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Speaker 1: Slash Podcasts, iTunes and Stitcher. Yeah, Fantasy Freaks and geeks,

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Speaker 1: what's up? James go here on the NFL Fantasy Life Podcast,

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Speaker 1: joined alongside by the whisked from Wisconsin, Alex gillhar what's up?

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Speaker 1: Not too much? This is a kind of an exciting

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Speaker 1: episode because we're we're we're playing a man down or

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Speaker 1: Marcus is occur, I believe currently in Amsterdam. So it's

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Speaker 1: just you, me and uh the one and only franchise

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Speaker 1: franciscovic I feel like there's too many mats here. We've

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Speaker 1: got a lot of mats. There's too many mats, but

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Speaker 1: we got the franchise. What's up man? What's up? James?

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Speaker 1: I'm glad I have a unique nickname Uni. The franchise

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Speaker 1: bless Adam Rank for giving that to you. Do you

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. The it's the density. It's like

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about sophomore positional battles well, uh, franchise and I.

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Speaker 1: Since he came back, we were banging out some content

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Speaker 1: looking at all of the fantasy relevant sophomores at quarterback,

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Speaker 1: But just looking at what these guys might have in

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Speaker 1: through it. Yeah, oh, Girly, Yeah, that's what I mean.

423
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Speaker 1: He might want to Yeah, he might want to play

424
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Speaker 1: through it. There's no one else there, like he's the

425
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Speaker 1: guy they're leaning on. So that's that's another concern I

426
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Speaker 1: would have. If David Johnson minor injury, there's guys that

427
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Speaker 1: can back him up. If Girly has an injury, he's

428
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Speaker 1: just gonna be out there every game no matter what.

429
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Speaker 1: J A g I E versus Matt Jones. This one

430
00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:54,480
Speaker 1: was super close as well, pretty dorn close. The favors

431
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Speaker 1: j A GI E just a touch. I don't mind it.

432
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Speaker 1: I don't mind I I know you, gil Hard, You're

433
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Speaker 1: not very high on Matt Jones now. I mean, if

434
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Speaker 1: he if he earns the featured back job there, I

435
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,280
Speaker 1: would feel a little bit more comfortable about him. But

436
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Speaker 1: I don't have faith that he will, and I think

437
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Speaker 1: he's going to lose a lot more work than somebody

438
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Speaker 1: like jas I will right now because Miami's basically put

439
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Speaker 1: to rest the rumors that they're going to acquire Arian Foster.

440
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Speaker 1: So the only real threat to touch is that as

441
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Speaker 1: I has is going to be Kenyan Drake in the

442
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Speaker 1: passing game, and there it came out recently that ag

443
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Speaker 1: I had been struggling a little bit in the passing game,

444
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Speaker 1: which is okay. You know, running backs aren't always the

445
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Speaker 1: best at catching passes. But I think he's going to

446
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Speaker 1: be their guy. He's going to be the red zone threat.

447
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Speaker 1: He's a big, powerful running back, so he's got the

448
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Speaker 1: touchdown upside for them, and he's going to get the

449
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Speaker 1: lion's share of the carries in that offense, which should

450
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Speaker 1: be I think he's a safe bet to put up

451
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Speaker 1: RB two value, whereas the range of outcomes from Matt

452
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Speaker 1: Jones for me is anywhere from like high RB two

453
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Speaker 1: to the RB four. Yeah, the risk is much higher

454
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Speaker 1: with Jones, and you're getting them basically in the same

455
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Speaker 1: I think both fifth round ADP are they going that high? Yes?

456
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Speaker 1: Are they both are certainly going that high. The other

457
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Speaker 1: thing with a gay man, I don't mind it for

458
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Speaker 1: a g I, I it worries me. For Jones, there's

459
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Speaker 1: a lot of risk. Yeah. Um. The other thing for

460
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Speaker 1: a GI in the passing game, he caught fifty passes

461
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Speaker 1: in his junior year at Boise State. Yes he can.

462
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 1: He's a he's a three down back. I think these

463
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Speaker 1: these little blurbs about guys dropping passes in O T

464
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Speaker 1: A s are way overblown. That's very true. It's a

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Speaker 1: good point. Yeah. Um. For the record, a g I

466
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Speaker 1: is going on average on NFL dot Com at pick

467
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Speaker 1: forty six in the middle of the fifth round. Matt

468
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Speaker 1: Jones is going seventy three right now in the eighth. Actually,

469
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Speaker 1: I think other other places have him higher. We had

470
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Speaker 1: him ranked a little lower after our ranking summit to

471
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Speaker 1: our Council of Rankings, and uh so that's that's why

472
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Speaker 1: he's going to at touch touch lower on our side here. Um,

473
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Speaker 1: j j I, you've got him at thirty eight overall.

474
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Speaker 1: And again, you know, I'm not gonna hold your feet

475
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Speaker 1: to the fire here because I mean, obviously the rankings

476
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Speaker 1: have to be updated. Um, but man, it's because I

477
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Speaker 1: like j j I E. I feel like I like JEDGI.

