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Speaker 1: as well as we continue our Pittsburgh Steelers discussion bleeding
Speaker 1: right in to our Action hour. If you missed it,
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Speaker 1: Steelers coverage. But gentlemen, we left off at the big
Speaker 1: juna in my mind, and that's our guy, James Conner.
Speaker 1: And people are all over the map when it comes
Speaker 1: to Connor. You either love this guy or you you
Speaker 1: want nothing to do with him, because you're either buying
Speaker 1: these reports or you're reading between the lines. And reports
Speaker 1: have stated that Pittsburgh Steelers are going to be careful,
Speaker 1: They're not going to have a bell cow, They're gonna
Speaker 1: use Jalen Samuels, They're gonna use all the pieces and
Speaker 1: James Conner will get the ball. When he gets the ball,
Speaker 1: use the hot hand of it. People believe as I
Speaker 1: do that. Throughout his career as the head coach of
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike Tomas used one guy. When lady
Speaker 1: On Bell was out, it was D'Angelo uh, Dangitel Williams,
Speaker 1: it was James Conner. When James Connor was out, it
Speaker 1: was Jalen Mills. That was it. There was no mixing
Speaker 1: and matching. There was one guy. To me, there's no
Speaker 1: reason to feel any bit differently this year that there's
Speaker 1: gonna be more than one guy. This is now James
Speaker 1: Connor's backfield, and I believe he should be drafted as such,
Speaker 1: drafted as a first round pick, and I expect a
Speaker 1: huge year out of Connor. Frank, Yeah, and you've kind
Speaker 1: of talked me into this as well. You mentioned the
Speaker 1: reports they've been going back and forth. The most recent
Speaker 1: one that we've heard from James Connor himself said, I
Speaker 1: expect to be used in a similar role as last year. Well,
Speaker 1: last year he was their workhorse running back, played seventy
Speaker 1: eight percent of the Steelers snaps. That was sixth highest
Speaker 1: among running backs. Last season, he was tied with who
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott as the RB seven overall in fantasy points
Speaker 1: per game. Last season, he averaged just over twenty touches
Speaker 1: per game. I would label that as a workhorse running
Speaker 1: back he had only he had thirteen total touchdowns and
Speaker 1: only thirteen games played. Speaking of only thirteen games played,
Speaker 1: he had fifteen carries inside the five yard line last year.
Speaker 1: That was third in the NFL. Again, he missed three
Speaker 1: games and still ranked in the top five in running
Speaker 1: in running back carries inside of the five yard lines,
Speaker 1: So you know that the touchdowns are going to be there.
Speaker 1: He is a bigger, a strong back, you know, someone
Speaker 1: that obviously can finish off his runs and score touchdowns
Speaker 1: and finish off these drives. And he proved that he
Speaker 1: can catch the ball last year as well. Let's not
Speaker 1: forget we were talking about him being better than Levian
Speaker 1: Bell last season, which just seems ludicrous now to remind
Speaker 1: ourselves of that. But on a per touch basis, he
Speaker 1: average more fantasy points per per touch then in Levian
Speaker 1: Bell's career with the Pittsburgh Steelers. So you know, I've
Speaker 1: listened to what you've had to say, Greg, I've read
Speaker 1: all the reports. I've looked over the data, and I
Speaker 1: find myself settling in on Yeah, I'm in on James Conner.
Speaker 1: I'm okay with him as a late first round pick. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We've discussed this at length, and I thought you could
Speaker 1: actually make the case and he should go above some
Speaker 1: of the guys you like Melvin Gordon, Lady on Bell
Speaker 1: the Off for mentioned David Johnson even potentially too. How
Speaker 1: high are you on James Conner? Eric All right now?
Speaker 1: I have him on eleven two overall. I don't imagine
Speaker 1: you'll move the guys in front of him. I just
Speaker 1: I can't move him above those guys. Um, that's just
Speaker 1: in my opinion right now. But I mean, like you said,
Speaker 1: like things can change when we here start hearing the
Speaker 1: rumblings coming out of camp. They're saying that they're going
Speaker 1: to spread the ball around and have the other running
Speaker 1: backs more part of the game plan. I'll believe that
Speaker 1: when I see it. Like you said, Tomlin has been
Speaker 1: a guy that has used his running back as a
Speaker 1: workhorse back, and I don't see him changing his velocity.
Speaker 1: The Pittsburgh Steelers is a winning franchise with Mike Tomlin
Speaker 1: at the head coaching position. They've they've won way more
Speaker 1: games than they've lost. And that's leading on one guy
Speaker 1: that can do both things, and that's what James Conner is.
Speaker 1: I agree, And that's why I'm surprised you have him
Speaker 1: all the way down it's twenty two overall because he
Speaker 1: could do so much. Yeah, like I said, that's it's early.
Speaker 1: I mean and and and for me, like they're you know,
Speaker 1: good guys that are ahead of him, Dalvin Cook. I
Speaker 1: could slide him down because of the injury risk, but
Speaker 1: I just believe that he is a better, a better
Speaker 1: athlete than James Conner. Uh, Damian Williams, Joe Mix and
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, Nick Job. Those guys are all better athletes
Speaker 1: than than him. And he's a great athlete, is a
Speaker 1: great running back. But I believe that those guys have
Speaker 1: a more more of an upside than than Connor does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that James Connor is the best all around
Speaker 1: back that they have on the roster. You look at
Speaker 1: Jaylen Samuel's he is a converted tight end in college
Speaker 1: into a running back, and last year he was fine
Speaker 1: when he filled in for James Conner. But you know
Speaker 1: he's more so looked at as a as a pass
Speaker 1: catching running back out of the backfield, and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, if anything were to happen to Connor, it's
Speaker 1: probably Jalen Samuels is the next man up. But they
Speaker 1: also use a draft pick on you. No, you know
Speaker 1: what I wrote in here, Greg Right, I wrote Blake SNeW.
Speaker 1: My mind's still on baseball. I wrote, Blake Snell. It's
Speaker 1: Benny Snell who they try bad for, you gosh, and
Speaker 1: I'm just still I get too much going on between
Speaker 1: baseball and football, trying to keep up with both. But
Speaker 1: it's Benny Snell who they drafted out of college and
Speaker 1: not Blake Snell. And this guy is a bowling ball.
