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Speaker 1: I wanted. Welcome to this new edition of NFL Fantasy Live,

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Speaker 1: our new podcast. Now. It kicks off this Friday, and

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Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy Live, the Great Adam Rank and the Great

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Speaker 1: m Before we get into some of the top headlines, Guy,

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Speaker 1: That is draft number. Let's get down to business. Incredible number.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about headlines as ranks. So rudely interrupted me

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Speaker 1: this coming from this, coming from one of the biggest

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Speaker 1: So one of the biggest stories of the week, of course,

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Speaker 1: is Matthew Stafford, who signing an extension with the Detroit

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Speaker 1: Lions and and guys, to me, Stafford is a player

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Speaker 1: that you can really utilize in your draft strategy because

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Speaker 1: he's coming off a disappointing season in twelve, had twenty

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Speaker 1: for his touchdown passes to increase compared to twenties twelve. Yeah, yeah, Look,

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Speaker 1: umpteen times last year, I mean that that certainly changed.

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Speaker 1: NFL dot Com has run nine guys. So yeah, mock

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Speaker 1: by the way, Matthew Stafford, you can draft him on

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Speaker 1: NFL dot com, which is open for business right now.

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Speaker 1: The Adrian Peterson all is that what it is? Yes? Ion,

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Speaker 1: Steve Sandy Adrian Peterson of all Shark Fantasy leagues? Is

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Speaker 1: What else are in the headlines? Am I? By the way,

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Speaker 1: in comparison to that. Another big headline of the week is,

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Speaker 1: of course, Victor Cruz signed an extension with the New

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Speaker 1: got him ahead of hackem Nicks simply because Victor Cruz

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Speaker 1: the f word fantasy. No no, no, no, no. Field

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Speaker 1: on July the twelve, I have Victory Cruise ahead of

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Speaker 1: Hicky Knicks. But I have a feeling that as I

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Speaker 1: updating my rankings from here on out through Week seventeen.

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Speaker 1: I have a feeling that at some point a Keem

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Speaker 1: Mr Subliminal, that's the way you do it. I feel

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Speaker 1: that was the proper English. But let's get let's get

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Speaker 1: Let's hope this one goes better. Uh, Lamar Miller, and

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Speaker 1: Lamar Miller has been getting rave reviews in the offseason.

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Speaker 1: He's been working out with fellow Miami Hurricane standout Frank Gore. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Miller is the biggest running back sleeper in fantasy football.

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Speaker 1: What say you, Adam Rank Lamar Miller. You know what, Michael,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm this way with Lamar Miller. But

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Speaker 1: is that Colin Kaepernick's ability to run will freeze linebackers

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Speaker 1: and that will help Vernon Davis get open. Yeah, that's

426
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Speaker 1: a huge Yeah, that's exactly what I was. I could

427
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Speaker 1: tell you one thing. Kaepernick's numbers, uh and Davis's numbers

428
00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,840
Speaker 1: they didn't they didn't really mesh last year until the

429
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Speaker 1: end of the season, until that Super Bowl run. So

430
00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:36,760
Speaker 1: but let's see what happens like regardless, Davis is a

431
00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:40,080
Speaker 1: number one Fantasy tight end because thank you for that.

432
00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:44,240
Speaker 1: Because the number the position is not very deep. Michael

433
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Speaker 1: Fabiano decrees Vernon Davis will be a number one tight

434
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Speaker 1: end that do you remember where he finished last year?

435
00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:57,080
Speaker 1: He was fine? He remember he was terrible terrible last year.

436
00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,880
Speaker 1: You you look at the numbers that this guy produced

437
00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:04,920
Speaker 1: in our playoffs, was disgraceful to the point where people

438
00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:08,320
Speaker 1: come start him like you finished first among tight ends

439
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,840
Speaker 1: and our playoff challenge it was. It was not a

440
00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:14,000
Speaker 1: good season for Vernie. I use only the statistics that

441
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Speaker 1: back up my point. With that being said, let's see

442
00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,199
Speaker 1: how many statistics that Mr Rank can bring up on

443
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Speaker 1: the Broncos running back situation this year. Denver Broncos dot

444
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Speaker 1: Com has a report that it could end up being

445
00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,120
Speaker 1: a committee this season. Although they did draft Monte Ball

446
00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:35,680
Speaker 1: pretty high, They've got Ronnie Hillman. Uh, they did release

447
00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,359
Speaker 1: Willis Mcgahey, you've also got no Sean Marino coming off

448
00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:40,800
Speaker 1: a knee injury. We've never heard that before, guys, So

449
00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:45,440
Speaker 1: what are your expectations in that backfield? To me, Ball

450
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,920
Speaker 1: has clearly got more upside if he's good and pass protection,

451
00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:50,720
Speaker 1: because that's always the number one key for a Peyton

452
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,560
Speaker 1: manning team. You gotta be able to protect the quarterback

453
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:54,840
Speaker 1: if he comes out and shows that he's at three

454
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Speaker 1: down back. I don't know that Ronnie Hillman or No

455
00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:01,160
Speaker 1: Sean Marino are going to see enough burn to really

456
00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,120
Speaker 1: make a huge impact and fantasy the question is, I mean,

457
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,440
Speaker 1: is Monte Bauld really going to be that three down back?

