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Speaker 1: and win that cash. Let's start with some notes from
Speaker 1: around the NFL um the new Giants head coach Pat Shermer.
Speaker 1: He is saying that he does, in fact expect to
Speaker 1: call his own plays. You know, sometimes the offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: does that. But Shermer is a play caller by trade,
Speaker 1: has been as an offensive coordinator in a number of
Speaker 1: stops before, so he is going to take on the
Speaker 1: play calling duties as the head coach of the New
Speaker 1: York Giants. The Los Ange Angelists almost aid St. Louis.
Speaker 1: The Los Angeles Rams gm let's Snead confirmed today that
Speaker 1: they do want to resign Sammy Watkins. Here's the thing, though,
Speaker 1: and don't get me wrong, I think it would be
Speaker 1: a good sign. I think. Listen, they went from the
Speaker 1: last offense in the NFL all the way to the
Speaker 1: most highest scoring offense right going from thirty two to one,
Speaker 1: and every element of that offense, whether it was the
Speaker 1: Signy Wentworth at left tackle, whether it was the improvement
Speaker 1: of goth the potential m v P season that Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley had, or the heard of wide receivers, and you know,
Speaker 1: I talked about the fantasy heard how it is good
Speaker 1: for the real team, bad for the fantasy team. So
Speaker 1: having Sammy Watkins and Robert Woods and Cooper Cup is
Speaker 1: important for this offense. But here's the thing. They already
Speaker 1: have so much money tied into the wide receiver position,
Speaker 1: They signed Robert Woods as a free agent last offseason,
Speaker 1: but don't forget they also signed Tavon Austin, who at
Speaker 1: this point does not really have a role on this team.
Speaker 1: They signed him to a fifty some odd million dollar
Speaker 1: contract as well. So do you really want to, you know,
Speaker 1: lock up all that money in the wide receiver position.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they do resign Sammy Watkins, it
Speaker 1: could mean the end of Tavon Austin with the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Ransandon. Also, remember I told you guys last week
Speaker 1: that Stephen Jones, the vice president of the Cowboys, was
Speaker 1: sort of saying that Dez Bryant was a distraction. And
Speaker 1: then Jerry Jones came out and was like, no, we're
Speaker 1: not moving on from Dez. I thought that this was
Speaker 1: all ploy and negotiation to try to maybe ask death
Speaker 1: for a pay cut. It continues though today. Check this out.
Speaker 1: Stephen Jones once again says and I quote that Dez
Speaker 1: needs to understand that his behavior affects his teammates. I
Speaker 1: think they're doing a little good cop, bad cop kind
Speaker 1: of thing right here. This is definitely something to keep
Speaker 1: your eye on. And then I will also tell you
Speaker 1: that Rob Gronkowski did not practice today because of the concussion.
Speaker 1: He has still not been cleared to practice. Now, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong. He's got still a week and a
Speaker 1: half until the Super Bowl, and I still believe, as
Speaker 1: you know, they will definitely clear him so that all
Speaker 1: of the big boys can be there in the you know,
Speaker 1: the biggest game of the year. But it brings me
Speaker 1: to what we were talking about yesterday and how the
Speaker 1: NFL and the NFL p A came out and said
Speaker 1: that the Carolina Panthers followed the protocol correctly and that
Speaker 1: everything was fine as it related to Cam Newton and
Speaker 1: the injury he sustained against the New Orleans Saints in
Speaker 1: wild card weekend. They came out and said he's got
Speaker 1: an eye injury. I told you some of the things
Speaker 1: from the report yesterday, including how they said it was
Speaker 1: irresponsible of people like me to talk about and suppose
Speaker 1: and you know, kind of diagnosed concussions from just video
Speaker 1: when we are not medically trained. And I retorted that
Speaker 1: it's interesting to me that they were kind of passive
Speaker 1: aggressive in this note, you know, in this report back
Speaker 1: saying that it was obvious from the video that it's
Speaker 1: irresponsible if people aren't trained. And I thought it was
Speaker 1: interesting that they on one side said everything is fine,
Speaker 1: even the Tom Savage UH incident in week fourteen with
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, they were fine and they followed the protocol
Speaker 1: as well, but then also said in the same breath
Speaker 1: that they have recommended a number of enhancements or improvements
Speaker 1: to the concussion protocol. Check out the list of improvements
Speaker 1: that they are talking about, recommending or wanting to implement.
Speaker 1: And there's this this term called the unaffiliated neural trauma consultant.
