: where if it goes from star like who's the well,

862
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: they're superstars hurt. I mean it was supposed to be

863
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 1: various guys like that's that's kind of where you're like

864
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,879
Speaker 1: maybe like but this we've seen that before with Alex Smith,

865
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: where it's like the some of all, you know, it's

866
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: greater than their the whole whatever, the right, something greater

867
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: than the departs or something that. Um yeah, so I

868
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: don't know. Like I said, I've invested in Washington, but

869
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,399
Speaker 1: just not at any I don't think, not any price

870
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: working like severely burned me if everything goes wrong. Um,

871
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 1: last I have D D. Westbrook on the list, but

872
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: I could make it, you know, d D. Westbrook slash

873
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:31,720
Speaker 1: d J HRC slash Dante Moncreeve slash Healing Cole because

874
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: sash because like you know, there's been all this hiphe

875
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 1: out of Duval County about the receiving corps and how

876
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 1: good they can be. And what I keep saying is

877
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 1: it seems like every Jags beat writer is high on

878
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: a Jags receiver. They just aren't all high on the

879
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: same guy, which is it's never a good sign. But

880
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: I guess, you know, if I'm if I'm taking a

881
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,760
Speaker 1: dart throw, I have D D. Westbrook, but I guess

882
00:39:55,560 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: it's interchangeable, right, I don't know the look on your

883
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,799
Speaker 1: faces kind of tell me everything I need to know

884
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: right now. I know, I like I like Dee de Um.

885
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:08,320
Speaker 1: If they don't like, go out and grab someone like

886
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,439
Speaker 1: des Brian who's like on on the market. I think

887
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 1: so many needs to catch football is there? I don't know.

888
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 1: I like Blake Bortles. I just I'm not in love

889
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: with the offenses this year. I think they'll actually take

890
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 1: a step down from where they finished last year. Um.

891
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 1: But I mean it's it's almost just like if the

892
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 1: offense has to be on the field, somebody has to

893
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: catch the ball. He's explosive. I mean, if he's if

894
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 1: he's available, and he's scoring a couple of touchdowns here

895
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,279
Speaker 1: and there, I think he's a big play threat. Uh,

896
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 1: if you have deep rosters, I don't see your problem

897
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 1: with the Yeah, this this feels like a recurring theme,

898
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 1: a little bit of I could talk myself into it,

899
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 1: I can talk myself out of it. Yeah, And I

900
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 1: think that I think that's what it is. And and

901
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 1: maybe that's not a great way when you're talking about

902
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: your first waiver wire pick that you I think if

903
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 1: you have to talk to yourself into it, maybe you're

904
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: probably better off sticking with the guy that you have

905
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: on your roster. But as if a guy like four

906
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: Net gets injured, does it all of a suden make

907
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:55,919
Speaker 1: the receivers and the Jaguars that more appealing because they're

908
00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: gonna have to throw throw the ball the football more

909
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,080
Speaker 1: or or you don't think that even matters? Oh and

910
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 1: maybe yeah, but I still think you know, right, I mean,

911
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,360
Speaker 1: the way the way he plays in his history suggests

912
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 1: that it's kind of more of a win in And

913
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: if although I still think in that scenario, then you know,

914
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: guys like Corey Grant and t J. Yelden start to

915
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 1: get a little more love in that offense. So I

916
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: don't I don't know that it necessarily translates over to

917
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:20,719
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952
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953
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:57,680
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954
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955
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956
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957
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958
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Speaker 1: So I'm glad to have you here. I want to

959
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: talk to you about about dynasty stuff. So I know

960
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 1: you do a lot of dynasty type stuff and and

961
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 1: those sorts of things for folks who may be entering

962
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:18,760
Speaker 1: their first dynasty draft, maybe having their first startup dynasty

963
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 1: draft coming up this weekend. What sort of strategies, I mean,

964
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 1: how how should people approach a dynasty draft versus your

965
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 1: your standard redraft fantasy leagues. I think you know, that's

966
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 1: a great question. I think what happens to is most

967
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: of the time you get people who look too far

968
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: ahead into the future right And I always say in

969
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: Black Book, which you want to do is you want

970
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 1: to build a team for a three year window. And

971
00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: that's for a couple of reasons. Number one, in the NFL,

972
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: you never want to get too far ahead of yourself

973
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: because injuries can really change the dynamic of a roster

974
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 1: right away. And for all the other reason too is

975
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 1: these leagues don't always last that long. You know, you

976
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 1: think you're gonna be in this league for six, seven,

977
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 1: eight years, both people will drop out, beings changed, people

978
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 1: don't want to run them anymore. So I always say

979
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: that three year window is great, and that means that

980
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 1: you do want to get those guys in their prime.

