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That we sweat steam and it 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:33.319 is Friday, so we have my boy, the analyst, Chris 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.440 Ventra down there in the fantasy pit of misery. He's 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.840 only here on Fridays these days, so we're gonna catch 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.000 him up with all the fun and functional sports radio 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.240 a little bit later on as we check in with 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.120 the hashtags hats over beat Cipher, we got a big 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.440 show for you on a Friday. I'll give you all 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.720 the news and notes as you slide into the last 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.160 weekend before the Super Bowl. We'll talk a little bit 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.160 about the Pro Bowl, about that skills competition that happened, 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.520 and we have to update the story. Remember I played 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:03.480 the clip of Ali Raceman giving testimony um earlier in 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:07.360 this week, and has this not mushroom cloud this week? 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:12.160 Or what I'm talking about the the USA Gymnastics. I'm 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.240 talking about Michigan State. Now it involved in a fairly 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.600 deep level, so I'll get into that as well. And 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.000 of course we have the stats over beat Cipher. If 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:22.919 you want to hit me up, you can by following 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.600 me on Twitter at Spitting Speeds. You could get the 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.560 chat room out there on YouTube. I hope my man 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.880 strong style is down there already and you can holler 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.680 at your boy yet eight four four eight four three 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.160 six eight seven nine. I gotta poll question up because listen, 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.280 there's no football this Sunday for the first time in 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:43.880 a very long time, so I'm very intrigued. What would 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.960 you rather watch? Would it be the Pro Bowl or uh, 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:50.000 you know, one of these other leagues, the XFL which 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.320 Vince McMahon says it's coming back, the Arena League, the 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:57.440 CFL Canadian Football, or on this Sunday night without football, 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.640 you gotta shoe the Pro Bowl and stead watch. I 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:04.520 think the Grammys are on this Sunday night, the Royal Rumble. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.919 A lot of people have been talking about on this network. 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.680 I know my Man's strong style is gonna probably answer, 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.320 but hit me up on Twitter and let me know 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.399 later on in the show, also as usual, we will 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.799 put the fun and functional Sports Radio and I'm gonna 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:22.040 tell you why, uh hey, Bavona, you'd like this because 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.600 you're a hockey fan. Apparently NHL teams are catching the 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:29.800 quote unquote Vegas flu. We'll talk about what that could 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.160 mean a little bit later on as well as we 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:36.320 slide into the weekend. Dropping stats over beat at your boy, 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:40.760 Dame Martinez speeds. 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We're gonna be checking in with my guy. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.600 It's your boy, the analyst Chris Venture. A little bit 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.200 later on in the show, he's abandoned me Monday through Thursdays, 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:22.680 but we're gonna catch him up with all the fun 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.800 we've been having in functional sports radio. But let's get 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:29.000 it started here with news and notes from around the 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:32.040 NFL as usual. Listen, the Pats have had a walk 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:36.559 through today and Rob Gronkowski was not there, Okay, so listen, 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.760 this concussion story is what we are going to continue 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:43.960 to monitor all weekend long, and I'm guaranteeing you this 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:48.000 will be the number one injury update or piece of 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.120 news that they are gonna be talking about at Media Day. 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.880 So I have a feeling I gotta feel in that 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:58.640 Rob Gronkowski will have a limited practice session like on Monday. 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:00.920 I think media Day is Tuesday, a right, so if 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.360 he has not seen the field and that is hanging 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.440 over still, I think it would be such a huge 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.840 topic at media Day. I think the Patriots are savvy 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.479 enough to at least have Gronk out there, maybe in 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.799 a red jersey or in a limited piece of work, 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.920 so they can say that he is trending in the 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.400 right direction. What I will say about this, though, and 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.760 this is because I truly care about players safety. Never 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:27.039 Mind the NFL and the NFL p A and there 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:31.240 you know their passive aggressiveness towards these issues. I care 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.480 about player safety. So I wonder should the protocol not 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.440 only be different, We've talked about that, but what about 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.080 the return to play protocol? Because the Super Bowl is 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:44.039 a different animal than most. Isn't it louder then most games? 