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Speaker 1: first week Rocks in about four and a half months
Speaker 1: where there is no football. What are we gonna do.
Speaker 1: It's a really really sad, sad sad weekends coming up.
Speaker 1: But what I will say is that every single time
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Speaker 1: you need to win your league and win that catch.
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Speaker 1: whether that may be some news and notes from baseball,
Speaker 1: or whether it's making sure you really took home everything
Speaker 1: you needed to know from the football season this year
Speaker 1: to get yourself ready for next year's draft. We got
Speaker 1: you your speech, give me a ballpark about how long
Speaker 1: until pitchers and catchers report right around Valentine's Day? But
Speaker 1: um check it out one person. Unfortunately, the fantasy freestyle,
Speaker 1: we need to give rest in peace for a little
Speaker 1: bit out. You're done. Ventura Rocks you mentioned, were doing
Speaker 1: that baseball and football at the same time. Tragically over
Speaker 1: the weekend, killed in a car accident in the Dominican Republic.
Speaker 1: And he's not alone. Also Andy Marte, third baseman, utility guy,
Speaker 1: also in a separate car crash, killed in the Dominican Republic.
Speaker 1: You also remember, like a year and a half ago,
Speaker 1: hospered to Vera's also killed in the Cardinals prospects in
Speaker 1: the Dominican Republic. So many going on, and we were
Speaker 1: talking about it before Roger Don't Eventora. He of the
Speaker 1: hundred mile an hour fastball, but a sword in past,
Speaker 1: you know, the electric stuff, but also triggering a few
Speaker 1: bench bench clearing brawls. Yeah, he was definitely someone that
Speaker 1: you got a sense was really having trouble maybe controlling
Speaker 1: his emotions, but played with so much passion. He was
Speaker 1: a sort of player that you could tell that his
Speaker 1: teammates really really liked. But sometimes, you know, maybe he
Speaker 1: might have someone pulling him aside in the dugout and saying, man,
Speaker 1: you can't really be doing that still does. The Kansas
Speaker 1: City Royals definitely wrapped their arms around him. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a guy who drilled Manny Machado, Adam eating uh,
Speaker 1: Mike Trout and others to to start roles. But you're right,
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Royals, like, you know, kind of really
Speaker 1: cared about him. It's is in general manager said that
Speaker 1: you know this firstson so much because they were working
Speaker 1: with this kid. But I will say, James like this
Speaker 1: kid with thirty nine wins over the three seasons when
Speaker 1: he was there. That is when the Royals went to
Speaker 1: the playoffs, even winning the World Series. Remember him Game
Speaker 1: six of the World Series pitching seven shutout innings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's obviously going to go down as the best
Speaker 1: start in his short career. And you know, he put
Speaker 1: up great numbers in in the two thousand and fourteen seasons,
Speaker 1: took a couple of steps back in the years following that,
Speaker 1: but he was definitely still someone who was young in
Speaker 1: his mid you know, mid twenties, had a plenty of
Speaker 1: time to figure it out and really see if he
Speaker 1: could have developed into that consistent top of the rotation starter.
Speaker 1: So our heart goes out to his family, you know,
Speaker 1: pending the toxicology report, will be really interesting to see
Speaker 1: whether or not his family gets the rest of the
Speaker 1: guarantee heed money on his contrattract as it seems like
Speaker 1: it's a stand there clause written in that, you know,
Speaker 1: if you happen to die as a result of a
Speaker 1: car accident or any other accident where you may be intoxicated.
Speaker 1: We obviously don't know that yet. Uh, the contract does
Speaker 1: not pay out, So for the sake of his family,
Speaker 1: I certainly hope that that that it was just a
Speaker 1: terrible accident. And one thing I did notice when he
Speaker 1: was back in his native Dominican, he always did go
Speaker 1: and spend time and coach with his youth team, So
Speaker 1: it seemed like he was someone who was really into
Speaker 1: giving back during the off season. And her heart certainly
Speaker 1: goes out to his royal family and his family out
Speaker 1: in the Dominican no doubt, no doubt. It makes me
Speaker 1: also think Rocks. As I mentioned before, there was um,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of Latin ballplayers and and all
Speaker 1: the times that we're talking about them are remembering them.
Speaker 1: We talked about this passion, this enthusiasm, this giving back,
Speaker 1: this joy kind of that they played the game with.
Speaker 1: And it makes me also think, man, about these unwritten
Speaker 1: rules of baseball. You know, Um, some of the things
Speaker 1: like that guys like ya C. L. Puig Uh you
Speaker 1: know get kind of uh kind of kind of talk
Speaker 1: smack about. And also things like the bat flip of
Speaker 1: Joey Batista and things like that. You know. But yet
Speaker 1: I saw Many Ramirez last week in Taiwan hit his
Speaker 1: hit another home run out there. He's out there playing
Speaker 1: in Taiwan, and and and that's just Many me. Many,
Speaker 1: that's the that's the incredible excitable joy. And they also
Speaker 1: flip their bats out there in in the in the
Speaker 1: far in the Far East, in the Pacific. You know.
Speaker 1: So here's what I'm thinking. Here's what I'm thinking, Rocks.
Speaker 1: There is the World Baseball Classic coming up in in March.
Speaker 1: You know how like it used to be the All
Speaker 1: Star Game, it was like this time it counts from
Speaker 1: home field advantage. I think of the World Baseball Classic
Speaker 1: should be for the unwritten rules of baseball. So if
Speaker 1: the Dominican team wins the World Baseball Classic, then the
Speaker 1: global world has to adopt the cultural elements of the
Speaker 1: Dominican Baseball game. And then like, we're gonna see all
Speaker 1: sorts of interesting things, and if it's the Japanese team,
Speaker 1: it'll be all sorts of other things. So we'll go
Speaker 1: to rotation, will have the nets up in the stadiums.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, We'll have the thundersticks everywhere
Speaker 1: the Yeah, absolutely absolutely, that's what I think we can.
Speaker 1: We should. That's the one way to settle the under
Speaker 1: rules of baseball. At this time, it counts w B
Speaker 1: STO what do you think? That's an interesting idea? Certainly,
Speaker 1: I do think that though a lot of times to
Speaker 1: w BC is an is an opportunity for for teams
Speaker 1: to maybe show off the supremacy of the way that
Speaker 1: they not only just the talent that they have, but
Speaker 1: the way that they treat the game, whether having having
Speaker 1: pictures throw three pitches a day or whatever like they
Speaker 1: do in Japan, or mabing, bunting guys across over things
Speaker 1: of that nature, the finer points of the game, how
Speaker 1: they manage their teams, for sure. But I do think
Speaker 1: though that you know that some of the exuberants that
Speaker 1: you talked about and the obvious love for the game,
Speaker 1: you know, speaking of Manny in his in his mid forties,
Speaker 1: still part of at a baseball He's planning for the
Speaker 1: love right now, and I think that that's something that's
Speaker 1: something you can't diminish. And a lot of times I
Speaker 1: feel like it's construed as showing someone up or trying
Speaker 1: to big dog it, but really it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the sort of thing that we take for granted
Speaker 1: in sports like football, where you know, you spike the football,
Speaker 1: you maybe do a little dance. You're not showing up
Speaker 1: your opponent. You're so lebrating all those hours you practice,
Speaker 1: all those years you know you you you were playing,
Speaker 1: you were trying to hope to get an opportunity in
Speaker 1: the Major League. So you know, I'm maybe, uh, I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit of a younger guy than some of
Speaker 1: these people in the you know, the baseball writers out
Speaker 1: there that are voting on the Hall of Fame and
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So it's never really bothered me.
