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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast is down with the get down.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hansis and I am joined by

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Speaker 1: Ruebla Heroes, Mark Sessler, Chris Westling and Greg Rosa. Thought

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Speaker 1: what's up boys? Hey? Dan? Sometimes, uh, there's so much

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Speaker 1: heroism within Studio seven here that I I just lose it.

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Speaker 1: I can't deal with it. It's just you can't play

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Speaker 1: with the natural, raw emotion as a host that you

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Speaker 1: admit from show to show. The real hero is Mark Shirt,

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Speaker 1: you know, slowly drooping as the show wears on. It's

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Speaker 1: any female listeners are watching our videos out there, you

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Speaker 1: can catch a little bit of that chest there, of

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Speaker 1: that Hamburg and sound attractive at all. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 1: when you're getting dressed at like five am and you're

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Speaker 1: just pulling, you know, Linen's out of a closet, You

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Speaker 1: have no idea what it is. This is what happens.

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Speaker 1: We hear that a lot um, I guess, Greg. We

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Speaker 1: hear you say the same thing a lot about the

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Speaker 1: early morning dressing. If we could started as someone out

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Speaker 1: there that can start a Kickstarter fund to build walk

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Speaker 1: in closets separated from the bedroom for both Mark and Greg.

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Speaker 1: I think they would be appreciative and maybe they'd come

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Speaker 1: in looking dapper or flashlight. You could use your iPhone.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've tried that. I've tried all that. I've

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Speaker 1: tried all that. This is the s the Around the

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Speaker 1: NFL podcast and uh, you know, a big show today,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we we got a lot of feedback

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Speaker 1: on every episode on Twitter. The feedback we got UM

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Speaker 1: on Monday's episode was mostly related to laser beams, UM,

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Speaker 1: which you know, uh TV behind the glass. Let us

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Speaker 1: know that the video to audio transformation that we're under

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Speaker 1: lad to what sounded like an attack from a race

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Speaker 1: from way out in the solar system transformer and sect

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Speaker 1: thought it was the start of that forty world ending

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Speaker 1: that Mark referenced a few episodes ago. Well, it was

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Speaker 1: much less Lobo and it was, but it was very

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Speaker 1: annoying according to the people on Twitter. So we promised

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Speaker 1: the people and and TD are on board with this

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Speaker 1: as well, that you won't hear any laser beams. Well

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Speaker 1: I promised the people. You did, Yeah, I did, Like, Hey,

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Speaker 1: that was on us. You know we'll move forward and uh,

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Speaker 1: no more laser beams. Were working through our campaign promise

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Speaker 1: no laser beams in two thousand fifteen. The biggest disappointment though,

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Speaker 1: no more laser beams. Make America great again, Come be

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Speaker 1: for president. The biggest mistake though, was all these these

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Speaker 1: insane lasers all through the show and we're trying to

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Speaker 1: talk to each other and not one Bill laser joke. Well, Mark,

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Speaker 1: I'll put that at your feet because he's your boy.

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Speaker 1: No listen, that's my fault. But it was also just

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Speaker 1: like such an assault on the senses. You know, other

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Speaker 1: than West who's quietly been lobbying for more laser beams,

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Speaker 1: you know, I blame Fox Sports for starting this whole

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Speaker 1: laser phenomenon. We don't need lasers with our sports. Sorry robots,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, get rid of them all. If Monday was

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Speaker 1: you know the show where it's like, you know, NFL,

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Speaker 1: no more train, don't need no more mama hand this

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Speaker 1: one's Hey, Fox, get rid of the robot the robot

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Speaker 1: football guy. Hey, every other station quit following Fox like

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Speaker 1: lambs to the slaughter. I'll take I'll take right there.

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Speaker 1: The worst thing, the worst Fox graphic by far is

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Speaker 1: the score box in the corner, and it's like, okay,

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Speaker 1: it's cute too. They put like Christmas lights around the

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Speaker 1: score in the corner of the time. But then once

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Speaker 1: you get to like right before Christmas, then they start

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Speaker 1: having snow falling on the box and it's like, what's

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Speaker 1: that's because you like lasers too, I don't. Alright, coming

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Speaker 1: up on today's show, and and we all know there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of news to get to, um as there

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Speaker 1: always is this time of year. Uh, so we'll get

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Speaker 1: to that. We're gonna talk a little bit about a

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Speaker 1: resident journal Mark Sessler. He went to Ohio, of course,

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Speaker 1: But we're gonna get it out of you that you

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Speaker 1: part two of the Fantasy Extravaganza. It's a big moment

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Speaker 1: as the music cues us up part two and today

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Speaker 1: can't we your fantasy league without some stud wide receivers.

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Speaker 1: So we got the icons of fantasy football, Greg Rosenthal

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Speaker 1: and Chris Westling here and of course the NFL media

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Speaker 1: fantasy outsider Mark Cecil will head back to his corner,

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Speaker 1: which will surely be disturbing but also potentially something that

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Speaker 1: we learned something people have been I saw last night

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Speaker 1: someone was tweeting their fantasy line up to to West

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Speaker 1: You don't I I don't want to see that. You

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Speaker 1: can have West can answer that question, Well, you're an influencer.