Speaker 1: He is a pure early down runner. Pounds almost thirty
Speaker 1: rushing yards at Kentucky forty eight rushing touchdowns. He is
Speaker 1: an early down grinder, someone that can be used on
Speaker 1: the goal line. So I think they were just trying
Speaker 1: to cover themselves, Like if anything were to happen to
Speaker 1: Connor again, you know, he wasn't the most durable last season,
Speaker 1: then they can kind of mix and match with Benny
Speaker 1: Snell and Jalen Samuel's. But overall, I think as long
Speaker 1: as Connor is healthy, he is going to have a
Speaker 1: similar role to last year, which included right around twenty
Speaker 1: touches per game, which is very, very valuable. Of course,
Speaker 1: in a league where we were looking for the man
Speaker 1: at running back, we're looking for somebody that will not
Speaker 1: share carries. So how high would you put him, Greg,
Speaker 1: you're the guy, You're the James Hunter guy. Would you
Speaker 1: take him ahead of David Johnson. It's gotta put you
Speaker 1: on the spot. No, I know, I know you do.
Speaker 1: I'll say this, I'll take him ahead of Lady on Bell.
Speaker 1: I'll take him ahead of Melvin Gordon at this point
Speaker 1: certainly with the holdup, yeah, I mean I've lowered Melvin
Speaker 1: Gordon as well. I have them all the way down
Speaker 1: to like RB twelve right now and take me. That's
Speaker 1: if I'm drafting right now today. The David Johnson one
Speaker 1: is the toughest one for me because I also know
Speaker 1: that he's the guy and there's nobody else there, and
Speaker 1: if everything about that offense is what you think like,
Speaker 1: it should be a magical love for Chase Edmonds. No,
Speaker 1: no love for James Damins. Right, it was pretty good
Speaker 1: last year, he was it was fine last year. But
Speaker 1: that's the one of them. Closes with James Connor and
Speaker 1: David Johnson. I am taking Hi ahead of Lady on
Speaker 1: Bell with the jet stuff, So you would you take
Speaker 1: him six overall? Or is that too high? If no,
Speaker 1: I'm not not five picks are running. No, you're probably
Speaker 1: taking wide receiver, right. I told you I'm taking DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins Devanti Adams before the crew running best, so I'm
Speaker 1: very clear. So pick eight, you're taking James Connor. I
Speaker 1: would do that. Yeah, all right, we're gonna come back.
Speaker 1: We'll wrap things up with e Y, we'll talk about
Speaker 1: Big Ben, and we'll wrap all fantasy conversations come next. Hey,
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Speaker 1: So we're back here. Eric Young still with us talking
Speaker 1: about the Steelers. We talk a lot about their wide receivers,
Speaker 1: and they're tight aim and they're running backs, but it
Speaker 1: all revolves around one guy, and that is Big Ben
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger and Frank. The narrative almost Ben's entire career in
Speaker 1: fantasy football was that he was a different player at
Speaker 1: hines Field than he was on the road. Does that
Speaker 1: narrative still hold true? Um, let's look it up, Greg,
Speaker 1: because I didn't have Ben Roethlisberger splits available. That's perfectly fine, great,
Speaker 1: but um, overall, I look at the you look at
Speaker 1: the end of season numbers that he puts up every
Speaker 1: single year, and yeah, there might be some inconsistency week
Speaker 1: to week, But the same thing could be said for
Speaker 1: Drew Brees, right. I mean, he's always been much better
Speaker 1: at home, and he was still always drafted as a
Speaker 1: top five quarterback for most of his career, not as
Speaker 1: early this season as in years passed. But uh, last
Speaker 1: year when it came to Ben Roethlisberger home versus road,
Speaker 1: at home, nineteen touchdowns, seven interceptions, a ninety eight point
Speaker 1: seven passer rating. On the road fifteen touchdowns, nine interceptions
Speaker 1: at point four passer ratings. So I don't think we
Speaker 1: really have that many concerns over Ben Roethlisberger between the
Speaker 1: home and road splits anymore. Uh, And I'm actually pretty
Speaker 1: excited about him. I think you're getting him at a
Speaker 1: discount right now. I mentioned earlier that if you played
Speaker 1: in the Super Flex League, if you can pair Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson and Ben Roethlisberger together, you know, that's something I
Speaker 1: would look into doing, even if you play in a
Speaker 1: one quarterback league. This is something I did last year
Speaker 1: in the Flex league that we played in together. That
Speaker 1: this was an experts league where e Y was in
Speaker 1: it as well, and I took Ben Roethlisberger and Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: Is my two quarterbacks in a one quarterback league. That's
Speaker 1: what I like to do. I like take one upside quarterback.
Speaker 1: If you don't get one of the elite quarterbacks, I'll
Speaker 1: take one upside guy. I'll take one quarterback that I
Speaker 1: consider safe. Ben Roethlisberger was the one I considered safe.
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes was the upside play. Obviously that worked out
Speaker 1: very well, so I don't mind doing something like that
Speaker 1: again this season. But been big Ben in the past
Speaker 1: three years in terms of Fantasy points per game, He's
Speaker 1: been QB three last year He was QB eight the
Speaker 1: year four. He was QB eight in sixteen as well,
Speaker 1: so that was that's basically been his floor. I understand
Speaker 1: there's no Antonio Brown anymore at this point in big
Speaker 1: Ben's career. I think that we I think he's a
Speaker 1: quarterback that that can also transcend the players that are
Speaker 1: around him. It's not like he's completely alone. He still
Speaker 1: has Juju, he still has Vance McDonald, he has James
Speaker 1: Conner to throw the ball too. We expect James Washington
Speaker 1: to take another step. They signed Dante Moncrief for a reason.
Speaker 1: They must like him. So in terms of being without
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown, I think that Big Ben will still be
Speaker 1: pretty damn good. He's throwing twenty eight plus touchdowns in
Speaker 1: five of his last six seasons. It's just I feel
Speaker 1: like there's there's some disrespect here when it comes to
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger. They look at him and you're like, Oh,
Speaker 1: he's one year older. Does he really have that much upside? Well? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's being drafted outside the top twelve quarterbacks and every
Speaker 1: year he finishes inside the top eight. I would consider
Speaker 1: that to be upside. Greg Eric, are you comfortable drafting
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger as your starting quarterback. One quarterback leaks well, Um,
Speaker 1: how I haven't ranked no. Um, So I haven't at
Speaker 1: number thirteen. I have Kyler Murray just in front of
Speaker 1: him because of what I think that offense is going
Speaker 1: to be. But I mean, like I was saying, I mean,
Speaker 1: just finishes at seven or eight. Every year he's drafted
Speaker 1: outside of that and finishes better. And how we've been
Speaker 1: talking today, we believe Juju Smith Shooter is going to
Speaker 1: be one of the best receivers in the league. We
Speaker 1: believe Connor is going to be a very good, perhaps
Speaker 1: even a bell cow running back. And we think that
Speaker 1: the other two receivers are going to do well. And
Speaker 1: vas McDonald is going to be a top ten tight end.
