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We got 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.440 a big show for you on a Thursday. Okay. I 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:30.200 was telling you guys yesterday about how the the NFL 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.319 and the NFL p A came up with their own, 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:38.800 you know, protocol enhancements clearing the Carolina Panthers. We're gonna 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.520 talk about that, including some of the enhancements that they 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.560 are recommending. And we're gonna preview the Pro Bowl skills competition. 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.560 I gotta poll question up as always about if you're 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.920 gonna watch it or not? Are you gonna watch the 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.160 skills competition? Are you gonna watch the Pro Bowl? Is 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:55.840 this something that moves the needle for you or not? 0:01:56.000 --> 0:02:00.800 And also Vince McMahon is back in the ball game. 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.240 We'll talk about the reboot of the x FL. We 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.320 got a lot of stuff going on here on a Thursday. 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.760 We'll also have the stat over beat. Cipher, you know 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.799 what it is. You should boy, Dame Martinez a k A. 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:17.440 The Spitting Statistician and a k A. The stable Genius. 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.720 And we're gonna get into it right here. If you 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.160 want to holler at me, you can on Twitter in 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.799 the chat room and at eight four four eight four 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.639 three six eight seven nine. When we come back, we 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.480 got news and notes, and I talk about these enhancements 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.000 to the concussion protocol. Come all right back into the 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:38.320 spitting statistician, the stable genius on the Fantasy Freestyle. 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Your life 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.600 is just slowing down, So why should your fantasy sports 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:03.200 head to f n T s Y dot com slash 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:18.639 radio and download the Fantasy Sports Radio Network App. Today. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:21.239 Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.480 Fantasy Sports Radio Network at your boy Dame Martinez taking 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.679 you through the seven o'clock hour here every Monday through Friday, 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.840 from seven to eight pm Eastern Time. Here in the 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:34.079 Fantasy Sports Radio Network, we help you win your leagues 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.320 and win that cash. Let's start with some notes from 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:41.040 around the NFL um the new Giants head coach Pat Shermer. 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:43.760 He is saying that he does, in fact expect to 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.880 call his own plays. You know, sometimes the offensive coordinator 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.320 does that. But Shermer is a play caller by trade, 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.880 has been as an offensive coordinator in a number of 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.520 stops before, so he is going to take on the 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:58.200 play calling duties as the head coach of the New 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.440 York Giants. The Los Ange Angelists almost aid St. Louis. 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:05.800 The Los Angeles Rams gm let's Snead confirmed today that 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.520 they do want to resign Sammy Watkins. Here's the thing, though, 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.120 and don't get me wrong, I think it would be 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.160 a good sign. I think. Listen, they went from the 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.960 last offense in the NFL all the way to the 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.280 most highest scoring offense right going from thirty two to one, 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.240 and every element of that offense, whether it was the 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.600 Signy Wentworth at left tackle, whether it was the improvement 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.480 of goth the potential m v P season that Todd 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:34.159 Gurley had, or the heard of wide receivers, and you know, 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.200 I talked about the fantasy heard how it is good 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.760 for the real team, bad for the fantasy team. So 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:42.400 having Sammy Watkins and Robert Woods and Cooper Cup is 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:46.279 important for this offense. But here's the thing. They already 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:50.440 have so much money tied into the wide receiver position, 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:54.160 They signed Robert Woods as a free agent last offseason, 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:58.400 but don't forget they also signed Tavon Austin, who at 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.880 this point does not really have a role on this team. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.960 They signed him to a fifty some odd million dollar 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.120 contract as well. So do you really want to, you know, 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.320 lock up all that money in the wide receiver position. 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.760 I'm not sure if they do resign Sammy Watkins, it 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:19.039 could mean the end of Tavon Austin with the Los 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.120 Angeles Ransandon. Also, remember I told you guys last week 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.120 that Stephen Jones, the vice president of the Cowboys, was 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:28.600 sort of saying that Dez Bryant was a distraction. And 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:30.640 then Jerry Jones came out and was like, no, we're 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.039 not moving on from Dez. I thought that this was 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.800 all ploy and negotiation to try to maybe ask death 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.760 for a pay cut. It continues though today. Check this out. 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:43.160 Stephen Jones once again says and I quote that Dez 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:47.719 needs to understand that his behavior affects his teammates. I 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.320 think they're doing a little good cop, bad cop kind 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.120 of thing right here. This is definitely something to keep 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:55.760 your eye on. And then I will also tell you 0:05:55.800 --> 0:06:01.599 that Rob Gronkowski did not practice today because of the concussion. 