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Speaker 1: I I looked at drafts, you know, since our lash

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Speaker 1: um not suspended for the laser beams. Uh. He spoke

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Speaker 1: with Roger Goodell. He was truthful, which you know, maybe

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Speaker 1: he just got hit with a fine, heavy, fine, ustly

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Speaker 1: don't see why I'm taking the fall for this, your producer, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: in the quarterback, O'Brien Cushing. Yes. Also, we'll talk a

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Speaker 1: light on Tuesday and Wednesday, Lashawn McCoy of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: not a good sign for a Bills team that needs

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Speaker 1: What you'd don't want to hear anything about Percy Harvin

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Speaker 1: this could end up being Percy Harvin out ten to

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Speaker 1: twelve weeks. You don't know when Leshaw McCoy is gonna

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Speaker 1: be healthy. I know that Tyrod Taylor hype train is

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Speaker 1: First of all, you're not gonna block me. Second of all,

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Speaker 1: you don't want to fight me. Third of a man,

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Speaker 1: this guy looks like the way he just looks on

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Speaker 1: his face and that clip they just showed, it just

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Speaker 1: looks like every evil frat boy that you've ever encountered

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Speaker 1: in your life. Isn't it great? Though, it's good to

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Speaker 1: have hard knocks, it's perfect. I've had teammates like that

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Speaker 1: in sports, and they're relatively harmless as long as they

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Speaker 1: aren't the leader on the team, as long as you're

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Speaker 1: somebody on the team who can put them in their place.

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Speaker 1: So true, you if you've everybody that's played organized sports

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Speaker 1: has had that guy that he's a little bigger, he's

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Speaker 1: a little stronger um and if you don't get out

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Speaker 1: of his bad side, you're fine with him. But there

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Speaker 1: if you're one of those three or four guys, he

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Speaker 1: will be relent list with you. So you just don't

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Speaker 1: want to be one of those three or four. Wait,

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Speaker 1: what what was the thing that he compared to be?

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Speaker 1: He basically called out someone for being feminine, But it

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Speaker 1: was like the least feminine thing ever, well he was.

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Speaker 1: It was about Latte or whatever ye have the here's

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Speaker 1: the transcript DeAndre Hopkins and by the way, is awesome.

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Speaker 1: At one point he talked about how he wanted to

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Speaker 1: get a Yorkie for his man. Don't even get me

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Speaker 1: started to take it to the club. He's having some fun.

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Speaker 1: He's funny. I don't think that's fun. You don't buy

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Speaker 1: a dog so you can put it in a purse.

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Speaker 1: But but he was really enjoyed. Does strike at I

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Speaker 1: like that? He was like, guys, would you judge me?

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Speaker 1: If I got my dog in the club? He should

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Speaker 1: strike out anybody and the guys who cares about dogs.

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Speaker 1: That's not what it dogs for to be cool. His

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Speaker 1: teammate said, I would delete your number. But here's the

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Speaker 1: interaction between Hopkins and Cushing. Do you drink Latte's, Hopkins asked,

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Speaker 1: and then Cushing said, I don't even go to Starbucks.

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Speaker 1: Then Hopkins says, it's great, bro. The cousin goes, I

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Speaker 1: mean I used to, And then I realized that wasn't

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Speaker 1: a chick who says that. Well, there are all these people,

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Speaker 1: sweet script, all these people were tweeting out images of

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Speaker 1: their own like Starbucks coffees this morning, saying they felt that,

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Speaker 1: you know, some some distant heat from this guy from Cushing.

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Speaker 1: I want. I didn't get to see it because you know,

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Speaker 1: hi v HBO go and it wasn't on there last night.

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Speaker 1: And as I said, I was fishing around for shirts

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Speaker 1: in the dark this morning. So I want to find

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Speaker 1: out what was there more with the quarterbacks this week? Anything, Yes,

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Speaker 1: they did get into that a little bit. Want to well,

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Speaker 1: I like that occasionally hard knocks does tell you legitimate

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Speaker 1: football things. And one of the things I took away

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Speaker 1: from the Mallet Hoyer battle was this moment in last

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Speaker 1: week's game where Mallet does it makes a totally stupid play.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't hear the call correctly, and then he the

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Speaker 1: call makes no sense. It's a quarterback sneak on third

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Speaker 1: and four. It was third and four because he got

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Speaker 1: three yards he does he not only does he not

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Speaker 1: understand that it's a mistake that he heard it incorrectly,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't change the play. He just decides to run

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Speaker 1: and the drive ends. And afterwards O'Brien is kind of like,

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Speaker 1: what's going on here? And it and it just shows

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Speaker 1: you the difference between Mallet maybe not the most cerebral

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Speaker 1: guy and and Brian Hoyer. I was watched that game

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Speaker 1: on game Pass and I put that in my notes.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen a third and four quarterback sneak. He's

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Speaker 1: He comes off as a bit of a goon too,

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Speaker 1: because he during practice. Yeah, you know, not a bad guy,

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Speaker 1: not like Brian Cushing type, but he was saying he

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Speaker 1: would complete along pass and dude, just like he's exaggerated

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Speaker 1: celebrations like fist pumps. And then he ran a QB

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Speaker 1: draw near the goal line, in which I guess I

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Speaker 1: don't I've never been in the practice field like that,

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Speaker 1: but I guess it's not something you typically run because

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Speaker 1: they're wearing the red non contact jersey, so the defensive

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Speaker 1: players get angry. And then he dunks the ball over

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Speaker 1: the cross far well my other, oh my god. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that led to a quote from one of the

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Speaker 1: defensive players, Jackson, that he would give up his paycheck

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Speaker 1: if they ran that in the game, right and he well,

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Speaker 1: he also said um one of the teammates said if

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Speaker 1: he if he tries to run that again, somebody should

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Speaker 1: knock his ass and half DeAndre Hopkins you mentioned he is.