478
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Speaker 1: But I've got him rank so low. I've got him

479
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Speaker 1: at sixty eight. Um, I've got him at sixty yet

480
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 1: I've got Matt Jones a sixty three. A big part

481
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Speaker 1: of my rankings looking the way they do, though, and

482
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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people won't agree. Um. You know,

483
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Speaker 1: I'll get guys like Ben Roethlisberger up there. You know,

484
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,960
Speaker 1: I'll put Aaron Rodgers way higher. I'll put Cam Newton

485
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,359
Speaker 1: way higher. Um, mostly because there's so much volatility once

486
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Speaker 1: you start getting to these second third running backs. And

487
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Speaker 1: for me, give me an elite guy. And if if

488
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take an elite guy, I'm gonna rank him

489
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Speaker 1: higher than somebody like j J I, who I think

490
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Speaker 1: has still some question and and and it's so funny,

491
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Speaker 1: man like I like him like I like him. I

492
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Speaker 1: like him in that in Miami, I like him in

493
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Speaker 1: in the Adam Gay system. But can I can I

494
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Speaker 1: say one thing though, that that does give me some

495
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Speaker 1: pause for concerns. Certainly, I think Miami's defense is gonna

496
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Speaker 1: be garbage. I think Miami's defense is gonna be trash.

497
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Speaker 1: And for that reason, I don't think they will lean

498
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Speaker 1: on the running game as much. I'm starting to really

499
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 1: come around um to liking Davante Parker to to like

500
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Speaker 1: in the passing game, Landry tannehill Um, I'm really coming

501
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,159
Speaker 1: around to to like in the passing option a lot

502
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Speaker 1: more because the more I look at that defense, the

503
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Speaker 1: more question marks I have, or the more question marks

504
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Speaker 1: there are, and uh and I and I just think

505
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Speaker 1: they're gonna be playing from behind or gonna be having

506
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Speaker 1: to score a lot of points a lot and for

507
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Speaker 1: that reason, and then I think about Adam Gates two, right,

508
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Speaker 1: a passing guy. I'm starting to really come around to

509
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Speaker 1: that Miami passing attack. He did get some very very

510
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Speaker 1: solid running back seasons as an offensive coordinator too, though

511
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Speaker 1: his first one in Denver wasn't the no Sean Moreno

512
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Speaker 1: like miracle year, uh Bush the miracle year where he

513
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Speaker 1: finishes like the RB five or whatever. Year after that,

514
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Speaker 1: it was the it was the split of of Hillman

515
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Speaker 1: and c J. Anderson. But once he started feeding c J.

516
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Speaker 1: Anderson the rocks and he went went crazy down the stretch.

517
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Speaker 1: And even last year, Matt four too was having a

518
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Speaker 1: great year, got injured, Lankford came in, had some good work,

519
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Speaker 1: and once Matt four came back, they both had productive weeks.

520
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Speaker 1: So he does he does love the past but I

521
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Speaker 1: think that that sets up a productive running game as well.

522
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Speaker 1: There you go, uh one one quick, I think it

523
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Speaker 1: before before you change. I was just looking at this.

524
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Speaker 1: So Matt Jones last year had eight games with double

525
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Speaker 1: digit carries. He only averaged more than three point four

526
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Speaker 1: or five yards per carry in two of those games.

527
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Speaker 1: Below average. Poor, It's not great, it's below average. That's

528
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Speaker 1: not very good. Melvin Gordon a mirror Abdullah? Uh can

529
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Speaker 1: I say pass this one? Actually? I had just checked

530
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Speaker 1: again tipped to a mirror Abdulla Gordon as of the

531
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Speaker 1: last votes? Uh can I can I take a mulligan

532
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,399
Speaker 1: on this one? This one? I don't even want to

533
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,120
Speaker 1: think about this one. This one. I think the biggest

534
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: thing here is, and we've talked about this before on

535
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Speaker 1: the podcast, is Amer Abdullah might be a member of

536
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Speaker 1: a committee in Detroit and Melvin Gordon is going to

537
00:27:17,119 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: be the feature back in San Diego. And I think that, hey,

538
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: what hey, how dare you disrespect Danny woodhead like that?

539
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:28,359
Speaker 1: I thought what you were setting it up for is

540
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: amerab Dula might be a part of a committee, Melvin

541
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,160
Speaker 1: Gordon is part of a committee and featured back. I'm

542
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: i wanted a tip stuff over back here. I had

543
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 1: an internal struggle about this Melvin Gordon thing. In the

544
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,159
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks after I wrote this article, I

545
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: jumped on the Melvin Gordon train, hype train, or whatever

546
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 1: we want to call it. I don't even know if

547
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 1: it's hype train anymore. But um, I'm on board with

548
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon because he isn't gonna cost you much. There's

549
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,920
Speaker 1: no way he doesn't score. He he had what two

550
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,879
Speaker 1: hundred and seven touches or something like here, and he

551
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 1: didn't score touchdown. That's an anomaly. That's not gonna happen again.