458
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:08,640
Speaker 1: I know they've talked about that. But at the same time,

459
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 1: you keep hearing Hillman's name come up, you keep hearing

460
00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,040
Speaker 1: no Sean Moreno's name come up. And my fear is

461
00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:15,760
Speaker 1: that the Broncos become Saints West, where you've got a

462
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Speaker 1: quarterback in Peyton Manny who has all these weapons to

463
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Speaker 1: throw to. I mean, we talk about Thomas and and

464
00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:23,240
Speaker 1: Decker and West Welker and you know, and stuff. Forget

465
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:24,920
Speaker 1: they've got a couple of good tight ends with joeld

466
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,080
Speaker 1: Reeson around there and and and that and the like. Um,

467
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Speaker 1: you know, the fear is that the Bronco backfield looks

468
00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:33,199
Speaker 1: a lot like the New Orleans backfield, where you know,

469
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Speaker 1: nobody really is excited about mark Ingram or Pierre Thomas

470
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Speaker 1: or what have you mean. I know Chris Ivory is

471
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Speaker 1: out of the mix there, but they're still it's just

472
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Speaker 1: not exciting. And I think my fear is that that's

473
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Speaker 1: what's gonna happen in Denver. Yes, that the ground is

474
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Speaker 1: still contaminated, contaminated with Shannahannigans. Zero doesn't take for the contamination.

475
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Speaker 1: I don't know that you can ever get rid of

476
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Speaker 1: that now. And you also have to remember too, John

477
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 1: Fox was the guy who started the conundrum down in

478
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 1: Carolina with see Angela Williams and John Stewart and everything.

479
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 1: There was Deshaun Foster and Stephen Davis. Yeah, if you go,

480
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:11,840
Speaker 1: if you go, real firebag, and you're absolutely correct. And

481
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,879
Speaker 1: so John Fox likes to employ a running back by committee.

482
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Speaker 1: And then you have Peyton Manning who doesn't like to

483
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Speaker 1: hand off to a running back. And so again, when

484
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Speaker 1: I'm massaging my rankings and everything, which will be update

485
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Speaker 1: at every Tuesday from here on out through weeks sev

486
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Speaker 1: he that's five mentions of that already, I will say

487
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Speaker 1: that I one mentioned per every five minutes. I will

488
00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,439
Speaker 1: dislike Monty Ball. The speaking of which I like dislike

489
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Speaker 1: should be coming up soon in August. We'll be kicking

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Speaker 1: that back off like this like Adam Rank dot com,

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Speaker 1: Adam Rank dot com, NFL dot com slash Adam Rank,

492
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Speaker 1: sorry dot com slash Adam Rank. I think like this

493
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Speaker 1: slike had its own vanity U r l as well.

494
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,160
Speaker 1: Enough about that, enough of the promotion. It seems so shameless.

495
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,679
Speaker 1: I don't like, you know, but that's the thing is

496
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Speaker 1: everybody looking at the rookies, you look at Monty Ball,

497
00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 1: and it seems like you look at this the tistics

498
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 1: from college in Wisconsin, he was awesome. He could he

499
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 1: could run the ball three hundred times. He could do

500
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: something like Trent Richardson did last year. But he's not

501
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Speaker 1: on the right team to do that. I don't think

502
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,239
Speaker 1: he's gonna get his opportunities. I'm afraid he's not going

503
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 1: to get the ball near the in the in the

504
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,199
Speaker 1: inside the ten yard line because I figure they'll go

505
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 1: double tight end and then they'll have Wes Welker, and

506
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:21,919
Speaker 1: then I'll have Eric Decker and then the marysto and

507
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning would rather throw on the five yard line

508
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 1: that he would rather hand the ball off. It just

509
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:30,199
Speaker 1: seems that way. So I'm gonna avoid Monty Ball. I'm

510
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 1: gonna give him the dislike I will like Levy on

511
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,640
Speaker 1: Bell in Pittsburgh because he's gonna have the opportunity. That's

512
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,440
Speaker 1: gonna be a team that's gonna want to run the ball.

513
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,160
Speaker 1: That's a team who lost some receivers. This here because

514
00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 1: Mike Wallace is now in Miami. As we mentioned before,

515
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Speaker 1: that's the rookie that I'm looking at. So Bell over ball,

516
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:51,480
Speaker 1: Bell over ball in the big ten. Yeah. Bell is

517
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:52,960
Speaker 1: definitely a guy you need to keep an eye on

518
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 1: during training camp because the Steelers have a need. I

519
00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 1: think they filled it. He's a pass catcher, he's a bruiser. Uh,

520
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,199
Speaker 1: the Steelers, you would think they're not gonna be so

521
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:05,520
Speaker 1: pass laden now without Mike Wallace stretching defenses. So Bell

522
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:07,439
Speaker 1: is gonna have an operation, you think, Yeah, don't you

523
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,439
Speaker 1: think they'll start running? I mean, like David de Castro

524
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,679
Speaker 1: should be healthy this year, don't you think that they?

525
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 1: I just feel with their defense too, is kind of

526
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 1: you know, they need to come back a little bit.

527
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 1: I don't know. My my perception was as the defense

528
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 1: didn't play that well last year. I don't Yeah, So

529
00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 1: I feel like they all need to shorten up games

530
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 1: a little bit. They probably don't want it. Ben Roethlisberg

531
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,880
Speaker 1: bigger issues that they want to protect Ben roethlins this year.

