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Speaker 1: Everybody.

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Speaker 2: It's Thursday, January twenty third, twenty twenty five. Welcome to

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Speaker 2: the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast.

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Speaker 1: We're Haters with a heart to be your man named

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Speaker 1: g Marcus.

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Speaker 2: Grant, joined by Michael F. Florio and Lakwan Jones. And

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Speaker 2: I say that because so Floria, I gotta give credit

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Speaker 2: to the Bills Mafia, because y'all are weird. Y'all are

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Speaker 2: obnoxious and very much over the top. But the Bills

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Speaker 2: Mafia does have a reputation for helping out people that

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Speaker 2: help them. You know, I remember obviously the Andy Dalton

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Speaker 2: thing when the Bengals, you know, helped you guys get

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Speaker 2: into the playoffs and in the playoff drop and the

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Speaker 2: most recent one. Now I see that Bill's Mafia is

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Speaker 2: donating to diabetes research in honor of Mark Andrews. So,

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Speaker 2: you know, while on the one hand, Mark Andrews and

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Speaker 2: his drops sort of helped you guys along in the

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Speaker 2: AFC Championship.

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Speaker 1: Game, it's nice to say Bills bar feels giving back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is They've done this a couple of times.

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Speaker 3: I know they did it. Uh, this is a second

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Speaker 3: time with the Ravens. They after beating them in the

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Speaker 3: playoffs a couple of years ago, they donated to Lamar's charity.

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Speaker 1: It is a very unique thing. I don't know of

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Speaker 1: any other.

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Speaker 3: Fan base that does this, but that's what makes it

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Speaker 3: so cool. And I did see, speaking of haters, I

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Speaker 3: saw someone on Twitter being like, did I ever donate

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Speaker 3: when the player beats them? And it's like, no, man,

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Speaker 3: that doesn't that's not in the nature of what this is.

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Speaker 3: Like this is like, all right, we beat you.

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Speaker 1: Guys, but at the end of the day, like it's

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Speaker 1: bigger than.

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Speaker 3: Football or whatever, you know, so like it's like losing

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Speaker 3: a fight after that, he just got completely whooped and

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Speaker 3: it's like, all right, here's twenty bucks. I know it

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Speaker 3: doesn't make things better for Mark Andrews, but I'm sure

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Speaker 3: it's got a just a little like even if it's

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Speaker 3: one percent, he's got to be like, all right, some good.

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Speaker 2: Came out of this, yeah, yeah, And why would you

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Speaker 2: even think that, Like no, of course you're not going

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Speaker 2: to donate after the team beats us, Like no, of course,

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Speaker 2: not like they gotta win, Like why do I need

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Speaker 2: to help them?

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Speaker 1: More? So small percentage it has to be tongue in

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Speaker 1: cheek though, like it's like, mm yeah, thanks, guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It just feels like it's a thing

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Speaker 1: now and like people are noticing it even more now,

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Speaker 1: and like if they do this next year, and let's say,

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Speaker 1: you guys go all the way to the Super Bowl, Like,

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Speaker 1: do they reward the Super Bowl losers? Like, maybe let's

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Speaker 1: maybe two more weeks. Let's get ahead of ourselves here.

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Speaker 1: You're right, well, we will.

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Speaker 2: We will predict the championship games at the end of

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Speaker 2: the show today because obviously this is our last one

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Speaker 2: before Sunday hits, So I will.

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Speaker 1: Get to that a little bit later on.

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Speaker 2: We'll continue our exit interviews picks thirteen through sixteen in

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Speaker 2: the upcoming drafts. So we're hitting pretty much the halfway

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Speaker 2: spot of the first round, but starting with a couple

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Speaker 2: of news headlines, both involving teams in the AFC East.

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Speaker 2: So Floria will play close attention because this impacts you directly.

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Speaker 1: Starting in New England, where what is old.

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Speaker 2: Is new again, the Patriots are expected to hire former

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Speaker 2: offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels as their next offensive coordinator. This

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Speaker 2: is not a complete surprise, guys. We had heard this

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Speaker 2: rumor recently, like a week ago. I think I gave

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Speaker 2: a deep sigh of disappointment on the pod when we

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Speaker 2: first talked about this a little while ago. But it

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Speaker 2: looks like it is going to happen. Mike Vrabel, we know,

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Speaker 2: coming back. They're going to try to get the band

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Speaker 2: back together. I guess I don't know. I mean, look, Florio,

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Speaker 2: we've seen Josh McDaniels as an offensive coordinator. He's certainly

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Speaker 2: better as a coordinator than he has been as a

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Speaker 3: I want to say yes, and I agree he is

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Speaker 3: a much better coordinator than he is head coach. But

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Speaker 3: Like it's night and day. And I understand, like when

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Speaker 3: the Patriots lose Tom Brady twenty twenty twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: Are outside of maybe my holmes and Reid, which.

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Speaker 3: Are trying to make a case for it. Though that's

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Speaker 3: the greatest head coach quarterback duo in NFL history. Tom

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Speaker 3: Brady's the goat. So I still have questions about this,

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Speaker 3: but I do ultimately think it is a good thing

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Speaker 3: because we have seen McDaniels get the most out of

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Speaker 3: we've seen him be able to work when he has

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Speaker 3: quarterback talent, and that is what I belie Drake May is.

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Speaker 3: But man, I wish there was a like, don't you

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Speaker 3: guys wish you could just leave your job whenever you

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Speaker 1: Sitting there waiting for you to come back. Absolutely, that'd

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Speaker 1: be a great situation in any job situation. But I

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Speaker 1: feel like this is the third time, guys, we're in

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Speaker 1: the third time this guy's going to be in that

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Speaker 1: building calling plays. And you know, my expectations are for

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Speaker 1: Drake May to be like this quarterback that we know

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Speaker 1: he could be because the talent's there. I mean, Florio

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Speaker 1: and like the upside is there. And the good thing

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Speaker 1: about this though, it's not like with adding McDaniel's it's

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Speaker 1: I'll take the discount on Drake May, I'll take the upside.

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Speaker 1: I'll take a Demerio Douglas. And you know, who knows

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I just think this seems like a

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Speaker 1: that's one hundred percent with this. This is absolutely a

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Speaker 1: It is trying to rekindle the glory years that they

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Speaker 1: years unsuccessfully to sort of rebuild the Pete Carroll era,

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Speaker 1: like after he left and went to Seattle and the team,

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Speaker 1: you know, they hit probation for a little bit, and

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Speaker 1: they struggled to try and rebuild things. They just kept

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Speaker 2: And yeah, Josh McDaniels was the offensive coordinator for some

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Speaker 2: of their better years. But as you mentioned, they had

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Speaker 2: and they had a lot more talent across the board

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Speaker 1: It still wasn't good.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, we talked about the two rookies

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Speaker 2: thirteen catches for ninety nine yards not good really, but

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Speaker 2: anywhere we're talking about like, yeah, I'll take a flyer

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Speaker 2: on the Mario Douglas sixty six catches six hundred and

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Speaker 2: at kay Shawan Boody forty three for five eighty nine.

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, Drake May shows some flashes and ideally

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Speaker 1: Progress this year.

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Speaker 2: This is a team that still doesn't have a lot

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Speaker 2: a big bounce. I mean, all these guys come in

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Speaker 2: the whole Patriot Way thing and whatever. It just it

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Speaker 2: A it's another reboot, right, it's we we live in

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Speaker 2: a world with three Spider Man twos, that's what this is.

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Speaker 1: Man and how many Batman? Like how many times have

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Speaker 1: we got to watch Batman parents die? Like it's one

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Speaker 2: Or maybe just wait and leave till everybody else leaves

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Speaker 1: What are we doing here? Yeah? Zero wasn't that good

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Speaker 1: when it came out like you don't have to go

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Speaker 3: I do love when a movie, like something like a

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Speaker 3: They're like, it's gonna be a similar story to what

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Speaker 3: I wanted this Patriots regime to be. But like it's

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Speaker 1: But I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. So we'll see.

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Speaker 2: We'll see if this is actually like a good rebooting

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Speaker 2: didn't see that. It just seemed like a bad idea,

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Speaker 2: that's all I saw it.

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Speaker 1: You're on par you're on track.

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Speaker 2: Okay, great, we will stay in the AMCs because the

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Speaker 2: Jets have made a higher. This sertment floating around for

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Speaker 2: a couple of days, but Aaron Glenn is the new

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Speaker 2: head coach of the New York Jetropolitans. He played there

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Speaker 2: at some point during his playing career as well. Lakwan,

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Speaker 2: you had a lot of hate in your heart and

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Speaker 2: you let it out about the Lions on Tuesday's show.

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Speaker 2: Do you want to continue to pray and dance around

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Speaker 2: at their potential downfall?