Speaker 1: That's like basically the extra guy on the sidelines, the
Speaker 1: extra doctor on the sideline who's supposed to be unaffiliated
Speaker 1: with the team, doesn't have you know, like skin in
Speaker 1: the game as it were, and can make kind of
Speaker 1: objective decisions on if someone needs to be taken from
Speaker 1: the field, if someone should not be able to play
Speaker 1: because of a head injury. Check this out. Here are
Speaker 1: the improvements that the NFL and the NFL p A
Speaker 1: are recommending. Even though there's nothing to see here, it's
Speaker 1: all good. They are recommending of using UH independent neuro
Speaker 1: neual trauma consultants centrally, you know, just like you do
Speaker 1: instant replay centrally from New York. They're talking about doing
Speaker 1: the same thing with the unaffiliated neural trauma consultant, to
Speaker 1: have them based at the league office to monitor the
Speaker 1: feeds of all the games, and then that they would
Speaker 1: be allowed to kind of chime in and be like, yo,
Speaker 1: you need to take that guy off the field, doing
Speaker 1: it centrally from the NFL offices in New York. They've
Speaker 1: also defined seizures and what's called the fencing response, the
Speaker 1: fencing posture when you kind of get like uh rigor
Speaker 1: mortis almost and like frozen, as independent signs of a
Speaker 1: concussion that would allow you to be taken off the
Speaker 1: field if you display any of those symptoms. Those are
Speaker 1: the specific symptoms they're saying. They are requiring locker room
Speaker 1: evaluations for any player demonstrating gross vertical instability, which is
Speaker 1: basically like stumbling or not like trying to stand back
Speaker 1: up and and and doing a little bit like Travis
Speaker 1: Kelsey was in the wild card game against the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1: But that's dicey because you are now saying that the
Speaker 1: improvement is we could have um a consultant in New
Speaker 1: York watching the feeds picking a guy, picking the officials
Speaker 1: and be like, you gotta take him off the field
Speaker 1: because he's stumbling, not being able to stand. I think
Speaker 1: that is very interesting that any player who has a
Speaker 1: concussion protocol evaluation on game day has to have a
Speaker 1: follow up evaluation the next day by some of these
Speaker 1: um unaffiliated consultants. Okay, and they're also saying that they're
Speaker 1: gonna add a third one. There's one on each sideline.
Speaker 1: They're gonna add a third one in the playoffs in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl to try to you know, double check
Speaker 1: and be a backup just in case the first neurologic
Speaker 1: uh NEU a trauma consultant is already in the locker
Speaker 1: room treating and injury. They are covering their bums as
Speaker 1: much as they possibly can. But here's my question. These
Speaker 1: are improvements. I thought this was exactly where we were.
Speaker 1: We already had the independent neurological consulting. This would be
Speaker 1: a change and improvement. So where are we now exactly?
Speaker 1: NFL and NFL p A. We'll talk about this a
Speaker 1: little bit more as it relates to Gronk and others,
Speaker 1: But when we come back, we talk NFL Pro Bowl
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Speaker 1: My question is are you planning to watch the NFL
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl and or are you planning to watch tonight
Speaker 1: the NFL Pro Bowl skills competition. You know, it's pretty
Speaker 1: much the analog too, you know, an NBA they all
Speaker 1: saw a weekend. They do to three point shooting contest,
Speaker 1: the Slam Dunk. They have their other skills competitions. You know,
Speaker 1: Baseball has their Home Run Derby, their Futures Game. The
Speaker 1: NHL has a pretty cool skills competition fastest skater or
Speaker 1: hardest shot, things of that nature. So look the Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl in the NFL. They started this last year and
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, if you listen to the status
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Speaker 1: you're a true friend and have been for a while,
Speaker 1: you remember last year we talked about this a lot,
Speaker 1: and I was very excited about this. I thought it
Speaker 1: was gonna be really cool, and it turned out that,
Speaker 1: you know, there was some place, some pieces that I
Speaker 1: did think we're really entertaining. There were others that I
Speaker 1: thought they could do away with. Now this is year
Speaker 1: two and so they've refined it a little bit. They've
Speaker 1: added a new event, they've taken some other events out.
Speaker 1: So what I wanna do is I want to tell
Speaker 1: you my thoughts going into the Pro Bowl skills competition,
Speaker 1: which will in fact air on ESPN tonight. I think
Speaker 1: it's nine o'clock Eastern time. So after you finished listening
Speaker 1: too Fantasy Freestyle, you know, you can chill, you could
Speaker 1: eat dinner, you can finish getting home if you're on
Speaker 1: the West coast, and you can settle on in and
Speaker 1: see what the Pro Bowl Skills Competition has has to
Speaker 1: in store for you. First, I want to tell you
Speaker 1: some of the names that are gonna be here, okay.
Speaker 1: And what they do is they have an a f
Speaker 1: C team and an NFC team, and they've got, you know,
Speaker 1: some some linebackers and d linemen. They got a quarterback
Speaker 1: each team does, they have receivers, and each team this
Speaker 1: year also has a kicker. That is something new. Okay,
Speaker 1: So check this out. First of all, Uh, Peter O'Reilly,
Speaker 1: who is the NFL Senior vice president of Events, said,
Speaker 1: quote unquote, we received tremendous feedback from our fans and
Speaker 1: players about last year's Skills Showdown, and it became one
Speaker 1: of our most popular Pro Bowl Week events with new
Speaker 1: competitions and special surprises. This year, we're raising the bar
Speaker 1: even higher for both teams and are excited to see
Speaker 1: which conference ends up victorious. Um, you know, it's not
Speaker 1: about who wins. In my opinion. Like, I guess technically
Speaker 1: I would be a fan of the a f C
Speaker 1: because I'm a Jets fan. But it's not about who wins.
