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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody in his Wednesday March twenty nine, twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast, where we're also

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Speaker 1: planning to wear number zero. It's me your man named

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Speaker 1: g Marcus Grant, joined by Michael F. Floria. We're in

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Speaker 1: studio today, so we got specialists, some of them give yourselves.

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Speaker 1: Are out of applause on another rainy day in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: I'm over it. We're all over it. We need the sun.

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Speaker 1: It's almost April. What's going on, Governor Newsom? I don't

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Speaker 1: pay my tax dollars for this um beyond that, man,

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Speaker 1: how how are things in late March for you? Right now?

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Speaker 1: Things are good. I'm happy I did I got like

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Speaker 1: pretty much not gonna happen. The rain coming down here

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Speaker 1: coming very soon. I know people in other parts of

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Speaker 1: but whatever, this is our show. We got a play

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Speaker 1: to talk about. On this one. A lot of quarterback news,

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Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that. Also, we're gonna take a

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Speaker 1: look at some of the quarterbacks that potentially will be

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Speaker 1: drafted this year, give our thoughts on them. We'll kind

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Speaker 1: of start breaking down some of the top players at

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Speaker 1: the draft, because we are less than a month away

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Speaker 1: from the twenty twenty three NFL Draft, and we have

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Speaker 1: another edition of Florio's Film Festival. We talk about pulp Fiction,

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Speaker 1: one of my personal favorite movies, and we'll see what

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Speaker 1: mister Florio had to think about that as well. By

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Speaker 1: the way, I started off the show by saying, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna wear number zero. The league at their league meetings

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Speaker 1: announced that players will be able to wear number zero,

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Speaker 1: and Calvin Ridley was the first to raise his hand

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Speaker 1: and say he will wear number zero next season. The

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Speaker 1: Jags did a whole graphic and everything for it. Does

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Speaker 1: that improve your projection for him next season? Oh? Of course,

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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, you thought he was gonna see

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Speaker 1: But the letter he wrote and everything like that, Like

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Speaker 1: I'm I also really like the Jaguars as a team,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm fully in support of Calvin Ridley. Now he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be wearing zero looking. I mean, I'm a fan

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Twitter basically said he's the wide receiver one now

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Speaker 1: because he's gonna wear zero this season. So that fourteen

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Speaker 1: because he's gonna be much better. Can we think of

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Speaker 1: an Agent zero. There will never be another Agent zero,

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Speaker 1: society have to get better at nicknames. Again, we're awful

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Speaker 1: So Nelson Agilore hanging on the league getting one more

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Speaker 1: year at least with the Baltimore Ravens. The owners, as

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Speaker 1: they are wont to do, got together and had a meeting.

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Speaker 1: They did it at the Builtmore in Arizona, and the

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Speaker 1: coaches were all there as well, and a lot of

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Speaker 1: interesting things sort of coming out of the past week

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Speaker 1: down in the desert, and one of the kind of

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Speaker 1: go through some of the things I thought were sort

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Speaker 1: of highlights there the first one forty nine Ers general

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Speaker 1: manager Brock says John Lynch I should say, says Brock.

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Speaker 1: Purdy has quote earned the right to take the first

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Speaker 1: snap in the quarterback battle, penning him being healthy once

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Speaker 1: they get too week one. In the meantime, Kyle Shanahan

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Speaker 1: says he expects both Trey Lance and he recently signed

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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold to take first team reps during training camp.

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Speaker 1: We were talking about we played draft price prices right

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Speaker 1: last week, and one of the things we talked about

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Speaker 1: was Trey Lance being the QB fourteen. Yeah, And it

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Speaker 1: sort of surprised me because nothing that I had read

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Speaker 1: or heard suggested that they were just going to turn

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Speaker 1: the gig over to him. So explain to me again

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Speaker 1: why people are so high on Trey Lance. I mean,

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Speaker 1: as of yesterday, he was still the QB fourteen in

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Speaker 1: Bestball drafts. On underdog, I don't understand it. I don't

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Speaker 1: get I get the rushing upside, and that's what everyone

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Speaker 1: loves about him, and I think I think one thing

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Speaker 1: the fantasy community isn't the best at is letting go

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Speaker 1: of our priors, and I think a lot of people

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Speaker 1: are holding onto the hope that they had last year.

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Speaker 1: In the year before, I will say like, I have

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Speaker 1: no interest in drafting Trey Lances QB fourteen. If he

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Speaker 1: was going later, I'd have interest. I've kind of been

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Speaker 1: playing the role of Devil's advocate and I don't want

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Speaker 1: to be the anti Brock Purty guy because Brock Purdy

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Speaker 1: played great down the stretch last year. But I keep

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Speaker 1: being like, let's see what Trey Lance like. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying you start him and you sit Purdy, but like,

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Speaker 1: at least let it be a battle, because Trey Lance

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Speaker 1: really never And people were like commenting on my tweet

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Speaker 1: yesterday saying like, well, Trey Lance looked terrible in his

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Speaker 1: opportunities that he got, and I'm like, he got a

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Speaker 1: spot start as a rookie and then he played one

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Speaker 1: game last year and it was in a monsoon. Like

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Speaker 1: that is as little of a chance as a quarterback

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Speaker 1: can ever get. So my thinking continues to be, like,

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Speaker 1: if brock Purdy was this good in this offense, maybe

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Speaker 1: Trey Lance could be, or maybe he could be even better,

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Speaker 1: because I think he is a better physical talent. It

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Speaker 1: depends if he can read the system and everything as

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Speaker 1: fast as brock Purdy can. But I still want to

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Speaker 1: see Trey Lance get a shot. And this might be

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Speaker 1: a hot take, Marcus. Part of me is like, if

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Speaker 1: this was Brock Purdy in this offense, what could Sam

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Speaker 1: Donald in this offense be? Look, that's why when they

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Speaker 1: signed Sam Donald, I know there were jokes, right, everybody

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Speaker 1: on Twitter had to get their shots in the look.

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Speaker 1: I get it. Donald has sort of earned that over

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Speaker 1: the course of his career. But I also was quick

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Speaker 1: to point out that there was a stretch where Kyle

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Speaker 1: Shanahan made Nick Mullins a thing. Yeah, there were, you know,

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Speaker 1: there were. It wasn't a very long stretch, but there

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Speaker 1: were a few weeks where he made Nick Mullins look

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Speaker 1: like a respectable NFL quarterback, And we saw what he

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Speaker 1: was able to do with Brock Purdy. So yeah, why

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Speaker 1: can't he take a quarterback who is a talented player

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Speaker 1: and make him be a decent quarterback for a few weeks?

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Speaker 1: I am maybe this is a little hyperbolic, but I

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Speaker 1: am of the mindset that Kyle Shanahan, in this current

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Speaker 1: system and with the playmakers he has, could take any

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Speaker 1: quarterback and make them like put up good numbers because

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Speaker 1: it's it's such a system where you get the ball

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Speaker 1: out of your hands quickly. They had the best play

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Speaker 1: I would argue, they had the best weapons and certainly

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Speaker 1: the best after the catch weapons in the NFL. Like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, I think like he literally took the

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Speaker 1: last pick of the draft last year and made this

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Speaker 1: guy great. Like, I'm pretty sure you could do it

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Speaker 1: with anyone. Kyle Shanahan win the division with Zach Wilson challenge,

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Speaker 1: that's what we want, That's what we're gonna do. Uh Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just you know, I'm curious to see in the

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Speaker 1: next couple of weeks after some of these quotes have

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Speaker 1: come out, whether or not the Trey Lance ADP comes down.

