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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk to you about Sleepers, Deep Sleepers and

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Speaker 1: all these players that you're so excited about coming into season.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with Sleepers. And this is a U from

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Speaker 1: it doesn't necessarily need to be a zero sum game obviously,

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Speaker 1: but it's possible anyways that Martavis Bryant see some deeper shots. Yeah. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be Cooper or Bryant. All right, So their

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Speaker 1: Har do you want to walk us through a few? Actually?

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Speaker 1: Can I? How about Alan Hearns your list here as

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424
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Speaker 1: is a good stat from Scott Barrett at Pro Football Focus.

425
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Speaker 1: Kirk ran like nine of his routes out of the

426
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Speaker 1: slot in college, and they're gonna ask him to play

427
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Speaker 1: outside because Larry Fitzgerald's running the slot. That's his domain.

428
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Speaker 1: And uh A similar situation happened to Nelson Aglar when

429
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Speaker 1: he came out of college, played primarily in the slot,

430
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Speaker 1: was asked to go outside and then you're how much

431
00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,439
Speaker 1: he struggled early on at justin the NFL game this

432
00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:05,360
Speaker 1: past year, they put him in the slot more succeeded

433
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Speaker 1: a lot. So Kirk potentially having some growing pains at

434
00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:11,120
Speaker 1: the NFL level would set up nicely for the big

435
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Speaker 1: six ft three athletic freak Bryce Butler to potentially fall

436
00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:18,400
Speaker 1: into like seventy five targets and the dudes undrafted right now.

437
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:21,520
Speaker 1: And it's not like he's old. He's he's pretty young.

438
00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,760
Speaker 1: And and like the situation. They have not only one,

439
00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,520
Speaker 1: but two good quarterbacks in Arizona now, so it's not like,

440
00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:29,920
Speaker 1: you know, he's got Christian Hackenburg or something throwing in

441
00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:32,960
Speaker 1: the football. He's got Sam Bradford or or Josh Rosen.

442
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Speaker 1: He's also at the number one because Lair Fitzgerald's there

443
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Speaker 1: to to keep defenses honest, And uh, I don't know.

444
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Speaker 1: I love the situation. I love taking the last you know,

445
00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,560
Speaker 1: last round or two flyer on Bryce Butler round sixteen.

446
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:46,919
Speaker 1: You're you're you're taking Bryce Butler. Why the hell not?

447
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:49,359
Speaker 1: You made a mistake. You already drafted your defense and kicker,

448
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,800
Speaker 1: and you're like, man, who am I gonna take Bryce Butler?

449
00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:54,560
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it. I like it a lot.

450
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Speaker 1: Actually that's a that was that was a roundabout way

451
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Speaker 1: to sell me on Bryce Butler. But I like I

452
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Speaker 1: said at that resume, man a wolf. All right, let's

453
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:06,720
Speaker 1: go on the opposite end of the spectrum. Those were

454
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:11,880
Speaker 1: some lesser known players that we love going into season.

455
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,520
Speaker 1: Now we go into some more well known players or

456
00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,200
Speaker 1: maybe some players that are generating a lot of buzz,

457
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,040
Speaker 1: and we have the perfect man to talk about it,

458
00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:25,000
Speaker 1: the fantasy skeptic himself. Markets Man, He's gonna just pour

459
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Speaker 1: a big old bucket of cold water right on the

460
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:34,560
Speaker 1: high fantasy equivalent of Debbie Downer very much. I mean, look,

461
00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,439
Speaker 1: here's the thing, man, It's important to know some of

462
00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:41,000
Speaker 1: these guys that have giant red flags because sometimes you know,

463
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,879
Speaker 1: you love the player that you saw last year and

464
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,520
Speaker 1: the situation has changed, and that is why you need

465
00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 1: to kind of be aware of what the situations are

466
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,679
Speaker 1: and all of those things. And that's why I actually

467
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:57,720
Speaker 1: quite enjoyed, uh reading Marcus Grant's piece. But Marcus Grant,

468
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Speaker 1: will you walk us through a couple of guys, But

469
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Speaker 1: let's start with Derek Henry. Yeah, and I wrote in here,

470
00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:06,760
Speaker 1: I mean this one, this one kind of hurts personally

471
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 1: because I was driving the hashtag free Derrick Henry bandwagon

472
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 1: time and good Time, and everything seemed to be lining

473
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:16,119
Speaker 1: up right. De Marco Murray was gone. You know, it

474
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 1: looked like this was going to be the opportunity for

475
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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry and then Dean Lewis shows up. Um, you know,

476
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Speaker 1: and I know the talk has been, well, he's just

477
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:24,920
Speaker 1: the third down back and he's just the pass catching back.

478
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,359
Speaker 1: That's not really true if you go back and you

479
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:29,000
Speaker 1: look at his usage in the past. The Patriots used

480
00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 1: him a lot on first and second down. He was

481
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:33,199
Speaker 1: a guy who ran the ball effectively. Obviously, we know

482
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:34,760
Speaker 1: what he does as a pass catcher, and you just

483
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 1: wonder whether or not he's going to have a similar

484
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:40,399
Speaker 1: role there in Tennessee. And so how much that cuts

485
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Speaker 1: in to what Derrick Henry does. And now there's the

486
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Speaker 1: news that they are sort of one A and one

487
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Speaker 1: B that came out this morning. Right, we'll see exactly

488
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Speaker 1: how that works out when getting further into mini camps

489
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Speaker 1: and into training camp, and you know, about six weeks,

490
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,479
Speaker 1: six or eight weeks from now, we'll see exactly how

491
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Speaker 1: that works out. But what it certainly does mean Derrick

492
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Speaker 1: Henry is not going to be the work back that

493
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 1: I think a lot of us wanted him to be.

494
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 1: And so if you were trying to, you know, reach

495
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: for him in the third or fourth round, thinking you're

496
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: gonna get all this opportunity, you're going to be disappointed.

497
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:10,640
Speaker 1: He's going to get work. Certainly, he's not just gonna

498
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Speaker 1: fall off a cliff and disappear, but this idea, that's something.

499
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Speaker 1: He's going to be a guy who gets, you know,

500
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Speaker 1: two fifty carries in a season. I think that now

501
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,600
Speaker 1: you have to back off those those projections and understand

502
00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,720
Speaker 1: that he is going to be just another committee back

503
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:26,760
Speaker 1: down there. You know. And I think the one thing

504
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Speaker 1: I think about too regarding Derrick Henry is well, first

505
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Speaker 1: of all, Tennessee's gotta I mean, they've got an awesome

506
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Speaker 1: offensive line. I love their offensive line down there, athletic, nasty, um.

507
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Speaker 1: They can do some things. But that being said, I

508
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,720
Speaker 1: think a big reason why we like Derrick Henry last

509
00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 1: year was, Okay, they're running behind this great offensive line,

510
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Speaker 1: and you knew they were going to be committed to

511
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Speaker 1: to to running that ball. They were gonna be whatever

512
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Speaker 1: these on smash mounth they were smash mouth football, man,

513
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,160
Speaker 1: grounded pound, whatever you want to call it. You knew

514
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Speaker 1: they're going to run that ball. Now with Matt Lafleur

515
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Speaker 1: as their offensive coordinator. Remember, if you know Matt lafort

516
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Speaker 1: la are not a well known commodity in NFL circles,

517
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,880
Speaker 1: but certainly um a guy that has at least it's

518
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: coming from a system with the Office of the Offensive

519
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:13,199
Speaker 1: coordinate position with the Rams. So he goes from the

520
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 1: Rams where they were just I mean lighting the scoreboard up.

521
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: And now he goes to Nis you know where he

522
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 1: was before the Rams, to QB coach for Matt Ryan

523
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 1: during his MVP season. There you go, there you go.

524
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,200
Speaker 1: So again you figure they're gonna open it up, They're

525
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Speaker 1: gonna spread it out a little bit. If they open

526
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Speaker 1: it up, spread it out. Is Derrick Henry still that guy?

527
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Is he still that? Is

528
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 1: he still that power dude? Can he still run power

529
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Speaker 1: from shotgun? Can he still run power from spread? I'm

530
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 1: not sure. Well. Another part of it is some of

531
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Speaker 1: it has to do with Derrick Henry stylistically as well,

532
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Speaker 1: because this is We've talked about his size ad infinitum.

533
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: Big he is, but he runs like a smaller back.