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.880 He has still not been cleared to practice. Now, don't 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:06.960 get me wrong. He's got still a week and a 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.080 half until the Super Bowl, and I still believe, as 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.880 you know, they will definitely clear him so that all 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:17.120 of the big boys can be there in the you know, 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.840 the biggest game of the year. But it brings me 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.400 to what we were talking about yesterday and how the 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:24.799 NFL and the NFL p A came out and said 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:29.440 that the Carolina Panthers followed the protocol correctly and that 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.359 everything was fine as it related to Cam Newton and 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.039 the injury he sustained against the New Orleans Saints in 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.920 wild card weekend. They came out and said he's got 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:39.960 an eye injury. I told you some of the things 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:44.479 from the report yesterday, including how they said it was 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:50.120 irresponsible of people like me to talk about and suppose 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.320 and you know, kind of diagnosed concussions from just video 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:56.760 when we are not medically trained. And I retorted that 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.840 it's interesting to me that they were kind of passive 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:03.080 aggressive in this note, you know, in this report back 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.040 saying that it was obvious from the video that it's 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.279 irresponsible if people aren't trained. And I thought it was 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:13.520 interesting that they on one side said everything is fine, 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.440 even the Tom Savage UH incident in week fourteen with 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:21.680 Houston Texans, they were fine and they followed the protocol 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:26.240 as well, but then also said in the same breath 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.680 that they have recommended a number of enhancements or improvements 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.880 to the concussion protocol. Check out the list of improvements 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:38.000 that they are talking about, recommending or wanting to implement. 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:42.680 And there's this this term called the unaffiliated neural trauma consultant. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.200 That's like basically the extra guy on the sidelines, the 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.680 extra doctor on the sideline who's supposed to be unaffiliated 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:52.320 with the team, doesn't have you know, like skin in 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.040 the game as it were, and can make kind of 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:58.560 objective decisions on if someone needs to be taken from 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.360 the field, if someone should not be able to play 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:05.040 because of a head injury. Check this out. Here are 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.920 the improvements that the NFL and the NFL p A 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.600 are recommending. Even though there's nothing to see here, it's 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:18.280 all good. They are recommending of using UH independent neuro 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.440 neual trauma consultants centrally, you know, just like you do 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:25.119 instant replay centrally from New York. They're talking about doing 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.800 the same thing with the unaffiliated neural trauma consultant, to 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.320 have them based at the league office to monitor the 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.800 feeds of all the games, and then that they would 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:35.679 be allowed to kind of chime in and be like, yo, 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.240 you need to take that guy off the field, doing 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.560 it centrally from the NFL offices in New York. They've 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:45.960 also defined seizures and what's called the fencing response, the 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.440 fencing posture when you kind of get like uh rigor 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:53.080 mortis almost and like frozen, as independent signs of a 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.400 concussion that would allow you to be taken off the 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.480 field if you display any of those symptoms. Those are 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.880 the specific symptoms they're saying. They are requiring locker room 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:08.079 evaluations for any player demonstrating gross vertical instability, which is 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:11.559 basically like stumbling or not like trying to stand back 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.800 up and and and doing a little bit like Travis 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.320 Kelsey was in the wild card game against the Tennessee Titans. 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.280 But that's dicey because you are now saying that the 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:24.280 improvement is we could have um a consultant in New 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.800 York watching the feeds picking a guy, picking the officials 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:29.680 and be like, you gotta take him off the field 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.960 because he's stumbling, not being able to stand. I think 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.680 that is very interesting that any player who has a 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.480 concussion protocol evaluation on game day has to have a 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.880 follow up evaluation the next day by some of these 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.640 um unaffiliated consultants. Okay, and they're also saying that they're 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.360 gonna add a third one. There's one on each sideline. 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.280 They're gonna add a third one in the playoffs in 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.240 the Super Bowl to try to you know, double check 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.200 and be a backup just in case the first neurologic 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.000 uh NEU a trauma consultant is already in the locker 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:06.720 room treating and injury. They are covering their bums as 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:10.199 much as they possibly can. But here's my question. These 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.440 are improvements. I thought this was exactly where we were. 