Speaker 1: And you know, speed just just going back. You know,
Speaker 1: twenty five years people hated Can Griffe Jr. Because he
Speaker 1: lost hat backwards. Ken Griffey Jr. I think we can
Speaker 1: all agree was a complete class act. But the fact
Speaker 1: that he had the nerve to wear his hat backwards,
Speaker 1: violating one of the unwritten rules of which way the
Speaker 1: brim was supposed to face, rubbed a lot of people
Speaker 1: the wrong way. And I think it's just part of
Speaker 1: the way that our country and our world continues to
Speaker 1: evolve and we continue to accept viewpoints that maybe very
Speaker 1: a little further from the traditional that we grew up knowing,
Speaker 1: no doubt, no doubt. Let's keep it moving though. You know,
Speaker 1: despite the fact that there is no football this week,
Speaker 1: we all getting geared up for Super Bowl fifty one,
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons and the Noidaly Patriots. Right now, the
Speaker 1: Patriots are minus three. I wanna go over. Obviously, these
Speaker 1: guys are going to play in the Super Bowl, but
Speaker 1: interesting to see that all week Julio Jones will not practice.
Speaker 1: They're gonna manage his rep because of those foots and
Speaker 1: if you know, because of his foot injuries, those ligament injuries.
Speaker 1: He's been dealing with a lot of pain. But I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what, sign me up for having to deal
Speaker 1: with that much pain and putting forth that kind of
Speaker 1: performance that he put forth in the NMC Championship. Also
Speaker 1: very interesting to see Alex Mack, who I have been
Speaker 1: touting as the glue of that offensive line, he had
Speaker 1: a little bit of an ankle injury. Um, he's not
Speaker 1: gonna practice all week. Um, but obviously those guys will
Speaker 1: play on the Patriots side. The one thing I would
Speaker 1: want to point out, they've revealed that the Black Unicorn
Speaker 1: has been playing for the last few months with a
Speaker 1: cracked bone in his ankle. He's obviously gonna play as well.
Speaker 1: Rocks you think, Um, are there any injuries you want
Speaker 1: to talk about, any early looks at how this might
Speaker 1: impact the game. I mean, Julio's obviously gonna tour do
Speaker 1: all him up right, Yeah, I think he's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: I think Alex mcken who who did come back into
Speaker 1: the game after he suffered but looked like it could
Speaker 1: have been a really serious injury, came back. But you know,
Speaker 1: I want are you're bringing up the Martellis Bennett black
Speaker 1: Unicorn injury and that was not something that ever showed
Speaker 1: up on the injury report. If I'm wrong, listen, listen, listen.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you mentioned that, rock because we gotta get
Speaker 1: into this. We'll talk about the black Unicorn as an example.
Speaker 1: Remember last week how Richard Sherman and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the the Arrow admitted that he had this m but
Speaker 1: it wasn't on it, but it wasn't on the injury report.
Speaker 1: So thus maybe they're getting docked the second round pick. Well,
Speaker 1: I am very very intrigued that this week a team
Speaker 1: that was eliminated was the Pittsburgh Steelers, and we found
Speaker 1: out after that game that the Pittsburgh Steelers knew about
Speaker 1: Levy on Bell's groin injury before that. Mike Tomlin this
Speaker 1: week was very careful about the words that he used
Speaker 1: to describe the injury with leby On bells very very
Speaker 1: cautious to say that it was not significant. That's the
Speaker 1: exact same verbiage that Lee that reads in the league
Speaker 1: rules about being like a violation. So I don't know
Speaker 1: what the Patriots did or did not say with Martella's Bennett.
Speaker 1: My guess would be that they followed the rules but
Speaker 1: did not disclose much information. What do you think because
Speaker 1: now that the data phill has stop themselves a kind
Speaker 1: of a hole here, they now kind of if they're
Speaker 1: gonna punish Seahawks, they kind of have to punish the
Speaker 1: Steelers also, do they really want to get into this? Uh?
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, it's one of those things that
Speaker 1: I think that there needs to be parody, and it's
Speaker 1: one of the things the NFL has always struggled with.
Speaker 1: I also think that having these kind of hard and
Speaker 1: fast rules with things that maybe it's it's something that
Speaker 1: a player says to a coach after they're eliminated. You know, man,
Speaker 1: my knee has really been jacked up for the last
Speaker 1: you know, last eight weeks because they about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a fair point. But you also, you know, some
Speaker 1: of these coaches, uh, they do a little bit of
Speaker 1: coach speak, and sometimes I feel like they get caught
Speaker 1: out there just kind of trying to be a little
Speaker 1: bit innocuous. I think the Pete Carroll thing with Richard
Speaker 1: Sherman is a little bit of a bigger deal because
Speaker 1: he was not nearly as guarded in his comments. Um,
Speaker 1: And I also think it's it's one thing that the
Speaker 1: Patriots you mentioned maybe going by the letter of the law,
Speaker 1: but they've forever been playing games with the injury report
Speaker 1: more so than any team in the league. You've actually
Speaker 1: seen a lot of other teams who have not nearly
Speaker 1: come close to matching the Patriot success try to kind
Speaker 1: of imitate what they do. Listing a million guys as
Speaker 1: it used to be questionable, now it's maybe as probable
Speaker 1: or limited in practice, uh, you know, the practice portion
Speaker 1: of practice that's open to the media. So to me,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's really the people that lose in this
Speaker 1: situation is the fantasy sports players, and that's our audience
Speaker 1: here and the American betting public who's out there trying
Speaker 1: to make these decisions based on all the available information
Speaker 1: and come to find out that the information that we're
Speaker 1: getting is incomplete, if not downright misleading. So it's just
Speaker 1: another issue that Roger Goodell, let's say, has failed to
Speaker 1: show a consistent approach to and has failed to show
Speaker 1: leadership on Okay, okay, we move from one Pittsburgh Steelers
Speaker 1: running back in Levy on Belt to an underreported story
Speaker 1: that I think could be interesting. Hey, Rocks, you remember
Speaker 1: Carlos Williams. Well, it seems like Pittsburgh Steelers have signed
Speaker 1: Carlos Williams to a deal for next year, which I
Speaker 1: think is very very interesting. And here's why. Um, if
Speaker 1: you remember the Pittzog Steelers had not one, but two
Speaker 1: different games when Chris Boswell had six field goals and
Speaker 1: they said that they could and they struggled in the
Speaker 1: red zone. Carl Loles Williams is the kind of back
Speaker 1: who could really actually help them in that kind of
Speaker 1: red zone goal line situation. Remember he blew up to
Speaker 1: whatever it was too much six five pounds as a
Speaker 1: you know, eating bond bonds with empathy pains with his
Speaker 1: pregnant girlfriend or whatever it was. And then there was
Speaker 1: definitely some other things going on as well. But I
Speaker 1: think this is under report. It could this be the uh,
Speaker 1: the exact the lick, sir, the Steelers might need with
Speaker 1: D'Angelo Williams not getting any younger for next year. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting because Carlos Williams, he did score
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns as a rookie on the Bills in two
Speaker 1: thou fifteen, was entirely out of the league last year,
Speaker 1: blew up, and then he got suspended. I think he's
Speaker 1: actually going to be suspended for the first two games
Speaker 1: of the Sea And I think that this is more
Speaker 1: maybe insurance for D'Angelo Williams. But the thing is, if
Speaker 1: I am the Pittsburgh Steelers, I don't want to knucklehead
Speaker 1: running backs on my roster. Yeah, you know, I mean
Speaker 1: you might see you might see another one of those
Speaker 1: uh you know, La Garrett Blunt situations where they're popped together.
