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Speaker 1: Breedings and welcome to the weekly Playoff NFL Fantasy Live podcast.

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Speaker 1: We take a look at what's going on this week

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Speaker 1: and how it affects your fantasy team for this year

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Speaker 1: and beyond. Will break down the playoffs. Everybody's doing in

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Speaker 1: the big playoff Challenge. You know, Adam Rank is doing

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Speaker 1: very well, Marcus, and now you're doing well. I know

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Speaker 1: I'm not doing well, So I'm just gonna say, how

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Speaker 1: are you guys doing? Wait a minute, so what was

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Speaker 1: your strategy? What team did you? You You went the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: I wanted the Bengals and so that didn't work out

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Speaker 1: for me. You're familiar with how the Bengals play playoff.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're on my never again list right at

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Speaker 1: Tequila after two am drafting c J. Spiller Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 1: So they're off my list. Then I decided if they

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Speaker 1: go sixteen and now next year, were like, nope, nope,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna lose first game they play, whoever they play,

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Speaker 1: that they're out. So then I decided for Playoff Challenge

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Speaker 1: on NFL dot Com. You've been talking about here in

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Speaker 1: the podcast the last couple of weeks. Great way to

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Speaker 1: play fantasy throughout the end of the regular season, I thought, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I have to go with a team that nobody else

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Speaker 1: is picking, because that's my only way to gain points

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Speaker 1: the to the way and everybody's picking forty nine and

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Speaker 1: people are picking Seahawks and Brocos. So I had to

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Speaker 1: go all in on the Chargers. So I want Charges

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Speaker 1: all the way down the row. Picking a new team again,

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Speaker 1: You're now change. It's like you're like the guy who

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Speaker 1: walked up to the roulette table and you're like, I

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Speaker 1: want a hundred on black, and then it's red and

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Speaker 1: you're like, I want a hundred on double zero, Like

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Speaker 1: you want completely crazy, like the one that's totally not

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Speaker 1: gonna hit. Yeah, I'm gonna come in dead last in

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Speaker 1: the in the playoff Challenge. But that's I like the

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Speaker 1: spirit though you went for it, and now you don't

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Speaker 1: have to worry about it. I have to say, we

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Speaker 1: still have to sit here and suffer over our teams

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Speaker 1: and worry about it. You're at home, You're You're like

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Speaker 1: the Bengals. Now, that's right, except I didn't throw four

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Speaker 1: picks and people aren't saying they want to replace me.

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Speaker 1: You might lose a couple of coordinators. But that's okay,

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Speaker 1: So where where are you? Who? What do you wind

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Speaker 1: up taking? I did because you said you were gonna

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Speaker 1: do that, Okay, I did. I left one running backspot open.

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Speaker 1: I filled it with Eddie Lacy in the first week.

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Speaker 1: And then just because I'm like, I want at least

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Speaker 1: one guy in the second round. What I should have

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Speaker 1: done it just waited for Marshawn Lynch and gotten double

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Speaker 1: Marshawn Lynch going up against the forty Niners this week,

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Speaker 1: But all right, I'll go with it. We'll see if

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Speaker 1: the forty Niners keep rolling, I might have a shot. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that you know, it's it's you got to pick the

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Speaker 1: right team you pick if you're gonna pick that team

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Speaker 1: in the first round. The pressure because it's really all

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Speaker 1: it just doesn't work out at all. So now that

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Speaker 1: I know, now, Marcus, where'd you go with yours? Mostly

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Speaker 1: I I took a chance that will get the rare

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Speaker 1: which I know almost never ever happens. Um, but I

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Speaker 1: I went mostly Bronco heavy because I figure they score

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Speaker 1: case Adam Rank is sitting pretty and pretty much runs

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Speaker 1: away with this thing. We're the guy who picks all

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Speaker 1: the number one seeds in your march all the way. Well,

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Speaker 1: you're the one that that really started the trend of

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Speaker 1: with the way that the NFL playoffs have been working out,

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Speaker 1: of those teams that's playing wild Card weekend and just

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Speaker 1: trying to roll them all the way through. Well, and

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Speaker 1: and shepherding them all the way to the super Bowl. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because like Marcus wears a pocket square. He can never

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Speaker 1: and I got tweets like, what's up with Marcus? He's

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Speaker 1: not good enough to wear a pocket square today? And

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to. But it's tough. It's tough. And

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Speaker 1: so now you're right, I will be the I who

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Speaker 1: be playing wild Card round right again. For more on

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Speaker 1: and go and pick teams and hey, you can still

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Speaker 1: slash Playoff Challenge. Now, some big news this week coaching

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Speaker 1: wise that's gonna affect fantasy for both this year and beyond.

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Speaker 1: And let's start with the big news. On Tuesday, Jim

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Speaker 1: a bit of a head scratcher, you know, to to

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Speaker 1: he's the head coach in Tennessee now. But Marcus, you

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford his fantasy value goes through the roof. Again,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that Jim Caldwell is the guy who's

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Speaker 1: suddenly going to reign in matt Stafford and make him

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Speaker 1: surprising to me. I mean, we obviously don't know what's

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Speaker 1: he's have a way of working themselves out. You know,

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Speaker 1: Jim called Well has got some experience. He he learned

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Speaker 1: at least make the Lions fantasy relevant. I don't care

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Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford gets a little bit better than I'm all four,

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Speaker 1: I want to I want to tweet that out. Hang on,

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Speaker 1: Adam Rank says, Jim called Well is Bill Belichick and

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Speaker 1: and Keenan Allen on the same robe. Can you imagine

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Speaker 1: Arthur Blank and two really big guys at Adam Ranks

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Speaker 1: door at five o'clock in the morning on Friday, Mr Rank,

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Speaker 1: Mr Rank, I'd like to take you for a ride

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Speaker 1: in the car. Speaking of which, that reminds me the

429
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Speaker 1: dearth of available head coaching candidates that Bobby Petrina landed

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Speaker 1: another John as a head coach. Sure he may be

431
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Speaker 1: a jerk, but he wins. I mean, yeah. Louisville is like, yeah, whatever, like, yeah,

432
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Speaker 1: we know, you've been a few of the rules. That's okay.

433
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Speaker 1: It's like it's like Pam Anderson. She marries her husband,

434
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Speaker 1: then realize, okay, it's not working out. They had some

435
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Speaker 1: good times, gets divorced, dates a bunch of other people

436
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Speaker 1: all around, and then decides, now you know what that

437
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Speaker 1: that wasn't that bad the first time round and remarries her.

