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Speaker 1: is up? Welcome to another edition of the NFL Fantasy

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Speaker 1: Football Podcast. It's made your Man nam G Marcus Grant

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Speaker 1: alongside the Fantasy viper Grand bar Field FABS. I think

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Speaker 1: has a touch of the plague, So I feel better, dude,

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Speaker 1: Hopefully help you back with us next week. But uh,

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Speaker 1: all right, it's Championship Wednesday, which I think means a

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Speaker 1: lot more. Obviously in real football there doesn't. Fantasy but does,

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Speaker 1: but just a little bit more. It's a little bit more.

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Speaker 1: It's a Super Bowl berth on the line. That's it.

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Speaker 1: No big deal, No big deal. Um, are Mike Rabel's

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Speaker 1: Mike Frabel, honestly right. You know, look, I don't wish

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Speaker 1: be an interesting time if the Titans somehow w a

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Speaker 1: Google Mike Frabel's super Bowl. Uh. And that's get you everywhere.

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Speaker 1: That's get you. That should get you anything you need

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Speaker 1: to know. Point oh man. We will talk about the

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Speaker 1: championship games though for those of you who are still

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Speaker 1: glass talk to our faithful producer. Seen're Edward L. Murphy.

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Speaker 1: Esquire Murph. What's up? Yeah, looking forward to the games

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Speaker 1: this weekend. You have the high powered offense team versus

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Speaker 1: But I'm sure you have a quite a bit of

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Speaker 1: I believe it or not. Larry Fitzgerald lad the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: efficient than that Ravens passing game was, just because he's

426
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Speaker 1: got more weapons, right, So I would think that this

427
00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:14,640
Speaker 1: is gonna be a week where Ryan Tannehill is going

428
00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,960
Speaker 1: to have to throw the football. He's going to have

429
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Speaker 1: to break a hundred yards passing, I think in order

430
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Speaker 1: for the Titans to win this game. Yeah, and you know,

431
00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,480
Speaker 1: the Titans have barely trailed this this postseason. They've only

432
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Speaker 1: trailed on like a thirty plays so far. I mean,

433
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Speaker 1: they've just not been behind it all. They haven't. They've

434
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Speaker 1: just been able to ground and pound. Um. Look, Lamar

435
00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:36,040
Speaker 1: played poorly um in that tight against the Titans, but

436
00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:37,920
Speaker 1: he I mean he left a lot of plays on

437
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Speaker 1: the field and Patrick Mahomes. Look, it was one bad

438
00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:43,760
Speaker 1: game for Lamar. Patrick Mahomes is not going to leave

439
00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,000
Speaker 1: some of those plays on the field. He is gonna

440
00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:47,760
Speaker 1: he is gonna have a big, big day and the

441
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:49,600
Speaker 1: Titans for what it's worth. Two. I mean, I know

442
00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:53,320
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry has been a monster, but Travis Kelsey just

443
00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,920
Speaker 1: came off like literally one of the best games or

444
00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,560
Speaker 1: a Titan and playoff history, and the Titans really struggled

445
00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,080
Speaker 1: against tight ends kind of quietly to end the year.

446
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,480
Speaker 1: Last year, they they finished allowing the fourth most receptions

447
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:08,080
Speaker 1: two Titans this this past year. So Kelsey is just

448
00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:11,960
Speaker 1: in another amazing spot here too. Um would you throw

449
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,680
Speaker 1: any would you do a j Brown into any line

450
00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:15,520
Speaker 1: ups this week? I mean he hasn't done much, but

451
00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,480
Speaker 1: again that that goes back to Tannehill and not having

452
00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:19,479
Speaker 1: had to throw the f they haven't had to target him.

453
00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:21,000
Speaker 1: They haven't had to target They're gonna have to throw

454
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Speaker 1: it to him. Um, yes, I know You've been on

455
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Speaker 1: this all year. To Marcus is is like the Chiefs

456
00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 1: are really good at limiting boundary receivers when they struggle

457
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Speaker 1: against the slot. But I would have to imagine the

458
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,560
Speaker 1: Titans will move Brown in the slot. I think, so, right,

459
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:36,720
Speaker 1: get some get some good matchups, gotta move him around.