534
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a guy. And I still flashback

535
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Speaker 1: to the time he walked through the news room and

536
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Speaker 1: he walked past Alex and I and and if you

537
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Speaker 1: find it no better, and you told me he was

538
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,040
Speaker 1: a d N I would have said, okay, okay, yeah,

539
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,480
Speaker 1: cool um. But he could have stood next to William

540
00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: Againnis and you'd be like, oh, you guys line up next.

541
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: You guys play the same position, but we'll put your

542
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,240
Speaker 1: hand in the dirt, right yeah, right um. But to

543
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 1: watch him run, he spent so much time trying to

544
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,399
Speaker 1: bounce things to the outside and trying to get to

545
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Speaker 1: the edge, and it's like, dude, you were a monster,

546
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,399
Speaker 1: like use your size and strength, and you just wonder

547
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: how much that's going to impact his ability getting the football,

548
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,440
Speaker 1: especially down towards, you know, in short yardage in the

549
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: goal line. If he wants to be that guy who's

550
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,879
Speaker 1: always trying to bounce things, it's like, we want you

551
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 1: to be more Leonard four Nett, we want you to

552
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,159
Speaker 1: be less Dion Lewis. The thing that scares me the

553
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 1: most about Dion Lewis his arrival with Derrick Henry too.

554
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: Is not even just vulturing pass catching work and limiting

555
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,880
Speaker 1: the workload, but it's his role in the red zone

556
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 1: because Dion Lewis is a phenomenal red zone threat because

557
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,159
Speaker 1: he's both a good runner, whether it's you know, just

558
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: from twenty yards in or at the goal line, and

559
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: he's he's so versatile in the pass catching game. He

560
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Speaker 1: had forty touches for the Patriots in the red zone

561
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Speaker 1: last year and scored eight times. That's a lot, a

562
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 1: lot of red zone touchdowns. Actually, no excuse me, he

563
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 1: scored nine times. All of his touchdowns, all of his

564
00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: touchdowns came in the red zone. I had forgotten to

565
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: col click a week on the Crazy Elusive too. He's super,

566
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Speaker 1: He's sup. He's crazy elusive fast. He had thirty four

567
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 1: rushes for a hundred and thirty six yards four yard average,

568
00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 1: six touchdowns in the red zone last year. Caught all

569
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Speaker 1: six of his targets for fifty two yards and three

570
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the red zone. You look at Derrick Henry's

571
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 1: price right now too, and he just I mean, I

572
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe it drops, but I don't think it will.

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry right now, going somewhere in that third round,

574
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Speaker 1: he's got, you know, value somewhere in the thirties. Okay,

575
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 1: So at that price, I just I can't do it. Man,

576
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Speaker 1: for all the reasons that that Marcus Grant has laid out,

577
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Speaker 1: It's just I don't see how you get return on

578
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,680
Speaker 1: your investment there the return could come. Is Derrick Henry

579
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 1: as much as we talking about in the big back,

580
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: he's also a home run threat. The dude is fast,

581
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,400
Speaker 1: and if that offense opens up and you start see

582
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 1: him hitting through some of those lanes that like Todd

583
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 1: Garley was hitting last year, where Todd, you know, girling

584
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: would get to the second level and then just juke people.

585
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:05,239
Speaker 1: If Derrick Henry gets to the second level like that

586
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,199
Speaker 1: with a full head of steam, lot of business decision,

587
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: a lot of business decisions, gonna be a lot of

588
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: guys jumping out of the way, like you know, stormtroopers decisions.

589
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: Because I tell you what, when when we watched him

590
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,040
Speaker 1: walk through that newsroom, I was like, he looks that

591
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: kind of person. If I tried to tackle, I would

592
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: just turn to dust. Like I would get in there,

593
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: I'd square mom, I'd hit him with pads and he

594
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: I would just that is funny, coach. I was going

595
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 1: to tackle him, but like I got some dirt in

596
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: my I couldn't see. I don't know what happened. That's great,

597
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 1: um man. I just noticed this on Fantasy Football calculator

598
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: as well. You want to talk about variants, Holy hell, uh.

599
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: His earliest draft price is one dot twelve, end of

600
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Speaker 1: the first, but his lowest is five dot eleven, so

601
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Speaker 1: the end of the fifth. I bet the one dot

602
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: twelve was somebody doing a mock draft in February before

603
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 1: Dean Lewis. You know, it's from the last month, so

604
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: they take Really, I was gonna say they are probably

605
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: you know, one is probably an Alabama fan. The other

606
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: one's like a Tennessee fan, the old Alabama or the

607
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: old Alabama Titans fan. At first, I got you, I

608
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: got you, so there you go. So but some crazy

609
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: wide variants, certainly on the price of Derrick Henry, and

610
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: I think the arrival of Dion Lewis certainly has a

611
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: lot to do with that. All right, give me another

612
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: player to avoid, Marcus Grant. I'm gonna go because I

613
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: got a little bit of heat, not much, but a

614
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: little bit of heating. My mentions for putting Jarvis Landry

615
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: on this list, um well, because and I couch it again,

616
00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: you know, sort of like you couch your deep sleepers

617
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: like couch this one with Look, Jarvis Landry is fine.

618
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: I still think he can get around, you know, I

619
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: think he'll be slightly under nine d catches this year.

620
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 1: He'll get plenty of targets. But it's just it's trying

621
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: to fit him into this offense that obviously he has

622
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 1: upgraded his pieces. It's upgraded his pieces. It's pieces, but

623
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: there's a lot of question marks there, you know, like

624
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 1: we don't know, you know, how how does Baker Mayfield,

625
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: if he gets this job, how does he slot and

626
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: how does he integrate into this offense. You've got Duke Johnson,

627
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 1: who led the team and targets last year. You're going

628
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 1: to get in theory a full sy. He's not a

629
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon. You've got Corey Coleman. You've got David and Joeku.

630
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: You've got pieces there that's not even mentioning, you know,

631
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: Carlos Hide and Nick Chubb and these guys coming in here.

632
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 1: To think that Jarvis Landry walks in here and gets

633
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: his you know, hundred thirty hundred and forty targets like

634
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,000
Speaker 1: he did all those years in Miami, You're gonna be

635
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 1: disappointed if that, if you were expecting him to be

636
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Speaker 1: the same PPR. Darling he had been all those years

637
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Speaker 1: with the Dolphins, your feelings are gonna get hurt. So

638
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Speaker 1: if you're reaching for him, you know, I'm just saying

639
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Speaker 1: don't do it. I'm not saying he's gonna fall off

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Speaker 1: a cliff. He's not gonna disappear and just be uh

641
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 1: nothing burger. But you just have to understand that his

642
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Speaker 1: situation has changed drastically from where he was the last

643
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Speaker 1: few years. The caveat with your pieces also said it's

644
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Speaker 1: not players to avoid because they're bad or anything. It's

645
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Speaker 1: players to avoid at their current draft price. Right, people

646
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Speaker 1: are taking Jarvis Landry still thinking he's gonna like the

647
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 1: last three years in Miami he averaged a hundred and

648
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Speaker 1: fifty three targets a year, a hundred and five catches

649
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Speaker 1: and over a thousand yards like that has slam dunk

650
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Speaker 1: PPR like wide receiver one wide receiver, two values, but

651
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Speaker 1: that he didn't have Josh Gordon, he didn't have Duke

652
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Speaker 1: Johnson in those offenses there, and you know the offense

653
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: was funneled through him. Right, we don't know if that's

654
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Speaker 1: going to be the case in Cleveland. There are a

655
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Speaker 1: bunch more opportunities, Like even if Jarvis Landry goes out

656
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: and gets a hundred and twenty targets, he'll still have

657
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Speaker 1: a solid year, but you're gonna look back at that

658
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Speaker 1: third round pick you sunk into him and be like,

659
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Speaker 1: you're gonna be mad at him. I actually wanted to

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Speaker 1: call this piece players to avoid until you reach an

661
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Speaker 1: appropriate spot in your draft, because yeah, that's kind of

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Speaker 1: tough to fit. Um handy acronym. That's pretty good. Now

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Speaker 1: gonna workshop that U. Currently Jarvis Landry has a grade

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Speaker 1: in the middle to late portion of round number five,

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Speaker 1: So he's somewhere in the fifties. If you're that's that's

666
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: getting better, that is that's getting closer. So I think appropriate, Yeah,

667
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,960
Speaker 1: but I mean even still, I mean that's he's got

668
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Speaker 1: to do all the things, all the right things, and

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Speaker 1: everything kind of has to break right for him. I

670
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Speaker 1: think to even give you that guaranteed fifth round. Well,

671
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: first of all, I mean, let's talk about touchdown upside,

672
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: because he has none. Not really now, I mean you

673
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: look at this off where are the touchdowns coming from?