Speaker 1: Even so, you know, it's certainly and it's interesting. He
Speaker 1: obviously has the skills to play in the NFL. The
Speaker 1: issue is really is his head screwed on straight? But
Speaker 1: he is, you know, he is a guy that looks
Speaker 1: like he's got a nose for the goal line. And
Speaker 1: while Levian Bell has been completely dominant, you certainly can't
Speaker 1: ignore that the Steelers as a team excel at scoring
Speaker 1: long touchdowns but have struggled in that red zone, particularly
Speaker 1: as you said, when it counted the most. So it's
Speaker 1: definitely something to keep an eye on. I also that
Speaker 1: would not be at all surprised if he flamed out
Speaker 1: in camp or just showed up overweight again. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if his girlfriend had
Speaker 1: the baby or not. But you know, I bet that
Speaker 1: there's plenty of plenty of women who would be happy
Speaker 1: to to to eat some bond bonds with him in
Speaker 1: the offseason. Yeah, you know, as we keep it moving here, Rocks.
Speaker 1: You know what else is happening in this off week
Speaker 1: between the championship games and the Super Bowl. It see,
Speaker 1: it is once again legal for coaches on these teams
Speaker 1: to have interviews, and in the worst kept secret in
Speaker 1: the NFL, Kyle Shanahan will have his second interview with
Speaker 1: the only team left to fill their head coaching situation,
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty Niners. I've been saying it both
Speaker 1: here on the Fantasy Freestyle and on shot callers on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Sports Radio Network that Kyle Shanahan was the
Speaker 1: fit for the San Francisco forty Niners. I like that
Speaker 1: job originally because they were gonna maybe be able to
Speaker 1: come in with a GM, But now it looks like
Speaker 1: Cops Hanhan is just gonna be the guy. Even before
Speaker 1: his duties with the Atlanta Falcons going into Super Bowl
Speaker 1: fifty one, he is going to have his second interview
Speaker 1: with the Niners this weekend. That's the called shot from
Speaker 1: Speed spins that decision. But what I find interesting, Rocks
Speaker 1: that I want to get your take on, is we've
Speaker 1: also getting reports that the forty nine ers maybe someone
Speaker 1: who quote unquote goes hard after Kirk Cousins, if by
Speaker 1: any way, shape or form he becomes out there right.
Speaker 1: And I just think this is important to know because
Speaker 1: Coyle Shanahan did have him as their offensive coordinator quarterbacks
Speaker 1: coach with the Washington football team and basically has developed
Speaker 1: Cousins into something that now Washington likes because they now
Speaker 1: like that see any possible connecting of the data, Rocks,
Speaker 1: It's it's certainly interesting. I think that the the Washington
Speaker 1: football team is definitely saying that they're open to a
Speaker 1: long term deal with Kirk Cousins. They've also indicated that
Speaker 1: in an absolute worst case scenario that they that they
Speaker 1: might just tag him again. And you know, Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: you know, hey, who is he to turn down twenty
Speaker 1: four million dollars. I don't know if I'm Kyle Shanahan, though,
Speaker 1: I'm just not sure going from a team that has
Speaker 1: a winning culture, you know, going from a team that
Speaker 1: that will at the very least be competing in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl to completely dysfunctional forty Niners organization. And you know,
Speaker 1: Jed York, the CEO of the really not someone who
Speaker 1: has a very good reputation. Um, you know, Arthur Blank
Speaker 1: seems like a pretty well liked guy out there in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not really sure if that's if this
Speaker 1: is as much of a done deal. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: certainly one of those where there's smoke, there's fire, and
Speaker 1: it's been happening all off season. But if I was
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan, you know, every once in a while, it
Speaker 1: pays to wait a few more years before you get
Speaker 1: your feet wet and try and take on one of
Speaker 1: these big rebuilding efforts, because it could really damage your
Speaker 1: reputation in the league for years to come. I don't know,
Speaker 1: we do. I smell a gentleman's pet rocks, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm gonna need some sort of crop odds
Speaker 1: here because he definitely is the odds on favorite. And
Speaker 1: I'll give you two props. I'll give you two props.
Speaker 1: You give me one prop to odd all right, I'll
Speaker 1: take it. I'll take it. Kyle Shanahan, don't do it
Speaker 1: interestingly enough. Let's you know what do if do you
Speaker 1: think he is more or less likely to go somewhere
Speaker 1: else if they win or lose the game. I think
Speaker 1: he's more likely to jump the ship if they win,
Speaker 1: because then he will he will always have on his resume,
Speaker 1: He'll always have on his resume that he was you know,
Speaker 1: he was the the o C on the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: winning Atlanta Falcons offense. And you know, we may well
Speaker 1: be looking at peak Matt Ryan right now and that's
Speaker 1: what he'll always be remembered for. Um. Whereas if they lose,
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's going to be in a good
Speaker 1: situation exactly. And you know, hey, there's worst things you
Speaker 1: could do then come back to an offense it's got
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, Devanta Freeman, and Tevin Coleman with Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: playing quarterback, no doubt. You know, when we come back
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy Freestyle, Hey, Rocks, We're really excited because
Speaker 1: one of our biggest listeners we had a chance to interview.
Speaker 1: You've been listening to the Fantasy Freestyle for a while
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Speaker 1: we were, in fact the key to his success had
Speaker 1: more a little bit more when we come back. Then
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Speaker 1: So that what's up to the people, Matt what's going
Speaker 1: on out there Fantasy Freestyle people. I have fallen all
Speaker 1: the way down the rabbit hole. I'm gone from listening
Speaker 1: to being on the podcast I'm hoping on now and
Speaker 1: listen to you guys talking and actually answer the questions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so let's find out real quick. Let's get into it here, Maddie. UM,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this, how would you do this year?
Speaker 1: This is what I want to know. Are we an
Speaker 1: accountable source of information? It or knots? It's a little
Speaker 1: bit about your league that you were in this speeds
Speaker 1: we've won that cash overall. So in a in an
Speaker 1: Apex league, seven hundred eighty five dollar take home on
Speaker 1: a hundred dollar entry fee is hello, you play to
Speaker 1: win the gate? Alright, alright, time coming in on just
Speaker 1: the draft strategies that you guys had the league. I've
Speaker 1: been running for myself for the last sixteen years. Finished
Speaker 1: just four points short. Uh. You know, sometimes you go
Speaker 1: against Charles Clay and Taylor Gabriel and they put up
Speaker 1: a billion points on it and and and there's nothing
Speaker 1: you can do about that. But when that happens, I
Speaker 1: hate when that happens. But the fact that you get there,
Speaker 1: and again it's a regular season that you guys talking about.
Speaker 1: It's about getting there and being in the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: then you know what, you're gonna get into that final
Speaker 1: four and then you know, luck is gonna have a
Speaker 1: little bit to do with it. Injuries are gonna have
Speaker 1: a little bit to do with it. But it's about
Speaker 1: getting there. And because of you guys, all four of
Speaker 1: my leagues I made the playoffs, even the one I
Speaker 1: drafted Todd Gurley and shout to that. Shout out to that.