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:16.880 We already had the independent neurological consulting. This would be 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:21.200 a change and improvement. So where are we now exactly? 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.360 NFL and NFL p A. We'll talk about this a 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.880 little bit more as it relates to Gronk and others, 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.200 But when we come back, we talk NFL Pro Bowl 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.360 Skills competition. Oh boy, let's have some fun here on 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:37.000 Fantasy Freestyle. Hey there, everybody, it's me Joe Peza Pierre 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.240 Baseball is back, and that means the Fantasy Baseball Black 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.360 Book is back as well. It's me, it's Paul Spore 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:47.320 writing starting Pitching Profiles. It's Jake Seely, it's Sammy Read 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.400 writing DFS. It's a whole lot of greatness right here 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.600 for you. 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Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyle right here 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.439 on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, it's your boy day. 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:24.400 Martinez Speeds, the spitting statistician holding you down on a Thursday. 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.760 I told you we've got to pull question up right now. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.400 On Twitter you can always follow me at spitting Speeds. 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.880 My question is are you planning to watch the NFL 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:38.239 Pro Bowl and or are you planning to watch tonight 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:42.000 the NFL Pro Bowl skills competition. You know, it's pretty 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.720 much the analog too, you know, an NBA they all 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:46.959 saw a weekend. They do to three point shooting contest, 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.600 the Slam Dunk. They have their other skills competitions. You know, 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.720 Baseball has their Home Run Derby, their Futures Game. The 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.959 NHL has a pretty cool skills competition fastest skater or 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.960 hardest shot, things of that nature. So look the Pro 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.960 Bowl in the NFL. They started this last year and 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.080 I thought, you know, if you listen to the status 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.720 over beat cipher, you listen to the Fantasy Freestyle. If 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.600 you're a true friend and have been for a while, 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.000 you remember last year we talked about this a lot, 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.120 and I was very excited about this. I thought it 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.440 was gonna be really cool, and it turned out that, 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:18.880 you know, there was some place, some pieces that I 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.880 did think we're really entertaining. There were others that I 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:23.960 thought they could do away with. Now this is year 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.720 two and so they've refined it a little bit. They've 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.480 added a new event, they've taken some other events out. 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.360 So what I wanna do is I want to tell 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:36.200 you my thoughts going into the Pro Bowl skills competition, 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.719 which will in fact air on ESPN tonight. I think 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.600 it's nine o'clock Eastern time. So after you finished listening 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:43.839 too Fantasy Freestyle, you know, you can chill, you could 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.000 eat dinner, you can finish getting home if you're on 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.280 the West coast, and you can settle on in and 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.679 see what the Pro Bowl Skills Competition has has to 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.320 in store for you. First, I want to tell you 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.400 some of the names that are gonna be here, okay. 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:56.800 And what they do is they have an a f 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.280 C team and an NFC team, and they've got, you know, 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.360 some some linebackers and d linemen. They got a quarterback 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.439 each team does, they have receivers, and each team this 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.920 year also has a kicker. That is something new. Okay, 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:14.320 So check this out. First of all, Uh, Peter O'Reilly, 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.800 who is the NFL Senior vice president of Events, said, 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.800 quote unquote, we received tremendous feedback from our fans and 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.920 players about last year's Skills Showdown, and it became one 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:27.080 of our most popular Pro Bowl Week events with new 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.839 competitions and special surprises. This year, we're raising the bar 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:33.439 even higher for both teams and are excited to see 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.400 which conference ends up victorious. Um, you know, it's not 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.320 about who wins. In my opinion. Like, I guess technically 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:40.520 I would be a fan of the a f C 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:42.720 because I'm a Jets fan. But it's not about who wins. 