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Speaker 1: He is my favorite guy. You got, you got the

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Speaker 1: you got the Yorkshire. But you also had him killing

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Speaker 1: Hoyer for not recognizing that he was wide open on

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Speaker 1: a post route on the first play of the game.

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Speaker 1: After Hoyer makes a nice throw back shoulder two point conversion,

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Speaker 1: Hoyer runs over to him to celebrate and and Hopkins,

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Speaker 1: still thinking about the first play of the game, goes,

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Speaker 1: w tf Hoyer, you know what about that post? He's

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Speaker 1: still piste off and how he was like, oh what

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Speaker 1: what you man? You're open on that play. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: I didn't realize that that ain't gonna fly. You can't

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Speaker 1: miss DeAndre hard Knocks needs quarterback battles. Think it sounds good.

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Speaker 1: It always makes the season better. So yeah, everything going

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Speaker 1: great with hard Knocks so far. And uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: if you have a chance to watch it, please watch

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Speaker 1: it and then read the recaps. How about a vanity

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Speaker 1: you r l for. Let's do NFL dot com slash

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Speaker 1: hard Knocks comma, which Dan works very hard on laid

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Speaker 1: into the evenings to bring enjoyment both to the people

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Speaker 1: but to also please his ball. That's the flash Vince

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Speaker 1: will Fork's Bubbling Feet slash the most cumbersome vanity you

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Speaker 1: are a history of the Internet. Give Dan Rays slash

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Speaker 1: and Cream Jackson get away with freeballing that while playing football?

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Speaker 1: That seems wild. I've just thrown it up. Alright, alright,

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Speaker 1: next up, speaking of vanity r else, I'm very upset

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Speaker 1: about this. Speaking of freeballing, Well, that's that's another conversation.

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Speaker 1: What does that mean? Mark Sessler wrote an excellent long

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Speaker 1: form piece, or I would say an extended feature. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you know, there's the jargon. It's like a long a

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Speaker 1: t L post kind of uh a t N. By

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Speaker 1: the way, Mark, I like to go with the old

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Speaker 1: I like that anyway, No, no vanity r L which

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Speaker 1: I hang on Greg a little bit. For NFL dot

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Speaker 1: Com slash believe Land seemed like a no brainer. But

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Speaker 1: beside the point. Mark wrote a great piece about his

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Speaker 1: encounter with Mike Petton at Brown's camp. Mark spent two

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Speaker 1: days there, Yeah, to practices to pro this is there.

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Speaker 1: Had a nice sit down with Mike and I'm talking

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Speaker 1: when I say sit down, this is not some gang

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Speaker 1: bang scrum. That's industry linko. By the way, when there's

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Speaker 1: a group of reporters around a player, a lot of

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Speaker 1: questionable turns what you might think not a gang bang,

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Speaker 1: but yet Mark talking to Mike Petton and uh, if

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Speaker 1: you're watching NFL, now it's a Brown's watch. Here's a

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Speaker 1: here's a shot of Mark with Mike Petton. I mean

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Speaker 1: Mark always always looks, you know, like longingly when he's

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Speaker 1: talking to a Browns player or a coach. You know, listen,

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Speaker 1: look at these shots. I was sent in to do

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Speaker 1: a job. What a journal you are. I was like,

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Speaker 1: I gotta get the job done. We're gonna we'll tweet

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Speaker 1: out those photos for the listeners of the podcast. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: Mark was tell us a little bit about your encounter

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Speaker 1: with Mike Petton, a man that you clearly admire. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think the thing I wanted to write

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Speaker 1: was because, I mean, everyone gets the perception of the

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Speaker 1: team in general, that it's just this wild train wreck

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Speaker 1: in space about to crash land for another Like, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, it's just like, what can you say about

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Speaker 1: the about the team. It's just it seems like the

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Speaker 1: books are cooked on what they are inside and out,

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Speaker 1: and so I just wanted to ask or try to

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Speaker 1: get Petton to talk honestly about, you know, how he

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Speaker 1: feels about that, because that's obviously if you're the man

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Speaker 1: in charge, that's crushing you all the time, that's coming

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Speaker 1: down on you. And what I liked about Petton in

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Speaker 1: a chance to talk about thought he's pretty honest. He

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Speaker 1: sort of said, I get it. You know, people drive

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Speaker 1: by the building and they think they're gonna expect to

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Speaker 1: see it on fire, and everyone says, there's all this unrest,

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Speaker 1: and you know, he he acknowledged that it's been difficult,

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Speaker 1: difficult transition a just to become an NFL head coach

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Speaker 1: and work with at the same time of first year

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Speaker 1: general manager. We know that's not been super smooth. But

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Speaker 1: he swatted down the idea that they can't work together,

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Speaker 1: that there's no shared vision, sort of saying that they

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Speaker 1: actually communicate daily, that they look at the roster they

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Speaker 1: have sixty seven or sixty eight new players, that most

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Speaker 1: every one of those guys was someone they agreed on.