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Speaker 1: It sort of confused me because I just didn't think

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Speaker 1: the Niners were all in on him, and some of

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Speaker 1: these quote quotes have led me to believe that that

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Speaker 1: really truly is the case. Down in Atlanta, Arthur Smith,

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Speaker 1: after the Falcons had already said they were out immediately

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Speaker 1: on the Lamar Jackson Sweet Stakes, Arthur Smith has come

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Speaker 1: out and said that Desmond Ritter will begin twenty three

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three working as the falcons starting quarterback. What

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Speaker 1: we saw out of Desmond Ritter was my last year.

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Speaker 1: The more important topic because our pal and producer hys

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Speaker 1: Kalani likes to take shots at us about our Kyle

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Speaker 1: Pitts affinity. How are we feeling about Kyle Pitts and

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Speaker 1: Drake London If it truly is Desmond Ritter is the starter.

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Speaker 1: I draft the Kyle Pitts in a best ball draft,

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Speaker 1: in a slow best ball drafting, in like the fifth

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Speaker 1: or sixth round, I'm still very much so in on

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Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts. I like Drake London as well. The only

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Speaker 1: reason I'm more in on Pitts is because he's a

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Speaker 1: tight end, and tight end takes a lot less production

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Speaker 1: to be a really useful fantasy piece than receiver does.

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Speaker 1: But the thing is, I don't know how good Desmond

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Speaker 1: Ritter is going to be this year. I just don't

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Speaker 1: think it'll be worse than Marcus Mariota was last year.

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Speaker 1: We were talking like yesterday about stuff coming into the show,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't even think Marcus Mariota

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Speaker 1: should be a backup. I think he was that bad

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Speaker 1: last year, Like twenty six percent of his passes were uncatchable.

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Speaker 1: Only Zach Wilson was higher. And Zach Wilson, no one

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Speaker 1: is clamoring that this guy should have a job in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. So Kyle Pitts last year, sixty percent of

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Speaker 1: his targets were uncatchable, Like, I don't care if if

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Speaker 1: you're Jerry Rice, sixty percent of him he just couldn't

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Speaker 1: do anything on. So it wasn't Kyle Pitts's vaults at

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Speaker 1: all last year. It was And I blame Arthur Smith

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Speaker 1: as well, because Arthur Smith knows Marcus Mariota better than anyone.

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Speaker 1: He coached him all of last season, he coached him

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Speaker 1: in Tennessee for multiple years, and he's still decided this

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Speaker 1: guy gives us a better chance than finding out what

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Speaker 1: we have in our rookie. I think that he should

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Speaker 1: get a knock for that and not credit for making

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Speaker 1: the switch to Desmond Rider. But yeah, I'm still buying

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Speaker 1: back in on Kyle Pitts, especially because there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of people out there, the people like us Marcus who

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Speaker 1: do this every day and stuff, where like Kyle Pitts

553
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Speaker 1: is great, people who just play fantasy and they're like,

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Speaker 1: I don't want Kyle Pitts on my team. It sucked

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Speaker 1: last year. You told me to spend a third round

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Speaker 1: pick on him. He sunk my fantasy team. How did

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Speaker 1: you get your job? And all of that makes him

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00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,159
Speaker 1: more affordable in drafts this year. Right now, he is

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Speaker 1: going into tight end five in Best Ball drafts, And

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Speaker 1: I think again, like you said, the folks like us,

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Speaker 1: who you know, might have a headful of rocks and

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Speaker 1: you don't want to give up our dream, we will

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Speaker 1: continue to draft him as such. But when the people

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Speaker 1: who have lives and aren't spending their whole offseason staring

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Speaker 1: at ADPs and you know, a dots and all these

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Speaker 1: other acronyms, they will come back and they will remember

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00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:41,560
Speaker 1: all the weeks they started Kyle Pitts and he gave

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Speaker 1: them like four points, and they're not going to draft

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Speaker 1: him and that ADP is going to come down significantly.

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Speaker 1: And I think, sort of like I just said with

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Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson, we just need for Besman Ridder to be decent.

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Speaker 1: We need him to be passable, right. We don't need

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Speaker 1: him to be prime Matt Ryan in this offense. We

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Speaker 1: just need him to not be Zach Wilson. That's we

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Speaker 1: just need him to not be Marcus Mariota from last year. Also,

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Speaker 1: we need Arthur Smith to actually put Kyle Pitts in

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Speaker 1: a situation where he can catch the football, not use

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Speaker 1: him as a decoy, not use him as a blocker,

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Speaker 1: Use him as the athletic freak that we all believe

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Speaker 1: he is, the reason you spent such a high draft

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Speaker 1: pick to get him there in the first place. Use

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Speaker 1: him as such, and we'll all feel a little bit

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Speaker 1: better about it. I think the same sort of applies

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Speaker 1: to Drake London. I mean maybe I think I'm a

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Speaker 1: little more doubt on him just because wide receiver is

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Speaker 1: so deep. There's no need to go out and spend

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00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: to reach up and get a guy like Drake London

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00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: because you can get plenty of other guys they'll give

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Speaker 1: you similar production. But Again, as long as Desmond Ritter

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Speaker 1: is passable, then I think Drake London has some value

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Speaker 1: there next season. But again, we just need Arthur Smith

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Speaker 1: to sort of figure out how to scheme up something

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Speaker 1: for these guys, put them in positions to be successful,

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Speaker 1: and then everything's to be, if not great, something close

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Speaker 1: to okay. That's all I want. I feel like that's

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Speaker 1: not too much to ask. There is one big way

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00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: they could fix that offense altogether. What's that We talked

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Speaker 1: about it at the start of this kil Lamar Jackson,

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00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 1: Kilamar Jackson, Lamar Jackson. I'm solved. It's to the moon

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Speaker 1: with both, with both London and Pitts. That's all I know.

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Speaker 1: Over in Carolina, Frank reich uh says that Anthony Richardson

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Speaker 1: has quote top of the draft plays. Now, you mentioned

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Speaker 1: earlier that the Panthers have sort of been hinting very

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Speaker 1: heavily that they are going to draft CJ. Stroud with

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Speaker 1: the number one overall pick. Now you got Frank Raich

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Speaker 1: out here talking up Anthony Richardson and his very high

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Speaker 1: ceiling hype trainer smoke screen on Richardson. Also, I also

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Speaker 1: when I hear Frank Raich I'm like Colts right away,

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00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 1: I pause for a second, like, wait a minute, I

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Speaker 1: think this is a smoke screen. But I continue to

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Speaker 1: think that if the Panthers surprises and don't don't take CJ. Stroud,

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Speaker 1: I think it's Anthony Richardson that they'll take. I don't

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Speaker 1: think they're gonna take Bryce Young. Look, Josh McCown kind

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Speaker 1: of gave it all the way. First of all, Josh

615
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: McCown huge quarterback. I don't think he's gonna want to

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Speaker 1: teach someone that he has to look down to you.

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Speaker 1: But he was like CJ. Stroud, when you get to Carola,

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Speaker 1: to Charlotte, we're gonna find a chord and play horse.