Speaker 1: So you mentioned Todd really obviously he was he was
Speaker 1: someone that has to be characterized as a draft bust.
Speaker 1: Who were a couple of guys across your leagues that
Speaker 1: that you may have wound up on and for more
Speaker 1: than one team. And if there was any one player
Speaker 1: that really maybe uh made a difference for you, maybe
Speaker 1: a late round sleep or a diamond and the rough
Speaker 1: that you grabbed that really helped put you over the top,
Speaker 1: Shout those guys out. You know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that have come in and it's I think it's
Speaker 1: not even just a late round like picks there. One
Speaker 1: that comes to mind definitely though, is spencer Ware. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys are talking about Jamala, Charles and and and
Speaker 1: spencer Ware. If you went back to the year before
Speaker 1: the playoff run, that he did for those Chiefs. He
Speaker 1: stood out there moving against the old the shark there,
Speaker 1: Chuck Hendrick West, So I was grabbing him in a
Speaker 1: lot of leagues when if people were jumping on Jamal Charles.
Speaker 1: And again he petered out a little bit in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: but overall for the season, He's a big reason that
Speaker 1: three of my teams did end up getting in the
Speaker 1: playoffs because I got these deep leagues where you're starting
Speaker 1: three running backs in some of them too in a flex,
Speaker 1: So having that running back that you can rely on
Speaker 1: for the touch is made a huge difference. Absolutely. If
Speaker 1: you can get a guy like Spenser where who could
Speaker 1: serve as your say R B two, you're good to
Speaker 1: go and really deep leaves. Let me ask you this, Maddie.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that we try to
Speaker 1: pride ourselves here on the Fantasy pre Cell is that
Speaker 1: we dropped stats over beats. How does uh? Is that
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Speaker 1: Are you a hip hop fan? What kind of beats
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Speaker 1: my favorite songs of all time. And uh and hearing
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Speaker 1: the ledged one of my all time theorists. And I
Speaker 1: heard that on one of the initial podcasts I heard
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Speaker 1: if you guys had me locked and what a great
Speaker 1: world that would be right now if Eric B was
Speaker 1: actually president. Hello. Another thing I wanted to ask you
Speaker 1: real quick along those same lines, as we talked a
Speaker 1: lot about different draft strategies, did you follow you know,
Speaker 1: an overall draft strategy plan, you know, whether it was
Speaker 1: staying true to your board, trying to lock down an
Speaker 1: RB one or did you have it. Do you have
Speaker 1: a general strategy or you just kind of just take
Speaker 1: what the room gave you. In your leagues this season, again,
Speaker 1: one of the things you guys do definitely talk about
Speaker 1: is knowing your rules. And the thing I love about
Speaker 1: the four different leagues is the different rules that we're
Speaker 1: going on. That was like, yeah, absolutely, you know, something
Speaker 1: wanted to definitely wait on was a quarterback and in
Speaker 1: years passed ive than the type that that kind of
Speaker 1: wanted that that you know, like I think speech says
Speaker 1: you said it and forget it. Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: like to have that. But this year, you know, you
Speaker 1: look over the stats and you hear what you guys
Speaker 1: are talking about, and and waiting on the quarterback is
Speaker 1: something that definitely made a difference by stacking those running
Speaker 1: backs and wide receiver especially not with back in the day,
Speaker 1: it wasn't always PPR. Now every where you look PPR,
Speaker 1: half point PPR. These are things that are there and
Speaker 1: you have to take that into account when you're drafting. Hey,
Speaker 1: are you playing any daily fantasy? Also? You know, Maddie,
Speaker 1: what else you're getting into and fan in football? You're
Speaker 1: playing fantasy baseball? Also what fantasy baseball? Man? Fantasy baseball
Speaker 1: is probably something I know even better than the fantasy
Speaker 1: football side. Okay, okay, I did my toe in the
Speaker 1: in the in the in the Daily Fantasy. But when
Speaker 1: all that information came out about the shark dow, I'm
Speaker 1: an old school poker player, and the last thing I
Speaker 1: thought I wanted to be going down. Yeah, it got
Speaker 1: down though those sites like the poker games. Oh man,
Speaker 1: it took away my bread and butter. I was paying
Speaker 1: the rent a little bit there, man, and the world
Speaker 1: got a lot smaller after all that went down. Um So,
Speaker 1: I mean I listened to you guys talk about Daily Fantasy,
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, maybe next year I want
Speaker 1: to jump in. I know you guys have those uh
Speaker 1: those leagues going right now, and I think that's something
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna probably give a try to. And I
Speaker 1: think you meet your guy's advice though, to help me
Speaker 1: get through that. We should be holding you down for sure. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know, I just got a couple of more questions
Speaker 1: for you. Matt. Once again, thanks so much for coming
Speaker 1: on this edition of the Fantasy Freestyle and help us
Speaker 1: drop stats over beats. We love one of our listeners.
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Speaker 1: make any errors on the Fantasy freestyle. Um later on
Speaker 1: in our episode, we're gonna be doing our diamonds and
Speaker 1: our food gazes for the wide receiver position. Hey, Matt,
Speaker 1: you obviously know what you're talking about. You listen to us.
Speaker 1: After all, who would be your diamond and your food
Speaker 1: gaze at the wide receiver position for this last season?
Speaker 1: You gotta stuff start off with the biggest foo gaze.
Speaker 1: I had so in my in my two quarterback league
Speaker 1: where we start four wide receivers. There, I am sitting there.
Speaker 1: There's been there's some keepers that were involved in that too,
Speaker 1: but I'm sitting there looking at Keenan Allen and left
Speaker 1: Bell PPR. I went with Keenan Allen and in that
Speaker 1: first half, what did it have? It catches already. I
Speaker 1: know about that. I was gonna be a big year.
Speaker 1: I lost a couple of leagues on the strength of
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen being my my first round pick late in
Speaker 1: the first round. Uh. Hey, I hope he, I hope
Speaker 1: he comes back stronger than ever this year. But he
Speaker 1: did give. He did give Tyrrell Williams, who I might
Speaker 1: be talking about a little bit later, a chance to
Speaker 1: shine in that San Diego offense. And on the plus side,
Speaker 1: there who was someone that shined for you that you
Speaker 1: maybe have gotten at a later round, someone that maybe
Speaker 1: the rest of your opponents overlooked in at the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position. Well, yeah, this was a little bit more
Speaker 1: on on the luck side of things that I've had
Speaker 1: Julio Jones as a keeper and a huge value on
Speaker 1: that one. So you know, watching him this year finally
Speaker 1: stay healthy for the most part um and obviously see
Speaker 1: what he's done in the playoffs so far, you know
Speaker 1: he's somebody there. And again strategy wise, and then thinking
Speaker 1: in these other deeper leagues where there's keepers involved in
Speaker 1: things like that, drafting late and getting guys that you
Speaker 1: might be able to grab with value and then watching
Speaker 1: them shine forever after that. Like David Johnson's another example
Speaker 1: of matter, someone I drafted the year before, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden he comes around as a keeper and I
Speaker 1: didn't even need to look at his stat line because
Speaker 1: I knew what it was going to be every week. Yeah. Absolutely, Hey, yo, Mattie,
Speaker 1: thanks so much for coming on man, we really really
Speaker 1: appreciate it. It Uh. It sounds like we may need
Speaker 1: to come back to you as we get ready for
Speaker 1: the baseball season. Huh, you big, big Fantasy baseball. You
Speaker 1: got any early thoughts about the baseball season because you
Speaker 1: know it turns over real quick. Pitchers and catchers are
Speaker 1: about to report you like, Uh, do you like focusing
Speaker 1: on power? Do you like focusing on getting your starting pictures?