981
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: I think you target those guys early and often. And

982
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 1: the thing that I think people kind of miss out

983
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 1: on or forget is the undervalued veterans. The guys like

984
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: crab Tree or guys like Emmanuel Sanders, are guys like

985
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 1: that who've been floating around the league for a while

986
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: who may not be as sexy as like a Corey

987
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: Davis or something like that. But they're gonna get the

988
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 1: job done, and they're gonna put up points and they're

989
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: gonna be productive. And I think that's what happens. I

990
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,919
Speaker 1: think sometimes people look too far ahead of the future

991
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: instead of trying to win right now. And I would

992
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 1: always trying to do that because you always get a

993
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,360
Speaker 1: new group of rookies every year too, so it's always

994
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 1: plenty of opportunity to turn your roster over, try to

995
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 1: be competitive, go for the championship right now. So you

996
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: talk about rookies, and I think that's the thing that

997
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,799
Speaker 1: when people look at dynasty leagues, especially you know, you

998
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,279
Speaker 1: have your rookie drafts every year, they really focus on them.

999
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 1: So I mean, it's talk about a few of the

1000
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 1: rookies here. I mean the quarterback situation. It feels like

1001
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,399
Speaker 1: it's a guy, a lot of guys who may not

1002
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 1: necessarily flash a lot this year, but have a lot

1003
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: of potential down the road. When you look at these

1004
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 1: rookie quarterbacks, which one or ones have really jumped out

1005
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: at you, Well, I think you're right about that. I

1006
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:06,879
Speaker 1: think with all those guys, even you know, even when

1007
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 1: you go back to Wentz and Golf, you know, took

1008
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:10,200
Speaker 1: him a little bit of time, but you know, certainly

1009
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 1: last year he saw golf really finally when he had

1010
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: an offensive minded coach who has had an offense that

1011
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 1: was actually from this decade, which was great to actually see,

1012
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,320
Speaker 1: you know how he grew and then went to finally

1013
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 1: coming into his own last year before the injury. You know,

1014
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,840
Speaker 1: watching the hard knocks, I always feel like Baker Mayfield

1015
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: get it. I feel like he's an NFL player. I

1016
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: feel like he's the guy that is unflappable. I think

1017
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: he's the guy that has in terms of fantasy upside,

1018
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: a lot of dynamics uff. Now Lamar Jackson is another

1019
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: guy too, could be very special. But you know, how

1020
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 1: he's going to integrate into NFL style offenses will be

1021
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: fascinating to watch. We know he's athletic, we know he

1022
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: could be a game changer, and you know, I think

1023
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: there's every reason to believe he can develop into that guy.

1024
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 1: But you know, it's it's whether or not you're happy

1025
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: having that kind of quarterback on your roster too, because

1026
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,399
Speaker 1: anytime you have a quarterback that's mobile and likes to run,

1027
00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 1: you also run that risk up and that goes for

1028
00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: even like a Russell Wilson type guy. Your guys like that.

1029
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 1: So for me, I think Mayfield's that guy. Rosen is

1030
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:07,720
Speaker 1: very safe. I think Donald is going to be fine,

1031
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: you know, but I think Mayfield has that swagger, that

1032
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: weird it factor that I think potentially could be one

1033
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 1: of those guys you really want to have in fantasy.

1034
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,240
Speaker 1: And Mobile was well, you know, you mentioned Josh Rosen,

1035
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,720
Speaker 1: and you know, I think obviously everybody sees the potential

1036
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: ceiling for Lamar Jackson. I think the ceiling for Sam

1037
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 1: Donald is great. Josh Rosen was the guy that, coming

1038
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 1: out of the draft I felt like was the most polished.