674
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 1: I don't I don't see an eight touchdown season for

675
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry five or six. I mean, he could look

676
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 1: into eight, sure, But I mean, as we're sitting here

677
00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: projecting for Jarvis Lantry today, is he getting eight touchdown.

678
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: There's no way. Last year, there's no last year he

679
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: had a career high nine touchdowns. He also had a

680
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Speaker 1: career high hundred and twelve catches. He had a hundred

681
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: and sixty one targets. That's just not. I just don't

682
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Speaker 1: think that's available. That's exactly right, and that that and

683
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Speaker 1: that's why I'm saying even in the fifth round, for me,

684
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Speaker 1: it's like, okay, yeah, okay, I'm getting a locked in, loaded,

685
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 1: you know, wide receiver three. I could play this guy

686
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 1: in the flex in my PPR all day long. But

687
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be that home run guy. You know

688
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: that's gonna get you that ten catch, hundred twenty yard,

689
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: you know, two touchdown game. That's just not. I just

690
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Speaker 1: don't see that in the realm of possibility for Ervis

691
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Speaker 1: Landry coming into team. That's just that's just me. That's

692
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Speaker 1: just me. So I agree with what you're saying there.

693
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Speaker 1: Given the price, even the fifth round, given that price,

694
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Speaker 1: I would I guess I'd want to wait around or

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Speaker 1: two more. And and we're seeing mock drafters to kind

696
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: of shy away from that. His value is falling uh

697
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: in more recent mock drafts, as well, all right, so

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Speaker 1: there you go again, nfl dot COM's last draft kit.

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Speaker 1: Uh NFL dot com slash grant um Marcus. While while

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Speaker 1: he got you here, Uh, you're doing a very interesting

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Speaker 1: thing to write. Mock draft mondays. Are both of you

702
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Speaker 1: guys doing doing everybody's gonna be doing. We're all jumping

703
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Speaker 1: in on this. So explain to the listeners what mock

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Speaker 1: draft mondays are and why it behooves you and how

705
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Speaker 1: they can find your contents. So basically, every Monday, one

706
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Speaker 1: member of our staff is going to do a mock

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Speaker 1: draft and we're going to try and set this up

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Speaker 1: so that the listeners, whoever's users, you can just get involved.

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Speaker 1: You know, I when I did a mind on Monday,

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Speaker 1: I put out a link like, hey, who wants the

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Speaker 1: mock draft? Will fill it up, We'll do the draft

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Speaker 1: and then one of us will write a little short

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Speaker 1: piece on it. So I did mind on Monday. I

714
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Speaker 1: just randomly picked. I randomly picked the third slot in

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Speaker 1: a twelve team PPR draft. Um, well, I I want

716
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,480
Speaker 1: I did some things a little bit differently. You know.

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Speaker 1: I started in my first round pick. I was the

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Speaker 1: third pick, the first to no surprise, really Todd Gurley,

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Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott. So with with lev Bell and David Johnson

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Speaker 1: still sitting there, I instead went Antonio Brown. Normally in

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Speaker 1: that third spot, I would be a running back guy.

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Speaker 1: But I was like, let's try something different. It's a

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Speaker 1: mock draft, sure, so I took Antonio Brown. I like it, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, and look, part of it was, you know,

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Speaker 1: having some targets. Part of it was a little bit

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Speaker 1: of good luck. Like I thought, it was sort of

727
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Speaker 1: good fortune that in round you know, near the end

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Speaker 1: of round two, Devonte Freeman was still sitting there for me.

729
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: I was able to grab him late and round two

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Speaker 1: and still come back around and get my targeted Jerick

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Speaker 1: McKinnon in round three. So I mean that, you know,

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Speaker 1: certainly that worked in my in my favor. Um, but

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Speaker 1: I did I kind of went out of the norm.

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Speaker 1: I did some things that I wouldn't do. I took

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Speaker 1: a quarterback in the sixth round, grabbing Kirk Cousins. I

736
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Speaker 1: took a defense little early or than normal, got to

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Speaker 1: the Vikings in round ten. So it was just a

738
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Speaker 1: good way to try and and try some things out,

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Speaker 1: to kind of experiment with some things, and in the

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Speaker 1: end I ended up with a team that I really

741
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Speaker 1: liked in this mock draft, and it's one of those things.

742
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 1: It's can be so frustrating you mock drafted team. You're like,

743
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: I could play this team. I realized I could have this.

744
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 1: That's kind I feel about this when I'm like, this

745
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: is a really good team, Like I wish I could

746
00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 1: play this thing out. But it was nice to get

747
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 1: in there, especially to have it be a full mock

748
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: draft room where you knew you were, you were working

749
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: against other humans, um and just trying to go from there.

750
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll be win it every week. I don't

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00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 1: know who's next step on the list. I'm not sure.

752
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: I think it might be Adam Rank. Maybe Adam Rank

753
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: next week. Whatdom line is, if you're listening to the podcast,

754
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: I would strongly encourage you to follow all of us

755
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 1: here on Twitter because I think these guys will let

756
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: you know, um, you know, when these mock drafts are happening,

757
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: how you can be involved, how you could find their content.

758
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 1: And the most important thing really too is to mock

759
00:35:55,760 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: draft yourself. I mean it sounds kind of silly, uh

760
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 1: and but I gotta be honest. It doesn't take a

761
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 1: lot of time, especially go through like let's say, like

762
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: seven or eight rounds and make a bail. Who cares?

763
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: That's the thing. I mean, you know there's one guy

764
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: in there who you got through like the eighth or

765
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: ninth round. He's like, hey, guys, gotta go back to work.

766
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: Whatever piece out, no one's gonna be about at you.

767
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,399
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. So you know, get through

768
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: seven or eight rounds and you will be shocked by

769
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 1: how much easier your actual draft become. It just it's

770
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 1: a good way to prepare for all sorts of situations,

771
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: or if you feel like there's a value, Like what

772
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 1: happens when you take one of the elite tight ends

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Speaker 1: in round four or five? Like if Travis Kelsey or

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Speaker 1: Zach Ertz, Jimmy Grammer, whoever you know, is sitting there

775
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:37,439
Speaker 1: and you take one. How does that impact the rest

776
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:39,799
Speaker 1: of your your running back depth, your wide receiver depth.

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00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: What happens if you reach early on a quarterback? How

778
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: does your team look like? What happens if you go

779
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,359
Speaker 1: wide receiver, wide receiver, running back, running back? Running back?

780
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: Like you can test out different strategies, so that way

781
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,359
Speaker 1: you kind of know how your team composition is coming

782
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,439
Speaker 1: together and you can be better prepared for later rounds,

783
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: because nothing's worse than like going into a draft and

784
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 1: having a plan and trying to stick to it, but

785
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: then having every everybody else in your lead brow it

786
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 1: up and you're like, I don't know what to do, right,

787
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Speaker 1: I mean literally, it's it's I think for us, since

788
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Speaker 1: we we do so many mock drafts, especially with other

789
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Speaker 1: people who are fantasy writers, and you kind of have

790
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,399
Speaker 1: an idea of how things are going to go. Yeah, yeah,

791
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 1: I always I always kind of equate it to one

792
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: of the quotes. I don't remeber where this came from.

793
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,399
Speaker 1: It's an old saying that, you know, the world's greatest

794
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,959
Speaker 1: swordman swordsman has nothing to fear from the second greatest

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Speaker 1: swordsman because there's a protocol and there's a you know,

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Speaker 1: you kind of have an idea of what the moves

797
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: you're going to be. It's sort of like when you

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Speaker 1: play video games. The worst people to play our button mashers,

799
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: but you have no idea what's going to happen. So

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00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: like every now and then, it's good to get out

801
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: and mock draft, get some button mashers, just so you

802
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: can gotta figure out, like, how do you how do

803
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:40,720
Speaker 1: you respond when something goes sideways? Calling our listeners button mashes.