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Speaker 1: X I has been like she did the other day,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, that's exactly what Louisville did. They looked around

440
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Speaker 1: and said, oh boy, we're in trouble. You know, we

441
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Speaker 1: lost Charlie Strong and that was pretty fast. We didn't

442
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Speaker 1: expect that. So who else are we gonna grab? Hey,

443
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Speaker 1: the guy that went to BCS games and lost four

444
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Speaker 1: games in four years? Right? Wait? Did Pam Anderson remarried

445
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Speaker 1: Kid Rock? No? No, the other guy, Rick Solomon, Tommy

446
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Speaker 1: Now No, no, no, none of the interesting guys. Scott Boult,

447
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Speaker 1: I don't think she married Scott. Scott basically in a

448
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Speaker 1: mall in Sherman Oaks. This is about ten years ago,

449
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Speaker 1: and I was in a it was an abercrom and

450
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Speaker 1: Fitch with my mom and I was in the back

451
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Speaker 1: and I was looking at some stuff and my mom

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Speaker 1: found something for me, and uh, in the front of

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Speaker 1: the store. You know, my mom typical. She yells Jason

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Speaker 1: and like all the way in the front of the

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Speaker 1: store and I look and I see her and she's

456
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Speaker 1: waving something to me. And in between the two of

457
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Speaker 1: us is Scott Bayo and he's looking through clothes and

458
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Speaker 1: I go, oh, wow, that's Scott Beyo. That's pretty cool.

459
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Speaker 1: And my mom comes walking towards me and she just

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Speaker 1: doesn't see him, bumps into him and knocks him into

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Speaker 1: the racket clothes. He knocks a whole bunch of stuff

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Speaker 1: down and he can said, he goes hey, and my

463
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Speaker 1: mom just kept going. She just kept going on, like

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Speaker 1: and if she comes up, said mom, you just knocked

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Speaker 1: over Scott Beayo. She was what and like I told

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Speaker 1: her something she couldn't even copy. You just knocked over

467
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Speaker 1: Scott Bayo. He walked by, you bumped into him and

468
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Speaker 1: he fell into a racket clothes and she says, oh,

469
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Speaker 1: well here I brought these shorts for you, and completely

470
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Speaker 1: right past it. So Scott Bayo was listening. That's who

471
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Speaker 1: knocked you over ten years ago, and never Crombie and Fitch.

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Speaker 1: He's a huge listener. Well that's good. Well people listen,

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Speaker 1: you know, and people listen to different Yeah, all right,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised tweet as Scott bo. Do you

475
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Speaker 1: think he's on Twitter? Scotto? He is he at choc

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Speaker 1: I would I would hope not he'd be he'd be

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Speaker 1: at Charles. Actually wouldn't. Wow. Yeah, there's a generation of

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Speaker 1: kids that only know him as Charles. What is this?

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Speaker 1: Would you stop? Looks? Don't that you're starting to get

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Speaker 1: we gotta visit, We gotta visit from Porkins on this

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Speaker 1: show oh my gosh. All right, that the producer Christian Glenn.

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Speaker 1: But what would you do? Like, would you go Chocci

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Speaker 1: is A? No, hold on, don't get all upset. Chac

484
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Speaker 1: is A it's a pretty iconic role. But you had

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Speaker 1: a TV show named after your character, so you're the

486
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Speaker 1: that was only on for like it's a spin off.

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Speaker 1: This is one that somebody's like, we're gonna make. Not

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Speaker 1: only are we going to write a show for you,

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Speaker 1: you can bring along your buddy Williams. Like that's pretty impressing.

490
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Speaker 1: This is true alright, So so tweet us at NFL

491
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Speaker 1: Fantasy is is Scott Bayo Chaci or is he Charles

492
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Speaker 1: in charge? Because that's really been it? And that's been

493
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Speaker 1: Who are you talking about? Nothing spent a while a

494
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Speaker 1: long time? All right? Now some other players here to

495
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Speaker 1: get to that just got eliminated this past week. And

496
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Speaker 1: something we're doing the podcast every week is spent some

497
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Speaker 1: time on some of the players who got knocked out

498
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Speaker 1: and see what their value is for next season. Uh,

499
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Speaker 1: Ryan Matthews. And he's someone who everybody finally this year

500
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Speaker 1: said that's it. I'm done with Ryan Matthews. And surprise, surprise,

501
00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,560
Speaker 1: this is when he decided, hey, I'm gonna start playing

502
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Speaker 1: every pretty good season. So Marcus he had a great year.

503
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Speaker 1: He played just on first and second downs and he

504
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Speaker 1: still was able to put up a really good season.

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Speaker 1: In fact, he was a low one number one end

506
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Speaker 1: of the season. Now Ken was in Hunt gone, so

507
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be but still Mike McCoy the head coach there,

508
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Speaker 1: it's still gonna be the same type of offense. There.

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Speaker 1: You're believing again in Ryan Matthews for next year. I am.

510
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Speaker 1: I mean I believe him as as a number two

511
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Speaker 1: running back, maybe at the best. But I do believe

512
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Speaker 1: in Ryan Matthews because he curbed this year. The two

513
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Speaker 1: things that had hell him back, and that was one

514
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,320
Speaker 1: his inability to stay on the field. He just couldn't

515
00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:06,840
Speaker 1: stay healthy, and to his inability to hold onto the football.

516
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,399
Speaker 1: He didn't fallow nearly as much this year. He stayed

517
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Speaker 1: healthy and he looked like the guy the Chargers thought

518
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Speaker 1: they were drafting out of Fresno State. I mean, he

519
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Speaker 1: is a guy. And I think it was Mike Mayock

520
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Speaker 1: actually who said this, who has small back ability and

521
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Speaker 1: a big back body, because he's got a bigger, stronger guy.

522
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Speaker 1: But he can be shifty, he can be fast. Um.

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Speaker 1: I really like what he can do when he's healthy.

524
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Speaker 1: And I think he has figured out that he was

525
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Speaker 1: starting to run out of chances in the National Football League,

526
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Speaker 1: especially to be a lead running back, and I think

527
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Speaker 1: he's gonna get a lot of chances next year. Yeah.

528
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Speaker 1: I hope he stays in San Diego because the offense

529
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Speaker 1: that he's running there fits him. He's a great compliment

530
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Speaker 1: to Danny Woodhead and everything they're doing with Philip Rivers.

