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Speaker 2: And you want experience during your football season, Well, buckle up,

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Speaker 2: sweet cheeks. We've got all the experience in the world.

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Speaker 3: This is I want your flex with Dan Bayer and

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Speaker 3: Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 2: Mike and Dan break down everything you need to set

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Speaker 2: your lineups, from position rankings to starts and sits. The

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Speaker 2: guys help you make those hard decisions. And now let's

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Speaker 2: get your flex sod. Here's Dan Bayer and Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's a wrap on the regular season. Mike Harmon

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Speaker 1: will grade the overall two seventy two is at Mike Many. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna ask all in the books. We'll take a

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Speaker 1: look back at what happened in week eighteen, plus take

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Speaker 1: a look at the wild Karpuken. Get Mike on X

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Speaker 1: at Swollen Dome. You can find me at Dan Byer

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Speaker 1: on Fox both on Blue Sky as well. He's at

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon. I'm at Dan Bayer beat Yere and our

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Speaker 1: executive producer is Ian Roddy, who is both on X

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Speaker 1: and now on Blue Sky new for twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Ian Roddy Underscore and on X and what is the

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Speaker 1: It's Ian dash Roddy on Blue Sky Correct I have

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Speaker 1: to get those cymbals correctly. We couldn't get Ian in

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Speaker 1: So it's Ian dash Roddy on blue sky. That's where

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Speaker 1: you can reach us via social butt Mike. As a

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Speaker 1: whole of the two seventy two, are we giving this

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Speaker 1: regular season a grade? Fewest interceptions thrown in a season

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Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty two? As we look back at this

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Speaker 3: I'd grabbed the meme for quarterbacks first, it would just

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Speaker 3: be Malkovich from rounders check check check. That's all we

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Speaker 3: did in Chicago. I mean that was Caleb Williams. And

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Speaker 3: how far downfield was that? Three yards behind the line

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Speaker 3: comes to that, it means we're not taking shots downfield. Sure,

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Speaker 3: me wrong, But we're also not pushing for explosive plays.

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Speaker 3: We're playing cautiously and part of that goes back to

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Speaker 3: let's bomb it in kickers, right, it's not Sebastian Janakowski

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Speaker 3: of the year Justin Tucker. After costing Lamar Jackson the MVP,

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Speaker 3: because we do have just such a disparate path here.

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Speaker 3: He've got a couple of really good teams, or we

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Speaker 3: think are really good, and then everybody, how many teams

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Speaker 3: do we still in week sixteen, Week seventeen, Week eighteens,

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Speaker 3: just that astisk thing Dan and Ian. But week sixteen,

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Speaker 3: week seventeen, I think, all right, how would you how

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Speaker 3: So for me that disappointment. As much as everybody's bemoaning

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Speaker 1: think that you're pretty fair in that assessment. Saquon. Great

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Speaker 3: get it instead. No, to your point about the injuries.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, you mentioned just and what we've seen there.

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Speaker 1: Buffalo clinched on December first. They clinched the AFC East

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Houston hasn't really been good. The US win the

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Speaker 1: There just wasn't a lot of greatness that we could follow.

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Speaker 1: But again, doesn't matter. We've got the field of fourteen.

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Speaker 3: So they're on the outside, which lost you hate most

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I was chuckling on the other side, right, because

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Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks have been all about everybody

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Speaker 3: cheerleading Joe Burrow in the in the Bengals forgetting about

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Speaker 3: Right, but all in outside of the lost to New England,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. The past interference on Cam Taylor Britain week two. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: them always having to score like that Commander's game. It

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Speaker 1: Survivor pool three weeks in. Everybody was getting you know,

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Speaker 3: It gets you. You have a shootout loss to Washington

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Speaker 1: a job by rich here to track all those numbers down,

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Speaker 1: Lot of hype in the preseason.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, people which people fall for Joe Milton at every

432
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 4: level he's been at though, like in high school it

433
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 4: was exactly like this. In college it was exactly like this,

434
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,680
Speaker 4: Like he was going to be the next guy at Michigan.

435
00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 4: He transferred to Tennessee, he was going to be this

436
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,280
Speaker 4: insane talent. I just want to see it first, because

437
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Speaker 4: I mean, obviously, I guess we kind of did see it,

438
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:17,280
Speaker 4: but I don't know.

