WEBVTT - The 2021 Fantasy Things Draft 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:06.880 Welcome to the solid verbal Hell that for me, I'm 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:09.680 a man, I'm forty. I've heard so many players say, well, 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:11.640 I want to be happy. You want to be happy 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:16.040 for Dake Edith Steak is that woo woof? And then 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:21.439 and Tye, welcome back to the solid verbal boys and girls, 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:24.520 my name is ty Hildebrand, joining me as always over 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:30.080 there in Chicago Land on this regal occasion. Regal the 0:00:30.080 --> 0:00:33.040 one and only Dan Rubinstein, sir, how are you? I'm great. 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.440 I miss having a live audience for this show. I'm 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.879 not gonna lie. You know, le bras being thrown at 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.519 the stage, you drunkenly needing to be revived with smelling 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:46.159 salts backstage. There's just there's a certain character, there's a 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:50.760 certain texture to the live fantasy Fantasy things experience. That's 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.320 what they say, by the way, in Barcelona fandom many things, 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.480 uh that it can't be replicated anymore. Now that we've 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.520 gone in that direction. Did we even do fantasy things 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.120 last year? I don't think we did. We were crustfallen 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.679 last year. Dan, Yeah, we didn't know what to do well. 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:06.920 I mean the season was starting at different points for 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:10.279 different conferences, so it wasn't clear when we should actually 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:12.200 do it, so we just we decided to take a 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:16.160 by year. So happy to be back with the theme, 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.200 but sad that we are not doing it in a 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:24.440 theater with verbaler's stacked up to the rafters. It is sad, 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.080 but we are going to go on with this show 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:29.800 because the Fantasy Things, I think, without question, one of 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:32.600 our favorites that we do every year. I know it's 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:36.039 a crowd favorite obviously for the last couple seasons, not 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:40.040 last year, but twenty nineteen, twenty eighteen, twenty seventeen. This 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.039 is a thing that we did live. So we will 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:46.759 explain what Fantasy Things means momentarily in case you are 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.520 new to the program. If you are welcome in. I'm Ty, 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.480 he is Dan. This is the Celiverbal College Football Podcast. 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.480 We have been going three times a week now for 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:58.360 the last couple of weeks. Go back and listen to 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:01.080 all of our conference previews done, all the Power Five, 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:04.040 all the Group of Five, all of the Independence with 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.480 the lone exception of Yukon. But we decided, I think 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:11.520 as a group, if that's okay, we should have in retrospect, 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:16.480 disrespectfully previewed like the two thousand and three Yukon women's 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:21.760 basketball team, or whichever was like the greatest, considered to 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.800 be the best, like you, we should have like very 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.200 like we should have done a deep dive on Diana 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:31.640 Tarassi's perimeter game where we could have celebrated Yukon excellence 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.200 instead of wallowed in the depths. In lieu of a 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.480 twenty twenty one Yukon preview, we're going to spend five 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.920 good minutes talking about Jordan Todman. Now ready said, yeah, 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.840 II have good minutes about Jordan Todman. Sure, Dan Orlovsky 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:48.119 can get into the conversation anybody you want. 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As we said 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.240 on the last program, you will have access to a 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.600 prize potentially if you do well enough that we are 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:36.240 utterly certain has never been offered before. Oh, we're so 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.120 silly for Ballers dot Com. Though, for Ballers dot com 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.520 Orballers dot Com, we'll get you access to that. More 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:47.760 information on that to come. All right, Dan, here we go, 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:52.320 Fantasy Things explain for the fine folks out there who 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.600 you know, maybe their mind is a little bit stale. 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:58.800 They've listened to us for a while, but they didn't 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.840 hear the Fantasy Things show a year ago. What is it? 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:03.720 How did it come to fruition? If you're new to 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.560 the show, what the hell is a Fantasy Thing? Give us? 