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00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:38,879
Speaker 1: Um yeah, you know. It's it's weird because even when

461
00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:41,479
Speaker 1: they played earlier in the year, like I mentioned, Henry

462
00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:43,320
Speaker 1: had the huge James Tannehill didn't do a ton. He

463
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Speaker 1: had a couple of touchdown passes. I think he had two,

464
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Speaker 1: maybe three touchdown passes in that game. But I think

465
00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:50,280
Speaker 1: you had fewer than two hundred passing yards. But I

466
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Speaker 1: think again, he's gonna have to He's gonna have to

467
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Speaker 1: do something to make it work. Uh. Is it point

468
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Speaker 1: and chasing to consider Damian Williams at all after what

469
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Speaker 1: he after his three touchdowns last week? Well, you can't

470
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Speaker 1: expect touchdowns againously, you know, there's the obvious caveat, But no,

471
00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:06,320
Speaker 1: I don't think so. He played on nineties seven percent

472
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 1: of the Chief snaps literally did not come off the field,

473
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Speaker 1: um in that divisional round game. And and this kind

474
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Speaker 1: of I know everyone got burnt by Damian Williams this year, myself,

475
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:17,679
Speaker 1: But now in his last five games, I mean, Damien

476
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,600
Speaker 1: has been really good for Fantasy, Like the production has

477
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:22,720
Speaker 1: been there. He's he's gone over fourteen touches now in

478
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:26,199
Speaker 1: five straight healthy games. Um. And this Chief's offense is

479
00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:30,479
Speaker 1: always liable for for you know, huge touchdown potential. So

480
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Speaker 1: for me, I don't I don't know if it's necessarily

481
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Speaker 1: point changing just because he's got that that featured role

482
00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:37,439
Speaker 1: in lockdown. That's which we've been asking for that all

483
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:39,359
Speaker 1: year long. It finally took till the end of the

484
00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,199
Speaker 1: year and into the postseason for it to happen. Uh.

485
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Speaker 1: Side note, does this mean, we're going to Are we

486
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Speaker 1: going to reach for Damian Williams again only get burned

487
00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:51,400
Speaker 1: next year? I know I've already I'm sure. I mean,

488
00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:53,879
Speaker 1: I don't even really want to think about it, just

489
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Speaker 1: because Damien was just I mean, we've seen it, We've

490
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Speaker 1: seen the potential every single time he's been healthy. We've

491
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Speaker 1: seen him, you know, RB one for fantasy. It's just

492
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Speaker 1: I have no idea where people are gonna be comfortable

493
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,600
Speaker 1: taking him, like fifth, sixth round, even in that range.

494
00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:10,680
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm gonna love a lot of players, right.

495
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,600
Speaker 1: I think so much of it is watching what the

496
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Speaker 1: Chiefs do in the off season. Who comes back if

497
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Speaker 1: they go out and add anybody at that position. I need.

498
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 1: I need to see DeAndre Swift in the Chiefs uniform.

499
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Speaker 1: That's what I need. I'd be real interesting. Um any

500
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 1: worries about Tyreek Hill. It's been a while since he

501
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,640
Speaker 1: had a really big game. Yeah, I wonder if something.

502
00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 1: I wonder if he's less than a percent because he

503
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Speaker 1: you know, he's been banged up all your missed some

504
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 1: time earlier this year with a collarbone injury, had a

505
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,600
Speaker 1: hamstring issue in the middle of the year. Two I

506
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 1: wonder if he's a less than a hundred percent. But

507
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:41,959
Speaker 1: you know, last week, the Texans just devoted a safety

508
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 1: over the top and basically just didn't cover Travis Kelsey.