1039
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: He was the most greedy to start right now, But

1040
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 1: how close is he to his ceiling? I mean, I

1041
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:35,880
Speaker 1: think you can come in and play and be productive,

1042
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: but how much better can we expect Josh Rosen to

1043
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: get down the road? You think, Well, look, I mean

1044
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:43,399
Speaker 1: you start off with the fact you've got a guy

1045
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 1: like DJ there. I mean that certainly helps, you know,

1046
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 1: and you've got a quarterback made of glass ahead of him,

1047
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:52,840
Speaker 1: which is also advantageous for him as well. And I

1048
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: think that when you start up with a good running

1049
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 1: game and you have a dynamic player like a DJ

1050
00:46:57,640 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 1: there that takes a lot of pressure off the guy

1051
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 1: right away. And you do have a veteran presence like

1052
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald, and I think that's important to hear good

1053
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,919
Speaker 1: things about Kirk in Camp two. So I think he's

1054
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 1: in a position to succeed if Rose you know, I

1055
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: agree with you percent. I thought Rosen was the most

1056
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 1: ready quarterback to play and be successful. But I I

1057
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: do believe there's some sort of ceiling there, uh and

1058
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: and I think that it's probably around that four K

1059
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 1: level of of yards and somewhere in that vein and

1060
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:26,800
Speaker 1: you know, somebody that you would like eventually as a

1061
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:29,439
Speaker 1: low end QB one. I think he kind of fits

1062
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 1: in that Matt ryany kind of mold for me personally,

1063
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,879
Speaker 1: And just like Matt Ryan, the better the weapons around him,

1064
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: you know, you put him with a Julio Jones, all

1065
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 1: of a sudden, he's you know, potentially useful and fantasy.

1066
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 1: And I think that's the key for Rosen. I don't

1067
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:42,879
Speaker 1: think he's the guy that you love on his own

1068
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:45,320
Speaker 1: on island, but if you put him with the right pieces,

1069
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 1: I think very productive and I think probably most ready

1070
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: this year to make an impact, and he may be

1071
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:53,239
Speaker 1: the guy. You know, despite the Buffalo issue there with

1072
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: injuries potentially, and despite all the buzz for Baker Mayfield,

1073
00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 1: I think there might be that opportunity first a Rosen,

1074
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 1: just because Bradford's the guy in front of them. Look

1075
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:05,640
Speaker 1: into the running backs, right, I think after the draft,

1076
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 1: we were all excited about this group of running backs.

1077
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 1: I mean we knew Say Kwan and Darius Guys and

1078
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,879
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones and carry on, Johnson, you can keep going

1079
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: down the list. As the preseason has gone on, we've

1080
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:18,719
Speaker 1: seen kind of guys fall, I mean, guys gets hurt.

1081
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:22,320
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones has disappointed, Sony Michelle hasn't been on the field,

1082
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: Like some help me, help me balance my my emotions here, Joe,

1083
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: because I feel like we were too we were like

1084
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 1: way too hyped on these guys in like April and

1085
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:32,919
Speaker 1: May and now all of a sudden, I feel like, well,

1086
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 1: you know, nobody, you know, non Sa Kuan division is

1087
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 1: gonna be worthwhile? Like, please help me balance my feelings

1088
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:42,800
Speaker 1: right now? Well, I will, I'll do my best for

1089
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 1: a nice well before a nice thing, a whiskey, You

1090
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: and I will sit here and we'll try to talk about.

1091
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: See I knew it. Uh, you know for me, I

1092
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 1: I'm actually think this is a good thing. And the

1093
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: reason is because now all the values come back down

1094
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:58,319
Speaker 1: a little bit. And if you got a draft coming

1095
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: up this weekend, you you look at the adp fall

1096
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:03,720
Speaker 1: of a guy like Michelle, which is which is smart

1097
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:07,360
Speaker 1: because the Patriot offense isn't easy. Integrating into it is difficult.

1098
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:09,319
Speaker 1: Getting the trust of the coaching staff can be hard

1099
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: at times. So in the confidence of a Tom Brady

1100
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: to turn around and you give you the ball or

1101
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 1: bet that guy in the offense. Uh, you talked about

1102
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: Richard Penny to another guy who was super high on

1103
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 1: the Seahawks moved up to take him. Right. So all

1104
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:24,719
Speaker 1: this big buzz because these guys got taken early, it

1105
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:26,680
Speaker 1: inflated them a little bit because after all, they're still

1106
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 1: rookie running backs. There's a learning curve. There's time for

1107
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 1: them that they have to adjust to life in the NFL,

1108
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 1: Prove that they're not gonna put the ball on the ground,

1109
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 1: Prove that they can handle pass coverage and blocking for

1110
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:40,319
Speaker 1: the quarterback and all that. And so there's a there's

1111
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: a lot going on there and I think what I've

1112
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 1: seen is training camp has basically suppressed all their value

1113
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 1: a little bit into a place where I think it's

1114
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 1: much more realistic for them to return an investment in redraft.