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Speaker 1: Our listeners are not that's right. I'm saying they should

805
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:44,879
Speaker 1: get out and draft against some buttons who don't listen

806
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: to this show. If you're not following on Twitter, what

807
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 1: do you even do with your life? They're living a

808
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,280
Speaker 1: better life than we are. Twitter is a vast waste

809
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: land that makes me question my own existence. It's on

810
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Speaker 1: the right. I'm addicted to it. By the way, you

811
00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: can also follow us on Facebook as well. We all

812
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 1: have our a professional writer page. Follow us there, man,

813
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: be cool, be cool about you know. Man? All right,

814
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,760
Speaker 1: so there you go. Let's get to bargains very quickly

815
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Speaker 1: and we'll we'll burn through some breakouts as well. But

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Speaker 1: I wrote the bargains piece and one of the names

817
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Speaker 1: that that I had highlighted there was Marshawn Lynch. And

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Speaker 1: again this is all based on you know, I went

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Speaker 1: to multiple sites, uh to look at current ADP and

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Speaker 1: and I know I I cite Fantasy Football Calculator just

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Speaker 1: for ease of use on this podcast, but I also

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Speaker 1: looked at for for four, who has a lot of

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00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 1: different data available as well, So um, it's just it's

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Speaker 1: all I looked at a bunch of different data points,

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00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 1: uh for the bargain. F calc right now works best

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Speaker 1: because they've had mock dress open on their site for months,

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Speaker 1: whereas a lot of the big sites like US, ESPN,

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Speaker 1: Yahoo just just opening up drafts and stuff and there's

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Speaker 1: not really enough data to have reliable a DP yets exactly.

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Speaker 1: But for Ford does a good job too of giving

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Speaker 1: you ADP data. Um. And I think Fantasy prosh is

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Speaker 1: another site that I had checked out for ADP data

833
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: as well. Either way, whatever I'm looking at overall range

834
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Speaker 1: and kind of given a good sense of kind of

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Speaker 1: the price for a lot of these guys Marshawn Lynch Anyways,

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Speaker 1: current ADP range right now eighty five to one ten,

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Speaker 1: so you could figure out where whatever round it is,

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Speaker 1: uh that you are going to draft it, if it's

839
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Speaker 1: ten or twelve or even fourteen or whatever. But the

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Speaker 1: range right now is eighty five to one ten. I

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Speaker 1: just think for me, I'm not scared of Doug Martin.

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00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,720
Speaker 1: I like the offensive line. I think they're still pretty talented.

843
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:28,839
Speaker 1: We talked about it earlier, John Group, and I think

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Speaker 1: it's gonna try to go back and and be more

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Speaker 1: of a power run team and set up a lot

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Speaker 1: of play action, which I think behooves Amari Cooper. I

847
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:40,399
Speaker 1: think it behooves the skill set for Derek Carr as well. Um.

848
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:44,399
Speaker 1: But look, man, Marshawn Lynch at the end of last

849
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 1: year was running on all cylinders. He looked awesome. Um

850
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,400
Speaker 1: And I think the early part of the season, weeks

851
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 1: one through seven, I think it left a lot of

852
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: a bitter taste in a lot of people's mouths. But

853
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: if you watched him on on the back end of

854
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,839
Speaker 1: the season, man, he looked like old beast mode. Um.

855
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: He took a two year hiatus. Now he's back, and

856
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:09,320
Speaker 1: I just I'm not scared of where he's going in

857
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 1: drafts right now. He's the RB what thirty three or

858
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 1: some He's one of my favorite middle round running backs

859
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: to get, especially like him Alex Collins. Like if I

860
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 1: if I, uh, you know, take one of those elite

861
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 1: backs and then maybe ski wide receiver heavy or getting

862
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: those tight ends, like that's right, Lynch, Lynch, Alex Collins,

863
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: They're they're right in that circle of guys I love

864
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,400
Speaker 1: to target as like the lower end potential feature backs.

865
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 1: From weeks nine and on to the end of the year,

866
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: Lynch averaged four point six three yard per carry. That

867
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: is awesome, and he was a top thirteen fantasy back

868
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: regardless of formats so PPR or standard. This guy was

869
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 1: getting the job done. And again you're getting a top

870
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: twe in my mind, a top twenty running back at

871
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 1: top thirty prices. That's a bargain. That's who you want

872
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,319
Speaker 1: to go get. Um, there's a trio of chargers, uh

873
00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: that I love. As you're big on the powder blue

874
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 1: in this yes, I was, and I was kind of

875
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: surprised by the ADP on Philip Rivers, who again was

876
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 1: a top eight fantasy quarterback last year. I don't see

877
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: a lot changing for him. I know Hunter Henry got hurt,

878
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: but I think Mike Williams, who I think a lot

879
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 1: of people are sleeping on as well, well emerge in

880
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: this offense. Mike Williams was hurt last year. I mean

881
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: he heard his back. There's all all signs are indicating

882
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 1: that he's good to go. Uh. His current ADP right

883
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 1: now is one tend to two hundreds. So in a

884
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: lot of drafts, this guy is not getting drafted man

885
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 1: and Mike Williams. You look at the the area yard

886
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:35,839
Speaker 1: potential that he's got, the target share potential that he's got,

887
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: the touchdown upside that he's got with Hunter Henry got,

888
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: I would imagine I love Mike william I would imagine

889
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: Mike Williams adp climbs once people see him like he

890
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 1: barely gotten. He barely played last year. So like one

891
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,160
Speaker 1: training camp comes up and we see that big wide

892
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: receiver making climbs and esque plays out there. The season

893
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:56,399
Speaker 1: comes and he mosses somebody that's great. The other guy

894
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: you had on there, I had as a deep sleeper

895
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 1: to who I love and we're gonna talk to him soon.

896
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:04,240
Speaker 1: That's Austin Ekeler. He had a stretch after the teams

897
00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 1: by where he averaged just under ten ten touches per game,

898
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 1: not a ton. He scored his couple of touchdowns there,

899
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: but he also had three catches of twenty plus yards.

900
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: He's dynamic, he's a good piece, and I think they

901
00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,320
Speaker 1: might want to use him more because Melvin Gordon's averaged

902
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 1: over two touches the past three years, and that was

903
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 1: that's with a couple of seasons where he was injured

904
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: and didn't finished the whole year. So that's his work.

905
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: Club would have been a lot more had he, uh,

906
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 1: you know, stayed in for all sixteen games and all

907
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: those seasons. So Kenn Whisson Hunt has Austin Ekeler all

908
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: over the field to man in the backfield, in the slot,

909
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: out wide. I mean, he's he's Kenn Wison. Hunt is

910
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 1: getting very imaginative with what he's going to be doing

911
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:44,280
Speaker 1: with Austin Ekeler, and I imagine that carries into eighteen.

912
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,399
Speaker 1: I mean, it took him a while to find this guy.

913
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: I mean, he came from a very small school, so

914
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 1: it took him a while to to get him integrate

915
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,799
Speaker 1: into the office. I'm really excited about his prospects here

916
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:54,799
Speaker 1: in one last name. I want to get out there,

917
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 1: one last name. I want to get out there. And

918
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: I don't understand it, and maybe you guys can tell

919
00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 1: me what I'm missing. But Paul Richardson, he's going undrafted.

920
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: He's not going undrafted. That's just why. I mean, at

921
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:08,800
Speaker 1: least in all the mocks I've done, Paul Richardson is

922
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: going where. Lots of times I'm taking him very good.

923
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: But he's going in like double dishitt rounds. Oh easy.

924
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:18,839
Speaker 1: I mean I'm looking at his current ADP range. It's

925
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: one fifty two two undrafted. So I mean again, we're

926
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: talking about rounds in a twelve team. We're talking round

927
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: thirteen fourteen. Uh, it's just to me, it's it's just baffling.

928
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:32,719
Speaker 1: I guess I don't understand. I think everybody in this

929
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: room likes Paul Richardson. Yes, he's a good The thing is,

930
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 1: I know that statistically he wasn't a monster there with Seattle,

931
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: but if you're watching him play man, good route runner,

932
00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 1: he's a ghasted. He's a good deep threat as well.

933
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 1: I don't know. I kind of see him as Morvin Jones.

934
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 1: You know. Actually, as I'm looking at this too, he's

935
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 1: going after John Ross on my fantasy league. Why no,

936
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: people know? What are you doing? People know what's going

937
00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 1: on here? Alex Smith, the quarterback there in Washington. I

938
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: think Paul Richardson, and again, everyone in this room, everyone

939
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 1: listening to me, knows my love affair for Josh Dockson

940
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,400
Speaker 1: as well. I love the kid. That being said, I

941
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 1: look at the stylistic match with Alex Smith, and I

942
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,439
Speaker 1: don't like it. As a matter of fact, I hate

943
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 1: it because Josh Dockson is one of those throw it

944
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 1: up and go get it receivers. Alex Smith ain't throwing

945
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 1: it up. Man. He's not gonna be He's not one

946
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:24,840
Speaker 1: of those guys that says, I'm just gonna trust my

947
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,440
Speaker 1: wide receiver to make go make plays. He's gonna look

948
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 1: for the guy who's open. Who's that guy gonna be?