532
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 1: He's been very very brittle the last couple of years,

533
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:37,639
Speaker 1: or the offensive line has just well. He's certainly let

534
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 1: us know that he's hurt. Yes, there is not an

535
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Speaker 1: injury that he will not let us know about, even

536
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 1: when he's on the field. He's been hurt quite a

537
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: bit over the last couple of seasons. And the good

538
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,680
Speaker 1: thing too, is that when he's hurt, like if he's

539
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 1: got a hurt ankle, he'll make sure that that ankle

540
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:56,400
Speaker 1: has got a different colored shoe. It's ellen once hurt

541
00:25:56,440 --> 00:26:00,639
Speaker 1: everybody if that person up there at the time, So

542
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:05,960
Speaker 1: you know, yellow yellow hurt. Yeah, you're you're a fan

543
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:12,119
Speaker 1: of Roethlisberger, right, yeah, I love everybody. Well, let's continue this, like,

544
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 1: m let's continue better court. You know, I need boots.

545
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:21,399
Speaker 1: It's it's getting so high in here with your stuff.

546
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,720
Speaker 1: Rank um, have I pitched ranks eleven yet? Let's uh,

547
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 1: let's let's move on to the quarterback position. Guys. And

548
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 1: we talked about Ben Roethlisberger a little bit. Over the

549
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,720
Speaker 1: next six weeks. You know, we're going to be signaling

550
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 1: out one of the top four positions in fantasy football.

551
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with quarterbacks today, and I think we

552
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,879
Speaker 1: can probably all agree that the top five quarterbacks are

553
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 1: going to be, in some order, Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees,

554
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: Peyton Man and Cam Newton and Tom Brady. What do

555
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: you let let I'm moving moving into wait, I'm moving

556
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:57,119
Speaker 1: into the question about Brady because he's lost four of

557
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Speaker 1: his top five receivers from last year. Right now, you're

558
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,040
Speaker 1: looking at starting line up that includes Danny Amdela, who

559
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 1: he like although he's been uh proninent injuries, Michael Jenkins, uh,

560
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman, Aaron Dops, Donald Jones, Aaron Dobson. How far

561
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 1: do you drop Tom Brady? I can only drop him

562
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 1: the fifth Where do you guys drop Tom Brady too?

563
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: Where do you see him being picked in drafts? I've

564
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 1: been in mock drafts on NFL dot Com where he's

565
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: gone in the fifth round. Yeah, yeah, I mean I

566
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,959
Speaker 1: have him at fifth, and I think, yeah. To me,

567
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: it's sort of like those guys who keep getting voted

568
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: into the All Star Game even though their numbers aren't

569
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: the same, because because of legacy, because of of the

570
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,399
Speaker 1: body of work. And I think for Tom Brady, putting

571
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 1: him at five was a recognition of the body of work,

572
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: of what he has done over his career. And it's

573
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: all the times you doubt Tom Brady, all the times

574
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 1: you look at his wide receiver corps and it looks

575
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 1: like stuff that you found in the junk drawer of

576
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:54,719
Speaker 1: the National Football League, and he somehow finds a way

577
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 1: to get it done. Um, it's funny. Did you go

578
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: back through those years while he was good and while

579
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 1: the team was winning, they weren't necessarily great fantasy numbers.

580
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,199
Speaker 1: I think sometimes we forget about that. But I just

581
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: think because of who he is and what he's done. Um,

582
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,760
Speaker 1: you know, maybe the numbers, maybe the the the depth

583
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 1: chart doesn't bear it out, but I think the history

584
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: of Tom Brady warrants him getting the respect to be

585
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 1: at least leveling off at number five to cellient point.

586
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: It's like Kyle Ripken at the end of his career.

587
00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: He's gonna be voted in the also just put him in.

588
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: It almost seems sacrilege to not have him in the

589
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 1: top five. My my, My point is, and you will

590
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,640
Speaker 1: talk to the football aficionados, Tom Brady can win with

591
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: any group of receivers. And I'm Marcus, you touched on this.

592
00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 1: If you look back to when the Patriots won three

593
00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: Super Bowls in four years, his receivers were Dion Branch,

594
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 1: Troy Brown, uh, some of the other curtain jerkers, a

595
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 1: mid card jobbers. The Patriots are running out there and

596
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 1: he's he won, and I feel the Patriots can win.

597
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: I feel they can win the a f C East.

598
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: I think they will be fine. I think that tan

599
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: eleven wins is not out of the question. Bill Belichick

600
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: always does a great job of adapting. However, he didn't

601
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 1: really start to become a fantasy stud until I'll say

602
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: about two thousand five. Was he like I believe it was.

603
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: Two thousand five was his first breakout year. He started

604
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: going crazy when he got West Walker and Randy Moss

605
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: in two thousand seven. And that is when he took

606
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: off as a true fantasy elite receiver or fantasy elite quarterback.

607
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: Is because he had those big time receivers. So I

608
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 1: think that he does take a step back, not as

609
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: a football player, not as a quarterback. He's still Tom Brady.

610
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: The Patriots are still a contender for the Super Bowl.

611
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: As a fantasy quarterback, I'm starting to look at guys

612
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: like Andy Luck who could move ahead of him this year,

613
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: somebody who could be based on average draft position and

614
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: based on the fact that a guy like Andy Luck

615
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 1: is gonna get better. He's gonna cut down his interceptions,

616
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: he's gonna bring back that little bit of the West

617
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 1: Coast offense, not so much of the vertical game that

618
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: Bruce Arians wanted old offensive coordinator with him. Pet Hamilton's

619
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Speaker 1: I love Luck. I love him. I think he could

620
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: be a five fantasy player this year. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: just talking about quarterbacks. I'm talking about overall. I like

622
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Speaker 1: the addition of Darius Hayward Bay. I think that's a

623
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: sneaky good addition. It gives him another weapon. In the

624
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 1: past attack, they lost Annie Avery, which wasn't much of

625
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:14,080
Speaker 1: a loss. I think I think Hey, Bay can come

626
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: in and make an impact. I think you're gonna see

627
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 1: more Kobe Fleaner this season. He's a deep sleeper. I'm

628
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: right on board with Adam here. I absolutely love Andrew Luck.