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.920 Aren't there more flashing lights than most games? Aren't there 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:52.799 more fireworks than most games? Aren't there more jet flyovers 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.840 then most games? Aren't there more like crowd noise and 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.400 paparazzi and lights and all that stuff which could be 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:06.000 bad to someone recovering from a concussion. But I digress. 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.680 I'm sure he'll be fine. I'm sure he'll get cleared. 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.960 Pat Shermer says, Eli Manning quote unquote has years left, 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.800 and Dave Gettuman the new Giants GM says Eli. Still, 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.920 when he checks the tape, still has plenty of armed talent. 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.320 This now sounds like a new regime that wants Eli 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.680 Manning to stay with the new York Football Giants. What 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:27.520 I think is going to happen is what I've been 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.840 telling you guys for a while. Yes, I do believe 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.400 that the New York Giants will retain Eli Manning. But 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.480 what I also do think is that they're going to 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.680 use that number two overall pick on a quarterback, and 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.000 I think it is the Rosen one out of U c. 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:45.680 L A. Josh Rosen. But I think that Eli will 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.760 wind up doing the same thing for Rosen that Kurt 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:53.080 Warner did for Eli in his rookie year, that being 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.280 mentor him, help him with the playbooks, start the first 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.920 you know, six to eight games, and then eventually give 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.840 way maybe to the rookie when he is ready. But 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.720 the front office really sounds like they are behind Eli Manning. 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:10.920 In Buffalo, sad News to report center Eric Would has 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.560 a neck uh injury, a kind of degenerative issue, which 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:18.200 is going to force his retirement from the NFL. Would 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.960 has been the Bills cententer ever since he was drafted 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.840 in the first round in two thousand and nine. Listen, 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:25.800 that's what you're looking for when you draft the first 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.280 round offensive lineman. You were looking for stability, and you 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:33.040 could just pencil his name into the lineup for ten years. 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.520 And that is what the Buffalo Bills got out of 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.280 Eric Would We tip our cap here at the fantasy 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:42.360 freestyle to Eric would Josh McDaniels is meeting with the 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.560 Colts again. Let me tell you something. This is like 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:49.160 the worst kept secret in all of the NFL. Okay, 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.080 Josh McDaniels is going to be the next head coach. 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.679 They're calling it like a follow up interview. What this 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.360 is is planning. They are planning so that they can 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.439 hit the ground running. Okay, that's what they're doing. They're 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.760 figuring out their free agency plan, their draft strategy, maybe 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:07.160 their practice scheduled things like that, going over the personnel 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.440 so that Josh McDaniels can hit the ground running. This 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.320 is only because the Patriots are still playing. That's the 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.280 only reason. Also that the Detroit Lions head coach opening 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.160 is still opening. That's because it's gonna be Matt Patricia, 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.600 the defensive coordinator in New England. This is no This 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.600 is happens all the time. Okay. Last year, if you remember, 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:27.760 the Atlanta Falcons were in the Super Bowl. At that 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.400 point in time, their offensive coordinator was Kyle Shanahan. Everyone 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:33.480 knew he was going to be the next head coach 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.920 in San Francisco. They just couldn't announce the same thing's 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.840 gonna happen with Matt Patricia in Detroit. To be quite honest, 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.440 that's the same reason the timing for the Pat Shermer 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.520 announcement earlier this week. It was as soon as Minnesota 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.720 got bounced from the playoffs. Speaking of coaching hires, the 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:54.120 Arizona Cardinals have hired ex Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Mike 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:58.800 McCoy as they are oc Remember um McCoy was also 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.800 the head coach of the Chargers for a few years 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.360 back in the day. But he's really a bad quarterback. Look, 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.680 this guy was offensive coordinator for Denver the last few years, 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.760 worrying about like Simeon and Lynch and Oswidler. He now 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.560 goes to um Arizona right after Carson Palmer retires and 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.280 he's going to have to build that Q be room 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.800 up from the ground up as well. Last piece of notes, 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:23.360 I'll give you this from a team that is actually 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:25.000 in the Super Bowl, but it's injury news, but it's 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.520 not going to impact the game. It came out that 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.760 Carson Wentz not only toward his A C L, but 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.160 he also tored his L C L in that injury 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:34.960 against the Rams. I gotta tell you, guys, if if 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.720 I could show you Speeds has done the same thing. Okay, 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:39.400 I got an A C L SCAR. I got an 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.200 L C L SCAR, So I understand that recovery. They 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.080 have the timetable at nine to twelve months. Listen to 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.200 if you think about that, because it would happened in 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.320 December or late November, real late in the season. That 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:54.400 puts his kind of Week one status in a little 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.200 bit of doubt. They say today that they are quote 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.760 unquote hopeful that he makes it for Week one, keeping 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.800 on on that, but he'll be missing most of training camp, 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:07.000 most of the preseason at the very least. All Right, 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.160 I gotta go back to this here on the Fantasy Freestyle. 