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Speaker 1: There isn't a lot of fighting like we talked about.

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Speaker 1: He was definitely honest. You got some good quotes and

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Speaker 1: including my favorite of the piece. Let people think this

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Speaker 1: is a dumpster fire, let them think it well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think that was their take, is kind of like,

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Speaker 1: it's not this, it's not just us against the world,

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Speaker 1: which every team wants that dynamic. It's just we get it,

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna have to show it. But I think

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Speaker 1: he also may and they kind of did show it.

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Speaker 1: They exceeded expectations last year. It's about it good the

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Speaker 1: first year that Petton could have hoped for. Realistically, they

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Speaker 1: could take a step back record wise, and I think

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Speaker 1: that that's again the major problems that we're there are

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Speaker 1: still there. Well, so will they have the patients to

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Speaker 1: stick with him? I think that's the concern. Let's talk.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about that and again read marks piece. We'll

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Speaker 1: send out a couple of those photos which are excellent,

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Speaker 1: with a link to the post on the around the

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Speaker 1: NFL account. Now let's talk about just real quick, we'll

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Speaker 1: go around the horn here. Out of ten your belief

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Speaker 1: that uh Cleveland can really contend for a playoffs. But

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Speaker 1: I remember this is a team that was what marks

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Speaker 1: seven and four at one point last November ended seven

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Speaker 1: and nine, So there could be something here if they

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Speaker 1: get some better quarterback play and a couple of breaks,

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Speaker 1: which the Cleveland typically doesn't. But you never know, I'll

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Speaker 1: start I think in terms of the chances that they're

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Speaker 1: an actual playoff contender in December, six out of ten

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Speaker 1: Indian Burial grounds. Wow. Six, that's pretty optimist. I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's crazy that the Browns could listen. I'm not

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Speaker 1: a big Josh McCown fan, and I hope that Johnny

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Speaker 1: Manzel becomes a dynamic NFL talent. But uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe they get a little better quarterback play. You never

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Speaker 1: know what could happens. I'm gonna give it two out

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Speaker 1: of ten first round bus that's usually how they do it,

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Speaker 1: two out of time. Yeah, you know, I am a

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Speaker 1: fan of Josh McCown, but when you look at him

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Speaker 1: compared to the other quarterbacks in that conference and their

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Speaker 1: roster overall, they're still weak in several areas. I think

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Speaker 1: they're a year and a quarterback away from hitting that

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Speaker 1: contending I would give them one point one. Josh Gordon

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Speaker 1: blood alcohol content. Wow. I feel bad about this. I

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Speaker 1: thought about it because I know that Mark is sensitive

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Speaker 1: to Brown's criticism, and he thinks we pick on them

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Speaker 1: in general. I really thought they'd be better than people

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Speaker 1: expected last year. And I was thinking when someone asked

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Speaker 1: me on Twitter, who's the worst team in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: If it wasn't for Mark being around, I would consider

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Speaker 1: that the Browns would be one of the options because

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Speaker 1: I think if you look at their offense, and I

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Speaker 1: always start with offense, it's more predictable. I think it's

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Speaker 1: more important if you look at their offense on paper,

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Speaker 1: it's one of the worst offenses in the league, if

639
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 1: not the worst. And I think their schedules tougher, and

640
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: I think they're they're gonna They have a good coaching staff,

641
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: they have some good defensive pieces. Five six wins, all right, Yeah,

642
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: I mean I go three out of ten Rob Chizynski

643
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,479
Speaker 1: chins is that I don't know. Actually, that's a little bit, uh,

644
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: that's a little bit to sive him because Chazynski did

645
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: not have it. So non three out of ten, non

646
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,760
Speaker 1: Rob Chizynski, ten chins. I knew Chad was he had

647
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,400
Speaker 1: no shot when didn't have the chinney. Gotta have a

648
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: strong chin to make it in the NFL, A strong

649
00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: jawline as a coach. And I'll tell you what. Petton

650
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: has a nice jaw. He does. I mean, but Greg

651
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,239
Speaker 1: makes a good point. You don't have Josh Gordon, who

652
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: you did have for part of last season. In the

653
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: year before, you don't have Jordan Cameron. Their skill position

654
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: players have probably gotten worse. You know, they have a

655
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: good offensive line, but that that alone, that's not gonna

656
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 1: it's not gonna carry you in that division. I think

657
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: the point is they the last four coaching resumes regimes

658
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: had the same problem. You gotta stick with it and

659
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: keep building. It's not that it's gonna happen this season. Alright,

660
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: So leveland Brown talk out of the way. Sessler happy,

661
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 1: floating on high. He asked for that plug. He's got

662
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: his plug. And now that Mark is literally the last

663
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Speaker 1: guy that asked for a plug. Part two of our

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Speaker 1: Fantasy extravaganzas now underway. It's victorious, Andy dufrayn uh yes,

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Speaker 1: this is part two of the Fantasy Extravaganza. On Monday's show,

666
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Speaker 1: we talked about the running backs and uh, the tight ends,

667
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: and now we will talk about the wide receivers. Were

668
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of stud talent, maybe more

669
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Speaker 1: right now than there's ever been in the NFL. I

670
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Speaker 1: don't know. I don't even know that's true. I'm throwing

671
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: it out there. You can believe it. You can believe it.