Speaker 1: So I mean, if if you believe even half of
Speaker 1: that stuff that we've said, you've got to have Roethlisberger
Speaker 1: high because he's the quarterback. He's the starting quarterback. That
Speaker 1: is undoubtable for me. It's his health and his age.
Speaker 1: You know, those are things that that that worried me.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that holds the ball, he's beat up. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, he's never been a guy that fitness looked
Speaker 1: like a real priority for him, and uh, he's a
Speaker 1: big dude. But I mean when you get smashed on
Speaker 1: like that for for eight or ten years, it catches
Speaker 1: up with you. So right now I have them just
Speaker 1: outside of my my top twelve, but he could move
Speaker 1: up depending on what we hear coming out of training camp,
Speaker 1: how they're going, what's going on with Connor, if all
Speaker 1: the wide receivers stay healthy. You know, it's really far
Speaker 1: out to set your rankings in stone. But Roethlisberger is
Speaker 1: a guy that that I like, And I mean if
Speaker 1: I got him at twelve of I mean, I would
Speaker 1: probably be pretty happy with that. Yeah, it's interesting because
Speaker 1: this goes back to how people make rankings, right, Like
Speaker 1: you can make rankings of how how you rank them
Speaker 1: and how you think it should go. Because even though
Speaker 1: you has a bunch of quarterbacks listen ahead of Ben,
Speaker 1: he's not inside his top twelve at the moment. From
Speaker 1: the sounds of it's like, all right, if you wind
Speaker 1: it with manage your quarterback fine like that that that's okay,
Speaker 1: And I almost believe like that's how I'm going to
Speaker 1: have it. Also, like Ben's probably not going to get
Speaker 1: into my top twelve. Just look at some of the
Speaker 1: other names ahead of them, but all these guys go.
Speaker 1: I don't have any issue having been as my quarterback
Speaker 1: having a backup because he does tend to get injured
Speaker 1: a lot um. I'm okay with that. And Big Ben
Speaker 1: hasn't shown the signs that like Eli Manning has shown
Speaker 1: of wearing down, like he's the same guy. And I
Speaker 1: love James Connor, which I do. And if I love
Speaker 1: Jude Jujuice mimth Schuster, which I do, you have to
Speaker 1: like better Office Breaker, you have to exactly. Everyone's talking
Speaker 1: about how much they like Juju, and they like Vans
Speaker 1: McDonald and they want to take shots on Dante Moncrief
Speaker 1: and James Washington. You know, this is an old adage
Speaker 1: in fantasy football. If you like all the weapons on
Speaker 1: the team, you gotta like the person who's throwing those
Speaker 1: weapons the ball. I mean, that's partially the reason why
Speaker 1: we all like Jamis Winston so much this year as well. Right,
Speaker 1: we all like Mike Evans, we all like Chris Godwin,
Speaker 1: we all like O. J. Howard. That means we have
Speaker 1: to like the person who's throwing him the throwing the ball, right,
Speaker 1: that would be Jameis Winston. So I think the same
Speaker 1: thing holds true for Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Greggy,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you on the spot. Are you ready?
Speaker 1: What is a fair projection for Baker Mayfield this year?
Speaker 1: No rushing, Let's just say passing yards, touchdowns, interceptions, most
Speaker 1: people's consensus. Let's say top five, tops seven quarterback this year.
Speaker 1: I think it's realistic to say that may Feel have
Speaker 1: thirty five touchdowns? Is that realistic? He's realistic, right? Four
Speaker 1: thousand passing yards, I think that's realistic. Interceptions, I mean,
Speaker 1: exception you can He'll thrive you through fourteen last year, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say, let's just say around fifteen. That was
Speaker 1: the number of my head. Yeah, maybe a little more.
Speaker 1: Why can't big Ben put up those same numbers? Yeah? Exactly, sure,
Speaker 1: Like that's that's my point. And I said that yesterday.
Speaker 1: Baker's being drafted as like the QB five and you know,
Speaker 1: around pick eighty or whatever, and Big Ben's going forty
Speaker 1: picks later, and he's the QB fourteen and a DP
Speaker 1: right now, And I don't really see a big difference
Speaker 1: between those guys. Baker is not gonna run all that much.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe he'll run a little bit here there,
Speaker 1: but mostly the damage he's gonna do for fantasy is
Speaker 1: what he does with his arm. And you know forty
Speaker 1: you know, four thousand yards to yards, thirty two thirty
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, Like I think those are similar numbers to
Speaker 1: something that Big Ben could put up. And you're getting him,
Speaker 1: you know, three rounds later than where you're getting Baker
Speaker 1: close to close. What's gucci. So I think the big
Speaker 1: difference is uh consistency with Ben on the road not
Speaker 1: as good. We we just we just that and it's
Speaker 1: not true. So in the past it's been true. What
Speaker 1: about maybe not last year particularly, but in the past
Speaker 1: it's been true. And the other thing is the upside.
Speaker 1: The Baker Mayfield upside is obviously, you know higher at
Speaker 1: this point, the ceiling is higher. But Ben finishes the
Speaker 1: QB three last year. I mean that there's not much.
Speaker 1: It's not much more upside than that. I agree, But
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't that's not happening again. Chances are
Speaker 1: that's not happening again. He just lets we love the
Speaker 1: juju we're in on James Washington or Donte moncre. Everyone's
Speaker 1: just like falling for this Baker Mayfield hype right now.
Speaker 1: I look, I get it. He's got good weapons, he's
Speaker 1: got Odell Beckham, he's got Jervis Landry. That's fine. He's
Speaker 1: still a second year quarterback. He doesn't have nearly as
Speaker 1: good as an offensive line as Big Ben and the
Speaker 1: Steelers do as well. I mean, that's something else that
Speaker 1: we can factor into this. I just think, you know,
Speaker 1: Big Ben led the league in passing yards last year
Speaker 1: here for fifty yards. Even if that comes down by
Speaker 1: seven hundred, he still might have more yards in Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1: He's probably gonna throw for mid four thousands, maybe upper
Speaker 1: four thousands in yards this year. And I would say
Speaker 1: thirty right around thirty touchdowns, maybe a little bit more
Speaker 1: than thirty touchdowns. I just think that I think we're
Speaker 1: falling a little bit too much in love with the
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield because it's second year quarterback. It's you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's the new, fresh, shiny toy that everyone always
Speaker 1: wants Greg for fantasy. And I think it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a trap this season when when comparing those
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks. I am totally with you, man, absolutely with you.