552
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: He's gonna get in the end zone this year. He's

553
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:12,120
Speaker 1: going to get all the early down work. And he looks, yeah,

554
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,400
Speaker 1: there's concerns with his knee. He's at a good place

555
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: right now. That surgery was back in January. By the

556
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 1: time the season starts will be eight or nine months out.

557
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 1: And I think, Um, he said one of the biggest

558
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 1: things that he struggled with was the mental part of

559
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 1: the game. And now he's he's got a year of

560
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,639
Speaker 1: learning the playbook, a whole offseason to learn more of

561
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Speaker 1: the playbook. And I think Melvin Gordon is going to

562
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: have a bounce back here and I'm going to surprise

563
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 1: a lot of people. And for a guy who's a

564
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: starting running back to get him in the seventh round,

565
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:40,959
Speaker 1: I think that's an amazing value and I'll take him

566
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: there all day. Uh. Fantasy football calculator, Melvin Gordon going

567
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Speaker 1: in the middle of round seven? What is what pick

568
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: is this? Yeah? Pick number? Yeah whatever, He's the twenty

569
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 1: seven running back off the board. He's going in the

570
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Speaker 1: middle of round seven in the ten team league and

571
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Speaker 1: a Mayor Bill is going at the end of round seven.

572
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: So they're very very close, very very close. But man,

573
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 1: I don't know. I want no piece of ether one guy, man.

574
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 1: But I mean, if you had to choose, if I

575
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Speaker 1: had to, if I if I absolutely had to, I

576
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 1: guess I'll go a Mir Abdullah just based off of upside. Uh.

577
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Speaker 1: We'll give a little shout out to friend Brad Evans. Okay,

578
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: yeahoo sports. He wrote a big He's been on on

579
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 1: Twitter a lot, like going to bat and then you know,

580
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: fighting for Melvin Gordon. And he wrote a good little piece.

581
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: You can check it out on Yahoo. But he pulled

582
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: some other good some other metrics that work in favor

583
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: of Gordon and speak to how terrible his offensive line

584
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 1: was and stuff like. Have they addressed that and people

585
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: are just gonna be healthy this year? And I think

586
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: they I think they scooped up some um and they

587
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: scooped up some some draft picks that that I think

588
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: there's a center that they got that Daniel Jeremiah Bucky

589
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: Brooks really like or heard them talk about the move

590
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 1: the sticks. But so, Gordon's had point one eight tackles

591
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: avoided pertem was number eight at his position. It's two

592
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: point two yards after contact, outpaced guys such as Lashawn McCoy,

593
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: DeVonta Freeman, and de Marco Murray. He had an eighty

594
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: nine point to catch percentage, which was outstanding, number three

595
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 1: among all running backs, and eight point one percent of

596
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 1: his runs went for ten or more yards, which isn't

597
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: too bad. I was looking at that that statu um

598
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: myself and some of the best guys were around like ten.

599
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: So he's not too far off of that. Behind a

600
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: terrible offensive line, there's reasons for optimism. I think I

601
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: would side Abdullah. I don't know. You guys can have him.

602
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 1: You guys can have him. Look Gordon's got that microfracture,

603
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: man that I just can't get around that. I just

604
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 1: cannot get around that surgical procedure that has absolutely destroyed

605
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 1: the careers of numerous athletes. Um, I just can't wrap

606
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 1: my mind around it. I really can't. I think the

607
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: defense is again in San Diego, is still gonna be horrible. Um.

608
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: You know, Danny Woodhead is still there. He was clearly

609
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: the better a player when both guys were healthy. Um,

610
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: in a mirrorb Doula. I mean, look, I don't I'm

611
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 1: not in love with a mirrorb Dula either. I think

612
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: he's I think both guys are just quite frankly, I

613
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: think both guys are gonna be a bust next year.

614
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: I think both guys are being heavily overdrafted right now

615
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 1: as we speak today, seventh round. There's no freaking way

616
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:20,800
Speaker 1: I would pay that price for Gordon or Abdula. This

617
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 1: is no way. Are you kidding me? No way? Uh?

618
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,440
Speaker 1: Double digit rounds? Fine, okay, great, But I mean where

619
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Speaker 1: they're going right now, there's absolutely no way I'm taking

620
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 1: either one of those guys. It's not kid all right, Well,

621
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 1: let's go the Weber Shivers let's go to wide receivers.

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Speaker 1: Tyler lock It DeVante Parker lock It with the edge.

623
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Speaker 1: According to Twitter, what say you franchise? Uh, this is

624
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: a hard one because they're both I mean, Lockett had

625
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: an amazing rookie year. DeVante Parker we only really saw

626
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: at the end of last year. Um, and he was

627
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,479
Speaker 1: still coming back from that foot injury, so he might

628
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 1: have been I think I like Tyler Lockett's upside more

629
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: because what do they got Doug Baldwin. Tyler Lockett's probably

630
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 1: their number two, which I think some recent news reports

631
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: have pointed at, and Parker Parker will be Miami's number two.

632
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: But I think Landry is the target hog there. Um,

633
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 1: and there's some other guys in that passing game that

634
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:24,479
Speaker 1: could could soak up targets other than part Yeah are

635
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: there though, there are there there there, They're loaded at wide.