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Speaker 1: And with Bryce Young, he was like, hey man, so

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Speaker 1: like to me, I was just like, yeah, that's a

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Speaker 1: read right there. But if it's not CJ. Stroud, I

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Speaker 1: think they'll go with the big, the guy with all

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Speaker 1: the intangibles, because let's I mean, Cam Newton was insanely

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Speaker 1: popular and successful in Carolina, and to me, Anthony Richardson

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Speaker 1: is the closest thing we've seen to Cam Newton outside

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Speaker 1: of maybe Josh Allen. Yeah. I mean, I've heard some

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Speaker 1: people suggest that the Panthers are going to do something

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Speaker 1: that nobody expects with the number one pick, and at

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Speaker 1: least as of this moment, nobody would expect him to

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Speaker 1: actually take Anthony Richardson because everybody is sort of locked

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Speaker 1: in on Stroud. People believe it's not Stroud, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be Bryce Young and I know it. As fantasy folks,

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Speaker 1: we love Anthony Richardson. He's the guy that in super

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00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: flex drafts it is probably the first quarterback off the board.

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Speaker 1: He's the first, probably the second guy after b Jean

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Speaker 1: Robinson in a lot of these drafts. Because of that upside,

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00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: NFL coaches and gms don't always think the same way.

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00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: So maybe it is I'm gonna say right now though

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Speaker 1: that this is a smoke screen. I think this is

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Speaker 1: Frank Reich saying, look, Richardson has a lot of tools.

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Speaker 1: He can make some really big plays, and even though

642
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: Reik does have this reputation as a guy who can

643
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:32,200
Speaker 1: sort of build quarterbacks, I think he also wants to win.

644
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: I think after the last few years in Indianapolis, going

645
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: through quarterbacks each and every year and trying to figure

646
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: out what's what, I think the last thing he wants

647
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: to do is sort of have a project. I think

648
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: he wants to somebody who's more of a finished product,

649
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: and I think that leads them more towards C. J. Strouds.

650
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: So I think it's great that he's talking about Richardson.

651
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: I don't think this is where they go. Sean Payton

652
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: says with Courtland Sutton and Jerry Judy that we are

653
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: quote not trading those two players for Sutton and Judy.

654
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: Do you like them better off in this Denver offense

655
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:07,959
Speaker 1: now that Sean Payton is there? And what does this

656
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: mean for Russell Wilson. I think it means good things

657
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: for Russell Wilson to bring back these two talented receivers

658
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: that you know, to get more continuity and more reps

659
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 1: is only a good thing. Sean Payton, I think can

660
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: only help. I also believe though the Broncos are in

661
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:27,239
Speaker 1: a really good spot because they don't necessarily need to

662
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: trade either one of these two. But if someone was

663
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: to call and make them a really good offer, then

664
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: they're in a position where they could sell one of

665
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 1: them and be okay. I especially like Jerry Judy. Jerry

666
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 1: Judy really came to life last year and he is

667
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 1: the one that I'm more excited about. But I think

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00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,719
Speaker 1: as a whole, just having this offense with Sean Payton,

669
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: I think we kind of need to throw not saying

670
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: we fully throw last year away because if Russell Wilson

671
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: has cooked, this offense is done matter, but I think

672
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: we need to be a little bit more lenient with them,

673
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: which Sean Payton, then with Nathaniel Hackett. I definitely think

674
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:05,840
Speaker 1: they will get a pass, especially at the beginning of

675
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: the year, as they're sort of adjusting and we've seen

676
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: a Sean Payton offense be successful. And I just think

677
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,240
Speaker 1: keeping Judy in Sutton there, letting them get another time,

678
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: another year to work together, I think only helps sort

679
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: of strengthen that group. I will say that Judy, as

680
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: you mentioned, I think is the better prospect. This is

681
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: a guy who is going to turn He'll be just

682
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: twenty four in about a month he turns twenty four.

683
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton certainly not old, but he will turn twenty

684
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: eight come middle of the season. We've seen him for

685
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,920
Speaker 1: already five years in Denver, and I think we kind

686
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: of sort of know who he is at this point,

687
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: whereas Judy feels like he's ascending and I think there

688
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 1: are a lot of things that Sean Payton can do

689
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: with him to kind of help get him over the hump.

690
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: But on the whole, I just can't imagine this offense

691
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: being more disjointed than it was last year. And I

692
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,959
Speaker 1: think Sean Payton helps bring a little bit more consistency

693
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: and a little bit more fluidity to what we saw

694
00:33:57,360 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: last season. I've seen a couple of hot takes that

695
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 1: if still Wilson struggles, they'll just bench him. Zero percent

696
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: chance I think that happens. He is like they want

697
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: to move on from him after this season. He's got

698
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 1: an eighty five million dollars dead cap in for twenty

699
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 1: twenty four. Russell Wilson is not going anywhere, which is

700
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: why they kind of went big to get Sean Payton

701
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: in there, because they need this to work. I mean, financially,

702
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: they need this to work. Otherwise this franchise is hamstrung

703
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: for a number of years trying to dig out from

704
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: underneath this Russell Wilson contract. So we'll see, I you know,

705
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: I know Sean Payton has he seemed very adamant about

706
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: the fact that he's going to take control and a

707
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 1: lot of things that happened last year are not going

708
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: to happen this year, so we'll see if that makes

709
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:42,399
Speaker 1: this offense a little bit better. Take a quick break.

710
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Speaker 1: Come back, we'll talk some quarterbacks as we turn our

711
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Speaker 1: attention to the NFL Draft coming up in about a

712
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:51,400
Speaker 1: month and Floyo's Film Festival, while we'll wrap things up

713
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Speaker 1: that's coming up after the break on the NFL Fantasy

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Speaker 1: Football Podcast. The NFL Draft starts on April twenty seventh

715
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Speaker 1: from Kansas City, Missouri, home of the defending Super Bowl champions,

716
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: and feel like this is a good time to start

717
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: breaking down some of the positions and some of the

718
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: top players at these positions here and by the way,

719
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: we are going to do our best to try and

720
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: get some of these scouts on. Lances are Line, who

721
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: writes pretty much all the profiles at NFL dot com.

722
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 1: We'd love to talk to Lance, wouldn get our Palt

723
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 1: Andbrie hunt On, who does an amazing job with his

724
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: draft profiles as well. But I want to start with

725
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks, and I broke him. Now I got the

726
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: big four, and then we kind of have some next

727
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: level guys who probably won't make any immediate impact in fantasy,

728
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,760
Speaker 1: but maybe for the Dynasty folks could have some appeal.

729
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: Let's start with the big four here, and I didn't

730
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,800
Speaker 1: put them in any particular order, lest you think I am,

731
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: you know, trying to show favoritism or anybody. But let's

732
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: start with Bryce Young, just because he's the guy that

733
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: kind of got the most hype coming into draft season

734
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 1: and going off, you know, Lance zerlines kind of ride up.

735
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:06,320
Speaker 1: Just some quick strengths and weaknesses, very calm on the field.

736
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: We know he's a winner, we saw him have success,

737
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: A very good football intelligence, accurate that sort of thing.

738
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: The weaknesses might they just say he's small, he's a

739
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,279
Speaker 1: he's a as a sub six foot dude. I will

740
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: never knock someone for that. I mean, look, he did

741
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,839
Speaker 1: weigh in at two o four at the combine, which

742
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: I think made a lot of people feel better about him.

743
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:30,919
Speaker 1: For you though, when you sort of look at Bryce

744
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,320
Speaker 1: Young ideal fit, I guess for the NFL and for fantasy.