Speaker 1: What do you think about starting pitchers in this day
Speaker 1: and age of Tommy John surgeries? Wait, wait and then
Speaker 1: wait some more on those starting pictures? Now, I can
Speaker 1: definitely subscribe to the idea, depending on again, if you're
Speaker 1: doing head to head, are you doing points? Are you're
Speaker 1: doing rhodo of grabbing that one stud early on? But
Speaker 1: you're looking at eight or nine rounds one maybe two
Speaker 1: starting pitchers at most, fill up all those position guys
Speaker 1: that you know we're gonna roll out there every day
Speaker 1: and avoid the guys whose arm is gonna fall off.
Speaker 1: Maybe ask you. I'm gonna ask you one more quick
Speaker 1: baseball question. Brian, does your first round pick forty something? Chance?
Speaker 1: No way, no way. Look at that first half that
Speaker 1: he had last year before he exploded there. You never
Speaker 1: know what type of slow start he's gonna get into
Speaker 1: in the out there at the target field. I like that,
Speaker 1: Maddie g telling everybody about the recentcy bias, don't overreact,
Speaker 1: and certainly hitting some of those main fantasy freestyle mantras
Speaker 1: on the football side to know your settings and to
Speaker 1: certainly wait on the quarterback position while you stack those
Speaker 1: running backs and those wide receivers. Yo, Maddie, thank you
Speaker 1: very much for listening. We really do truly appreciate it,
Speaker 1: and thank you so much for coming on the show
Speaker 1: and representing Yo. Me and Speeds are gonna be back
Speaker 1: in a little while to break down our game flow geniuses,
Speaker 1: Diamonds in the roof and more fool gazes at the
Speaker 1: wide receiver position. But we're not gonna forget about you.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be holding you down all baseball season long,
Speaker 1: and we'd love to have you back on the show
Speaker 1: in the near future. I can't wait to come back
Speaker 1: down here in the rabbit hole one more time. Hey,
Speaker 1: O man, just before you go, can we get you
Speaker 1: to say forget about it? Forget about it trapping that's
Speaker 1: over beats, it's the fantasy freestyle. How do you notice
Speaker 1: the gazing. We looked at it, Fonds, what is a fake? Hey,
Speaker 1: I know what the fla now if you want to
Speaker 1: crown them, they crowned their heads. But they are who
Speaker 1: we thought they were, and we got about the hook.
Speaker 1: You know what's good? Glat your boy Rocks here with
Speaker 1: my man Speeds on the Fantasy Freestyle on the award
Speaker 1: winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. We're going to continue a
Speaker 1: segment we've been doing for the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: where we break down the year end performances at the
Speaker 1: positions through the lens of our superlatives that's the diamonds
Speaker 1: in the rough, Fantasy fool gazes and game flow geniuses.
Speaker 1: And we are now on the wide receiver position. We
Speaker 1: saved the best for last because if you were listening
Speaker 1: to Rocks and Speeds in the off season, you know
Speaker 1: that we were constantly telling you, particularly in PPR leagues,
Speaker 1: particularly in leagues, to start three wide receivers and have
Speaker 1: a flex that you're gonna be a step up on
Speaker 1: the competition if you hit that wide receiver position early
Speaker 1: and often. And me and Speeds did that end. We
Speaker 1: hit it hard. You just heard from Mattie g talking
Speaker 1: about how Julio Jones helped win him some leagues, and
Speaker 1: I just want to say the top three wide receivers
Speaker 1: who were widely regarded as the top tier at the position,
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown did nothing other than finish as the number
Speaker 1: one overall wide receiver in PPR for the third year
Speaker 1: in a row. That's what you wanted. Odell Beckham, despite
Speaker 1: all the historianics, despite all the complaining, despite the funny hair,
Speaker 1: was the number for wide receiver overall in PPR leagues.
Speaker 1: That's what you paid for. Jones. Julio Jones even hoveled
Speaker 1: at the end of the season, missing some games waiting
Speaker 1: for that playoff push where he's absolutely exploded, destroying the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers secondary. Last week. He finished as the
Speaker 1: number six overall wide Julio and only playing fourteen games
Speaker 1: to do so, which is incredible. And there's just simply
Speaker 1: a lower bust rate at the wide receiver position than
Speaker 1: a lot of those other positions, particularly running back, where
Speaker 1: you might want to you might be tempted to use
Speaker 1: in early, early, early first round pick on a stud
Speaker 1: running back only to see him be a fool gaze.
Speaker 1: That's not to say, however, that top tier wide receivers
Speaker 1: were completely immune to being fool gazes. And we're gonna
Speaker 1: get into that inefit but speeds, I know you and
Speaker 1: I were all over the wide receiver position in the preseason,
Speaker 1: sharing our rankings, telling people to know they're setting and
Speaker 1: if they were in those PPR leagues those half PPR leagues,
Speaker 1: to hit them early, and also pointing out guys that
Speaker 1: we thought we're gonna pop pop all. So let's start
Speaker 1: with the diamonds, who were a couple of diamonds in
Speaker 1: the rough for you at the wide receiver position that
Speaker 1: helped teams win their leagues in two thousand sixteen. You know,
Speaker 1: for sure, one diamond I gotta give you right off
Speaker 1: the bat was my man TP three Toorell Prior. And
Speaker 1: you know I want to give a shout out to
Speaker 1: this guy anyway, because you know he fully embraced the
Speaker 1: change to the wide receiver positions, and he did so
Speaker 1: in a big way. This guy wound up wide receiver nineteen,
Speaker 1: wound up over a thousand receiving yards, a thousand and
Speaker 1: seven receiving yards, seventy seven catches, and four touchdowns, and really,
Speaker 1: to be quite honest, was the only bright spot of
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns all season long. They are now actually
Speaker 1: staying out there in Cleveland that they are likely to
Speaker 1: franchise tag to Rell Prior, which means us what he
Speaker 1: gonna get paid one way or the other. So shout
Speaker 1: out to Terrell Prior because he chains resiant, embraced it.
Speaker 1: Had a great season. And I know if you drafted him,
Speaker 1: you didn't draft him to be your wide receiver too.
Speaker 1: But look what you found an actual wide receiver too
Speaker 1: that went to Ohio State. You don't actually get many
Speaker 1: of those, except for another diamond that I know you
Speaker 1: may want to talk about from your New Orleans Saints
Speaker 1: a little bit later on Rocks. But my first diamond
Speaker 1: at the wide receiver position Terrell Prior, senior. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: Terrell Prior was an early member of the transition team
Speaker 1: this season, making that switch from quarterback to wide receiver
Speaker 1: and doing well. As you said, correctly, my diamond in
Speaker 1: the rock, my first one is a wide receiver at
Speaker 1: an os U and he was actually a second round
Speaker 1: pick that the Saints made sure they could secure. Of course,
Speaker 1: I am talking about Michael Thomas. He was one of
Speaker 1: two Saints wide receiver verse in the top ten in
Speaker 1: PPR leagues. I was actually not that high on Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas going into the season, only because I thought that
Speaker 1: Willie Snead was not going to give up that number
Speaker 1: two wide receiver role for a while. I had higher
Speaker 1: hopes for Kobe Fleener than he actually wound up with.