Speaker 1: E y Final Final thoughts here on the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: I feel like you want to have as many pieces
Speaker 1: um of this offense as possible, and judging by our conversation,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna probably have to move Ben Roethlisberger up from
Speaker 1: where I have them. I I like all the guys
Speaker 1: that I have in front of him, but I really
Speaker 1: have to just stift through it. I mean, that's why
Speaker 1: you have these conversations. That's why you watch the show,
Speaker 1: That's why you you listen to podcast. You do these
Speaker 1: things because you can hear something that could change your
Speaker 1: mind and that this is where the most important work
Speaker 1: of the season is done right now. It's where Steelers
Speaker 1: any pretty good? This? Yes, why are you like going
Speaker 1: to win the division? Friend? That it's correct. I think
Speaker 1: you're getting good value right now. Are an underdog in
Speaker 1: the a f C North. All right, I appreciate time.
Speaker 1: We'll do it again tomorrow, my friend, we come back.
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Speaker 1: that was a wild Yankee game last night, probably the
Speaker 1: best baseball game of the season so far. Said that
Speaker 1: maybe last week or two weeks ago when the Dodgers
Speaker 1: and Phillies played, they had a similar back and forth
Speaker 1: where the Dodgers took the lead in the top of
Speaker 1: the ninth and then the Phillies walked it off against
Speaker 1: Kenny Janson in the bottom of the ninth with Bryce
Speaker 1: Harpbread the dish and bases loaded. But this was every ending.
Speaker 1: It actually got to the point where I was too tired.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, this game needs to end because there's
Speaker 1: just too much going on at this point. Five hour game.
Speaker 1: You'd think, oh, five hour game has probably went like
Speaker 1: thirteen fourteen endings. No, it was just ten endings long.
Speaker 1: This is a really really long game. I think it
Speaker 1: was the heard Joe mentioned this earlier today on the
Speaker 1: morning after. It was only the second time I believe
Speaker 1: in MLB history that a team has blown the lead
Speaker 1: in the top of the eighth, bottom of the eighth,
Speaker 1: top of the ninth, bottom of the ninth, in the
Speaker 1: top of the tenth. It was great, the top of
Speaker 1: the tent, well they gave it up. Well, you know
Speaker 1: it's like change hands. Well, how the league going into
Speaker 1: the top of the tent? Yeah, basically just like you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But the top of the eighth,
Speaker 1: bottom of the eighth, uh, top of the ninth, bottom
Speaker 1: of the ninth, and then top of the tent. It
Speaker 1: was just an absolutely bananas, bananas Yankee game last night.
Speaker 1: It's miraculous, miraculous eight to two night. It's his former team,
Speaker 1: the revenge game. That's what they were talking about all
Speaker 1: these years, Greg Revenge. Yes, yeah, this is you know,
Speaker 1: found finally happened once out of the one million revenge
Speaker 1: games we've mentioned. What is Taylor Lujans? I know I'm
Speaker 1: drilling around, but what is Taylor Luan's um? What is
Speaker 1: his dispension? Due to the Tennessee Titans win total? Right
Speaker 1: now over at the FanDuel Sports books, that's kind of
Speaker 1: how I'm looking at it. Right the wind total forwards
Speaker 1: Tennessee at the moment is eight. I'll will take this
Speaker 1: time to apologize to you, Grega. Yesterday you said, well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like the Titans have a chance
Speaker 1: to win the a f C South and I said,
Speaker 1: of course they do. Anyone has a chance. They don't
Speaker 1: have a chance. I'm sorry, but this does drastically improve them.
Speaker 1: And I just saw something on Twitter that the first
Speaker 1: I believe it's three weeks, they face like two top
Speaker 1: pass rushes. I think one of their games is against
Speaker 1: the Jaguars and maybe against like the Texans as well.
Speaker 1: So they're gonna face some tough past rush earlier on
Speaker 1: in the season, and you're playing without your all pro
Speaker 1: left tackle Greg that's going to leave them open to
Speaker 1: a potential Marcus Mariota hit an injury. He's already been
Speaker 1: injury prone. He's had a bunch of different things happened,
Speaker 1: broken leg, he had the nerve issue in his elbow
Speaker 1: last year. He had a neck injury last year as well.
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota has been fragile. That's why they wanted to
Speaker 1: surround him by with a really good offensive line and
Speaker 1: a really good run game. That's you know, they want
Speaker 1: to be a football team. You lose your all pro
Speaker 1: left tackle, I mean, that's obviously going to change things.
Speaker 1: Is it Is it necessarily going to affect their win total?
Speaker 1: It's probably not gonna change it all that much. It
Speaker 1: might it might change how you feel about it, like
Speaker 1: what you were gonna do. But I would imagine most
Speaker 1: people probably had the Titans for like between eight and
Speaker 1: nine wins. Anyway, they won nine games last year. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be a solid football team. But losing your left
Speaker 1: tackle does not help, especially in All Pro one. Greg,
Speaker 1: I'll take the under right now. It's at eight, yeah, eight,
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. You could you can still end up with
Speaker 1: a push there if it's eight and a half, I
Speaker 1: would I would like that a decent amount because it
Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me if there're seven or eight, feel really
Speaker 1: good about that. Under Frank, they're still gonna try and
Speaker 1: pound the rock with Derrick Henry. I believe there's a
Speaker 1: contract year from They're probably gonna run him into the ground. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure they were reports that have come out before.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they will. I just let me see the
Speaker 1: over under, Um, the undercurrent is minus one thirty. The
Speaker 1: over is plus one ten, which makes sense, yeah with
Speaker 1: the number eight. So yeah, that's the deal with the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. And hello, the one of course being suspended.
Speaker 1: Steve Kirk came out earlier today and he thought that
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis forcing his way to l A. It wasn't
Speaker 1: a great look, Frank, And I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: do with Steve Kerr's words, but the NBA and Silver
Speaker 1: are looking into everything that happened during this offseason and
Speaker 1: tampering and whatnot. You don't seem to buy it. Nothing
Speaker 1: for easy happened at all last year. There's no way
Speaker 1: that Lebron was talking to Anton Anthony Davis the entire time.
Speaker 1: There's no way that you know, throughout the trade deadline
Speaker 1: that Lebron was trying to force the Lakers and the
Speaker 1: Pelican's hand into making a move. There's just no way
Speaker 1: that that possibly happened last year. Greg, I think that
Speaker 1: they should probably look into it and see if there
Speaker 1: was a chance that there was some tampering involved. Greg,
Speaker 1: there's definitely a chance, but it's probably slight. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say there's tampering, Frank, what are we doing? Even
Speaker 1: Johanna's called them out when they were doing the All
Speaker 1: Star Draft, Lebron drafted Anthony Davis and Janna said, that's tampering.