1115
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 1: Now dynasty that's a little bit different. You still want

1116
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:57,279
Speaker 1: to go a little bit, you know, more aggressively after

1117
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: these guys. But I'll tell you, so far, the one

1118
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 1: guy that I think, you know, you want to put

1119
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: too much into preseason games, but man, carry On Jennsen

1120
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: looked good. And my goodness, if if there was a

1121
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 1: team that desperately needed to just go with a running

1122
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 1: back and say this is gonna be our guy, it's him.

1123
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 1: And I think that's one of these guys that kind

1124
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: of flies under the radar when we keep talking about

1125
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: all these other ones that were, you know, maybe a

1126
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 1: bit more buzz pre draft time. But carry On seems

1127
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 1: to be the guy that I think is might end

1128
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 1: up outperforming all of them outside of Barkley obviously, right.

1129
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like I've separated se Kwan and

1130
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:30,439
Speaker 1: then there's everybody else. When it comes to the rookie

1131
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 1: running backs, he's just kind of um, He's a special boy, exactly.

1132
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 1: Look trust me, Like I signed in the rose Bow

1133
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, watching him run through my

1134
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:41,839
Speaker 1: USC Trojans, and I said, you know, at this point,

1135
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 1: I need this guy to leave college now because I

1136
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 1: don't want to have to run into him ever again.

1137
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:49,319
Speaker 1: You know what, man, I feel like. You know, people

1138
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:51,240
Speaker 1: ask you what is your remind you of? I said, nobody.

1139
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 1: And that's what makes him so special. I feel like

1140
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:55,440
Speaker 1: he like generated in the lab, Like you took all

1141
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 1: the best pieces of all these different kinds of running

1142
00:50:57,200 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 1: back and you created him. And I think that's what's

1143
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 1: so unique, and that's it's so candalizing from a fantasy perspective. Well,

1144
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:04,319
Speaker 1: a guy on the other end of that spectrum, a

1145
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 1: guy who also has very few comparisons but certainly is

1146
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 1: not young, is Adrian Peterson. And honestly, what he did

1147
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 1: last week in the preseason game for Washington, they've got

1148
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 1: a lot of attention. I haven't bought in yet. I

1149
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: still think he's a guy who is an offense clogger,

1150
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 1: who's still kind of a fairly one dimensional back. But

1151
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 1: people seem to be buying into this. What side of

1152
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 1: the line did you come down on, Adrian Peterson? How

1153
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: with you? Again? You and I are on that same island.

1154
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:31,839
Speaker 1: Still I can't get there, and I certainly can't get

1155
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:33,359
Speaker 1: there where it seems like people want to take him

1156
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,279
Speaker 1: Right now, I get all of a sudden that one

1157
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 1: shining moment happened last making, and now all of a

1158
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 1: sudden people are like, yeah, sure it's Adrian Peterson, and

1159
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:43,479
Speaker 1: God blessed he's a whole famer. But at the same time,

1160
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think there's gonna be some games,

1161
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: in particular where he's gonna have some games where he

1162
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:50,800
Speaker 1: looks like Adrian Peterson. Mean, last year he had that

1163
00:51:50,840 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: one game where he carried the ball like I don't

1164
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,319
Speaker 1: like a hundred and thirty seven times. I at morning,

1165
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: everybody trade him, because there's no way after this he's

1166
00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:59,919
Speaker 1: gonna be getting good. He's gonna be completely worn out.

1167
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:02,839
Speaker 1: Sure enough, he was dreadful the following a couple of weeks.

1168
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 1: But to me, I think if they used him properly

1169
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:07,400
Speaker 1: with Chris Thompson, I think he can be one of

1170
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,759
Speaker 1: these guys. He's gonna get you fifty yards as a

1171
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:12,319
Speaker 1: flex and maybe a touchdown here and there, and maybe

1172
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: you'll have a couple of really good games. But I

1173
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: would strongly recommend if you did get him in a draft,

1174
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:19,279
Speaker 1: you caught him chef, you have picked him up later

1175
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:22,279
Speaker 1: in a slow draft as this news guys come out

1176
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:24,319
Speaker 1: and you've gotten really cheap that if you get a

1177
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:26,839
Speaker 1: really good game out of him, strongly consider flipping him

1178
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:28,880
Speaker 1: for somebody else. And and that might mean taking on

1179
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 1: a guy like a Penny or Jones who is younger,

1180
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 1: who has an opportunity that as a season goes on

1181
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:36,800
Speaker 1: like it better as oppose to guy like Adrian who's older,

1182
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 1: the injury factors higher. And of course you've also got

1183
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 1: a spot where that team is not very good. I

1184
00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 1: just don't think the Redskins are very good football team.