745
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: If if you think those are two different places, oh no,

746
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: I think it's the same. I think it's the Houston

747
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 1: Texans at number two overall, because I don't think he's

748
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: gonna go number one, and the Texans. I mean having

749
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 1: like tonsil there, They're they're gonna they have a lot

750
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: of assets where they could put a lot of pieces

751
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:52,359
Speaker 1: to help him. Uh So you got to get a

752
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: beef up that offensive line next to tons of a

753
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: little bit more. But they I think they have an

754
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 1: underrated group of weapons, like Damian Peers and Devin Singletary

755
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: is a really solid backfield. Dalton Schultz is a good

756
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: tight end. Then they got Nico Collins, they got Metchi

757
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: who didn't play last season. Plus I got to pick

758
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 1: at twelve who they could use on a receiver if

759
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: they want. And when I watched Bryce Young, I'm like,

760
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: I don't really see the size hold him back, Like, yeah,

761
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: he drops a little bit deeper in the pocket. Mike

762
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: Garifolo was tweeting the other day that what scouts say

763
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: is like he has a high release, so he throws

764
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: taller than he is. I haven't seen anything that he

765
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,240
Speaker 1: can't do because of his size. I understand the concern

766
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: is just can he hold up to taking hits. I

767
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 1: keep calling him like the Alan Iverson or Steph Curry

768
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:39,919
Speaker 1: of football, like he's a playmaker. Man, This guy just unscripted.

769
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 1: He might be like the most fun. Like he's like

770
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: a Kyler Murray type in this sense, where like he'll

771
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: just move around the field, but he's also always keeping

772
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 1: his eyes downfield. He's not so much a scrambler like

773
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 1: to gain yards with his legs as he is just

774
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 1: to create space. But I'm excited for Bryce Young. I

775
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 1: think he could be really dynamic in the NFL. I

776
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: really too. I do think Houston is ultimately where he lands.

777
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: He'll be there with the number two pick, and that's probably,

778
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:04,399
Speaker 1: you know, not a bad fit for him. I would

779
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: say this, and we mentioned this team earlier in regards

780
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: to Lamar Jackson, but Washington mostly because I just I

781
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: want Terry McLaurin to have good say, I just want

782
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: him to have nice things. And I think putting Bryce

783
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: Young there, we want a really intriguing group of wide receivers.

784
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: When you talk about McLaurin and you talk about Johan

785
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: Dotson and some of those guys they have there, I

786
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: think there really is some some interesting pieces that I

787
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 1: think he could really sort of help elevate to the

788
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 1: next level. There a guy who can get the ball

789
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: out quickly, get it out accurately, who can improvise in

790
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 1: the pocket when things break down. He's not a huge

791
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,359
Speaker 1: runner necessarily, like you don't expect big rushing yards out

792
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: of Bryce Young, but he does have that pocket mobility

793
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: which is really important, and he can sort of buy

794
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 1: time for himself, and I think that that would help

795
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,200
Speaker 1: a lot with those receivers in Washington. I don't see

796
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: it happening. I don't think the commanders, you know, have

797
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 1: the capital to move up, and doesn't seem like they're

798
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: interested because again Ron Rivera says he wants the Sam

799
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 1: Howe Jacoby Brissette competition. Yeah, so we'll see CJ. Stroud.

800
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: We keep saying Carolina seems the ultimate landing spot for him.

801
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:17,360
Speaker 1: Just a quick run through of Lance's scouting reports on CJ. Stroud.

802
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: The young man from Ohio State, doesn't hesitate to attack

803
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: with his throws, has good arm strength, able to get

804
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 1: through progressions. Definitely a lot of armed talent there. If

805
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: you want to have some weaknesses, hesitant to use his legs,

806
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,200
Speaker 1: feels look, I know, Lance has to kind of put weaknesses,

807
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: so sometimes they feel sort of nitpicky. Labors to get

808
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: squared to target when rolling out, so there's some mechanical

809
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: issues there. That I think can be cleaned up a

810
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 1: little bit. But overall, you know, Lance has him as

811
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,760
Speaker 1: one of the top rated prospects in the draft. Overall,

812
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 1: Carolina seems to be the landing spot. Is that the

813
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: best fit? Is that the best fantasy fit? I think.

814
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: So he gets to partner up with a head coach

815
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:01,439
Speaker 1: and Frank Greig, who is a really good offensive mind

816
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: who just never really had a quarterback that he could develop.

817
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: So I'm very curious to see how those two work out.

818
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 1: We said earlier, I like the pieces that they put

819
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 1: around him. See my one concern with Stroud. I have

820
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: two concerns. One, he struggled and when I watched him

821
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:20,759
Speaker 1: elise under pressure. And also I just think he had

822
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: the optimal environment in college like Ohio State, they're juggernaut,

823
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: They have a great old line all the time. In

824
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: his receiving room, not only was it the best in

825
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 1: the country, I think you could make an argument that

826
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: it's arguably the best ever in college football. Like Garrett Wilson,

827
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: we see what he's doing already, Chris O. Lave, we

828
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 1: see what he's doing already. Jason is, in my opinion,

829
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: the best wide receiver in this year's class and the

830
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,239
Speaker 1: best of the group might still be in college. And

831
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: exactly that in Mark, we don't even need to talk

832
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:49,920
Speaker 1: about who is going to be the wide receiver one

833
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: next year. It's Marvin Harrison. If he was coming out

834
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: this year, he'd be a top five pick in my opinion.

835
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: So I just don't think he'll ever have an environment

836
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 1: as optimal as he did in college. He probably won't,

837
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: you know, I think Caroline is a good spot for

838
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 1: him in terms of what he will have as a

839
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 1: head coach in Frank Reich, as you mentioned, I would

840
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: say that if there's another best option for him, maybe

841
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: it's Indianapolis with Shane Steike in there next season as

842
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:18,080
Speaker 1: the head coach. We saw what he was able to

843
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: do with Justin Herbert for a year or two. Jim

844
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 1: Bob Cooter kind of had a nice run when he

845
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: was a coordinator a couple of years ago, although I

846
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 1: don't know if he's been able to sort of match

847
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: that recently. But I think there's a good offensive brain

848
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 1: trust and they do have some decent pass catching weapons.

849
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:36,399
Speaker 1: I mean, they've got Michael Pittman there, who we saw

850
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:38,840
Speaker 1: what he was able to do. You do in theory

851
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: have a running game with Jonathan Taylor. I know that

852
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 1: offensive line is not what it had been in the past,

853
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: but there's at least some pieces there there for him

854
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: potentially to kind of work with when he gets there.

855
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: But I do think overall Carolina might be the best

856
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 1: spot for CJ. Stroud. Then there's Anthony Richardson, and I've

857
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,439
Speaker 1: we sort of talked about him and Frank Reich talking

858
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: him up a little bit. I mean, just a raw prospect,

859
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: great size, speed ability there accurate enough, but as you mentioned,

860
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:15,800
Speaker 1: because he's so big, he can sort of take some

861
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: pressure in the pocket a little bit, a big explosive

862
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 1: play guy. The MAC on him though, it is just

863
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: that he's raw. He's just inconsistent, can be inaccurate at times.

864
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: This feels like a wild card right, like he could

865
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: fit in a lot of places across the league. I

866
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 1: have two that I ideally want to see him land in.