949
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:31,839
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be Paul Richardson. I mean I've

950
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: seen enough on tape from Paul Richardson's to know, even

951
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 1: in bracket coverage, this guy can get open. Man. Um,

952
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be the one A and I

953
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,360
Speaker 1: think Dockson will be the one b um. There's a

954
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 1: lot of the chatter about, you know, what's Jamison Crowder's

955
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: role gonna be in this offense? Uh again? And I

956
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 1: like Jamison Crowder too, good weapon, But I mean, come on,

957
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: there's gonna be There's gonna be enough work in this offense,

958
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: uh for for two, maybe three wide receivers. And I

959
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,520
Speaker 1: really like Paul Richardson. Um. I just the happens we

960
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 1: all de civily undervalued right now. Assively, I'm sure, you

961
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 1: said a lot of really smart things there. I was

962
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 1: just stuck on the fact that Paul Richardson's going after

963
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: John Ross. Sorry, I was just I was like, wait,

964
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 1: what's going on. We'll fix that together, but we should

965
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: get Austla on the phone here, chat with him. All right,

966
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 1: let's go get Oh, by the way, breakouts. Jerick McKinnon,

967
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: Michael Fabiona wrote that piece, and a lot of folks

968
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:28,919
Speaker 1: really really like Jerick McKinnon going into eighteen as well.

969
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: But again, if you want to find the entire draft kit,

970
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 1: it's gonna be NFL dot com slash draft Kit, or

971
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 1: you could go to our individual writer pages. You can

972
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:41,240
Speaker 1: follow us on Twitter as well, be a pal, follow

973
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 1: us on Twitter, follow us on Facebook. So there you go.

974
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones. Okay, joining us. You know

975
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: the listeners don't know this, but we actually had Austin

976
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 1: Ekeler on this podcast earlier in this offseason. But you know,

977
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: I'm talking the issues popped up. It's all good. We

978
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:01,840
Speaker 1: got Austin Ekeler back with us on the show. Austin,

979
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,359
Speaker 1: we welcome you into the NFL Fantasy Live Podcast. What's

980
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: up man? How you doing? I'm doing well? You know,

981
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,320
Speaker 1: we got a little day off right now, join that

982
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: go to rest day, recovery day, Rest day, recovery day.

983
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: Are you doing the beach? I mean, what's going on here?

984
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 1: Uh No, I haven't been to I've been to beat

985
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: the last weekend. But right now just at the hotel.

986
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 1: Probably gonna go down the hot time, get some stretching in,

987
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: always working Austin that I like it. Man, Hey, listen,

988
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,439
Speaker 1: you've got a really interesting story and again I'm really

989
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: excited to share your story with our listeners out there. Um,

990
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: you grew up in such a small town, man Eating, Colorado,

991
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: population five thousand. Then you go to this little known

992
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 1: college called Western State, which is also in Colorado. The

993
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 1: total undergrad enrollment there is like students. Man, it's so

994
00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 1: small unique, I'll say that it's Uh it's located in Gunnison, Colorado,

995
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: with a population of six thousand. Okay, that's where you

996
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 1: go to school. That's where you're I mean you're raised

997
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 1: out there, and then all of a sudden you're in

998
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 1: l a population in the Greater La Areas eighteen million. Bro. Yeah, yeah,

999
00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:13,839
Speaker 1: what was that transition? Like? Uh, it definitely takes took

1000
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 1: some getting used to the biggest thing was the traffic,

1001
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: which we all know if either about hearing the traffics

1002
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 1: is crazy, especially down around like the beach area and

1003
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 1: things like that. But I took them getting used to

1004
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:27,560
Speaker 1: as far as like the city life and things like that,

1005
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 1: and not being able to do certain things that you

1006
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: can do in the town, like free parking and like that,

1007
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: like now that you gotta pay for everything. We gotta

1008
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: pay for bags and stuff out here, you know, credit cards,

1009
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 1: seeds and so it's it's it's different. You know, it's

1010
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: taking some getting used to, but I'm pretty much used

1011
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 1: to it now. You know. The reason I bring it up,

1012
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: the reason I bring up your background a little bit

1013
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:53,239
Speaker 1: is because you know, I don't think people realize what. Look,

1014
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: I've worked in small towns too, okay, um, and I

1015
00:47:56,520 --> 00:48:00,399
Speaker 1: don't think people realize there's a certain so times, there's

1016
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 1: certain mentality that like if you grow up there, that

1017
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna be there, you know what I'm saying. And yeah,

1018
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 1: and I could tell immediately talking to you, Um, you know,

1019
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 1: both online and in real life, that you had bigger dreams,

1020
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: you had bigger goals for yourself. Can you talk about

1021
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: you know that small town mentality and how you had

1022
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,720
Speaker 1: to fight against it and maybe you're you know, philosophical

1023
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:28,399
Speaker 1: your mental journey from Eaton Colorado to now the Chargers. Yeah,

1024
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the things that helped me

1025
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:32,800
Speaker 1: the most to even get to this point is the

1026
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 1: mental the mental journey, like you said, and uh, you know,

1027
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 1: I just had a mentality. I wanted to do what

1028
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: I wanted. I had some dreams, I had some goals,

1029
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:43,959
Speaker 1: and I knew that even though I'm in a small

1030
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: town like I can still do it if I give

1031
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 1: everything I got. You know, if I give everything I

1032
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: got and I can't and I'm not able to perform,

1033
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 1: then that's fine. You know. I gave everything I got

1034
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 1: and that's where I wanted to go in doing. And

1035
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: you know, being from a small town, you know, you

1036
00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 1: have everything to prove. And I was okay with that.

1037
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 1: I kind of like it, and it gave me that underdog,

1038
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:03,720
Speaker 1: you know. I think it gave me just my mentality

1039
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 1: that I have to day and carry with me the

1040
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 1: weight room on the field and I still have everything

1041
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: to prove and nothing's gonna be handed to me. You know,

1042
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 1: I'm not from a big school where I had all

1043
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: this competition and going against all these other teams, and

1044
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,879
Speaker 1: so I've had everything to prove, and after this point

1045
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: I still do in my mind. And so that's the

1046
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 1: mentality I've had, and that's what that's what kind of

1047
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: grew out of that small town. You know. I look

1048
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 1: at your overall athletic traits too, and it's just it

1049
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: just pops, right. I mean, you ran a four four

1050
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: three forty at your pro day. You had a forty

1051
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,399
Speaker 1: and a half inch vertical, which is just I mean

1052
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 1: you look at the athletic traits and you're thinking yourself,

1053
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 1: this guy can play in the NFL. Um and you

1054
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 1: weren't necessarily surprised that you have been doing, you know,

1055
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:50,839
Speaker 1: good things in the NFL. Are you, yeah? I mean

1056
00:49:50,920 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: I as far as I going back to proday, we

1057
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 1: started out, I knew I was gonna test well, but

1058
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:57,319
Speaker 1: it was it wasn't for me. It wasn't testing though.

1059
00:49:57,320 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 1: I had a great Pro Day group and working out

1060
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 1: long Land down Denver. You know, they get you prepared

1061
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: as much as you can be, and so I knew

1062
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: I was gonna have a good crede and then it

1063
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 1: was just the fact, let's get on a team and

1064
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 1: let's you know, show them that I can actually play

1065
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 1: this game at this level. You know, it's pretty good.

1066
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about playing at this level. Um,

1067
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:21,880
Speaker 1: the first carry you ever had as a prod I

1068
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: mean incredible. Man. It's week before you're taking on the

1069
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:28,479
Speaker 1: eventual Super Bowl champions. You're talking about we're talking about

1070
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. Great defense, great defense. You had one

1071
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 1: carry in that game, bro thirty five yards to the house.

1072
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 1: Can you take us through the play? Can you talk

1073
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,440
Speaker 1: about the emotion and what you saw kind of unfold

1074
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 1: before you We actually were intone that played at the

1075
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:47,640
Speaker 1: other day and for the rookies, and we're looking at

1076
00:50:47,719 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: it and brought it back up and just drought back

1077
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 1: all the memories. But shoot, it was I wasn't even

1078
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:55,680
Speaker 1: expecting to go in on offense, you know that that game.