Speaker 1: I think it's just about seeing, quite frankly, the skills
Speaker 1: in these different kind of context and formats. So check
Speaker 1: this out. UM. On the a f C side, here's
Speaker 1: you got Von Miller, Geno Atkins, c J. Moseley. These
Speaker 1: are all defensive guys. Right. Then you got Keenan, Allen, Jarvis,
Speaker 1: Land dree Kareem Hunt, Alex Smith as a quarterback, and
Speaker 1: they got a kicker from the Pittsburgh Steelers, Chris Boswell. Okay,
Speaker 1: this team is gonna be coached by Jason Taylor and
Speaker 1: la Danian Tomlinson. Then on the NFC side, you got
Speaker 1: kind of the defensive guys. You got Ryan Carrigan, You've
Speaker 1: got Kawan Alexander, You've got Patrick Peterson. Okay. Then wide receivers,
Speaker 1: you got Davonte Adams, you got Michael Thomas, and then
Speaker 1: you got Russell Wilson as a quarterback, and you got
Speaker 1: Graham Gono, the kicker of the Carolina Panthers. Okay, there
Speaker 1: are going to be UM five or six events that
Speaker 1: I want to talk through. Okay. The first one is
Speaker 1: the newest event. Okay, they're bringing in the kickers here,
Speaker 1: and the event is called kick tac toe, almost like
Speaker 1: tic tac toe. So imagine the net um beyond, you know,
Speaker 1: beyond the uprights for field goals, that net that catches
Speaker 1: all the all the balls. Imagine that to be set
Speaker 1: up like a big tic tac toe board. Okay, and
Speaker 1: then go no and Boswell are gonna kind of, I guess,
Speaker 1: alternate and and play tick tac toe. And this is
Speaker 1: kind of the accuracy of the kickers. Can they actually
Speaker 1: put it where they want? I guess there's a little
Speaker 1: tick tactoes strategy as well, although by the time I
Speaker 1: was in like fourth grade, it would be impossible to
Speaker 1: beat me at tick tactoe. The best you could do
Speaker 1: was timing. You know, all the permutations, you know how
Speaker 1: to do what you did this in elementary school. But
Speaker 1: the element of the skill of actually kicking the ball
Speaker 1: where you want. I think that will be interesting. I
Speaker 1: want to see how it goes, but I don't think
Speaker 1: it will be the best, um, you know, event of
Speaker 1: the day, because really, you know, people don't really care
Speaker 1: about kickers as much they're gonna have again the Grideyon Gauntlet.
Speaker 1: This is in essence and obstacle course that they're gonna have. Right,
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a relay race. And here's where
Speaker 1: you're gonna have some of the defensive linemen. Here's where
Speaker 1: you'll have Karragan. Here's where you have Geno Atkins and
Speaker 1: von Miller, because they'll be like, you know, having to
Speaker 1: push a tackling sled or some kind of strength based things,
Speaker 1: and this will be really their event. Okay, the Grideyon Gauntlet,
Speaker 1: you know, obstacle course. I'm reminded of things like Battle
Speaker 1: of the Network Spars, you know, where you had these
Speaker 1: kind of um obstacle courses as well. It'll be all right,
Speaker 1: but I kind of feel like I've seen that kind
Speaker 1: of thing before, right, I am very interested in the
Speaker 1: other three or four events. One is precision passing, so
Speaker 1: they're gonna have. This is kind of like if you're
Speaker 1: ever in the backyard barbecue, you set up a little
Speaker 1: quarterback challenge. Can you hit the tree? Can you hit
Speaker 1: that lawn chair? I know I did it a bunch
Speaker 1: of times, you know. Big shout out to my man
Speaker 1: Tom Dog back in his barbecues in the backyard where
Speaker 1: you do the quarterback challenge. But we're gonna have Alex Smith,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and maybe others. There's some targets of different
Speaker 1: amounts of points. Some will be moving. Last year, I
Speaker 1: believe it was Drew Brees who took it down, so
Speaker 1: that'll be interesting to see. But here are the three
Speaker 1: that I'm really interested. I start with, um, the drone drop.
Speaker 1: I think this is really cool. I wasn't expecting this
Speaker 1: last year, and it kind of was cool. They had
Speaker 1: a drone flying overhead and it would just drop a
Speaker 1: football and the key is like could you catch it?
Speaker 1: And it sounds simple enough, especially they had guys like
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry and Oldell Beckham doing this last year. But
Speaker 1: I've always seen have you ever seen footage like you
Speaker 1: know Snoop Dogg or Will Ferrell visit the USC football
Speaker 1: team and the always thing they make you do, like
Speaker 1: any kind of non football player, they always try to
Speaker 1: make you field a pump because it is not easy
Speaker 1: and it will make you look stupid. So this is
Speaker 1: what the drone drop pretty much is. But you have
Speaker 1: all star wide receivers like will Davante Adams be able
Speaker 1: to catch the ball. Yeah, will Keenan Allen. Yeah. What
Speaker 1: I think they need to do is, you know, however
Speaker 1: it starts where it starts at thirty feet and then
Speaker 1: fifty ft, seventy ft whatever it is, right, you got
Speaker 1: your wide outs doing it, so like like Keenan Allen
Speaker 1: do it, Let Michael Thomas do it. Right. Then, what
Speaker 1: I really think they should do they should do this
Speaker 1: event with the defensive lineman because what you're looking for,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like watching like the Miss America pageant
Speaker 1: when you're watching for the carnage, right, you want to
Speaker 1: see someone fall. You want to see something silly happen.
