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Speaker 1: to another edition of the NFL Fantasy Live Podcast. It's

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Speaker 1: me your man named g Marks Grant, alongside the next

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Speaker 1: gent stats guru Graham Barfield Michael Fabiano. Off this week.

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Speaker 1: Uh and uh what we're training? Camps are opening soon, Graham,

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Speaker 1: Like in a couple of days. It's wild. It is wild.

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Speaker 1: Rookies are reporting today in the seventeenth for a few teams. Um, yeah, man,

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Speaker 1: Twitter at Ross Tucker in FL. A great guy, knows

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Speaker 1: to our favor producer, Senior Edward L. Murphy. Espire Murph,

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Speaker 1: the quarterback, so that was part of the logic. But

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Speaker 1: then you're also opening up some space for guys to

429
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Speaker 1: stunt and for Blitzer, So I'll be curious what he

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Speaker 1: does there. I think Kingsbury's offense is gonna be very

431
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Speaker 1: healthy for the offensive line because it is a lot

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Speaker 1: of getting the ball out of the quarterback's hands quickly

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Speaker 1: from the shotgun, so it's a lot of quick game.

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Speaker 1: They can be aggressive, try to get the defender's arms down.

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Speaker 1: And even in the running game, guys, if you have

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Speaker 1: a quarterback that's like Kyler Murray, I think he's the

437
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Speaker 1: fastest quarterback I've ever seen. And I know about Michael Vick,

438
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Speaker 1: I know about Lamar Jackson. Kyler Murray, man, holy crap,

439
00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:29,320
Speaker 1: that guy is electric. And even just the threat of

440
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Speaker 1: him pulling the ball and running it the opposite way

441
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Speaker 1: on his own read read option, that is very valuable

442
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Speaker 1: because it forces at least one defender to hang on

443
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Speaker 1: the back side and to be responsible for that, so

444
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Speaker 1: the offensive line should get better angles in the running game.

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Speaker 1: It's one reason why I'm like stunned at how low

446
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Speaker 1: people are on David Johnson. You know, I tell people

447
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Speaker 1: a lot, and I don't talk as much as Evan

448
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Speaker 1: Silva does on the Fantasy Feast podcast because he's more

449
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Speaker 1: the expert than I am. But I do look at

450
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Speaker 1: like where people have Garoppolo ranked and David Johnson ranked,

451
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Speaker 1: and I just think, man, there's a reason why these

452
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Speaker 1: guys were such sought after commodities a year ago. And

453
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't let you know, one injury or one subpar year,

454
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Speaker 1: let you just wipe them off the map. I think

455
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Speaker 1: there's value there and taking those guys a little bit

456
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Speaker 1: higher than that than they're going right now. No, I agree.

457
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Speaker 1: I've been really big on David Johnson this offseason. But

458
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Speaker 1: since you mentioned running backs, uh, a couple of guys

459
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Speaker 1: in the news lately, Melvin Gordon, Ezekiel Elliott, and you're

460
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Speaker 1: talking about trying to negotiate new deals right now. Um, Look,

461
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Speaker 1: we all know that without an offensive line, no running

462
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Speaker 1: back in the world is going to get any kind

463
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Speaker 1: of forward progress. But have we reached a point now

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Speaker 1: where I mean, so may people keep talking about the

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Speaker 1: replaceability of running backs, but I just I'm wondering, are

466
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Speaker 1: these top level guys really that easily replaceable in an offense? Well,

467
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Speaker 1: I can tell you that Anthony Lynn, coach or the Chargers,

468
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Speaker 1: doesn't feel that way because I would talk to him

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Speaker 1: quite a bit. You know, I talked to him every

470
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Speaker 1: week last year on my radio show, and I would mention,

471
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm a big Austin Ekeler guy, So I'd say,

472
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Speaker 1: you know, why don't you get Austin Melvine had a

473
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Speaker 1: good game. Why don't get Austin Ekeler the ball a

474
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Speaker 1: little bit more? And then especially when when Melvin was hurt.

475
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Speaker 1: But if you look, uh, you know, Ekeler was not

476
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Speaker 1: as productive when Melvin was hurt in terms of being

477
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Speaker 1: the guy and carrying the load as I thought he

478
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Speaker 1: would be. It seems like he's much more productive when

479
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Speaker 1: he is the second back and when he does have

480
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Speaker 1: you know, a limited volume of touches in that game.

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Speaker 1: I think sometimes, you know, especially if you're a third

482
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Speaker 1: down back like Eckler, the situation that you're put in

483
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Speaker 1: can help your statistics. You know, whether it's a draw

484
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Speaker 1: in third and twenty and the defense concedes ten yards,

485
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Speaker 1: you get fifteen. Looks good for your yards per carry.