439
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Speaker 3: Week eighteen. Well, but that's the thing. You're not going

440
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,719
Speaker 3: to get along sample size right, and you have to

441
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 3: either trust what you had on tape, or trust whoever

442
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Speaker 3: you're believing in the building that's doing the sales job

443
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:34,479
Speaker 3: to you, or the independent scout and analyst or whatever

444
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 3: that that they're going to come through and decide that

445
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Speaker 3: that could be a guy you put a future on.

446
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Speaker 3: I guess all of that was to say, what are

447
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 3: you finding that's better than Kyler Murray? Necessarily in the marketplace.

448
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Speaker 1: You're not going to But it's just the the I

449
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Speaker 1: think the conversation is worth having.

450
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Speaker 3: No, I agree, yeah, it's just the you know, trying

451
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Speaker 3: to process it and look at the dominoes that have

452
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Speaker 3: to fall this.

453
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Speaker 1: This is gonna be Ian. I'm gonna put you on

454
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Speaker 1: the spot. I'm sorry. This is this is meant not

455
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Speaker 1: meant to be dirty cool, It's not meant to make

456
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Speaker 1: you look silly or anything. I'm just trying to gauge

457
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Speaker 1: my own thing because I have Kyler Murray stats sitting

458
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Speaker 1: in front of me, and I was surprised when I

459
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Speaker 1: saw this. How many What's the most number of touchdowns

460
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Speaker 1: you think Kyler Murray is thrown for in this season

461
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Speaker 1: in his career, like in one season the most amount

462
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Speaker 1: of touchdowns?

463
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Speaker 4: Oh man, I'd probably guess, like he's been an MVP

464
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Speaker 4: candidate for stretches, but never a full season, So I

465
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Speaker 4: don't know. I'd guess like twenty five.

466
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Speaker 1: Okay, it was twenty six, and I would have thought

467
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Speaker 1: there would have been like a thirty five or thirty

468
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Speaker 1: three season, Russell Wilson had those types of seasons.

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Speaker 4: Had you not led me there, you know, I probably

470
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Speaker 4: would have guessed higher. I just assumed the reason you

471
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Speaker 4: were asking me the question, it was going to be low.

472
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Speaker 1: Yeah in the maybe, so what about yardage wise?

473
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Speaker 3: Now, to be fair, he did run for eleven touchdowns

474
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Speaker 3: then yeah.

475
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Speaker 1: Yeah. And by the way, passing touchdowns the least impressive

476
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Speaker 1: stat on or I think the stat that least translates

477
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Speaker 1: to how you actually play, right, you know, Like I mean,

478
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Speaker 1: it's just again, we just had this Jared goffstat of

479
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Speaker 1: the twenty two touchdown passes that he didn't even sure

480
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Speaker 1: they weren't even thrown into the end zone. But yardage wise,

481
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Speaker 1: most passing yards that he's had in the season, Joe Burrow,

482
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Speaker 1: by the way, had forty six is it forty nine

483
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Speaker 1: hundred this year? Yeah, Baker Mayfield forty five hundred, Jared

484
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:43,919
Speaker 1: Goff forty six hundred. What's the highest do you think

485
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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray's had? Is it me again?

486
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Speaker 3: Yes?

487
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Speaker 4: Oh, all right, I'll guess. Man, four thousand, I feel

488
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Speaker 4: like is the benchmark. So I'm thinking it's lower than that.

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Speaker 1: I'll say, like eight lower thirty nine seventy one. In

490
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Speaker 1: his second ear he only one year as he had

491
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Speaker 1: a passer rating over one hundred, and this year is

492
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Speaker 1: coming off of a season way three twenty one touchdowns

493
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Speaker 1: and eleven interceptions and at a passer rating of ninety

494
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Speaker 1: three and a half. And so yeah there, So you know,

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Speaker 1: to Mike's point about the rushing, it's not always going

496
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Speaker 1: to be there. And I actually think that we've seen

497
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a regression over the last couple

498
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Speaker 1: of years, maybe of from what we've seen, not what

499
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 1: he was the first he had five hundred and seventy

500
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Speaker 1: two yards this past year seventy eight carries. He ran

501
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Speaker 1: it ninety three times and one hundred and thirty three

502
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Speaker 1: times in his first two years. I don't know, I

503
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Speaker 1: just I guess. You know, the passing numbers aren't great,

504
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,240
Speaker 1: and Mike, it's totally fair to be like his rushing numbers.

505
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 1: You know, will will make up for that. But at

506
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: some point those rushing numbers aren't going to be there.