672
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Speaker 1: I don't care. Um. So we're gonna talk about the

673
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Speaker 1: wide receivers today, and I'll tell you what before we

674
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Speaker 1: get into it. I've been working on some more taglines

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Speaker 1: because I know you guys didn't like them all. Uh.

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Speaker 1: One was profane. Uh, so I got had a bunch

677
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Speaker 1: of lasers in it, had some lasers in it. So

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Speaker 1: three more he came up with. You let me know

679
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Speaker 1: if maybe we hit on something, because the right tagline

680
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Speaker 1: in this crowded world of fantasy football can take a

681
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Speaker 1: group far. Uh. The fantasy extravaganza promise, I'll make you

682
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Speaker 1: proud of me, Dad, thoughts, I don't know if father's

683
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: uh most fathers really care about their son's fantasy teams.

684
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Speaker 1: But maybe all the fantasy extravaganza? Am I not good

685
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Speaker 1: enough for you? Dad? It's got a little more edge

686
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: to it. I like the attitude that brings to the

687
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: locker room, like Dan is working out some of his

688
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: own issues. Does dance centric? But yes or no better

689
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 1: than the first one might take. I would get off

690
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:15,800
Speaker 1: the dance thing, all right? Last one? Uh daddy, Papa,

691
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 1: where are you? No? Now you found a winner. I

692
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: would go with that. That feels clear. I think that's

693
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Speaker 1: the winner. If those are the three options, that's that's

694
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: pretty good. Dan. You gotta separate yourself from the crew.

695
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:37,439
Speaker 1: I don't know that many level separate from the crew.

696
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 1: All right, So let's get into it. The wide receivers

697
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:46,399
Speaker 1: um that are overvalued and what we'll do here. Of course,

698
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: we've got the fantasy outsider waiting in the wings on

699
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Speaker 1: a street corner, cigarette in a white T shirt with

700
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,399
Speaker 1: the cigarettes rolled up in the sleeve, waiting over there.

701
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: James Dean, James Dean with a computer is what they

702
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 1: call him. But for will start with Greg and West.

703
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 1: James with the computer is what they called Greg. You're

704
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: overvalued wide receiver right now where people are getting too excited,

705
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: they got a calm down. Don't take them too high.

706
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: This was hard. My first the name that I thought

707
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: was Roddy White, but then I thought, you know, everyone

708
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: knows that he's a third receiver. So I'm going Randall Cobb. Now,

709
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:24,240
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb coming off a career season in a great offense,

710
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: but he's getting taken in the second round right around

711
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,359
Speaker 1: guys like Calvin Johnson, Jordy Nelson, A J. Green just

712
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,800
Speaker 1: after them, And to me, there's a huge gap between

713
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Speaker 1: Randall Cobb and those guys. Wouldn't surprise me if Davante Adams,

714
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: Montgomery the tight ends the running games they all take away,

715
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,280
Speaker 1: and that Cob is not really as good a fantasy

716
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 1: player as he is a reality player, and there's so

717
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: many good receivers in the third, fourth, fifth round you

718
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 1: can wait, he has such a low floor or he

719
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 1: has such a high floor because of their offense and

720
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: because of his own talent. But I think the main

721
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 1: point here is those top eight guys are cut and dried,

722
00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:00,959
Speaker 1: and then there's exact huge draw up off after that.

723
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I was thinking. And then you look

724
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: at the guys that are way further down, Emmanuel Sanders,

725
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:09,239
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, outside Jeffrey even Keenan Allen down in the

726
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,359
Speaker 1: fifth roend, It's like, I don't see a huge gap

727
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: between Cobb and those guys that you might as well

728
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: wait if that's how you get one thing that would

729
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 1: concern me about not taking the Green Bay receivers that

730
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: Cobb himself talked about Green Bay's offense speeding up and

731
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: running on high volume of plays, and they said that

732
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:25,800
Speaker 1: he was on the field, they saw them run thirty

733
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: three in one quarter. That there's gonna be more targets,

734
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 1: more catches, more everything. Sixteen games played last year, catches

735
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 1: almost thirteen under yards and twelve touchdowns. Good production said, right,

736
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,359
Speaker 1: the towns are going down. Don't buy high. I think

737
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: that's gonna be his career year. All right, Chris Wesling,

738
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 1: you're overvalued wide receiver. Guy getting taken one spot behind

739
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb is Mike Evans. And this is to me,

740
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Buccaneers offense is toxic for fantasy purposes.

