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Speaker 1: Wow, Why everybody, It's Thursday, February sixth, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. We just want

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Speaker 1: to kick this thing off already. It's me and your man,

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Speaker 1: MG Marcus Grant, joined by Michael F. Florio and Lakwan

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Speaker 1: Jones LQ. You are going to New Orleans looking forward to.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to the food, to be honest, soon

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Speaker 2: as I touchdown, I am getting the food in my body.

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Speaker 1: Are you a seafood person.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm alertic to some seafood. I think it's solsh shellfish.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I did not know this about you. I am

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Speaker 3: anti seafood all the way.

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Speaker 2: Oh, let's go. But you also don't like turkey either,

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Speaker 2: So no, I like turkey.

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Speaker 3: I just think it's overrated.

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Speaker 2: You don't like turkey?

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Speaker 1: Turkey is Derek Jeter.

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Speaker 3: There you go. Kareean Falcone is very upset with you

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Speaker 3: right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know. I Look. I love Kareem.

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Speaker 1: She's awesome. She does amazing work for us. She's just

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Speaker 1: a really cool person. My Derek Jeter take sort of

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Speaker 1: rankled her the other day. So sorry, Look, I'll just

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Speaker 1: on Jeter. The diving catch into the stands. He catches

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Speaker 1: it in fair territory. That's all I'm going to say.

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Speaker 1: I'm still better about him making that flip and getting

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Speaker 1: jokes slide Jeremy Giombi slide anyway, I'm just going to

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Speaker 1: pretend I know what that means. We got our last

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Speaker 1: rounds of exit interviews coming up on today's show, Picks

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Speaker 1: twenty nine through thirty two.

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Speaker 3: Pain.

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Speaker 1: Hey man, we did my team like two weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: so I don't really want to hear it. We will

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Speaker 1: have a Super Bowl preview as well as we wrap

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Speaker 1: up the show and gets you ready for super Bowl

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Speaker 1: fifty nine coming up this weekend. I have really a

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Speaker 1: lot of headlines. I don't know how much interest you

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Speaker 1: guys have. The Josh Jacobs saying that he would love

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Speaker 1: to reunite with Davante Adams in Green Bay. We talked

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Speaker 1: about the Pack and whether or not they need a

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Speaker 1: number one receiver, I mean, Florio Devonte Adams in Green Bay?

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Speaker 1: Is he would that make him back to being I

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Speaker 1: don't want to say a first round pick, but what

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Speaker 1: could he be a mid second round pick in Green Bay? Possibly?

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Speaker 3: I think other people could convince themselves to draft him

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Speaker 3: there I will not be that person. I was fading

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Speaker 3: him last year as a second round pick, and it

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Speaker 3: was partly because of who his quarterbacks were, but it's

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Speaker 3: also because he was thirty one going on thirty two.

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Speaker 3: By the end of the next season, he'll be thirty

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Speaker 3: three years old, and we already saw some decline in

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Speaker 3: his metrics. So my rule of thumb is, when you

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Speaker 3: have an agent player and you start to see slow,

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Speaker 3: like little signs of decline, to just avoid it. Because

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Speaker 3: we talk about it a lot like decline comes very

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Speaker 3: very slowly and then all at once. So like, I

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Speaker 3: don't want to draft someone this early if part of

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Speaker 3: their range of outcome could be just not living up

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Speaker 3: anywhere close to expectations and bottoming out. But it would

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Speaker 3: be hilarious, Like the NFL is a reality show. The

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Speaker 3: writers are just being like, let's get Adams back to

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Speaker 3: Green Bay where he said he didn't have an elite quarterback,

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Speaker 3: and now he chooses Jordan Love over Aaron Rodgers, Like

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Speaker 3: that would that would just be hilarious?

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Speaker 1: Actually want amazing? That would be pretty good of that happened. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, everything is is you know, times of

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Speaker 1: Flat Circle. Everything's reboots and sequels and that sort of thing,

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Speaker 1: So you.

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Speaker 2: Know, why not does Green Bay even want him back?

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Speaker 2: You know, like that's kind of weird that he would

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Speaker 2: say that. That is a good point because he kind

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Speaker 2: to better things. That's kind of how it felt, and

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Speaker 2: like I wouldn't want him back either, you know, like

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Speaker 2: to be honest, like you got guys like Dadan Reed,

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Speaker 2: Like these young guys are developing well, and like if

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Speaker 2: now look where he's at now. Is that Ashton Villa

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Speaker 1: That's that's exactly what I was going to say. That's

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Speaker 1: that's one hundred percent and it's not I was going

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Speaker 1: to say, that's not at all what I was going

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Speaker 1: to say. Soccer turns in analysis. I enjoy the sport,

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Speaker 1: and everything I was not did, but I also know

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Speaker 1: you do this to to try and tweak me. Well

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Speaker 1: that's why you say that too. So long as you know, dude,

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Speaker 1: I peep your game. Contrary to the shack meme, I'm

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Speaker 1: very familiar with your games. So that's what that is.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's anyway, that's enough of that we'll see.

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Speaker 1: I mean, right now, this is just this kind of

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Speaker 1: to reunite with a former teammates maybe help his current team.

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Speaker 1: I think that's about as far as that may go

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Speaker 1: when it comes to Devonte Adams reuniting with the Green

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Speaker 1: Bay Packers. All right, into our exit interviews our final

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Speaker 1: four teams. Now, I will preface this by saying picks

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Speaker 1: thirty one and thirty two are not officially set yet.

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Speaker 1: So we did these sort of buy records in the

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Speaker 1: they are. So we'll start with the Washington Commanders at

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Speaker 1: pick number twenty nine. They had a phenomenal twelve and

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Speaker 1: five season, got all the way to the NFC Championship games,

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Speaker 1: certainly ahead of everyone's expectations. I would probably guess even

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Speaker 1: ahead of the expectations of people within that building there

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Speaker 1: in Washington. And when you talk about what went right, easy, easy, easy,

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Speaker 1: easy answer is Jaden Daniels over thirty five hundred passing yards,

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Speaker 1: twenty five passing touchdowns, nine interceptions, nearly nine hundred rushing yards,

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Speaker 1: six rushing touchdowns. He was the QB six. Terry McLaurin

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Speaker 1: another great season as well, over one thousand yards, thirteen

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Speaker 1: so Florio as the number one. Jade and Daniels stand

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to remember what the tweet was that I sent.

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Speaker 1: It was it was basically something to the effective of

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Speaker 3: Stroud last year, So I one hundred percent agree the difference,

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Speaker 3: But for me, I think what happened, what really made

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Speaker 3: And you started to hear stuff like has he hit

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Speaker 3: like he he just looked even better and better and better.

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Speaker 3: He looked unstoppable against the Lions. So I have no concerns.

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Speaker 3: I've gone as far as saying that, not only for

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Speaker 3: because the Commanders have a bunch of cat they have

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Speaker 3: year one. And I know we could say that for CJ. Stroud,

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Speaker 3: but like we talked about on the last episode, I

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Speaker 1: I mean, where are you with this, Laku? I mean,

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Speaker 1: is is Jayden Daniels a top five quarterback for you

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, And I think what makes the difference between

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Speaker 2: top five lock this year, clearly that was wrong. But

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Speaker 2: the difference here is that this dude almost had a

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Speaker 2: stay there. They're turnovers. I'm not worried about him getting

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Speaker 2: that sophomore slump because coming out of college, his tendency

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Speaker 2: you know, this season with everything staying the same around him,

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Speaker 2: with many with many people speculating that they do bring

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Speaker 2: in a wide receiver too, that can possibly help Terry McLaurin,

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Speaker 2: because I think that's one of the things that you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're not We're not in on Diommy Brown necessarily.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you had a couple of good postseason games,

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Speaker 2: The Brown twins, like the Noah Brown and Diami Brown.