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.720 Give us the backdrop here for what the Fantasy Things 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:14.920 draft all entails. We draft narratives, We draft storylines, We 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:21.839 draft occurrences. We build teams out of narrative, storylines and occurrences, tropes, 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.080 anything that that sort of can be repeatable throughout the 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:28.880 season that isn't just a player performing, which is what 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.640 we're used to as fantasy sports. That we're drafting players, 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:33.880 and the better the players that we draft do the 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:37.640 better our individual team does. No it is. For example, 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.520 are some of our favorite things over the years? Is 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:42.680 SO and SO has a little bit of Baker Mayfield 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.840 in them? What does it mean? Unclear? A little bit. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:47.840 There's some Baker Mayfield to them, A little Baker may 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.520 I see some Baker Mayfield. Right, the backup is better 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:55.760 than the starter. The new defensive coordinator plans on bringing 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:00.480 an attacking, aggressive mentality and attacking aggressive defense of the team. 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.800 Strength coach. New strength coach doesn't know what they were 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:08.440 doing here before, but we're this is the big leagues. Now, 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:13.600 they're in for a rude awakening. The band playing Old 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:17.520 Town Road, all of these things, right, these commonalities. Dean 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:22.120 Blandino is wrong about a call he's weighing in on. 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:26.760 We like Dean Blandino. So yeah, the things that are 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:31.560 under the radar, funny or weird. That makes college football 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:35.159 what it is because it keeps happening in weird ways. 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.240 Like you're big on weather, So like a lightning delay, 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.600 You love a good lightning delay because then it gets 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:44.560 us some radar information. The monsoon game, right, yeah, I 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:46.440 think I have down here, and I don't know if 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.279 we're going to draft it. But like, an example from 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.279 this year is when a game is going to overtime 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.279 and the next game has to be shifted to Fox 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.720 Business and we're like, wait, I have no idea what 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.800 Fox Business is on this cable CNBC, this game is 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.080 on CNBC, this game is on True TV, as is 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:07.560 the case with the NCAA tournament. So like, weird stuff 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.760 that does happen during the season doesn't always happen, but 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:14.159 gives us an excuse to celebrate the idiosyncrasies of the sport. 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.520 Idiosyncrasies I think is the name of the game here. 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.640 And at this point, I don't even think we're trying 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:22.080 to win now. I just think we're trying to dig 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.840 further than the other person, dig farther into the muck 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:29.080 that is the college football season, to come up with 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.679 the weirdest possible roster. We've tried a couple different ways 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.680 of keeping score. The first year, we just hashed it 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.800 out you and I. We got a rim one January. 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:41.520 The only feedback I got in response to that show, 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.839 how you bullied me, put me around. You didn't really 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:46.800 win by that much, but it made it worse. I'm 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:48.920 a competitive person. I don't know what to tell you, ty. 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.640 We tried to argue it out and that didn't really 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.000 work as well for me. We tried on a couple 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.560 separate occasions to actually keep track on a week to 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:00.200 week basis, and that just got laborious. That was ridiculous. 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.359 We're now at the point now where we're just going 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:05.680 to throw out some things that we're looking forward to 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.880 seeing this coming year. We can literally just we can 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.880 post our rosters on Twitter and conduct a poll whose 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.840 team seems more fun and weird exactly. So what we're 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.760 going to do. We have a long list here. It's 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.920 two pages, it's single space, It's a big old Google doc. 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.559 In traditional solid verbal fashion, we're going to go through 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.880 and follow the template that we did live. Each of 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:31.320 us is going to pick six items, count them six 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:34.960 items for our teams. As we are ready to give 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:41.480 our selections, you will hear that ESPN draft sound that 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:46.200 I stole from some website on the Internet to signify 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.120 that a selection isn't coming, And then we are going 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:50.880 to make our picks fill out our teams. It is 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.400 a snake draft that makes sense. How should we decide 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.200 who goes first? I will flip here, I have a 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.280 camera lens. I'm showing flimp camera for people who are 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.800 watching on the Patreon. I'll take sonny side up, Sony 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.520 side up. Yep, all right, here we go. I like 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:11.160 my eggs sony side up. It is you get selection? 