WEBVTT - NFL Latest, Concussion Protocol is a Joke, Way too early Fantasy Football Mock! 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:06.400 You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You are 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:15.280 now about to witness the strength of fantasy knowledge Fantasy 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:18.400 Sports Radio Network. You are now tuned into the Speeds 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:22.479 and spitting Statistician on Fantasy Freestyle. Up next on that 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:27.040 sifer on the microphone. You know that I'm one of 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:37.800 the best yet, Martinez, you know what it is. It's 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.600 your boy, Dane Martinez, a k A. Speeds a k 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:45.239 A to spitting Statistician, And you are listening live to 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:49.000 the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the award winning Fantasy 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.200 Sports Radio Network. 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When we had 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:35.600 a way too early for two thousand and eighteen draft. 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.080 Mike Florio actually had the number one overall pick. You 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:42.360 want to know where he went. Tune in a little 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.640 bit later on in the show. We'll talk about it 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:47.720 a little bit. We've also got my boy Danny down 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.640 there in the pit of misery. We're gonna be chatting 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.120 it up with you guys on the YouTube stream. Here's 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:55.200 what I want to talk about. Okay, I want to 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.360 talk about what I believe is going to be a 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:01.880 big problem for the NFL in the playoffs. Okay, we 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:06.160 saw Travis Kelsey getting knocked out a little stumbling a 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.240 little bit, and he missed the rest of the game. Right. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:13.079 Cam Newton also got his clock cleaned, went into the 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:17.320 tent and they said he had an eye injury. Only 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.760 issue with that was he's wearing a visor. So what 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:22.520 kind of eye injury did he have? He had the 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:26.240 kind of eye injury that takes your equilibrium from you, 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.880 where you should have had your helmet taken from you 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.480 and been in the cold, dark, quiet room but the 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.520 NFL can't do that in the playoffs with one of 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:38.919 its big stars. But what happens if Tom Brady, Lavan Bell, 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:44.320 Drew Brees, Rob Gronkowski is laid out like Tyrod Taylor 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.920 was in wild Card weekend? And that brings me to 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:51.720 our pole question out there on Twitter at spitting speeds. 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:56.560 Is the NFL following the Concussion Protocol and those guidelines 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:01.680 with fidelity in the NFL playoffs? And also should they 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:04.840 should there be a different risk proposition because it is 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.480 the playoffs. We're gonna chat about that. I want to 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.000 know what you guys are saying on the YouTube chat 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:14.600 as the hashtag stats over beat Cipher. We're also going 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:19.000 to get into the officiating that happened in wild Card weekend. 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:21.000 A lot of people are saying that it is poor, 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.640 and I have a couple of suggestions for NFL referees 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:28.120 and officials that might make things a little bit better. 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.240 We've got technology out the ying yang, how about what 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.960 you apply it in the right way. What we're also 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.400 going to do, if you remember Fantasy Freestyle from last year, 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:41.680 we are bringing it back. It is speeds first, the kids. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.680 We have our first predictions for the NFL Playoffs from 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:49.200 my home girl, Zoe take the points, Garulic. We'll see 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.520 who Zoe picks and if it matches up with what 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.120 Speed says, Come on back. 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Do not look at the poll 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:31.239 results right now? Okay? On the poll question, I asked 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:35.200 the pole question, um our NFL teams following the concussion 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:39.080 protocol with fidelity during the NFL playoffs. I'm gonna tell 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.919 you something. I am very surprised by the poll results. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.120 I'm gonna bring in Florio a little bit later on 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:47.799 in the show after I go off about this concussion 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.760 protocol and Florio, I am surprised by the poll results. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.279 So um, I'm gonna make you guess what they are 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.719 a little bit later on in the show. Do not 0:05:57.160 --> 0:06:00.240 look at the poll results. But that is a little 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.000 bit later on. If you want to contribute to the 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.280 poll results, hit me up on Twitter at Spitting Speeds. 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:07.680 You can always follow me up a pole questions up. 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.640 You could always holler at me. I'll be trying to 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:11.920 get back to everybody, help them win their leagues. And 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.600 win that cash. All right, let's go around the league. 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.360 News and notes from around the NFL. A lot of 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.520 contractual talk and also, you know, some injuries to catch 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:24.080 you up on getting ahead of divisional weekend in the NFL. 