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Speaker 2: Like I like them guys. But it's like if I

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Speaker 2: come on, let's let's let's go wild and balled out,

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Speaker 2: Like let's get Miles Garrett on the defense, and let's

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: Like I'm a huge Jayden of Dans fan now, but

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Speaker 2: just basically just being wild every single game. You know

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Speaker 2: Like it's the freaking Commanders guys like Kingsbury he usually

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Speaker 2: falls off at the end of the season, which you

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Speaker 2: know if I've seen that closely being in Ranstrand with

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Speaker 2: him as the Cardinals head coach. But it's just like

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Speaker 2: the former is there, Like you don't have that, you know,

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Speaker 2: animosity between the quarterback and coach anymore. Like it's like

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Speaker 2: JD's locked in, he's ready to go. He's there early

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Speaker 2: in the morning working out and looking at that film

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Speaker 2: like He's doing all the things that Kyler wasn't doing.

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Speaker 2: Not to make the comparison, but that's a big deal.

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Speaker 3: He's what we wanted Kyler Murray to be all those

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Kyler's in a ceiling right, Like we've seen

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Speaker 3: Maybe let's go.

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Speaker 1: Well, who knows well? Who knows what the Cowboys are doing?

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Speaker 1: what went wrong. It was hard to pinpoint anything that

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Speaker 2: We could say that went wrong.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess.

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Speaker 1: I mean I was big on Austin Eckler, but I

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Speaker 2: No, man, I gotta be honest, and like, you do

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Speaker 2: But his you know, his usage in the passing game

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Speaker 2: just dropped because of Austin Eckler. And it wasn't like

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Speaker 2: Austin Eckler was completely better in that department. It's just

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Speaker 2: So it's like with them two eating off each other's plates.

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Speaker 2: at like this guy has the shoulder injury, ankle injury, god,

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Speaker 2: Like what is going on?

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Speaker 3: Like Brian Robinson eleven point four fantasy points per game,

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Speaker 3: Austin Eckler eleven points per game, so like it's less

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Speaker 3: it was like Lakwan said on the ground, all right,

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Speaker 3: that is one area where they can improve, is like

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'm curting confuse. So Eckler's contract actually runs

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Speaker 1: You know, So do they do they bring him back,

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Speaker 1: the offseason. I think when they look at the draft.

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills thirteen and for this season, another trip to

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Speaker 1: the AFC Championship Game. Another heavy side there for Michael

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Speaker 1: f Florio when he thinks about it.

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Speaker 2: Please don't trade to pick Man, don't don't do that.

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Speaker 1: Don't don't help the chief shout again.

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Speaker 3: To trade it. Don't trade it to the team in Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: Man again, I see which I see where you're going

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Speaker 1: with this.

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Speaker 3: Crea talent, that's what this team needs.

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Speaker 1: I see where you're going with this. What went right? Certainly,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, he had again he's very much in the

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Speaker 1: yards over five hundred rushing yards. He had twenty eight

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Speaker 1: passing touchdowns. He had twelve rushing touchdowns. He also had

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Speaker 1: a receiving touchdown. This year, I finished as the QB

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Speaker 1: two James Cook over one thousand rushing yards, sixteen rushing touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: That was another number that jumped out at me. I

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Speaker 1: don't think I realized he had that many touchdowns this year,

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Speaker 1: a couple of receiving touchdowns. He was the RB eight

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Speaker 1: and the Khalil Shakir very much a pleasant surprise this season.

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Speaker 1: I know when you look at you say, well he

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Speaker 1: was wide receiver thirty seven, Well yeah, but nobody expected

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Speaker 1: anything out of Khalil Shakir and seventy six catches, eight

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Speaker 1: rosters pretty consistently during the year. Again, we all thought

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Speaker 1: be Dalton kin Kid's year. Who are they gonna use

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Speaker 1: were so many questions. I don't know that anybody thought

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Speaker 3: Hello, I really love Shakir in the off season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what were we talking about?

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Speaker 3: You got two of the biggest Shakir fans right here?

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Speaker 1: All right, So Shakiir right, not Shakira, right, We're talking

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Speaker 1: about Khaleil Sir.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: That's that hips don't lie man, or that's what we're

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Speaker 1: talking about. All right, So I sit corrected. I maybe

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Speaker 1: I just didn't. I thought he'd be a nice piece.

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Speaker 3: I didn't think he would be as good as he was,

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Speaker 1: I do want to ask you though, because obviously you

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Speaker 1: is there more we can expect from James Cook?

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Speaker 3: I think, touchdown wise, this is the ceiling, and this

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Speaker 3: rushing touchdowns like I'm not banking on that again, but yes,

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Speaker 3: I certainly think there's more room for growth for James Cook.

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Speaker 3: Because he had to play in Week eighteen when all

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Speaker 3: there's more big plays there. Ty Johnson is what they

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Speaker 3: because two years ago Cook got a lot of passing

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Speaker 3: then this year they were just like, we're going all

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Speaker 3: Ty Johnson in two minute drills, third downs like obvious

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Speaker 3: been like Ty Johnson is the best third down back

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Speaker 3: why he took so much opportunity away. But he's a

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Speaker 3: free agent, and if they let him walk and they

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Speaker 3: say Cook took the next stride and earns more work,

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Speaker 3: especially because I believe they are going to extend James

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Speaker 1: I believe, Wow, were you comfortable taking him next year?

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Speaker 1: A Lukwan?

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Speaker 2: He's one of those guys I would love to have

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Speaker 2: in my RB two. I don't think I would be

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Speaker 2: drafting him as my RB one, but like Florio said,

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Speaker 2: if the touchdown department, if he could find the middle

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Speaker 2: I wasn't too sure what to expect from him, because honestly,

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Speaker 2: I haven't been watching James Cook as much as I've

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Speaker 2: I already know about Ty Johnson being the thorn in

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Speaker 2: PTSD kicking in of like, oh no, Ty Johnson's in

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Speaker 2: a freaking receiving touchdown, which was amazing, by the way,

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Speaker 2: I don't know I always saw him, but that's what

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Speaker 1: So that was just, you know, my price.

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Speaker 2: But going into next season, I would love to get

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Speaker 2: lock that up.

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Speaker 3: I think he might go as in the first round.

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Speaker 2: Really, wow, this is a no first round running back podcast.

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Speaker 2: Will I don't know if you understood I.

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Speaker 3: I would not take him.

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Speaker 1: Well, no, no, no, no, no, no no, don't put this

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Speaker 2: We're in the first Are we taking Skon in the first?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not taking Sequon in.

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Speaker 2: The first that's one. Also Bijon, he looks Jon. I'll

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Speaker 2: say I'll take Bijon in the first. No, Ben Jonson's

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Speaker 2: show Jamier give sits at that one ten through to

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Speaker 2: one to twelve spot, which I'm okay with but still

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Speaker 2: not comfortable with.