1079
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 1: You know, I was mainly had a special team's role

1080
00:50:58,280 --> 00:50:59,880
Speaker 1: and so you know, I was prepared to go in

1081
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: if I needed too. But coach is like, hey, you

1082
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: ready to go and you're gonna take the series. And

1083
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 1: I look kind of looked at like what really? You know,

1084
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, oh yeah, let's go. And so yeah,

1085
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 1: I get in the game and first carry cut back

1086
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 1: and I didn't even I watched the watch play the

1087
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 1: other day. I was running for my life. I was

1088
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 1: looking all around myself. We're running back and forth, and

1089
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 1: you know, just got in the end zone and I

1090
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: didn't even know how to react because I hadn't really

1091
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:28,200
Speaker 1: prepared for that moment to be like my first touchdown,

1092
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:33,279
Speaker 1: you know, one cardown, but I didn't know. And so yeah,

1093
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 1: at the moment, I'll never forget. Can you talk us

1094
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:38,400
Speaker 1: through the emotions? I mean, as you again, as you

1095
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 1: see a lot of green in front of you, Um,

1096
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:42,879
Speaker 1: I think you. I think you broke away from Vinny

1097
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 1: Curry too at the defensive line. I don't know who

1098
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 1: you what linebacker you got away from, but um, but man,

1099
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 1: you you were often running. It almost seemed as if

1100
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:54,319
Speaker 1: your speed kind of got everybody by surprise. I don't

1101
00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: think they were expecting. Uh, the explosive um when you

1102
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 1: crossed it, when you austin to the end zone, what

1103
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: were you thinking? What were you feeling? Kind of lost

1104
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 1: all control my motion. I was just screaming and selecting

1105
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: as hard as I could. It's kind of like a

1106
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: raw moment for me, Like, Wow, you know, I was

1107
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,320
Speaker 1: so shocked and just like, wow, I actually scored my

1108
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: first touchdown in my first character. You don't have anything prepared. Awesome,

1109
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 1: you have told us that you're you're you got a

1110
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: real good relationship with your mom's. Was she was she

1111
00:52:27,560 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 1: stands for that game or no? Oh yeah, she was

1112
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: crying her eyes out. She's a big supporter and you know,

1113
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 1: I love her and she was definitely she cried every game,

1114
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: but especially that one. That's crazy. Man, Wait where does

1115
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: so did she travel from Colorado to come watch you play? Yeah?

1116
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: She flies in just into the John Wyne Airport. That's

1117
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:54,240
Speaker 1: crazy man. Wow, that is some serious commitment from mom's

1118
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, I gotta ask you like so

1119
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 1: on the field, I mean, I feel like it's a

1120
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: lot of situations where you even coming into the NFL,

1121
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 1: you don't know what you don't know, But having been

1122
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:05,359
Speaker 1: through a full season, what are some of the things

1123
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:07,920
Speaker 1: you took away in terms of getting prepared for this season?

1124
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 1: She's the thing that you know you take away from

1125
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: my season is the experience, especially that first year. That's

1126
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 1: the biggest thing as far as experience being around the team,

1127
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:20,439
Speaker 1: being around the offense. No, thankful have wids come back.

1128
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 1: So it's the same offense, so not a lot of

1129
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:25,240
Speaker 1: new learning, but you know, I still I'm pretty comfortable,

1130
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 1: and so just the experience and being just how to

1131
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 1: prepare throughout the week and getting a routine is the

1132
00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 1: biggest thing. I was in a meeting the other day,

1133
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 1: Uh coach Fredo learning back coach. He's like, man, it's

1134
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 1: crazy what a year difference does for you. Man, I

1135
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 1: was like, I know, all right, Like remember me last

1136
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: year this time I was just running around trying to

1137
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 1: figure it out my way. And so the whole year

1138
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 1: of experience is huge for especially the rookie year. And

1139
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest takeaway from from that first year. Hey,

1140
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 1: can you talk about again you come from you know,

1141
00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 1: eating Colorado, then Gunnison Colorado. I mean you talk about

1142
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 1: level of competition. You go from playing guys against Western

1143
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 1: State and then your next game actual is against NFL players.

1144
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Um, can you talk about

1145
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:13,360
Speaker 1: what may be surprised you and maybe what didn't surprise

1146
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 1: you about your again, your rookie campaign. I would say,

1147
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you hear all the time, but it's just

1148
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: the speed of the game. And back in college, you

1149
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:25,960
Speaker 1: know that most people I can run away from. And

1150
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 1: now shoot, it's it's the foot rais every time just

1151
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 1: to get into the secondary. You know, d lineman run

1152
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: and just as fast. It's not faster. You know, it's

1153
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 1: crazy now And so the in the size is another thing.

1154
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:41,000
Speaker 1: Uh as far as blocking linebackers and things like that.

1155
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:43,120
Speaker 1: Now I definitely feel it on my body. You know,

1156
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:45,280
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not a big frame, so I definitely

1157
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,759
Speaker 1: steal those hits. And that's by the speed, and there's

1158
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 1: the size of the players and then the magnitude I

1159
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 1: say of the offense, it's one another difference because we're

1160
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,759
Speaker 1: a pretty simple offense in college and now you know,

1161
00:54:58,080 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 1: it's our jobs, so we have a lot more time

1162
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: that we can put into it. And so we're changing

1163
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:04,719
Speaker 1: playbook every every week. Just so you know, people can't

1164
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: schema real quick. I I know that you have talked

1165
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 1: about your size five. Um. The thing I really appreciated

1166
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,319
Speaker 1: about watching you on tape that I was actually really

1167
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:19,840
Speaker 1: surprised by was how strong you were against you know,

1168
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 1: established NFL guys. Did that surprise you at all? Your

1169
00:55:23,880 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 1: power really translated? Uh, well, on the field. Uh, you know,

1170
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 1: I've always took the pride and know the weight room,

1171
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:34,319
Speaker 1: the process, all of it. Just I'm pretty balanced body.

1172
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's my genetics or what everyone,

1173
00:55:36,719 --> 00:55:38,960
Speaker 1: you know, every time I go lest like, oh my god,

1174
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 1: it's just something I was blessed with, and so I'm

1175
00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:45,040
Speaker 1: running with it, you know. And yeah, it helps me

1176
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:47,319
Speaker 1: absolutely on the field with my balance and being able

1177
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 1: to take a hit and bounce, bounce off and maybe

1178
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 1: keep my feet or not actually just gett obliterated on

1179
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 1: the ground. But when you when you took on your

1180
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 1: first NFL linebacker and you're able to either you know,

1181
00:55:57,120 --> 00:56:00,200
Speaker 1: bounce off or maybe kind of get at least move

1182
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 1: that pile forward, were you like, yeah, okay, cool, I belong.

1183
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:07,800
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. You know, Uh, it's definitely different. You know,

1184
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:09,360
Speaker 1: I definitely feel them a lot more, but you know,

1185
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:11,360
Speaker 1: I still feel like I can I can get underneath

1186
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:13,800
Speaker 1: people because I do have that natural leverage, and I

1187
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:17,839
Speaker 1: can still move forward and yet power forward. Absolutely. Yeah,

1188
00:56:18,280 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 1: you mentioned like the offense and things that changed. What's

1189
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:23,040
Speaker 1: it like playing with Philip Rivers, who's been in there forever.