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.439 I think it's just about seeing, quite frankly, the skills 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.960 in these different kind of context and formats. So check 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.360 this out. UM. On the a f C side, here's 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:56.559 you got Von Miller, Geno Atkins, c J. Moseley. These 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.680 are all defensive guys. Right. Then you got Keenan, Allen, Jarvis, 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.839 Land dree Kareem Hunt, Alex Smith as a quarterback, and 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.640 they got a kicker from the Pittsburgh Steelers, Chris Boswell. Okay, 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.760 this team is gonna be coached by Jason Taylor and 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:13.640 la Danian Tomlinson. Then on the NFC side, you got 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:15.920 kind of the defensive guys. You got Ryan Carrigan, You've 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:20.600 got Kawan Alexander, You've got Patrick Peterson. Okay. Then wide receivers, 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.960 you got Davonte Adams, you got Michael Thomas, and then 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.240 you got Russell Wilson as a quarterback, and you got 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.480 Graham Gono, the kicker of the Carolina Panthers. Okay, there 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.960 are going to be UM five or six events that 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.400 I want to talk through. Okay. The first one is 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.640 the newest event. Okay, they're bringing in the kickers here, 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.160 and the event is called kick tac toe, almost like 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.840 tic tac toe. So imagine the net um beyond, you know, 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.120 beyond the uprights for field goals, that net that catches 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.560 all the all the balls. Imagine that to be set 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:55.160 up like a big tic tac toe board. Okay, and 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.320 then go no and Boswell are gonna kind of, I guess, 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.040 alternate and and play tick tac toe. And this is 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.040 kind of the accuracy of the kickers. Can they actually 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:05.760 put it where they want? I guess there's a little 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.640 tick tactoes strategy as well, although by the time I 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.080 was in like fourth grade, it would be impossible to 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:12.960 beat me at tick tactoe. The best you could do 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.800 was timing. You know, all the permutations, you know how 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:17.760 to do what you did this in elementary school. But 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.000 the element of the skill of actually kicking the ball 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.560 where you want. I think that will be interesting. I 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.280 want to see how it goes, but I don't think 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.840 it will be the best, um, you know, event of 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.160 the day, because really, you know, people don't really care 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.680 about kickers as much they're gonna have again the Grideyon Gauntlet. 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:37.680 This is in essence and obstacle course that they're gonna have. Right, 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.120 It's kind of like a relay race. And here's where 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.320 you're gonna have some of the defensive linemen. Here's where 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.680 you'll have Karragan. Here's where you have Geno Atkins and 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.240 von Miller, because they'll be like, you know, having to 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.200 push a tackling sled or some kind of strength based things, 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:54.240 and this will be really their event. Okay, the Grideyon Gauntlet, 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.280 you know, obstacle course. I'm reminded of things like Battle 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.280 of the Network Spars, you know, where you had these 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:03.120 kind of um obstacle courses as well. It'll be all right, 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.400 but I kind of feel like I've seen that kind 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:10.480 of thing before, right, I am very interested in the 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:15.440 other three or four events. One is precision passing, so 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.240 they're gonna have. This is kind of like if you're 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.200 ever in the backyard barbecue, you set up a little 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.800 quarterback challenge. Can you hit the tree? Can you hit 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.400 that lawn chair? I know I did it a bunch 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:25.960 of times, you know. Big shout out to my man 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.200 Tom Dog back in his barbecues in the backyard where 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.560 you do the quarterback challenge. But we're gonna have Alex Smith, 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.560 Russell Wilson and maybe others. There's some targets of different 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.080 amounts of points. Some will be moving. Last year, I 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.720 believe it was Drew Brees who took it down, so 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.080 that'll be interesting to see. But here are the three 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:46.880 that I'm really interested. I start with, um, the drone drop. 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.720 I think this is really cool. I wasn't expecting this 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:51.640 last year, and it kind of was cool. They had 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:55.920 a drone flying overhead and it would just drop a 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.200 football and the key is like could you catch it? 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.640 And it sounds simple enough, especially they had guys like 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.159 Jarvis Landry and Oldell Beckham doing this last year. But 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.840 I've always seen have you ever seen footage like you 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:10.120 know Snoop Dogg or Will Ferrell visit the USC football 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:11.960 team and the always thing they make you do, like 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.520 any kind of non football player, they always try to 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.560 make you field a pump because it is not easy 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.000 and it will make you look stupid. So this is 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.479 what the drone drop pretty much is. But you have 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.960 all star wide receivers like will Davante Adams be able 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:29.359 to catch the ball. Yeah, will Keenan Allen. Yeah. What 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.520 I think they need to do is, you know, however 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:34.359 it starts where it starts at thirty feet and then 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.400 fifty ft, seventy ft whatever it is, right, you got 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.040 your wide outs doing it, so like like Keenan Allen 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.199 do it, Let Michael Thomas do it. Right. Then, what 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.640 I really think they should do they should do this 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.399 event with the defensive lineman because what you're looking for, 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.360 it's kind of like watching like the Miss America pageant 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:53.800 when you're watching for the carnage, right, you want to 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:56.160 see someone fall. You want to see something silly happen. 