867
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,800
Speaker 1: The first would be the Colts at four because everything

868
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 1: you said with Shane Steigen, like he just was done

869
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 1: coaching Jalen Hurts, who if he didn't get hurt, might

870
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: have been the MVP this season. So Anthony Richardson is

871
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 1: a similar type of prospect running quarterback could be the

872
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 1: best running quarterback in the league on day one. Like

873
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he will be, but I think he's

874
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 1: up there with Lamar and Jalen Hurts for the best

875
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 1: in the league. And if not the Colts, because the

876
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 1: Colts Oline I think is better than they played last season.

877
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: They have young pieces and Jonathan Taylor Michael Pittman. But

878
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: speaking of young pieces, if he doesn't go to the

879
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: Colts at four, the Lions at six, because I don't

880
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: think that they would play Jared Goff this year, but

881
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: then as of next year, you'd have Anthony Richardson with

882
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: the Monros Saint Brown and Jamison Williams. I would the

883
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 1: Lions would become my second favorite team immediately because that

884
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 1: would just be so much fun to watch. That would

885
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 1: be fun. I didn't even think about the Lion That

886
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: would be really, really interesting. And I know there's been

887
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: chatter that they could take a quarterback, and you're right,

888
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 1: it would probably still be Jared Goff's team this year,

889
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 1: but I think we all sort of assumed that Goff

890
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:39,879
Speaker 1: was not going to be in that seat for very long,

891
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 1: and Richardson would be a really nice understudy to kind

892
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:45,880
Speaker 1: of take over that offense there. I was gonna say Carolina,

893
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: but I know that's not going to happen. And we

894
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 1: talked about Reich sort of talking him up there. But

895
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 1: the Cam Newton comparison is sort of interesting there to

896
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: bring another guy like that to Carolina to use his

897
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:01,280
Speaker 1: mobility with a supporting cast that right out isn't great

898
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:05,879
Speaker 1: but is at least passable. It's at least functional, So

899
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: that would be interesting. But now you've sold me. I

900
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: wanted to be the Lions. Now, I just like the

901
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,240
Speaker 1: Lions being fun, and this would make the Lions super fun.

902
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: That's all I want. Although Dan Campbell did say that

903
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 1: they're not in on the more because they have a quarterback,

904
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: so maybe they like golf more than we think they do. Maybe,

905
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 1: But I also feel like I feel like Dan Campbell

906
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 1: is one of those guys who really is going to

907
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: be like raw raw about his people, Like Pete Carroll. Yeah,

908
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 1: he really is. He's gonna be one of those guys

909
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 1: who's just raw row about his people, who really like

910
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: hypes up his guys. Look, I respect that, like, I'm

911
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 1: not mad about that, but I could also be like,

912
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:42,399
Speaker 1: you know, behind the scenes being like, yeah, we kind

913
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 1: of need to talk about getting into the quarterback, you know,

914
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 1: not to say that he's gonna lie to Jared Goffin. Mean,

915
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll sit down and have a face to

916
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 1: face about it. But he's also gonna hype up his

917
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 1: guy when he gets the opportunity. The fourth of the

918
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: Big four will love us. The young man from the

919
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 1: University of Kentucky and just kind of a physical specimen

920
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,399
Speaker 1: right Like, he is what you think of when you

921
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 1: look at your your prototypical pocket passer, six four, two

922
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty pounds, all the armed talent, can can

923
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 1: throw the ball, deep, quick release, all those things. A

924
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 1: tough guy who played through a lot of injuries. Just

925
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:21,839
Speaker 1: inconsistency with will Levis has been sort of the big

926
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 1: knock on him. Accuracy at times is not what you

927
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: wanted to be. The touchdown to interception ratio in college

928
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 1: was a little bit concerning, and a lot of times

929
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: just can be a one read guy and get rid

930
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 1: of the football. But because the upside is high, he's

931
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:41,080
Speaker 1: a guy that will probably be one of the top

932
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,919
Speaker 1: four or five quarterbacks off the board. Do you see

933
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: a spot that works out for Will Levis, I'm thinking

934
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 1: the Raiders and if not, then maybe the Commanders, because

935
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,399
Speaker 1: if the Raiders pass on him at seven, I think

936
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: he can kind of fall. But I am expecting four

937
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the top ten. I think he makes it.

938
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: Although I will say I'm not a Will Levis guy.

939
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 1: I could easily be wrong. When I watch him, I'm like,

940
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 1: he's a one read quarterback. He's not really a play like,

941
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: there's no wow plays. When I watch him, I'm like

942
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 1: with every other quarterback, I'm like, oh my god, I

943
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:13,359
Speaker 1: see why this guy is getting hyped up so much.

944
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: With him, I'm like, Okay, he looks the part, and

945
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 1: I think that's it. More than anything. He looks the part.

946
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 1: He's got all the physical tools. He could throw really hard.

947
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: But when you start making a case for him, it

948
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: instantly becomes a lot of excuses. He had a new

949
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: OC last year. They lost three offensive linemen. He lost

950
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: his number one wide receiver, and it's like, who was

951
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,239
Speaker 1: his number one wide receiver? Oh, it was Wandel Robinson. Like,

952
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think he has the tools there

953
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: and if he ends up in the right spot, they

954
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:43,919
Speaker 1: could coach him up and I could see a team

955
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:47,400
Speaker 1: like Vegas convincing themselves that, hey, we have Jimmy g

956
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:49,320
Speaker 1: right now, but Levis will sit behind him for a

957
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 1: year and then McDaniels could really coach him up. But

958
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: I think to me, of all four of these quarterbacks,

959
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: he has the strongest Sack Wilson, Zach Wilson, bibes he well,

960
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:01,360
Speaker 1: he's definitely number four of the four, I think amongst

961
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 1: all the scouts right now, and I think Vegas is

962
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 1: a really good landing spot for him because he can

963
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: sort of be a bigger armed Jimmy Garoppolo in that offense.

964
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: And yeah, it seems like Josh McDaniels likes those kinds

965
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 1: of guys, and I think he could sort of make

966
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 1: it happen now fantasy wise, what that would mean in

967
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: the future for Saya DeVante Adams, that remains to be seen.

968
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: I feel like Dante is gonna he's DeVante Adams, like

969
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: he'll be fine in the situation. But I do think

970
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: the Raiders probably the best fit for will Lovis. It's funny, though,

971
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:34,840
Speaker 1: how this has sort of flipped, because I think a

972
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: month or so ago, maybe two months ago, Anthony Richardson

973
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: was number four of four in this group. He rocketed

974
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 1: up with his performance at the Combine, and if you

975
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: certainly you look at Dynasty Fantasy Twitter, he is the

976
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 1: QB one in this group. Yeah, I think amongst scouts,

977
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: amongst football people, I'd probably put him as the quarterback

978
00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 1: three right now. But let's rank them for Dynasty. If

979
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: you are in a rookie draft or a rookie mock draft,

980
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: what order are you putting these quarterbacks in? I have

981
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 1: it Richardson, Young, Stroud, Levis, and I think one and

982
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:11,839
Speaker 1: four are locked in. But if you want to put

983
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: Stroud a Young, flip them, I'm okay with that. What

984
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: I keep saying is, I think Anthony Richardson has the

985
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: highest ceiling. I think CJ. Stroud is the safest bet.

986
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 1: I think Bryce Young is somewhere in the middle of that.

987
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,400
Speaker 1: The size makes him not the safest, but the upside

988
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:28,360
Speaker 1: is sky high as well. I think he's like the

989
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:31,319
Speaker 1: best combo of that. And then Will Levis is fourth. Yeah,

990
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: Levis is fourth. I think Richardson's first. I was going

991
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: to flip them, flip Young and Stroud from where you have.