Speaker 1: Love it. It's hilarious and actually at the thick accent
Speaker 1: he's from another country. Even he can understand that there
Speaker 1: was tampering going on in the NBA, and oh maybe
Speaker 1: it's something that they have to look into. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't say, come on it. I mean I understand players
Speaker 1: having power is a good thing. Greg, when we get
Speaker 1: to the point where players are like controlling everything, I'm
Speaker 1: not playing for this team unless you trade me. Like
Speaker 1: the Pelicans were the team that drafted you, Anthony Davis.
Speaker 1: They took a chance on you. They paid you money,
Speaker 1: They paid you every single game that you played. And
Speaker 1: the way that you responded to that was pipe sitting
Speaker 1: out games down the stretch Craig and trying to force
Speaker 1: them to make them trade you to the Los Angeles Lakers. Okay,
Speaker 1: I get it. You it didn't work in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: You tried with Boogie Cousins there, you had some success.
Speaker 1: You want to playoff series. It wasn't going as well
Speaker 1: last year with Drew Holiday. I get it. They signed
Speaker 1: Julius Randall. The Western Conference is a beast. It was
Speaker 1: gonna be hard to compete there no matter what. We
Speaker 1: just play out the year at least, Greg, you know,
Speaker 1: let's okay, maybe around the deadline you're like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'll set out a game here there towards the deadline.
Speaker 1: Let's see if a trade happens. Whatever. But once that
Speaker 1: doesn't happen, why don't you just play out the rest
Speaker 1: of the year. You know you're gonna get traded in
Speaker 1: the off season anyway. Don't you at least owe your
Speaker 1: team that, the team that drafted you, the team that
Speaker 1: paid you every single game that you played in the NBA,
Speaker 1: don't you at least all the Matt Greig I would think.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think so you owe them that. But as
Speaker 1: a player, I think you have the right to be selfish.
Speaker 1: You can do that free agency, though you can't you
Speaker 1: get to the off season, you can demand a trade.
Speaker 1: You you also want the most money, right like you
Speaker 1: want to get to the Lakers. He can sign an
Speaker 1: extension with the Lakers. So he made the most money
Speaker 1: from the Lakers. I just always had players, as we
Speaker 1: just saw with Kevin Durant, Greg even if he got hurt,
Speaker 1: he was still gonna get paid. No, he's younger than
Speaker 1: Kevin Duran. Kevin Duran is gonna be thirty two years
Speaker 1: old when he comes back from a torn achilles and
Speaker 1: he got paid a max contract. Even if Anthony David's
Speaker 1: got hurt, he was to get paid a max contract
Speaker 1: or whatever it was. He stills. And that's the other
Speaker 1: thing on this. He still had another year on his
Speaker 1: contract left. Even signing an extension with the Lakers, he
Speaker 1: still had another year out to play. You had a
Speaker 1: year and a half left to play on your contract
Speaker 1: with the Pelicans, and you were sitting out games in
Speaker 1: the second half of the season because you didn't want
Speaker 1: to risk getting hurt. I mean, at some point, like
Speaker 1: it is a contract. It is something that you signed.
Speaker 1: It's not that you know. If me and you sign
Speaker 1: a contract here at the Fantasy Sports Network, sports creed
Speaker 1: right to do a job and come in every day
Speaker 1: and do a show. You can't just say, all right,
Speaker 1: well there's a year left on my contract. I want
Speaker 1: to renegotiate, I want to get paid more money. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm just not gonna do this show anymore. Is
Speaker 1: that how things work? No? Real life is life? Obviously life.
Speaker 1: You can't just did out your job for months and
Speaker 1: then make a massive, massive pay day. Is it not
Speaker 1: fair to compare the two situations that I compare because
Speaker 1: I heard Gabe talking about this the other day too.
Speaker 1: He said, well, you know, you can't compare compare your
Speaker 1: nine being Ezekiel Elliott because you're not You're not as
Speaker 1: talented as Ezekiel Elliott. Absolutely, so you can demand different
Speaker 1: things when obviously you're as talented as Ezekiel Elliot or
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis. I get that, but it's just like, you know,
Speaker 1: what kind of precedent does it set for anyone else now,
Speaker 1: anybody else in the NBA or any sport really that
Speaker 1: just doesn't want to play for a team, but they're
Speaker 1: just not gonna play. Jimmy Butler did it too earlier
Speaker 1: in the season. That was a disaster. Remember in fantasy
Speaker 1: basketball and for DFS purposes. After time, you didn't know
Speaker 1: if Jimmy Butler was gonna play. He didn't know if
Speaker 1: he was gonna play. He's like, yeah, I think like
Speaker 1: quads here, an ankle or something. I'm gonna set this
Speaker 1: one out, trade me to Philly. That's right. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I think he just played. You play a dangerous game
Speaker 1: when you get into that, does it also rub you
Speaker 1: the wrong way that nobody's playing the team the USA
Speaker 1: this summer? It's the world Championship is not the Olympics,
Speaker 1: but they wanted everybody to be like around for all
Speaker 1: four years of the cycle. Theoretically doesn't bother you. Basically
Speaker 1: everyone's backed out of it, right because I saw it,
Speaker 1: even like Julius Randall's getting called to play jail and
Speaker 1: nine players. How about Bradley Beale jumped out of it,
Speaker 1: Dame Lillard, Lebron James. So here the players have opted
Speaker 1: out ready, Anthony Davis, James Hard and Damian Lillard, DeMar
Speaker 1: Durose and Bradley Beale, Eric Gordon, Toby Harris, Kevin Love
Speaker 1: and C. J. McCollum. You're still gonna win. You're still
Speaker 1: gonna win, Greg, I mean, what does that bother you?
Speaker 1: Like this compared to this to the World Cup? Right,
Speaker 1: when the US plays in the World Cup, they'll have
Speaker 1: all their best players. They can go up against Brazil's
Speaker 1: B team and still lose exactly. So I'm not just
Speaker 1: really bothering me plause it's just like the World Championship, right,
Speaker 1: does that really matter for anything? Well, we saw in
Speaker 1: the past when these players don't all get together and
Speaker 1: then just come together for the Olympics, it doesn't always work,
Speaker 1: and that's how they eventually fell to Spain. Does that
Speaker 1: even really matter either? No, of course it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: There's millions of dollars, millions of dollars on the moors.
Speaker 1: They'd rather win like an NBA championship. Will this matter true? True? Question?
Speaker 1: You were bet on the the Basket World Championships in
Speaker 1: Shanghai knowing that the NBA doesn't have their best team.
Speaker 1: This is good. You're gonna get them at better odds.