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:26.720 Um out in Los Angeles. Remember we've been talking about 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.520 Sammy Watkins and if he wants to be part of 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.360 a fantasy herd by staying there in Los Angeles or 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.880 being the number one guy somewhere else. I've heard Houston, 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.640 I've heard San Francisco, both teams I think will be 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:42.600 looking for wide receivers in the off season. Reports now 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.080 saying the Rams may franchise tag Sammy Watkins. And I 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:48.640 think that's very interesting because check this out. Last year, Uh, 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.840 they signed Robert Woods to a you know, legitimate deal. 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.200 They signed Tavon Austin to one of the most ridiculous 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:58.240 deals in the NFL. Right now, the Rams already have 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.919 a ton of money locked up in their wide receiver position. 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.760 You also have Cooper Cup there as well, the rookie. 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.599 Do you really want to spend that kind of money 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:12.240 on Sammy Watkins as well? I'm not so sure. Keep 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.800 an eye on this. Was saying the Rams may tag 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:17.840 Sammy Watkins. I don't think so. I think Sammy Watkins 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.640 is gonna wind up somewhere else in the off season. 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:22.920 But we'll keep an eye out on this. Head coach 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.640 in the Atlanta Falcons, Dan Quinn says that Julio Jones 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.000 will be fine. He is good to go with that 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.360 ankle injury. This has been the m O for Julio 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.240 Jones all season long. Julio Jones has been banged up 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.520 pretty much every year of his NFL career, and he 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.520 you know, MSS practice, They manage his reps, but then 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.440 he goes out there on Sundays, whether he is a 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:46.120 decoy or not. And uh, you know, so he'll be 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.600 out there in Philadelphia on Saturday as the Falcons is 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.920 take on the Philadelphia Eagles. This is the first time, 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.679 as I suspected, the first time a number one seed 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.360 after the buy is going to be a home dog 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.040 to a number six seed. I'll tell you about my 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.480 picks a little bit later on in the week. Listen 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.720 to New England. Patriots are back in action after the bye, 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.880 and it looks like this extra time off was good 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.120 for everybody that was banged up. The Patriots are not 0:08:14.240 --> 0:08:18.040 the most forthcoming with their injury reports anyway. But Chris 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:21.200 Hogan back practicing, albeit on a limited basis, with that 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.800 shoulder Rex burkehead they said, Oh, he was heavily favoring it. 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.080 They say he was making progress now back practicing coming 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:33.040 off that knee. Even Malcolm Mitchell back practicing. Uh, Gillesley 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:36.440 back practicing. It looks like the New England Patriots will 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.680 have a full cupboard of weapons when they take on 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.040 the Tennessee Titans. Remember they did have the buy it 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.800 should be that way. Who will not be ready? It 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.360 looks like his DeMarco Murray on the other side for 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.520 exotic smash mouth. But there are reports now that it 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.160 looks like DeMarco Murray people are saying may have played 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.280 his last snap with the Tennessee Titans. It looks like 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:00.600 this could be Derek's backfield moving forward to Marco already 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:05.560 may wind up being elsewhere after the Titans get eliminated. Also, 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:10.640 in contractual kind of negotiation time, Levian Bell is saying 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.280 that if the Pittsburgh Steelers franchise him and again, he 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.200 may just walk away. I think that's an idle threat, 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.720 But what I do believe is possible. And I've been 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:22.439 saying this all season long. You guys know I have 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.880 been high on the Pittsburgh Steelers in this offense all 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.199 season long. You know I have been saying that this 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:31.280 is potentially the last ride for Big Ben Roethlisberger. Let 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.040 me ask you this, If you're Levan Bell and you 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.040 win the Super Bowl and Big Ben goes and retires, 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.600 why would you want to sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers. 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.439 I don't think you do, so. I think Levian is 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.240 set in the groundwork. He could be elsewhere as well, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:50.280 And wouldn't that be interesting? Wouldn't that impact the way 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.120 you draft fantasy? Next year? Will show you the way 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.280 that Mike Florio, that I that Greg Suspen, Jake Seely, 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.040 Corey Parsons, and some of the other big boys here 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:02.079 at the Fantasy Sports Radio Network drafted a little bit 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:04.120 later on in the show. But something I want to 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.720 talk to you guys about here on the hashtag stats 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:10.600 overbeat Cipher is this idea of the officiating. Okay, there 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.800 was lots of buzz this week about bad calls in 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:16.640 that Tennessee Kansas City game. I thought