Speaker 1: That's the reason you're watching this. I would love to
Speaker 1: see Geno Atkin to try and get the drone when
Speaker 1: it's dropping the ball from you know, a hundred feet
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. I don't know if they're gonna
Speaker 1: do that. I think it's a cool idea. I think
Speaker 1: it's a cool event. I want to see it. But
Speaker 1: I think the wrinkle they should do is I think
Speaker 1: they should either have celebrities or they should have the
Speaker 1: big boys the lineman try and do it. This should
Speaker 1: not necessarily be event for the wide receivers or the
Speaker 1: running backs. We know they have good hands. Speaking of hands,
Speaker 1: another event they have is best hands. Okay, and this
Speaker 1: is once again for the wide receivers. I think it
Speaker 1: was Jarvis Landry that won this last year and he
Speaker 1: is back in the competition this year. What they do
Speaker 1: is for the wide receivers, it's similar to um the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the passing right, they have like you gotta
Speaker 1: go around this kind of obstacle course, and what you
Speaker 1: gotta do is like you gotta make a one handed catch,
Speaker 1: or you gotta make it over the shoulder catch right,
Speaker 1: or you gotta make a catch along the sideline. Stuff
Speaker 1: like that, And that's all good, right, But here's what
Speaker 1: I would do. I would make this wide receiver event
Speaker 1: be straight up um toe tapping, you know, trying to
Speaker 1: get your feet inbounds. I would be firing, you know,
Speaker 1: right along the sideline, because that's that's what we talk
Speaker 1: about all the time, right. Yeah, it is the amazing
Speaker 1: one handed catches, and we're gonna see some of those
Speaker 1: as well. But really, when I'm watching a football game,
Speaker 1: what is so impressive to me these days are how
Speaker 1: these receivers get both feet inbounds I would love to
Speaker 1: see them structure and event to see how they get
Speaker 1: those both feet inbounds and make it tougher and tougher
Speaker 1: with some obstacles in play. I think it should really
Speaker 1: be about toe tapping. We know all these guys hands
Speaker 1: are very, very good, So we talked about kick tack toe.
Speaker 1: We talked about the gridiron gauntlet. We talked about the
Speaker 1: precision passing, the best hands, the drone drop, what will
Speaker 1: be last? And this is hysterical for me, dodge ball.
Speaker 1: They are just straight up playing middle school dodgeball. I
Speaker 1: think this is hysterical. But my I ask you who
Speaker 1: who's really has the advantage here in dodgeball? Do you like,
Speaker 1: you know, like the quarterbacks that can bring it. Do
Speaker 1: you like a shifty guy, a wide receiver? Your linebackers
Speaker 1: are probably not good. I think Patrick Peter sin is
Speaker 1: gonna be a beast in this one. But I looked
Speaker 1: at the roster. That's why I told you about these rosters.
Speaker 1: So I look at the wide receivers. Right. The NFC
Speaker 1: wide receivers are Davante Adams and Michael Thomas. The a
Speaker 1: f C wide receivers are Keenan Allen and Jarvis Landry.
Speaker 1: I think there's a big difference here, especially as it
Speaker 1: relates to dodge ball. Davantae Adams, Michael Thomas. Those are
Speaker 1: both six ft three outside x wide receivers, right, a
Speaker 1: f C has Keenan Allen, Jarvis Landry, those are more
Speaker 1: shift the slot guys. I think the a f C
Speaker 1: has an advantage here because they have slot receivers as
Speaker 1: opposed to outside receivers. So I don't know how it's going,
Speaker 1: but I am officially picking the a f C to
Speaker 1: win the dodgeball game because I think their wide receivers
Speaker 1: are a little bit more shifty. Listen quite frankly, Davantae Adams,
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas, six ft three, it's just a bigger target.
Speaker 1: One thing I do like about the NFC is remember
Speaker 1: their quarterback is Russell Wilson, right, So I think keys
Speaker 1: a little bit more compact than Alex Smith. I think
Speaker 1: he can kind of bring it a little bit better
Speaker 1: than Alex Smith as well. So there you have it.
Speaker 1: There you have the different events. I'm excited to see it.
Speaker 1: I definitely think the dodgeball is amazing. I want to
Speaker 1: see kind of the drone drop because I think it's fun.
Speaker 1: I like to see how they do this kicking event
Speaker 1: as well. And I will say this the um the
Speaker 1: you know, vice president of Events, Peter O'Reilly is is
Speaker 1: saying that there's going to be special surprises this year,
Speaker 1: so keep it locked for that. Like I mentioned that,
Speaker 1: we got a poll question. I think this is very interesting.