629
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Speaker 1: He's on the man Crushed list. And I would absolutely

630
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Speaker 1: positively be thrilled if I got Andrew Luck in the

631
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Speaker 1: fifth or sixth round to be my starting quarterback this season. Wow.

632
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Speaker 1: If I have nothing to say and in arguments, well,

633
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: so I have a I have a keeper league. And

634
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 1: this was one of the things is I've I'm pretty

635
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: stacked at running back and I keep all those guys,

636
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Speaker 1: and it came down the quarterback for me, and I

637
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Speaker 1: got Tom Brady, and I have Andrew Luck. And Andrew Luck,

638
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Speaker 1: I drafted last year with the mind of that someday

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be my eventual, you know, starting quarterback, replacing

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady. And because of the way my team was

641
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Speaker 1: constructed last year, and I did a really good job

642
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 1: of picking up running backs and everything in my receivers

643
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Speaker 1: or stack, I had to make a decision because I

644
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Speaker 1: had to get one rid of one of those quarterbacks.

645
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Speaker 1: I kept Luck. And if you're in a keeper league,

646
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Speaker 1: I think you would agree that's a no brainer. You

647
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Speaker 1: have to keep him because you can't put him back

648
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Speaker 1: into the pool. I mean, I could risk redrafting him.

649
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Speaker 1: I would rather take my chance. If if I have

650
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to draft Tom Brady, I might do it.

651
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Speaker 1: I might have him in there. I don't want to

652
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Speaker 1: get into the motive, like having to choose between the

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Speaker 1: two of them each and every week. I'd rather just

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Speaker 1: have my one stud and then not worry about it,

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Speaker 1: you know what, because I'm I'm one of those guys

656
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Speaker 1: that if I get a good quarterback through who I'm

657
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Speaker 1: really into, I'll just stick with him. And I don't

658
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Speaker 1: want to. I don't want to get into that game

659
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Speaker 1: where you have to mix and match a guy each

660
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Speaker 1: and every week and it just gets Here's what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I may run into that issue one of my leagues

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Speaker 1: this year, my league of record this year, where Russell

663
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Speaker 1: Wilson is keeper eligible for me. I mean, he was

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Speaker 1: a guy that I just took a chance on late

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Speaker 1: in the drafts and you know what, the heck, let's

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Speaker 1: let's see what I can do. Obviously that worked out

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Speaker 1: pretty well for me, so I mean he was my

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Speaker 1: starter by the time the year was out. I may

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Speaker 1: be looking at a situation where, you know, I'll have

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson as a keeper and I couldn't be pick

671
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Speaker 1: up a pretty quality quarterback somewhere early in my next draft.

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Speaker 1: So you know, I don't know that it'll be Tom Brady,

673
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Speaker 1: it might be who knows. But um that that that

674
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Speaker 1: kind of lends to that question of the second year

675
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Speaker 1: guy that I know that you are kind of adam

676
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Speaker 1: kind of if he on some of the second year guys,

677
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Speaker 1: I don't know, like I know Russell Wilson is it

678
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Speaker 1: is one that you I think kind of like, yeah,

679
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Speaker 1: a little bit about I like Russell Wilson. I Um,

680
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Speaker 1: I like all of the second year guys, but again,

681
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Speaker 1: their second year guys, you know, and it's you know,

682
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Speaker 1: we've there's really not like a I'm trying to think

683
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Speaker 1: of like the rookie quarterbacks who came out and really stumble.

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Speaker 1: I think Rick Meyer is was the one I always

685
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Speaker 1: think about. But Cam Newton last year. Oh it's way back.

686
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Speaker 1: So that's how rare it is that these guys, these

687
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Speaker 1: rookie quarterbad. Okay, I like it. It just seems that

688
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: everybody is so hyper on these guys, and you know,

689
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Speaker 1: everybody wants to draft him early that they allow the

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Speaker 1: established guys like Tony Romo the tumble in the dress.

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Speaker 1: So Tony Romo, all he's done for his entire starting

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Speaker 1: career has had a passer rating above nine every year

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Speaker 1: that he started. It seems like every year he throws

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Speaker 1: for more than four thousand yards. Now, Dez Bryant, to me,

695
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: is becoming one of the crew superstars in the game.

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Speaker 1: They don't have a running attack, so he looks like

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be challenging Matt Stafford the market. Murrey is

698
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Speaker 1: a good running back. He's just gotta stay. He's good.

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Speaker 1: Well look him, and I mean they make one great

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Speaker 1: one running back. Maybe they maybe they can stay healthy,

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Speaker 1: maybe that maybe the two of them can combine for

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Speaker 1: sixteen games. I don't know, but Tony Romo to me,

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Speaker 1: I mean, as I'm doing my mocks and just I

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Speaker 1: go through and I'm just judging where Tony Romo falls

705
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Speaker 1: and you. This is also a thing to be mindful of.