741
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: To me, their offensive line is abysmal. They have a

742
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 1: quarterback who's very raw, and I do not expect him

743
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 1: to come in and light the world on fire. Mike

744
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:06,919
Speaker 1: Evans also last year torched second and third quarter cornerbacks.

745
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: Unlike Sammy Watkins and Odell Beckham and Kelvin Benjamin, he

746
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: wasn't playing against number one cornerbacks. Dark Cutter has him

747
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: playing that rule this year where he's moving him around

748
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: the offense, and we'll see a lot more number one

749
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,240
Speaker 1: cornerback coverage. But I could be wrong about the Buccaneers offense.

750
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 1: But what's that gonna hurt me? If I am wrong

751
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 1: about it, I can I can get someone in a

752
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: better offense. But if I'm right about the Buccaneers offense

753
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 1: and you're stuck with with a guy in a in

754
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 1: a in a really abysmal offense, I'd rather have Vincent

755
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: Jackson in the eighth round than in the second or

756
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 1: the third. Forget Mike Evans, Wow, Forget. I like his talent,

757
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: and he's super talent, had a monster season. But you

758
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 1: haven't been in this business as long as I have.

759
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: You just gotta be. You gotta have hot takes. You

760
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 1: gotta go like Adam Shine, and you gotta put the

761
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 1: oven mitts on. You gotta go into the oven because

762
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 1: those takes are hot. They got. It's not gonna make

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00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: any noise. By the way, I'm just a guy here.

764
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 1: I'm just a regular Joe and the average Joe here

765
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: in the presence of greatness and Mark and it's just

766
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: you know, I'm enjoying myself here. Let's move on now

767
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: to enjoying myself to a lesser extent. Let's move on

768
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 1: to undervalued wide receivers. Greg We'll start with you. I

769
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: almost feel bad for taking West's boy, but we could

770
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: only pick one here. How is John Brown going in

771
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: the eighth or ninth round? That is bananas to me.

772
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 1: I I see John Brown making that t Y Hilton

773
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: type leap where he's getting hundred yards, where he's a

774
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: top fifteen type of running back, and he's going number forties.

775
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 1: So what I love receiver wide receiver. I've been out

776
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 1: of the game a little bit, the fantasy game. Why

777
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 1: is that happening? Then? Why? Why is that he just

778
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: he misspoke? Is what happened with Because he's a little guy,

779
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,760
Speaker 1: and and I don't know that seems crazy. Have three?

780
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 1: They have three receivers, so they'll spread it around a

781
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: little bit. And look at Larry Fitzgerald's only going one

782
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: spot ahead of John Brown. I know a lot of

783
00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 1: people are writing off Larry Fitzgerald. I trust my eyes.

784
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 1: And when he was healthy and Carson Palmer was healthy

785
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: last year, Larry Fitzgerald looked like two thousand nine Larry Fitzgerald.

786
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: To me, I think this guy's got plenty left in

787
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,879
Speaker 1: the thing. I would take both of these Cardinals receiver. Yeah,

788
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: I would too. When I saw that, I considered Fitzgerald

789
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: for it. That was the one when I looked at

790
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 1: the whole top fifty that scene. Wow, that's almost wrong.

791
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,359
Speaker 1: How could John Brown not? He's very similar to me

792
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: Mark Tavis Bryant is getting taken in the fifth round.

793
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: I would rather have John Brown than with a guy

794
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: like Fitzgerald, don't we. He's done it fantasy wise, year

795
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,399
Speaker 1: after year after year, and if you're not overspending for him,

796
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,359
Speaker 1: those are the guys I want on my team. That's

797
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,280
Speaker 1: a good year for him. By the way, Smoky Brown

798
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,320
Speaker 1: just five starts last year. Appeared in sixteen games, hundred

799
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: and two targets despite just five starts. That includes Brian

800
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: Linley games. Right, yikes, but what a starts mean? For

801
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 1: why doesn't he was on the field a tony just

802
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: But I mean, give him sixteen starts. His target is

803
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: gonna go straight through the roof, especially if fitz gets

804
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: hurt again, which could happen. All right, Wes, you're undervalued

805
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Come on, fantasy people, what are you doing? You?

806
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: Old Stullards and Simpleton's Calvin Johnson. Calvin Johnson is the

807
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 1: sixth best wide receiver or six wide receiver off the board.

808
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 1: Stop what are you doing? He's the best wide receiver

809
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Stop this nonsense. Calvin Johnson's undervalued. He

810
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: should be the number one receiver. Is it? Are people

811
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: concerned about his durability? I've got him up in last season. No,

812
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 1: it's people stare only at last year's stats and that's

813
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: all people pay for last year's stats, and they just

814
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: wipe away last year. It's not complicated by low sell

815
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: high Calvin Johnson has been the number one ride wide

816
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: receiver for seven years. He's still in his prime. If

817
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:37,399
Speaker 1: you have the you guys have the number six pick

818
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 1: in your draft, I know you're trying to get Mark

819
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 1: Sessler Marks a little more engaged. I mean, Kelvin Johnson

820
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 1: is not a crazy pick at number six. Here's so

821
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: not at all? Why it's West is absolutely right. Yes,

822
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: he hasn't quite been himself, but he's still productive. Any

823
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: when he was healthy last year, he was still Calvin

824
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: Johnson's number. Last year's stats should not guide your your

825
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: drafting philosophy. Knowing that Calvin Johnson is also should drive

826
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: and just he'll he'll turn thirty in September, so he's

827
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: not a spring chicken anymore. But you have a very

828
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 1: good chance of getting Calvin Johnson in the second round

829
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: and him being completely healthy and dropping a hundred and

830
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: fifteen catches for eighteen hundred yards and ten touchdownsdowns right,

831
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: and he's in an offense where for years he was

832
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 1: the only wide receiver they had. You've got Golden Tate

833
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: and if Eric Ebron does anything this year, and with

834
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 1: what they have going on in the backfield, I mean,

835
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: he's not the only one defenses can pay attention to.