1190
00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 1: He's been in forever, and obviously he can. He can

1191
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:29,719
Speaker 1: be shall we say, impatient with people who don't necessarily

1192
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 1: you know, kind of vibrating. What's that been like playing

1193
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:34,920
Speaker 1: with him? I love it. He's definitely the most competitive

1194
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:36,800
Speaker 1: guy that I have ever met, and I love that

1195
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 1: about it, especially on game day. Uh. In practice, you know,

1196
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 1: he's a little bit more laid back, you know, Like

1197
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 1: you said, he doesn't really have a lot of patience

1198
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:47,560
Speaker 1: because he expects you to know, you know, the offense

1199
00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:49,720
Speaker 1: because we install it and he's been doing it forever,

1200
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: so it's like the back of his hand, and so

1201
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:55,239
Speaker 1: that's a little intimidating. But I think it's it's good

1202
00:56:55,280 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 1: for us because especially for our young guys, because that

1203
00:56:57,640 --> 00:56:59,200
Speaker 1: little bit of pressure, you know, it just makes you

1204
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:01,160
Speaker 1: want to do that much more to you know, I

1205
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:03,160
Speaker 1: want to do this for the team and fulfill you know,

1206
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:04,879
Speaker 1: I'm not getting trouble, but I know what I'm doing

1207
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:06,840
Speaker 1: too when I'm out there with him. And that's what

1208
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:08,840
Speaker 1: I felt. That pressure definitely my rookie year. You know,

1209
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 1: I put it on myself and just being around him

1210
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:13,359
Speaker 1: because he's so competitive and if you mess up, he's

1211
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:14,880
Speaker 1: gonna let you know because he wants it to be

1212
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 1: perfect because you know, we're trying to win championships out

1213
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 1: here and you gotta have you gotta have perfection to

1214
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 1: get it done. There you go, Austin Neckler from the

1215
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:25,440
Speaker 1: Chargers joining us. Hey before I let you go. Um,

1216
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 1: the listeners, they probably don't realize this, but you know

1217
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:31,919
Speaker 1: we actually got on each other's radars when you saw

1218
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 1: my segment the Danger Zone on NFL Network. Um, when

1219
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 1: you and I've never had the pleasure of asking a

1220
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 1: player of this, but obviously the segment gets pretty wacky.

1221
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 1: Um when you saw when you saw the Danger Zone

1222
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 1: and and here you come Austin Eckler all of a

1223
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 1: sudden on NFL Network in this crazy wacky segment. Um,

1224
00:57:56,040 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: what was your reaction to that? Uh? Well, first of all, like,

1225
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not really like a big money guy

1226
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:06,600
Speaker 1: like his filight players. So you know, I'm trying of

1227
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:09,480
Speaker 1: growing into this role that whatever my role, and I'm

1228
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:11,320
Speaker 1: growing into it. And so it's kind of like an

1229
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 1: awakening like wow, like you know, I'm I'm part of

1230
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 1: this thing too. You know it's a big business, but

1231
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:19,480
Speaker 1: I'm also in this because you know, we have media

1232
00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 1: in the locker room all the time and so for

1233
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 1: me to you know, get a little respecting you guys,

1234
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 1: which I appreciate. It was pretty pretty special for me.

1235
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 1: There you go nice all right? I like it, Austin Ekeler. Man,

1236
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:33,520
Speaker 1: we wish you the best going inten. We appreciate your time,

1237
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 1: and we thank you for coming onto the NFL Fantasy

1238
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:39,640
Speaker 1: Live Podcast. Man, absolutely, thank you, guys, appreciate it all right,

1239
00:58:39,680 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: the great Austin Ekeler taking time out of his day

1240
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 1: to join us here. Two hundred sixty rush yards, two

1241
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 1: hundred seventy nine receiving yards, five total touchdowns, uh in seventeen,

1242
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 1: so not you know, not awesome numbers by any stretch

1243
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 1: of the imagination, but again, limited touches. They're in twenty seventeen.

1244
00:58:56,680 --> 00:59:00,960
Speaker 1: Will he see an expanded role in average five point

1245
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 1: three yards per carry and ten point three yards per reception.

1246
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 1: That was pretty impressive, Pretty pretty good athlete, very explosive. Um. Again, Alex,

1247
00:59:11,280 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: you had mentioned this um prior to the phone call.

1248
00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 1: But a lot of us have have a little bit

1249
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:19,680
Speaker 1: of of love for Austin Neckler, right, Uh. I have

1250
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 1: him in Bargains, You've got him in Deep Sleepers, and

1251
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:26,160
Speaker 1: he was actually in the original uh, post draft ranks

1252
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 1: ranks eleven as well. So a lot of us here

1253
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 1: in the Fantasy Stronghold have seen him on tape, kind

1254
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 1: of looked at the looked at the numbers, and we

1255
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:36,720
Speaker 1: liked what we saw. Yeah, and I mean they didn't

1256
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 1: really do much else to address the backfield. I think

1257
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:40,920
Speaker 1: the Chargers really like what they have in Gordon is

1258
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: the main guy in Austin Neckler as the change of

1259
00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 1: pace guy. The only addition they made was Justin Jackson

1260
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:48,680
Speaker 1: in the seventh round of the draft, and he'll probably

1261
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Speaker 1: be fighting for a roster spot. You know, it'll be

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Speaker 1: tough for him to usurp either of those guys, I think.

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Speaker 1: So it's a great situation in a high powered offense,

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Speaker 1: and it's always fun written for a guy like Austin

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Speaker 1: come from a small town, drafted guy, you know, like

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Speaker 1: those are a lot of the players that always always

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Speaker 1: steal your hard as a fan. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Um.

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Speaker 1: I had wrote in my piece, I think a four

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Speaker 1: hundred four hundred with thirty five receptions in five to

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Speaker 1: seven touchdowns, I think that's doable for Austin Neckler. So

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Speaker 1: we're talking eight hundred total yards, thirty five receptions UM

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Speaker 1: and five to seven touchdowns. I don't think that's I

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01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 1: don't think that's out of bounds in terms of might

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Speaker 1: be a touch high. Uh, if you break up the

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Speaker 1: entire offense, but it's not, you know, crazy? Yeah, I

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01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:32,840
Speaker 1: mean again, and if and if we can and if

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Speaker 1: he can get to those levels and we're talking to

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Speaker 1: top thirty running back. And again, this is a guy

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Speaker 1: that's going undrafted right now in most drafts, So I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I kind of like the value. That's why

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Speaker 1: I have him in bargains. Let's let's get daily DAPs

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Speaker 1: and get out of all right, let's close out your

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Speaker 1: show with daily depths, taps, steps, dog bites, and dipping

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Speaker 1: steps steps. If you like creepy rabbits, this movie is

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Speaker 1: for you. Degenerate on there. This is why I love.

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Speaker 1: This group of guys. Were like a whirl when there

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Speaker 1: goes boom. Alright, Taylor Dapi, MG, my guy, Marcus, grant

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Speaker 1: what you got? Um? I uh, I saw what Alex

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Speaker 1: has this day DAPs, so I would not steal his thunder,

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Speaker 1: but I let me just say that proactively. I I

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Speaker 1: also DAPT, but Alex is dinto DAP. But you can dap.

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Speaker 1: At first, I'm not going to because you wrote it down,

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01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna defer. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: my dad, I wanted to Gabby DeMarco, who if you

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Speaker 1: have not seen her, the video has gone viral. She

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Speaker 1: was at a Padres game we've yesterday, earlier in the week. Um,

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Speaker 1: who's Gabby DeMarco. She was just hanging out of the

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Speaker 1: Padres game, just a regular old fan and uh, not

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Speaker 1: only caught a foul ball in her beer, but then

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Speaker 1: drank the entire beer around the ball, the whole beer

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Speaker 1: around the ball. That's pretty amazing, Like, you know, as

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Speaker 1: somebody who's been to you know, a type of baseball

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Speaker 1: games in my life, obviously, getting getting a foul ball

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01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 1: is a big deal because you can go to games

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Speaker 1: forever and ever and never get one. Um, so to

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Speaker 1: get one, to catch it in your beer is pretty amazing.

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01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:57,600
Speaker 1: And then to just like you know, shake it off

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Speaker 1: and keep drinking. Never even put the ball out of

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Speaker 1: the beer, mind, you just drank it like it was

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Speaker 1: a giant raw hide ice cube for something. It was.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing and it's also disgusting. Yeah, but he's more

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Speaker 1: amazing than disgusting. I mean that's like picking up It's

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01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 1: literally no different than picking up a piece of rock

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Speaker 1: off the ground. It's very different. I mean, you're talking

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Speaker 1: to your beer and drinking around. You're talking to a

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Speaker 1: guy who drinks, who drank beer out of a trophy.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, I was, I was witnessed. There was

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Speaker 1: there was video. There's a video of it. Okay, fair enough,

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01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:35,880
Speaker 1: fair enough, alex galhar uh So two daily DAPs. The

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Speaker 1: first one that Marcus proactively dept as well, is to

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Speaker 1: our good friends and colleagues Chris Westling and Lakisha Jackson.