507
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 1: He's an undersized quarterback. And so I don't know. I

508
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Speaker 1: just think Arizona's interesting. And and by the way, it

509
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:01,879
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that Kyler Murray can't all of a sudden

510
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,679
Speaker 1: become that quarterback either. It's just going to be up

511
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: to him and his track record of the quarterback that

512
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 1: he is in preparation hasn't always been on his side,

513
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: so he has an opportunity to at least change that narrative.

514
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 3: That's tough, right, because we're having the conversation on the

515
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:18,639
Speaker 3: larger scale on Sam Darnold and what do we keep

516
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:23,360
Speaker 3: coming back to. He's only twenty seven, yeah, right, all

517
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 3: the many weary miles, all the stops, yep, and there's

518
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:30,879
Speaker 3: Kyler Murray twenty seven was a dual sport athlete for

519
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 3: the longest time here you've had coaching changes, some curiosity

520
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,679
Speaker 3: along the way. To your point about the rushing stuff,

521
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 3: I mean, this was also the most games he'd played

522
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:44,680
Speaker 3: by a mile in years right, eight and twenty twenty three,

523
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:48,080
Speaker 3: eleven and twenty twenty two, fourteen, Going back to twenty

524
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 3: twenty one. In twenty twenty he played in sixteen, and

525
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,200
Speaker 3: his rookie year he played in sixteen.

526
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Speaker 1: So the ACL in twenty twenty two which cost him

527
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 1: the end, and then the beginning of twenty twenty.

528
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 3: Three, right, so to that end, right, a full year

529
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 3: removed from the injury, Like, trying to do all that

530
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 3: math as we're going forward, Is it the best ahead

531
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 3: as much as we can get back to a form

532
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 3: of Kyler Murray that looks like the rookie and second

533
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 3: year guy in twenty twenty five. Don't know, again, maybe wishing, wanting, hoping,

534
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 3: because I'm always hopeful for one more quarterback to crack

535
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 3: that list of guys that we feel confident in. And again,

536
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,479
Speaker 3: some of that goes back to Marvin Harrison Junior being healthy.

537
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,640
Speaker 3: He still put up big numbers. Right for the year,

538
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 3: I mean, the aggregate was was pretty solid, Yeah, but

539
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 3: you didn't feel like it was one that made you know,

540
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 3: big explosive plays to the point where he was at

541
00:28:43,840 --> 00:28:46,719
Speaker 3: the forefront of things and if you were banking on him,

542
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,680
Speaker 3: and certainly for fantasy purposes, we stopped talking about him

543
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 3: pretty much altogether after a while.

544
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Speaker 1: Yeah, eight eighty five and eight touchdowns for Marvin Harrison

545
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Speaker 1: Junior and year number one, there wasn't, at least off

546
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Speaker 1: the top of my head the late game, you know

547
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: scenario in a lot of places where when you need catches,

548
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 1: you're going to Marvin Harrison Jinior. My mind may have

549
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 1: slipped me in if I apologize Cardinals fans, but eight

550
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: eighty five was a little under what I thought, considering

551
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,479
Speaker 1: I took him second in my holdover league where we

552
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 1: only hold over two guys in a ten team league,

553
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: so was hoping for a little bit more.

554
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 3: He did best Dad's numbers. It is six, sixty four,

555
00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 3: eight thirty six and eight.

556
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: All right, okay, fair enough there.

557
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 3: And dad second year, yep, seventy three, eight sixty six

558
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 3: and six.

559
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: And then after that did he take off.

560
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 3: And then his third year he only played in twelve

561
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 3: games though fifty nine catches, seven to seventy six, seven

562
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 3: touchdowns and it was year four, nineteen ninety nine where

563
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 3: things went insane. One hundred and fifteen had four straight

564
00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 3: years of one hundred catches after.

565
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Speaker 1: That ninety eight draft Peyton Manning yep yep.

566
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Speaker 3: Ninety eight season, everybody hated each other. Peyton Manning's throwing

567
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 3: a ton of interceptions. People forget that. They conveniently forget

568
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 3: how bad Manning was at time.

569
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Speaker 1: I don't think people do. I hear people talk about

570
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: that year a lot and how bad that he was.

571
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Speaker 4: I remember it was brought up all the time when

572
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 4: when Sam Darnold and Zach Wilson were young, it was

573
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 4: always like a cat show.