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Speaker 1: But there's that. I mean, I could make a case

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I keep forgetting about him for some reason.

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Speaker 1: Make a late first round case maybe for Kyron Williams.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, your boy Kyra at the

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Speaker 2: No, I have my own personal beasts about Kiren. But no,

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Speaker 2: I couldn't do that. I don't see that production continuing.

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Speaker 3: You wouldn't take Bjon or Gibbs.

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Speaker 2: Gibbs at the one ten, two to one twelve. I

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Speaker 2: don't feel comfortable with. I like their wide receivers that

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Speaker 2: It's about the usage, like whoever comes in, are they

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Speaker 2: gonna use? Are they gonna use? You know, the sonic

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Speaker 3: You know, I don't plan on taking James Cook in

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Speaker 3: at the end of the year Marcus on Fantasy Live,

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Speaker 3: this Cook guy is worthy of it. Again, I like

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I'm think I make the leaping of

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Speaker 1: the first round. But there are there are running backs

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Speaker 1: I would take in the first round, not as many

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Speaker 1: as in years past, but I can definitely pull the

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Speaker 1: trigger on a couple real quick. What went wrong, Dalton can?

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Speaker 1: Are you still ready to fire him out of a

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Speaker 1: circus cannon to the moon? Floria?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I mean, he catches that ball right now, is

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Speaker 3: as a fan, the most painful scenario is your team

435
00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:25,320
Speaker 3: losing in the championship game, because then there's a two

436
00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:27,800
Speaker 3: week build up, especially if it's like if you're the

437
00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,400
Speaker 3: Commanders and you just got dog walked, you're like, all right, yeah,

438
00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:31,879
Speaker 3: this was a good year for us. We're young, we

439
00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:34,680
Speaker 3: didn't deserve to be here. You lose, like the Bills lose,

440
00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,840
Speaker 3: and yeah, you get two weeks of just being like this,

441
00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:41,560
Speaker 3: this could have been us, like, but it's not. So Yeah,

442
00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,560
Speaker 3: I'm still upset with Dalton Kincaid. I still do think

443
00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:47,800
Speaker 3: there's potential here and he's gonna be cheaper than ever.

444
00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,480
Speaker 3: What I thought was very interesting was both the GM

445
00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:53,640
Speaker 3: and the head coach called him out after the year

446
00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:55,520
Speaker 3: and was like, he needs to put on more weight

447
00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,120
Speaker 3: so that he and more muscle so he is more

448
00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,000
Speaker 3: available to us. And you have found out after the

449
00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,520
Speaker 3: year that he was playing through a number of injuries.

450
00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:05,800
Speaker 3: They said the same thing about key On Coleman like

451
00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:08,560
Speaker 3: he wasn't the same after he got hurt. He was

452
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,919
Speaker 3: a very different player. Amari Cooper kind of never really,

453
00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:15,720
Speaker 3: So I don't know. As good as things went for

454
00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,760
Speaker 3: the Bills this year, there was a number of players

455
00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,719
Speaker 3: that you came away feeling like they should have been

456
00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:23,440
Speaker 3: a lot better than they were in this offense.

457
00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,919
Speaker 1: I will push back and tell you that as somebody

458
00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:28,320
Speaker 1: who's a fan of a team who has lost three

459
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:30,760
Speaker 1: times in the Super Bowl since I've worked at NFL network,

460
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:34,879
Speaker 1: that's a pretty miserable That's a pretty miserable experience because

461
00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,440
Speaker 1: working at the network, you have to come to work

462
00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:40,760
Speaker 1: and they are showing the game on every television in

463
00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,400
Speaker 1: the building for a whole week, and they are showing

464
00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,760
Speaker 1: the parade of the team that Like, it's just a

465
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,560
Speaker 1: pretty miserable experience to work in NFL media when your

466
00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,840
Speaker 1: team loses the Super Bowl, because you can't you can't

467
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:54,280
Speaker 1: duck it, you can't dodge it.

468
00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:58,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, at least after the Super Bowl you could kind

469
00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:00,080
Speaker 3: of be like, all right, see.

470
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:05,720
Speaker 4: Over now, everybody right down to your point, though, Marcus,

471
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,040
Speaker 4: after the thirteen second game, when I walked in the

472
00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:10,960
Speaker 4: next day and that was on every single TV I

473
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,800
Speaker 4: just was like, please just end it now, like I

474
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 4: don't want to relive this.

475
00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,200
Speaker 1: Just want to burn Just want to burn the plays down,

476
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:21,560
Speaker 1: that's all. I just want to burn it down. Right.

477
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,320
Speaker 2: We will all my man's name from the office.

478
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:28,760
Speaker 1: Face Milton, Milton, Oh yeah, bring them. I mean to

479
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:31,680
Speaker 1: burn it down to bring the please them, bring it down.

480
00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:34,439
Speaker 1: We still got two more teams in our interviews. They

481
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Speaker 1: are the two teams that are playing in the Super Bowl.

482
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Speaker 1: We will also have a Super Bowl preview for you

483
00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:41,560
Speaker 1: that's coming up next here on the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast.

484
00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 1: Final two teams. As I mentioned at the top of

485
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 1: the show, the draft order not officially set. It will

486
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 1: be after Sunday and we know who the champion is

487
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,480
Speaker 1: that person or that team, I should say, well, I

488
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,600
Speaker 1: have picked number thirty two and the Super Bowl loser

489
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,280
Speaker 1: will have pick number thirty one. But for now, just

490
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,200
Speaker 1: going based off of regular season records, we are putting

491
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,119
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles at pick number thirty one. They were

492
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:10,199
Speaker 1: fourteen and three. Saquon Berkley is what went right for

493
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,600
Speaker 1: the Eagles and very much what went wrong for the

494
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 1: Giants two thousand and five rushing yards, thirteen rushing touchdowns,

495
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy eight receiving yards to receiving touchdowns.

496
00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 1: He was the RB two. Now, mind you, this is

497
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 1: going through Week eighteen. When you know Saquon or rather

498
00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 1: Jamier Gibbs needed very much to play for the Lions.

499
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,560
Speaker 1: I guess tek he didn't really have to. I guess

500
00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 1: he did. Either way, he finishes the RB one. Saquon

501
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 1: What I noticed. I went back and looked two hundred

502
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 1: and seventy eight receiving yards for a full season. That's

503
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:47,439
Speaker 1: the lowest number of his career, and nobody noticed because

504
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 1: of what he was doing on the ground. I mean

505
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 1: the fact that he ran for two thousand yards and

506
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 1: had a legitimate shot to break Eric Dickerson's single season

507
00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: record had the Eagles held him back from that was

508
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 1: easy to gloss over the fact that he just didn't

509
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 1: do nearly the same amount of damage in the passing

510
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 1: game this year, but still was absolutely phenomenal. Jalen Hurts

511
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,600
Speaker 1: the QB eight twenty nine hundred passing yards, six hundred

512
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:18,160
Speaker 1: and thirty rushing yards, fourteen rushing touchdowns. AJ Brown Devens

513
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,080
Speaker 1: to Smith both good, not necessarily spectacular. Brown the wide

514
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 1: receiver sixteen, Smith the wide receiver twenty four. But I

515
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,679
Speaker 1: want to ask about Jalen Hurts Lakwan because the passing

516
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 1: yards down significantly this year. Didn't get to three thousand

517
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 1: yards just the eighteen passing touchdowns, but the fourteen rushing touchdowns.