Speaker 1: But boy was I wrong. In only fifteen games, Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas posted a ninety two catch season. He wound up
Speaker 1: over eleven hundred yards, and he scored nine touchdowns. That
Speaker 1: was good for the seventh overall in PPR, and he
Speaker 1: was far and away the best of the rookie class
Speaker 1: in year one. He was so consistent. His only bad
Speaker 1: game was one against Denver where he fumbled the ball twice,
Speaker 1: but he showed maturity. He earned Drew Brees trust at
Speaker 1: a time when other people who've been in the league
Speaker 1: like Kobe Creener, could not. He was a playmaker. He
Speaker 1: had at least four catches for forty yards in every
Speaker 1: game of the season, and that's a nice little floor.
Speaker 1: He also had two games with more than ten catches
Speaker 1: and two other games with two touchdowns, showing that nice
Speaker 1: high sheiling. He was a threat in the red zone,
Speaker 1: and unlike Brandon Cooks. He was actually slightly more effective
Speaker 1: on the road than he was in the Dome. All
Speaker 1: of that is not bad at all for a wide
Speaker 1: receiver that Yahoo had ranked fIF three and their preseason
Speaker 1: PPR settings. I don't know. I'm gonna ask you, real
Speaker 1: quicker Michael Thomas legit wide receiver number one in drafts
Speaker 1: next season, listen, I think, um, maybe, but we have
Speaker 1: so far to go until next season, and I actually
Speaker 1: think the New Orleans Saints could be a team in
Speaker 1: some flux. I don't know exactly what role he will
Speaker 1: be playing on that offense. I don't know what's going
Speaker 1: to be around him. He definitely has the talent, and
Speaker 1: if you assume that there's you know, if he's the
Speaker 1: guy who's going to get the majority of if it's
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is five thousand yards, then I'm sure. But
Speaker 1: they're not necessarily a team I want to project too
Speaker 1: far into the future in uh with some of the
Speaker 1: guys they still have. But yeah, I mean the town,
Speaker 1: it is there, and he's supposted red zone target better
Speaker 1: than like you said, Kobe Fleaner, So he's definitely on
Speaker 1: the cut of their white out one take no doubt,
Speaker 1: no doubt, I'm gonna keep it moving. My second Diamonds
Speaker 1: is actually from the other duo in the league that
Speaker 1: had two wide receivers in the top ten PPR. I
Speaker 1: kind of considered going with Jordy here because he just
Speaker 1: really came back and put it in everyone's eye. But
Speaker 1: I'm going, oh, he's I'm going with Davante Adams here though.
Speaker 1: Adams and Jordan Nelson, Like I said, second duo in
Speaker 1: the top ten, and no one saw this coming. For
Speaker 1: Davante Adams, he had a horrible two thousand fifteen, really
Speaker 1: like they needed him to step up with Jordy out,
Speaker 1: and he did absolutely nothing. You know, the offense was
Speaker 1: in shambles. Aaron Rodgers couldn't seem to get into as
Speaker 1: much of a rhythm as he had been in years
Speaker 1: passed and Davante adams inability to step up was as
Speaker 1: much of a reason. I was shocked. They even said
Speaker 1: that they were going to give him a blank slate
Speaker 1: going into the off season, and you know what, he
Speaker 1: came through in a big, big way, seventy five catches,
Speaker 1: a thousand yards and twelve touchdowns. He was rated the
Speaker 1: overall wide receiver by Yahoo in the preseason in PPR
Speaker 1: and he popped off as the number nine. He was
Speaker 1: undrafted in most leagues, and it took a while for
Speaker 1: him to get there with the yards and the catches,
Speaker 1: but he showed us a little glimpse of that potential
Speaker 1: early in the season, scoring two touchdowns in the first
Speaker 1: three weeks, and he was a reliable TV score all
Speaker 1: year long. He had three two touchdown games, which is
Speaker 1: really really awesome for his ceiling, and he also went
Speaker 1: over ten catches twice back to back weeks in the
Speaker 1: middle of the season. He earned Aaron Rodgers trust and
Speaker 1: you could tell that in the playoffs went down the stretch.
Speaker 1: He had two touchdown catches in the three playoff games.
Speaker 1: He was a difference maker on the team. And whether
Speaker 1: you picked him up early after he started popping those touchdowns,
Speaker 1: or whether you happened to snag him in drafts or
Speaker 1: hold on to him for just one more year in
Speaker 1: a keeper or dynasty leagues, what you wound up with
Speaker 1: was a fantasy difference maker who was at the diamond
Speaker 1: in the rock AO speech. Who else shine for you
Speaker 1: this season? For Shureo And you remember we just had
Speaker 1: Maddie Green on with us before in the last segment,
Speaker 1: and he mentioned that his fool gazy was Keenan Allen. Right,
Speaker 1: and so one man's one man's trash is another man's opportunity.
Speaker 1: There's a very very uh you know, commonly used phrase
Speaker 1: in the NFL, which is like next man up. And
Speaker 1: in that situation where Keenan Allen was the fool gazy,
Speaker 1: if you happen to have a top waiver priority after
Speaker 1: Week one of the NFL season, you might have been
Speaker 1: able to grab the wide receiver I believe eighteen or
Speaker 1: nineteen or twenty in the NFL and fantasy this year,
Speaker 1: and that was at of Santiego. Now the l H Chargers,
Speaker 1: tie Rell Williams. This is a guy who was also
Speaker 1: over a thousand yards receiving ten ten fifty nine, got
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns. This guy evolved into Philip Rivers is big
Speaker 1: play threat. There were a number of games this year
Speaker 1: where Tyrell Williams was the guy deep and to be
Speaker 1: quite honest, I don't think that role changes even if
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen is back next year. These guys now moving
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles, I think that offense predicated with Melvin
Speaker 1: Gordon coming back Keenan Allen coming back, albeit a declining
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, I think Tyrrell Williams becomes a very important
Speaker 1: weapon no matter what. And I see Tyrell Williams even
Speaker 1: with Keenan Allen as a wild low wide out, too
Speaker 1: high wide out three next season, and he was a
Speaker 1: diamond in the rough for me because you wouldn't have
Speaker 1: thought it. I remember early in the season a week one,
Speaker 1: my boy Frankie standfull on Fantasy First Book. Also on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, they did a whole kind
Speaker 1: of like game on a segment like which Chargers receiver
Speaker 1: will it be to step up? And they were talking
Speaker 1: about Benjamin and Tyrelle Williams, and there there was a
Speaker 1: actual conversation in week one about who would it be
Speaker 1: that would come up in this situation. So if you
Speaker 1: thought it was Tyrolle Williams and grabbed him early, he
Speaker 1: probably helped you win your league and win that cash.