509
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:46,880
Speaker 1: You know, I think that's just an interesting strategy. I mean,

510
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,360
Speaker 1: it obviously didn't work for them. Um. I think that's

511
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:50,960
Speaker 1: kind of where we're at with with Hill. Some of

512
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Speaker 1: these teams, especially the last three teams that he's faced, right,

513
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,040
Speaker 1: the Bears, Chargers, and the Texans to a lesser extent,

514
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Speaker 1: but definitely the Bears and Chargers, they have some really

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Speaker 1: good safeties that can kind to take off the you know,

516
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,400
Speaker 1: take off the top of The Texas did a good

517
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:06,119
Speaker 1: job in coverage against him. Um. Yeah, Dori Jackson has

518
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 1: a speed match up with him. That Hill is always

519
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:10,960
Speaker 1: liable for a big score. Yeah. Okay. A bit of

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00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,679
Speaker 1: news here from Ian Rappaport and uh Eddie this this

521
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Speaker 1: concerns you. According to Mike Garrett Folo, former Cowboys coach

522
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Speaker 1: Jason Garrett is any Giant facility today interviewing for the

523
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Speaker 1: vacant o c job. Garrett is no longer under contract,

524
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Speaker 1: so there is a chance that he stays in division.

525
00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 1: Maybe that will be interesting we'll see what happens when.

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Speaker 1: For the record, are you yeah, okay, yeah, I'm find

527
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Speaker 1: of it. I mean, he's gonna get any job anyway

528
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 1: to give to be back being a head coach. He

529
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Speaker 1: was a solid head coach. Didn't get him over the hume.

530
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Speaker 1: But I think some of the names I threw up

531
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Speaker 1: I've seen I've seen thrown out there for the Giants,

532
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Speaker 1: O C job. I think Garrett actually is pretty good. Alright, cool,

533
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Speaker 1: that's a Do you know that the at least one

534
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 1: Giants fan is on board? Yeah, that's good, all right?

535
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Speaker 1: Switching over Packers and forty Niners. That is the late game,

536
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Speaker 1: six forty Eastern time on Fox. Obviously, people keep bringing

537
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Speaker 1: up the fact that these two teams met in week twelve,

538
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,680
Speaker 1: the Niners wanting to blow out there in that one.

539
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,399
Speaker 1: How much does that game matter? I mean, I guess

540
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,639
Speaker 1: in some ways it kind of does. But I can't

541
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Speaker 1: imagine the Niners can walk into the expecting they're gonna

542
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 1: win by nearly thirty points again for sure, but they're

543
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,359
Speaker 1: a lot healthier now too. I mean, they didn't have

544
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Speaker 1: d Ford for that game. They didn't have Witherspoon for

545
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Speaker 1: that game. Um, they're there now the d Ford is healthy,

546
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Speaker 1: I think it really does change kind of what they

547
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Speaker 1: can do, right, I mean, like, um, I don't know,

548
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,560
Speaker 1: look sorry not d Ford. Um think who do they

549
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:43,720
Speaker 1: just get back? Uh? They did get Um Look, Aaron

550
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: Rodgers in that game in the Packers offense did not

551
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 1: show up, only through for a hundred and four yards

552
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:53,159
Speaker 1: and and basically just look, I'm not entirely sure we

553
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Speaker 1: can expect the Niners to roll like we saw against

554
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Speaker 1: the Vikings this past week. They shut down Dalvin cook Um.

555
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones has been on a fantastic terror and the

556
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 1: Packers last week finally committed to him, Like even though

557
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,120
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams was healthy, they finally gave Aaron Jones the ball.

558
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,119
Speaker 1: I'm not entirely sure they can slow down this Packers

559
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 1: rushing attack like from the Vikings. But the man, like

560
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Speaker 1: I'm on, I'm on the Niners here. You should be

561
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 1: feeling right now. If I were you, I'd be feeling

562
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 1: pretty confident. I mean, like I've been saying the whole time.

563
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Speaker 1: The two teams that scared me in the playoffs as

564
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 1: a Niner fan were these Saints and the Ravens, both

565
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:25,919
Speaker 1: of them were going. That's not to say that. You know,

566
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Speaker 1: look if they run into the Chiefs or something like that,

567
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: that Patrick Mahomes they walk over. But just he isn't

568
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: quite the dual threat that Lamar Jackson is. So I

569
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,199
Speaker 1: feel a little bit better. Um, any Packers skill position

570
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,919
Speaker 1: players that you have any interest in beyond Aaron Jones

571
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,399
Speaker 1: and Davante Adams, it's just been a black hole the

572
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 1: Packers outside of those two, so I mean, not really.