Speaker 1: On the poll, I ask you, will you watch both?
Speaker 1: Will you not watch either? Will you watch the game
Speaker 1: but not the skills competition or the skills competition and
Speaker 1: not the game? Right now, six of you are saying
Speaker 1: you will not watch either one of these things. You
Speaker 1: got better things to do. I think maybe the Grammys
Speaker 1: are on for wrestling fans. You got the Royal Rumble
Speaker 1: as well. Sixty percent of you are saying you won't
Speaker 1: watch either. Nineteen percent of you are the true die
Speaker 1: hards right saying that you will in fact watch both
Speaker 1: the game on Sunday and the skills competence and tonight.
Speaker 1: Here's what I find interesting. Of you say you will
Speaker 1: watch the skills competition but not the game. Only six
Speaker 1: percent of you say that you will watch the game
Speaker 1: but not the skills competition, which kind of means in
Speaker 1: essence that the skill competition is more popular than the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl itself. I find that very interesting. If someone
Speaker 1: wants to check my understanding of this, feel free holler
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Speaker 1: hear what you guys think about the skills competition. Do
Speaker 1: you have any ideas of other events you want to see?
Speaker 1: Defensive linemen trying to field the punt? And what do
Speaker 1: you think about dods ball? Does it bring back bad
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Speaker 1: saying from Queen's Gray's right here. We're on the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Sports Radio Network. It is the fantasy free style which
Speaker 1: a boy Dame Martinez speeds, the spit and statistician, the
Speaker 1: stable genius of the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Listen, we
Speaker 1: were just talking about the Pro Bowl Skills competition. I
Speaker 1: actually think it's kind of cool. I think on some
Speaker 1: of these things they've been very creative. The idea of
Speaker 1: playing dodgeball, I think is real creative. I like that
Speaker 1: they're incorporating the drones, and even they're bringing in the kickers,
Speaker 1: because you know, kickers are people too. What I do
Speaker 1: find very interesting though, because like I said, we have
Speaker 1: this whole question up on Twitter. You can always follow
Speaker 1: me at spitting speeds. It says fent of you say
Speaker 1: you will watch the skills competition but not the Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl itself, And only six percent of you say you
Speaker 1: will watch the game itself on Sunday, but not the
Speaker 1: skills competition. Right, So if we back out the people
Speaker 1: the two die hards that say they will watch both,
Speaker 1: and the people who say listen, they got better things
Speaker 1: to do, come find me when it's actually the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl in about a week. I think it's interesting that
Speaker 1: more people, if they're gonna pick one, are going to
Speaker 1: pick the skills competition. I think that is very interesting,
Speaker 1: you know, because it's see, it's a different brand of football, right,
Speaker 1: it's seeing them in a different context. And that brings
Speaker 1: me to our next story. I talked about it at
Speaker 1: the top of the show. You may have already heard,
Speaker 1: but Vince McMahon is trying to get back into the
Speaker 1: football game. Remember when they had the XFL. That was
Speaker 1: in two thousand and one. It only lasted one year,
Speaker 1: but they were talking about, you know, no fair catches.
Speaker 1: They had a different idea for like the coin flip.
Speaker 1: They had guys just like racing at it to get
Speaker 1: the ball. They had you know, cheerleaders that were a
Speaker 1: little bit more scandalous than your normal cheerleader. They had
Speaker 1: guys like Jim Ross, the wrestling commentators, also doing commentary
Speaker 1: for the XFL games. It only lasted one year, even
Speaker 1: though Listen the opener had great ratings, but then it
Speaker 1: went down from there. Well, today Vince McMahon has announced Listen.
Speaker 1: First of all, he sold a hundred million dollars of
Speaker 1: his w w E stock to fund something called Alpha Entertainment,
Speaker 1: and Alpha Entertainment under Vince McMahon is now going to start.
Speaker 1: They have announced they are going to reboot and revive
Speaker 1: the x f L. It is slated to start in
Speaker 1: the year in January. They're gonna started. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: going towards the end of the playoffs and then into
Speaker 1: the spring. It's gonna be kind of a spring league.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have eight teams they say ten games schedule
Speaker 1: and is gonna launch on January of two thousand and twenty.
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. He's not doing it now this
Speaker 1: time to kind of be like out there in a
Speaker 1: kind of like extreme version of football. That wouldn't make
Speaker 1: sense given the climate, with the player's safety rules and
Speaker 1: the head injuries and the CTE. You don't want to
Speaker 1: be on that side of it, being like, yeah, let's
Speaker 1: be even more violent. That's not gonna get any kind
Speaker 1: of opportunity, that's not gonna get any traction. What he
Speaker 1: is saying, though, is he's not trying to compete with
Speaker 1: the NFL. What they are saying, though, is they are
Speaker 1: going to emphasize a faster pace of play. They say
Speaker 1: they want these games to happen in two hours, and
Speaker 1: I think that would be interesting because listen, that's one
Speaker 1: of the things that people complain about with the NFL,
Speaker 1: oh that the games are now taking over three and
Speaker 1: a half hours, so many commercial breaks. So Vince, I think,
Speaker 1: is onto something here. Will it work? I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: but here's what I question about it. A couple of things. One,
Speaker 1: where are they going to find offensive lineman? If you
Speaker 1: listen to the Fantasy Freestyle, if you listen and a
Speaker 1: part of the stats over beat Cipher, you know, one
Speaker 1: of the things I think were the key factors of
Speaker 1: bad offense all season long in the NFL was the
Speaker 1: offensive line. Was that we don't have enough strong offensive
Speaker 1: linemen that have good technique. You don't have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to practice or develop. They're not gonna be developing talent
Speaker 1: here in this new XFL either, Okay, so where are
Speaker 1: they gonna find adequate offensive lineman is a really big
Speaker 1: interesting part for me because I have been already saying
Speaker 1: that I am kind of skeptical of offensive line play.