518
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 1: How much longer can we rely on the tush push

519
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,800
Speaker 1: because that that's doing a lot of keeping him afloat

520
00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 1: fantasy wise. At some point it goes away, I mean,

521
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,719
Speaker 1: but it's also it feels hard to bet on it

522
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:56,240
Speaker 1: going away, if that makes sense.

523
00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, the league's not going to band it. I mean,

524
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep on open on the opportunity to get

525
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:04,040
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts. I mean, I'm not drafting him for the passing.

526
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 2: I'm drafting him for the Toush push. Like we can't

527
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:09,960
Speaker 2: even call it rushing touchdowns. It's Toush push touchdowns. Like

528
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,440
Speaker 2: it's not even like him going off and like running

529
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 2: around like Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson. Like I'm going

530
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,159
Speaker 2: for the scoring opportunities. I'm going for him setting this

531
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,600
Speaker 2: team up for success to find the end zone and

532
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 2: get the Toush push going. They're gonna They're gonna deploy

533
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,880
Speaker 2: that move every single time. It's like the special move

534
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 2: on the one button on the video game that you

535
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 2: cannot stop and you're just annoying your cousin. Like that's

536
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 2: one of those things where it's like you want to

537
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:34,840
Speaker 2: rage quick. But I'm gonna take advantage of that in

538
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 2: every single draft if I can do that. You know,

539
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 2: this was my first year that I actually didn't draft

540
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,160
Speaker 2: jayla Hertz. I don't know why. I thought Saquon Barkley

541
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 2: would play into, you know, taking away the toushbush. But

542
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,120
Speaker 2: here we are, the toushbush is still alive and low,

543
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 2: and we'll probably see it done a couple times in

544
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 2: the big games. So it's like, if the league ain't

545
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 2: gonna a band it, I'm not gonna go against it.

546
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I don't. I don't see any moves

547
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: to stop this thing from being a legal play. It

548
00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 1: just is what it is.

549
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,920
Speaker 2: It could be stopped though, you know, like we've seen

550
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 2: teams stop it before. It's just you can't consistently.

551
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,359
Speaker 3: The Chief stopped at numerous times against Josh Allen.

552
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 2: Well, that's the snowplow bro It's a different formula.

553
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,679
Speaker 1: Other versions of it have been consistently stopped. But like,

554
00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:18,440
Speaker 1: I feel like when the Eagles get stopped, it's because

555
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,360
Speaker 1: the Eagles messed it up, right, Like it's because they

556
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 1: did something wrong.

557
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 3: Isn't that just because Jalen Hurts is unstoppable on that play?

558
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: He can squat six hundred pounds, as yeah told repeatedly.

559
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 3: We heard in this offseason like oh well with Jason

560
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,439
Speaker 3: Kelcey gone, this play isn't going to be effective, and

561
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,439
Speaker 3: then halfway through the year it's like Saquon's not going

562
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 3: to win MVP because Jalen Hurts getting over.

563
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,919
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, look, as I feel like Jay, Jalen

564
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 1: Hurts is sort of the He's the keystone to this

565
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:51,679
Speaker 1: whole thing, right, Like he's the one that makes this

566
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:52,320
Speaker 1: whole thing go.

567
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 3: This is a completely different conversation, but like it drives

568
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 3: me crazy when people just like discount display and say,

569
00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 3: like he all he is is a touch point, Like

570
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 3: that is a play that is is unstoppable right now

571
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 3: in the toughest yard to gain on the field, So like,

572
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 3: why is that a negative? Like to me, that's a

573
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:12,119
Speaker 3: huge positive.

574
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 1: And again, as long as it's a legal play, if

575
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: I'm the Eagles, I keep running it keep run into

576
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 1: the wheels, fall off. Does I figure out how to

577
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 1: stop it? Or you can't run it anymore? I'm you know,

578
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: it would be dumb to take it out of your

579
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 1: playbook just because other teams are mad about it. Like

580
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 1: that just doesn't make any sense.

581
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 2: Like other teams are copying it, Like we even got

582
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 2: the Ravens doing and we're Mark Andrews, which there's no

583
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 2: real name for it, but they were stopping multiple times,

584
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,719
Speaker 2: like a team cannot copy what they do, and it's

585
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,719
Speaker 2: a copycat league. So we're gonna probably see more teams

586
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 2: next season try to do it too.

587
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Ravens we call it like the Poe push

588
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 1: or something like the you know oh.

589
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 3: Doing it went over my head.

590
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:02,840
Speaker 1: Everybody's having a QT name for it. Can't just be

591
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 1: a quarterback sneak anymore. Now they all have to have

592
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 1: QT names. So whatever, Florie, I want to talk to

593
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,320
Speaker 1: you about the receivers there right because Aj Brown, DeVonta Smith,

594
00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: they were good, not great. Both finished outside the top

595
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: fifteen as fantasy receivers this year. Is Saquan being there?

596
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 1: Does that mean we have to sort of downgrade them

597
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 1: right now?

598
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 3: Maybe a little? I think more than even that, Like

599
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 3: there was just something off with Hurts as a passer

600
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 3: this year, and I was super in on aj Brown

601
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 3: this year. I thought like Kellen Moore coming over. I

602
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 3: was pushing him over Justin Jefferson in drafts. And he

603
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 3: gets hurt after Week one, misses the three games. But

604
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 3: you look at his first like seven games that he played,

605
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,239
Speaker 3: and I was feeling like a genius. I was like,

606
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 3: this guy is way better than Justin Jefferson on a

607
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 3: per game basis, Like he might be the wide receiver

608
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 3: one on a per game basis. He was that good.

609
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 3: And then the results just kind of came crashing down

610
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,000
Speaker 3: and we're very up or down, and you had Nick

611
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 3: Sirianni at one point being like, we need to be

612
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 3: better as a passer, so as a passing attack. So

613
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's all on Saquon. I think

614
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 3: a big part of it is when you have a

615
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 3: rushing attack that effective and with that many big plays,

616
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 3: you take away a lot of plays, Like if you're

617
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 3: scoring a one chunk play, that's six seven plays that

618
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 3: you could be losing on a drive something like that.

619
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 3: So that does hurt. But more than anything, I think

620
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 3: it was just something was off there. And if you're

621
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 3: gonna give me a discount on AJ Brown next year,

622
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 3: which looking at early rankings, it seems like we're gonna

623
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 3: get that because he's the wide receiver nine right now

624
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 3: in early rankings. Yeah, I'll just continue to draft him

625
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,680
Speaker 3: because I believe he is an amazing talent. DeVonta Smith

626
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 3: is the one that I'm a little bit more weary

627
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 3: of because not only does he have all those same

628
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 3: concerns with the passing game and with Saquon, but he

629
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 3: also has a target hog and AJ Brown on the

630
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 3: opposite side.