706
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Speaker 1: Two is how your league's give points for for touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: Scoring systems are always important because when we play here

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Speaker 1: on NFL dot Com, where our experts leagues play, we

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Speaker 1: give four points for a passing touchdown to my League

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Speaker 1: of Record. And you've heard markets refer to the so

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Speaker 1: I'm sure I refer to it earlier League of Record.

712
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Speaker 1: For good those of you new to this term, what

713
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Speaker 1: it means is like we play in multiple leagues. Fabriano's

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Speaker 1: in ten leagues, I'm inten leagues, Marcuses in fifty leagues.

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Speaker 1: But there's one league that you care about the most

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Speaker 1: and the one that you always put your bragging rights

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00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,320
Speaker 1: on that you're probably playing with your closest friends. That

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Speaker 1: is the League of Record. And in my League of Record,

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Speaker 1: which we play on NFL dot Com, which is available

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Speaker 1: right now, you can sign up for your league as

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Speaker 1: we speak. Uh we play where you get six points

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Speaker 1: for a touchdown pass, So quarterbacks tend to go a

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Speaker 1: little bit earlier than normal. But I love doing these

724
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Speaker 1: mock drafts and trying to find out because it just

725
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Speaker 1: seems people just let Tony Romo. They'll they'll take ane

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Speaker 1: of the guys that slides, just like Matt Ryan, just

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Speaker 1: like Matthew Stafford, Guys who are gonna slide past the

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Speaker 1: seventh eighth, maybe into the ninth round. As I said,

729
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Speaker 1: Stafford's ADP on NFL dot com right now is round nine.

730
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Speaker 1: But a quarterback that I think a lot of people

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Speaker 1: are concerned about. And I wrote a column that will

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Speaker 1: be on NFL dot com this week and the Terrifying

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Speaker 1: Times basically, which was basically feedback from Twitter fans out

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Speaker 1: there who told me, these are the guys that I

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Speaker 1: am the most scared to draft this year, and Colin

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Speaker 1: Kaepernick is among the top ten. Now I would see

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Speaker 1: ahead of r G three. Yes, people are more scared

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Speaker 1: to draft Kaepernick, wasn't it. I think he was up there.

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Speaker 1: I think I think for for a lot of people,

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Speaker 1: there's there's a couple of things with Kaepernick. Mean one,

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Speaker 1: it's the running quarterback issues are all crab Tree. I

742
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Speaker 1: don't know it's all I mean, I think that has

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Speaker 1: something to do with it. I think for me it's

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Speaker 1: it's threefold. It's crab Tree, it's the running element, and

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Speaker 1: I think it's just the small sample size from last year.

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00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:38,640
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, he took over midway through the

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Speaker 1: year and yeah he was great, But now what happens

748
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Speaker 1: when there's film out on him? And I think that

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Speaker 1: applies to a lot of the second year guys as well.

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Speaker 1: Now that there's film on you, now that there's a

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Speaker 1: whole year to study you know, what you do in

752
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: your tendencies, and on top of that, there's a whole

753
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Speaker 1: year to study how to slow down this pistol offense.

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Speaker 1: I think that's where a lot of fear comes in

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Speaker 1: me because I'm I'm kind the fantasy skeptic. It was like, hey,

756
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 1: that was really great, do it again. And I think

757
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: that's where a lot of people fall on Kaepernick and see.

758
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: For me, it's it's all about the quarterbacks who can

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Speaker 1: run the football. And I always bring up the Tin

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Speaker 1: Tebow argument and I always will. Lousy passer rating this

761
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Speaker 1: guy was was unbelievably inaccurate and a very solid number

762
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Speaker 1: one fantasy quarterback, mid tier low end number one fantasy

763
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Speaker 1: quarterback because what he can do uh with his feet

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Speaker 1: and Kaepernick I think could be even more effective as

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Speaker 1: a runner. I expect him the rush for around eight

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Speaker 1: hundred yards and probably somewhere in the neighborhood his sixth

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Speaker 1: day touchdowns this season, especially because he doesn't have crab Tree.

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Speaker 1: Which scares me is that the high percentage of past

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Speaker 1: attempts that he threw the crab tree last year. I

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Speaker 1: don't know where they're going. A. J. Jenkins was invisible

771
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Speaker 1: last year. Bolden's over the hill. Vernon Davis will see

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Speaker 1: what happens with him. He's hot and cold. Bolden didn't

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Speaker 1: look over the hill in the Super Bowl. Uh. It

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Speaker 1: looks statistically he has not at a thousand yards seasons

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Speaker 1: since he left Arizona. So but you've also got Mario

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Speaker 1: Manningham come En off of a n A c L injury,

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of question marks there. If Crabtree

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Speaker 1: was there and healthy and I would have I would

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Speaker 1: have Kaepernick solidly solidly as one of my breakout players. Now.

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Speaker 1: I still think he's gonna have a very solid season,

781
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: but I'm a little bit less high on him, if

782
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Speaker 1: that makes sense, because his number one option in the

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Speaker 1: passing game has gone. I was gonna make a Cheech

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00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,320
Speaker 1: and Chong reference there, but I won't. I'll refrain, and

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Speaker 1: I'll say two things about that. You're not wrong. I

786
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: understand where you're where you're coming from. But with two

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Speaker 1: things I think that are important to note about Colin

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Speaker 1: Kaepernick as a running quarterback, as a quarterback in general.