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.800 I will I will take the number two and number three. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:20.880 You want the bookend picks? Yes, alrighty. That means your 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:22.960 boys up first, Dan, Are you ready for this? I 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.760 put on a collared shirt. I'm excited. Oh I didn't 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:29.320 I have a T shirt with ping pong paddles on it. Yeah, 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.040 they have faces though they're happy ping pong paddles. Well, 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.240 one of them is with my first selection in the 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:43.760 twenty twenty one Solid Verbal Fantasy Things Draft. Yes, I 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:50.040 would like to select weird COVID training rituals, Dan uh, 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.040 not as relevant this year. You're talking about training at 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.800 a park in the garage, something like that. I feel 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:57.840 like this is going to be something that all the 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:02.000 studio shows, that all the broadcasts that they lean a 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:06.200 little heavier on they were in fall camp. Though Counterpoint 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.360 a game is thirty eight to three, five minutes left 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.400 in the fourth quarter, the announcers still need something to 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.880 talk about. Let's talk about a kid pushing a tire uphill. 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:20.319 You know it's coming. Sure, this is what we call 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:25.880 announcer porn. Dan says here Michael bailed Hay to maintain 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.040 his upper body strength. Come on, you know they love 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.079 this stuff. Weird COVID train Did you do any weird 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:36.320 COVID training rituals? Did you alter your workouts? No? I 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.960 haven't done any training rituals. I haven't been to a 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:42.040 gym in a year and a half now, if that counts. 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.080 I used to go to a gym in Brooklyn, and 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.360 now I just get yoked at home and go for 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.240 runs and play tennis. So I guess I've altered my 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:51.600 training rituals. I don't think it's going to be all 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:53.840 that different. I don't, I mean than normal times for 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.439 these guys. The weight rooms are open. I want it's 0:09:56.440 --> 0:10:01.119 a risky play, but it definitely is. I'm not convinced 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:05.640 that the college football media landscape is over COVID the 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.559 way much of the country seems to be so any 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:14.080 little shred of goofiness in a training ritual, I expect 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.800 to hear that on a broadcast come Saturday. Okay, I 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.640 have two picks. Now correct, you do all right? The 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:26.320 pick is in pick number two. I'm going to go 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:33.920 with weird, goofy, curious, all of the sudden, nil endorsement. 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.280 Oh that's a good one. I'm going to go with 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:42.000 a kicker who just demolishes a sixty yarder to upset 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:47.080 a ranked team and gets an endorsement from Doctor Schulz. 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.920 You know something that's just like because doctor Schulz has 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:55.440 that sweet cash ty, I'm going with that impromptu out 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:58.120 of left fields. It doesn't have to be impromptu. It 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.160 could just be somebody who becomes a star and all 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:02.120 of a sudden is more attractive to brands. But then 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.560 the deal that they sign is with somebody odd I'm 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.160 going to I'm going to definitely foresee somebody signing a 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:13.160 deal that that school's compliance department or the NCAA is 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.520 going to say, now, I don't know if you can 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:19.360 do that. They don't know what I don't and can't do. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.960 I don't know if you can endorse a casino in Macau. 