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:15.520 Earlier in the week, I played the Ali Raisman testimony 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.960 um that she had about Larry Nasser, who has then 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.720 since been sentenced to I believe it was between forty 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.960 and a hundred and seventy five years in prison. And 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.560 I talked about how earlier this week, three of the 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:33.920 members of the United States Olympic the USA Gymnasts. Actually 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:38.040 USA Gymnastics resigned the chairman of the board, the vice 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:41.560 chairman of the board, the treasury of the board has 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.720 already resigned. I talked about how this was going to 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.320 be an issue that was going to continue to blow 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:54.480 up as a big story, and today, um, the United 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:59.480 States Olympic Committee has said to USA Gymnastics that if 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:04.160 they do not fire or have their entire board resign, 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.760 that the United States Olympic Committee is going to decertify 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.040 USA Gymnastics. The United States will no longer have an 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:18.719 Olympic level program unless the entire board of USA Gymnastics resigns. 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.400 I think that is a strong step. I think that 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:25.600 is an appropriate step for the United States Olympic Committee 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:29.040 showing that they are absolutely very serious about this heating 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:31.960 Ali Raceman and others words. How they say they are 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.160 going to further investigate who knew that this was going 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.160 on and when they knew it. They are going to 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:43.000 force the entire board of United States gym Gymnastics to 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:46.560 resign by the end of the month, by Wednesday. They 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.360 are going to put an interim board in place by 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.760 the end of next month, by February, and what they 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.080 are going to do is then kind of certify or 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.480 make the board official in twelve months after that. Okay, 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:01.880 they're going to continue and endum and then investigation. Remember, 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:05.840 Larry Nasser was the team doctor, and to be quite honest, 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.080 one piece that I did not know until later on 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.440 this week is he was He is already serving a 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:19.599 sixty year sentence um for um, you know, the same thing, harassment. UM. 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.280 So the judge did in fact sign his death warrant, 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.880 but it continues, okay this week. Also because Larry Nasser 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:31.120 was also a team doctor for Michigan State, and Michigan 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:35.880 State is starting to have officials run for the hills 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:41.200 as well. Okay. The president of the university, Luanne Simon, 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.479 who I should say is as a woman, okay, resigned 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:52.400 on Wednesday. Today the athletic director Mark Hollis abruptly retired today. 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:57.200 This scandal goes far beyond just Gymnastics USA Gymnastics in 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:01.520 Michigan State officials are leaving left and right and outside 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.920 the lines. Today had a report out that there is 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:09.480 kind of institutional um issues with this at Michigan State, 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:15.000 that they were actually suppressing information on sexual assault allegations 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:19.120 against members of the football team and of the basketball team. 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:23.400 It makes me wonder, Hey, Tom Izzoh, Hey Mark D'Antonio, 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.840 did you know about this as well? You know, we 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:32.320 could have here a Joe Paterno Sandusky kind of situation. 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:36.640 This watch this, The A D the university president have 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:41.720 both left in shame this week already the entire board 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:46.240 of USA Gymnastics is being forced to resign or have 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:51.480 them be decertified. And I think these are appropriate steps 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:55.600 after what Larry Nasser did institutionally with kind of protection 0:14:55.760 --> 0:15:00.200 it looks like from a couple of organizations for a 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:04.560 while with children. So I'm glad that we talked about 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:06.680 it when we did here on the Fantasy Freestyle, and 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.400 I'm glad that we continue to have updates as this 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.480 spirals even more. When we come back though on the 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.360 Fantasy Freestyle, we're gonna have a brighter topic, the NFL 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.480 Pro Bowl. When we come back here on the Fantasy 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.080 Sports Radio Network. At your boy speed it spitting statistician, 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.320 we'll have Chris Venture back to as well. Come all 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:31.800 right back, Hey there, everybody, it's me Joe Peza Pia. 