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.560 That's the reason you're watching this. I would love to 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.600 see Geno Atkin to try and get the drone when 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.800 it's dropping the ball from you know, a hundred feet 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:05.880 or whatever it is. I don't know if they're gonna 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:07.840 do that. I think it's a cool idea. I think 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.000 it's a cool event. I want to see it. But 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.080 I think the wrinkle they should do is I think 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.320 they should either have celebrities or they should have the 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:16.760 big boys the lineman try and do it. This should 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.280 not necessarily be event for the wide receivers or the 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:23.440 running backs. We know they have good hands. Speaking of hands, 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.080 another event they have is best hands. Okay, and this 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.280 is once again for the wide receivers. I think it 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.240 was Jarvis Landry that won this last year and he 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.840 is back in the competition this year. What they do 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.560 is for the wide receivers, it's similar to um the 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.280 quarterbacks in the passing right, they have like you gotta 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:42.119 go around this kind of obstacle course, and what you 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:44.760 gotta do is like you gotta make a one handed catch, 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:46.920 or you gotta make it over the shoulder catch right, 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.480 or you gotta make a catch along the sideline. Stuff 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:52.320 like that, And that's all good, right, But here's what 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:55.119 I would do. I would make this wide receiver event 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:59.800 be straight up um toe tapping, you know, trying to 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.639 get your feet inbounds. I would be firing, you know, 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.399 right along the sideline, because that's that's what we talk 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.800 about all the time, right. Yeah, it is the amazing 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:09.960 one handed catches, and we're gonna see some of those 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.280 as well. But really, when I'm watching a football game, 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.040 what is so impressive to me these days are how 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:18.679 these receivers get both feet inbounds I would love to 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.600 see them structure and event to see how they get 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:24.040 those both feet inbounds and make it tougher and tougher 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:26.280 with some obstacles in play. I think it should really 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.639 be about toe tapping. We know all these guys hands 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:31.920 are very, very good, So we talked about kick tack toe. 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.080 We talked about the gridiron gauntlet. We talked about the 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:37.440 precision passing, the best hands, the drone drop, what will 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:42.400 be last? And this is hysterical for me, dodge ball. 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:45.879 They are just straight up playing middle school dodgeball. I 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:49.680 think this is hysterical. But my I ask you who 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.760 who's really has the advantage here in dodgeball? Do you like, 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:55.159 you know, like the quarterbacks that can bring it. Do 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:58.320 you like a shifty guy, a wide receiver? Your linebackers 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.560 are probably not good. I think Patrick Peter sin is 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:02.639 gonna be a beast in this one. But I looked 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:05.400 at the roster. That's why I told you about these rosters. 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:09.040 So I look at the wide receivers. Right. The NFC 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:12.879 wide receivers are Davante Adams and Michael Thomas. The a 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:16.240 f C wide receivers are Keenan Allen and Jarvis Landry. 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:19.320 I think there's a big difference here, especially as it 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:22.800 relates to dodge ball. Davantae Adams, Michael Thomas. Those are 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:28.879 both six ft three outside x wide receivers, right, a 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:31.600 f C has Keenan Allen, Jarvis Landry, those are more 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.359 shift the slot guys. I think the a f C 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:39.480 has an advantage here because they have slot receivers as 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.800 opposed to outside receivers. So I don't know how it's going, 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:46.280 but I am officially picking the a f C to 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:49.560 win the dodgeball game because I think their wide receivers 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:53.280 are a little bit more shifty. Listen quite frankly, Davantae Adams, 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:55.720 Michael Thomas, six ft three, it's just a bigger target. 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:57.800 One thing I do like about the NFC is remember 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:00.320 their quarterback is Russell Wilson, right, So I think keys 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:02.600 a little bit more compact than Alex Smith. I think 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:04.840 he can kind of bring it a little bit better 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:07.760 than Alex Smith as well. So there you have it. 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:10.159 There you have the different events. I'm excited to see it. 0:21:10.160 --> 0:21:12.639 I definitely think the dodgeball is amazing. I want to 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:14.760 see kind of the drone drop because I think it's fun. 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:16.879