992
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: I had Stroud at two and Bryce Young at three.

993
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: But again I'm not going to argue with anybody who

994
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: has it the other way, but I do think you're right.

995
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:48,279
Speaker 1: In dynasty one and four are very much locked in,

996
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:50,879
Speaker 1: and we'll see how the other two kind of shake

997
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: out from there. The next level of guys, yeah, Hindon

998
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:57,360
Speaker 1: Hooker at Tennessee, and I put an asterisk next to

999
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:00,720
Speaker 1: his name because unfortunately, he suffered an ACL tear late

1000
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:04,479
Speaker 1: in the season last year and is expected to miss most,

1001
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:08,480
Speaker 1: if not all, of next season. So unfortunately for him.

1002
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I think, hey, I don't know where he

1003
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: falls in the NFL draft ranks, but poor guy's gonna

1004
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 1: miss much in the next season. The other knock on

1005
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:19,399
Speaker 1: him is that he is going to be twenty five

1006
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: years old, probably twenty six by the time he actually

1007
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: suits up for an NFL team, and that kind of

1008
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 1: puts him behind the eight ball in terms of his development.

1009
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: Stetson Bennett, who's just a flat out winner at the

1010
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: University of Georgia, was their quarterback the last couple of

1011
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: seasons and helped lead them to national championship status. And

1012
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:40,839
Speaker 1: then Max Duggan, who was very much in the running

1013
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: for the Heisman Trophy this past year, helped TCU get

1014
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:46,319
Speaker 1: all the way to the National Championship Game. I sort

1015
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: of jokingly called him a more mobile Andy Dalton because

1016
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 1: he's red headed in with to TCU. Probably not fair,

1017
00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: but you know whatever, it's what it is. Any of

1018
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: these guys really jump out at you. I feel like

1019
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 1: these are more sort of dynasty stash and hold guys

1020
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 1: because I don't see any of them. Well. Hooker obviously

1021
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 1: not going to make an impact this year, but even

1022
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: ben At and Dugan seems like a long shot to

1023
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 1: be impactful this year. Yeah, I think those those two

1024
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: are just I think NFL backups. But Hooker is the

1025
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 1: one that I could see. Daniel Jeremiah in his latest

1026
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 1: mock had him going in the first round, and I

1027
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:21,919
Speaker 1: could see why because if you're a team who needs

1028
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: a quarterback or you're unsure of your quarterback now, you

1029
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: could jump back into the end of the first round

1030
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: picks twenty nine, thirty thirty one, something like that, and

1031
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 1: then you get that fifth year option on him, so

1032
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:33,160
Speaker 1: the first year is kind of just like you're covered,

1033
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: and then you still get four years with him. But

1034
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: he's so hard for me to figure out because he

1035
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 1: puts up numbers there's talent there, but like you said,

1036
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 1: advanced age, and he's in a system that I'm not

1037
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:48,320
Speaker 1: sure if it could translate his success in the NFL. Yeah,

1038
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 1: I mean I think that that's sort of it. But

1039
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: he was a guy that when you watched him, when

1040
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,919
Speaker 1: you watch Tennessee, he made plays. I mean, he would

1041
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 1: make big throws whenever the volunteers needed it. Really helped

1042
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: carry that offense. And really unfortunate that he suffered the

1043
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 1: knee injury as late in the season as he did,

1044
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,640
Speaker 1: because that's going to have a major impact on what

1045
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,959
Speaker 1: kind of like Jamison Williams from a year ago. Yeah, yeah,

1046
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 1: um yeah. So so we'll see. So that's our run

1047
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks. Next week, I guess we'll dive into

1048
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: the running backs and then we'll get to the wide

1049
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 1: receivers in the tight ends as we get a little

1050
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 1: bit closer to draft day. Time for the latest edition

1051
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 1: of Florio's Film Festival. Always my favorite part of the week,

1052
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:34,040
Speaker 1: as we are educating young Michael F. Florio about some

1053
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 1: action movies, particularly from the decade of the nineties, and

1054
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:40,879
Speaker 1: this one I was excited about because I've said it before,

1055
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: this is one of my favorite all time movies. I

1056
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 1: saw this movie on Christmas break as a freshman in college.

1057
00:51:47,760 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: I watched it with my best friend from high school,

1058
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: who had to think about watching movies in the front row.

1059
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:53,800
Speaker 1: I remember being slumped down in the front row, staring

1060
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 1: straight up at the screen. That's where he watched it.

1061
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: That's like this time, we actually an excuse. We got

1062
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 1: there late. Those are the only sea's available. But I

1063
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:03,280
Speaker 1: watched it slumped down, staring straight up at again of myself,

1064
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I've never seen a movie like this.

1065
00:52:05,200 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 1: My mind is blown. In case you haven't seen this

1066
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 1: movie that is nearly thirty years old, the quick synopsis

1067
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 1: is the lives of two mob hitman, a boxer, a

1068
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 1: gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner Bandit's

1069
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 1: intertwined in four tales of violence and redemption. It was

1070
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: not Quentin Tarantino's first film, but it was the one

1071
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:25,160
Speaker 1: that very much launched him into the stratosphere and made

1072
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: him more of a household name. Made for eight million dollars,

1073
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:34,319
Speaker 1: grossed two hundred and thirteen million worldwide, was released on

1074
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 1: October fourth, nineteen ninety four. So your overall thoughts on

1075
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: pulp fiction amazing movie. I love this movie. I told

1076
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:49,879
Speaker 1: you I seen it, but never fully through, and I

1077
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:53,439
Speaker 1: enjoyed it a lot. It's a classic Quentin Tarantino movie,

1078
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:54,759
Speaker 1: and I had told you I like a lot of

1079
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:59,080
Speaker 1: Quentin Tarantino movies, all his I mean the yellow font

1080
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:02,640
Speaker 1: with the you know, like everything. It just was so

1081
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 1: and I was on the whole time, like waiting for

1082
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 1: him to have his little cameo and then he's Jimmy

1083
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 1: and I was like, that's the wolf was such a

1084
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:13,400
Speaker 1: cool character, Like the only thing watching it. I was

1085
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 1: waiting to see if all of the storylines we're gonna

1086
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:18,799
Speaker 1: get brought together at one point, and they really don't, right.

1087
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: But besides that, I was like, great movie. Yeah. The

1088
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:25,800
Speaker 1: the through line to them really is Jewels and Vincent.

1089
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: They're the ones who sort of intersect with all all

1090
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,840
Speaker 1: the other different story lines from the Diner to Marcella's

1091
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 1: Wallace to Butch. They're sort of the connective tissue to

1092
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 1: the whole thing, but they all necessarily kind of kind

1093
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:41,360
Speaker 1: of intersect at one at a time. Yeah, it's funny.

1094
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 1: I've seen this movie more times than I can count.

1095
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 1: The one unanswered question that I do have is why

1096
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:50,880
Speaker 1: is Winston Wolf wearing a tuxedo at eight something in

1097
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:54,080
Speaker 1: the morning. It appears that he's at like a house party.