Speaker 1: And here's the other thing. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: saw this, if you're on social media right away, you
Speaker 1: know who tweeted right at Vince McMahon saying he's down.
Speaker 1: He wants in. Johnny Manzel, Johnny Football wants a chance
Speaker 1: to get in this. And here's the interesting part. Vince
Speaker 1: McMahon today also said that he wants a certain image
Speaker 1: for his league. He said no players who have a
Speaker 1: criminal record, who have any felonies will be allowed in
Speaker 1: the XFL. I think that's interesting, right, But here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Does that disqualify Johnny Manziel. I was talking to my
Speaker 1: guy Tony Sencada about this at the end of Lineup
Speaker 1: Block Live, and he was saying, no, technically Johnny Manzezel
Speaker 1: would get in because I guess like he pled down
Speaker 1: or took a settlement or something like that, so he
Speaker 1: technically does not have a criminal record. Vince McMahon. They
Speaker 1: named they asked about Johnny Manziel. They asked them specifically
Speaker 1: about Tim Tebow, and he said, sure, if Tim Tebow
Speaker 1: wants to play, it's all good. Tim Tebow can get down.
Speaker 1: I don't think Tebow is gonna do it. It seems
Speaker 1: like to me Tebow has no interest in being in
Speaker 1: any of these kind of inferior leagues. If you want
Speaker 1: to know the truth. He wasn't interested in the Arena League,
Speaker 1: he wasn't interested in the CFL, and he had some
Speaker 1: opportunities there. The other thing that I think is interesting
Speaker 1: is a reporter asked Vince today, what about Colin Kaepernick?
Speaker 1: Would you be open to having Colin Kaepernick be a
Speaker 1: player in this league? And Vince right away was like,
Speaker 1: why not? If he fits all the rest of the criteria,
Speaker 1: you know, no criminal record, and some some other things,
Speaker 1: one of which is he does want his players standing
Speaker 1: for the national anthem. But Kap has already come out
Speaker 1: and said he would do that. So he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm open to that. Why not? I think that is
Speaker 1: very very interesting. The question is do you think it
Speaker 1: will work this time? I am intrigued. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it will work, But we got a long time
Speaker 1: between now and January of twenty but Vince is back
Speaker 1: in the football game. I really do wonder what I
Speaker 1: want to do, though, is I want to hear from
Speaker 1: you guys. I want to hear from you guys and
Speaker 1: the stats over Beat Cipher. I want to hear if
Speaker 1: anybody there is talking about this concussion protocol and the
Speaker 1: upgrades that the NFL and the NFL p A are recommend. Thing.
Speaker 1: I find a hysterical that the things they name as
Speaker 1: upgrades or things that I always thought were already in place.
Speaker 1: I think that's very interesting. Do you guys, if anybody's
Speaker 1: talking about the skills competition, do you want to see
Speaker 1: defensive line and trying to field punts or the drone
Speaker 1: dropping the ball well dodge ball? Does it bring back
Speaker 1: good memories for you or bad memories from your middle
Speaker 1: school experience? And then talk to me about, you know,
Speaker 1: Vince trying the XFL two point Oh, So what we do?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go down into the fantasy pit of misery
Speaker 1: and bringing our boy Danny Auto, Hey, Danny, what what's
Speaker 1: going on with the stats over beat Cipher? What do
Speaker 1: you think, first of all about this Pro Bowl skills competition?
Speaker 1: Are you like, Okay, that's interesting and you're like, nah,
Speaker 1: I'll chill and I'll watch something else tonight. Um, well, me, personally,
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm probably not gonna watch it, alright, fair enough?
Speaker 1: Are you into the Pro Bowl though at all? Or no?
Speaker 1: Not really? Right? So you're one of the sixty two
Speaker 1: percent that you will not watch either. You're in a
Speaker 1: you're in a safe majar already right here. You could uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you could override a veto. You could have continued,
Speaker 1: you could have kept the government open with your um.
Speaker 1: So you're not into it. But if if I went
Speaker 1: through all the events, which do you think would be
Speaker 1: the most fun event? The drone thing interests me? It does, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, like, how high would it have to go
Speaker 1: for you to like not be able to drop it
Speaker 1: to catch a ball? Like I really, I really do
Speaker 1: think if it's up like fifty ft high, you know
Speaker 1: I could catch a ball. You know, if someone threw
Speaker 1: it out like a fourth story window, I'd be all right.