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Speaker 1: Number One, he's not built like Michael Vick. He's built huge,

790
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Speaker 1: He's a big guy. He looks like a pro wrestler

791
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: at sometimes he's he's not gonna get dinged up and

792
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: get the injuries that Michael Vick succumbed to and why

793
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: he fell off so so greatly after his magical season.

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Speaker 1: Number Two, I look at Jim Harbaugh. You know, Alex

795
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 1: Smith was struggling for a long time till Jim Harbaugh

796
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Speaker 1: m in there and work with them made him a

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Speaker 1: better quarterback. I feel that Jim Harbaugh is going to

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Speaker 1: do the same thing with Colin Kaepernick as a passer,

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Speaker 1: and he's a better runner than Alex Smith. So Colin

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Speaker 1: Kaepernick is a guy. I have a lot I have

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Speaker 1: a lot more confidence in him than I do with

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Speaker 1: r G three and probably Russell Wills. Yeah, I'm right

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00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,839
Speaker 1: there on board with you. And I don't understand why

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Speaker 1: people are so willing to take a chance on r

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Speaker 1: G three and they'll let somebody like Tony Romo. So

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Speaker 1: I don't get that. I understand he's not going to

807
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 1: run a undred. Romo is I think an interesting case

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Speaker 1: simply because the the football perception of him and the

809
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Speaker 1: fantasy perception of him are so vastly different. I mean,

810
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Speaker 1: he is a guy that cowboy fans love to hate.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's just such a cowboy fans love Romo.

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00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:49,359
Speaker 1: It's the cowboy haters such an up and down relationship

813
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Speaker 1: with him, and you know, and you know, so much

814
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 1: is made of his late game interceptions and how he

815
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Speaker 1: can't get those guys there and whatever. But if you're

816
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: looking at him strictly from a numbers perspective and from

817
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: a fantasy perspective, he's what a quarterback is. There is

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Speaker 1: a round. But I think because the football perspective of

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00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: him and the football talk about him is often so negative,

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Speaker 1: I think that kind of spills over the other way.

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna put your feet to the fire

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Speaker 1: guys here with a couple of predictions for the quarterback position.

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Speaker 1: I want you guys to number one, give me your

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Speaker 1: number one breakout quarterback, your number one sleeper quarterback. And

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Speaker 1: you know I have definitions for all this kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Your number one deep sleeper quarterback and your number one

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Speaker 1: quarterback bust. So let's go in order. We'll go Marcus first,

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Speaker 1: a lot, Marcus breakout quarterback, breakout quarterback for two thousand

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Speaker 1: and thirteen. A guy who's going to finish in the

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Speaker 1: top five and fantasy points of this position that hasn't

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Speaker 1: been there before. I guess my top, my my sleeper

832
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: quarterback is gonna be Andrew Luck. Breakout, sorry, breakout. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's Andrew Luck. It's uh. I mean, it's a guy

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Speaker 1: who was just kind of knocking on the door last year,

835
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Speaker 1: and this year he's gonna get a little bit better.

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Speaker 1: I think his receiver is gonna get a little bit better.

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Speaker 1: We talked about Pet Hamilton's being there, his old offensive

838
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Speaker 1: coordinator from Stanford. I just think everything is ripe for

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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck to make the leap this year. I agree,

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Speaker 1: that's that's my breakout. That's a guy I like I

841
00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 1: mentioned just a few moments ago, a guy who's probably

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Speaker 1: gonna move up on my rankings, which I'll be updating

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Speaker 1: every Tuesday from here on out to the end of

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Speaker 1: the season. I like Andrew Luck. You can find my

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Speaker 1: like Dislike column every Friday's during the NFL season on

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Speaker 1: NFL dot com. And yeah, I got a headache, which

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Speaker 1: I've been putting over NFL dot Com. I made one

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Speaker 1: all my story archives. Not only so I agree with

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Speaker 1: you guys that Andrew Luck is going to be the

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Speaker 1: breakout quarterback, you can also see my greatest movie football

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Speaker 1: his mon. Let's move on to the sleeper quarterbacks. And

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Speaker 1: that's to me, this is a tough one because when

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do sleepers and then what deep sleepers? How

860
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: how many actual sleepers? I mean, like to me, maybe

861
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Speaker 1: Sam Bradford. You know, a quarterbacks are I think that

862
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 1: we just combined the two here and go for a

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00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: quarterback who you think couldn't have a great season, who

864
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 1: is just further down the ranking, because everybody you're gonna

865
00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: get a super stark. If you're in a twelve team league,

866
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: you're gonna end up with the stud quarterback. Yeah. Yeah,

867
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Speaker 1: that's why the I mean, you can't you can't call

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Speaker 1: any Dalton a sleeper. I mean maybe you can him

869
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: and Freeman potentially, but they both had good points of

870
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,720
Speaker 1: last year, but then they were inconsistent, especially down the stretch.