636
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: Let's just let's just X off Kenny Stills. He's like, no,

637
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: another guy that James just buried. Let's just him off.

638
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: But if it's a conversation between Lockett and Parker, I'm

639
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: gonna go lock It, Okay, Wiz, I Man, this one's

640
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: hard because I think I like Lockett better. As a

641
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: player and what he put on tape as a rookie.

642
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: That's right. He's got he's got the better quarterback, and

643
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: he's in an offense that I think could be skewing

644
00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: a little more pass heavy. The reason for optimism with

645
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: Devantae Parker, though, is that Adam Gaze has pummeled his

646
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: number one like outside receiver with targets in the past

647
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 1: like Damarius Thomas Jeffrey. Those guys were huge target hogs,

648
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: and he likes having that big threat. And DeVante Parker,

649
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: even though he barely played last year's probably the team's

650
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 1: best threat in the red zone now because of his

651
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: size and his leaping ability. I mean, Jervis Landy's great,

652
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: but he was good down the stretch too. I mean,

653
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: let's not mitigate what he did down the stretch. DeVante

654
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:30,720
Speaker 1: Parker was pretty good down the street. He had a

655
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: couple of good games. I've watched all I watched all

656
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: of his stuff recently for the sophomore wide receiver study too.

657
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: Um And I mean, Lockett got more consistently open against

658
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: man and against zone, and he's got that deep speed.

659
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 1: I think, God, it's so close, it's so close. I

660
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: think I would sidelock It just by a hair as well,

661
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: because I like what he offers on an individual basis

662
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 1: more and I like I like his quarterback all right,

663
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,520
Speaker 1: so I like lock It. I love lock It, um

664
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: and uh. And my initial rankings came out, I got

665
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: locked at sixty nine overall, Devanta Parker at seventy four.

666
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: So they're they're they're very close. Um. But I will

667
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: say this, the more I I've looked at the tape,

668
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 1: the more I've thought about situations. Um, again, I'm leaning

669
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: a little bit more towards Devanta Parker right now. I

670
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 1: think Tyler Lockett's got better upside. Uh. I think his

671
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: skill like what his skill set is is, uh, it's

672
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 1: gonna lend itself towards more volatility. Uh. But that being said,

673
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: I think he's got I think he's got higher upside

674
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: because he's just a freak athlete. Um. DeVante Parker is

675
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: a good athlete, not a freak athlete. Very smooth as

676
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: a as a wide receiver. But you mentioned it man,

677
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 1: the Adam Gates effect. They pound their target. They've got

678
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: two guys. They've got Landry, they've got Jarvis Landry, and

679
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 1: they've got DeVante Parker. I think Landry fills that underneath role.

680
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: But when you start talking about touchdown potential, man, I

681
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 1: really like what div Tap Parker's got there. And here's

682
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 1: the other thing too. Again I mentioned it before. Their

683
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: defense is gonna beat garbage. It's gonna be trash. All

684
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: due respect to and Dominin Sue, who's there. I get it,

685
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: Okays on defense, he's one guy. I'm not. I'm not

686
00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: impressed with what they got defensively, and I think they're

687
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: gonna be playing from behind quite a bit. Um that

688
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: being the case, I think what we saw last year

689
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 1: with the Jacks. I always point to the Jacks because

690
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 1: the Jacks had a horrible defense last year and as

691
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:33,280
Speaker 1: a result, we saw their offensive guys able to shine.

692
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:37,240
Speaker 1: Alan Hearns came out of absolutely nowhere, uh to score

693
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: double digit touchdowns. Allen Robinson um to everyone except Matt

694
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,640
Speaker 1: Harmon came in pretty much out of nowhere. I don't

695
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:47,880
Speaker 1: even think Matt Harmon could have projected fourteen touchdowns for

696
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson. And then we saw the quarterback to also

697
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: developed as well. So I don't know, Man, in Miami,

698
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,839
Speaker 1: I like what they got going on. I'm the more

699
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: I really start thinking about their situation. The more excited

700
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 1: I get about Miami, especially considering the draft prices on

701
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 1: some of these guys, I think these guys are gonna

702
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 1: be huge bargains. Uh, come draft here. I'm I'm all

703
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 1: all in on the Miami offense, especially given especially given

704
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: uh their draft, James, have you learned nothing from recent history?

705
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: I feel like this is the time every year everybody

706
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:26,439
Speaker 1: gets excited. Ryan Tannehill is gonna take the next let's

707
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 1: go back to He's got his college coordinator. It's gonna

708
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:34,320
Speaker 1: be great. No, Now, last year, Ryan Tannehill is gonna progress.

709
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 1: He's got good weapons. He's been in the same offense

710
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 1: for years. No, that's why, like Greg Gross and I

711
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 1: think we talked about this in Last Pot or Not.