1098
00:53:54,880 --> 00:53:57,400
Speaker 1: It is wearing a tuxedo because you know they're at

1099
00:53:57,480 --> 00:53:59,840
Speaker 1: Jimmy's house. They're trying to clean up the car after

1100
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: Marvin was accidentally shot in the face. Um, and he

1101
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:06,320
Speaker 1: answers the phone and he shows up in a full

1102
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 1: tuxedo at like ate something in the morning. Also he's like,

1103
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 1: they're thirty minutes away. I'll be there in ten. I

1104
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:15,319
Speaker 1: was like, that is such a great And then he's there, yeah,

1105
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:17,799
Speaker 1: like and and so, which means he didn't take the

1106
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:20,400
Speaker 1: time to get dressed. He was he was already dressed

1107
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 1: and ready to go. Yeah, which is is pretty wild. Um.

1108
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 1: I loved because I'm a big fan of like mob

1109
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 1: movies and stuff like like I mentioned Goodfellows all the time.

1110
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:32,239
Speaker 1: I've seen that movie more times than I can count,

1111
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 1: But like the lives of like mobsters and stuff is

1112
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: always so interesting to me. And like the way, like

1113
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 1: in that scene he's like, I didn't mean to do it,

1114
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:42,719
Speaker 1: like like a normal person would be freaking out, and

1115
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:45,160
Speaker 1: he's just like it was an accident. The gun went off.

1116
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,719
Speaker 1: I didn't mean like like their mindset and their um.

1117
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:51,479
Speaker 1: I don't know, just everything about them was was really cool.

1118
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:54,800
Speaker 1: And what I loved about that um And it's a

1119
00:54:54,880 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 1: thing I enjoy seeing the downtime of characters, character archetypes

1120
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: that we're almost used to seeing in action, right, Like

1121
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 1: we're used to seeing mobsters doing mobstery things, right, We're like,

1122
00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:09,759
Speaker 1: we're used to seeing superheroes do superhero e things. But

1123
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:13,440
Speaker 1: you figure these characters have downtime. And so the movie

1124
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:18,560
Speaker 1: starts with Jules and Vincent talking about hamburgers. Right, it's

1125
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 1: it's royal with cheese. It's you know, oh that was

1126
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 1: a great scene. You know. He's like, you know what

1127
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 1: what what do they call the what do they call

1128
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 1: a whopper? And he's like, I didn't know, I don't know.

1129
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:28,960
Speaker 1: I didn't go to Burger King. Like that kind of

1130
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 1: stuff always makes me laugh, Like I've always wanted a

1131
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:34,759
Speaker 1: season of twenty four where it's Jack Bower's day off,

1132
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,400
Speaker 1: where it's just twenty four hours of him doing things

1133
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 1: like standing in line at an ATM, you know, reading

1134
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:45,480
Speaker 1: the newspaper and drinking his coffee, Like that's what I want.

1135
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 1: And so I always appreciated just those those random downtime

1136
00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 1: conversations that we all sort of have. But it feels

1137
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 1: different when you're like a couple of hitmen on the

1138
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:56,799
Speaker 1: way to retrieve a briefcase from someone. I liked that.

1139
00:55:57,040 --> 00:55:58,960
Speaker 1: Not only that, but yeah, you got to see like

1140
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 1: the human side, like when they're wearing someone else's clothes

1141
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:04,439
Speaker 1: and like they get made fun of it, and they're

1142
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 1: reading books and stuff like, like to see the human

1143
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 1: side of them. And when uh uh John Travolta's character

1144
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:14,440
Speaker 1: with Vincent Vincent, when he when Vincent goes out with

1145
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 1: the Uma Thurman, who was amazing in this movie. I thought,

1146
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:21,840
Speaker 1: like that whole scene, like you know, you're like, Okay,

1147
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:24,759
Speaker 1: this is his wife he can't like, but like there

1148
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:28,680
Speaker 1: there's I don't know, did the story writing the dialogue?

1149
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:31,279
Speaker 1: Like that's my thing with a lot of action movies now,

1150
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,879
Speaker 1: the dialogue sucks and like it's super over the top

1151
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 1: corniness and stuff. Like this movie had so much action

1152
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 1: and I came away probably more memorizing more lines and

1153
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 1: stuff that was said than the action. It's it's incredibly quotable. Uh,

1154
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:48,120
Speaker 1: most of the quotes can't be said on this podcast.

1155
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 1: This is a family show. But it's incredibly quotable, and

1156
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:53,759
Speaker 1: I do think that coming off of last week's movie

1157
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 1: being Face Off, the writing and the dialogue are immensely

1158
00:56:57,800 --> 00:57:03,479
Speaker 1: better than anything you heard in Face Off. A couple

1159
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 1: of things, A couple of fun notes. You mentioned John

1160
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 1: Travolta playing Vincent Vega. Originally that role could have gone

1161
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:14,880
Speaker 1: to James Gandolfini, So Tony Soprano could have been Vincent Vega.

1162
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 1: Did he have any role, big roles before Tony. I

1163
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:19,400
Speaker 1: thought Tony Soprano was like his breakout. I think that

1164
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 1: was kind of his brand. I mean he had you know,

1165
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 1: I think character parts or small you know, small parts.

1166
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 1: But I don't think he ever had anything big before

1167
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 1: Tony Soprano. He might not have been Tony Soprano. Don't

1168
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: know if James Gandolfini is a dancer. I don't know

1169
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:33,440
Speaker 1: if he could have done the twist contact John Travolta

1170
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 1: killed it in that scene. Yeah, And I was like,

1171
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:37,920
Speaker 1: I guess this was shortly after Greece, so like they

1172
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:39,680
Speaker 1: wanted to get him dance. It was a little while, yeah,

1173
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:41,960
Speaker 1: but like between Greece and Saturday at Fever, like some

1174
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 1: of his big roles early in his career involved dancing,

1175
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 1: and I know that was a big part. They wanted

1176
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: to get him to dance in this movie, so he

1177
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: was able to do the twist scene with Uma Thurman.

1178
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 1: Side note that mister Blonde from Reservoir Dogs was Vic Vega,

1179
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 1: who was supposed to be the brother of Vincent Vega.

1180
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:01,280
Speaker 1: I did not know that was apparently a movie planned

1181
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:04,200
Speaker 1: with the two of them, but it just didn't work out.

1182
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: It didn't pan out. But there is there's a whole

1183
00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:11,440
Speaker 1: Tarantino universe that is all very connected. I know that

1184
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 1: there's like his universe. I did not know about that,

1185
00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 1: and that make the movie. Now I'll go watch it. Yeah,

1186
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 1: we'll see who. Pulp Fiction and saw the Shawshank Redemption

1187
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 1: opened on the same day, October fourteenth, nineteen ninety four.

1188
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:26,200
Speaker 1: Which one did better I think in terms of box

1189
00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 1: office probably Shaw Shank. It also won more awards two

1190
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:33,720
Speaker 1: of the like known classic movie like great movies of

1191
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:34,960
Speaker 1: all times. It's a good day to go to the

1192
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 1: movie theater. Between Pulp Fiction and Shaw Shank Redemption coming

1193
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 1: out on the same day. The quote that the Jules

1194
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:45,480
Speaker 1: Winfield says he's ekil twenty five seventeen by the way,

1195
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:49,440
Speaker 1: it's mostly ad libbed. The actual the quote that he

1196
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: says is not what's actually in the Bible if you

1197
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:54,760
Speaker 1: go and read it. But in Captain America the Winter Soldier,

1198
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:58,240
Speaker 1: when Nick Fury played by Samuel Jackson, stands beside the

1199
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:00,560
Speaker 1: headstone at his grave the markery it's the path of

1200
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 1: the Righteous Man and says he's Equiel twenty five seventeen.