871
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 1: Jake Cutler really, Jake Cutler's got a brand new head coach,

872
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Speaker 1: Mark Trustman. Is they talked about, you know, Mike Marx

873
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 1: is kind of the mad genius of offense. I think

874
00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: Mark Trustman really truly is kind of a mad scientist

875
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 1: when it comes to offense. And I think what he's

876
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,479
Speaker 1: gonna do that will help a lot is they're gonna

877
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,320
Speaker 1: diversify that passing game at leash how hopes. So, I

878
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: mean last year it was so heavy on Brandon Marshall,

879
00:41:57,680 --> 00:41:59,720
Speaker 1: and I think this year you're gonna see Matt Forte

880
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: get a lot more involved. I think they're gonna spread

881
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 1: the ball around a lot more. Um. I mean, look,

882
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: Mark Trestman got Derek Leville eight seven tenches Derek Leville,

883
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: you know, and so I think they're gonna find a

884
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Speaker 1: way to make this thing happen. And I think, you know,

885
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: you'll still have to live with the interceptions because that's

886
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: just who Jake Cutler is. But I think you're gonna

887
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 1: see a big improvement from color this year. Yeah. I

888
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,240
Speaker 1: And I like Matt Forte too, for the same reasons

889
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: that you're talking about. Mark Trestman, one of the better

890
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: offensive coordinators out there, superstar up in the Canadian Football League.

891
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 1: My sleeper quarterback is Ryan Tannehill. I think he's a

892
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 1: deep sleeper, a guy you can get him more than

893
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: the last like three or four rounds. There's no such

894
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: thing as a sleeper quarterback. Everything that we've heard in

895
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 1: the can Michael my sleeper quarterback? Now? What what? What? What?

896
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: What's what's Michael Vick's category? What what do you category?

897
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 1: Can we talk about it? Because if listen, you get

898
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Speaker 1: your superstar quarterback. All right, Let's say I draft Andy

899
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Speaker 1: Luck and then I'm gonna draft and I was saying before,

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Speaker 1: I don't like to play the roulette with backups and everything,

901
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: but if Michael Vick falls and I see him, I'm

902
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 1: gonna take a guy who's playing in that Chip Kelly

903
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 1: offense who might be the starter, because if if it

904
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Speaker 1: doesn't work out, I caught him a snow, big deal.

905
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:11,479
Speaker 1: But the way you do, the way you're going about

906
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Speaker 1: this is it's kind of what I like, because this

907
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: is what I like what you did in our first

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Speaker 1: mock draft, our experts mock draft about a month or

909
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Speaker 1: two ago, um that you took Darren McFadden as your flex.

910
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: And you know, my my thought on that was, if

911
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 1: you draft Deren McFadden, you need a contingency plan. But

912
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 1: if you draft Dere McFadden as your contingency plan, that's

913
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: not a bad deal. And I think you're the same

914
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 1: thing with Michael Vick. If you draft Michael Vicken expect

915
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: him to be your starter, you better have a good

916
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: contingency plan. But if you draft Michael Vick as that backup,

917
00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:40,800
Speaker 1: as that plan be, you're probably gonna be where he

918
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: should be drafted as a backup. Anybody who draft a

919
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,439
Speaker 1: number one is missed out on the boat. A little

920
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,399
Speaker 1: bit because the depth of the quarterback position is so deep.

921
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:49,879
Speaker 1: Let's move on to the busts. And this one could

922
00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,800
Speaker 1: be tough because I can guarantee you right now, there's

923
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 1: gonna be at least one or two quarterbacks out there

924
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: this year in two who people are going to be

925
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: very high on going into this season. A k a.

926
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Speaker 1: On Matt Stafford from last year. Who is going to

927
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,840
Speaker 1: fall on his face statistically, Marcus? Who is that quarterback

928
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,799
Speaker 1: for you? The guy that I keep looking at, and

929
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: this is maybe borderline, is Joe Flacco. I just but

930
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: Flaccos never been. I think a lot of people are

931
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 1: going to look at what happened in the postseason, and

932
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: people are gonna look at that and they're gonna think

933
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: that Joe Flacco is ready to take a big step forward.

934
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Speaker 1: I just think that they're gonna be a lot of

935
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,760
Speaker 1: fantasy owners out there who get fooled by what happened

936
00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 1: for those last four weeks of the of the postseason,

937
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: and I just think it's gonna it's gonna be that

938
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:35,919
Speaker 1: way during the regular season. Yes, we all know he's

939
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 1: never been a great fantasy quarterback, but I just think

940
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: people are going to have the wall pulled over their

941
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: eyes and standing out. Marcus, That's exactly what I was

942
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Speaker 1: gonna say. I you know, I agree because there's a

943
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Speaker 1: lot of people playing fantasy football for the first time,

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950
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:03,839
Speaker 1: They will think, oh, Joe Flacco, he's a Super Bowl MVP,

951
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: or should I not draft him? I know, like my

952
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: my mother in law would be like, wait, should I draft? No,

953
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 1: you don't draft him because he's not a good fantasy quarterback.

954
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: He really hasn't been. So I think that is That

955
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: is the guy that I I people that I cautioned

956
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,399
Speaker 1: them I might do. I'm gonna pull out the three one.

957
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take an easy one here on our bus.

958
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not hitting driver. If you're going

959
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 1: through what I'm going in the draft, I'm gonna put

960
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:27,239
Speaker 1: Facco is not gonna be drafted as a starter, and

961
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:30,319
Speaker 1: I don't know that you can consider him a sort

962
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: of prominent bust. When you're gonna Michael, I'm gonna Hall

963
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: of Fame, I'm gonna go You're a high dollar guy.

964
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 1: We're worth the average Joe's. If I had to pick one,

965
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: if I had to pick one quarterback, who's not gonna

966
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 1: put up the numbers he did last year. It's it's

967
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: kind of a gut thing on him. But like I

968
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 1: think it's I think it's gonna be Russell Wilson. You know,

969
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:54,240
Speaker 1: I know that they added Percy Harvin and but things

970
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: just went so well, Everything went perfect for the Seahawks

971
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 1: last year. Everyone expects him to be a Super Bowl

972
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 1: gun downer this year. And with the Russell they have,

973
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: they should. The defense is outstanding. They've got Percy Harvin

974
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 1: in the offense. Now they've got Sydney Rice and Doug

975
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 1: Baldwin and of course Marshawn Lynch Mr Skittles in the backfield.