531
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Speaker 1: A lot of continuity, continuity there. And if he went

532
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Speaker 1: to another team, I would be a little hesitant because

533
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Speaker 1: a lot of times you see these big backs or

534
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Speaker 1: just running backs in general, just switch teams. That doesn't

535
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Speaker 1: always translate like Stephen Jackson this year. You know it's

536
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Speaker 1: it's although this and Ego Charger running backs have always

537
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Speaker 1: seem to do pretty well on their next Darren Sprawls

538
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Speaker 1: goes to as well, Michael Turner, who did so scratch

539
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Speaker 1: everything I just said. I'm all in, especially if Mike

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Speaker 1: if Ryan Matthews leaves, all right, are you part way

541
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Speaker 1: or are you in at all? On Trent Richardson, No done,

542
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Speaker 1: we won't even now because there's some things where you

543
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Speaker 1: talk about like how how the Bengals are on your

544
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Speaker 1: never again list. Trent Richardson will be in a never

545
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Speaker 1: again list. It's just one of the you can't do it.

546
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Speaker 1: He ruined my my my team and my league of record,

547
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Speaker 1: and I'll never trust him again. If there's sometimes they're

548
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Speaker 1: just things that are unforgivable, you know, it's like going

549
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Speaker 1: out with the ex girlfriend or doing whatever, dating myself,

550
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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Once you cross that, you make that choice,

551
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Speaker 1: you cross that threshold. So if you ruin my my

552
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Speaker 1: chances in my league of record, then you're done forever.

553
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Speaker 1: But you're gonna say dating your sister right there. You

554
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Speaker 1: don't want to want anybody to date your sister. No,

555
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Speaker 1: I don't know. You don't want her to be happy.

556
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Speaker 1: She's gonna want to date somebody. You know, she can

557
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Speaker 1: be happy and everything, but my terms just now with

558
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Speaker 1: a significant other general happiness. No, that's no, that's I

559
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Speaker 1: want my sister in an apartment by herself with a

560
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Speaker 1: bunch of cats. I cannot it can't be one of

561
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Speaker 1: my friends though. Okay, well that I understand. You were

562
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Speaker 1: just gonna say dating my sister, and I just thought

563
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Speaker 1: it was anybody dating your sister. Well, no, no, no,

564
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Speaker 1: It's like if one of my friends wanted to date

565
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Speaker 1: my sister, I'd be like, nah, not cool with that.

566
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Speaker 1: Or the worst thing would be if Trent Richardson was

567
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Speaker 1: dating your sister. That's like a double note. Well that

568
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Speaker 1: would that would be really weird because that's really not

569
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Speaker 1: the team she plays for. But it would be really strange.

570
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Speaker 1: But other than that, yes, it would be weird. All

571
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Speaker 1: right now, Cam Newton, uh said. You saw the Panthers

572
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Speaker 1: say earlier this week that he's done everything he can

573
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Speaker 1: to be the franchise quarterback in Caroline. I didn't know

574
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Speaker 1: that We've still had to worry about that. He's playing

575
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Speaker 1: very well. To me, he's still going to be the

576
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Speaker 1: high draft pick next year if he gets some help, though,

577
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Speaker 1: and you saw that was the crying thing that that

578
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Speaker 1: stood out for me from this game this past weekend

579
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Speaker 1: was they get on the goal line on third and one,

580
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Speaker 1: fourth and one inside the five minutes, where are they

581
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Speaker 1: gonna go with the football unless he's gonna take it himself,

582
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Speaker 1: which you know the Niners know that play is coming.

583
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 1: They can't throw it to Steve Smith. You can't trust

584
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Speaker 1: Brandon Lathell. Greg Olsen's not a Jimmy Graham. You can't

585
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: trust any of the pedestrian running backs. He really needs help.

586
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Speaker 1: If they go out and get him help, he moves

587
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,360
Speaker 1: up big time for me rankings wise. But if they

588
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Speaker 1: go into next season and it's gonna be another year

589
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,760
Speaker 1: Steve Smith and La Fell and this this running attack,

590
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Speaker 1: I mean, his value is gonna sit where it is.

591
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Speaker 1: I think it probably is. I mean I think he is.

592
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,120
Speaker 1: He is a top five fantasy quarterback. I think he'll

593
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Speaker 1: be one of the first five off the board. I

594
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Speaker 1: don't know that he jumps into that that you know,

595
00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,480
Speaker 1: holy Fantasy Trinity right now. Um. You know, I think

596
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,919
Speaker 1: you're still looking at at Breeze Rogers and uh, you know,

597
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning probably in that group. Um, but you know,

598
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 1: I like, I like what Cam Newton can offer. I

599
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,640
Speaker 1: think he definitely needs some help at the wide receiver spot. Eventually,

600
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: they've got to start thinking about a line of succession

601
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Speaker 1: for Steve Smith, who's been doing this forever. He can't

602
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Speaker 1: keep going much longer. Brandon LaFell, I don't think there's

603
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Speaker 1: anything better than a number two receiver on any team

604
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Speaker 1: that he goes to ted In will continue to do

605
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 1: ted Gin things, which means to drop the football whenever

606
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: he's wide open um. They've got to find somebody. Maybe

607
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 1: it's in this draft, maybe it's through free agency. I'm

608
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,160
Speaker 1: not sure. They've got to add somebody if they can

609
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Speaker 1: do that, and they have another legitimate weapon on the

610
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: other side of Steve Smith, that helps Cam Newton just

611
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Speaker 1: immensely because he's a guy. That's one of the things

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Speaker 1: I took away from from the game on Sunday is

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00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 1: that when Cam Newton gets hot, nobody I mean, it's

614
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,480
Speaker 1: like a jump shooter who just he just is unconscious.

615
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 1: I mean, he was making throws early in that game

616
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 1: that were unreal. That touchdown passing through to Steve Smith

617
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,159
Speaker 1: was an incredible Terrell Brown couldn't have covered any better

618
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 1: than that, and he dropped it right in the bucket.

619
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Speaker 1: But they've got to have somebody that's a consistent threat

620
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Speaker 1: to open defenses up, to stretch the field a little

621
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,320
Speaker 1: bit on the other side, and that will do wonders

622
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: for Cam Newton. They didn't an upgrade in their personnel

623
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Speaker 1: department because it seems like they've tried very hard to

624
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 1: draft receivers to go alongside of Steve Smith. Guys like

625
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,439
Speaker 1: Brandon Lafel, Dwayne Jared a couple of years ago, just

626
00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,119
Speaker 1: haven't been able to find the guy, and I'm not

627
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 1: confident that double able to find him this time either. Well,

628
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:02,920
Speaker 1: there's a lot of that. That's the funny thing. And

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Speaker 1: the next thing we're gonna talk about here is there's

630
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: a lot of guys, a lot of wide receivers, very

631
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 1: deep draft when it comes to quarterbacks, wide receivers this season.