Speaker 1: But if it got to like, I don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: a hundred fifty feet like fifteen stories high, I think
Speaker 1: people would make a fool out of themselves and I
Speaker 1: think it'd be interesting to see defensive linemen doing it.
Speaker 1: What do you think I agree with that that that
Speaker 1: would be that I would probably start watching it if
Speaker 1: we started going like crazy stuff. But then it's is
Speaker 1: it really like, uh, something that the players are actually
Speaker 1: gonna want to do if we go that crazy, because
Speaker 1: it just kind of turns into like an entertainment show
Speaker 1: with what is it? That's what it is. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what it is. So I'm saying, let's try
Speaker 1: to go extra like, don't have the wide receivers, have
Speaker 1: the d lineman do it? You know? I think and
Speaker 1: and I think the toe tapping is very very interesting. Um,
Speaker 1: that's all good. That's all good. Let me ask you
Speaker 1: this because I want to bring back I know, yesterday
Speaker 1: at nine o'clock Eastern time, you my homegirl, Ashley A.
Speaker 1: Bray you you guys had your popping off show. How
Speaker 1: did that go? We did it? It went really well.
Speaker 1: Actually we had a lot of fun. A couple of
Speaker 1: times you're only teasing. You're only teasing it for me.
Speaker 1: So I didn't know which Netflix show you were talking about.
Speaker 1: I s was it Black Mirror? You wouldn't tell me,
Speaker 1: so what did you talk about what we did talk
Speaker 1: about Black I was right only because Ashley uh streamed
Speaker 1: the entire series, not just the season, the entire series
Speaker 1: in uh, I think the course of like three days.
Speaker 1: Really I've seen one season, UM, and I liked the show.
Speaker 1: But like when I'm sitting down on my couch, I
Speaker 1: have to be in the right mindset to be able
Speaker 1: to watch Black Mirror, you know what I mean. It's
Speaker 1: kind of a It's a show that I have to
Speaker 1: kind of like pay attention to. I kind of have
Speaker 1: to like, you know, being a kind of uh in
Speaker 1: a deep space where I want to, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of understand the impact of technology on our lives, you know,
Speaker 1: which sometimes I'm in that spot, but sometimes it's, uh,
Speaker 1: it's not easy, you know, I can agree with that. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: all right, fair enough. Let me ask you this, Ah.
Speaker 1: You mentioned to me that some of the people from
Speaker 1: the stats over beat Cipher are We're there and tuned
Speaker 1: in to popping off guys like Strong Style and others.
Speaker 1: We got people in the stats will beat Cipher today.
Speaker 1: Is like saying anything right now, we actually have Strong Style? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's up? Strong Style? By the way, I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: out his government. That's Alvin from California. What's up, Strong Style?
Speaker 1: What's he got going on? Actually, he was, he was.
Speaker 1: He was in our child, just like you said last night,
Speaker 1: for for both of our shows, and he was comment
Speaker 1: and he he really liked it cool and it was
Speaker 1: was kind of giving us some some pretty cool compliments
Speaker 1: and saying that we need to figure out what we're
Speaker 1: gonna call the listening audience and the people on the
Speaker 1: chat from right right, right right, because you can't just
Speaker 1: take the stats over. We're not definitely believe me, you know,
Speaker 1: I understand. I mean, like I'll loan it out to
Speaker 1: you if you want. Like I'm okay with it, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, But like I understand, it may
Speaker 1: not fit the tone and the culture of your show.
Speaker 1: So did you guys have any ideas popping off the
Speaker 1: what do you guys? What are you guys thinking about
Speaker 1: calling your fans? I think what they're they're throwing out
Speaker 1: some some names. Now it looks like it's gonna be
Speaker 1: the pop rockers, the pop rockers, what about it's popping off? Right?
Speaker 1: What about the pop Barazzi? Oh that one's good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know like, I'm I'm a professional at this,
Speaker 1: you know, I like, that's what I do. That's what
Speaker 1: I do. So, you know, bounced off Ashley a Bread you.