Marcus Mariota fumbled 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.880 not once, but twice, once when Derrick Johnson lit him 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:21.760 up at the end of the game, and also on 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.760 that two point conversion. I thought he did. There were 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:28.160 other calls that they are now saying that, uh, Jeff Triplet, 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:32.280 the ref maybe blew he maybe blew um on the 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.040 Mariota stacked to himself when he threw the touchdown and 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.880 caught it himself. Triplet wrongly announced that Mariota was an 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.600 eligible receiver because he was in the shotgun. That's not 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.040 the case. He was an eligible receiver because the ball 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.160 was tipped. Anybody can catch the ball after the ball 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.360 was tipped. There was a play after a Titan's first 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.000 down when the ball was spotted about like three or 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:53.240 four yards short of where it was supposed to be. 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.880 There was one time when Triplet announced the penalty on 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.160 somebody who was not even in the game. I think 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.079 it was like number eleven on Tennessee. There was no 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:05.400 number eleven on tendency. There was also one time where 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.440 there was an inavert and whistle on a Derrick Henry 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.560 carry at the end of the game. A lot of 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.360 people are saying, even Mike Pereira, you know who comes 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.959 in as like the rules expert on the officiating crew. 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.600 He even tweeted later on that it was a really 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.760 bad game and you don't but from the officials, and 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.840 you don't see that a lot. You know, you don't 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.840 see coaches critiquing other coaches, ref saying bad things about 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.720 other refs. That's the fraternity, right, So for that to happen, 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.320 I think there was something going on here. And there's 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.280 a lot of buzz about just Triplet specifically being a 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:39.920 bad ref an older gentleman as well, and there's talk 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.640 that he may in fact move on. I I equated 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.599 remember like Adelaide Bird who had that scoring for u 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.480 uh triple G and Canelo Alvarez and then there was 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.760 controversy over that and Adelaide Bird eventually stepped away. Jeff 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.360 Triplet might do the same thing. But I ask you this, 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.360 I have a couple of things that I think the 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:01.360 NFL can easily do to improve officiating. I want to 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:04.080 give you my platform, my thesis, and then hit me 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:06.199 up hashtag stats over be, hit me up in the 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.199 chat room, hit me up if you want at eight 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.160 four four eight four three six eight seven nine and 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:12.640 seeing what you guys think about it. Here's what I 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.760 think we need to do number one for the officials. 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.600 We need younger officials. What all these officials are like 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.840 fifty sixty years old and they're expected to keep up 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.520 with the pace of play with like the best athletes 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.520 in the world. We get these next gen stats, right, 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.080 the Tyreek Killers running at twenty two miles an hour. 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:35.040 You know that. Uh that Derrick Henry and its touchdown 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:39.199 run got up to you know all this momentum. Why 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.760 are we having a sixties sixty five year old man 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.800 trying to keep up with him on the sidelines. Younger 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:50.720 officials people, that's number one. Number two, why are the officials? 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.120 Why are the referees not full time employees of the NFL? 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.240 Why are they part time guys who are doing this 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.440 gig and also like a lawyer in the off season 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.160 or a tax consultant in the off season. Make this 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.640 position full time. Make them then work with the teams, 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.599 do practices throughout the season, Do do workshops throughout the 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.480 season and in the off season. Uh, you know at 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.000 the draft, combine talking to the kids that are coming 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.280 in the rookies that the ref should be full time. 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.760 This shouldn't be the side hustle for ed hockey Lee, 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.840 this should be his main gig. That's number two. Number 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:29.280 three technology. You know, we have now all these camera 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.920 angles and these slow mo instant replays which quite frankly 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.640 make everything look like it is not a catch. Why 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:39.120 can't we use technology in a smart way? You know, 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.480 we saw that they still had to uh put an 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:45.800 index card on the first down chains to see if 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:47.920 there was room in between the ball. First of all, 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:52.000 why are we using chains in two thousand and eighteen. 