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be the bigger person here. No, I'm sure, man,

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Speaker 1: I can't do in any situation if I wanted to, Like, no,

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Speaker 1: absolutely not, let's go the tray is down bad. But

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Speaker 1: I mean, Sauce Gardner had a down year. I mean, honestly,

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Speaker 1: he wasn't hisself. So you look at Jets DST as

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Speaker 1: a fantasy option if you still have DST out there

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Speaker 1: in your leagues, Like I look at this as a

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Speaker 1: huge plus, you know, for the defense to get back

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Speaker 1: on par and then honestly, who knows what they're going

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Speaker 1: to do with that offense? Honestly, I mean Zaron Rodgers stain,

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Speaker 1: is Davante Adams staying Like these are questions that we

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Speaker 1: still have answered in January, and like as soon as

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Speaker 1: the season starts getting closer, that's when we could really

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Speaker 1: start a mold and see how this team's going to

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Speaker 1: be as a culture. Is it going to be the circus?

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Speaker 1: Part two? Is it going to be Jersey Shore, like

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Speaker 1: with this Jets team. Yeah, and I think I don't know, Floria.

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Speaker 1: We don't know who works there. We really don't.

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Speaker 3: But I do like this hiring because the Jets have

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Speaker 1: We thought all along.

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Speaker 3: So look, I could easily be wrong, but I feel

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I do think we've seen a change in

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Speaker 3: Be hire the GM, the GM hires the coach. Now

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the Jets.

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Speaker 2: Will We will wait further instructions before we can kind

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Speaker 2: who were eight and nine this past year. We went

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Speaker 2: right Von Hense the fantastic season, followed up a great

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Speaker 2: this year. Eightyhch is eight hundred and eighty four yards,

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Speaker 2: that reason, Kwan got to cosplay as Evil Alman Ross

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Speaker 1: Blonde, the blonde bandit, The blonde bandit, That's what it was. Uh,

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Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill an underwhelming season, less than one thousand yards,

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Speaker 2: eighty one catches, nine hundred and fifty nine yards, six touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: Not so much. Jalen Wattle even more frustrating.

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Speaker 2: Fifty eight catches, seven hundred and forty four yards and

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Speaker 1: Florida.

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Speaker 2: You obviously are in the same division. You watch a

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Speaker 1: Not for me, I think, I mean.

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Speaker 2: Only for you as a fan. Obviously, you want the

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Speaker 3: So yes, I think for real, like he has done

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Speaker 1: I think that's more.

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Speaker 3: On Tua than on him. I think Tua is a

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Speaker 3: very limited quarterback. I think when things are right, you

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Speaker 3: I care about fantasy more than anything, and he is

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Speaker 1: Like.

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Speaker 3: He had a top five tight end this year, a

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Speaker 3: think Mike McDaniels is one of the better offensive minded

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Speaker 3: And this year, more than anything, was like Toua wasn't available,

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Speaker 1: I get it.

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Speaker 3: They didn't play well with backup quarterbacks, but take the

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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you this one. Lakwan

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Speaker 1: Funny, I'm taking two. I'll take two of it. When

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Speaker 1: he's hurt over Trevor Lawrence. Wow, do you have hating

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Speaker 2: Because I mean, I asked you that because I know

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Speaker 1: I mean, like Florio explained, like his lack of as

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Speaker 1: its frustrations, But like Mike Florio said, it, it's more

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Speaker 2: Do we believe Floria that Tyreek really wants out of

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Speaker 3: I think it's more that. I think it's more frustration

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Speaker 3: And uh, I think because of where he is in

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Speaker 1: One thing I haven't heard anyone.

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Speaker 3: And I've already seen him photoshopped in like four different

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Speaker 2: Yeah, to your point, he will be thirty one by

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Speaker 1: Where do you guys gauge drafting him though, Like I mean,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's still a first round pick to me. At

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Speaker 1: Oh my mock. I got him at two oh six,

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Speaker 2: As soon as I said it, I started thinking, I'm like, well, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Because you got Luco, I got Nico in front of him,

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Speaker 2: Nico is the one to me that I don't know, Like,

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Speaker 2: Like I just don't know if if he continues to

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Speaker 2: I'm who knows what else happens when that wide receiver

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Speaker 2: but I also think the floor is maybe a little

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00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,440
Speaker 2: more unstable than we wanted to be.

438
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,879
Speaker 3: Brian Thomas was the name that I was like, I

439
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,280
Speaker 3: can I could be convinced to go either way here.

440
00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,560
Speaker 1: Oh really, yeah, he's another one.

441
00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:15,359
Speaker 2: I know I fired off the Brian Thomas is a

442
00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:17,679
Speaker 2: first round pick, like right after the season started. But

443
00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,520
Speaker 2: that's another one where you know, I sat down and

444
00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,080
Speaker 2: I had a good night's sleep and a cup of

445
00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:25,120
Speaker 2: coffee and I'm like, all right, lady, let's let's rethink

446
00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:25,960
Speaker 2: that idea.

447
00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,320
Speaker 1: No, but the fantasy stres are with you though, Like

448
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,560
Speaker 1: I've seen this multiple times that people were like skyrocking

449
00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,200
Speaker 1: him to the first round. I can't pull the trigger personally,

450
00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:36,480
Speaker 1: but he's definitely in that early second round ballpark.

451
00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,000
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, early second round feels a little more comfortable

452
00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:40,080
Speaker 2: to me now, Like.

453
00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,919
Speaker 1: Immediately I was like, yeah, first round. Then I'm like, uh.

454
00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,840
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, hold on, let's let's reevaluate things. And

455
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,400
Speaker 2: then yeah, so that's kind of where I am right now.

456
00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,640
Speaker 2: So all right, so Tyreek then maybe second round pick?

457
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,399
Speaker 2: Well interesting, Yeah, well that's not to workshop that as

458
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:56,840
Speaker 2: we as we keep going this offseason. For sure, it

459
00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,720
Speaker 2: was weird, like it feels nasty though it didn't feel right.

460
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,359
Speaker 2: You guys were getting start and say questions in your

461
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,840
Speaker 2: DMS about if you're going to start Tyreek Hill, Like,

462
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:06,520
Speaker 2: I think once we hit that point with a player,

463
00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:09,240
Speaker 2: it's kind of like I can't take this first round investment,

464
00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:10,920
Speaker 2: Like he's off the border the first round.

465
00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's true. All right, let's move on.

466
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,440
Speaker 2: The number fourteen pick goes to the Indianapolis Colts. They

467
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:20,840
Speaker 2: were also eight and nine this year. Jonathan Taylor was

468
00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:24,920
Speaker 2: fantastic as usual, fifteen hundred and sixty seven scrimmag yards,

469
00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:28,800
Speaker 2: twelve touchdowns. He was the RB twelve. Josh Downs had

470
00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:31,680
Speaker 2: something of a breakout season, maybe not a full breakout,

471
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,600
Speaker 2: but the beginnings of one seventy two catches, eight hundred

472
00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:38,479
Speaker 2: and three yards, five touchdowns, So where it went wrong.

473
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,159
Speaker 2: We were very excited about Anthony Richardson. We had a

474
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,400
Speaker 2: small sample size his rookie year, but it was enough

475
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:47,399
Speaker 2: to wet the appetite and get us all fired up

476
00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,480
Speaker 2: about what could be this year. We were all like, yeah,

477
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 2: this guy has top five upside. There were even people

478
00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 2: who were going so far as to say he could

479
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,240
Speaker 2: be the QB one overall.

480
00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:58,440
Speaker 1: He was the QB twenty five.

481
00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,960
Speaker 2: Yes, that being said, Lakwan, how are you approaching Anthony

482
00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:04,440
Speaker 2: Richardson in twenty twenty five?

483
00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:08,680
Speaker 1: Very cautiously. And I say that because it's like, if

484
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,879
Speaker 1: I'm in leagues where I have to draft two quarterbacks,

485
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 1: he will be my second quarterback. Because you do believe

486
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: that there was a night and day change once he

487
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: got bent and then he got back into the game.

488
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,119
Speaker 1: They started playing into his strends and more design runs,

489
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:24,359
Speaker 1: Like if he keeps on running, he gets more fantasy points.

490
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,960
Speaker 1: Like I think it's that easy and simple to play

491
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,160
Speaker 1: to his strengths and kind of keep the weapons around,

492
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 1: like hit this draft, get moral line, get another tight end,

493
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,399
Speaker 1: Like there's some needs for this team, and like you

494
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 1: look at the wide receivers and you got to really

495
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 1: honestly look at like Anthony Richson, who is he going

496
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 1: to be his wide receiver one? And like that needs

497
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,200
Speaker 1: to be, you know, in stone so he can hyper

498
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,520
Speaker 1: focus on how to keep this offense moving, how to

499
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,880
Speaker 1: keep the chains going, how to convert the third down,

500
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 1: be a red zone threat. That what he is because

501
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,719
Speaker 1: in that small sample size last season, we saw what

502
00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 1: was it, like seven touchdowns in like two and a

503
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 1: half games that could be on par And that's why

504
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,879
Speaker 1: we were so hyped for him to be a QB

505
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 1: one because it's in him. It's there. It's just more

506
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 1: so of like, is the coaching staff going to play

507
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 1: to his strems and not trying to make him fit

508
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,479
Speaker 1: into an offense that they envision and just play what

509
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:16,560
Speaker 1: Anthony Richid can do.