836
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 1: Maybe you all save this for the Philosophy Show on Friday,

837
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: but I mean you could argue the top eight receivers

838
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: are all undervalued. I don't think we've had a time

839
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 1: in fantasy football history, for what it's worth, where you

840
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 1: have such safe options at the top where they're all

841
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: money in the bank and you're getting a minus B

842
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 1: plus pick out of all of them. There's almost no risk.

843
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,880
Speaker 1: Just take those guys until they're off the board totally

844
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 1: barring injury. You're getting a hundred catches, fifteen hundred yards

845
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 1: and twelve touchdowns out of most of these eight receivers.

846
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what you're looking at. Just to be clear,

847
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Speaker 1: on Friday show, we're gonna get through all the quarterbacks

848
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Speaker 1: and as Greg mentioned, the philosophy that is not in

849
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,439
Speaker 1: no way related to the theology podcast which is down

850
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,919
Speaker 1: the road. All right, now it's time we uh. We've

851
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: talked to the icons old regular Joe Zeuser how to

852
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: his say, and now we're going to the fantasy corner

853
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 1: of the old cessler Zeus Sir NFL Media fantasy outsider

854
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:26,800
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler, Sessler's corner. What do you got for us, buddy?

855
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: All right, well, today I want to talk about the

856
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: fact that, you know, fantasy football has grown. We can

857
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: kill that music when every you know, we can take

858
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 1: it a little lower. It's like blowing out our ear drums.

859
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 1: Let's think about the listener, which we didn't do, is

860
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: baby making music. Let's take it down, not really the

861
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: tone of the piece. But you know, fly with whatever

862
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: you need to fly with, you know. So fantasy football,

863
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 1: it's grown obviously in this country right because we live

864
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:55,280
Speaker 1: in a very super soft peace time environment, extremely soft.

865
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 1: Few are it's ridiculous, but not everyone's sitting on the

866
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,200
Speaker 1: throne of ease. I have done some research and identified

867
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:05,920
Speaker 1: for people groups who do not have time for fantasy football. Alright,

868
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: these guys don't have time for this nonsense. Let's start

869
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: with number one, Peru's Shining Path. You heard of these guys.

870
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: It's a Maoist led guerrilla faction. Well, they're working endlessly

871
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:21,600
Speaker 1: to sack the bourgeois democracy in Latin America. Don't have

872
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: time for Joseph Randall's a DP. Don't care. How did

873
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 1: malism end up in Peru West? It's it's streaming everywhere,

874
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 1: and these guys the Shining Path are on it, alright.

875
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:35,760
Speaker 1: Second group, another group with no time for fantasy football,

876
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: this hobby horse activity, the brother heard subculture known as Brownie's.

877
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 1: All right, we have one in our newsroom. He is

878
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,760
Speaker 1: a Brownie. These are male fans of my Little Pony

879
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 1: who live and die by the creed of friendship is

880
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: now okay. While some Brownies might potentially delve into the

881
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:58,320
Speaker 1: realm of rotisserie sports, the crossover is scant. Okay, Okay, Brownies.

882
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: Brownies have other priorities, I mean of troubled. They have

883
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 1: other things going on. It's not fantasyeah, that's fair. Group

884
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 1: number three, the Universal Church of the New World comforter.

885
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you've heard of this one, Dan,

886
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: the hard working UFO called founded in nineteen seventy three

887
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: by Alan Michael. They're too busy watching the skies for

888
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:20,280
Speaker 1: incoming terror to care about whether Martavis Bryant has oilier

889
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 1: hips than Marcus Wheaton. Don't care, don't have time. They

890
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: probably should be doing fantasy sports. They better use of time,

891
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: but go talk to them about it. They're busy. One

892
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:34,960
Speaker 1: final group covert operatives housed inside the government's mk Ultram

893
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: mind control program. All right, these clandestine types far too busy,

894
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:42,799
Speaker 1: author and cutouts and false flags while repeatedly selling the

895
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 1: concept of a lone nut gunman to a flaccid, droned

896
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 1: out public, don't have time for rotissary sports. I thought

897
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: you would bring them up well if that when you

898
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: said people that didn't have time, you might say, like policemen,

899
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: they have too much to do. Tons of cops bear

900
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 1: fantasy ball. Okay, I'm I'm going deeper because these are

901
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 1: people with their world's perspective just not allowed them to participate.

902
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 1: You're staying fantasy sports a luxury these people don't have.