712
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 1: He wrote a good piece on why Tannehill could break out,

713
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: and when they tweeted it out from there on the

714
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: NFL handle like tweeted and said, oh, I see, we've

715
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: reached the Ryan Tannehill's gonna break out portion of the

716
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: off season. We have. We run into this every year

717
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: and it has not worked out ever. Alright, Fine, so

718
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:02,320
Speaker 1: I I I understand, I understand those reasons to get excited.

719
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 1: But I think the the trump cards for me Ryan

720
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: Tannehill and that Tyler Lockets as a better quarterback and

721
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: I like him more as a player so far. Kevin White,

722
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 1: Dorieal Green Beckham, Kevin White fifty eight percent, d g

723
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: B forty two percent. Wiz where do you lean? This

724
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: is a tough one for me because, um, while I

725
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:27,800
Speaker 1: like Kevin White as the player more even though he

726
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: hasn't set foot on an NFL field yet. Yeah, I

727
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 1: mean that's the That's the surprising thing about this number,

728
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: is it not? And I think that the trouble is

729
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 1: And here's why I think people have sided with the

730
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 1: fact that White is so it is beating Doroyal Greenbackham.

731
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 1: My sizeable margin is they're picturing in their heads the

732
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall Alshan Jeffrey both finishes a top twelve Fantasy

733
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:50,840
Speaker 1: wide receiver year. However, that coaching coordinator is gone. It

734
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: is now John Fox, who has been historically a run

735
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: heavy coach. It's double Loganins who hasn't had a ton

736
00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 1: of like super fantasy success as a as a coordinator.

737
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: And this is a team that's probably going to be

738
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,760
Speaker 1: run first with their committee backfield of Lankford and Howard.

739
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 1: So that is what concerns me about Kevin White when

740
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: thinking about draft drafting him or if he's going to

741
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: be far outscore somebody like d G B. I don't

742
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,879
Speaker 1: even have him my top hundred Kevin White. You don't

743
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: know if Kevin went your top hunder. I don't have

744
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,560
Speaker 1: him in my top hundred. Um. And I mean that's

745
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 1: not saying much because I think the rest of the guys, uh,

746
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: you guys got him in the nineties. Guys got him

747
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: in the nineties. Who who's the highest Adam rank is

748
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:34,279
Speaker 1: the Adam rank he's got, But even he has him

749
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: at eight two. So you know, I'm not I'm not

750
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: saying much by saying I don't have Kevin White in

751
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,320
Speaker 1: my top So in my in the in the sophomore

752
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: wad receivers today, did I pulled up this nugget? Was

753
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: that in the offenses under Trestman, when Marshall and Jeffrey

754
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: had those massive years and Trustman's entire tenure as an

755
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: NFL head coach offensive coordinator, his offenses of average finishing

756
00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 1: eighth and past attempts versus one for offenses led by

757
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: John Fox, and if you take out the few years

758
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: John Fox had Peyton Manning when he was basically the

759
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. His offense is sink to past attempts, So

760
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 1: the volume takes a huge hit from that coordinator standpoint,

761
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 1: and Alston Jeffrey is the number one guy there. Zach

762
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: Miller is going to command some looks because he's got

763
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 1: a rapport with Jay Cutler. Kevin White's been working in

764
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: the off season. But my the concern with Kevin White

765
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:24,320
Speaker 1: is that he's just he's not going to get the

766
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 1: looks that people are expecting. I don't even know. I mean,

767
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,879
Speaker 1: we don't even know what he's gonna look like, period, period. Yeah,

768
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 1: he's somebody I'm very excited to watch in the preseason.

769
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 1: So I guess right now, I don't know. I don't

770
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,719
Speaker 1: know how you don't go Doroyal Green. I just don't know.

771
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: I don't get it. I think I have to tip

772
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:47,360
Speaker 1: the scales in favor of d g B at this

773
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: point is did you be not the number one guy

774
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. Well, he's this This is the touch of

775
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 1: the offseason, swirling rumors that Taj Sharp starting ahead of

776
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 1: him and stuff like that. But but d g B

777
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,719
Speaker 1: has the potential to be where Kevin White will be

778
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 1: the number two in Chicago because al Sean Jeffers there

779
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 1: you go. I think I think we can say that

780
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: no matter what, right right, and and d g B,

781
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: if if he is healthy and he is in the field,

782
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: is going to be one of the primary red zone

783
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: threats there because he's six five and as a thirtysomething

784
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: verty vertical in sleeve. He's a monster. He's a monster.

785
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 1: I mean, you'll watch him play out there, You're like,

786
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,240
Speaker 1: I mean, he looks like he looks like a giant

787
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: out there. It looks like an absolute So we just

788
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: he just needs to put it all together. So yeah,

789
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: I think it's it's a it's a very close call,

790
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: but I think I would sign d g B as

791
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: of this point without seeing Kevin White. I mean, you

792
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: gotta keep in mind too, going into last year he

793
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: basically took a year off football. Yeah, last year he

794
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: was the first year of football in two years. What

795
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 1: is he gonna look like this year? I'm really excited

796
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: about d g B. He's one of my favorite sleepers going.

797
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: He's gotta I like the quarterback situation there in Tennessee,

798
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota we talked about before. I think he, to

799
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 1: me anyways, looks like the number one guy there in Tennessee.