510
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 2: So then if we if we go to that idea

511
00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:22,879
Speaker 2: and I know Florida, we were all excited about the

512
00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 2: rushing ability to touchdown upside. Lakwan mentioned they need to

513
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 2: find a wide receiver. One we thought it was Michael

514
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:32,679
Speaker 2: Pittman Junior. He finishes the wide receiver forty one. It was,

515
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:36,359
Speaker 2: It wasn't great, And so I just I look at

516
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,159
Speaker 2: it as if they decide to play to Richardson strengths, right,

517
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 2: if they create more design runs, if they create more

518
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 2: easy throws, does this mean we're out on Colts wide

519
00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,880
Speaker 2: receivers then for me, yeah.

520
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 3: It's very weird because as excited as we all are

521
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:53,159
Speaker 3: for Anthony Richardson for fantasy purposes, in the upside that

522
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,320
Speaker 3: he brings, I would say, as of right now in

523
00:24:56,359 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 3: his career, he is a net negative to every other

524
00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 3: Colts offensive player for fantasy purposes because Michael Pittman Junior,

525
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 3: like he was not a top forty wide receiver this year,

526
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 3: he was the wide receiver thirteen. Last year in the

527
00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 3: wide receiver fourteen in points per game. Like, this is

528
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 3: a guy who prior to this year three years in

529
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 3: a row being a top twenty wide receiver. And look

530
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:26,639
Speaker 3: at the quarterbacks, it was like Gardner, Minshew and other retreads.

531
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,000
Speaker 3: He was productive with those guys. So I don't think

532
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:33,880
Speaker 3: this is a wide receiver issue. I don't think Michael like, yes,

533
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 3: he was playing hurt through the back injury, all of that.

534
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,920
Speaker 3: Josh Downs looks good at times, Alec Pierce looked good

535
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 3: at times, Like I don't think this wide receiver room

536
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:43,879
Speaker 3: is one of the best in the leagues or anything

537
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,119
Speaker 3: like that, but there's some talent there.

538
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: And Anthony Richardson.

539
00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 3: You look at his game log, like pass numbers were

540
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,200
Speaker 3: never really great. The completion percentage at times was below

541
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 3: forty percent. And I say this as someone who is

542
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,119
Speaker 3: very much so rooting for Anti Richardson and wants him

543
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,639
Speaker 3: to be awesome. What also stood out to me was

544
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor had less I believe it was less than

545
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 3: twenty catches last season. Like, it's just not it's a

546
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:18,639
Speaker 3: style of play that is good for him for fantasy purposes,

547
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 3: and yeah, eighteen catches for Jonathan Taylor last year and

548
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:26,880
Speaker 3: like career low, So yeah, I think it's he could

549
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,639
Speaker 3: be really good for fantasy. Everyone else, I'm I'm not

550
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,439
Speaker 3: interested in drafting. And but to Laquan's point, like, if

551
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,760
Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson gets drafted as a QB two, I'm going

552
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 3: to take him on so many of my teams because

553
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,239
Speaker 3: the upside is just as high as we thought it

554
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 3: was last year. You're just getting him at a much

555
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 3: bigger discount and we know the risk now even more

556
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 3: than we did last season. So if you got to

557
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 3: take him as your first QB, I'm out. If you

558
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,120
Speaker 3: could get him as your QB two, Like, yeah, I'm

559
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 3: all on board with that.

560
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,439
Speaker 2: I'm I am going to be curious about what the

561
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 2: general can say is gonna be on Anthony Richardson this offseason.

562
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 2: Here's my other fear with him and Shane Steichen, as

563
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 2: far as we know, still gonna be the head coach

564
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 2: when they fired up in Week one next season. The

565
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 2: way he handled his quarterback situation was about as poorly

566
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 2: as you could have done it right. Yes, just randomly

567
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 2: benching Anthony Richardson bringing in Joe Flacco. Flacco stinks it

568
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 2: up for a couple of weeks, they go back to Richardson,

569
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 2: I mean, and just the way he sort of handled

570
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 2: it publicly, everything about it was bad. But it also

571
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 2: says to me that they don't have supreme confidence in Richardson.

572
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,360
Speaker 2: Whether that's a head coach thing, a general manager thing,

573
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 2: and ownership thing. You just wonder, is this guy gonna

574
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 2: be looking over his shoulder for the next time he

575
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 2: makes a mistake or next time he has a bad game?

576
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 2: Are we going to lose Anthony Richardson as a starter again?

577
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 2: Some of that might have to do with whoever the

578
00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,479
Speaker 2: backup's going to be in Indianapolis this year, but that

579
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 2: makes me heat to lean on this guy as a

580
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 2: QB one if he's always going to be on a

581
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,200
Speaker 2: short leash. Like all the upside, all the talent in

582
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 2: the world can be there, but right now, the way

583
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:16,120
Speaker 2: things are going, his ceiling is justin fields. I don't

584
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 2: even know if it's that at the moment, I guess

585
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 2: I guess what. Everything's going well, sure, but now we

586
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 2: are relying on him to be an above average runner

587
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,679
Speaker 2: at quarterback and hoping he can be at least competent

588
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 2: as a passer, which so far he hasn't shown us

589
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 2: he can be. And that's a little bit too much

590
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 2: risk for me to make him a QB one. But

591
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 2: as we know, people get stars in their eyes when

592
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 2: they see talent and they see rushing ability and they

593
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 2: see that upside and and all it takes is one

594
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 2: or two people to start kind of a bidding war

595
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 2: for Anthony Richardson and start pulling that adp up and

596
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, the price is maybe not

597
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 2: where we want it to be. So I am I'm curious,

598
00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 2: Like right now, I'm very much out on him as

599
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 2: a QB one, and I'm willing to just eat it

600
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 2: if he somehow makes the leap that everybody hopes. But

601
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 2: I can't, I can't. I can't buy in this year.

602
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 2: There's just there's there's too much development that still needs

603
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:14,760
Speaker 2: to happen for me to buy in. And sadly, sadly,

604
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 2: it's gonna it's going to impact everybody. Like now I'm

605
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 2: staying away from Michael Pittman. I guess maybe I'm later

606
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 2: rounds on Josh Downs. I'm you know, even Jonathan Taylor

607
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 2: comes with some question marks, because if Richardson is running

608
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 2: and he's scoring those goal line touchdowns, that's taking food

609
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 2: off of Jonathan Taylor's play. Like the Colts right now

610
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 2: are very much a mystery box to me that I

611
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 2: don't really want to.

612
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: Touch boats a boat.

613
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:42,959
Speaker 3: To your point about them benching him, which again I

614
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,479
Speaker 3: agree was very dumb and was very vocal on it,

615
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 3: but they did it last year in year two, So

616
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 3: like that is even more like if he comes out

617
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 3: in year three and looks exactly how he did last year,

618
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 3: they might pull the plug even quicker, and then they

619
00:29:57,520 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 3: might not go back to him like a lot of

620
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 3: the times in this league, when you get benched, you

621
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 3: don't you don't get to come back and start again.

622
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 3: So it's it's even more risk adding on to him

623
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 3: than last season.

624
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just sucks for the wide receivers though, you know,

625
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 1: like you like Josh downs, you know, for PPR purposes.

626
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: I mean, look, what are you supposed to do with

627
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 1: this project in the quarterback position? And like Dynasty folks,

628
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 1: I know they're pulling their hair out trying to figure

629
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: out what to do with their past catchers. Like I'm

630
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 1: not interested in it because when you look at the

631
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: numbers last year with these wide receivers, Alex Pierce led

632
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 1: them in the yards, Josh Down led them in catches,

633
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: and Pittman led them in targets. They all three of

634
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 1: these guys had over eight hundred yards. What are you

635
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: supposed to do with this when you try to figure

636
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 1: out who let them in yards? Huh? Who let them

637
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 1: in the yards? Alec Pearce, I think I realize that

638
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: until right now.

639
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 3: You guys, remember like week three, I was like, I

640
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 3: think Alec Pierce might lead this team in I should

641
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 3: have humble bragged that.

642
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: I thought, I'm sure. I pasked him. I mean that

643
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 1: minds you?

644
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 2: Mind you twenty one yards separated, all three of them.

645
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's real nasty, Like that's why I'm like, you

646
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: came and an attached Like if you do go Anthony

647
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: Richardson at QB two, you can't attach them to any

648
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: of the wide receivers either, because it's not going to

649
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: be consistent. You're constantly going to be thinking like do

650
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: I start Pittman this week? Do I start Downs this week?

651
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: Do I start piercing this league? Like it's going to

652
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: be real discussing nasty work. So it's a full fade.