631
00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think that's sort of the hard part,

632
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: right is that with with DeVonta Smith. I mean he

633
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: did miss some time. Both guys actually missed some games

634
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: with injury, but also the volatility week to week was

635
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 1: a lot more noticeable with DeVonta Smith. So that's going

636
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: to be something to kind of keep in mind. And really,

637
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, like what Jalen Hurts is as a

638
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: passer is going to have a lot of impact on

639
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: what his past catchers do. And you know, look, as

640
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: long as Saquan is there and continues to be as effective, again,

641
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to be two thousand yards

642
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: worth of great next year. That's just me. But he's

643
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: going to be good enough that he's going to get

644
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 1: a lot of those opportunities. And you know, that's just

645
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: fewer chances for Brown and Smith to get targets coming

646
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 1: up next season. All Right, finally against City Chiefs. If

647
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 1: you were not a Chiefs fan, maybe the most fit

648
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: frustrating fifteen and two you ever saw. This was it's weird.

649
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: So we you know, I did thirty one other teams,

650
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: Well I didn't do all of these. Shout out to

651
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 1: to Kyrie Douglas, who helped put together a lot of

652
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,240
Speaker 1: these for us, but that man, But I was like

653
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: putting these together and looking at these, the Chiefs were

654
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 1: the one that was the most frustrating to put together

655
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 1: because I was like, what went right? And I was

656
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 1: kind of like, I mean, for fantasy, like not really much.

657
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: I mean, Travis Kelce had a good season, but it

658
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: wasn't your vintage Travis Kelce season. Ninety seven catches, eight

659
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty three yards, just three receiving touchdowns. He

660
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: was the tied end five and then like what went

661
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: wrong was just like Patrick Mahomes wasn't great, you know,

662
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 1: like he was. He went a long time without you know,

663
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: hitting a two hundred you know, a two hundred yard

664
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: passing game or throwing a bunch of touchdowns. That was

665
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: a big talk for much of the year, like hey man,

666
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: like Patrick Mahomes is just a guy in fantasy. Xavier

667
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: Worthy I really didn't pop the way people thought that

668
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 1: he would bring sort of showed up. It was a

669
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 1: nice piece, but it wasn't really great. Remember that day

670
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 1: that everybody was on the Carson Steel bandwagon like that

671
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 1: was a good That was a good thirty six hours.

672
00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: That was fun.

673
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 3: I wrongly went on some much Ryan side of history, I.

674
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: Mean, but that was sort of the point, right, Like

675
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: Florid are are the twenty twenty four Chiefs the greatest

676
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:11,680
Speaker 1: bad Fantasy team ever?

677
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 3: Probably, I mean probably even what went right. Travis Kelce

678
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 3: was a disappointment because he was drafted higher than tight

679
00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 3: end five and you look at his game logs like

680
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 3: very much. So like all right, he had four big

681
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 3: games and the rest of the year like he was,

682
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 3: he was disappointing. Mahomes was. I think in late in

683
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 3: the year he got a little bit better, but I

684
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 3: think you could make a case that Mahomes was when

685
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 3: you factor in like draft calls and stuff, maybe the

686
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 3: biggest letdown in fantasy this year. Isaiah Pacheco. I loved,

687
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 3: I had him as a top five running back, but

688
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 3: that injury he suffered early in the year, like has

689
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 3: zapped him of everything. We have not seen him with

690
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 3: the saint bursts or explosiveness or anything. Kreemont was solid.

691
00:32:54,760 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 3: The one big positive from this team in my opinion,

692
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 3: is Rashid Rice. And I know he got hurt and

693
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 3: his season ended prematurely, but like you're gonna allow me

694
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 3: to draft him as a wide receiver to next year,

695
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do that all day long because I think

696
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 3: in what he's shown us, Like I remember tweeting in

697
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 3: like before he got hurt, like Malik Neighbors and Rashi

698
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 3: Rice are like top five wide receivers the rest of

699
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 3: the year, and then they both got hurt like shortly

700
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 3: after that tweet. But yeah, I firmly believe in everything

701
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 3: I saw at Rashi Rice.

702
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: I also I was I was wrong. I granted it

703
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 1: was a small sample for this year, but I was

704
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: staying away from Rashi Rice just because I didn't know

705
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 1: if they'd be able to manufacture the same level of

706
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: touches and the same kind of production that they did

707
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: in his rookie year, and again in a small sample size,

708
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: the answer was unequivocally yes, yes they can. So you know,

709
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: I guess I get a do over sort of on

710
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: on Rashi Rice now. So I'm looking forward to that, absolutely,

711
00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: looking forward to it coming up this season. I'm looking

712
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 1: at the free agents, Lakwan, I mean DeAndre Hopkins, Markuise Brown,

713
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: Justin Watson, some JP Ron, Juju Smith, Schuster, Kareem Hunt,

714
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 1: Mikole Hardman. Is this team pointing to look vastly different

715
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: next year? And what are we? I mean, are we

716
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: gonna be in another situation where we're just not really

717
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,720
Speaker 1: drafting chiefs next year. It's just it's such a weird

718
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 1: thing to think, but it just it doesn't I don't know,

719
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel right.

720
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 2: No, I mean, honestly, we're gonna be looking at the

721
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,720
Speaker 2: scraps next year. I mean they might be getting Amari

722
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 2: Cooper or Chris gott Or and a Deontay Johnson, you know,

723
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 2: Mike Williams, Like this is kind of what this team

724
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 2: has turned into. It's like they get the scraps, they

725
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,239
Speaker 2: utilize them at moments of the time in the game,

726
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 2: and then you know, they go out there and win

727
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 2: fifteen games. I don't know how they did it this season,

728
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 2: but that's how they did it. I remember going into

729
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,359
Speaker 2: this offseason thinking like, Wow, this is a crowded room.

730
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,280
Speaker 2: You got Rashid Rice, you got Marquise Brown, Xavier Worthy,

731
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey, geez, like how much more people can you get?

732
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,840
Speaker 2: And like you didn't know how it's gonna work, but

733
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 2: it all works out. So you might not see a

734
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 2: DeAndre Hopkins at Juju or any of those guys you

735
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 2: just named off next year. You might just see a

736
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 2: whole wave of guys that are ring chasing at this

737
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 2: point and they're gonna make it work. As long as

738
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:13,399
Speaker 2: Andy Reids there, as long as Patrick Mahomes is there,

739
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 2: there's gonna be some type of success. So for fantasy,

740
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 2: you want to stay away. I mean, you don't want

741
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,319
Speaker 2: to go out there and drafted Patrick Mahomes after what

742
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 2: we just saw this year, with Travis Kelcey possibly flying

743
00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:26,760
Speaker 2: off to the Sunset with Taylor Swift after this season,

744
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 2: so who knows where his chemistry is gonna really lie.

745
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 2: And you got Rashid Rice coming off of an injury,

746
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 2: which we still don't know his off season, you know

747
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 2: issues and how he's going to be disciplined this following year.

748
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,320
Speaker 2: Either like this is this is something that we have

749
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 2: to really think about going into this offseason, like what

750
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:44,839
Speaker 2: do we do with our chiefs pieces? Like I honestly think,

751
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 2: like I'm back in on Isaiah Pacheco. He's going to

752
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 2: be cheaper than he was with you know Florio saying

753
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 2: he's a top five, So I'm back in on him.

754
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 2: The talents there, He's a hard runner. And there's no

755
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 2: way that I believe Kaream Hunt is going to come

756
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 2: back next year and lead that backfield. There's no way

757
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 2: that's happening. Like this is Isaiah Pacheco's backfield in twenty

758
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 2: twenty five.

759
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: Now, Kareem Hutt was a necessity this year. It was

760
00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,279
Speaker 1: because they you know, they were scrambling. They had to

761
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,800
Speaker 1: replace Pachecko. I think they looked around and they realized

762
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: Carson Steele wasn't it. They knew that some I. J.