573
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Speaker 1: I mean, Jimmy Graham had a couple of nice catches,

574
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:48,680
Speaker 1: but that's not something I mean, they were more shame

575
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: moving a game ding catches as opposed to like real production.

576
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,160
Speaker 1: That's not something we can rely on it. By the way,

577
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Speaker 1: do you remember Marcus Valdes Scantling? I do. I think

578
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 1: I think I had him early as my you know, underdraft,

579
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: the guys like hey, b be higher on on MVS

580
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: and god, what happened? I don't know. He's basically he's

581
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 1: not playing. He's seriously like just not even he's not

582
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 1: even getting snaps at this point. I mean they have

583
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,840
Speaker 1: they have sort of pivoted to Alan Lizard in a

584
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 1: lot of ways, but even then, I don't think he

585
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: had a target. I don't think Lazard had a target

586
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,680
Speaker 1: last week. He got hurt in that game. He got hurt.

587
00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:23,640
Speaker 1: I don't he came back. I think, you know, everything

588
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 1: I read about him is like they want him out

589
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 1: there because he's a good blocker, and I'm like that.

590
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: I mean, that's nice. Um, That's not necessarily why you

591
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,480
Speaker 1: pay your wide receivers, but it is a nice feature

592
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: to have. I also wonder though, the the Seahawks really

593
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: kind of let Davante Adams roam free a lot, which

594
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: to their detriment. I can't imagine the Niners are going

595
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 1: to do that. They're gonna They're not gonna look at

596
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:46,920
Speaker 1: this packer's offense and say, hey, you know what, let's

597
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,439
Speaker 1: just leave Davanta Adams on single coverage. And you know,

598
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,159
Speaker 1: I just I have a hard time thinking that's going

599
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,439
Speaker 1: to happen for sure. And the Niners definitely have a

600
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: lot better corners in the Seahawks. I think people it's

601
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of like muscle memory at this point.

602
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: People think the Seahawks defense is good. It's not. It's

603
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: not not. The Niners, on the other hand, are fantastic.

604
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: Um Richard Sherman you know, do you think they'll they'll

605
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:11,879
Speaker 1: use Sherman as a shadow, because they haven't done that

606
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 1: all year and and their other boundary corner of Kello

607
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: Weatherspoon has been burnt toast. Yeah he I mean he

608
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 1: got he got torched by Stefon Diggs a couple of

609
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 1: times last week. Um, that would be interesting, actually, I

610
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: think it'd be an interesting matchup to see Sherman go

611
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,040
Speaker 1: all over the field because after a while, if you're

612
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur, you just figured out how to get Adams

613
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,200
Speaker 1: on Witherspoon right and let him cook right. Yeah, exactly.

614
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 1: And you know the Niners, I don't think they've traveled

615
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: Sherman with any individual receiver. I don't think it would

616
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 1: be a It would definitely be a diversion from their

617
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,480
Speaker 1: from their usual game plan, but maybe a smart one.

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Speaker 1: You know what I bet we'll see is is Adams

619
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 1: getting a lot of safety attention. I would say, mean,

620
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: Jakos Guitard is back now, to which which is definitely

621
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: helping that respect. So I blanked out on earlier. He's back. Um,

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Speaker 1: all right, so you gotta pick if you have to

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Speaker 1: pick a QB from this one. Aaron Rodgers or Jimmy Garoppolo.

624
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, I I want to say. I want to

625
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 1: say Jimmy Garoppolo just because the Niners are favorite here.