Speaker 1: You're gonna get the U S team at better odds,
Speaker 1: but they'll still be the heavy favorite, but not as
Speaker 1: much as if they had Lebron James and Anthony Davis
Speaker 1: and all these guys. Maybe you take the Spaniards man
Speaker 1: with play you still see us ruby. No, I'll still
Speaker 1: take the NBA's CE team against Spain's eight. It depends
Speaker 1: what the odds are. I'll say that, of course. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean you can get things that value, but you
Speaker 1: don't just want to piss away money either. Now. I
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Speaker 1: back here, Fantasy Football Conversation over for the day, or
Speaker 1: of course the action hour. We'll go over all of
Speaker 1: our best bets from the MLBB. We had it. We
Speaker 1: just are just happened to be leave Over in ESPN
Speaker 1: C Bambara had his press conference. It seems like, well, well,
Speaker 1: obviously we haven't been able to see anything. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you've got any quotes from there, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure it's gonna be a lot of generic speak. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of Kawhi Leonard saying I'm excited
Speaker 1: to be here, huh. And then it's gonna be Paul
Speaker 1: George just saying something similar. Is all right, Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: all excited to be here in l A and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, looking forward to trying to bring another championship
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles and whatever it is. It's fine if
Speaker 1: you're a Clippers fan. You're excited if you live in
Speaker 1: l a great, how do you decide what team to
Speaker 1: move for? Well, you have a team, man, like we
Speaker 1: live in New York. That's true, But I'd imagine there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people. I wouldn't be surprised if there
Speaker 1: was people that probably it's obviously gonna be more of
Speaker 1: the casual fans that jumps ship. That was like, all right, well,
Speaker 1: once Lebron, I'm gonna be a Lakers fan. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's a good question to ask him. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know that. I mean, I guess he's still a Knicks fan,
Speaker 1: right or that's what he's That's what he'll say. Why
Speaker 1: would you be a Knicks fan? Um uh? Kawiti Leonards
Speaker 1: to this, he thanked the City of Toronto. I'm not
Speaker 1: on social media, so I wasn't able to put out
Speaker 1: a paragraph or whatever. You like. The bill all the
Speaker 1: check of of players. Huh, that's pretty accurate. Who knows
Speaker 1: she's like doing a show? Do you see that with
Speaker 1: Wisconsworth for like NFL hundred? What does he call it?
Speaker 1: He called it snap face. He called social media snap
Speaker 1: face snapchat, not Facebook. Steve Bomber is basically the new
Speaker 1: more human as an owner in the NFL. He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm watching this like seventeen second video. He always has
Speaker 1: been really he's been really animated on the court. It's
Speaker 1: like really involved with the organization. He's going nuts. Why
Speaker 1: wouldn't you, Greg, If you own a team and you
Speaker 1: got two of the best two way players in the NBA,
Speaker 1: you would be excited to lose my mind? Frank, for
Speaker 1: sure you have time to think over the break. Did
Speaker 1: you come to a conclusion as to whether or not
Speaker 1: you actually enjoy money or pissing? Like both? Like what
Speaker 1: happened there? Huh? I was trying to be funny and
Speaker 1: I went the wrong way. Well you were, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't like money, I don't like pissing. I like both.
Speaker 1: I don't piss your anyway. On the one end, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's hit New Hour. That's that's all the evening, Frank,
Speaker 1: How do we do last night? About last night? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you called the upset special of the night, but special
Speaker 1: of the night. You laughed at me. Probably should have
Speaker 1: made that your best bet, because your best bets went
Speaker 1: over two of them and I went too for one
Speaker 1: on my round Robin two for two for one two
Speaker 1: and one makes more sense. And one I should have
Speaker 1: made the cheat man cheese the um Royals my best bet.
Speaker 1: I knew it, I said from the beginning. I was
Speaker 1: a special plus one nine last night. Well, you settled
Speaker 1: on the cub's money line. If you would have went
Speaker 1: with what you first said, the Cubs over, it comes over.
Speaker 1: You were the money line guy, No, but then you
Speaker 1: actually you were like, no, I like the money line.
Speaker 1: That's how the show ended. So that's why I wrote
Speaker 1: you down as really cubs went over. I think they
Speaker 1: finished with five to four and extras it was seven
Speaker 1: and a half. I just missed my other over, didn't
Speaker 1: I I think it finished four to three or something
Speaker 1: like that was in the Cardinals and Pirates game. You
Speaker 1: know for two last night, you're two and two on
Speaker 1: the week, I went two and one. I'm three and
Speaker 1: two on anything my upset special nothing and I'll put
Speaker 1: an asterisk. Can I get the asters please? I want
Speaker 1: to know in upset specials is being written down right now.
Speaker 1: That's gonna make it your best bet. You should have
Speaker 1: I asked you if you wanted it. Yeah, you specifically
Speaker 1: did ask me. Yes, we have some baseball going on
Speaker 1: right now? Do we not? The first? Right now? The
Speaker 1: Rockies and Nationals. Nationals are up three to two right now,
Speaker 1: and the Rockies have pretty much imploded here. How greggy,
Speaker 1: should they be sellers? Yes? What are they selling? Well? Exactly,
Speaker 1: that's what I was gonna that was gonna be my
Speaker 1: next one. Charlie Blackman, are you stilling that? I'm seeing
Speaker 1: that contract? Nobody is? So you're not going to get
Speaker 1: fair value for him because you have to obviously, uh,
Speaker 1: you have to give up. You might have to attach
Speaker 1: something with him to get rid of a salary. So
Speaker 1: may Ian Desmond something like that. I don't know. Nolan Arnado,
Speaker 1: you're keeping around Trevor's story. You're keeping around, David Dollar,
Speaker 1: You're keeping around it's basically your young core. Maybe Daniel Murphy.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's someone they try to shop here. They don't
Speaker 1: have any pitching to give up. Maybe like Scott o Bird,
Speaker 1: you know, someone in their bullpen like something up. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: Wade Davis has not pitched well for them in the
Speaker 1: closures role either, poor poorer Rockies here, they're imploding. Chris
Speaker 1: Vescher's Rockies. I know he has the Rockies hat and
Speaker 1: he does. He does alright, best bet to the night, Frank,
Speaker 1: Let's do it please the Cubs and the Giants? Tyler
Speaker 1: chat with him and with John Lester being scratched due
Speaker 1: to an illness, team just started already, Greg about to start,
Speaker 1: It's about to start. Tyler Beaty, Oh, he won't count
Speaker 1: it as anything, but he like Tyler Beati today. How
Speaker 1: about you, Tyler beat Yeah, I mean, what was it there?
Speaker 1: Seven and seventeen and three in their last twenty games
Speaker 1: of San Francisco Giants, So it's hard to bet against
Speaker 1: them right now, and and someone's just being thrust in
Speaker 1: there as a spot starter for the Chicago Cubs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would probably lean with Tyler Beaty and the Giants.