486
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Speaker 1: But maybe it wasn't that impressive. I do think that

487
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Speaker 1: elite running backs can make a difference, but man, they're

488
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Speaker 1: not helping their argument recently with what C. J. Anderson

489
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Speaker 1: did with the rams and and girls knee and I

490
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Speaker 1: don't think, by the way, if I were Melvin Board

491
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Speaker 1: and Zeke Elliott, I would hold out if I were

492
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Speaker 1: both those guys. I don't really think the Chargers are

493
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Speaker 1: gonna pay them. I think the Chargers would take their

494
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Speaker 1: chances early in the season with Eckler and see how

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Speaker 1: that goes. The Cowboys are a little different story, just

496
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Speaker 1: because they run the offense through Zeke and they don't

497
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Speaker 1: have as good as a backup running back on the

498
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Speaker 1: roster as the Chargers do, so I'll be curious to

499
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Speaker 1: see how both those situations play out. But man, I

500
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Speaker 1: don't blame those guys for holding out. I'd probably be

501
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Speaker 1: thinking the same thing if I were them as a

502
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Speaker 1: running back, trying to get the money while you can.

503
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Speaker 1: But if I'm the team's I also probably wouldn't relent.

504
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 1: Not a real good track record with running backs that

505
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Speaker 1: get paid. Yeah, it's it's gonna be interesting to watch,

506
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Speaker 1: no doubt. Ross. We appreciate the time. We appreciate the

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Speaker 1: insight the folks and check you out on Twitter and

508
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Speaker 1: of course the Ross your family of podcasts at Ross

509
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Speaker 1: Tucker Media enjoyed the season coming up. I know you're

510
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Speaker 1: doing stuff with the Eagles, right, It's gotta be exciting

511
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 1: for you. Yeah. Man, I grew up outside of Philly,

512
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 1: so to do the Eagles prefeasing games on TV will

513
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 1: be very cool. They never Andy Reid and One Casteo

514
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:19,040
Speaker 1: never wanted me on the team, So the heck with

515
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Speaker 1: those guys. I found a way to cind of me

516
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Speaker 1: on the team anyway, and I'm on TV. It's awesome.

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Speaker 1: So whatever happened to Andy Reid hasn't done anything since anyone.

518
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Speaker 1: I never never heard of him. He just faded away.

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Speaker 1: He knows, and Ross appreciate the time. Take care man,

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Speaker 1: all right, see you guys. Thanks again to Ross Tucker

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Speaker 1: for his time. A great guest, a great conversation. And

522
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Speaker 1: I know we don't we don't talk offensive line a

523
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Speaker 1: whole lot, but it is important. It's so underrated, man,

524
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Speaker 1: it's so so underrated. I'm doing some of our team

525
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Speaker 1: previews here and going through offensive lines and it really

526
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,440
Speaker 1: is one of the most underrated facets and fantasy Ros

527
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 1: said it perfectly, like it's one of those things where

528
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Speaker 1: I don't think it should make or break your pick,

529
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Speaker 1: but it definitely should be one of the one of

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Speaker 1: the bits of information you're trying at least in including

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Speaker 1: your analysis. Yeah. Absolutely, um so kind of weirdness, sort

532
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Speaker 1: of fantasy, but sort of not. I'm sure if you

533
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Speaker 1: were on Twitter or just breathing in the last few days,

534
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Speaker 1: you saw the news about the Madden ratings that came out.

535
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Speaker 1: Madden twenty is going to hit stores very very soon,

536
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Speaker 1: and so that means the ratings you're coming out, and uh,

537
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 1: you probably saw the fact that a lot of players

538
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 1: not thrilled, not thrilled with their numbers. Keenan Allen posted

539
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Speaker 1: a video on Twitter saying he's boycotting the game. I

540
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,439
Speaker 1: think the the money quote was his strength was like

541
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Speaker 1: a I think a sixty es like they have me

542
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Speaker 1: like a little child or something like that. Yeah, his

543
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Speaker 1: strength is at his sixty nine. He basically complained that

544
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Speaker 1: they made him out to be like a child in

545
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Speaker 1: terms of his strength. Um. I saw Mike Evans was

546
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Speaker 1: complaining that the Madden gamemakers don't launch film. I mean,

547
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,760
Speaker 1: he might be right. He really might be right. I know.