763
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: P Ruyn was not equipped to handle it over the

764
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: long haul, and Andy Reid went out and called the

765
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: guy that he was familiar with. He knew was familiar

766
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: with the offense, and they brought him back in. So

767
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:28,919
Speaker 1: no that Kareem Hutt was he was a He wasn't

768
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 1: mister Wright. He was mister right Now. He was the

769
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: guy that they needed in the situation. Well, I know,

770
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,479
Speaker 1: I feel like he blew up in his first game back.

771
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 3: He played pretty well, but he is no burst at all. Yeah,

772
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 3: but if you remember back in the summer, the reason

773
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 3: we were all excited about this offense was like all

774
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:49,399
Speaker 3: the speed pieces they had and Markis Brown got hurt

775
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 3: before it started. Uh, Xavier Worthy was slow out the gate,

776
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 3: Rashie Rice Gott. We never saw them with all of

777
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 3: those guys on the field at the same time. I look,

778
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 3: a lot could change, but I'm of the mindset that

779
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 3: like Marki's Brown is probably going to come back. And

780
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 3: if we're talking about Mahomes having Rice Worthy and Marky's

781
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 3: Brown at his disposal, we might get the Mahomes that

782
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 3: was so good for Fantasy for so long.

783
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: Talk about all the speed pieces, all the speed pieces there,

784
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 1: and the guys that they leaned on were DeAndre Hopkins

785
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: and Andrew Smiths. Smith Schuster and Kareem Hunt and Justin

786
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: Watson like, Noah Gray like. These were all the names

787
00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 1: that that Patrick Mahomes leaned on during the season. Whos

788
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: man who knows? All right, take a break, we'll come back.

789
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,839
Speaker 1: We will preview Super Bowl fifty nine as we are

790
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: to wrap this episode up here on the NFL Fantasy

791
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: Football Podcast.

792
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 3: Of course, super.

793
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 1: Bowl fifty nine going down in New Orleans, coming up

794
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: on Sunday between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs.

795
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 1: Before we dive into that, though, a piece of news

796
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 1: that came out on Wednesday. I guess it's more official

797
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: because we sort of knew this was coming, but the

798
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:03,720
Speaker 1: league has announced that the Rams are going to play

799
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: in Australia in twenty twenty six. Let's go. It's a

800
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: designated home game for the Rams, so that means what

801
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 1: it'll be eight home games, eight away games, and in

802
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: the one home game in Australia this year. I was

803
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: doing the math the other day and from Los Angeles

804
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 1: to Melbourne is a nineteen hour time difference. Not sure

805
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: when exactly the game is going to kick off, but Lakwan,

806
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: would you be in the Rams fan here? Would you

807
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 1: wake up at say like three o'clock in the morning

808
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: if you had to to watch the Rams play.

809
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 2: I wake up at two am every day most of

810
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 2: the week for Good Morning Football, so I don't see

811
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,759
Speaker 2: why I would not three m. I don't know the

812
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,919
Speaker 2: average person who doesn't have that type of schedule would, but.

813
00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 3: I'm there, baby, forget waking up. Can we get you

814
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 3: to go to Australia for the oh? Listen?

815
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: I would love that.

816
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 2: I would love that because I know something.

817
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: Why just him? Why can't we all go?

818
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 3: I would love to as well, But if they're not

819
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 3: sending us, I'm not gonna drop the money. But no,

820
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 3: that would be awesome, man.

821
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 2: I honestly have never been out the country like that,

822
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 2: so I know we got some fans over there in Australia.

823
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 2: I would love to go over there and taste their food,

824
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 2: you know, box a kangaroo or something. I don't know.

825
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 2: You know, I'll be something to go and that's the

826
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 2: last we see of Laclawn.

827
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 3: Listen.

828
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 2: I can get one yard on a fourth and one

829
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 2: and I could probably box a kangaroo.

830
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna win. I'm not gonna win.

831
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 3: Have you ever watched a kangaroo video before.

832
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,839
Speaker 2: Uh, yes, I've seen a couple of kangaroo like the

833
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 2: wild safari stuff.

834
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 3: Their claws would rip you.

835
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,280
Speaker 1: To kangaroo will sleep you in a second.

836
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 2: Like, what are we talking about boxing gloves on them? Man,

837
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 2: we gotta be tradition. I just want to come right.

838
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 3: I got those back feet though. Man, I know.

839
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: This is making my head hurt. This is not where

840
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 1: the segment was supposed to go.

841
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 3: LaQuan you were you are that guy, Like there's always

842
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 3: tweets that are like the average man thinks they can

843
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 3: beat like a lion in a fight.

844
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 2: The average man like you are. Yes, yes, put me

845
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 2: on man versus animal. Bro, that's gonna show it at

846
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,280
Speaker 2: I'm down boxing gloves for safety.

847
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: We're not going to harm the animals.

848
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 3: They may harm me, but.

849
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 1: The animal's gonna harm you. Like, yeah, that's fine, they

850
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: might harm me. I'll be fine. I got inshortans. I

851
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 1: think you know my wife does at least Bro, you

852
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:38,839
Speaker 1: have children, Like, you can't be out here boxing kangaroos.

853
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:39,439
Speaker 1: What are we doing?

854
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 2: Fun fact, kangaroos cannot hop backward and their primary left handed.

855
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 2: So therefore I think I have a chance if I

856
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 2: plan and strategize his boxing match, and they're left handed.

857
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 3: Okay, I Twitter okay saying LaQuan win. Eighty two percent

858
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 3: of the people say no right now.

859
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 2: The only thing I fear is that they have the

860
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 2: same biting force as a grizzy bear, which is nine

861
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:05,240
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy five psi.

862
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,919
Speaker 3: They look like they bench a house, Like I'm looking

863
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 3: at you see these swoll these swollen ass kangaroos.

864
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 2: Man, Like what listen, stay on the right, stay on

865
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,359
Speaker 2: the right, and go around the back and just.

866
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 3: They can't hop backwards.

867
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: Come on no, which means which the advantage, which means

868
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,359
Speaker 1: they just keep advancing like that's all. They just keep

869
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,240
Speaker 1: coming at you like keep side staff.

870
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 3: Do you know how tall they are alone? Like they're

871
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 3: like six feet.

872
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:36,920
Speaker 2: I'm glad I don't have this actually lined up that

873
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:37,839
Speaker 2: this is gonna happen.

874
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: Don't you remember all those silver Looney suit cartoons with

875
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 1: syvested the cat was just getting his stuff punched in

876
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:46,359
Speaker 1: by a kangaroo like.

877
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 3: Like yeah, like, no, lie, a fight against the case

878
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 3: like that might be the worst animal you can fight

879
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 3: because they're they're like us. They're just huge and athletic

880
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 3: and they have claws and they are like us, but

881
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 3: they are not like us. So yeah, I love that.

882
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 2: I didn't think we'd have kangaroo boxing on this show.

883
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 2: Doug Fire content only man, go only be a family man,

884
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 2: Stop trying to fight wild animals. All right, that's enough

885
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 2: of that. Super Bowl fifty nine. I got a few questions.

886
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:20,839
Speaker 2: Let's start with a Super Bowl sleeper, Lakwan, Who is

887
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 2: your sleeper in this game?