Speaker 1: You know, let me know, Let let me know what
Speaker 1: the pop Barazzi have to say about that. But guys,
Speaker 1: make sure when you're on the Stats over Beat Cipher,
Speaker 1: make sure you tune in every Wednesday at nine pm,
Speaker 1: my guy, Danny Otto, Ashley a Bread You. They cover
Speaker 1: nerd culture and all funky things going on. It's popping
Speaker 1: off at nine pm on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna do is tie a
Speaker 1: nice neat little bow. On this episode, I got some
Speaker 1: comments from the polls, and we got some breaking news
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Speaker 1: That's why your head keeps on bobbing. I want to
Speaker 1: give a quick shout out. Okay, like I said, I
Speaker 1: got that Twitter pole question, and like six of you
Speaker 1: are now saying you will not watch the Pro Bowl,
Speaker 1: and you will not watch the Pro Bowl. Skills competition
Speaker 1: will have no fear because tomorrow on the Fantasy Freestyle,
Speaker 1: I'll give you a little bit of recap of what
Speaker 1: happened if anybody fell trying to catch a ball from
Speaker 1: a drone and if anybody you know what happened in
Speaker 1: this Dodgs ball game if anybody you know got embarrassed
Speaker 1: like they were in middle school. But what I want
Speaker 1: to say is big shout out real quick to Austin
Speaker 1: Layton on Twitter or at sea. Later, he says he
Speaker 1: is only watching if the Trap Game my estros show up,
Speaker 1: shout out to young cars out there. So I think
Speaker 1: I want to give a big shout out to my
Speaker 1: guys the Trap game. My estro's young cos the effect
Speaker 1: because they'd be doing big things. And here's the thing
Speaker 1: we've been doing, you know, stats overbeats, We've been doing
Speaker 1: athlete rappers. We checked in on the nose tackle from Washington,
Speaker 1: we checked in on Marvin Bagley the third, and we
Speaker 1: got some others over the course of the next couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. So I responded, maybe they meaning the Trap
Speaker 1: game my Estro's they could join justin Timberlake, and I
Speaker 1: think Janet Jackson as well, and at halftime show up
Speaker 1: there in Minnesota in about a week and a half.
Speaker 1: And it brings me to some of the things we're
Speaker 1: gonna be talking about next week. We're gonna preview the game,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do a DFS lineup and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But one of the things I oh, and by the way,
Speaker 1: we're also gonna have speeds picking against the kids. Remember,
Speaker 1: right now speeds are going like Chris Ventra are kind
Speaker 1: of tied with some of the kids in terms of
Speaker 1: winning percentage. We gotta all will answer the controversy if
Speaker 1: Sammy who's two and oh, is really in first place
Speaker 1: because he's only made two picks. Yes, he is undefeated,
Speaker 1: but is that better than someone hello, Is that better
Speaker 1: than someone who's you know, making more and more picks.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure we'll figure it out. The other thing, though,
Speaker 1: we are going to get into our the prop bets,
Speaker 1: you know here as we put the Fun and Functional
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, we're gonna have to talk about some of
Speaker 1: these prop bets. And right now, because I've been saying
Speaker 1: this for months, I think Janet Jackson will be there.
Speaker 1: If you agree, you should go and drop a couple
Speaker 1: of shekels on this, because right now Janet Jackson is
Speaker 1: a two hundred to one shot of being there at
Speaker 1: the halftime show in the Super Bowl. You could also,
Speaker 1: as always get kind of like the over under on
Speaker 1: how long it'll take to sing the national anthem. It
Speaker 1: is pink who will be doing the national anthem? This
Speaker 1: time around, you can get an over under. The overunder
Speaker 1: is three and a half on how many tweets Mr
Speaker 1: Donald Trump will say and during the game you could
Speaker 1: also get odds on will Collinsworth or Michaels used the
Speaker 1: term City of Brotherly Love. I think that's a no brainer.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna preview all of the action that you
Speaker 1: can have on the Super Bowl a little bit. You know.
Speaker 1: Next week tomorrow we're gonna, like I said, I'll recap
Speaker 1: the skills competition, We'll talk a little bit about the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. We will start our coverage and that will
Speaker 1: obviously be anchored by the practice reports of one Rob Gronkowski,
Speaker 1: because I think that is the name to watch. The
Speaker 1: last thing I want to say before we get out
Speaker 1: of here today, I know we haven't talked baseball as much.
Speaker 1: We talked a little bit about the hot stove and
Speaker 1: how it's not that hot just yet. One of the
Speaker 1: things I did say that the Marlins will continue their
Speaker 1: fire sale. I then also told you that Derek Jeter
Speaker 1: is trying to remove the statue and left center field
Speaker 1: and why, you know, Marlins fans really need to be
Speaker 1: piste off at the captain. You know, he will always
Speaker 1: be my captain. But um, something else happened today. The
Speaker 1: Marlins continued their fire sale. Young All Star fielder Kristen
Speaker 1: Yelich has been traded to the Milwaukee Brewers for a
Speaker 1: package of prospects. The Marlins have now traded Giancarlo Stanton,
Speaker 1: d Gordon, Marcel Ozuna, and Christian Yellows. Gotta be like basically,
Speaker 1: they're they're their best four offensive players are no longer
Speaker 1: they're they're trying to move the statue in in left
Speaker 1: center field. I think Jeter is really building it all
Speaker 1: the way down so he could build it back up.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's gonna work, but that about
Speaker 1: does it for me. Big shout out to the fantasy
Speaker 1: pit of misery down there today, Danny Otto and the
Speaker 1: Manamal Chris Pavona. They were doing yeoman's work to get
Speaker 1: every to get me on air today and for the
Speaker 1: stats over beat Cipher. So I appreciate that and we
Speaker 1: will be back tomorrow. Like I said, we put the
Speaker 1: fun in functional sports radio, and we'll do that on
Speaker 1: a Friday to get you into the weekend. M Your boy,
Speaker 1: Dame Martinez speeds the spitting statistician the stable genius of
Speaker 1: the award winning fantasy sports radio at work, I'll see
Speaker 1: you how tomorrow. I am out of peace. What