626
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: Packers secondary has kind of been suspect, but I think

627
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is gonna have to chase this game. And

628
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 1: whenever Aaron Rodgers has to chase and play from behind,

629
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Speaker 1: that's usually fantasy goal. So I'll go Rogers. It looks

630
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: like garoppolos on his way to having a really nice

631
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: game after that first drive. I think he had like

632
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 1: six or seven throws, really nice ones, and the Niners

633
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 1: just ran the ball the entire I mean literally the

634
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: entirety of the rest of the They had that one

635
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: drive in the third quarterback after a turnover where they

636
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Speaker 1: just ran it like eight yis and squared touchdowns. Yeah,

637
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 1: it was it was all. It was all with use

638
00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: check on the field. Soon they were just running out

639
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: of twenty one personnel. Yeah. So speaking of Niners running backs,

640
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: now what right? Like we were all thinking, hey, this

641
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: is for him most that he's gonna be the guy, right,

642
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: and then it turns into the Tevin Coleman game. So

643
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 1: I don't I I throw up my hands at trying

644
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: to decipher what Kyle Shanahan is doing with his running

645
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 1: backs right now? Oh man, you and everybody else. You

646
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: know Tevin Coleman coming off what just five carries and

647
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:00,280
Speaker 1: basically you know, less than five carries and four or

648
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: five straight games and comes down and gets twenty carries.

649
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 1: Shanahan's just gonna ride the hot hand. It could be

650
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: most diret, it could be Brita, it could be Coleman.

651
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: He's got three very talents running backs, and he's very wise,

652
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: even though it frustrates it's for fantasy, he's very wise

653
00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: to use all three of them. Yeah. I mean again,

654
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: the difference between real football and fantasy is that what

655
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: is great in real football that unpredictability, Uh drives us

656
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 1: insane because we want to know who's gonna be back there,

657
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: and who's gonna get the touches and that sort of thing. Um.

658
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: And you know, look, Kyle Shanahan, like his father before him,

659
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 1: is very good at throwing wrinkles in those sorts of things,

660
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 1: especially with running backs. Uh. If you have to pick

661
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: a forty Niners receiver, is it Deebo Samuel or is

662
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: it Emmanuel Sanders? I think it's Deebo. I think he's

663
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: asserted himself, here's the number one receiver. And you can

664
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:48,240
Speaker 1: kind of tell just just based on how Shannon's using him. Um,

665
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 1: you know, not only not only is he getting put

666
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: in the right spots, I think to kind of show

667
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 1: his yak ability, they're obviously using him as a running

668
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 1: back and kind of getting him involved near the line

669
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 1: of scrimmage on some screens. Um, Packers corners just have

670
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,760
Speaker 1: no shot at at stopping Depot two. He is so

671
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: explosive in the open field. Um, I'm I think this

672
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: is kind of where this game is one in a sense,

673
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: is what can the Niners do through the air, because

674
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: we know they're going to have some level of success

675
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: on the ground. That's that's Shinhan's runoffense always travels, But

676
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 1: in this game, it's what can they do to get

677
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: Debot and Sanders into space? And I'm really excited to

678
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 1: see what Shanahan schemes up with their past attack because

679
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: the Packers have been leaky all year. Yeah, Deebo, Samuel

680
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: in some ways sort of reminds me of a younger

681
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,920
Speaker 1: and Kwan Bolden. I like that, Um, you know, like

682
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: that a lot guy who's not you know, he's not

683
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: necessarily blazing fast, but it's good with the ball in

684
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 1: his hands, is strong, it's hard to tackle. Um, it's

685
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 1: that's what he makes me think. Man. That makes a

686
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,239
Speaker 1: lot of sense because back when an Kwon bold was

687
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: in college at Florida State, like they used him as

688
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: a running back. As a quarterback was fantastic. Obviously, Bolden

689
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: is one of the best players ever after the catch,

690
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,560
Speaker 1: I like that comp a lot. Yeah, yeah, that's that's

691
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: that's when I watch him, he makes me think of

692
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: of An Kwon Bolden quite a bit. So all right,

693
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: there you go. Those are your championship games. They both

694
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 1: should be very entertaining. By the end of Sunday we

695
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: will know who was playing in Super Bowl was right,

696
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 1: it's l I V I think this year live live,

697
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: which is funny. They're having it in South Florida, right, perfect.

698
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: So I think, you know, I would think that the

699
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: folks who run Club Lived down there are probably smart

700
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 1: enough to figure out something. I think there's probably just

701
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: a little bit I would think they. I think they

702
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 1: figured out some sort of promotional things. So alright, cool.

703
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: We will be back on Monday to sort of recap that,

704
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: and I don't know, we have two weeks in between.