632
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Speaker 1: And uh, let's move into there now because this week

633
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Speaker 1: NFL dot Com we have our first mock drafts are

634
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Speaker 1: out guys like Daniel Jeremiah, Bucky Brooks, seeing where guys

635
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Speaker 1: are gonna go one through ten, and a lot of

636
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,160
Speaker 1: interesting names on this list. And let's start with the quarterbacks.

637
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: Johnny Manziel is gonna be on everybody's lips the entire offseason.

638
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 1: He's gonna wind up being a top five pick by

639
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 1: the time. You you just see with him right now,

640
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 1: people are saying, you see the xt uday, Well he's

641
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 1: in mid first round pick, but you know his skill set,

642
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 1: he's gonna be one of those risers. He'll be a

643
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: top five pick. I think he'll wind up going number

644
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: one when it's all said and done, because whoever winds

645
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,840
Speaker 1: up picking number one, whether it's the Texans or somebody else,

646
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,640
Speaker 1: it's it's too hard to turn your back and say

647
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 1: on this guy's talent and say, Okay, I like Teddy Bridgewater,

648
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: but Johnny Manzel could be that once in a lifetime guy.

649
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 1: Is Manzel someone that you look at ranks and depending

650
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: how things go in the off season, and go, I

651
00:27:58,240 --> 00:27:59,959
Speaker 1: can target him as one of my quarterbacks next year

652
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: that it's my starter. But I'd like to have him

653
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 1: on my team, feeling he could come out and have

654
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: a pretty good rookie season. I look at Cleveland. They

655
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 1: have to do they have, Cleveland has to draft him.

656
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: There's just no there's nobody that that Cleveland can draft

657
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: in this position and have it work out well for them.

658
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,479
Speaker 1: Because if they if they drafted anybody, if they said, oh,

659
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: you know, we'll do the right thing. We'll go for

660
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 1: Jake Matthews, or we'll take one of the receivers or

661
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: something like that, and Johnny Manjel goes to number five

662
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,520
Speaker 1: at the Raiders and he does swell Cleveland. It's been

663
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 1: bad for them for a long time. Sports wise, it

664
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: would be even worse to pass on this guy. And

665
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 1: the funny thing is is they're gonna have to end

666
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: up moving up to number two. St. Louis is in

667
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: a great spot because they have another they have another

668
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: bounty of picks, and then somebody's gonna have to They're

669
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: gonna Cleveland Is. Somebody's gonna have to trade up into

670
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: that number two spot to take Johnny Manzel. I still

671
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: feel that Bridgewater will go number one overall because I

672
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: just feel like I would like to see the Texans

673
00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 1: go defense, but I just feel like they've I just

674
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 1: feel like they gotta go. They're just gonna end up

675
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: going for the quarterback. They're gonna play it safe. They're

676
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: gonna go for Bridgewater. But Johnny Mantel I like him

677
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 1: a lot. I think it'd be great. I think it'd

678
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: be great on Cleveland. I feel that he could when

679
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 1: the play breaks down and the way he extends plays,

680
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: you give Josh Gordon six seconds to run around, he'll

681
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 1: find him and he'll make them pretty big. How bad

682
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 1: would it be for St. Louis if they trade down

683
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: and they give up the draft pick that becomes R.

684
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: G three, and they turn around a couple of years later,

685
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: trade down again and give up the pick that would

686
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 1: become Johnny Manzel. And they're Sam Bradford, Sam Bradford, Sam Bradford,

687
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 1: You know how tough would that be in St. Louis

688
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: we're paying or Los Angeles or the soon to be

689
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: the once in future Los Angeles. Rams. Well, I think

690
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: you're right about Cleveland. Look, they they saw they had

691
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:50,560
Speaker 1: a chance that you talked about to move up and

692
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,600
Speaker 1: get RG three, and they were hesitant because they didn't

693
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: want to realize that. They didn't want to give up

694
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: what you know, Washington had to give up to move

695
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: up there. Now they saw that and they said, Okay,

696
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 1: we can't let that happen again. Whatever it takes, we

697
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: gotta go up to make sure we get one of

698
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 1: these two guys. If Manzel winds up going number one,

699
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater would be terrific there as well. But they're

700
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: going to get a quarterback and he's gonna walk into

701
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: a situation that's pretty good, not just because of you

702
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 1: have Josh Gordon and Jordan Cameron, but this offense likes

703
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: to throw the football, you know the philosophy. Now they

704
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: came in last year was look, we're gonna sling it.

705
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 1: We're gonna get rid of Trent Richardson because we don't

706
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 1: think he can be a running back. We're not gonna

707
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: give it to him twenty five times a game. They're

708
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 1: gonna no matter who the quarterback was. This year, they

709
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:30,680
Speaker 1: threw the ball forty times a game. It was awesome. Yeah, there,

710
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: it's very fun. And they got like you said, they

711
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: got Gordon Cameron, they got Julian Adam. Oh wait, I'm

712
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: thinking of my Maden team. I took over the Browns.

713
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 1: I've done some great things with with Cleveland and if

714
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: we could get although I traded for Nick Foles in

715
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 1: that game, so that's a little bit different. But Johnny

716
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: Football has to go to Cleveland, and I understand he

717
00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: would put on the number two and it would make

718
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 1: a lot of people think of Tim Couch. But if

719
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: Johnny Manziel fails, then it's like, all right that that happens.

720
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 1: You know what, You've drafted guys that have busted and

721
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: that have been a bus before. You can live with that.

722
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 1: But passing on a guy who could be one of

723
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: those next great quarterbacks, a guy like Russell Wilson or

724
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 1: I still I still have a lot of high hopes

725
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: for r G three, somebody who could be as good

726
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: as those guys. You gotta do it. So you're saying,

727
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,520
Speaker 1: if you if you Brown's draft draft Johnny Manziel and

728
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: he turns out to be a bust, it's Manzel's fault.

729
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: But if they pass on Manziel, then it's the Brown's fault. Yeah,

730
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: that's it. My, my, my fantasy philosophy, sticking with your studs.

731
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: I never thought of it that way until now. That's

732
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 1: my I'm gonna go with that philosophy. And it's more

733
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: like be able. You can blame somebody else that was

734
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: your philosophy to like this guy. Now, what about Bridgewater?