Speaker 1: I don't love beating in the spot I like what
Speaker 1: he's done recently, but the Cubs strike me as a
Speaker 1: It's a tougher lineup and he can struggle with Walks
Speaker 1: at times. So I probably with the Giants, but I
Speaker 1: don't like it as much as you do. Already. Indians
Speaker 1: and Blue Jays at seven o seven. It could be
Speaker 1: Marcus Stroman's last start with Toronto Blue Jays may have
Speaker 1: one more left in him, but Blue Jays Indians, Biba Stroman,
Speaker 1: good one. That's a really really fun game here between
Speaker 1: Shane Bieber and Marcus Stroman tonight at seven pm Eastern Time.
Speaker 1: Shane Bieber on the season three point six ninety A,
Speaker 1: Marcus Stroman a three point oh six e r A.
Speaker 1: Greg The total is that eight and a half. This
Speaker 1: is a tough one because Beaver's pitched really well, obviously,
Speaker 1: so has Stroman. Stroman and the Blue Jays are home dogs.
Speaker 1: Obviously they're not as talented of a team as the
Speaker 1: Indians have. You're getting plus one eight team with the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays, so I can see that. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: the crowd's really amped up because it's it's Marcus Stroman's
Speaker 1: potentially last start here and they're all excited for him.
Speaker 1: I think I would lean with the blue Jays, maybe
Speaker 1: lean with the under here, but I don't really feel
Speaker 1: confident in either. Yeah, my favorite bet here's the under.
Speaker 1: I like the under eight and a half a lot.
Speaker 1: It's just so hard to take an under in baseball. Now.
Speaker 1: You know so many runs scored, it's many home runs
Speaker 1: will get the best bet. We'll do it. You're making
Speaker 1: it the best bet now. I am all right, you
Speaker 1: really You're turned that around very quickly socually like the
Speaker 1: under of the beginning leveland Toronto under eight and a half.
Speaker 1: One of the best bets tonight, Padres and Mezzies to
Speaker 1: Nelson Lament, Noah synder Goard Syndergarden. The Mets minus one
Speaker 1: sixty two favorites tonight with the total at eight and
Speaker 1: a half. The Nelson Lament has not really looked great yet.
Speaker 1: He's still kind of building up that arm straight strength,
Speaker 1: working himself back from Tommy John. He has a five
Speaker 1: point one four e r A so far since we're
Speaker 1: turning from said Tommy John. No A. Syndergard has recently
Speaker 1: rediscovered his slider and it's been pitching much better. No
Speaker 1: Ah Syndergard. Any chance he's traded? Greg? Do you see
Speaker 1: the report from John Haymann See the report from John Hammond. Yes,
Speaker 1: will not consider trading Devy Garcia unless understandably so and
Speaker 1: it would cost Debbie and more to get no Syndergard.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I do not think no Syndergard gets traded. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Mets are big favorites tonight in this one. I
Speaker 1: would not bet on them alone because it's just too
Speaker 1: much lay down at minus one sixty two money line.
Speaker 1: Maybe we can find a par lay later on. But
Speaker 1: it's not even like I'm that confident in the New
Speaker 1: York Mets either. I don't love this game, Greg, Let's
Speaker 1: continue one. I'm not comfident in this game either of anything.
Speaker 1: I like the under here between Lamette and synder Guard,
Speaker 1: Kansas City and Atlanta. Brad Keller, Jose Tehran Braser wants
Speaker 1: to get a heavy favorite this time. I actually like
Speaker 1: the Braves much more in the Royals. Did did Julio
Speaker 1: Tehran change his name Gregg because you just called him
Speaker 1: Jose Jaron? It's weird? Who Leo Tarrant on the Mounts
Speaker 1: tonight at three point six one ear a going up
Speaker 1: against Brad Kella four point one eight e r a
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves of the home team they're laying min
Speaker 1: and this one. The total is nine and a half.
Speaker 1: So far, I have not loved this slate, Greg, there's
Speaker 1: a game I'm staying away from as well. Anything you
Speaker 1: like here? No, I can see the Braves obviously winning,
Speaker 1: so maybe this is a parlay. Will save that for later.
Speaker 1: See if we find another team that we really like,
Speaker 1: See what we can find and maybe it's not. In
Speaker 1: Chicago between the White Sox and the Marlins. Rainald the
Speaker 1: Lopez is taking on Zac Gallen does a close one too,
Speaker 1: because I want to like Zack Gallan in the Miami Marlins.
Speaker 1: They've split the first two games of the series. On Monday,
Speaker 1: I was on the Marlins. Trevor Richards did not come through.
Speaker 1: Last night I was on Caleb Smith. The Marlins did
Speaker 1: come through. He pitched extremely well, and end I want
Speaker 1: to like Zack Gallan in the spot because I just
Speaker 1: don't really like the Chicago White Sox bats here. They're
Speaker 1: playing without Eloy Jimenez still obviously, but Ronaldo Lopez has
Speaker 1: actually pitched well recently, relatively his his I saw that
Speaker 1: his velocity. His velocity is always up. Let's just get
Speaker 1: that out of the get that out of the way
Speaker 1: first and foremost. But his velocity has been up even
Speaker 1: higher recently, and he's going up against the paltry Miami
Speaker 1: Marlins lineup. Might be interested in the total here in
Speaker 1: this game, Greg, is that nine? Like that? You're like
Speaker 1: that on there? H Yeah, It's gonna be one of
Speaker 1: my best bets. One of the best bet Zack Gallan, right,
Speaker 1: now the lope is going on there, U prop for
Speaker 1: that six rod first inning against the White Sox. Yeah. Admittedly,
Speaker 1: Ronaldo Lopez is a very volatile starting pitcher. Zac Gallan
Speaker 1: has been He's been up and down. He hasn't necessarily
Speaker 1: lived up to the expectations that we've all had for him.
Speaker 1: But again, overall, it's just two lineups that I don't
Speaker 1: think are very good. So I'll take the under nine
Speaker 1: between Gallant and Ronaldo Lopez behind that, Gregor not really,
Speaker 1: I see where it's coming from. I don't hate it. Um,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't do it from. I'm probably the only person
Speaker 1: in America who had been on the Marlins game three
Speaker 1: games in a row. Look, Jenard's out there though. Yankees
Speaker 1: and Twins at their last night epic clash, it's Jay
Speaker 1: having Jake Odoreesi. Both teams need lengthen their starters. Do
Speaker 1: they get them? No, I mean, from the Yankees perspective,
Speaker 1: definitely not Jay Hap They're not letting him touch any
Speaker 1: teams through the third time through the order. They're just
Speaker 1: not letting him pitch, and rightfully so, I mean, you
Speaker 1: see the numbers that bear out the further he goes
Speaker 1: into games. Um, Obviously, the numbers go down and or
Speaker 1: rather I guess in this case, go up against him.