653
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,479
Speaker 2: It's just it's they're all three in a situation where

654
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 2: they're too good to just completely ignore and leave alone.

655
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 2: But they're not good enough that you feel great about

656
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 2: starting them every week Like that is the worst.

657
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: They're most likely going to pop off on your bench.

658
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 1: Those are the worst type of players where you are

659
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: sitting there contemplating can I start them this week? And

660
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: then you don't and they put up like twenty. Then

661
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: the next week you start them, they put up three,

662
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: and it's like, know what, I'm done? Like that's when

663
00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: gets me all riled up and want to toss my

664
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:45,360
Speaker 1: phone off the balcony.

665
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 2: Our pal hyphen Colion likes to talk about players as

666
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 2: being oatmeal, like they're just good enough, Like they're not great,

667
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 2: Like the Colts wide receivers are oatmeal without like the

668
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 2: cinnamon and sugar and like, oh god, the raisins and stuff.

669
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 2: It's just it's just we just we just pulled it

670
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 2: out of the pot, threw it in a bowl and

671
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 2: gave it to you like that's it prison food. That

672
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 2: really kind of Colts wide receivers are prison food. It

673
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,479
Speaker 2: feels that way, right, he got them so you can survive.

674
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 2: That's it, man, It's just survival, right. We're not We're

675
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 2: not enjoying our meal. We just need we just need

676
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 2: calories and nutrients. Wow, that's it, all right, We'll take

677
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 2: a break, come back. We got more exit interviews to

678
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 2: dive into. Plus we will take a look at the

679
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 2: championship games for this weekend. That's coming up next on

680
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 2: the NFL Fantasy Football Show, continuing along with the exit interviews.

681
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 2: The fifteenth pick in the draft belongs to the Atlanta Falcons.

682
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 2: They like the Dolphins and Colts were eight and nine.

683
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: What went right?

684
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 2: B Joan Robinson another great year for him, nearly nineteen

685
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 2: hundred strimming yards, sixty one catches, fifteen touchdowns.

686
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 1: He was the RB. Three.

687
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 2: Drake London had one hundred catch season over twelve hundred

688
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:58,880
Speaker 2: yards and nine touchdowns. He was the wide receiver five.

689
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 2: Darnell Mooney, who I think shocked the world a little bit,

690
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 2: especially early in the season when he really was starting

691
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 2: to break out. But sixty four catches, nine hundred and

692
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 2: ninety two yards, five touchdowns, Wide receiver thirty one. Yeah,

693
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 2: I know that doesn't necessarily blow you away, but it's

694
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 2: Darnell Mooney blows me away, who had no expectations of

695
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 2: that whatsoever?

696
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: What went wrong?

697
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins did not look great in his return from

698
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 2: the Achilles injury. Just looked like he was a statue,

699
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 2: even more of a statue into the pocket he was.

700
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 2: The QB twenty three eventually gave way to Michael Pennox

701
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 2: Kyle Pitts tight end fifteen. Like I saw tiny fisty.

702
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: I'm like he was that.

703
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 2: High, Like he had forty seven catches, six hundred and

704
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 2: two yards and four touchdowns a tight end fifteen. So

705
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask you, Florio, because I know we have

706
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 2: all You and I have waived the flag. We have

707
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:53,959
Speaker 2: carried the banner for him for a long time, but

708
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 2: really no one more than you, to the point that

709
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 2: it's become a running bit on Fantasy Live.

710
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: Are you officially letting the rope on Kyle Pitts? Yeah,

711
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 1: I uh.

712
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 3: I did so in the middle of this season, after

713
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 3: I started including Kyle Pitts as a weekly sit just

714
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 3: to be like, hey, justin reminder everyone, like where's there,

715
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 3: like this this is not happening, and you pull up

716
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 3: his game logs like it happened in the most frustrating

717
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 3: way possible. Because even before I said all of that,

718
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 3: I went on Fantasy Live and I was like, the

719
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 3: breakout has happened. Ninety one yards, four catches to touchdowns.

720
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,760
Speaker 3: He had twenty five points against the Bucks.

721
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: Uh.

722
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 3: This was in late October. I was like, look, he's

723
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 3: been on a hot streak as of late. He is,

724
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 3: this is who he is, this is who he wanted

725
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:40,680
Speaker 3: him to be.

726
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: All of that. He topped fifty yards one time from

727
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: that point on. Uh.

728
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 3: He he had one, two, three, four, five, six games

729
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 3: with fewer than twenty yards in that stretch. So yeah,

730
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,919
Speaker 3: like he fell behind Darnol Mooney in the pecking order.

731
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,800
Speaker 3: Cardeneral Hodge was ahead of him in certain games. You

732
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 3: got the running backs they're getting right Like it's and

733
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 3: I know it's gonna happen. The whole fantasy community is

734
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,239
Speaker 3: gonna be out on Kyle Pitts and then people are

735
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 3: gonna start hyping him up as a late round sleeper.

736
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 3: And look if maybe I get sucked into that and

737
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 3: they thrown him in some best balls or whatever, but

738
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,399
Speaker 3: that's all he can be. Like if he gets pulled

739
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 3: up any higher than that, I might surprise you guys.

740
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 3: As the Bills fan on this show, I think Dalton

741
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 3: Kinkaid also belongs in that similar group. Like all hype,

742
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 3: we have not seen it yet translate to production on

743
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,759
Speaker 3: the field, So until we do. My biggest takeaway from

744
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 3: the season, guys is I'm not going to start pushing

745
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 3: up tight ends like I did in the past few

746
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 3: years with those two tight ends, thinking they could be

747
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 3: elite until we see them do it, because I've been

748
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:54,839
Speaker 3: burned far too many times thinking Okay, this player has

749
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,000
Speaker 3: the talent, he's going to take that next step, and

750
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 3: then it just has not happened.

751
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 2: I know we're still little way away from talking about

752
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 2: the Bills in their offseason, but like when you said

753
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 2: daltinkin Kaid, in my head, I was just like, but

754
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 2: I could. And I was immediately like, Oh my goodness,

755
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:09,880
Speaker 2: I'm gonna Kyle pitts him. I'm going to come up

756
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 2: with excuses for why it hasn't happened and why it's

757
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 2: going to be better this year. Like literally you were

758
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 2: saying that, it's like, but Duncan kid, you can say

759
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 2: that he went through the and they had this gid

760
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 2: and then I was just like, Oh my goodness, I'm

761
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 2: really gonna do this again.

762
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: With another player.

763
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 2: I reserve the right to still do it with Dalton Kinkaid,

764
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 2: but you know, maybe maybe it'll later time.

765
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 3: For sure, Look if Egles as a late tight end

766
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 3: one sure, but like Titan five six, I can't.

767
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 2: I can't keep doing that. I don't think that's gonna happen.

768
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 2: I don't see that happening at all with him, for sure.

769
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 2: We're talking about Kirk Cousins and the fact that he

770
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 2: gave way to Michael Pinnox, which means it's time to

771
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 2: see who will deliver. Presented by Uber eats Lakwan again.

772
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,240
Speaker 2: Michael PINNOCKX finished as a top twelve quarterback next season.

773
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: That's juicy, man. I mean, very very small sample size,

774
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 1: top twelve, maybe at twelve. I'll give him that. Maybe

775
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: right outside that you're just hopeful and excited to draft

776
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: these skilled players at the Falcons guy. I mean you

777
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: like the small samples that he saw he can move

778
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: around in the pocket. I mean Kirk Cousins, he was

779
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 1: looking like he had life alert, you know, ready on call.

780
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: He could not move around, So you're just hopeful for

781
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: the upside that he can go out there and execute.

782
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 1: The one thing you did like though, he was making

783
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: quicker decisions in the pocket than Kirk, Like Kurt was

784
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,080
Speaker 1: just holding on to the ball too much and he

785
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: can't move. So there's a couple of games that if

786
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 1: you watch, you know that Pennix was playing. It's the

787
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers one that I watched back yesterday, and it's

788
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: like he's moving out of pocket so fluent, and he

789
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: knows where his guys are. So you're just hopeful for

790
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 1: that upside that he could deliver, and you know he

791
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: can air it out. I mean, that's all he was

792
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: doing in college. He just wanted to go downfield. And

793
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: you look for guys like Darnel Moody that are going

794
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: to be cheap this season. That's going to be everywhere

795
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 1: on my roster, by the way. So I think Pennix

796
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: has the ability to deliver to the players that we

797
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: care about on off keep Jon in the red zone,

798
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: keep Darnol Mooney down threat, and keep Drake London just

799
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: as alpha wide receiver that he's shown that he could

800
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: be this season. So I'm all in for him delivering

801
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: this season.

802
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 2: So top twelve right and in no particular order, Josh Allen,

803
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson, Jalen Hurts, Joe Burrow, Jaden Daniels. What is

804
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 2: that that's six right there? Let's put in the top twelve.

805
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 2: Let's put let's let's put both knicks in the top twelve.