735
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: Is he someone that Texans take him number one overall?

736
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: If that happens and looks like, hey, Andre Johnson's gonna

737
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: get Arian Foster coming back and everything, and this could

738
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: be a big offense. And Bridgewater is a guy that

739
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: I would have on my team, I'm less inclined to

740
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: pick him. I feel they will play it a little

741
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: bit safer with him. They And I mean, I saw

742
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: the success the case Keenum had, but I I don't

743
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: know the only rookie quarterback that I would really want,

744
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: who I'd put at the end of my bench would

745
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: be Manzel. The other guys look good. Blake looks pretty

746
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: good too, but Derek. Now, not Derek Carr. But you

747
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: know what, I think the texts that you can't draft

748
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: Derek Car just on general principal what they should just pass.

749
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: They should just go just it doesn't matter how great

750
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: Derek Cark potentially could be. I just don't know that

751
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: they could live with another d Car under center. They

752
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: should They should tease their fans and be like, we're

753
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: gonna go clowney number one, and then hopefully Derek Carr

754
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 1: falls to us in the second and we'll bring back

755
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: the same offensive line that David Carr had when we

756
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: drafted him back in two thousands and three. All right,

757
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: let's how about some wide receivers, because rank, you've been

758
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: you've been talking up Mike Evans a lot over the

759
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 1: last couple of months. You really there's a couple of

760
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: spots you like for Mike Evans. But now after the

761
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: Big Bowl game, Sammy Watkins suddenly he's a guy that's

762
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: jumped into the top five, and it's okay, Mike Evans

763
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: is good, but while Sammy Watkins nominal. Sammy Watkins looks

764
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: so impressive in their bowl game, he was fantastic and

765
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: all the routes, he just looked like he was running

766
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: at a different speed. And I know once he gets

767
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: to the NFL level, he will be similar a similar

768
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,719
Speaker 1: speed to a lot of those guys. But he just

769
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: looked so much better than everybody else on the field.

770
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: It was really eye opening. And you're right, this guy

771
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 1: is gonna be a top five pick. I actually expect

772
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: him to go to Jacksonville. I think Jacksonville has so

773
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 1: many holes the quarterback classes deep enough to where they

774
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 1: could find a guy into the second round. But they

775
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 1: they'll look, they'll be in that spot and you'll think

776
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: of it. They just gotta go at the playmaker. That's

777
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: what Jacksonville really needs, is they need some more of

778
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: those playmaker guys. And whatever happens with m j D

779
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: if he's able to rebound after having an injury plague season,

780
00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: Cecil Shorts, if he's able to come back from his injuries,

781
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: but adding a guy like Sammy Watkins could really turn

782
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 1: that team around. It makes your mid card quarterback that

783
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: much better when you have somebody who the defenses have

784
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: to respect, and you know, and if Blackman ever returns

785
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: to who knows. But that's that's three pretty talented guys

786
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: on the outside and looking at a pretty solid I

787
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: would really be interested to see maybe if a team

788
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 1: like the Lions tries to move up and get a

789
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: guy like Sammy watch In the first round, the Lions

790
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: take a wide receiver. I know there's the the karma

791
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: of that of doing that, but you know what, I'm

792
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: gonna say this, they need somebody to put on the

793
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: other side of Calvin Johnson. Why not go after that.

794
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: You you've got the quarterback in place, You've got the

795
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 1: running back situation pretty much squared away. You've got one

796
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: wide receiver who, for as great as he's been, at

797
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:26,439
Speaker 1: some point he's going to start to need help. Why

798
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 1: not get a guy like Sammy Watkins. You know you're

799
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: gonna line up and throw the ball fifty times a

800
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: game anyway. Why not get a guy that can finally

801
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: open the things up. You know, they thought Ryan Broyles

802
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: could be that guy. He just hasn't really been able

803
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: to stay healthy. They thought Titus Young was gonna be

804
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 1: that guy. And and he imploded, Um, why not put

805
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins over there? That'd be really I just want

806
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: that for the storyline that the Lions are gonna take.

807
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: Why not. You can go to like bleach your report

808
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: and they go, here are the top ten wide receiver

809
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 1: Lions busts all time. Here's Charles Rogers, Here's Mike Williams. Yeah,

810
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: that would be. That's the worst thing. They can don't

811
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 1: even look at at a wide receiver in the first

812
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: round at least very probably another decade because somebody's gonna

813
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: look at that and be like, now, although you know

814
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,360
Speaker 1: what you were talking about. Mike Evans, that would be

815
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: a pretty decent guy for the Lions to have opposite

816
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: of Calvin john You'd have the two guys being so

817
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: huge because Mike Evans is a six five receiver Texas

818
00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 1: A and m pretty good. I like him as a prospect.

819
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: I think he's he's really good. You look at a

820
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: lot of the teams he could go to. You look

821
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 1: at the Lions. He'd be excellent outside of uh out,

822
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 1: opposite of Calvin Johnson. If he went to a team

823
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,839
Speaker 1: like the Ravens and kind of picked up where an

824
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 1: Kjuan Bolden left off when he was moved to San

825
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: Francisco this season, so he would be a nice fit

826
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,400
Speaker 1: right there too. And and there's a lot of teams

827
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 1: that could use that big bodied guy, you know, even

828
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: San Diego. For as good as Keenan Allen was this year,

829
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: and he was excellent, they still need more playmakers on

830
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: that team. It was so evident against the Broncos in

831
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,880
Speaker 1: the Divisional round of the playoffs that once Ryan Matthews

832
00:35:57,920 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: and it was admirable he gave it a go. He

833
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: tried to play at the high ankle sprain. Do you

834
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: think of the injuries that really harangued NFL players, and

835
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 1: that high ankle spring gets mentioned is one of the worst.

836
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 1: It's just one. You can't shake the fact that he

837
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,280
Speaker 1: even went out and tried showed me that was pretty admirable.

838
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that. But once he went out of

839
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 1: the game and they had to go with Ronnie Brown,

840
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: You're like, gosh, this team just doesn't have the playmakers.

841
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: They need one more guy. And if Mike Evans fell

842
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: that far, you'd be like, you know, that's an interesting spot.

843
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh would be an interesting spot. There's like a lot

844
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 1: of St. Louis. St. Louis would be another like if

845
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,439
Speaker 1: they moved down a little bit, there's another spot where

846
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: you have him, you have Tavon Austin, so you have

847
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: the big guy to go the small guy, and then

848
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: you know, then Sam Bradford's will be running out of excuses.