Speaker 1: You know, Speeds, I agree with you. And this is
Speaker 1: a guy who was undrafted coming into his second year
Speaker 1: after he did basically nothing, and you know this is
Speaker 1: a guy you had him as a diamond. He was
Speaker 1: someone I was gonna shout out as a game flow
Speaker 1: genius because the Chargers were trailing a lot, and the
Speaker 1: Chargers also played a lot of back and forth in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of the season, seemed to wind up
Speaker 1: always losing. But you know, he had forty catches for
Speaker 1: six hundred yards and four touchdowns in the second half,
Speaker 1: So he was also a guy if you thought the
Speaker 1: Chargers might be down big, you could probably predict with
Speaker 1: a pretty high degree of certainty when he was gonna
Speaker 1: pop pop pop off. Moving from the diamonds to the
Speaker 1: game flow geniuses, you know, at the wide receiver position,
Speaker 1: it's so easy sometimes to rack up a lot of
Speaker 1: catches a lot of points late in games when you're
Speaker 1: down big, playing against a prevent defense. And it's also
Speaker 1: sometimes you know, when you've got a quarterback who just
Speaker 1: loves to chuck it up and maybe the running game
Speaker 1: is not working. You know, you can maybe start to
Speaker 1: predict some of those targets, and particularly in daily fantasy,
Speaker 1: try to profit from that. Are there a couple of
Speaker 1: people that that you kind of feel like season long
Speaker 1: or gameflow geniuses and maybe really made a difference as
Speaker 1: far as that's concerned based on the game flow, Sure,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go in one way that you would
Speaker 1: not expect because as you were saying, Rocks, when you
Speaker 1: say game flow, you think about these teams that are
Speaker 1: throwing the ball. You might even remember previously I was
Speaker 1: talking about these different types of offenses. You know, my man,
Speaker 1: Jim Bob Cooder. But for my first game flow genius,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go away you do not think, and that
Speaker 1: is my man. I re kill the game flow of
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. May tire Hill a game flow genius.
Speaker 1: This is a guy who was used in double screens
Speaker 1: and tunnel screens. This was a guy who was in
Speaker 1: the backfield on running plays and that was the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs game flow. This was a guy who was,
Speaker 1: you know, taking Wildcats snaps and the game flow you
Speaker 1: never think about it. But the game flow also involves
Speaker 1: the special teams, and Tyreek Hill is not only my
Speaker 1: game flow genius at the wide receiver position, but has
Speaker 1: to be the fantasy m v P as it relates
Speaker 1: to special teams for this season with three return touchdowns,
Speaker 1: so in a weird way, he could get you the
Speaker 1: running touchdowns, the receiving touchdowns, and the return touchdowns and
Speaker 1: sometimes your game flow for your fantasy teams needs that
Speaker 1: extra juice of energy. At Tyreek Hill was the man
Speaker 1: to do it, finishing at wide receivers seventeen overall. Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill odd game flow genius, but these days those game
Speaker 1: flows be odd. Shining city on a Hill. I call
Speaker 1: him one of the guys that I want to talk about,
Speaker 1: and you know, he's maybe someone who a lot of
Speaker 1: people thought was gonna take a step back take a
Speaker 1: step forward the season reclaim his rightful spot among the
Speaker 1: best wide receivers in the league. But Mike Evans really
Speaker 1: came through in a huge way this season, and a
Speaker 1: lot of that was damage that was done in the
Speaker 1: second half when a Buccaneers team that was a little
Speaker 1: bit uneven the defense maybe didn't take as much of
Speaker 1: a step forward as a lot of people had thought
Speaker 1: that they would. There were still a good team overall,
Speaker 1: faded down the stretch, but man did Jamis Winston lock
Speaker 1: onto Mike Evans in the second half and when that
Speaker 1: team was trailing. Let me just shout out his stats.
Speaker 1: His stats overall were obviously ridiculous. He wound up with
Speaker 1: over undred yards and twelve touchdowns, but he wound up
Speaker 1: with seven hundred and twenty eight yards in the second half,
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns in the second half. My man had ninety
Speaker 1: four targets in the second half of games, and particularly
Speaker 1: when the going got tough, Jamis looked to Mike Evans,
Speaker 1: and he's someone who really has now two incredible seasons
Speaker 1: in his first three in the league. He's a guy
Speaker 1: that I think is poised to wind up with a
Speaker 1: wide receiver one overall finished one of these years, and
Speaker 1: it may even be next year. He's gonna be a
Speaker 1: really interesting player for me to watch, particularly he's right
Speaker 1: out four for you next year, behind Antonio O'Dell and
Speaker 1: Julio Uh. You know, he's definitely, he's definitely. In the conversation,
Speaker 1: you're hearing a lot about Tampa maybe uh releasing Doug Martin,
Speaker 1: which is me something I said for the season started,
Speaker 1: I could see him just as easily flaming out as
Speaker 1: having another great year. It's it's interesting to see this
Speaker 1: the running position. And let me ask you this, you're late.
Speaker 1: You're late first round, right, and you can have Mike
Speaker 1: Evans or Jordy Nelson where you drafting. Uh, it's pretty difficult,
Speaker 1: but I think I'm gonna I think gonna have to
Speaker 1: go with Mike Evans, a player that's on the upside,
Speaker 1: you know, join Mike Evans or t Y Hilton. Wait
Speaker 1: on the Colts offense once. Shame on me, wait on
Speaker 1: the Colts offense twice I lost my league. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with Mike Evans, Mike Evans or your boy Michael Thomas.
Speaker 1: Mike Evans definitely mine. I think Mike Evans just has
Speaker 1: Drew Brees is a good quarterback. Jamis Winson is learning
Speaker 1: how to be a good quarterbacks. They're gonna lock onto
Speaker 1: one receiver the same way. It sounds like Jamis is
Speaker 1: gonna lock onto Mike Kevins. It sounds like he sits
Speaker 1: wide receiver five or six for you. But that's a
Speaker 1: lot of that was dependent on game flow. You got
Speaker 1: another game flow genius. You could shout out for the
Speaker 1: good folks, my last game flow genius. And you know
Speaker 1: it's just a way for me to wind up saying
Speaker 1: Jim Bob Couder on yet another Fantasy Freestyle episode. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the street continues. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Golden Tape. Let me tell you something, then, Golden
Speaker 1: Tape like continues to be a solid pass catching option.
Speaker 1: Listen another season, nine one catches a thousand, seventy seven
Speaker 1: yards a hundred and thirty five targets. This guy was
Speaker 1: wide receiver sixteen a solid wide receiver too, And why
Speaker 1: is he my game flow genius? If you don't know
Speaker 1: by now, you ask better call somebody because you know
Speaker 1: I'm telling you about Jim Bob Cooter's offense, which is
Speaker 1: predicated on throw, throw, throw. At the end of the season,
Speaker 1: they had exactly center running the ball in between the tackles.
Speaker 1: They tried to start off with a near a gula
Speaker 1: running the ball in between tackles. They had justin fort
Speaker 1: Sette trying to run the ball in between tackles at
Speaker 1: some point this season. This is a team that was
Speaker 1: continuing to throw the ball. And I specifically said at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season it was a good thing
Speaker 1: that they didn't have Megatron there to suck all the
Speaker 1: air out of the room, and that just allowed golden tapes.
Speaker 1: And you can take a little bit of a step
Speaker 1: forward and be my game flow genius. But Rocks, we
Speaker 1: always have to do this. We have to end with
Speaker 1: our fool gazzies Rocks. So who did you look a
Speaker 1: little bit deeper and see the flaws this season? Who
Speaker 1: to the people at the wide receiver even though we
Speaker 1: go hard on them, Who do we need to downgrade
Speaker 1: for next year? Because we look deeper, we found out
Speaker 1: that they were a fool gazzy forgot about them. Oh man,
Speaker 1: I wish uh I wish, I wish I knew then
Speaker 1: what I know now? You know? Too old, too fast,
Speaker 1: too smart, too late. Uh, you know we talked. I
Speaker 1: believe I. I said that the the New York Jets
Speaker 1: offense had a bunch of great options, but they didn't
Speaker 1: have any tertiary options. And uh it turned out that
Speaker 1: they after Decker went down, didn't even really have any
Speaker 1: wide receiver that could be counted on. In one of
Speaker 1: my leagues, I was way too late to quit on
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall when all the writing was on the wall.