1185
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: Now I agree with that too. Um Joe to the

1186
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: author of The Fantasy Black Book, host of the Fantasy

1187
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:55,319
Speaker 1: Black Book podcast. You know these rookie wide receivers this year, Uh,

1188
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 1: there just hasn't been There wasn't a ton of buzz

1189
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 1: about them in the draft. And we've seen a couple

1190
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 1: of guys Michael Gallup has gotten some buzz, maybe guys

1191
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: like Courtland Sutton, d J. Moore. Um, but this feels

1192
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:09,360
Speaker 1: like for this feels like more of a a dynasty

1193
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:12,759
Speaker 1: type draft class than than a redraft draft class. I

1194
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: am I wrong about that. Are there any guys that

1195
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 1: you think can really be big? I think I think

1196
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:19,920
Speaker 1: that's a really, I think, actually really astute way of

1197
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 1: putting it. I think you're dead on there, because I

1198
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 1: think part of it is due to who the quarterbacks are.

1199
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:28,760
Speaker 1: You know, like you've got Okay a quarterback situation transition

1200
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,800
Speaker 1: Arizona Kirk, You've got a young quarterback with Risky and Miller.

1201
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 1: You've got Dak Prescott coming off a down year. But

1202
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 1: if you go back and look at the numbers at Dak,

1203
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:39,840
Speaker 1: he was just the same old deck as he was

1204
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 1: when Zeke was playing last year. And when Zeke wasn't there,

1205
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 1: I think he had eight touchdowns and nine picks and

1206
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 1: he fell off the face of the earth. So I

1207
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 1: think part of it is because not a lot of

1208
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:50,759
Speaker 1: them are with established quarterbacks outside and maybe Ridley off

1209
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 1: the top of my head, but really you're right, I

1210
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:55,360
Speaker 1: think it's more of a learning and growing and I

1211
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 1: think Miller is one of these guys for me that

1212
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 1: I think could be potentially successful as things go on.

1213
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:02,799
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna take Robinson a little time to

1214
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,880
Speaker 1: gear up. And you know, I think Miller's position on

1215
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:07,719
Speaker 1: that team to playing the slot role, I think is

1216
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 1: going to be very useful to a guy like Drobiskis

1217
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 1: who is still got that learning curve. But I'm very

1218
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:14,399
Speaker 1: high on what Maggie can do in that offense. And

1219
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 1: I think the Bears are a team that maybe I

1220
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 1: might not draft a whole lot of them, but in

1221
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:20,359
Speaker 1: terms of trade targets, I think that's an offense has

1222
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:22,959
Speaker 1: potential when we get to weeks seven eight to start

1223
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,160
Speaker 1: really turning the page. And those are guys you might

1224
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:28,440
Speaker 1: want to acquire in trades and start being aggressive on early.

1225
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 1: But you're right, it's I think it's asking a lot

1226
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:32,920
Speaker 1: because of the situations they're in for them to come

1227
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:37,400
Speaker 1: in and be uh Fantasy relevant right away and redraft. Okay,

1228
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,359
Speaker 1: So Joe, you you put together the Fantasy Black Book.

1229
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: You have a lot of contributors, Jake Seeley, who is

1230
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 1: a friend of the podcast, Matt Francisco Vinci aka the Franchise,

1231
00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 1: who was here for a number of years. For folks

1232
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 1: who don't know better, who who want to go pick

1233
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:52,120
Speaker 1: this up? What can they expect? What can they expect

1234
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:54,759
Speaker 1: that of the Fantasy Black Book. Well, they conspect is

1235
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:58,800
Speaker 1: relative position value, because fantasy when you boiled down is

1236
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 1: very simple. It's abow me out, reducing you from as

1237
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: my spots as I can in the roster. And it's

1238
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 1: a value based drafting type system. But it's very simple

1239
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 1: to grasp. And what it does is it shows you

1240
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:10,240
Speaker 1: just how much better a player is at a certain

1241
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:13,200
Speaker 1: position than his fantasy peers as the fantasy league average,

1242
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:15,920
Speaker 1: not just as running back, but as RB one or

1243
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 1: as an RB two, and and where these guys slot in.