800
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: What's there not to like? I mean, the projection on

801
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:04,359
Speaker 1: Kevin White is is kind of interesting. I'm surprised it's

802
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: it's fifty two? Is it because Tennessee was such a

803
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 1: I don't know, it has been for so long, so bad.

804
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: I think it's just that d g B had trouble

805
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,320
Speaker 1: staying healthy last year. He's made some bone headed decisions

806
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: in the off season in the past. He was came

807
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: out out of shape last year, is what they were

808
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: saying too. He's already been nicked up a little bit

809
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,439
Speaker 1: this year, so I think people are more excited about

810
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: Kevin White, who seems more focused. E've been putting an

811
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: extra time with Cutler and stuff. It's supposed to d

812
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,040
Speaker 1: g B, who right near right now, people feel like

813
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: it's kind of an enigma. So alright, franchise, I would

814
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: go d GB just because of what we said he has.

815
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 1: He has the upside to be that team's number one

816
00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 1: wide out. Kevin White, we don't even know what he's

817
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: gonna be. I mean, you're drafting Kevin White based on

818
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 1: potential and you're basically guessing, and I don't want to

819
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 1: waste a draft pick on a guest, at least with

820
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,439
Speaker 1: d g B, you know, I mean, I don't mind

821
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 1: taking Kevin White in rounds twelve plus, yeah, or if

822
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 1: you're in a twelve team lager. That's situations. ADP right

823
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:03,920
Speaker 1: now is about round eleven Whites. White's in the better situation,

824
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 1: but d g B has that that year of actually

825
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 1: being on the field. He didn't play every game, but

826
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,319
Speaker 1: he's actually played in NFL games before, and I think

827
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: I would lean towards him because of that. So you know,

828
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: that's what's so funny to me is that, like there's

829
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: this perception that Chicago is a better situation for the

830
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:29,839
Speaker 1: pass catchers than Tennessee. I don't necessarily know if it's

831
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:32,840
Speaker 1: that clear for me, for many of the reasons that

832
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 1: uh Gelhardt pointed out that John Fox is a head

833
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 1: coach does it's a low volume attack, and plus they've

834
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:44,720
Speaker 1: got running backs there, right, So like that that works

835
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: into what John Fox wants to do, which is pound

836
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 1: the ball. He wants to pound the ball, and and

837
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 1: then you start thinking about Jake Cutler once he starts

838
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,879
Speaker 1: getting Google eyes for a guy. I mean there, it's

839
00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: a it becomes a one wide receiver offense. Um Dorio

840
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: Green Beckham. I mean again, I think that offense is

841
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 1: on the rise. I like the quarterback. I like what

842
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,240
Speaker 1: they did in the draft. They picked up Jack Conklin,

843
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 1: address the offensive line a little bit. I know they

844
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Speaker 1: still got a ways to go, but I don't know.

845
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Speaker 1: The other I don't mind it. The other thing is

846
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: Tennessee had virtually no run game last year, and I

847
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: think this year they'll, you know, it'll be a more

848
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 1: balanced offense and the big sense, which will benefit the

849
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: wide receivers. And I think the offense took a big

850
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 1: step forward in Tennessee and um, not that it took

851
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 1: a step back in Chicago. I'm not saying that. But

852
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: again the John Fox did. Yeah. Again, I think between

853
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 1: Lankford and Howard and um, you know, whatever they've they've

854
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 1: got there, I think they'll be okay. It's not And

855
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 1: keep in mind too, for they lost Forte. Forte is

856
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 1: a fabulous player, but was getting a little long in

857
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: the two. Yes, so you know, I think they'll be okay. Uh,

858
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 1: Devin functious still a fun Diggs. This is another hard one.

859
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:11,800
Speaker 1: Bunches Digs sixty eight percent. I was kind of surprised

860
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: to see this one skewed so heavily in favor of Digs.

861
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: But a franchise and I were talking about this before

862
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 1: the show. I my my guests as to why people

863
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: voted so heavily in favor of Digs is because they're

864
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: factoring in Kelvin Benjamin coming in and probably getting of

865
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: the targets in Carolina again, Greg Olsen is gonna get

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00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 1: another and Devin Funcius is gonna have to have to

867
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 1: battle for looks, whereas Stefon Diggs is at worst the

868
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: number two pass catching option in his offense, potentially number

869
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: one as Laquon tread Well adjusts to the NFL game,

870
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 1: and we saw him put up some some really good,

871
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 1: some really good weeks there for a while, especially in PPR.

872
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 1: Once he came out of nowhere and dropped like four

873
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,319
Speaker 1: for eighty or something on the Broncos, and you watch

874
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: his game tape. I was so surprised with Stefon Diggs.