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall had a terrible, terrible season fifty nine catches,
Speaker 1: less than eight hundred yards and only three touchdowns, which
Speaker 1: just boggles the mind. All lowis since his rookie year
Speaker 1: of two thousand six, played in every game except for
Speaker 1: Week seventeen. He was banged up a bit but this
Speaker 1: is someone who a lot of people thought was going
Speaker 1: to blow up even more when Eric Decker was no
Speaker 1: longer healthy to take those targets. What really happened was
Speaker 1: defenses were able to key on keyan on him a
Speaker 1: lot more, and a combination of Ryan Fitzpatrick Gino Smith. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think Ryan Leaf threw a couple of passes for
Speaker 1: the Jets this year were simply not able to get
Speaker 1: him the ball the same way that they were last year.
Speaker 1: He wound up finishing as the number forty nine wide
Speaker 1: receiver in PPR. He was number eight. Yeah who preseason
Speaker 1: I also had him not only as a top ten
Speaker 1: wide receiver, but as a late late late round, late
Speaker 1: first round pick. I had him in a couple of leagues.
Speaker 1: I did not win those leagues. It's he's an interesting
Speaker 1: case going into the offseason speeds. I'm gonna ask you
Speaker 1: real quick. He's got a pretty reasonable contract. You know,
Speaker 1: he's thirty three. I don't see the Jets necessarily making
Speaker 1: moves next year. Do they keep him around or do
Speaker 1: they cut? Yeah, I think they're gonna wind up keeping
Speaker 1: him around. Uh, They're gonna wind up after that locker
Speaker 1: room battle. I think gets Sheldon Richardson, who is actually
Speaker 1: going to go there Rocks another wide receiver that you
Speaker 1: were really, really really high on, in fact, was in
Speaker 1: that position that you just recently put Mike Evans and
Speaker 1: guy who was in that position last year, he actually
Speaker 1: unfortunately fell all the way to wide receiver twenty five
Speaker 1: and that is a R fifteen Allen Robinson, and he
Speaker 1: is my number one full gaze at the wide receiver position.
Speaker 1: I agreed with you. I thought he was a first
Speaker 1: round pick. We saw what happened with that Jacksonville team.
Speaker 1: We thought they were going to be a team on
Speaker 1: the rise. It turns out they were not. And they
Speaker 1: did not even get any of that good garbage time
Speaker 1: like they did last year. They got it did when
Speaker 1: it related to Blake Borders. Not so much with Allen Robinson.
Speaker 1: They did not have the chemistry. And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what this new coach, Doug Morone, when he came in,
Speaker 1: even on an interim basis, he ran the ball that
Speaker 1: did open it up a little bit. So I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see maybe what happens, but he's gonna be still
Speaker 1: attached to border service, so I'm uh proceeding with caution
Speaker 1: for a R fifteen Allen Robinson's on my mind, fu
Speaker 1: gaze forget about him. Who else you got is the
Speaker 1: fugaz Rocks. I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do a quick
Speaker 1: two for one for our listeners that the second one
Speaker 1: is free, you only pay one price. I'm going with
Speaker 1: a couple of Arizona Cardinals wide receivers. First, Michael Floyd.
Speaker 1: Michael Floyd turned it on down the stretch in two
Speaker 1: thousand fifteen. The Cardinals amount is explosive. He was in
Speaker 1: a contract year. However, he turned in a horrible campaign,
Speaker 1: culminating with him getting benched and then cut for drunk driving.
Speaker 1: He finishes a number sixty nine overall wide receiver in
Speaker 1: his contract year and this season is basically we gonna
Speaker 1: be known as His highlight is that block that sprung
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman late in the season while he was on
Speaker 1: in the Patriots second and this guy's got a better
Speaker 1: excuses his teammate John Smokey Brown. He was only the
Speaker 1: seventy fifth overall wide receiver. People drafted him as an
Speaker 1: upside wide receiver three who may even creep into that
Speaker 1: wide receiver to combination. He had a sickle cell trade
Speaker 1: affecting his legs, so we'll give him a little bit
Speaker 1: of a pass. But suffice to say, if you were
Speaker 1: drafting any Arizona Cardinals wide receiver other than Larry Fitzgerald,
Speaker 1: if you wound up with a food gazing forget about
Speaker 1: for sure my last food gazey here as we wrap
Speaker 1: up this episode of the Fantasy Freestyle dropping stats over
Speaker 1: beats on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Last year, this
Speaker 1: guy was in very elite territory. He was part of
Speaker 1: that elite top tier, and he unfortunately fell all the
Speaker 1: way down to wide receiver twenty seven. We talked about
Speaker 1: him all season long, and to be honest, we didn't
Speaker 1: even give him much of the blame. Most of the
Speaker 1: blame went to that noose around the franchise, brock Oswilder.
Speaker 1: But unfortunately, DeAndre Hopkins went all the way down to
Speaker 1: wide receiver twenty seven, and even there, in what everyone
Speaker 1: considers a fool gazzy year, he still had seventy eight catches,
Speaker 1: nine hundred fifty four yards and four tuds. But when
Speaker 1: you drafted him in the mid first round, or when
Speaker 1: you thought he was gonna be your locked and loaded
Speaker 1: wide out, one. It did not prove to be true
Speaker 1: this season, So unfortunately, I love you, d Hop, but
Speaker 1: this year you were food gazy. I will say last note,
Speaker 1: Rocks one other wide receiver. Remember how I early in
Speaker 1: the preseason was saying Dez Bryant was gonna be a
Speaker 1: fool gazy all year. He finished wide receiver thirty nine,
Speaker 1: one half of a point ahead of the illustrious Cameron Meredith.
Speaker 1: But Rocks, we're gonna be back in the next week
Speaker 1: super Bowl, right, We're gonna have our dancing shoes breakdown
Speaker 1: all things super Bowl fifty one. Yeah, man, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be We're gonna be. Um. We're maybe just gonna call
Speaker 1: some random people in Houston down on the phone books
Speaker 1: he with their thinking. See who there with? You know?
Speaker 1: We know I know a lot of Pats and Speeds.
Speaker 1: You know many do you know many Falcons? Fancy? I
Speaker 1: know a couple of people down in Atlanta, dirty birds.
Speaker 1: Maybe we can keep the streak of interviewing the fans
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy Freestyle continue once again. Huge shout out
Speaker 1: to Mattie Green for joining us on this episode. Rocks
Speaker 1: and Speeds, as you will holding you down to when
Speaker 1: your league and win that cash, dropping stats over beats
Speaker 1: as the Fantasy Freestyle on the award winning Fantasy sports
Speaker 1: radio network, A Rocks say goodbye to the people, YO,
Speaker 1: thanks for rocking with us all season long, and make
Speaker 1: sure you tune in next week and we take you
Speaker 1: home before that big game ha ha super Bowl fifty
Speaker 1: one next week. All lady got beats that