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:55.280 Why can't there just be like a sensor on the 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.439 ball and we know if he got you know, ten 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.360 yards ahead. Can't we do that? Can't we put a 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.280 chip in the ball? Didn't we have a chip in 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:06.280 the uprights when we were testing How why the uprights 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.480 needed to be in the preseason. Why can't we put 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.360 a chip in the ball to not only spot the ball, 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:13.920 see if it breaks the plane of an end zone, 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.960 see like if it loses touch from you know, from 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.440 a receiver if they're bobbling it. Why can't we have 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:22.400 a censor on the side the mines also to see 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.440 if a guy stepped out of bounds or not. We 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.840 have an electronic eye in tennis? Why can't we have 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:31.680 one on the sidelines of the NFL. We're literally gonna 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.520 I got it. Let's have these two sixty year old 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:38.640 men stretch out a chain a chain link that measures 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.920 ten yards. That's the most appropriate way to do it 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:46.440 in two thousand and eighteen. I disagree. I think we 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.720 can do better. Let me know what you guys think 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.080 out there on the chat room right there listening to 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:53.880 the Fantasy Freestyle and the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Hit 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.360 me up on Twitter at spitting speeds when we come back. 0:14:56.640 --> 0:15:00.960 I'm telling you, the concussion protocol is go to get 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:05.080 fudged and it's going to cause controversy. There are four 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:09.120 games this weekend to next Sunday and then the Super Bowl. 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.840 I am garin damn teeing you. In one of the 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.520 seven playoff games left in the NFL, a big times 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:19.760 star is gonna get his bell wrong. In what normal situations, 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.400 they would have taken its helmet away and for some 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:26.600 reason magic will happen inside the medical tent. It already 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.960 happened wild Card weekend. I'm gonna say how this is 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.680 a real problem for the NFL when we come back. 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:35.080 It's the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.840 You're listening to your boys. Speeds, the fitting Statistician, the 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.320 stable genius up in here in Studio thirty four. Come 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:46.360 on right back, Fantasy Freestyle. Let's get it. Have you 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.320 ever wanted to have a fantasy expert in the palm 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.000 of your hand yet in the pocket of your khakis. 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.080 We'll check it out now you can. It's the Fantasy 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:56.400 Sports Radio Network App. Download it now to your phone. 0:15:56.440 --> 0:16:00.560 We promised, no weird viruses, no strange tracking things. Twenty 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.680 four hours a day, seven days a week of pure 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:08.040 fantasy knowledge dropping all over your head. It's a Fantasy 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.480 Sports Radio Network app. Stop being a weirdo and streaming 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.240 it online. Get it on your phone, take it with 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:29.880 you every where you go. Welcome back to the Fantasy 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:33.320 Freestyle right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Dane 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:37.880 Martinez Speeds, the spitting Statistician holding you down. On a Thursday, 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.800 I was talking a little bit about NFL officiating. How 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.360 they need in my opinion, they need younger referees, they 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.360 need full time referees, and they need to do something 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.480 with the ball. They could have some sensors on the ball. 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.560 We don't need to stretch out a chain for ten yards. 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.800 It's two thousand and eighteen. We could find out, Hello, Hello, 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.880 we can find out also when people hit the sidelines. 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.920 We've got people waving her Studio thirty four and Rock 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.720 and Riley's people have cut their New Year's resolutions short 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:08.240 because they're still out here drinking on a Thursday. But 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:11.439 I digress. All right, check this out. I wanted to 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.960 talk to you guys about this concussion protocol because I 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.199 think I think it's a sham when we go to 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:21.520 the NFL playoffs. Okay, first of all, already earlier this year. 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.679 I don't know if you um saw this, but the 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:28.960 Seattle Seahawks were fined a hundred thousand dollars one week 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.399 when they said they violated the concussion protocol as it 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.600 related to Russell was listening. So Russell got banged up. 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.240 They did not follow the protocol. He was back in there. 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:41.919 They later investigated it and find the organization a hundred k. 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.119 I gotta tell you something, if you're the Seattle Seahawks 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:46.919 and you're in a tight spot and you need your 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.000 m VP candidate Russell Wilson, a hundred thousand dollars is 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:54.400 a small price to pay for the organization. And that's 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:58.159 like in Week seven. Imagine if this was the NFC 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.880 Championship game. I think there are going to be teams. 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.440 I think they're going to be organizations. I think there's 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:08.320 gonna be scenarios and scenes that are a problem for 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:12.560 the NFL. Look at wild Card weekend. Three examples One 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:16.760 Travis Kelsey. Travis Kelsey got banged up, he was stumbling. 