Speaker 1: But he's given up a lot of home runs. He's
Speaker 1: just he's hasn't been close to the picture that he
Speaker 1: was last year. Funny how that works, right, He pitches
Speaker 1: really well in a contract year, gets a contract and
Speaker 1: then sucks. Not like we've ever seen anything like that
Speaker 1: in baseball before. Not only that, the Twins are second
Speaker 1: in the entire MLB and waited on bas average against
Speaker 1: left handed pitching this year at three sixty two. Yankees
Speaker 1: are also much better against right handed pitching their third
Speaker 1: Can I interest you in man? I would say the total,
Speaker 1: but it's at eleven and it just played a ton
Speaker 1: of endings last night. I want to like the normally
Speaker 1: I would look at this right and the fact that
Speaker 1: Yankees are really good against right ees, the Twins are
Speaker 1: really good against lefties, but it's just such a big number,
Speaker 1: And the fact that they played a long ass game
Speaker 1: last night, five hour game, ten innings, an emotional game,
Speaker 1: like what it would it surprise you if they came
Speaker 1: out flatten this one? What the reasons? Has been the
Speaker 1: better pitcher so far this year, So the Yankees might
Speaker 1: have the better lineup. It's two really good lineups. This
Speaker 1: is a tough game, man. Anything you like here, Greg,
Speaker 1: I'm probably staying away away as well. I want to
Speaker 1: like the over. I want to like the over, but
Speaker 1: I like oh the REESI more is the picture on
Speaker 1: the mound too, So I can't even really feel confident
Speaker 1: in the side here. I feel like they're pretty even offensively.
Speaker 1: No more Gary Sanchez in the lineup two, so uh,
Speaker 1: Austin Roman probably gonna catch tonight. That takes another bat
Speaker 1: of the Yankees lineup. I'm not touching this one, Greg,
Speaker 1: Final game to night. Franka's the Angels and the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: Chini Baria Ross Stripling. Dodgers a heavy favorite, very heavy
Speaker 1: at minus two oh five here against the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Angels the Battle of Los Angeles. But it's a rass
Speaker 1: stripling against Barria, and Barria has been destroyed recently as well,
Speaker 1: so I actually wouldn't be surprised if we go over
Speaker 1: that ten total here. It's just a matter of can
Speaker 1: the Angels do enough against raw stripling because he's pitched
Speaker 1: well recently as of late. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: this game. I think I'm just going with one, going
Speaker 1: with one, best bet for the night, Craig, that's uh.
Speaker 1: The Marlins and White Sox under nine, you are the
Speaker 1: Indians and Blues Days under eight and a half. Do
Speaker 1: you like anything in the Battle of Los Angeles? Put
Speaker 1: another check mark in the upset special night column. Oh
Speaker 1: see Angels over the Dodgers night, folks, Angels over the
Speaker 1: Dodgers tonight. There you go, He's Franks. Thanks everybody downstairs.
Speaker 1: E y menstri too. See you next time, We hope
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Speaker 1: What did happen? What did happens? Here's what you missed
Speaker 1: on the BFx Taylor Luan, the starting left tackle All
Speaker 1: Pro left tackle, suspended for the first four games over
Speaker 1: the season due to fail in the drug test. He
Speaker 1: actually released a video on Twitter himself saying, listen, I
Speaker 1: said a band substance, having no idea that I took it.
Speaker 1: Um there was nothing on the label. I will get
Speaker 1: the polygraph test to prove that I didn't know what
Speaker 1: I was taking. I've never done anything like this wrong
Speaker 1: in my life. The guy was in tears, but it
Speaker 1: is his responsibility. He ultimately has failed this drug test.
Speaker 1: The Tennessee Titans will be without their starting left tackle,
Speaker 1: tylorly Wan for the first four games over the NFL season.
Speaker 1: E Y, how does this affect your boys? Specifically Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry and Marcus Mariota's scary man. I mean, he's one
Speaker 1: of the highest paid tackles in the game. He's one
Speaker 1: of the best left tackles. Uh, buddy of mind, guy
Speaker 1: that I know pretty well. Uh, I mean I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't mean we're not best friends or anything, but
Speaker 1: we're talking about He's got a really cool podcast called
Speaker 1: Busting with the Boys. If you guys like, uh, boys
Speaker 1: being boys, it's a it's a fun thing to watch.
Speaker 1: But that that's scary, man. I mean, he that's the
Speaker 1: lynchpin of your offense is the center and the left tackle.
Speaker 1: It's it's obviously very important. I believe that they'll still
Speaker 1: be able to run, but it does scare me for
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota more than anything. Yeah, I agree. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a an offensive line that was rated fourth
Speaker 1: overall by Pro Football Focus heading into the season, and
Speaker 1: we know that what they want to do is control
Speaker 1: the clock. They want to run the football with Derrick Henry,
Speaker 1: they want to play a smash mouth brand of football.
Speaker 1: And obviously, being without an all pro offensive lineman, specifically
Speaker 1: your left tackle, is a really really big piece to
Speaker 1: lose here for the Tennessee Titans. So maybe were notched
Speaker 1: stings down a little bit here for Derrick Henry and
Speaker 1: specifically Marcus Mariota. Monster lost the aff the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1: You lose here, Taylor Luue. They're starting left tackle due
Speaker 1: to a suspension. Let's get back into the Baltimore ravings
Speaker 1: here and specifically Lamar Jackson. I told you that in
Speaker 1: the playoffs when the defense forced into pass the ball,
Speaker 1: he struggled. He passed the ball against the Chargers twenty
Speaker 1: nine times. He's just fourteen row, two touchdowns, an interception,
Speaker 1: but took seven sacks in the swe Haley rushed the
Speaker 1: ball nine times successfully of course, fifty four rushing yards.
Speaker 1: Give what you're gonna say, Frank. The floor for Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson is extremely high because of how much he runs
Speaker 1: the football. You saw since he got in the game,
Speaker 1: since he became the starter. I mean he was running
Speaker 1: the ball almost fifteen times every game. Seventeen rushing attempts
Speaker 1: per game was his average once he became a starter,
Speaker 1: from week eleven on seventy nine rushing yards per game. Greg,
Speaker 1: it was awesome. He had four touchdowns in that span
Speaker 1: as well. He was a vital part of the offense.
Speaker 1: The problem is well at floor floor for rushing the
Speaker 1: ball is extremely high if a team is like the
Speaker 1: defense is like the Chargers and forces him in the
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