1244
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 1: And once you understand where the positives and then the

1245
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 1: negative guys under that fantasy leag average are, it dictates

1246
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:26,879
Speaker 1: how you approach that. And I think that's where we lack.

1247
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:28,879
Speaker 1: We lack something that's simple. And for all the great

1248
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 1: metrics we have, we lack something that's simple, adaptable, understandable.

1249
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 1: You can go in there and then you can use

1250
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: it for super flex league, you can use for a

1251
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:40,439
Speaker 1: ten man PPR four teen team. You know, standard league.

1252
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:42,879
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. And I think that's what's so great,

1253
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 1: and that's why it's been number one twelve times and

1254
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 1: this your number one at Football Books. How about that

1255
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:52,880
Speaker 1: above Nick Foles. That's right, that'sllations. I got your glass

1256
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: slipper right here, buddy. Congratulations as as I let you go.

1257
00:55:57,719 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 1: The one thing I always ask my guests is for

1258
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:02,319
Speaker 1: their of pop the thing in pop culture that really

1259
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 1: has grabbed their attention that they feel like they need

1260
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:06,760
Speaker 1: to share with everybody. So, Joe, what are you digging

1261
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 1: on right now? Well, I gotta say I started watching

1262
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:13,960
Speaker 1: that new Sasha Baron Cone show on Showtime. Who Is America?

1263
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've checked this out, but uh,

1264
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 1: you know this guy what he's gotten people to do,

1265
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:22,080
Speaker 1: and he's basically going in there trying to exploit all

1266
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 1: the stupidities of this country. And uh, you know, it's

1267
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:29,320
Speaker 1: certainly not for everybody, but I think that if you

1268
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:33,279
Speaker 1: like smart comedy with a twinge of dirtiness, and I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's gotten congressmen to take their pants off and yell

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Speaker 1: and scream to try to stop a gunman. And he's

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Speaker 1: gotten X and current congress people to go on and

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Speaker 1: talk about training kindergarteners with guns called from the Kindergartians program.

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Speaker 1: The stuff he gets away with with these characters and

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Speaker 1: gets people to to say or do, it's it's terrifying.

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Speaker 1: At the same time as hilarious and then terrifying again.

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Speaker 1: So I haven't watched it yet. I feel like I

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Speaker 1: would have to watch it through my face. Ger's like

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Speaker 1: like a horror movie. So you're gonna have to you can't,

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Speaker 1: you know. It's one of you said the other day

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Speaker 1: with my cousin, I said, you can't watch him in

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00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 1: a in a row because you have to kind of

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00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:13,400
Speaker 1: digest each half hour what you just saw is disturbing

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Speaker 1: and so entertaining, but again disturbing but important. And I

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Speaker 1: think that's that's fun too, alright, So like I'll mix

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Speaker 1: it in with like some cartoons to to kind of

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Speaker 1: like oh yeah, totally totally, you know, get it, Rick

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Speaker 1: and Morty and after just a talk or something, I

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00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 1: don't know, absolutely well, Joe, appreciate the time. Congrats on

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Speaker 1: the success of the Black Book, and that's like with

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Speaker 1: the Fantasy Black Book. Pine, best of luck this year,

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Speaker 1: Fantasy wise. Man, it's good to talk to you always, Man,

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00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: anytime we want me, let me know I'm back whenever

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Speaker 1: you need. Everyone knows about the risks of driving drunk.

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00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: You could get in a crash, people could get hurt

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Speaker 1: or killed. But let's take a moment to look at

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Speaker 1: some surprising statistics. Almost twenty nine people in the United

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Speaker 1: States die every day in alcohol impaired vehicle crashes. That's

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Speaker 1: one person every fifty minutes. Even though drunk driving fatalities

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Speaker 1: have fallen by a third in the last three decades,

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Speaker 1: drunk driving crashes still claim more than ten thousand lives

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Speaker 1: each year. Many people are unaware that driving while high

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Speaker 1: can be just as dangerous. In of drivers killed and

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00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 1: crashes tested positive for drugs. Not so harmless after all,

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Speaker 1: is it? And get this. From two thousand seven to

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Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen, marijuana use among drivers killed and crashes double.