806
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 2: Right Holmes, I'm taking Moth Mahomes. I mean, we can

807
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,760
Speaker 2: still put golf in there, like forget the postseason, regular

808
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:40,240
Speaker 2: regular season, Jared Goff.

809
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 1: We can do that, I want.

810
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 2: I'm sure I need to make sure I got permission

811
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,240
Speaker 2: from from La Kwan before we did that, Jared Goof.

812
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 2: But I mean, so we're looking at three, four, five, six, seven,

813
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 2: eight nine with Mahomes.

814
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 1: You know, I don't see him fitting because there's other guys.

815
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 2: Herbo justin Herbert he is in there, Kyler, Kyler's in there.

816
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 2: I mean, I think Caleb now with Ben Johnson there

817
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,879
Speaker 2: makes a strong push to Dak Dak.

818
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,760
Speaker 1: I don't think he's anywhere even close to top twelve.

819
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:17,760
Speaker 1: He's outside of it. Like I would say, you right outside.

820
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:22,280
Speaker 1: I'll take Drake May over him. I'll take see that

821
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,800
Speaker 1: that I will probably push back on because we just

822
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: talked about how that offense isn't exciting. The pieces are

823
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 1: better for Pennix. Yes, the pieces are better in Atlanta,

824
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 1: for sure. I think May is the better player, But

825
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 1: is he going to be in scoring opportunities? You can

826
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:41,480
Speaker 1: run more, that's for sure too.

827
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, you get that rushing up sidea Yeah, yeah, that's

828
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,320
Speaker 2: gonna be an interesting argument. I think this offseason Pennicks

829
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 2: may Penundrum. We can we can definitely check back in.

830
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,479
Speaker 3: Oh, Brock Purdy, I'm taking over him, probably taking Jordan

831
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 3: Love over him.

832
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 2: All right, okay, okay, look on because you talked about

833
00:39:58,719 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 2: two or two or Pinnix.

834
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: Oh, they're both very similar. I'll take I'll take. Let's

835
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:10,320
Speaker 1: let's injury.

836
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:16,320
Speaker 3: What about your boy, Bryce Young, Joe, I'm saying.

837
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 1: O, Bryce Young, here's one for you guys. C J. Stroud, No, no,

838
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:24,239
Speaker 1: I'm good.

839
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 2: I think I may take Pinis because the weapons, the

840
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:29,840
Speaker 2: weapons are similar.

841
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: And I don't know, healthier. Yeah, I don't know. I

842
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: just you said that.

843
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 2: But Pinix had a couple of major injuries in college too, though,

844
00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 2: so he just didn't get hurt in the NFL.

845
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 1: The more we talk about it, the more I'm like,

846
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: QB feels thinner than ever. Yeah, it's weird, Yeah, it's weird.

847
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,919
Speaker 3: Because like we're going to dive into this, you guys,

848
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:54,800
Speaker 3: like I know we're gonna do a whole episode on

849
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,319
Speaker 3: it or something like that, but like as awesome as

850
00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 3: like Baker was, or like Jared Goff or Herbert what Purty,

851
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 3: even like I don't feel one hundred confident like this

852
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 3: is my starter every single week.

853
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,919
Speaker 1: Why I think I'm taking a top five quarterback next year.

854
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 2: It's starting to be like a lot of other Like

855
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:16,880
Speaker 2: you see it at running back, you definitely see it

856
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 2: at tight end where the guys at the top are

857
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 2: so much better, where you have a clear group of

858
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 2: elites at the top, and then you start getting in

859
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 2: that second or third tier and it becomes a little

860
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 2: more interchangeable. And I think that's where we are with quarterbacks,

861
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 2: where you've got your big four, big five, what or

862
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 2: however you want to slice it up, and then after

863
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 2: that it's like right when I were playing Mix and

864
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 2: Match weekly, and that's sort of what it is.

865
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 1: I think Jayden Daniels will be pulled up for sure

866
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: here in August, so it's like absolutely, I'll pay. I'll

867
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: pay for him in the first three rounds. I mean

868
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: I'll do that in the third round with the Josh

869
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 1: Allens and the Lamar Jackson's or whatever the case may be,

870
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 1: whichever one is cheapest for me, that's who I'll have

871
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: the most. Though here you go, I just realized that

872
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 1: that's the way we have to approach the season because.

873
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,320
Speaker 3: It might be Jalen Hurts that ends up being the

874
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,760
Speaker 3: cheapest of the top five, because I feel like everyone

875
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:09,399
Speaker 3: hates Jalen Hurts and just like.

876
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 2: I'm just so inconsistent, you know, like that's just what

877
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 2: it is. And like if the tush push ever goes away.

878
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, which it's not, why would it, I mean, why.

879
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 2: You're right, except they've got a monster behind him in

880
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 2: the backfield that could take away that. I mean, we

881
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 2: keep saying that with Josh Allen too, like they're gonna

882
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 2: stop using him as their goal line back. And then

883
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 2: Josh is like he's like the meme of Ralph William

884
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:33,759
Speaker 2: crashing through the window, just.

885
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 3: Like using Mark Andrews Man Like this toos push play

886
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 3: is not going away.

887
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,240
Speaker 1: Like it's true, it's just the beginning. It's just the beginning.

888
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 3: But my fear is more teams doing that having a

889
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 3: non quarterback running.

890
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: That's the worst.

891
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 2: Actually, the tastes of no effect, you know, and then

892
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:54,359
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, everybody's really mad about things for sure. Uh.

893
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 2: That was Who Delivered, presented by Uber Eats, where you

894
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 2: can get the best deals on game day food all

895
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 2: season long, the official on man Delivery partner of the

896
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 2: NFL Order. Now, before we switch over to the Cardinals,

897
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 2: I do have one last thing on the Falcons because

898
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 2: you guys know, my thing this year is I don't

899
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 2: want to draft Saquon Barkley in the first round. That's

900
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 2: my hottest hot take so far this offseason. Bejeon to

901
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 2: my RB one. That's my proclamation.

902
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 1: Okay, let's stamp it in January.

903
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 3: I think he's the RB one, and as well, Marcus.

904
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 3: I think his only competition is Jamier Gibbs.

905
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I still think.

906
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:30,799
Speaker 2: I just think even as good as Jamior Gibbs is,

907
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 2: I think the presidence of David Montgomery makes that a

908
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 2: little hard.

909
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:34,359
Speaker 1: That's it.

910
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, not that not that he's bad or anything like that.

911
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 2: Just David Montgomery still draws breath on this planet and

912
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 2: gets a paycheck from the Detroit Lions, and that's going

913
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 2: to make things difficult there.

914
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: It is pick number.

915
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 2: Sixteen, Beloves in the Arizona Cardinals. They were also eight

916
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 2: and nine. What went right train McBride one hundred and

917
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 2: eleven catches over eleven hundred scrimmage ar or eleven hundred

918
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 2: receiving yards I should say two whole touchdowns. We had

919
00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 2: to wait pretty much all year for that to happen,

920
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 2: but it happened. I got those two touchdowns. He was

921
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 2: the tight end to James Connor. Continues to be underrated.

922
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 2: He's one of those guys that I think we take

923
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:15,320
Speaker 2: for granted. Fifteen hundred scrimmage yards, nine touchdowns, forty seven catches.

924
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 2: He was the RB eleven. I think I said this before,

925
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 2: I have Trey McBride as my tight end one. I

926
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 2: think I think he finishes as the tight end one

927
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 2: next year. There's a pretty compact race between Bowers and

928
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 2: McBride and George Kittle. You know, I think Bowers continues

929
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 2: to be okay. He doesn't have a Sam Laporter like

930
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 2: fall off. I'm stamping Trey McBride is the guy who'd

931
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 2: finish as the tight end one. I may not be

932
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 2: able to draft him depending on where his ADP is,

933
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 2: but I think he's the guy. I think he's the

934
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 2: guy who finishes as the top tight end.

935
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 1: It's him or Bowers. Yeah, I think so. Jonah Smith,

936
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 1: Jonah Smith, No, I'm not going to do that here.

937
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 3: No are dolphins Dolphin's green if.

938
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, get no, get that seal going nah Man. Yeah,

939
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:02,759
Speaker 2: I don't think that's gonna be a good look for you.

940
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 1: I don't think so what went wrong?

941
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:10,439
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray, who's a lot of people's picked to click

942
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 2: this year. Thirty eight hundred passing yards, twenty one touchdowns,

943
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 2: eleven interceptions, five hundred and seventy two rushing yards, five tds.

944
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:22,399
Speaker 2: He was a QB ten, which again that's another one

945
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 2: that I was like, really used QB ten Like it

946
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 2: just didn't feel it didn't feel like that.

947
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:29,879
Speaker 1: But it was back to our points, yeah, back right now.

948
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: Its just it didn't feel that way.