705
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll do some sort of weird fantasy Pro Bowl thing.

706
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: I don't know. Anyway, before we get out of here,

707
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: a couple of stories that caught my eye that I

708
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: thought we're sort of interesting to talk about. One, Chad Johnson,

709
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: you may remember him as Ocho Cinco uh is trying

710
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: out as a kicker in the XFL. And also saw

711
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: this morning that there is a another prominent sports blogger

712
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: podcaster who was also trying out as an NFL XFL kicker.

713
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: So I'm glad we're I'm glad we're taking this seriously

714
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: as a league after the a f went. But it

715
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 1: did you know beg the question? Are you are you

716
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: playing any XFL fantasy this year? God? I saw DraftKings

717
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: is going to cover it. Um, they're gonna have some

718
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: games starting and I guess when the league starts on

719
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: the eighth, I I'm gonna see how it goes. Let's

720
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 1: put it that way. I'm gonna see how I'm definitely

721
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: gonna watch. There's some got about it. I'm certainly gonna watch,

722
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: but I I don't have so much interest in that.

723
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: Did you play any a F fantasy leagues. I did not.

724
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 1: I did not. I didn't have the heart too and

725
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: and I kind of just it was right after the season,

726
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: long season, kind of like I'm not entirely sure this

727
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: league is even gonna be around, and then it end

728
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: up not. I think I will say I'm a lot

729
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: more Um, I think I'm a little more like bullish

730
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: on the XFL, just a little more long term. I

731
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: think they've kind of got a little better structure in place.

732
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 1: It seems like they aren't just kind of putting this

733
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 1: together on the fly. They've been planning it for a

734
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: couple of years. Hopefully the XFL sticks around because I'd

735
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: like to see some some at least fun football, fun

736
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,719
Speaker 1: spring football. Yeah, I mean, I also think the XFL

737
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,239
Speaker 1: have a couple of other advantages. One, they saw what

738
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 1: the A A F did right and did wrong, and

739
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: they can kind of adjust from that. Plus, this is

740
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: not the first goal around for the XFL, so I'm

741
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: sure Vince McMahon and his people have looked at what

742
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: went wrong the first time around and can hopefully make

743
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 1: some adjustments. Um, this was gonna take Tommy Maddox out

744
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,800
Speaker 1: of the record books as the loan NFL or XFL

745
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: m v P. Oh my god, he was your one

746
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 1: and only XFL m v P and likely that's going

747
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: to change when it's all said and done. UM. The

748
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: other story that I thought was kind of funny. If

749
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: you've seen this, there is a guy in Kansas City

750
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: who is a huge Chiefs fan who has decided that

751
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: he is sort of a jinx for the team. UM.

752
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: Last year in the a f C Championship game, he

753
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 1: was at Arrowhead when obviously the Patriots came back the

754
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: d Ford off sides happened in the Patriots score touchdown.

755
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: They end up going to the Super Bowl. UH. This year,

756
00:34:56,120 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: he was at the game on Sunday against the Tech

757
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:04,240
Speaker 1: Xins and obviously Houston jumped out to four nothing lead.

758
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 1: He decided that because he's bad luck, he was going

759
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: to leave the stadium. By the time he got home,

760
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: the Chiefs had gone on their run had taken the lead,

761
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: so he watched the rest of the game from his couch. Uh.

762
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: Somebody got this story to Patrick Mahomes and asked him

763
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 1: about it, and he said he suggested that the guy

764
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,839
Speaker 1: stays home this week. I said, do it for the

765
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 1: you know, it's for the kingdom, for the best of

766
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 1: the chiefs kingdom that you should stay home. And so

767
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 1: it just kind of got me thinking because I feel

768
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,880
Speaker 1: like sports fans are maybe the most superstitious people on earth,

769
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: and so I was just curious if you had any

770
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 1: sports superstitions. Fan, is that when you were an athlete,

771
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: if you had any superstitions? So I saw, I saw

772
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: this on the checkdown. So this this guy left the stadium.