888
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 1: The guy that I think that you think is gonna

889
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 1: pop off that maybe we're not talking a lot about

890
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 1: no AGray.

891
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 2: I think he's you know, he's on the contract year.

892
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:32,399
Speaker 2: I think more so of like he's the future if

893
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,439
Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey is going to be walking away from the game.

894
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 2: So I think, you know, he might pop up in

895
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 2: this big game, might be the headline, you know, for

896
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 2: next week as well, being like, oh wow, you might

897
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 2: have the future of the Chiefs tight end. You know

898
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 2: already you know, circled and played out. So I don't know,

899
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 2: I think I feel like he's going to have a

900
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 2: big game.

901
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: All right. Who's your sleeper, Flora?

902
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,800
Speaker 3: I like Noah Gray a lot. It's not nearly as sleepery.

903
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 3: It's hard to find a sleeper in one game. But

904
00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 3: I think Xavier Worthy is going to to do his

905
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 3: thing this week. The Eagles are elite at stopping the

906
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,680
Speaker 3: deep ball. They're also the best in the league at

907
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 3: preventing yak after the catch, which is the two ways

908
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 3: that Xavier Worth they can win. But I think that

909
00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 3: Andy Reid is going to generate a lot of plays

910
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 3: for him. We saw that against the Bills. We've seen

911
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 3: that in the second half of the year. I'd argue

912
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 3: he's their wide receiver one and he has the capability.

913
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 3: We're talking about how slow and old the Chiefs are.

914
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 3: He is there one guy that could break out a long,

915
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 3: big play.

916
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:31,839
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm worthy that He was my pick as well

917
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: as Avier Worthy, just because look early in the season,

918
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 1: I think he was asked to do a lot because

919
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: they needed him to do a lot. I mean, losing

920
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: Marquise Brown early, I mean, especially when they lose for

921
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: she Rice. I think they were asking him to do

922
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: a lot of things and it wasn't necessarily working out right.

923
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: Everybody looked at them like, oh my god, it's the

924
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,840
Speaker 1: fastest guy in the history of the Combine goes to

925
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and they had him running like go routes

926
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:57,600
Speaker 1: and it just wasn't really happening. But as the season progressed,

927
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:02,280
Speaker 1: you figured that they were finding new ways to integrate

928
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: him into the offense, finding new ways to sort of

929
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: make it work with him. And I think now, I mean,

930
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 1: we know Andy Reid after a bye generally is pretty deadly.

931
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 1: Giving him a couple of weeks to sort of work

932
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 1: some things out. I think they're going to have some

933
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 1: tricks up their sleeve and somehow. I think Xavier Worthy's

934
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 1: going to be the guy, whether it's in the running game,

935
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: whether it is as kind of a downfield thread or

936
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 1: maybe a more fully formed wide receiver. I think he's

937
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: the guy to keep an eye on Lakwan Which player

938
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: is most critical to their team's success coming up this week.

939
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 2: I'm going to go on the eagle side. I think

940
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 2: Aj Brown. I think he needs to have another game

941
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 2: where he's not the focal point, but where he's showing

942
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 2: up in chunk yards and he's showing up in the

943
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 2: end zone. I think it will be very crucial because

944
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 2: they shut him down. I'm not too sure who's going

945
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 2: to be able to step up other than Saquon on

946
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 2: the ground, but I think Spac's got a huge game

947
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 2: plan just around Saquon Barkley, being that this is this

948
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 2: first time experiencing the Saquon Barkley experience. So I think

949
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:01,640
Speaker 2: aj Brown needs to step up in a huge way.

950
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 2: He needs to get in back in that book to

951
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 2: enter excellence and you know, get his mind rate and

952
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 2: sho show up in the end zone.

953
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 1: All right, Who you got, Floria?

954
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:13,040
Speaker 3: Travis Kelce, which has been the answer for a while

955
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 3: for the Chiefs, but not so much this season. But

956
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 3: he leads the Chiefs and yards this year and targets,

957
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:22,800
Speaker 3: catches all of that against zone coverage and when teams

958
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 3: are not blitzing. And I think that's very important because

959
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:29,879
Speaker 3: the Eagles use zone at a very high rate. They

960
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 3: also blitz at the fourth lowest rate in the NFL.

961
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 3: And the other thing is they use Cover six as

962
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 3: their defense and hires three in the NFL. The Chiefs

963
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 3: really haven't seen that a whole bunch this year. So

964
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 3: I think it's going to come down to the chemistry

965
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:49,400
Speaker 3: that Mahomes and Kelsey has and just his ability to

966
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 3: find this soft spot in zones. I think that is

967
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 3: something that could be like a third and long. Oh

968
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,960
Speaker 3: backbreaking catch from Travis Kelcey. Stuff like that, I think

969
00:45:58,080 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 3: is how he's going to put his fingerprints on the game.

970
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna go with Jalen Hurts because I

971
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 1: think if you are Steve Spagnolo, job number one is

972
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: making sure Saquon doesn't beat you. And the Chiefs have

973
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 1: been pretty good against the run all year long. They

974
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 1: have the fourth fewest explosive plays allowed on the ground

975
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: during the regular season. They just weren't giving up a

976
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 1: ton of chunk plays in the running game. So I

977
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:25,279
Speaker 1: think you're gonna really see a focus on making sure

978
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:28,760
Speaker 1: Saquon doesn't have one of those big, huge Saquon games,

979
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,000
Speaker 1: which means I think Jalen Hurts is gonna have to

980
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: step up. And look, the last time these two teams played,

981
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts had himself a great game. Obviously, the Eagles

982
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:38,880
Speaker 1: came up short, but I don't think you could put

983
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:41,800
Speaker 1: any of that on Hurts. So I think he's gonna

984
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 1: have to kind of, you know, bottle up and refined

985
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,439
Speaker 1: whatever it was that worked a couple of seasons ago.

986
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 1: Because I think they're gonna need him. And when I

987
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:51,719
Speaker 1: say he has to have a good game. I don't

988
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:53,399
Speaker 1: think he's got to go for three hundred. I don't

989
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: think he needs to have like four touchdown passes or

990
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 1: anything like that. But he's got to be efficient. He's

991
00:46:58,040 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 1: got to be willing to take shots down the field

992
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:01,759
Speaker 1: when he has them. He's going to have to be

993
00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: willing to get out of the pocket and run when

994
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 1: he has those opportunities as well. But because I think

995
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are going to try their hardest to take

996
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 1: Saquan away, then that means Jalen Hurts is going to

997
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:13,719
Speaker 1: have to be the guy to step up and make

998
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:17,359
Speaker 1: plays when they need him to. I mean, look, these

999
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: are two good defensive teams. The Eagles, at least statistically

1000
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:26,839
Speaker 1: this year, I think were the better offensive team. If

1001
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: you were going to give a team the edge, we're

1002
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 1: gonna pick the winners in just a second. Look on,

1003
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 1: I mean, like, which team do you think is the

1004
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:35,959
Speaker 1: more well rounded of the two teams? Here?

1005
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,120
Speaker 2: Chiefs, you got to go to experience. Man, they've been

1006
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:40,880
Speaker 2: there before. They know how to win big games, and

1007
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 2: they know how to be clutch. And we've talked about

1008
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 2: Mahomes magic. You can't stop that. Once he gets to

1009
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:47,399
Speaker 2: a star Barer, So I got to give the edge

1010
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,280
Speaker 2: to them, man with coaching with Mahomes and just overall

1011
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 2: experiences just being there.