574
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I know it can't with Trevor Lawrence right

575
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 3: when you were talking the generational guy kind of expectation

576
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 3: with Peyton. And maybe it's my own bias of fixating

577
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 3: on what they did in the playoffs. Sure, after all

578
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 3: those great regular seasons with an all star cast, because

579
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 3: they had an all star cast, and then they do

580
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 3: the operation shutdown in Week sixteen, You're like, nah, I

581
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 3: don't know that that works for you.

582
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Speaker 1: It shows, yeah, that there's no right way to do things.

583
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Speaker 1: And that's my biggest takeaway from Week eighteen. Because the

584
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: Rams end up dropping a spot, but at least they're healthy.

585
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 1: Green Bay is not healthy, and they still dropped the

586
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Speaker 1: spot when it came to their wild card position. And

587
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 1: in losing to your Bears, and now the Commanders ended

588
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: up getting that sixth seed. There's just so many different

589
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: ways of handling things. And Packers lose Christian Watson now

590
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: to a torn acl so he's done for not only

591
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: the playoffs, but who knows at the start of next season.

592
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: It's always curious to see how these teams end up

593
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: handling Week eighteen. Heck of Kansas City team just completely

594
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 1: laid down, don't I don't think they did it to

595
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 1: keep the Bengals out of it? No, no, I agree.

596
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 1: I don't think that. I think that they're only thinking

597
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: about themselves and dealing with that. I think that they

598
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: would feel confident that they could beat Cincinnati if Cincinnati

599
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,000
Speaker 1: pulled an upset against Buffalo and ended up having to

600
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Speaker 1: go to Kansas City. I don't think that there's anything

601
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: I don't think the Chiefs are even thinking that far ahead.

602
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: I think they're just thinking of let's get all our

603
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 1: ducks in a row and we'll be there when the

604
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: divisional playoffs kick off.

605
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, just on the larger scale, right. We talked about

606
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 3: it for the fantasy purposes and kind of the year

607
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 3: and review and whatever the Chiefs, and as we're doing

608
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 3: this with the Chiefs fifteen and two and maybe not

609
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 3: being as sexy like they had the potential of it,

610
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 3: and then Rashi Rice gets hurt and then Pi Jacko

611
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 3: gets her like all these things you thought Mark he's brown,

612
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 3: never sees the field, like all of these things that

613
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 3: they did to in theory augment and get this offense

614
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 3: looking like it once did. None of it actually got

615
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 3: to come to fruition except the arrival of Noah Gray

616
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 3: on a bigger scale. And somehow Matt Naggie is getting

617
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 3: a head coaching job interviews anybody? Why, hey, you riddle

618
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 3: me that there Ian your team doesn't make any sense.

619
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Speaker 4: Mahomes has the worst year in a while, like for

620
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 4: the worst year of his career, and Naggy gets gets looks.

621
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Speaker 1: Now, I don't get it. But as I said, if

622
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Speaker 1: Rex Ryan and we've talked about Rex getting the interview,

623
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: which is gonna happen on what Tuesday said, why don't

624
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: the Bears just interview Mike did Gutz basically the same thing, right, yeah,

625
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: I mean, jeez, hey, let's.

626
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 3: Let me entertained. But by the way, if you if

627
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 3: my my worst year was thirty nine hundred and twenty

628
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 3: six and eleven, sign me up. But legitimately that's that's

629
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 3: where Patrick Mahomes is.

630
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:15,920
Speaker 1: Sure.

631
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty categorically dismissed of what a miserable season

632
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 3: it was.

633
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, just crazy.

634
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 4: But still people are looking for nakey like, of course

635
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 4: I don't understand that.

636
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 3: But yeah, well no, no, I have no clue.

637
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 4: But about the Rex Ryan thing, Dan really quick, I'm

638
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 4: fully expecting them to hire him. Well, I'm just I'm

639
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 4: mentally prepared for that to happen, and it's going to

640
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 4: be miserable.

641
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: Well, well, i'll tell you that. What We're going to

642
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,720
Speaker 1: get into some coaching on the next episode of I

643
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: Want Your Flex. Because the vacancies are there, there could

644
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: be more vacancies as well. We'll dive into that. And

645
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: plus we're going to do a wild card preview. So

646
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: for Ian Roddy and Mike Harmon, we are now in

647
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: our playoff editions of I Want Your Flex. I'm Dan Byer.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next time. I'm talking playoffs here,

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Speaker 1: and I want your flex mm hmm