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01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:45,680
Speaker 1: They got engaged, found out yesterday and they put it

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Speaker 1: out on social media for all to see today and

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Speaker 1: just they're two wonderful people and I'm so glad they

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Speaker 1: found each other through this place at the NFL, and

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01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 1: uh couldn't be more happy for them. So that's just phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: And the other daily DApp I want to give is

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Speaker 1: to did you guys see this video of this ten

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Speaker 1: year old kid that covered imagined by John Lennon at

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Speaker 1: a talent show? Oh my god, it's incredible. If you

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Speaker 1: just searched like ten year old imagined cover he's from Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: His name is Adam Cornowski. Yeah, he does it and

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Speaker 1: like it's you know, the like elementary school town show.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's in the auditorium or whatever. It's just like dead

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Speaker 1: silent as he's just slaying this song, this little the

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Speaker 1: skinny little ten year old game with the classes playing

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Speaker 1: the piano, singing it beautifully, and he gets done and

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Speaker 1: the crowd erupts and it went viral. My dad texted

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Speaker 1: my sister and me about it. He's like, you guys

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Speaker 1: have to go watch this right away. I was like,

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Speaker 1: all right, Dad, calm down. I watched it like got

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Speaker 1: a little dusty. It's it's so good to see this

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Speaker 1: kid just crushed it. And he said too that he

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Speaker 1: picked the song Imagine because of everything that's going on

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Speaker 1: in the world. And if you know the song, if

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01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:49,520
Speaker 1: you know the song Imagine, it's pretty cool that a

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01:03:49,960 --> 01:03:51,760
Speaker 1: that a ten year old boy thought to do that

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01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:53,240
Speaker 1: and performed it so well at the town show. So

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Speaker 1: go check it out. Adam Cornowski. The video is it's

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Speaker 1: honestly spectacular. That's great man. Uh and again gratulations certainly,

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Speaker 1: Uh to West and Lakisha, that's awesome, man. It's Uh,

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01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 1: that is great to find love here. That's like a

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01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 1: rose growing through the concrete. Um. I will give daily

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01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:20,680
Speaker 1: DAPs to a trio of female reporter sports reporters that

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Speaker 1: I have really come to appreciate over the last year.

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Speaker 1: Doris Burke. Of course, she does everything for ESPN. Man.

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Speaker 1: I mean, she's a reporter, she's uh, you know, she's

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Speaker 1: a play by play person, she's a color commentator. She's

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Speaker 1: just she's amazed. She's just really good at her job.

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Speaker 1: It is. She's amazing to wear those different hats and

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Speaker 1: do them all. Well, that's so. People don't realize that

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01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:48,680
Speaker 1: is so difficult. It's so and she does everything spectacularly.

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Speaker 1: So Doris Burke one of the best in the games.

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01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:55,760
Speaker 1: Certainly Kristen lad Low from tn T tnt S broadcast

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Speaker 1: and also NBA TV. UM, she's got a great backstory.

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Speaker 1: You should read up on it, um, but man, she

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Speaker 1: does an excellent job as well. And finally, Alex Curry,

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Speaker 1: who my family, we we watch a lot of American

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Speaker 1: Ninja Warrior, and she's not on the she's on American

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Speaker 1: Ninja Warrior, Uh, the team competition, so head to head

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Speaker 1: it's on USA Network. I don't think I knew there

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Speaker 1: was a team compete if you have. I like that

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01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:26,360
Speaker 1: format actually better than the actual format because it's it's

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Speaker 1: head to head, it's one on one, it's two, it's

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01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:33,440
Speaker 1: two ninja warriors competing against each other. Um, and if

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Speaker 1: you haven't seen that format, you should. Absolutely they crushed

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Speaker 1: these courses. I mean they're done with these courses in

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Speaker 1: like forty five seconds. It's amazing how fast they're going.

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Speaker 1: They're going head to have a team. It can be,

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Speaker 1: it can be, but yeah, no, it's is incredible. Anyways,

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Speaker 1: Alex Curry is the reporter, uh, sideline reporter. I'm using

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01:05:54,160 --> 01:05:55,480
Speaker 1: air quotes here. I don't know. I don't know what

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01:05:55,520 --> 01:05:56,880
Speaker 1: the hell to call them, but I think their sideline

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Speaker 1: reporters on that on that show, and of course are

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01:05:59,640 --> 01:06:02,160
Speaker 1: very barbos mill Is on that show as well, which

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Speaker 1: is a big reason why, UM I watched the program.

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01:06:04,280 --> 01:06:06,920
Speaker 1: But Alex Curry does an incredible job as well. I

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01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:11,440
Speaker 1: think she she also covers baseball for Fox Sports. She

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01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 1: does like the Angels and stuff. That's she's really good.

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Speaker 1: I've seen her all over the place. UM. I love

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Speaker 1: the energy she brings, the information and you could tell

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01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:20,280
Speaker 1: she comes in very well prepared as well. One little

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01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:23,760
Speaker 1: anti DAP uh slight anti DAPs to uh the most

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Speaker 1: recent episode of Westworld. Uh, they had been that they

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01:06:27,040 --> 01:06:28,800
Speaker 1: had been just keeping that train going and it was

1396
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:30,800
Speaker 1: greatly didn't like the most recent albisode. I hated it.

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01:06:31,680 --> 01:06:35,120
Speaker 1: I absolutely went. It's like they ran out of ideas

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01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:38,120
Speaker 1: and then they're like, let's just use some really, uh,

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01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 1: let's just use some commonly used TV tropes and let's

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Speaker 1: just get out of here. That's what I felt. We'll

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01:06:43,640 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 1: talk about this offline. I just it's like it was

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01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:50,200
Speaker 1: such an imaginative show and then all of a sudden,

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01:06:52,600 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 1: I'm hopeful, I'm hopeful they get back on track and

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01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 1: they don't go back to the whole. You know, it's

1405
01:06:58,360 --> 01:07:00,760
Speaker 1: almost as if it was like a great HBO show

1406
01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:05,200
Speaker 1: and then they borrowed on like a great like you know,

1407
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:08,400
Speaker 1: ABC show, and nothing against a great ABC show, but

1408
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:10,880
Speaker 1: you know what you're getting with an ABC show, and

1409
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:13,240
Speaker 1: you know that HBO show is a great HBO show

1410
01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:16,240
Speaker 1: is going to be above and beyond that. That's just

1411
01:07:16,520 --> 01:07:18,480
Speaker 1: so it's a it's a slight. It's just a slight.

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01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:20,600
Speaker 1: I still like the show, still love the show. It

1413
01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:24,160
Speaker 1: was overall and entertaining episode as well, but just a

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01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:27,400
Speaker 1: slight and anti tap, that's all. That's all. Producer, Christina,

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01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:30,880
Speaker 1: what you got? Um, I'm giving one giant daily DAP

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01:07:31,120 --> 01:07:34,480
Speaker 1: to my family. Next week. We're going on vacation. So

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01:07:34,720 --> 01:07:37,439
Speaker 1: it's our first family vacation in the last like five

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01:07:37,560 --> 01:07:41,200
Speaker 1: or six years because I was in college, my sister

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01:07:41,320 --> 01:07:45,360
Speaker 1: was in college. We're going to Grand Cayman. Yeah, trying

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01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:47,600
Speaker 1: to do it big. My grandparents are getting older, so

1421
01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:50,440
Speaker 1: grandparents going to Yeah, so we're getting the whole family

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01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:53,800
Speaker 1: to go, cousin's grandparents. Yeah, We're trying to round it

1423
01:07:53,880 --> 01:07:55,480
Speaker 1: up because we don't know how many more we'll be

1424
01:07:55,560 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 1: able to get everybody together. So big daily DAP to

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01:07:58,840 --> 01:08:01,360
Speaker 1: that and I'll send when I get back. Sounds good.

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01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:03,800
Speaker 1: It's amazing how many people, how many people in total

1427
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:06,960
Speaker 1: are going? Um, I want to say roughly twenty of

1428
01:08:07,080 --> 01:08:11,920
Speaker 1: us are going. So yeah, So I'm hoping we can

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01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:14,000
Speaker 1: already pencil and Christina's Daily DAP for like a couple

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01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:19,840
Speaker 1: of weeks. Right. That is terrific. Alright, So there you go.

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01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:21,680
Speaker 1: That was a great show that we had today. We

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01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:25,080
Speaker 1: appreciate Austeckler coming on for the Wist Kid from Wisconsin

1433
01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:28,559
Speaker 1: Alex Gelhar and MG my guy Marcus Grant and producer

1434
01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:31,719
Speaker 1: Christina and the and the intern as well. I'm James

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01:08:31,800 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 1: go I appreciate you listen and we'll catch you at