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.080 Baseball is back, and that means the Fantasy Baseball Black 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:38.200 Book is back as well. It's me, it's Paul Sport 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:42.120 writing starting Pitching Profiles, It's Jake Seely, it's Sammy Read 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.240 writing DFS. It's a whole lot of greatness right here 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.440 for you. You can get the New Fantasy Black Book 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.480 for Baseball on Amazon, on iTunes, you can get it 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.440 in paperback. You can get it for your kindle. You 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.560 can get it anywhere you want. But make sure you 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.560 get at it because once you go Black Book, you 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:14.240 never go back. A Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyle 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.520 right here in the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You know 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.960 what it is. Yeah, but if it wasn't for the Bronx. Yeah, 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.680 big shout out to the Boogie Down Bronx. It's the 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.720 home of species spitting statistician, the Stable Genius. Shout out 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:29.240 to Liberty Finder on Twitter, always hitting me up, knowing 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.600 that I've added the Stable Genius to my a k 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.000 A s. Hitting me up. He was on a little 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.680 bit of a basketball uh roots show and hitting up 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.920 me and Tony Sencada to me and Tony um are 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:45.360 lineups overlapped a lot tonight in DFS. Okay, you still 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.760 got five minutes left, I think in DFS tonight. I 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.480 think the first game doesn't tip off until seven thirty. 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:52.480 I'm gonna tell you right now. We like Shabaz Napier 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.360 as a punt play on Portland tonight. He's gonna get 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.960 some extra minutes. I like Zach Lavine tonight, he's gonna 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.920 get more minutes. I like Michael kid Gil Chris as 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.640 a punt play tonight. And listen, this Houston, New Orleans 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.359 game has a two seven total. I'm gonna try and 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:10.480 get as much of that game as absolutely possible. But 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.400 I want to turn our attention to UH the Pro 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.400 Bowl this weekend on Sunday. There was a Pro Bowl 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.960 skills competition last night, or at least it aired last night. 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:22.400 And listen, this is something we talked about last year. 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:25.880 We were very excited about the prospect of the dodgeball matchup, 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:27.640 and we thought some of these other ones were interesting. 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.760 So I previewed them a little bit on yesterday's show, 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.320 and I gotta tell you something, shots called by your 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.679 Boys speeds the spitting Statistician. First of all, there was 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.879 the passing kind of like passing accuracy QB challenge. Derek 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.119 Carr took that home over Russell Wilson over Alex Smith, 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:46.080 and there was one other quarterback over Jared Goff as well. 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:48.640 Derek Carr took it. I think, you know, John Gruden's 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.879 gotta love it. Russell Wilson didn't look too good. I 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.440 think he put up the lowest score. But to be honest, 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.199 when does Russell Wilson get a chance to really just 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.640 stand in one spot and deliver the football? He's better. 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.240 He should have been on rolling out more than just 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.240 standing and delivering from the pocket because that offensive line 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:07.919 does not protect him. Then they had the drone drop. Okay, 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:10.760 I like this event. I think it is cool. It 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:14.760 was Jarvis Landry and Patrick Peterson. Jarvis Landry gets to win. 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.239 Does Patrick Peterson? I think could not handle it when 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.800 it came from a hundred and twenty ft high. Okay, 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:21.959 that's like twelve stories high. I think that's crazy. Now, 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:23.840 I liked this event, but I was I said it 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.560 last night. I will say it again. This event would 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:28.760 be better if they had these guys, you know, Jervis 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.760 Landry and uh Patrick Peterson. But then if they also 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.760 did it with two of the linemen that they had, Like, 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.760 let's say they also did it with Geno Atkins and 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.879 Ryan Terrogan. I think that would be fun to see. 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:42.600 I think, you know, having the big men do it. 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:44.800 I think that would be a little bit more interesting 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.240 than they had this um like Gridiron Gauntlet, which is 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.640 like a relay race and an obstacle course. This this one, 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.520 to me is just I don't really think like this 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:55.879 is that. I think if of all the events, this 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:57.960 is the one to cut. This is also the one 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.600 though that we see the defensive lineman and the linebackers in. 