849
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: It seems like St. Louis is gonna draft a ton

850
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 1: of guys and blow them all. But you know, because

851
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 1: it never how many how many draft they it seems

852
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 1: like they've had fourteen first round picks of the last

853
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: four years, and then their teams still seven and nine

854
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 1: year in year round, well at least thing where you

855
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 1: could say they were seven and nine with Kellen Clements

856
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,280
Speaker 1: because they start. Until Bradford got hurt, he was putting

857
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: up really good numbers. They won a few games and

858
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: you thought, okay, this could be a nine and seven

859
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: type season for the Rams. Finally a breakthrough in the

860
00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 1: investment they put it in Sam Bradford. Then he got

861
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: hurt and now you're in a tough spot. I know

862
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 1: the Rams have said, look, Sam Bradford's our guy, but

863
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 1: I would sit here and number two and say, okay,

864
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 1: hang on a second, if we can get Johnny Manziel.

865
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,720
Speaker 1: If we trade Bradford, somebody's gonna take him because there's

866
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: no other free agent quarterbacks out there this year. Cutler

867
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 1: was going to be the guy resigned with the Bears.

868
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 1: So there's not even Alex Smith out there like there

869
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: was last year. So if you need a quarterback, Bradford's

870
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,040
Speaker 1: the only guy. We'll trade him to you. You give

871
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: a second round pick, and someone's gonna say, I believe

872
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,320
Speaker 1: in Bradford. They go back to where he was drafted

873
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: and thinking number one overall pick. He was on the

874
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: verge of a breakthrough season this year, and you could

875
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: get something for Bradford. I think after four years, you know,

876
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: plus when St. Louis you can turn your back on

877
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: a quarterback for a guy that really hasn't proven a

878
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: hundred percent that yeah, he's gonna be worth that investment. Yeah.

879
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,399
Speaker 1: I just have a hard time thinking that. When draft

880
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: day comes around, the Rams are still sitting in at

881
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: number two slot because they really only have two oftens.

882
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 1: You either draft a quarterback and you know, probably Manziel,

883
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: or you trade down because you look at what they have.

884
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 1: I mean defensively, the Rams are pretty well set. They

885
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 1: don't really have a lot that they need to do

886
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the football. There are no

887
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 1: running backs that you're certainly gonna take that early. There's

888
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 1: nobody at the receiver spot. I mean, there's just there

889
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: aren't a lot of choices for them there. So either

890
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: they are looking at they get a quarterback, or there

891
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: was gonna at least throw up the smoke screen to

892
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: try and get at many trade office as possible, or

893
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:21,719
Speaker 1: they move out of that slot. I mean, I think

894
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: it's just I think it's just that simple for them.

895
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: You know. What also to consider there too is that St.

896
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: Louis needs a new or they don't need a new

897
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: stadium there. They want a new stadium. They're trying to

898
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 1: get one from the taxpayers. They might they could, you know,

899
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: be a candidate to move back to Los Angeles. They

900
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,920
Speaker 1: could move to the suburbs of St. Louis. But the

901
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 1: bottom line is is they need people in the stands

902
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 1: and what's gonna bring people out then having a guy

903
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 1: like Johnny Football come in that would revitalize your franchise,

904
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: make you guys hip again. And Sam Bradford's nice, But

905
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: like you said, you could probably trade them there would

906
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: be a team that would take them and then just

907
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: go with the guy you know what, be like, Look,

908
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: this is our last chance to make it work in St. Louis,

909
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,919
Speaker 1: because if things keep going the way they've been going,

910
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: that team is gonna be probably leaving, packing up, moving on.

911
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 1: So why not take a shot on a guy like

912
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: Johnny Football? And also, you're looking in division where it's

913
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,399
Speaker 1: not just where hey, we're looking for our best way

914
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,279
Speaker 1: to build a team to win is you're looking up

915
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,439
Speaker 1: at two teams and now three teams. You know, could

916
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: the Cardinals who you know, who knows how they're gonna

917
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: go next year acrossing problem are getting older, But the

918
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,359
Speaker 1: Sharks aren't going anywhere, you know they They They've able

919
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 1: to capture a lot of talent and and and keep

920
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: guys for a long period of time. So you're looking

921
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 1: up at these guys. You gotta find a way to

922
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 1: cut through and and make your team relevant. But there

923
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 1: for there'll be a reason for people to be interested,

924
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:34,919
Speaker 1: and not just every year ago. Yeah, well, the best

925
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: we could do is finished third. And you know what

926
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 1: is interesting there is that Kaepernick and Russell Wilson will

927
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: not be making big money for a long time because

928
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 1: they're still under their rookie contracts, whereas St. Louis is

929
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 1: hampered by Sam Bradford's big contractor, which doesn't allow them

930
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 1: to go out and add a lot of big name

931
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 1: pieces like Seattle just keeps getting all these great guys

932
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,280
Speaker 1: on defense because they've got the cap room. Because Russell

933
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: Wilson doesn't make a court, doesn't make a quarterback. Sally,

934
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: you know, he's a he's he's a top ten quarterback,

935
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 1: but he's not he's not drawn that salary. He gets

936
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,480
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars a day and meal money, but you're

937
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: not really paying a lot. It's pretty it's pretty close,

938
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: all right. Speaking of Russell Wilson and company, let's finish

939
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: up the podcast here, give our picks for this weekend.

940
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: As my chair falls to the floor again, I always

941
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: hate I hate that when you sit on a chair

942
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 1: and your chair goes all the way to the ground.

943
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 1: You just feel like less of a man, like I

944
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 1: just did that, and I feel very embarrassed. But all right,

945
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,279
Speaker 1: let's say nobody would have known that had you not

946
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 1: brought it up. But the thing is, you two guys did,

947
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: and so did Christians. So I kind of had to

948
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: say it because you would have walked out and said,

949
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: see what happened with Jason's share fill. Well, now you

950
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: took that away from me. Your your tweets that we

951
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 1: just threw out there about you know, Roddy White getting

952
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: cut and all those things that are happening. And I

953
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 1: gave Manzelle to St. Louis right exactly, and uh, a

954
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: lot of breaking news here. Jim called well the next

955
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick. Actually Bill Belichick and Pete Carroll combined. Pete

956
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: Carroll usc, I guess he has been pretty good. He

957
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:05,439
Speaker 1: would have the most down the middle coach in the world.