1201
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 1: So a little bit of an easter eggs. A little

1202
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 1: easter egg in case you want to go back and

1203
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:10,840
Speaker 1: watch Captain America The Winter Soldier, a little bit of

1204
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 1: a nod to his time in pulp fiction. That scene

1205
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:15,560
Speaker 1: where he's going over that and he's like, I always

1206
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: said it. I just thought it sounded cool. I'm like,

1207
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:20,920
Speaker 1: like the inside his mind of that character, like the

1208
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 1: fact that we get to see that is so cool. Yeah.

1209
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:24,360
Speaker 1: I mean he kind of like tells you that at

1210
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:26,440
Speaker 1: the end at the diner scene, about all the things

1211
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 1: that he kind of went through in his journey to

1212
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:32,440
Speaker 1: just basically quitting being a hit man. Albert got it,

1213
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 1: said Shawshank seventy three mill So it got own away. Wow. Interesting.

1214
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:42,280
Speaker 1: Never would have thought. Speaking of the restaurant, the restaurant

1215
00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 1: scene was filmed at the Hawthorne Grill in fittingly enough, Hawthorne, California.

1216
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:49,520
Speaker 1: The building was demolished soon after. I looked up the

1217
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:53,160
Speaker 1: address at per Google Maps, it is less than four

1218
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:56,360
Speaker 1: miles from where we were currently sitting here at NFL Media.

1219
00:59:56,600 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 1: I also went on Google street View. It is now

1220
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:03,920
Speaker 1: an auto zone. So actually, I think I think I

1221
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:07,920
Speaker 1: bought windshield wipers in that AutoZone recently. So this is

1222
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 1: off topic, but it's my favorite movie. They're the scene

1223
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 1: and Good Fellows where they shoot at the diner where

1224
01:00:13,120 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 1: they find out that um where where they like he's

1225
01:00:15,600 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: calling on the pay phone. That was like right by

1226
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 1: where I lived, and for years it was struggling, and

1227
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 1: then they try to brand it. It's like the good

1228
01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 1: Fellas diner. And now I'm guessing it's an AutoZone. Probably

1229
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 1: it's probably an auto zone as well. Your favorite movie

1230
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:30,880
Speaker 1: location now an auto zone. That's it. So yeah, those

1231
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 1: are some of the fun facts about pulp fiction. So

1232
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:36,240
Speaker 1: I have to ask, doesn't hold up and would you

1233
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 1: watch it again easily? Yes? Like I'd watch it again

1234
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:41,320
Speaker 1: in like a week. It was that good and uh,

1235
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: one part that I did rewind because it made me laugh.

1236
01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: Was when Wolf is like, I'll give you a ride home.

1237
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:49,920
Speaker 1: Where do you live? And He's like Inglewood, Redondo and

1238
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:52,240
Speaker 1: he's like, stop living in the sticks, living in the Sticks,

1239
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:56,080
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh man, I live in Inglewood. I

1240
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 1: was like, we worked there. Is that the Sticks? Right? Yeah? Yeah,

1241
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:03,040
Speaker 1: that is very fun. Actually also next reasonably close that

1242
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:04,960
Speaker 1: you could, you know, depending on where you're coming from,

1243
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 1: give give two guys a ride home from Inglewood and

1244
01:01:07,640 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 1: Redondo U. So yeah, there it is. Pulp fiction gets

1245
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:14,080
Speaker 1: the thumbs up from from probably my favorite. I know

1246
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:16,520
Speaker 1: I've said this multiple times, but it's my favorite of

1247
01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:18,520
Speaker 1: the movies we've watched it. It's that Ben Speed I

1248
01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 1: would say, have been like, okay, all right, So definitely

1249
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:25,200
Speaker 1: face Off is bringing up the rear. I have a

1250
01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 1: feeling I don't. I don't think it's going to move.

1251
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I have a lot of things on tap.

1252
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 1: I have a feeling that Faceoff may have cemented its

1253
01:01:32,360 --> 01:01:35,480
Speaker 1: spots at the bottom of these rankings. But who knows. Maybe, yeah,

1254
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 1: maybe we'll have something different next week. Another movie that

1255
01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:41,000
Speaker 1: I really truly enjoy spoiler alert. A lot of these

1256
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:44,080
Speaker 1: movies I'm picking because I like them, because again, this

1257
01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:45,520
Speaker 1: is our show, and this is how we're going to

1258
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:50,560
Speaker 1: do it. Next week. Desperado from nineteen ninety five, I

1259
01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 1: believe the film debut of sal Mahayak also the film

1260
01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:56,120
Speaker 1: that put Robert Rodriguez on the map. It's sort of

1261
01:01:56,160 --> 01:01:58,360
Speaker 1: the reason the reason I decided to follow up with

1262
01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:01,440
Speaker 1: a couple of things. One Desperado sort of got made

1263
01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 1: because Quentin Tarantino watched Rodriguez's original film, El Mariachi decided, Hey,

1264
01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 1: here's a whole bunch of money to make your next movie.

1265
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:11,440
Speaker 1: So basically what Rodriguez did was he took El Mariachi

1266
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:15,560
Speaker 1: and used a big budget and made a similar movie

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Speaker 1: he called a sequel. It's very similar to the original.

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Speaker 1: He came up with Desperado. Also because our first four

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Speaker 1: films have all been connected to the city of Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: set in or around Los Angeles, so I decided to

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Speaker 1: do something that's decided me not in Los Angeles, and

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Speaker 1: this one takes place in Mexico, so not too far,

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Speaker 1: not too far, but also not Los Angeles, so I

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Speaker 1: decided to set that up there. So that'll pretty much

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Speaker 1: wrap it up before we go, though, I wanted to

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Speaker 1: get to give a shout out to Jim Trotter. I know,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you have seen on Twitter several people from

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Speaker 1: NFL media who have announced that they're not going to

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Speaker 1: be with the company anymore. Mike Giardi, I know, he

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Speaker 1: tweeted that he's not going to be there anymore. We'll

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Speaker 1: certainly miss Mike, but one of this specifically shout out

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Speaker 1: Jim Trotter, who I personally just I was a fan

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Speaker 1: of Trotter's work when he was with Sports Illustrated before

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Speaker 1: he came over, was just honored to kind of get

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Speaker 1: to know him and have conversations with him, and if

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Speaker 1: they weren't frequent he worked out of San Diego, wasn't

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Speaker 1: necessarily in the building all the time, but when he

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Speaker 1: was really truly always enjoyed our conversations, gained a whole

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Speaker 1: new level of respect for him, being able to work

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Speaker 1: with him and interact with him even on a semi

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Speaker 1: regular basis, and just you know, to let him know

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Speaker 1: that he will be missed here, that his work will

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Speaker 1: be missed here. I am sure that some other very intelligent,

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Speaker 1: lucky outlet is going to snap him up in very

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Speaker 1: short order. And I look forward to continuing reading and

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Speaker 1: watching and listening to whatever it does he does wherever

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Speaker 1: it is he goes. But I just wanted to personally

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Speaker 1: thank Jim Trotter for him being kind and him just

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Speaker 1: being open to conversation and just interacting with him, and

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Speaker 1: wish him the best of luck wherever it is he goes.

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Speaker 1: So that's it. That'll do it for this edition of

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Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. Stay happy, safe, and healthy

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Speaker 1: for in southern California, Stay dry for the rest of you.

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Speaker 1: Do good, live well, and we'll talk to you again

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Speaker 1: next week. Wow wow woan, don't don't