875
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: He's such a He's a smooth and very efficient route

876
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 1: runner and athlete. He can he can work, he can

877
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,359
Speaker 1: get people lost following him in his routes and it's

878
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:07,759
Speaker 1: it's very it's very fake. Watch. I agree. I liked

879
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: I liked him coming out of college to Maryland. I

880
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 1: mean he was I like guys that. I like guys

881
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: who play for bad teams in college and and and

882
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: actually shoulder the load. Um. And that's what Diggs was

883
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 1: for Maryland and those horrible, horrible unis that they have

884
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: gotta gotta take a dig at their unis. I'll show

885
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 1: myself out good, all right. I'll also say this about

886
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: Devin Funchius man Um Again, I don't know how fair

887
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:37,800
Speaker 1: it is to go back to college, but I'll do

888
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 1: it anyways. Um, he's got shaky hands. Uh. He had

889
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: chicky hands at Michigan, always has um. And I don't

890
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: necessarily know if he address those hands or he's developed

891
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: at all as a wide receiver. Last year, I mean,

892
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: Cam Newton's throwing you the ball. Um. I don't know.

893
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: I wasn't oppressed with Devin Funches last year. I think

894
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:06,879
Speaker 1: he was kind of a guy a byproduct of opportunity.

895
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 1: He caught less than half of his targets last year.

896
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 1: Is that right? Sixty three targets, thirty one receptions. That's

897
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 1: bad Yeah, that's that is a red flag. That's just

898
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:21,840
Speaker 1: that's not even like not good. That's bad. That's a

899
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 1: hands issue. That's a hands issue. No, thank you. I

900
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 1: will pass on that one. He's huge though, oh six

901
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 1: five to thirty five, so that makes him a red

902
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:33,760
Speaker 1: zone threat. But I guess we know the Panthers aren't

903
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: really you know who's growing. He's bigger than him though.

904
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 1: Cam Newton. Yeah, Cam Newton is just gonna be at

905
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,400
Speaker 1: the one yard lines throwing, throwing passes up to himself.

906
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 1: That would be the greatest play history if Cam Newton

907
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 1: threw a fade to himself and caught it, and if

908
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 1: I had to bet money on one player doing it

909
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: in the NFL, I could totally see him doing that. Absolutely,

910
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: But no, there's too many other targets in Carolina. Man,

911
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 1: I'll pass. There's I can't even see myself in any situation. Uh.

912
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:09,360
Speaker 1: Drafting Devin Funchess somebody and somebody. I was at a

913
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 1: draft party last year. I was hosting a draft party,

914
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:16,439
Speaker 1: a direct TV event, and UM, and I saw somebody

915
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 1: took David Devon Funcius in the like ninth round or something.

916
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, what are you doing? I was like, what

917
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 1: are you doing. He's like, He's like, I'm telling you, Devin,

918
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: there's nobody there. Calvin Benjamin's hurt. Devin Funch is gonna

919
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:31,719
Speaker 1: step and he's gonna be the new Calvin Benjamin. I'm like, bro, No,

920
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 1: the guy can't catch the ball. And last time I checked,

921
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:36,759
Speaker 1: this pretty important for a wide receiver to be able

922
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: to catch that ball. Um. But wow, I didn't know.

923
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:42,760
Speaker 1: I didn't know his catch rate was that bad. That's horrible.

924
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: All right, let's do daily DAPs. Get out here, let's

925
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:58,919
Speaker 1: do him all right, dayly Dap time. We gotta Matt

926
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 1: Francis Scritch, the France guys, the best beard in all

927
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: the fantasy. What's up? What's up? I'm gonna give my

928
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:07,320
Speaker 1: daily death to this artist called Blood Orange, Blood Orange.

929
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,879
Speaker 1: His name is It's a Monkey or his real name

930
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 1: is dev Hinz. He's a well known producer, songwriter, really

931
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: good guitarist. He's worked with Florence in the Machine Solange

932
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:25,320
Speaker 1: Knowles in the past. But he's put out. Um. He

933
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: just put out his I think third solo album, like

934
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:34,880
Speaker 1: surprise last night. It just came out online. It's called Freetown.

935
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 1: Hold on Alright, Freetown Sound. And if I had to

936
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:42,600
Speaker 1: compare this guy to anyone, I would call him Uh.

937
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: He emotes some prints action with his voice and the

938
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 1: vibes of the music like chill wave, airy guitars and

939
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff going on. So if you're into

940
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: that those kinds of tunes, check out Blood Orange Freetown Sound.

941
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 1: I haven't actually listened to it myself, but I'm really

942
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: excited to as soon as this podcast ends. All right,

943
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: I like it? Um alex yo heart. What's up? First?

944
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 1: Daily dep has to go to the Iceland national team

945
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: in the euro Socker, where did that come from? What

946
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: a story like these? Where does that come from? There?

947
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 1: They have a population of like three thousand and uh.

948
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 1: They beat England in the knockout round two to one

949
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:26,040
Speaker 1: in a pretty convincing fashion. Um, so sorry to any

950
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: England listeners out there, but how can you not love

951
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 1: the Iceland national team. Last yesterday on Twitter, like after

952
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 1: they want a bunch of stuff with surfit sing from

953
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 1: like journalists out there and stuff like showing the homes

954
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:39,480
Speaker 1: of the Iceland national people are like where the and

955
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 1: it's legitimately like stone cottages on a lake in the

956
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 1: middle of and like one of my favorites was that

957
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,800
Speaker 1: the England manager made like four point two million dollars

958
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:50,800
Speaker 1: per year or something and the Iceland manager had to

959
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:55,959
Speaker 1: be a part time dentist to pay the bills. That's true.