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.760 He left the game, and Travis Kelsey is one of 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.360 the preeminent tight ends in the NFL, and I would 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:26.280 say that changed. That changed the game. The Chiefs were 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.320 not the same after Travis Kelsey left, but he left 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:35.320 Tyrod Taylor, and one of the last plaise of that 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:38.840 game got what looked like a scary concussion. I want 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.720 to ask you what happens though, if instead of being 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:45.200 the fourth quarter, that's a you know, in a three 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:48.359 three game, in the middle of the third quarter, and 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.640 he's not laying there visibly like passed out or shaking, 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.320 but you know, he gets dinged up and then he's 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.480 you know, he's okay. And the Buffalo Bills have to 0:18:57.520 --> 0:18:59.960 decide in a three three tie in their first play 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.879 off game in seventeen years. Do they bring out, you know, 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:07.199 Tyrod Taylor. Do they entrust it to Nate Peterman? What 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:09.479 if this is not even Tyrod Taylor? What if this 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.680 is a star on a nether level. What if in 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.760 the NFC Championship game, in the middle of the second 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:19.040 quarter of a ten ten game, Drew Brees gets his 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:23.080 uh gets snot bubbles popped out of him and it's 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.560 on third down, so he hits has to hit the sideline. 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.760 But then it's obvious on the sideline that he's not 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:32.400 responding to the test, and in normal circumstances they would 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.840 take his helmet away. Do you think they actually do? 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:43.600 What if Tom Brady, he's in the Super Bowl and 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:47.280 he gets his bell wrong, like apparently has happened before, 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:51.919 so says Gisel. What if Rob Gronkowski gets his bell 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:54.159 rung because he's got a target on his back. What 0:19:54.240 --> 0:20:00.239 if lavy On Bell gets his bell wrung? What what what 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:04.000 do they do? What are the teams do in this situation? 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:07.240 And here's the other thing, this has already happened. Last week, 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:11.919 Cam Newton got rocked. Cameron Jordan at the end of 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:13.840 the game on a postgame interview, said he thought they 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:17.960 knocked Cam out. Cam Newton goes into the tent, they 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:21.280 put up the little blue curtain, and then he comes 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:24.280 back out and they say it was an eye injury. 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:27.040 The man was wearing a visor. What he got poked 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:30.960 in the eye. No, no, no, that was a cover up. 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:35.640 They are not following their own guidelines, their own protocols, 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:39.880 because in the playoffs it is a different risk proposition. 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.280 You know, they always tell quarterbacks they need to slide, 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:46.520 but then they say, oh, but if it's a third down, Oh, 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:49.560 if it's in the red zone, then you go for it. Right. 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:52.479 I think the same thing is happening with the NFL 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:55.280 and their concussion protocol. Yeah, they want to make it 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:58.080 look like they care about players safety. Yeah, there's an 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:01.720 independent neurologist. Yeah, the referee can make the signal and 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:03.640 tell him you need to go. But are they gonna 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:06.480 do that? What is Bill Belichick and Tom Brady gonna 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:10.200 do if in the a f C Championship game, Tom 0:21:10.200 --> 0:21:13.359 Brady looks a little woozy and the ref wants to 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:16.360 say you need to sit out. You really think that's 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:21.560 gonna happen, because I don't what if it's Drew brees 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:24.920 in the NFC Championship game, same situation. You think Sean 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:27.600 Payne is gonna listen to the ref when the ref 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:30.199 says that he looks a little dazed, send them to 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:34.560 the independent neurologist. I don't think so. And the other 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:39.160 thing is, I don't think Saints fans or Patriots fans 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:44.359 or Steelers fans would want them too. I think they 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:48.480 would want the team to leave their blue chips stud in. 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:51.240 It will be the championship game, the super Bowl, for 0:21:51.320 --> 0:21:55.080 God's sakes, and I think that will make a very 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:59.480 interesting converssation. I think this cloud will hang over. You've 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:03.280 seen the refs with quick hooks throughout the season saying up, 0:22:03.320 --> 0:22:05.520 you've got to go to the sideline. Up, They go 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:08.520 right into the locker room. They take their helmet away 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:13.359 right away. Why didn't that happen with kimym Newton Because 0:22:13.359 --> 0:22:15.760 the Panthers need Cam Newton and it was a close 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:20.400 playoff game, that's why. So what is it here? Are 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:23.679 we actually caring about players safety? Is it kind of 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:27.879 a zero tolerance? Is it a hashtag all brains matter? 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:34.520 Or do brains not matter as much during the NFL playoffs? 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:39.040