548
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Speaker 1: I think Tyron Matthew complained that Deshaun Watson is an

549
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Speaker 1: eight two. So DeMarcus Lawrence just got like a boatload

550
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Speaker 1: of money from Dallas and he was complaining about his

551
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 1: Madden rating too. But he's like a nineties seven, one

552
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: of the best defensive ends. All right. So now, I

553
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: mean I say this mostly as a joke, right, Like,

554
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Speaker 1: we don't look at these things and figure like and

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00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 1: use them for fantasy, right. I mean I hope not,

556
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: but I would imagine there's somebody out there who bear

557
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 1: looks at these and it's like, oh man, this guy's

558
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Speaker 1: an eighty two. Like I don't I don't know that

559
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 1: I want him on my team this year. Yeah, I

560
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,439
Speaker 1: hope people aren't doing that. I honestly, it's it's it

561
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: was kind of funny. It's just people love to get

562
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: out rage. Now. I guess on Twitter, I only play

563
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 1: Madden Ultimate Team, so I don't even paid attention to

564
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Speaker 1: like the set of overall ratings in two or three years. Um.

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00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 1: So it's people just like to find things to get

566
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Speaker 1: angry about. So here's a better question. They flip this around.

567
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: Should maybe the folks who do Madden come to the

568
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Speaker 1: fantasy community and and help and use them to help

569
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Speaker 1: kind of create some of their ratings one thousand percent?

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Speaker 1: Because I don't know of a community man that like

571
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Speaker 1: spends more time djinning in the off season, like looking

572
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Speaker 1: into deep analytic because about how these teams are gonna

573
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:03,119
Speaker 1: how these teams are gonna play, how these players, what

574
00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,040
Speaker 1: their player outlooks. Are absolutely mad and should should reach

575
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,120
Speaker 1: out to uh to us. I mean, if they want

576
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Speaker 1: to have you, and I look, I'm done to do it.

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Speaker 1: You know, I know some folks over there, maybe we

578
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 1: can just put in a call a lot on the

579
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Speaker 1: phone call and let's see if that helps. Um. I

580
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,439
Speaker 1: was going through some of these guys though, and some

581
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 1: of the some of the ratings, UM, and just kind

582
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: of finding them sort of interesting. I don't know that

583
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: I have an emotional reaction one way or another to

584
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Speaker 1: some of these, but you don't. I know, I know

585
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Speaker 1: I'm doing it wrong. I'm gonna get I'm gonna get

586
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Speaker 1: kicked off Twitter now because of this. UM. Todd Gurley

587
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: is a nineties seven and I just I find it

588
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,120
Speaker 1: funny because he's the one guy that everyone is so

589
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: panicked about this year after the knee injuries and not

590
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: knowing what's going to happen and watching him fall down

591
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Speaker 1: draft boards. Folks A E A or like whatever. God,

592
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: Gurley is still fine. Yeah, we don't care. We don't care. Yeah,

593
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 1: we don't care. Um, Tom Brady that this was shocked

594
00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: in nineties six for Tom Brady. This feels like a

595
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 1: legacy move right here. It is. It is a legacy move. Um,

596
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Tom Brady hasn't been able to like really

597
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: efficiently pushed the ball thirty plus yards downfield and maybe

598
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 1: a couple of seasons. I feel like that should maybe

599
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: hurt your man ratings. I would think, so, Um, I

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Speaker 1: I'm going there, there's no there's no running back. Girl

601
00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 1: is the highest rated running back at ninety seven, so

602
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 1: there's nobody above ninety eight. Antonio Brown is still that's

603
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: a legacy rating too. I think I think so. But yeah,

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00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,480
Speaker 1: um so I'm going through. Melvin Gordon is a ninety two,

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Speaker 1: which I don't know if that helps or hurts him

606
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: in his attempt to get a new contracting. Melvin Gordon's

607
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 1: going up, going up to the Chargers brasses. I'my me

608
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 1: like a Christian McCaffrey is only a ninety one. Uh,

609
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: I will say they got a lot of the defenders right,

610
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Speaker 1: like Aaron Donald, Khalil Mac, Bobby Wagner, like so many

611
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Speaker 1: dominant defensive players. David back t R. Is a ninety

612
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: seven left tackle for the Packers. Um yeah, I think

613
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,719
Speaker 1: people are probably are because of Beckham's injuries. I know

614
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 1: we all love the talent, but I think I saw

615
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Speaker 1: some outrage over Odell Beckham b at ninety six and

616
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,480
Speaker 1: like some of the some of the big time receivers

617
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Speaker 1: who have stayed healthy, being a little bit lower than nineties.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, um, and there are by the way, there

619
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Speaker 1: probably just said this. There are four players Aaron Donald,

620
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Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, Khalil Mack, and Bobby Wagner are your four

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Speaker 1: ninety nine which I believe there was a I don't

622
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Speaker 1: know if it's still there. There was a big mural

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Speaker 1: out on Venice Boulevard that had all four nine guys up. Um.