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Speaker 1: The truth is driving while high is deadly, So stop

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00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 1: kidding yourself. If you're impaired from alcohol or drugs, don't

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00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:29,720
Speaker 1: get behind the wheel. If you feel different, you drive different.

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Speaker 1: Drive high, get a d u I, drive sober, or

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Speaker 1: get bowled over. Thanks to Joe Pizza Pia for his time.

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Speaker 1: You can find his work at the Fantasy Black Book

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Speaker 1: Go get it downloaded today are pal the franchise. Matt

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Speaker 1: francisco Vich also contributed to that. So you know, hey,

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Speaker 1: help help some friends out there. You go, or you

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00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 1: can listen to Joe on the Fantasy Black Book Pod. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: before we finish up today, one of the fun things

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Speaker 1: about fantasy is coming up with a team name for

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Speaker 1: your squad. And so I just want to kind of

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Speaker 1: pull the room here. D you guys have a strategy.

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Speaker 1: Is there's something you you know away you you use

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00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 1: to come up with team names? You just use the

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Speaker 1: same one every year? Do you talk up with something new?

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Speaker 1: Do you have a particular method for for coming up

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Speaker 1: with with with team names. I don't like to go

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Speaker 1: on the websites and just read what people have done.

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Speaker 1: I like to be original and find it myself. So

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Speaker 1: like I'll just scam through like uh uh you know

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Speaker 1: new players like last names or first names, and try

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Speaker 1: to link it to like a funny song or movie

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00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:28,680
Speaker 1: or TV show something like that to make people laugh. Um.

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Speaker 1: But I think us like the retread names that you

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Speaker 1: see on on like the internet, Like I think that's

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00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:34,959
Speaker 1: that's lame. You gotta be you gotta try a little

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00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:37,920
Speaker 1: hard to to impress your league. I mean, look, if

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00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,400
Speaker 1: you if you let's say you're playing in a tin

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00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 1: team league, you get a one in ten chance of

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Speaker 1: winning that league. But you can win the name, right,

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00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 1: I mean you you can contact have a little bit

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00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 1: more control over that. I I would totally agree with you. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of puns, whatever way you can

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00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:56,360
Speaker 1: make a pun based on a player's name or something

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00:59:56,360 --> 01:00:00,000
Speaker 1: in pop culture. Back when Breaking Bad was It's heyday,

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Speaker 1: that was a source of some great team names. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: Game of Thrones, I think it's gonna be generating names

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Speaker 1: for a long time. Um. The Marvel and d C

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01:00:07,680 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 1: Universe helpful as well. Um, I think politics has given

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Speaker 1: us some good names. So yeah, I did so because

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Speaker 1: I play in multiple leagues. Obviously I would pick a

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Speaker 1: theme by season and have my teams, all my teams

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Speaker 1: have a variation on that thing. Like I did the

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Speaker 1: Breaking Bad thing one year, So like I had a

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Speaker 1: team that was skinny Pete Carroll. I think I did

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01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:34,720
Speaker 1: lost Poyos Schermanos with a you know, a picture of

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Speaker 1: Richard Sherman up there. So yeah, I'm I'm totally down

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Speaker 1: with that. But so I know that we solicited via

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Speaker 1: the Twitter handle at NFL Fantasy uh some team names,

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Speaker 1: and so I know Eddie you pulled some of these,

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01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 1: so I we'll go give us some of these and

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Speaker 1: you know, Mark and I we can we can sort

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01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:52,160
Speaker 1: of judge how much we like or dislike. There's I

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Speaker 1: got three funny ones are at the top. This one,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure how I think it's widely used, but um,

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Speaker 1: with Dak Prescott using his name is the Dack Street Boys.

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Speaker 1: I think that one to get a couple of chuckles

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Speaker 1: from everyone there. Um, this one's great. This one's actually

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Speaker 1: our our friend Matt Franchise. I love this a little

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Speaker 1: Dave Matthews reference here. But Nance Marching for Jim Nance.