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:27.560 I don't know that that's going to fly. So I'm 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.960 going to go with something. I mean, I know this 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.000 is vague because I use a lot of adjectives, So 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.760 I will say either you said exceedingly curious, and I 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.320 think that's a good fit. So something that happens all 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.600 of a sudden, or something that you know, there's like 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.960 a shady brand or somebody signs the deal but then 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:49.320 they have to walk it back. I'm going with that 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:53.640 with NIL weirdness. And by the way, there's another element, 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.040 another couple elements that I'm not taking. This is not 0:11:56.160 --> 0:12:02.160 a blanket NIL, but yeah, exceedingly curious, name, image, likeness, endorsement, 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.480 sponsorship opportunity. Yeah, I think that's a good one, Dan, 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.840 and especially because it is such of a wild west 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.480 right now as it relates to player endorsements. Right. Yeah, 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.439 there will be things that happen throughout the course of 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.720 the season. We must have we must have half a dozen, 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:23.400 if not more NIL related items on our shared idea 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:27.040 bank here. Any never different directions you could go with this, 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:32.679 So I like it. I actually tweeted out shortly before 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:36.520 we hit record today the old commercial from Major League 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.560 One when they were just taking on whatever endorsements they 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:43.400 could get. I'm hoping we get awkward commercials like that 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.200 as we move forward now into this NIL era. I'm 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:52.000 very hopeful that somebody endorses something, and maybe it's an 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.160 FCS player. Maybe there's just somebody that's clearly just going 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.640 to be a one week wonder, who's like, lo're going 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.599 to get taller, take these silver pills. Some don't know 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:05.960 this is not advisable. Yeah, I'm excited for that. All right, 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.520 you're on the clock. All right, pick number two for me. 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:17.280 I'm going to go with something very specific here. I'm 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:21.040 going to go with coach gets caught doing something in 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:27.800 the booth, possibly picking their nose, picking their ears, choking 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.600 on iced tea. There. It's a very specific thing that 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.600 might happen once all year long, but when it does, 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:38.920 I treasure it. I absolutely treasure when a coach is 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.160 their glasses are all fogged up, there's something weird happening 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.080 to a coach in the booth. I love it. I 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.560 just do. I don't know why I'm picking at this highly, 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.000 but I love it and I wanted it on my team. Initially, 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:54.120 we jotted down coach gets caught picking nose right on 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:59.120 the broadcast, So now we're expanding that to gets caught 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:03.640 doing something. So a coach caught being a human being 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:08.080 in the booth. So anything beyond looking at his play sheet, 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.600 calling in a play, or talking to another coach in 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.480 the booth, Like if there's just a coach housing a 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:19.560 chili dog in the booth, that counts. That absolutely counts 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:23.880 any coach doing something relatably human. I'm not saying picking 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.560 the nose and eating your boogers is relatable, but I 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.000 will take it. I don't think this happens all that much. 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:33.360 It doesn't happen all. You just want you just want it. 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.640 I am going to be laser focused. I'm going to 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:42.000 be laser focused on coaches doing fun, weird things in 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.040 the booth. Does it when they hit a big play 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.760 and they sort of erupt in celebration with high five? No, no, no, no, 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.360 that's a coaching thing to do. No, that doesn't count. Okay, 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:54.960 so we're talking just a normal human type of thing. Yeah, 0:14:55.000 --> 0:15:00.280 something something that would make that coach's wife say, you know, 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.520 I really wish the camera weren't on him on that moment. 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.480 I really wish this weren't captured in ten ADP. I'm 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.880 on the clock. Yep, my second pick in the Fantasy 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:18.480 Things Draft. Dan, It's great to have the fans back. 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:21.960 Is that the thing it is so great to have 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.600 the fans back. How many times do you think we're 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:28.280 going to hear that throughout the course of the season, many, many, many, 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.280 many many. Great to have the fans back. Great to 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.200 have the fans back. Great to have the fans back back. 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:34.640 And my second pick, I select it's great to have 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.120 the fans back. I fully expect that we're going to 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.480 hear this at every studio show before the start of 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:46.200 every broadcast, probably three times during said broadcasts throughout the 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.160 course of the college football season, at least for the 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.480 first month, month and a half or so. How great 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:53.800 is it to have the fans back. It certainly adds 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:56.400 something to the TV product. That was one thing we 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:59.400 talked about at nauseum last season. It was just not 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.320 kind of not the sane. We don't have a crowd there. 