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Speaker 1: It may still be there if you're in Los Angeles, uh,

625
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Speaker 1: you know, drive by. I believe it's at the intersection

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Speaker 1: of Venice and Western. It may still be there through

627
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Speaker 1: the weekends. So if you have a shot, go go

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Speaker 1: check it out. It's I've seen pictures of it. It

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Speaker 1: looks pretty cool. Um. But yeah, those are the four

630
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Speaker 1: nine guys there. Patrick Mahomes a nineties seven. J. J.

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Speaker 1: Watt is a nineties seven. I'm now upset online on

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Speaker 1: the podcast safe Good God. Yeah, I just didn't notice.

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Speaker 1: I didn't see that. Yeah, you know that. I was

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Speaker 1: surprised there wasn't more of a stink made about that one.

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Speaker 1: As well, so, um, we should we should immediately when

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Speaker 1: we get done with the show, text Matt and just

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Speaker 1: say y y yeah, you know, or power Matt Matt.

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Speaker 1: Matt Franciscovich, the franchisees is working over there at e A,

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Speaker 1: could be like a joint venture. We can make it.

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Speaker 1: We can. We can create social content, right, that's what

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Speaker 1: everybody wants. They want, they want more social content. We'll

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Speaker 1: create it that way. Um. Finally, as we wrap this

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Speaker 1: It's this time of year where you guys are getting

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Speaker 1: h L. I did a little bit last year. We

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Speaker 1: bring him back again this year because why not? They're fun.

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Speaker 1: The first one I've come across Patrick mahomes Graham says

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Speaker 1: he's shedding baby fat in the off season. He's trying

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Speaker 1: to lose three to five pounds. Everybody's talking about regression

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Speaker 1: with Patrick Mahomes, But how can he regress when he's

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Speaker 1: going to be in the best shape of his life

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Speaker 1: this year? Oh man, uh Mahomes. Um, Mahomes did have

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a belly though, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: lie coming out he did, but like most who cares.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's like maybe got the best armed town

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Speaker 1: of any quarterback to ever come out ever. Well. Plus,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's just I think it's the thing that

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Speaker 1: you get with guys. I mean, I know he wasn't

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Speaker 1: directly out of college last year, but if there's something

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Speaker 1: necessarily you know, your whole life isn't devoted to working

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Speaker 1: out all the time, where like when you become a pro,

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Speaker 1: you you have more time to do that. Also, Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes shedding baby Fatty three years, You've got some issues, man,

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Speaker 1: I've got to I've got to be a so bs

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Speaker 1: B S O h L. Easy for you to say,

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Speaker 1: not much uh, not very easily said for me, But no,

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Speaker 1: Ronald Jones has go on like fifteen pounds. Apparently Ronaldo

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Speaker 1: has put on like fifteen pounds of muscles in this season, Um,

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Speaker 1: in an attempt to, I guess, play more. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: considering how little he played last year, wouldn't take much

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Speaker 1: to play more. But um, I've been back and forth

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Speaker 1: on Ronald Jones this offseason, and you know, like the

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Speaker 1: Bucks didn't do anything in terms of shoring up their backfield,

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Speaker 1: which kind of made me optimistic than there were reports

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Speaker 1: that you know, Peyton Barber is still going to be

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Speaker 1: stuff that he's you know, trying to bulk up and

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Speaker 1: getting muscle up. Um, so maybe I'm sorry. It was

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Speaker 1: not ten to fifteen pounds. It was very specifically thirteen

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Speaker 1: pounds him. That's very specific. Yeah, but Ronald Jones is

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Speaker 1: a speed guy. Putting on muscle does not make me

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Speaker 1: any more likely to draft him. Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think I think some of the excitement,

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Speaker 1: a Bruce Arian's offense now and wondering what that does

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Speaker 1: for him and and how that can can boost his

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Speaker 1: his opportunities. But hey man, he's in the best shape

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Speaker 1: of his life. So let's got account for something. So

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Speaker 1: absolutely there, it is all right. That's it. We are done.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again to Ross Tucker for stopping by and chatting

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Speaker 1: back next week as always, uh, in our regular time.

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Speaker 1: In fact, very soon we'll be going to two shows

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Speaker 1: a week now that we're into the preseason. We'll keep

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Speaker 1: you updated on when that happens. Uh, you know, just

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Speaker 1: Hopefully Fats will be back next week. We'll be back

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Speaker 1: in the studio. Everything. We'll be fine, it'll be great.

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