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Speaker 1: That's good, and that's the thing he's like. I think

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Speaker 1: they have to be football related. I don't like people

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Speaker 1: to do team names that are not football, like, like

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Speaker 1: some find a tie to the NFL or something, and

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Speaker 1: like you have to do like that Nance marching. By

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Speaker 1: the way, anybody under the age of what nine right

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01:01:29,200 --> 01:01:35,320
Speaker 1: now is like googling date exactly what. Another funny one

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01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:37,320
Speaker 1: this is this is a guy who's like a sleeper

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01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:40,480
Speaker 1: tight end. Are Ricky Seals? Um, you know when you

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Speaker 1: go out and you have an adult beverage and then

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Speaker 1: you're fraid of breaking the seal, Well, there's Ricky Broken

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Speaker 1: Seals Jones. I think that one is a little clever,

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Speaker 1: little it's a deep it's a deep connection. But for

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Speaker 1: the ones that those are the three, I thought, I thought,

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Speaker 1: we're pretty uh, we're pretty funny, Okay, I mean of

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Speaker 1: those three, I think I like, I might like either

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Speaker 1: Nance Marching or Dack Street Boys the best out of

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Speaker 1: that group. Yeah, I mean the the It's also fun

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01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: too to get polarizing names, which for people who aren't

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Speaker 1: Cowboys fans, that's gonna be polarizing. Um. I also like

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Speaker 1: if you can find a way to work in some

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01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:17,760
Speaker 1: insults people you're competing. I mean that's always for me,

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01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:21,280
Speaker 1: you know, I you know. And Adam Rank actually is

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01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:24,080
Speaker 1: great at coming up with a lot of these team names.

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01:02:24,120 --> 01:02:26,640
Speaker 1: I know that uh you know for any South Park fans.

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01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:28,520
Speaker 1: I think one year he had oh my god, they

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01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:32,480
Speaker 1: killed Hinny um uh. But he's really good at those,

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01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:34,080
Speaker 1: and it's it's always fun to kind of see how

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01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:36,760
Speaker 1: people come up with their team names. Um. Lately I

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01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:39,480
Speaker 1: have I have just kind of leaned on puns involving

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01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:42,280
Speaker 1: players that are actually on my roster. Um. But it

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Speaker 1: also kind of do that. So that's pretty that's that's

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Speaker 1: pretty good. Yeah. But also I feel like it's sort

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Speaker 1: of like, you know, locks me into having to keep

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Speaker 1: these guys on my roster or I have to change

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Speaker 1: my team name, and I'm usually lazy, too lazy to

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Speaker 1: change my team they There's also I feel like a

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Speaker 1: lot of there's a few players around the league that

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Speaker 1: have a name that is like Widy, Like Dac is

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01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:03,200
Speaker 1: a guy that's used a ton like the New meme,

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01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 1: the the Shannon Sharp memes or the gifts like that.

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01:03:06,240 --> 01:03:08,400
Speaker 1: He says like that ain't no problem. But there's like Doc,

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01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:10,800
Speaker 1: ain't no problem, like that's one's commonly used. I know J. J.

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01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:13,479
Speaker 1: Watts us a ton um. So there are certain guys

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Speaker 1: that have just like very fantasy friendly team names. Have

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01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 1: you set your team names for for you? I have?

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01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 1: I have said zero. Like if I go through my leagues,

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01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:22,919
Speaker 1: I think most of my teams right now still say

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01:03:22,960 --> 01:03:29,040
Speaker 1: like you know, Marcus's team or something like exactly I

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01:03:29,680 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 1: have set mine. Mine is a combination of uh, Michael

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Speaker 1: Vicks old alias and uh the Scientology Leader, Ron Mexico

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01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:41,960
Speaker 1: N Mexico. Someone did Lron Mexico. That's funny. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: like that, I think. So anyway, if you have any

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Speaker 1: great team names, you can hit us up on Twitter

1422
01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:48,720
Speaker 1: at NFL Fantasy or you can hit me up at

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01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:50,840
Speaker 1: Marcus g as well. I would love to see them,

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01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 1: I know they're always kind of a fun thing to do.

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Speaker 1: So that will wrap it up for this edition of

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Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Live Podcast. Thanks go to Joe Pizzapia,

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Speaker 1: Thanks to for coming back, Arcus to thanks for having

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Speaker 1: me six days, five hours, Ti Ti Ti Ti tick.

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Speaker 1: We're almost there, of course. That's Sir Edward L. Murphy

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01:04:09,120 --> 01:04:12,160
Speaker 1: Esquire behind the glass. Always remember football. It's a lot

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01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:15,240
Speaker 1: like American live violence interrupted by committee meetings. We'll see

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Speaker 1: you on Monday. Wow. Wow, I'm I'm co