960
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 1: One of the one of the guys that plays for

961
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: the national team also like works the gas station in

962
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:04,360
Speaker 1: the winter when he's not playing soccer. So it's just

963
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:07,600
Speaker 1: an amazing like underdog story. And it's kind of cool

964
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:10,480
Speaker 1: that we've had too on such a grand stage in

965
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:13,400
Speaker 1: the world of soccer this year, with Leicester City winning

966
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:16,400
Speaker 1: the Premier League and now Iceland making it to the

967
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: round of eight in the Euros So THEYD after them,

968
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: that's gotta be exciting, and I'm sure there are crazy

969
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 1: parties in Iceland right now. And then the second Daily

970
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 1: Death quick is to just the Game of Thrones finale,

971
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:31,759
Speaker 1: like uh, episode nine, the Battle of the Bastards was tremendous,

972
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:35,000
Speaker 1: and then they had I was it was I everybody's

973
00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 1: talking like, yeah, that the finale is gonna be good.

974
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 1: We'll probably be a letdown, but holy crap, was that

975
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:42,280
Speaker 1: was that a fun finale? With the stories they pushed forwards,

976
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:45,880
Speaker 1: the things they revealed the teasers they left for next season,

977
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 1: and uh, I just think they've done a tremendous job.

978
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 1: Like a lot of people thought that the a song

979
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: about some fire book series was going to be unadaptable

980
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:56,080
Speaker 1: for TV or film. And credit to those to those guys,

981
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 1: their whole team. Uh, you know, from the writing to

982
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 1: the directing, cinematography, acting, even the music like holy that

983
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 1: that music is awesome. Franchise and I were listening to

984
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 1: it again yesterday because he found one of the main

985
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:08,400
Speaker 1: songs on Spotify. Uh, and if you want to find that,

986
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: I think we tweeted out so you can go to

987
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 1: my Twitter and find the Spotify link to that song.

988
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: But just daily depths all around, it's been a tremendous

989
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 1: watch this season. Good stuff. I will give Daily Depts

990
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: out to Uh. A rapper by the name of Logic

991
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 1: White rapper from Watchington d C. I believe he's got

992
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: a new song alt called flex Acution. Uh. He's a

993
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: little bit of a I don't know, kind of an

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say underground guy because he is

995
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 1: signed to a label. It's just not he doesn't have

996
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:39,160
Speaker 1: a lot of UM. He's very popular online, super popular online.

997
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: I just actually discovered him about I don't know, maybe

998
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 1: a few months ago, but but I like the music.

999
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:46,920
Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's a little hit or miss. But

1000
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:50,720
Speaker 1: when he hits, it's really good. When he misses, it's okay.

1001
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 1: But you know what, as a matter of fact, what

1002
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 1: rapper can you not say that about? Yeah, that's very true.

1003
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:58,279
Speaker 1: That's yeah okay. UM, a couple of podcasts I want

1004
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 1: to give a daily depth help. This one African Life.

1005
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: Their most recent episode, they had a thing called Choosing

1006
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:09,440
Speaker 1: Choosing Wrong, um, and uh, if you're married, it's got

1007
00:52:09,520 --> 00:52:12,759
Speaker 1: a great intro, it'll hook you forever. But then it

1008
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:19,319
Speaker 1: also goes into Wilt Chamberlain about him, uh, actually choosing wrong,

1009
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 1: like how he was a horrible free throw shooter then

1010
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 1: decided to go underhand. Was actually really effective for Will

1011
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 1: Chamberlain anyways, and then the next year he said no,

1012
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 1: I can't do it and then went back to regular

1013
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:35,239
Speaker 1: free throws and it was terrible again. Um, that part

1014
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:38,399
Speaker 1: of it was done by Malcolm Gladwell, which I then

1015
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:42,320
Speaker 1: realized they set through this American Life. He's got a

1016
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:46,360
Speaker 1: new podcast as well. Nice. Um it's called Revisionist History.

1017
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 1: Malcolm Gladwell has got a podcast called Revisionist History. Um

1018
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: A strong, I mean no surprise here A strong listen

1019
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:58,919
Speaker 1: a strong. Uh So both of those pods I give

1020
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,839
Speaker 1: my full endorsement. This American Life Choosing Wrong. And then

1021
00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:06,120
Speaker 1: Malcolm Gladwell Revisionist History. What what is the revision Revisionist

1022
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 1: History podcast about? Um? So he takes a long look

1023
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: back at at basically historical events and gives it the

1024
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:18,200
Speaker 1: whole Malcolm Gladwell spin alright, he does a good job

1025
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 1: with it, and um and and they're powerful stories. Uh

1026
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 1: it's it's stuff that you would expect from Malcolm Gladwell.

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Speaker 1: So it's pretty good. So there you go. All right,

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