976
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: And this is this is based off of nothing but

977
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: a gut feeling, has nothing to do with statistics or

978
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 1: anything like that. And if I have a chance to

979
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 1: draft Russell Wilson as my starting quarterback and he's available

980
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 1: somewhere in Round six runs on Friday. I'm not gonna

981
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 1: pass on him, but there's just I just have because

982
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 1: of the division he plays in is so tough. I

983
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:31,520
Speaker 1: just have a little bit of concern with Russell Wilson. No,

984
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: you know, it stands the reason that one of the

985
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: teams who was really good last year is not going

986
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: to be good this year. There. We just see it

987
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:40,839
Speaker 1: in the NFL too much that these teams rise and

988
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: fall all the time. Seattle could be one of those

989
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 1: teams that just not as good. And you know what,

990
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: as a fantasy enthusiast going through and drafting your your players,

991
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 1: if you're gonna get a stud quarterback there in the

992
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 1: first round, and if you don't feel comfortable, if you

993
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 1: don't think Colin Kaepernick is gonna do what he did

994
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 1: last year, if you don't think Russell Wilson or r

995
00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 1: G Thing, fine, take Tony Romo, Hey, Matt Ryan. Those

996
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 1: quarterbacks will be available to you. So don't put yourself

997
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 1: out there with a quarterback you're not comfortable with. If

998
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: you're not comfortable with Russell Wilson, Like we could talk

999
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 1: about this for hours on end, we don't know I mean, honestly,

1000
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: we're really just it's it basically comes down to how

1001
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:19,279
Speaker 1: you feel about it. If you don't feel comfortable with it,

1002
00:47:19,280 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, pass on him. I I I

1003
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: kind of feel very similar to you where I'm I'm

1004
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:26,799
Speaker 1: just uneasy on him and not to where like you

1005
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: know what I feel, Matt Ryan, I feel Tony Romo

1006
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:31,799
Speaker 1: and feel like Andrew. I feel all those guys are

1007
00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: safer picks and that general unease. It's kind of why

1008
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 1: I like Russell Wilson. I mean this people have been

1009
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: saying this about this guy since he was at North

1010
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,399
Speaker 1: Carolina State. I mean when he was an NC State,

1011
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 1: people were kind of and any went to Wisconsin if

1012
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:44,720
Speaker 1: people like I don't know, and even in the draft

1013
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: he falls down and he ends up, you're having a

1014
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:50,799
Speaker 1: great rookie season. Um, y'all keep out him, you keep

1015
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 1: out What did you say? You said? Hey, you did

1016
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: it once? Do it again? Yeah? Definitely, And like I,

1017
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: I still have the skeptic guy, and so I I

1018
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,120
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna use him as a keeper problem in

1019
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: the league, and I'm gonna authentic I just came up

1020
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 1: with a column idea from market. There you go, I

1021
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 1: would be not wrong, but you're not. You're you're absolutely

1022
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: not wrong. I mean you, I mean your reasons for

1023
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 1: wanting to draft him, or the same reasons I would

1024
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: want to draft Honestly, Honestly, it's just as much a

1025
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 1: gut feeling as for why you think he's gonna you know,

1026
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 1: so much of it is. I mean, you can look

1027
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,839
Speaker 1: at the statistics. The statistics say he's going to be

1028
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:24,320
Speaker 1: better than ever, but you know what, this is the NFL,

1029
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:27,400
Speaker 1: things change so much. As a USC guy, though, do

1030
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: you feel comfortable you saw Pete Carroll up close and

1031
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:31,800
Speaker 1: personal for so many years I covered him for the

1032
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: Orange Country Register. I feel that Pete Carroll has got

1033
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 1: this program in the right direction and that that will

1034
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 1: help him out. Yeah. Plus he can have celebrities on

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00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: the sideline here and hang out in the locker room

1036
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 1: and it's not gonna come back and buy him with violations. Yeah,

1037
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 1: we shall see. But I can tell you right now

1038
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:47,400
Speaker 1: that the quarterback position has never been deeper, both in

1039
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:50,239
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1047
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1048
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1049
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Speaker 1: Elliott Harrison, Jason Smith, all of our pals from the show.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get akbar Baja be a meal in here.

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Speaker 1: Even though he's a superstar. Now it is a Moley crue.

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Speaker 1: Does that make me Vince Neil now now not handsome enough?

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Speaker 1: Stop it? Oh my god, Mick Mars did you see

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Speaker 1: him recently? Yeah, that's why with that said. With that said,

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Speaker 1: if that was out of line, he can reach me

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Speaker 1: on Twitter at Adam Rank and tell me that. Check

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Speaker 1: out Adam rank dot com like this, like the David

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Speaker 1: Damage Football proct dot com slash, NFL dot com slash

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Speaker 1: Adam Ranking, all of Adam Ranks other endeavors here at

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Speaker 1: NFL dot com. And when I tell you I did

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Speaker 1: a breakdown of the greatest football movies ever, No, I did. Okay,

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Speaker 1: NFL dot com slash a check that out to me

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Speaker 1: and Marcus Greener on the website also as well, if

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Speaker 1: you want to check us out to you guys,