1012
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 1: Can you get out of your feelings enough Florida to

1013
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 1: give us an objective take on this?

1014
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 3: Yes, I think once you factor in Andy Reid and

1015
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:02,399
Speaker 3: Steve Spagnola, which I think is the biggest edge these

1016
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,920
Speaker 3: teams have is the coaching department. I think they are

1017
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 3: the greatest head coach coordinator combination that I've ever seen.

1018
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 3: I think that pushes it to the chief side. But

1019
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:16,359
Speaker 3: just talent wise, and like comparing the roster, I think

1020
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 3: the Eagles are the best roster in football. So if

1021
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 3: we took away all of the like the Chiefs magic

1022
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 3: and stuff and just broke it down roster wise, I

1023
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 3: think the edge goes to Philly.

1024
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: I think they are a deeper team. I think the

1025
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: Eagles are a deeper team. But coaching matters, especially in

1026
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, especially when you've had a couple of

1027
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 1: weeks to prepare, and so I think that that is

1028
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 1: where Kansas City I think has a bit of an advantage.

1029
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 1: And look, Patrick Mahomes. Patrick Mahomes is a legitimate advantage

1030
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:52,560
Speaker 1: right what he does and what he's able to do,

1031
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:56,839
Speaker 1: especially in clutch moments, I just can't be discounted. And

1032
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:58,600
Speaker 1: I think that goes a long way too, even if

1033
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:00,640
Speaker 1: the offense, like I think, I think down for pound,

1034
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: the Eagles offensively are a better team than Kansas City,

1035
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 1: but Patrick Mahomes sort of counts double because of what

1036
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:10,840
Speaker 1: he's able to do with the football in his hands.

1037
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:12,080
Speaker 3: Andy Reid as well.

1038
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if you're if we're putting Amy Reid

1039
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:17,800
Speaker 1: versus Nick Sirianni, I don't think it's a contest.

1040
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 3: And you got to add in spags to like. Andy

1041
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 3: Reid also has maybe the greatest decordinator in his bag too,

1042
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:26,319
Speaker 3: Like I mean.

1043
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, agree, although look, let's not knock Vic Fangio because

1044
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: also know who's outstanding with what he does as well.

1045
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 1: So all right, it's time to see who will deliver.

1046
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:41,560
Speaker 1: Presented by Uber Eats. Simple question, gentlemen, Lakwan, you first

1047
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:43,760
Speaker 1: pick your winner and your Super Bowl MVP.

1048
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 2: Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes and the chiefs man. He's

1049
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:51,919
Speaker 2: going to be catching up the Brady with them super

1050
00:49:51,960 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 2: Bowl MVPs.

1051
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: So that's a clear cut man, all right, Uh, Lareel,

1052
00:49:58,120 --> 00:49:59,760
Speaker 1: you're you're a super Bowl winner in your MVP.

1053
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 3: I feel very so like if the Eagles are gonna win,

1054
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 3: they're gonna have to kick the door down and take

1055
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:08,400
Speaker 3: it and not put the ball in Mahomes' hands late. Unfortunately,

1056
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 3: I don't think that is the case. I think Patrick

1057
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:14,560
Speaker 3: Mahomes has the ball late. And this was my preseason

1058
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,760
Speaker 3: Super Bowl prediction was Chiefs over Eagles, so I'm sticking

1059
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:21,400
Speaker 3: with that. I'm thinking it'll be close, like a field

1060
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 3: goal game or something like that. And obviously if they win,

1061
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:25,720
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes is winning the MVP.

1062
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:29,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess we make it unanimous, which we did

1063
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 1: that for the championship games and you see how that

1064
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 1: turned out for us.

1065
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:35,440
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1066
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:37,879
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think I think the Chiefs figure out

1067
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 1: a way to get through and win this thing. I

1068
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:42,440
Speaker 1: think I have a thirty one twenty eight if I

1069
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 1: if I have it right, and I think Mahomes, I

1070
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 1: think Mahomes pulls your MVP award yet again. I will

1071
00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 1: give you my hot take for the Super Bowl. I

1072
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 1: don't know if I said it on this show. I

1073
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:55,399
Speaker 1: know I've told some other people, but my hot take

1074
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:57,840
Speaker 1: is that the Chiefs win the Super Bowl and on

1075
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: the podium Travis kelce and now to his retirement and

1076
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: proposes to Taylor Swift and the internet melts. The Internet

1077
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:08,080
Speaker 1: melts down, and she's pregnant and she announces she's final.

1078
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:09,800
Speaker 2: Just blow it out in place up.

1079
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 3: And we get a whole off season of oh, this

1080
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 3: is why the Bills got cheated.

1081
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1082
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 3: No, I actually agree with Margus. I think this is

1083
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 3: Travis Kelsey's last game.

1084
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I think at some point he

1085
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 1: looks around and you know, look, what else is there

1086
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:30,319
Speaker 1: for him? Right? What else is there for him to accomplish?

1087
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: Really on the field. He's thirty five, He would be

1088
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:38,879
Speaker 1: thirty six sometime of early next season, And at some point,

1089
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 1: like do you want to go through the stress and

1090
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:45,239
Speaker 1: strain of another training camp? It's two days and one

1091
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:48,439
Speaker 1: hundred degree heat. Meanwhile, he's watching his brother make super

1092
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 1: commercials on bear skin rugs. They're getting paid one hundred

1093
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 1: million dollars to do a podcast. He's got a billionaire girlfriend.

1094
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 3: Travis Kelcey loses money playing football, Like that is true.

1095
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 1: That's at some point you're just like, do I really

1096
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 1: still need this?

1097
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 3: I believe that he wanted the Kelsey brothers wanted to

1098
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 3: go out together. But then when they won the second one,

1099
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:11,200
Speaker 3: he was like, I can't turn down the chance to

1100
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:11,800
Speaker 3: win three.

1101
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:13,839
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't do that. I can't walk away

1102
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 1: from it right now. So yeah, that's my that is

1103
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 1: my hot take. Chiefs. With the Super Bowl, Travis Kelcey

1104
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:21,839
Speaker 1: announces his retirement proposes by the way, that was Who

1105
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:23,680
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1106
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:25,480
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1108
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:31,280
Speaker 1: Now the exit interviews are done, the Super Bowl will

1109
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:35,760
Speaker 1: be done, the NFL season will officially be over as

1110
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 1: of Sunday night, but the podcast rolls on. We're back

1111
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:41,800
Speaker 1: with you next week and we'll be talking about I

1112
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 1: don't know something, I don't have the I don't have

1113
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: our little information sheet in front of me right now.

1114
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 3: Pros versus Joe's Lakwan versus the Kangaroo, sports signs.

1115
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 1: Or whatever it's like, and man versus animal, Lakwan v. Kangaroo.

1116
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:56,600
Speaker 1: That's what we'll talk about next week. But the meantime,

1117
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 1: that'll do it for this edition of the NFL Fantasy

1118
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 1: Football pot Castay, Happy, safe, and healthy, Do good, and

1119
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 1: live well. Enjoy Super Bowl fifty nine everybody, and we

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00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 1: will talk to you again next week. Wow.

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00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:32,720
Speaker 2: That could probably box a kangaroo.