949
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 2: Marvin Harrison, who was in the running for maybe Bust

950
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 2: of the Year candidates, sixty two catches, eight hundred and

951
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 2: eighty five yards, eight touchdowns, wide receiver thirty and then

952
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 2: one that is just personal to this show. Greg Dors

953
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,720
Speaker 2: didn't work guys, So like you were you were spot

954
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 2: on with John who you were way off like Greg Dorts.

955
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 4: I hate the Cardinals for this, Like I really look

956
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:58,120
Speaker 4: at the bad organization for this because you watch him

957
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 4: play and like I get so fussed watching him make

958
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 4: the plays that he makes and he's done it in

959
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,800
Speaker 4: the past, and it's like, why are you not putting

960
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 4: him on the field.

961
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: Like I understand you guys don't run wide receiver like

962
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:10,839
Speaker 1: three wide receiver sets all the time. But then you

963
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 1: look at his production when he is given the opportunity,

964
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: a higher target bur route rate than Michael Wilson, he

965
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 1: has more touchdowns than Trey McBride, Yes, Trey McBride. That

966
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:23,439
Speaker 1: sounds crazy, and it's like, how does this happen? Why

967
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: is he not on the field. And it's like he

968
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:28,399
Speaker 1: had a higher separation rate than Michael Wilson, So he's

969
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 1: obviously earning the targets getting open for Kyler Murray and

970
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: they have the chemistry together. Why is he not on

971
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 1: the field.

972
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:39,240
Speaker 2: So I'll ask you this, Then two two out well

973
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 2: that hit free agency. Would you mind if the Rams

974
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 2: moved on from two two and maybe signed free agent

975
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:46,320
Speaker 2: Greg Dortch in the offseason.

976
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 1: I mean, he's spent some time with us and passed

977
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: for a little whit don drafted freident Dry wouldn't mind that.

978
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 1: Actually the quin is doing those supervillain hand rub right.

979
00:46:56,480 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 3: Now, give him those ninety Wandell Robinson catches. I bet

980
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,280
Speaker 3: you he turns into more than six hundred yards.

981
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 1: And he had the volume that ydo head, Oh my god,

982
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 1: he'll be a top ten wide receiver. I believe that

983
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,800
Speaker 1: one hundred percent if he had the volume.

984
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 2: But if he has the volume that Wandale Robinson had,

985
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:17,720
Speaker 2: something's gone wrong in the Rams offense.

986
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, something has gone wrong in so Floria.

987
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 2: Marvin Harrison Junior was how do I put this? Was

988
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 2: he a bust that he underperformed? Or was he a

989
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 2: victim of our lofty expectations?

990
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:41,320
Speaker 1: Yes? I think it was. I think it's all three because.

991
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:45,359
Speaker 3: It wasn't just us fantasy people hyping this guy up

992
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 3: as the best wide receiver of a generation and everything,

993
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 3: and he wasn't even a top two wide receiver in

994
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 3: his class as a rookie. And it wasn't just stats wise,

995
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 3: Like go watch Marvin Harrison Junior's tape, Go watch the

996
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 3: league neighbors, Go watch Lad McConkie, Go watch Brian Thomas Junior.

997
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 3: You might rank Marvin Harrison, fourth of that bunch, just

998
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,919
Speaker 3: watching what they did this year. But I also don't

999
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:13,239
Speaker 3: think it's all on him. Kyler Murray, outside of that

1000
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:16,839
Speaker 3: one year with prime DeAndre Hopkins, has not really done

1001
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 3: a great job in his career of elevating wide receivers.

1002
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 3: And I was very bullish on Marvin Harrison Junior because

1003
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, Kyler has that de hop type again,

1004
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:27,719
Speaker 3: and at times you saw it.

1005
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 1: But like, let's go back to his biggest game of

1006
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: the year. I would think it was Week three against

1007
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:35,720
Speaker 1: the Rams. It was two broken.

1008
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:38,320
Speaker 3: Plays that he caught deep where he burned Trey White,

1009
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 3: who got burned in the last week as well. But

1010
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 3: like we hold that against Quinton Johnson, no one was

1011
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 3: saying a peep against it when it was Marvin Harrison junior,

1012
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 3: you know, so like I was, I think. But also

1013
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 3: it all always comes down to expectation. That's why Kyler

1014
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 3: Murray goes into What's Went Wrong two because he was

1015
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 3: being drafted as like QUB five, QB six, but as

1016
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 3: a whole, like this is a really solid rookie year

1017
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 3: for any wide receiver what Harrison did, But because of

1018
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 3: the expectations that we had for him and the expectations

1019
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 3: that the whole world had for him.

1020
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 1: It was probably a letdown.

1021
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 2: I mean, the thing that sticks with me is early

1022
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 2: in the season, Kyler Murray saying like it's not my

1023
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 2: job to get Marvin Harrison targets, and universally everybody like,

1024
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:26,320
Speaker 2: that's exactly your job, Like that is that is number

1025
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 2: one in the job description to target the wide receivers,

1026
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 2: especially the high draft pick guys. I think we just

1027
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:35,960
Speaker 2: have to understand at this point that that there's a

1028
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 2: ceiling on Kyler. Like like, I think we have seen

1029
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 2: the best of Kyler Murray, right, I think what we saw.

1030
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:45,240
Speaker 1: Early in his career.

1031
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 2: You know that that twenty nineteen twenty twenty season, that

1032
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 2: twenty twenty season, right, he ran for over eight hundred yards.

1033
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 2: He hasn't come close to it since then. I think

1034
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 2: that was the year he also had a career high

1035
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:59,760
Speaker 2: in passing yards, He had a career high and touchdown

1036
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 2: pas is. He just hasn't really come close to that.

1037
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 2: Some of it has been injuries, some of it's just

1038
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 2: that I just think we've seen the best of Kyler,

1039
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:10,880
Speaker 2: and I think we just sort of have to adjust accordingly.

1040
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:13,640
Speaker 2: When it comes to looking at the pass catchers, whether

1041
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 2: that's Harrison McBride, whoever else is going to be there, right.

1042
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:19,839
Speaker 2: I mean, I know Florida, you loved Michael Wilson as

1043
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 2: a sleeper this year.

1044
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about Greg Dortch.

1045
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 2: I just think that all these guys now we have

1046
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:31,719
Speaker 2: to lower our expectations just because the quarterback is not

1047
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:33,920
Speaker 2: going to deliver the ball the way that we want

1048
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:34,799
Speaker 2: him to.

1049
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:37,319
Speaker 3: To your point, I think this year really drove that

1050
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 3: point home because for years we were like, oh, it's

1051
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 3: Cliff Kingsbury's fault. Then the last two years Kyler wasn't healthy,

1052
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 3: didn't play a full year either year as he was

1053
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:47,240
Speaker 3: rehabbing from the town acl and stuff.

1054
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 1: But this year he was fully healthy.

1055
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:53,800
Speaker 3: Cliff Kingsbury got the most, the literally the greatest rookie

1056
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 3: season ever out of his quarterback and then the whole narrative,

1057
00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 3: and this was something that was being driven in the

1058
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 3: middle of the year when the Anders had that two

1059
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 3: game skid, was like the late season slip off from

1060
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 3: click Cliff Cliff Cliff Kingsbury his offenses are out here

1061
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 3: doing their thing. Going to the NFC Championship Game, the

1062
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 3: Cardinals free falled and blew their division. Like at some point,

1063
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 3: this free fall that they go on yearly is on

1064
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 3: the quarterback.

1065
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean it really truly is.

1066
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 3: And I want Kyler so badly to be good. I

1067
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 3: love short Kings, Yes, and.

1068
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 2: If we support them here, yeah no, I mean I

1069
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 2: just think Kyler is who he is now. I think

1070
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:32,879
Speaker 2: I think after this past year because so many people

1071
00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 2: were big on him and he was just mah like, don't.

1072
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,360
Speaker 2: I don't see that same ground swallow support coming for

1073
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 2: Kyler this offseason at all.

1074
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: So there you go.

1075
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,719
Speaker 2: We have fixed thirteen through sixteen in the books. Next

1076
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:50,319
Speaker 2: week we will proceed with seventeen through twenty. I'm trying

1077
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,759
Speaker 2: to do math in my head. Seventeen through twenties we'll

1078
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,799
Speaker 2: have coming up next Tuesday. In the meantime, take another break,

1079
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 2: we'll come back and we will preview Championship Weekend. Should

1080
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 2: be a whole lot of fun. That's next on the

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Speaker 2: NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. So there are four teams left,

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Speaker 2: three games remaining left in this NFL season. Championship Weekend

1083
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Speaker 2: kicks off on Sunday. It begins on the NFC side

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Speaker 2: with Washington at Philadelphia. These two teams split the regular

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00:52:23,239 --> 00:52:26,359
Speaker 2: season meetings, so here it is the rubber match, the

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00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 2: deciding game, with the winner moving on to the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: Some of the side notes. I think I mentioned this

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00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:36,720
Speaker 2: on Tuesday Show. It's a matchup of former Cowboy coordinators,

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Speaker 2: with Dan Quid as the head coach of the Commanders

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Speaker 2: and Kellen Moore as the OC of the Eagles. Kwan

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00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 2: sae Quon obviously a huge difference in that game last

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00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 2: week against the Rams, A couple of long touchdown runs

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00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:55,160
Speaker 2: in that ballgame. He's been phenomenal all year long. Can

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00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 2: the Commanders slow him down? And is that really the key?