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.560 There's not the same environment. It's different the whites, it's hollow. 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.640 They're pumping in other sounds. It's weird, right, It's great 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:10.120 to have the fans back. Do you think there will 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:14.560 be goofs with teams that are not playing well, that 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.880 have empty swaths of their stadium, that there will be 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.360 cracks like they know that you can come back now, right, No, 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:26.320 Vanderbilt fans can come back. No Stanford fans they should 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.760 know either they're allowed in the stadium. They never left. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:33.360 They just never came, period. Yeah, they never came. Yeah, Okay, 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:35.320 I think that's good. Great to have the fans back, 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:42.440 Great to have them back. My next pick, are you 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:46.720 familiar with the term year zero? Dan? I am familiar. Yeah, 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:52.160 year zero twenty twenty. Every preview publication that I looked 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:56.360 at talking about guys like Mel Tucker, right, first year guys? 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:03.560 Who else daved? Random? Year zero? Year zero? I don't 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.119 know who came up with year zero. Maybe it's like 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:09.679 a week zero. Who knows. Whoever came up with it 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.840 got a lot of run out of it. Probably Bill 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.680 Connolly if I had to guess, Yeah, here we are 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.119 as we move forward into twenty twenty one. There were 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.359 a slew of new coaches last year, and many of 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:25.359 them unfortunate. Jeff Hafley, your boy the half Yeah, Nick Rolovich, 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.400 these guys they had to install everything via zoom, which 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.320 is not optimal. Right, We've said as much. They've said 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:35.600 as much, and so what's happened now? I guess as 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.000 a means of giving some of these guys a mulligan 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:43.480 in some cases deservingly so. We've coined the term year zero, 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:48.320 not year one, because year one wasn't really not a 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:53.560 fully formed year. It was year zero. You can't count 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.000 what happened last year. Come on, that didn't count. It's 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:01.360 not even a it's a year zero training camp. I 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:03.080 fully expect that we're going to hear a ton of 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:06.879 Year zero, but probably early on in the season, maybe 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:11.440 not so much, you know, mid October onward, right, because 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:14.800 we're already sort of ensconced in the season. Totally fair, 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.240 totally fair. I want to get my points early. Let's 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:20.000 get them on the board. Let's not leave much to 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.760 chance late. That's why we're going with weird COVID training. 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.560 That's why we're going with great to have the fans back. 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:30.280 There is a point at which this could all fall apart. Sure, 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:32.840 trying to get my points early. Let's get in the clubhouse, 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.240 let's make you play catch up. All right? Is it 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.240 time for my picks? It is time for your picks? 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:44.639 Oh man? All right? I have one, I have one tie. 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:50.359 What do we got? I have an especially strange animated explainer, 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:55.880 especially strange, and now does it have to be TV animation. 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.920 I guess so if it's an animated explainer. ESPN has 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.760 really dipped into the like remember when all of a 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:06.440 sudden there was like a Korean animation firm that anytime 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:15.159 anything relatively controversial would happen inwood I know, inwood Swoop, 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:19.080 the Korean animation of like Lindsay Lohan getting in a 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:23.840 car accident. Right, And so for whatever reason, ESPN has 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:33.280 adopted that way of showcasing football things. And it's every 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:39.200 year it gets weirder and like, I don't know why 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:43.440 it exists, but it keeps existing. There was the one year, 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:47.359 remember when the game day hosts put on the weird 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:52.240 skin masks of coaches of teams that were playoff in 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:54.840 the range of the playoff, and there was like a 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:58.159 Gary Patterson mask and a Chip Kelly mask and a 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.480 Less Miles mask, and the they're all sort of making 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.600 cases for why their team was playoff worthy, but they 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:08.160 were talking behind the mess. We have like David Pollock 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:12.359 wearing an Art Brile's mask saying, just look at our offense. 