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.160 They're doing you know, they're pushing heavy bags, They're going 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:07.280 over and under walls and stuff like that, and that's like, okay, 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.000 I'd rather see the defensive lineman do silly stuff like 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:12.600 catch balls from a drone. I really would That was 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:16.200 just okay, they're the best hands one. I like that woman. 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:18.520 I like that they added a wall you gotta kind 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:20.960 of jump over to make a high catch. I like 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:22.960 that they have the diving catch they added. I would 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.640 like to see more more obstacles around, kind of the sideline, 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:29.360 the toe tapping. But it was cool. Um Michael Thomas 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:31.920 took it on home. I gotta tell you something. Keenan Allen, 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:35.639 though fo Gazzey. Forget about him. He put on a 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:38.840 bad showing uh in the Best Hands competition. Then they 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.600 did this a new thing with the kickers kick tac toe. 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:44.840 I thought it was creative. I thought it was pretty cool. 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:46.920 They had to be in essence, Wind kicked tick tac 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.359 toe with balls they kicked. They started though, from forty 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:51.879 five yards out, and they weren't really being effective with 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.880 their accuracy, so they moved in to thirty five, then 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.800 ultimately to twenty five yards. It was cool, though, I 0:19:57.840 --> 0:19:59.399 think they should bring it back. I thought that was 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.119 very in interesting. And then what they did at the 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:05.960 end was dodgeball, all right, and I like the dodgeball. 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:07.760 It came down to the dodgeball. The a f C 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:11.160 wound up winning. And if you remember what I said yesterday, 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:14.360 you could play it back. Bona the Manimal will tell 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:18.000 you what I thought was. I liked the a f C. Bivona. 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:19.760 You could back me up on this when I bring 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.000 you in later on in the show. I said, I 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:25.040 like the a f C because the NFC's wide receivers 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:29.840 were Michael Thomas and um who else, oh, Davante Adams. 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:34.159 Those are two tall guys, big outside receiver kind of guys, 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:36.359 I said the a f C. I like them because 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:39.640 their wide receivers were Keenan Allen and Jarvis Landry. More 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:43.199 slot guys, more shiftier guys. I said, I thought that 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:45.280 would give the a f C the advantage, and I 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:48.080 picked the a f C to win at Dodgeball. Well, 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:51.879 it came down there was only one person left on 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:55.240 each team, and the sole survivor for the a f C, 0:20:55.359 --> 0:21:00.760 who ultimately won was Jarvis Landry. Just like I said 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:02.720 that that would be a benefit to the a f 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:05.360 C team, and that is in fact what happened. What 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:08.520 this is your boy speeds the spitting statistician, once again 0:21:08.640 --> 0:21:11.200 calling his shot. The other thing that it's always interesting, 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:14.120 people said later on, because Landry was a sole survivor 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:18.640 in dodgeball because he won the drone drop, because last 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:20.679 year he also won the best hands competition. Did this 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:23.600 help his free agency case at all? I don't think so, 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:26.600 but it is interesting and funny to think about. But 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:29.280 as I said on Sunday, we will in fact have 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:30.840 the Pro Bowl, and I got a couple of things 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:37.560 to say about this. First of all, I agree with 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:40.080 most people who don't care we had a pull question 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:42.679 up yesterday and more people said they would watch the 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:46.440 skills competition rather than the Pro Bowl. That they would 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:48.920 watch the skills competition but not the game was more 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:51.920 than even would watch the game but not the skills competition. 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:54.560 And we gotta pull question up right now. And it's 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:57.360 like the Pro Bowl up against other leagues, the CFL, 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:00.800 your Marina League. Right now, the x FL is kicking 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:03.560 the Pro Bowls. But I I also believe, like if 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:05.320 I had a poll of like will you watch the 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:07.680 Pro Bowl, will you watch the Grammys or will you 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:10.080 watch the Royal Rumble on Sunday, I bet the Pro 0:22:10.160 --> 0:22:13.160 Bowl would not win that one either. So they gotta 0:22:13.240 --> 0:22:15.720 do some things, I think to bring up the excitement, 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:18.920 you know, because also the players were saying it themselves. 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:22.000 I heard an interview with t Sizzle Terrell Suggs. He said, like, 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:24.120 you know, he's a he's a veteran at this point, 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:26.560 he's been in the league for like fifteen sixteen years. 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:28.560 He's saying that he was gonna skip the Pro Bowl, 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:30.560 but his kids wanted to go down to our Land though, 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:32.199