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00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 2: I mean, is stopping Barkley the key to winning that game?

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Speaker 1: No, really, I don't think they could slow him down.

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00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 1: You kind of just have to let him do his thing,

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00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 1: but try to keep him out of the end zone.

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, you know, I feel as though my

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Speaker 1: ways as a Rams frand that we could have won

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00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 1: that game without the weather. But it's like, I think

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00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:16,760
Speaker 1: we still could have won that game even with Saquon

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00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:19,799
Speaker 1: hitting two hundred. It's more so containing Jalen hurts, but

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00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: we're worried about his health now. It's more so containing

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00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 1: aj Brown. The Vonte Smith and Dallas godd are showing

1106
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:27,600
Speaker 1: up on the back end of the season since returning

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00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:29,880
Speaker 1: back from the injury, being a reliable target as well.

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00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:32,480
Speaker 1: So they got many headaches to worry about to not

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00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:35,840
Speaker 1: just focus on Saquon Barklay. There's no stopping him. Like

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00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: it's clear that he is the best running back in

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00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:41,239
Speaker 1: the world right now. So it's like, focus on the

1112
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:44,360
Speaker 1: entire game plan, don't just hone in on Saquon Barklay.

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00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,400
Speaker 1: And I think that's what the Rams did because at

1114
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 1: times they were like, if AJ Brown didn't drop those

1115
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:53,399
Speaker 1: two balls, I mean they're up two touchdowns. I'm selling out.

1116
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:57,840
Speaker 2: So the thing that that kind of pomps out at

1117
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 2: me is that, And like, I get your point, right,

1118
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 2: because they have so many weapons there in Philadelphia. Now,

1119
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,920
Speaker 2: minds you, Jalen Hurts a little bit banged up. He

1120
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Speaker 2: is expected to do a walk through ahead of the

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00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 2: championship games. He's dealing with a bit of a knee

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00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 2: injury right now. But you talk about trying to slow

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00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 2: down everything, and I don't remember who it was that

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00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:17,320
Speaker 2: said this, but it's like, you know, when you prepare

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00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 2: for everything, you really prepare for nothing, right, Like you

1126
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 2: are spread so thin, your resources are spread everywhere that

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00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 2: you're trying to kind of guard everything that you end

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00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:26,400
Speaker 2: up sort.

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Speaker 1: Of getting beat by everything. All at the same time.

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00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:33,280
Speaker 3: I would attack with a similar approach that the Bills

1131
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:36,239
Speaker 3: attacked the Ravens with this past week. You sell out

1132
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 3: to stop the run. Saquon Barkley in two games this

1133
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 3: year against the Commanders had three hundred and fifty yards

1134
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 3: and four touchdowns, Like, you're not winning if he has

1135
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 3: another game like that this week. And then you add

1136
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 3: on the fact that Hurts has struggled this year under pressure,

1137
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 3: You add on the fact that their passing attack hasn't

1138
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 3: really been what it's been, and.

1139
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 1: Now he's hurt so he can't scramble and extend those plays.

1140
00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:01,360
Speaker 3: So potentially I'm they can to see if that knee

1141
00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:04,920
Speaker 3: is healthy, and I'm I'm stacking the box. I'm throwing

1142
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 3: everything i can upfront to try to put pressure on Hurts,

1143
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 3: try to take slow Saquon down. You're not gonna stop him,

1144
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 3: but you can't let him go for two hundred against you,

1145
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:14,400
Speaker 3: where you got no chance in my opinion.

1146
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 2: All right, So on the one side, stopping se Kwon

1147
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:20,800
Speaker 2: seems to be a key for the Commanders, Florio, Is

1148
00:55:20,840 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 2: it as simple for the Eagles as stop Jayden d

1149
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 2: Not that stopping Jayden Daniels has been simple, but is

1150
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 2: it as simple as saying, stop Jayden Daniels and you

1151
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 2: can beat the Commanders. Yes, because Jayden has already done.

1152
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:37,000
Speaker 3: Like I tweeted it out today, our research packet is

1153
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:39,480
Speaker 3: put in all the different ways that Jayden has already

1154
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:42,800
Speaker 3: set history, led their team right in passing yards and

1155
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 3: rushing yards in the regular season, has already done so

1156
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Speaker 3: in a playoff game.

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Speaker 1: And the thing is, you watch.

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00:55:49,239 --> 00:55:52,840
Speaker 3: Him pick apart defenses each of these last two weeks

1159
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:55,680
Speaker 3: like he is going through his progressives perfectly and everything.

1160
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 3: So yeah, you need to make him as uncomfortable as possible,

1161
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 3: get as much pressure on him as possible, and really,

1162
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:05,399
Speaker 3: dare anyone else to him? And Terry are the two

1163
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:08,279
Speaker 3: players that you're like, if we could contain these two

1164
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:11,560
Speaker 3: guys and they have just an average game by their standards,

1165
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:15,920
Speaker 3: we should win this game and the Eagles. This surprised

1166
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 3: me too yesterday while I was doing some prep on it.

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00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 3: In the game that they won, they did not blitz

1168
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:26,800
Speaker 3: him much at all. Thirteen percent blitz sacked him three times.

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00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 3: Daniels had one touchdown and one interception. But in week sixteen,

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00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,160
Speaker 3: they blitzed him thirty six percent of the time. He

1171
00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 3: finished with five touchdowns and was only sacked one time.

1172
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:40,040
Speaker 3: Ran wild on them and all of that. So very

1173
00:56:40,080 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 3: curious because you can't blitz them. So what are you

1174
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 3: gonna try to take running lanes away? I'm happy I

1175
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,319
Speaker 3: am not the DC that he trying to figure this out.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be very difficult.

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00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:53,280
Speaker 2: I mean, we saw that last week, right, Aaron Glenn

1178
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 2: tried the blitz and he got picked apart when they

1179
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 2: sat back and played coverage and then Daniels just took

1180
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:00,839
Speaker 2: off and ran through them. I'm you know, So I'm

1181
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:03,360
Speaker 2: sure that you know they are studying. The Phillies obviously

1182
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:06,440
Speaker 2: got two games worth the tape already on him, you know.

1183
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:08,839
Speaker 2: I'm sure they're watching what happened last week to see

1184
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:11,239
Speaker 2: his improvement. So yeah, it's gonna be tough to kind

1185
00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 2: of figure out how to approach this thing for sure

1186
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 2: with Jayden Daniels. Meanwhile, Buffalo in Kansas City, Floria, you

1187
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:21,680
Speaker 2: are the expert on this. You have watched you guys

1188
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 2: to talk first, Hikwan, what does Buffalo? What does Buffalo

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00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:29,200
Speaker 2: need to do to finally beat the Chiefs in the playoffs?

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Speaker 1: Buffalo needs to play the same way that they played

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00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:34,800
Speaker 1: against the Ravens. I mean, honestly, there is a way

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00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 1: that they could beat Patrick Mahomes. And I was speaking

1193
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 1: on it with the Texans when they're going up, you

1194
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:40,520
Speaker 1: got to get in his face, you got to keep

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00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 1: the pressure on. So the Bills just need to find

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00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:45,680
Speaker 1: a way to get Mahomes off his game. But there

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00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: is some things that you just cannot stop Mahomes from doing,

1198
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 1: and that's that Mahomes magic. I'm talking about the diving

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Speaker 1: almost hitting the ground, throw the Travis Kelcey for the

1200
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 1: end up. There's nothing you could do. They were getting

1201
00:57:57,360 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 1: pressure to him, they were getting his face, making them uncomfortable.

1202
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 1: He's still going out there doing the magic things. So

1203
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 1: the Bills just need to stay consistent in their game.

1204
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:07,440
Speaker 1: Josh Allen needs to bring what is it the snowplow like,

1205
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 1: he needs to keep going as the lead rusher, and

1206
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 1: then James Cook needs to continue on cooking. I mean,

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00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:14,720
Speaker 1: the game plan is very simple. I honestly think you

1208
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 1: guys can pull it out, Florio, I.

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00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:21,720
Speaker 2: Honestly think it's as simple as sevens and not threes, right,

1210
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:25,320
Speaker 2: just moving the football when you get in the red zone,

1211
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:28,480
Speaker 2: sevens and not threes, because it's.

1212
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:29,920
Speaker 1: Inevitable even early.