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:16.560 Just looking at our offense with any about it. It's 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:21.720 just I appreciate going for it. I do, but I'm 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:24.680 going to take that weird animation thing because ESPN is 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.159 just getting stranger and stranger with them. I mean, I've 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:30.600 talked about their awful belt of a scoreboard, their graphics package, 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:33.760 so I have no doubt they're just leaning into this 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.440 for to get the attention of weirdos like ourselves. So yeah, 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:44.800 loing weird animated graphics and explainers that I feel as 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:48.720 if there was something with like NFL teams, like the 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:53.600 mascots represented with animation. Like it's just I love it 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.040 and I hate it all at the same time. Yeah, 0:20:56.080 --> 0:21:00.720 I mean, we've now entered the stage of broadcasts broadcast 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:05.000 media m HM, where most of the tricks have been tried, 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:07.680 you know, not a whole lot out there. There's always 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:11.040 room for innovation to some extent, it just seems like 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:14.000 wherever the creative energy goes, it's not always aligned with 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:17.000 where you and I think it should go. Right case 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:21.000 in point, the score belt as you've called it. Yeah, 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:25.080 at the bottom of the screen. CBS is doing the 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:28.800 thing with the four K cameras now that weird like 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:31.680 super zoomed in view. They've got the camera on the 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:34.320 field and they're going to follow guy's face as he 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:37.040 walks into the locker room. They do that thing now 0:21:37.080 --> 0:21:41.760 a lot, and I don't know why, but they just 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:45.160 find ways to do it. And I think that furthers 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:47.639 the point of the weird animated explainer. It's just a 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:50.440 thing that they do because they can, and not really 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:54.040 because anybody wants it. Again, somebody is spending all week 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:59.040 working on Like, here's the TCU team, but all their 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.959 heads are frogs. They all have frog eyes. Get it? 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:07.320 Because they're the what why? Why? I love it? Yeah? 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:09.520 So is that my first pick or my second pick? 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:17.000 That was your first pick? What's your next pick? I'm 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:19.600 going to go with failed hurdles. I'm going to tell 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:27.880 you why to me a failed hurdle, because you're literally 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:31.440 laying your nuts on the line. Sure, of course, when 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:35.040 you go to hurdle somebody and it doesn't work and 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:39.639 you take a helmet to the crotch, I laugh, I 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:42.679 do laugh. I gotta be real with you, ty, I 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:46.199 appreciate the effort, but I've seen enough failed hurdles. Now, 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:49.280 real hurdles obviously superior to a failed hurdle or a 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:52.560 succeeded a successful hurdle. I'm going to go with that 0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:55.679 failed hurdle. I love it so much because all of 0:22:55.680 --> 0:23:00.119 the sudden it's a wrestling move gone wrong or on 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:04.800 extremely right, and I love it every time. I love 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:10.720 a failed hurdle, A failed hurdle, Dan, Yeah, a failed hurdle, 0:23:10.760 --> 0:23:13.959 I would think you would go for a successful hurdle. 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:17.960 You would think you would think. I mean, these are cool, 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:20.840 those are fun to watch, I know, but there's something 0:23:21.040 --> 0:23:25.760 about somebody overestimating their vertical, overestimating the reaction time of 0:23:25.920 --> 0:23:32.280 the defender, and you get planted, right, you get absolutely 0:23:32.440 --> 0:23:34.919 planted when you fail to hurdle somebody, well, you know. 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:38.640 Best case scenario is Saquon Barkley, and I think Saquon 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:43.560 sure almost popularized the move. Yeah, Reggie Bush did it, 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:48.400 but yeah, Saquon did it most recently and most frequently. 0:23:49.760 --> 0:23:52.400 So that's the best case scenario. The worst case scenario 0:23:52.560 --> 0:23:54.680 is what happened in like the Replacements, where the guy 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:58.359 got his knee blown off and he could never play again. 0:23:58.880 --> 0:24:03.080 So there is there is definitely an art to trying it, 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:06.080 having the gumption to try it, and then not stick 0:24:06.119 --> 0:24:08.760 the landing. I think Monty Ball messed it up against 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:12.080 Oregon and the Rose Bowl the twenty eleven season. Yeah, 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:14.440 I think he had a failed hurdle and I love it. 0:24:14.680 --> 0:24:20.040 Failed hurdle, failed hurdle. It's interesting selection, Dan, thank you 0:24:20.119 --> 0:24:22.520