958
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 1: If you combine Bill Belichick and Pete Carroll, he would

959
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: just be a regular guy. Because Pete Carroll is so

960
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 1: over the top and Bill Belichick is so buttoned down,

961
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 1: you'd have a regular guy. It's like Pete Carroll is

962
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: like a really excited labrador, right, and he's like he's

963
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 1: hopping around. He wants to go play and wants you

964
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: to throw the ball so we can go get it.

965
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,919
Speaker 1: Belichick is kind of that that older dog who's just like, look,

966
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: man's chilling seriously, like I just want some food here

967
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: watch TV. I had a dog like that. She was

968
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: a German shepherd. If somebody wouldnock in the door, she'd

969
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 1: look at me like you want me to go anyby?

970
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: And I'd look at and be like really, and she'd

971
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 1: be like she for however she could. She'd give me

972
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,399
Speaker 1: that look like are you serious? Fine? And at one

973
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 1: time I'm kidding, I'm not kidding. Here she's sitting on

974
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: the couch. She barely moves and barks and I go

975
00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: and I look at him like that's whatigured? And then

976
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 1: you get this here shoulders slum like, oh fine, earn

977
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 1: my food. All right, let's pick the games this weekend, right,

978
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 1: who's playing in the Super Bowl. I'm gonna go with

979
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty Niners. They have been one of

980
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: the hottest teams in the NFL. What it basically comes

981
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 1: down to for me, and I've said this for the

982
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:23,479
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, is that their skill receivers match

983
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: up so much better than Seattle's. If you look at it,

984
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: They've got Crabtree, Bolden Bernon Davis and the Seahawks don't

985
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,959
Speaker 1: really have a playmaking receiver. They have Percy Harvin's fine,

986
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,800
Speaker 1: but you know what he's He's really not. He's spent

987
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 1: the whole offseason, spent the whole season trying to get

988
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: back to this point, So that gives them a little

989
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 1: bit of an edge right there. I feel, especially with Kaepernick,

990
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: has played so much better than since Michael Crabtree has returned.

991
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 1: So I like them, and at the beginning of the season,

992
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 1: I picked the New England Patriots to represent the a

993
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: f C. I'll continue with them. The Broncos have a

994
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 1: couple of injuries on defense, which could be huge. I

995
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: know a lot of people are gonna look at this

996
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: game and they're gonna say, you know what, le Garrett

997
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: Blunt for rushing touchdowns. The Patriots are gonna come out

998
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: and pound them again. And yet that's the Belichick way

999
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: is that he always finds a way to expose your weakness.

1000
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 1: He'll be like, look, you find who Quentin Jammer's guarding

1001
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,319
Speaker 1: every play and you go after That's the only guy

1002
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 1: I wants you to target. And you know what, I

1003
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 1: like the way that he uh, he just finds a

1004
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: way to beat you. Because it was just two year

1005
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 1: it was two years ago he started running that two

1006
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 1: tight ends in with Gronkowski and Hernandez and kind of

1007
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 1: revolutionized the way teams play offense. And then he lost

1008
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: both those guys this year and now he's completely changed

1009
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 1: it with almost a new roster. It seems like Tom

1010
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 1: Brady being the only constant guy there and he just

1011
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,359
Speaker 1: finds a way to continue to win. So I'm gonna

1012
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: like them to go to the super Bowl. And and

1013
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 1: at that point, you look at Tom Brady and you're like,

1014
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,320
Speaker 1: he might be the best of all time if that happens,

1015
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: if he gets if he gets to one more super Bowl,

1016
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 1: he's now got a legitimate argument against Joe Montana as

1017
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 1: the greatest of all time. If he wins the super Bowl,

1018
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 1: the argument is over. Yeah, And you know it's funny

1019
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 1: to talk about Belichick is that he's he's made a

1020
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 1: career of Look, just when I show you something, okay, well,

1021
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: now we got to prepare for that. He'll give them

1022
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: something completely different this weekend in Denver. It's not gonna

1023
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 1: be le Garret one. It's not going to be given

1024
00:44:15,719 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: him the football all the time. It's gonna be something

1025
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 1: that Denver is not prepared for, because that's what he does.

1026
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: I'll show you something and you think you have it

1027
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: and We're like, meanwhile, we've so moved past that. You know.

1028
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: You see that in the especially in the a FC

1029
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: East when they play teams like when they play the Jets,

1030
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 1: they play the Bills, they play the Dolphins. It's, you know,

1031
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 1: the first game of the season, maybe it's a close game.

1032
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: We saw in New England like to do this, so

1033
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 1: we're gonna prepare for that next time round. And then

1034
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,240
Speaker 1: second game around, New England wins seven because they're showing

1035
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 1: you stuff that you weren't even prepare for because it

1036
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 1: was just something was brand new they did that week.

1037
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: He's like the guy who listens to the indie band

1038
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: before everybody else and by the time you catch onto him,

1039
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: he's like, oh yeah, I don't even listen to them,

1040
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: And yeah, Shane Verine will have receptions and Stephen Ridley

1041
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,879
Speaker 1: goes for h of yards. Start Shane Vereen as you're

1042
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 1: running bench and and go Shane Vereen, alright, Barcos, who's

1043
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 1: your pick? I'm gonna starting the a f C. I

1044
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 1: I think that that Peyton forget all this stuff about

1045
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: you know, hearing about you know how he can't do

1046
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: it or whatever. I just watching him on Sunday in

1047
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:22,919
Speaker 1: a divisional game against the Chargers. For everybody who talks

1048
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 1: about how smart he is and how cerebral he is,

1049
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: I really felt like, you know, it was almost like

1050
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: a a heavyweight fighter going into a fight that chances

1051
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: are he's going to win, but he knows he may

1052
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 1: have problems. I felt like the Broncos just all of

1053
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:37,839
Speaker 1: a sudden side they're gonna come out, We're gonna fight

1054
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 1: this fight left handed because we're not sure how we're

1055
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: gonna beat you. Your style has flu mixt us before,

1056
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 1: so we're gonna do something completely different. I just felt

1057
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 1: like they just turned around and then just fought South

1058
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:49,840
Speaker 1: pawl and that's how they won that game. And I

1059
00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 1: just I thought we saw Peyton at his most cerebral

1060
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: as a quarterback this past week, and I think you're

1061
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: gonna see a lot more of that. I mean, this

1062
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: is kind of the ultimate chess match, where it's it's

1063
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: Peyton against Bill Belichick and trying to figure out how

1064
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 1: they're gonna slow him down, and Peyton's gonna find a

1065
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: way to have a response. And I think it may

1066
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: not even be that he goes out and has one

1067
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: of those Peyton manning games. I I don't think he's

1068
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 1: gonna go out and throw for three yards. I don't

1069
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: think he's gonna have a ton of touchdowns, but I

1070
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: think he will do enough to keep that defense off balance.