1213
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:32,400
Speaker 2: Right, you drive down the field, you stall out at

1214
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 2: like the twelve, and you kick the field goal, and

1215
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 2: you know that ends up being the difference at some

1216
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 2: point in the game, because even if the Chiefs don't

1217
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:42,600
Speaker 2: score on every possession, they will score touchdowns on enough

1218
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 2: of them to put pressure on you. And I think,

1219
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:47,520
Speaker 2: you know, everything the Bills have done, I think continues

1220
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 2: to work. It's just when you get close, you got

1221
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 2: to punch it in the end zone and force force

1222
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 2: Mahomes and the Chiefs offense to match you seven for

1223
00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 2: seven the entire way.

1224
00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:01,560
Speaker 1: So, Floria, the floor is yours.

1225
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 3: So my thoughts is this game comes down to the

1226
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:08,240
Speaker 3: Bills defense in Josh Allen. In the four games they've

1227
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:10,200
Speaker 3: beat them in the regular season, the Bills have averaged

1228
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:12,520
Speaker 3: twenty eight points per game. In the three games they

1229
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:14,320
Speaker 3: have lost in the playoffs to the Chiefs, the Bills

1230
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 3: have averaged twenty eight points per game. The difference is

1231
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 3: Mahomes against the Bills in the regular season has averaged

1232
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 3: us than twenty one points per game. In the playoffs,

1233
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 3: it's thirty six. Like they're not gonna bring five every

1234
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:29,440
Speaker 3: time like they were against Baltimore. I don't think you

1235
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:31,240
Speaker 3: need to sell out to stuff the run because this

1236
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:34,600
Speaker 3: Kansas City rushing attack is pretty brutal, and they don't

1237
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 3: have that breakaway runner anymore that could really gash you.

1238
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:41,840
Speaker 3: I think you used the Milano and Bernard as spies

1239
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 3: against Mahomes, so he's not beating you with his legs.

1240
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:47,240
Speaker 3: I think you put Toron Johnson on Travis Kelcey a lot.

1241
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 3: Hopefully Benford could play, he could be unworthy. I think

1242
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:53,320
Speaker 3: this is the best the Bills defense has matched up

1243
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:57,720
Speaker 3: with the Chiefs of any of these playoff matchups. It's

1244
00:59:57,800 --> 01:00:00,240
Speaker 3: just a matter of execution and turnovers are going to

1245
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:03,440
Speaker 3: decide this game. I think I trust the offense so much.

1246
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:05,240
Speaker 3: I think they'll be able to run. I know the

1247
01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:08,720
Speaker 3: Chiefs have been great against the run, so were the Ravens,

1248
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 3: so were the Broncos.

1249
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:11,800
Speaker 1: This Bill's O line is different.

1250
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 3: Fewest Sackson turnovers ever, Like they're playing such clean football

1251
01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:19,600
Speaker 3: right now. On offense, and the Chiefs when they don't blitz,

1252
01:00:19,680 --> 01:00:22,800
Speaker 3: they don't generate pressure. But Josh Allen has been elite

1253
01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 3: against the blitz this year, so you kind of need

1254
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 3: to pick your poison. Are we gonna try to blitz him?

1255
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 3: It did work for them in week eleven and let

1256
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:31,840
Speaker 3: him be that, like that's the strength for him. Or

1257
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:34,040
Speaker 3: do we not blitz and just give him all day

1258
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:36,160
Speaker 3: to kind of try to pick us apart with his arm?

1259
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:39,520
Speaker 3: But guys, this is where I'm at in this game.

1260
01:00:39,920 --> 01:00:42,880
Speaker 3: I want the Bills watching episodes three and four of

1261
01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:45,200
Speaker 3: the Last Dance all week long, because.

1262
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Speaker 1: That is what this is to me. Like Jordan and

1263
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:50,480
Speaker 1: the Bulls were getting bullied by the.

1264
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:55,920
Speaker 3: Pistons years and then that fourth year it was like

1265
01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:56,760
Speaker 3: we are.

1266
01:00:56,640 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 1: Better than them.

1267
01:00:57,400 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 3: We are better on paper, and I think the Bills

1268
01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 3: ross there's way better than the Chiefs roster, but like

1269
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 3: that mental thing, can they get over the home I

1270
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:08,920
Speaker 3: think I think the Bills win by two scores in

1271
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:09,320
Speaker 3: this game.

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Speaker 1: Let's go Wow.

1273
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:16,960
Speaker 2: You know, I'm guessing if we search the the NFL directory,

1274
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 2: you could probably find an email address for Sean McDermott,

1275
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:22,440
Speaker 2: So maybe you should just save him out there, right, Like,

1276
01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:24,440
Speaker 2: just go through your email and just hit the directory

1277
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:26,400
Speaker 2: look for McDermott. You can, I'm sure you can find

1278
01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:28,680
Speaker 2: it and send him your your suggestion on what they

1279
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:30,840
Speaker 2: should watch heading into this game.

1280
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Speaker 3: So I'll say this, if the game is close, the

1281
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:36,480
Speaker 3: Chiefs are gonna win. I think like they just have

1282
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:38,160
Speaker 3: that mindset.

1283
01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:38,440
Speaker 1: They pull it.

1284
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:42,880
Speaker 3: They're so elite situationally, But have you guys looked at

1285
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:45,640
Speaker 3: the Chiefs schedule this year outside of the Week one

1286
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 3: win against the Ravens, They're not that battle tested, Like

1287
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:52,040
Speaker 3: they haven't played any other elite team. They've had a

1288
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:55,920
Speaker 3: very easy skin. Look, I could eat Crow easily. But

1289
01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:58,480
Speaker 3: in the past I've been like, the chief should be favorites,

1290
01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 3: this could be the year and stuff. But this is

1291
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 3: the first time that I look at it and I'm like,

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Speaker 3: the Bills are the.

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Speaker 2: Better team here well, And I think I think when

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Speaker 2: you look at their schedule, I was like this it's

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Speaker 2: one that I think at the start of the season

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Speaker 2: looked tougher that it turned out to be. But the

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Speaker 2: teams they played were not playing well at the time.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: They got the Bengals early when they were struggling, you know,

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Speaker 2: they got the Falcons, who are still figuring things out.

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Speaker 2: The Chargers were met, the Saints ended up being a

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Speaker 2: dumpster fire, The Niners were beat up, the Raiders, the Bucks.

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Speaker 1: The Broncos are still five.

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Speaker 2: I mean that was their first nine games, right, they

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Speaker 2: were nine to zero before they ran up on the Bills.

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Speaker 2: Even the back Panthers, Raiders, Chargers, Browns, text and so

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Speaker 2: you're right, it's a schedule that at the start of

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Speaker 2: the season, if you looked at it in August, you're like, this,

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Speaker 2: this might be kind of interesting. And then as the

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Speaker 2: season played out it ended up not being particularly great.

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Speaker 2: But you know, as they say, you can only play

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Speaker 2: who's in front of you, so that that part is

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Speaker 2: what it is.

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Speaker 3: Who do you We haven't made our picks. I said,

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Speaker 3: who I think is gonna win?

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Speaker 1: No, that's what I was gonna both. Look here, you've

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Speaker 1: already said who you think is gonna win the Bills game?

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Speaker 2: So finish it out. Who in Super Bowl fifty nine?

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Speaker 2: You should just start calling it the Florio Bowl. I

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Speaker 2: think because it's my two favorite quarterbacks in the league.

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Speaker 2: It's it's Josh h.

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Speaker 1: Shaden all right, all right? Who you got the La Quad?

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Speaker 1: I'm on that too, Man, I need a commander in there, man. Wow,

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Speaker 1: make it unanimous.

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Speaker 2: Then we're going to get the rematch, the rematch of

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl twenty six when Washington beat Buffalo thirty seven

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Speaker 2: twenty four behind Mark Rippins touchdown passes.

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Speaker 1: Jim Kelly had a rough day that day.

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Speaker 2: Two touchdowns, four picks in that one'll running back, running back.

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Speaker 1: We go all the way back to nineteen January nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety two. Hey, I was there.

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Speaker 3: I was on Earth Fellas. I am Spencer Brown on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: This is what he said. He said, if they beat

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Speaker 3: the Chiefs, it's going to be a super celebration party,

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Speaker 3: or it's going to be me in a twenty four

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Speaker 3: pack by myself.

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Speaker 1: There it is, there, it is.

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Speaker 2: Side note Back in nineteen eighty the Super Bowl was

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Speaker 2: played on January twenty sixth, which basically would have been

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Speaker 2: just a few days from now. So wow, Yeah, that's

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Speaker 2: how much things have changed.

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Speaker 1: In thirty three years. For sure. There you go.

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Speaker 2: We will be back next Tuesday to recap what happened

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Speaker 2: in the championship games. Will bentind you more of our

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Speaker 2: exit interviews as well. I should be a fun weekend,

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Speaker 2: looking forward to checking out all the football there so

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Speaker 2: anyway that will do it. For this edition of the

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Speaker 2: NFL Fantasy Football Podcast, the Happy, Safe and Healthy, do

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Speaker 2: good and live well, enjoy the games this week and everybody,

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Speaker 2: and we will talk to you next week.

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Speaker 1: All got wa