773
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 1: It was twenty one and nothing. He left the stadium

774
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 1: and he said, literally as he sat down, they were

775
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,399
Speaker 1: scoring that Damian Williams because the Damian Williams wheel route

776
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: that he scored on. How wild is that? That's amazing? Um,

777
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:01,399
Speaker 1: I mean I played baseball all throughout. Like baseball people

778
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 1: are very superstitious. Baseball people are freaking weird too, that's admittedly. Um,

779
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 1: we always in in on my high school team. Um,

780
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: whenever we'd get down, we would we we had these

781
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 1: like two tier benches in the dugout. Instead of sitting

782
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: on the bottom bench, we would all sit up on

783
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: the top of the and get up in a line.

784
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 1: And for whatever reason, we thought that would work. But yeah,

785
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: that's that's certainly one baseball baseball super I feel like

786
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 1: base if anything, sports superstitions are more baseball relate. There

787
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: are a lot of baseball related ones. I mean, you've

788
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 1: got rally caps and you know things like that. I

789
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: working in my league baseball. I remember we had a

790
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: player who was in a slump and just randomly he

791
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:46,399
Speaker 1: had a bunch of napkins, um and just about thinking

792
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: before the game, had a bunch of knackins stuff him

793
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:49,919
Speaker 1: in his back pocket. Ended up getting like four hits

794
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: that day, so he just kept napkins in his pocket

795
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: for the next week. He turned around for yeah, he

796
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,359
Speaker 1: had a really good week. Nice and then he had

797
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:57,879
Speaker 1: a note for he took the napkins out and tossed

798
00:36:57,920 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: him or whatever. But like, yeah, I mean that that

799
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: was the thing. I know personally, if I am if

800
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,320
Speaker 1: i'm if I turn on a game and my team

801
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 1: is doing okay, and then when I'm watching the game,

802
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: like bad things start to happen, I will turn the

803
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,799
Speaker 1: game off. I have missed games because I don't want

804
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 1: to be the reason that they lost. Um. So I've

805
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: got a buddy who who whenever his team started doing that,

806
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: he'll start moving seats around the house like he'll so

807
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,479
Speaker 1: instead of like if he's sitting on the sofa or whatever,

808
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: his team starts going down, he'll move around on the

809
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:29,839
Speaker 1: on the to another chair to try to get something

810
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: much sort of momentum and get something. Yeah, sort of

811
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: like that. I you know, I used to do a

812
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,240
Speaker 1: thing back. This is back. You know, when USC football

813
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: really had it going under Pete Carroll. Um, I had

814
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 1: this belief that I had to wear at least one

815
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 1: item of USC clothing during their games. If if if

816
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: I was wearing some USC clothing and they lost, that's

817
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: just because they play bad or something happened. If if

818
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: I wasn't wearing anything and they lost, I sort of

819
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: felt personally responsible for it. Um. And though I know

820
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: that makes no sense, I looked. I will never forget

821
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: when they were a forty one point favorite to Stanford

822
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: and lost at home at the Coliseum and I was

823
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 1: not wearing uh any USC clothing, I felt and I

824
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: was out. I was It's not like I could run

825
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: home and change you put on a T shirt like

826
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: I was out and sounds like they were at forty

827
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:20,480
Speaker 1: one point favorit. Why am I gonna stay home and

828
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: watch this? It's gonna be a blowout, and I found

829
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: out later they lost, and I was sort of inconsolable

830
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: for a couple of hours because I felt like it

831
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 1: was totally my fault that they lost. It was your fault, Marcus,

832
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 1: it is I still I still believe that. I still

833
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: believe that if I had put on, like I don't know,

834
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: a T shirt or some socks or something that they

835
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 1: would not have in the name Tavita Pritchard would have

836
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: just been lost to history and not become a part

837
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: of Stanford lore. So there you go. All right, that's

838
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:46,399
Speaker 1: a I think we are done. Hopefully you enjoy your

839
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 1: weekend for championship weekend, you know the jail. Tell two

840
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 1: friends to tell two friends right review And remember, if

841
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,399
Speaker 1: you don't annoy your siblings, occasionally they'll think you don't

842
00:38:53,400 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 1: love them anymore. We'll see on Monday. Yeah mm hm.

843
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Speaker 1: Wom Coco bola Coco