1071
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 1: I think a guy that you may have to watch

1072
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: this week is Monty ball monte Monte. I have no

1073
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: idea what he calls himself now, but he may end

1074
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: up seeing a big role in this football game. And

1075
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 1: I think you find a way, uh that the Broncos

1076
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 1: will will pull this thing out. It It may come

1077
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:33,320
Speaker 1: down to the end and maybe that Peyton has to

1078
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 1: put together another four minute drive like they did to

1079
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 1: kill the clock against the Chargers. But I think they

1080
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 1: find a way to get it done and Peyton gets

1081
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 1: back to the Super Bowl. On the other side, I've

1082
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 1: been I've been so torn over this NFC game because,

1083
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 1: you know, midway through the season, it looked like if

1084
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: you had to go to Seattle, you didn't have a

1085
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: shot um. But the Niners have played really well, and

1086
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 1: I feel like if there's any team right now that

1087
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 1: could knock the Seahawks off their pins um in Seattle,

1088
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 1: it is probably the San Francisco. For the Niner team,

1089
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:03,839
Speaker 1: they're as healthy as they've ever been there playing well,

1090
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 1: and they really do seem to like to hold things

1091
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 1: back for Colin Kaepernick from a a play calling standpoint

1092
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: until the postseason. But that being said, I've kind of

1093
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 1: gone all in on Seattle, so I'm gonna stay with that.

1094
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: But I I do think, um, you know, the Niners

1095
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 1: will make things difficult, and if they somehow walk out

1096
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: of there with a win, I won't be completely surprised,

1097
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 1: but I will I will stick by my pick of

1098
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. All right, there we go. There's the

1099
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Speaker 1: picks for this weekend's game. Did you make your picks? Oh? No,

1100
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 1: I didn't. I was gonna let you guys make your picks.

1101
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,960
Speaker 1: You make. I picked the Bengals to go to the

1102
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 1: super Bowl on that not withstand well, I'm gonna I'm

1103
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 1: gonna go New England San Francisco. I look at Denver

1104
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: and I see Peyton Manning as and I see Denver

1105
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 1: and Seattle, both the teams that are kind of hanging

1106
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 1: on right now. They both look gettable. Peyton Manning is

1107
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: not throwing the ball downfield like he was earlier this season.

1108
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:54,359
Speaker 1: You look a lot of this stuff that that gets

1109
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: big plays it's a lot of bunch type formations, and

1110
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:58,920
Speaker 1: we're gonna throw the ball ten yards downfield, right off

1111
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage to marry as Thomas. He's not

1112
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:03,800
Speaker 1: stretching the defense a lot. Whether it's his arm is

1113
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:06,200
Speaker 1: worn down from the season, or he could talk about

1114
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: the cold all he wants, but you know, try to

1115
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:09,720
Speaker 1: throw the football in the cold with the glove is

1116
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: is a tough thing to do. Uh So, I I

1117
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:14,799
Speaker 1: just don't see Denver as a team that is ready

1118
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 1: to play their best football. I think they played their

1119
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: best football and Nave peaked, whereas New England is peaking now.

1120
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:23,839
Speaker 1: Same thing in the NFC. If Harvin was healthy. It's

1121
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: a different dimension to the Seahawks. But they're they're not.

1122
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 1: This is not an overmatch Saints team coming in like

1123
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 1: we're last weekend and still it came down to the end.

1124
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 1: This is this is the best team they've played. San

1125
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:36,080
Speaker 1: Francisco's a different team when they played him the first

1126
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,400
Speaker 1: time around. I know people pay attention to the crab

1127
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 1: Tree effect and and he's playing now and Kaepernick's playing better,

1128
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 1: but this is just a different feel, a different Niner team,

1129
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: and they've won forty five games in a row and

1130
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 1: they're playing with a lot of confidence. It's gonna be close.

1131
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 1: But I like San Francisco to win this game. And

1132
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 1: I know it's tough to say to visiting teams winning

1133
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 1: in in the conference championship games, but these are the

1134
00:48:57,440 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 1: two teams that are playing the best. And if you

1135
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 1: don't want to get point right now overthinking it, the

1136
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 1: two teams playing the best. I want to playing for

1137
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. And I'll have to sit back for

1138
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:06,319
Speaker 1: two weeks ago. Tom Brady's gonna win a super Bowl

1139
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: in my home stadium, and I gotta realize of him

1140
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: him holding up the Lombardi Trophy in MetLife Stadium, and

1141
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:14,920
Speaker 1: wasn't anything else worse than that. It's as gonna be

1142
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 1: his big middle finger to the forty niner franchise. He

1143
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:20,360
Speaker 1: loved that. That spurned him for Geo car Mazzi. You know,

1144
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, a lot of storylines. They had a lot

1145
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 1: of stuff going on whatever, And he would win in

1146
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 1: Eli's house. Yeah, that would that, Yeah, that would be

1147
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 1: a big deal. We wouldn't get Omaha, but we would

1148
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 1: have at least we have that. But do you think

1149
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:35,840
Speaker 1: about it, This is if you said beginning of the season.

1150
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 1: All right, throw everything out the window. If you could

1151
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 1: have any four teams playing in the final four for

1152
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:43,759
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl this year, who would you pick? You

1153
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:48,240
Speaker 1: would say Brady Manning one more time, taking your rooting

1154
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:50,760
Speaker 1: interest out of it. You know, if you could say, okay,

1155
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:52,360
Speaker 1: forget who you root for, but if you could have

1156
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:54,879
Speaker 1: what's the most interest that you're gonna see, you would

1157
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: say Brady Manning one more time for for all the

1158
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 1: marbles and Seattle, say Francisco, the new great rivalry with

1159
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,840
Speaker 1: two great head coaches that don't like each other, teams

1160
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 1: that don't like each other, that love to talk, smack,

1161
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:08,839
Speaker 1: to play great defense, that put points on the board.

1162
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: This is the final four you would have picked. Yeah,

1163
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: I think the NFL does a better job of booking

1164
00:50:14,239 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 1: than the w w E. Right now, are you properly?

1165
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 1: David Stern is jealous? Al right, guys, enjoy the games.

1166
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,240
Speaker 1: We'll be back next week for another Dish to NFL

1167
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 1: Fantasy Live podcast. Dot do get there.