903
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 1: On the Mark Sessler Fantasy corner, the fantasy outsider. He's

904
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: always a disturbing hot take to be found. We'll come

905
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 1: back to you a little later. But moving on. Now,

906
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: let's talk about some otherwide receiver. I'm gonna throw out

907
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 1: some names now and uh outside or you can jump

908
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,760
Speaker 1: in of course as well. Um on this it's undo.

909
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: Or you could just you know, have another cigarette. I

910
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: could sit this one out. Maybe it's up to you, buddy. Uh,

911
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,479
Speaker 1: here we go. Wide receiver and wide receivers. You guys,

912
00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:36,840
Speaker 1: let me know. Overrated, underrated? Uh, Julian Edelman, Chris Wesling, overrated,

913
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: under or underrated? How do you feel about him? I

914
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: think you slightly overrated because he stayed healthy last year.

915
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 1: That's not usually his m O. He is a very

916
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 1: banged up individual when you look at his career, and

917
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: he's not really a high volume touchdown guy. So I

918
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: think if you're in a points per reception league, go

919
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:55,279
Speaker 1: ahead and get him. But if you're in a standard league,

920
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:57,359
Speaker 1: he's a little overvalued. This is where I do wish

921
00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: I knew if Tom Brady was playing the first four

922
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 1: weeks this season, because I don't know if Julian Edelman

923
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 1: is in your fantasy lineup with Jimmy Garoppolo, and that's

924
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:07,920
Speaker 1: four out of thirteen fantasy weeks. That's a third of

925
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 1: the season. That's pretty big. I think he's overvalued too,

926
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: because you don't want a guy coming off a career year. Essentially,

927
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: anybody worried about Julian Edelman's offseason activities. Been to a

928
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 1: lot of college parties, a lot of photos, taking a

929
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 1: lot of you know, I'm gonna be honest women. Well,

930
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 1: I mean, in the scope of what NFL players are

931
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: doing in the off season, it's probably mid range. I'm

932
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: not that concerned. He could be tired. So what he

933
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,840
Speaker 1: did was like really tame compared to like nineteen sixty

934
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:36,520
Speaker 1: nine what players were doing. Alright, how about Pierre Garcon

935
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:41,880
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen wildly undervalued Pierre go soone was one

936
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: of the best receivers in the league just two years ago.

937
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: He is getting buried. This is where people are way

938
00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: too concerned about last year's stats, which were admittedly terrible.

939
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,839
Speaker 1: But take a chance on guys who are in their

940
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:56,359
Speaker 1: prime and have shown that they can be a top

941
00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:00,400
Speaker 1: player before and that are healthy. He's not that Gruden

942
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: admitted that that Pierre Grierson did not have a big

943
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 1: enough rule last year, and they spent the offseason making

944
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: sure he will have a big enough ruled issue. Here

945
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 1: are the two people getting taken right in front of

946
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 1: Pierre Grison in the tenth round, Marcus Colston, who can

947
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 1: barely walk across the street anymore, and DeVante Parker, a

948
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: okay rookie who's not healthy at all. All right, let's

949
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:23,800
Speaker 1: speed round through a few of these, uh, Allen Robinson

950
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:25,799
Speaker 1: one take from each of you guys, or one take

951
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 1: up for each guy. I love him, breakout candidate, but

952
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: he's getting drafted way too high that often we don't

953
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 1: know if that offense is gonna be good. Yet overvalued,

954
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: Greg Mike Wallace undervalued. People forget Mike Wallace is a

955
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:41,760
Speaker 1: good receiver. He's getting taken one round ahead of Charles Johnson.

956
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 1: What has happened? As Mark Sessler just the only person

957
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: in these fake drafts who is drafted nothing Charles Johns.

958
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: I said, who's drafted Charles Johnson one round behind Mike Wallace?

959
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 1: Like these two guys are somehow equal. A lot of

960
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 1: stink on Wallace after last year, people getting sucked in

961
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:02,800
Speaker 1: on things. Chris westling Tavon Austin. You're buying where he's going.

962
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:05,479
Speaker 1: He's going, It's like barely even being drafted. Rotor World

963
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: doesn't even acknowledge these corpor in But this is one

964
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 1: of West's weirdest takes. Though you have been waiting for

965
00:48:10,600 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 1: this Tavon Austin breakout for every minute of his career.

966
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 1: What have you seen? You are always like less indignant.

967
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 1: You gotta look at the tape. You know I watched

968
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: the tape. I trust it. What have you seen from

969
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 1: Tavon Austin on? How many times have I mentioned Tavon

970
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,919
Speaker 1: Austin to you in in our entire time knowing anything

971
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: that you think? The Rams? The Rams have said he's

972
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: a starter. Rohtor World refuses to acknowledge it. He keeps starting,

973
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,439
Speaker 1: he keeps making plays. They want to get him the ball,

974
00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:43,359
Speaker 1: so Eddie behind him. You know you gotta you gotta

975
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 1: bit on that group. Frank Signty, Private Eye, Greg Victor Cruz,

976
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 1: give me a break. Don't take Victor Cruise overvalued West,

977
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins undervalued. Sammy Watkins is a stud. People are

978
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:57,480
Speaker 1: gonna find that out. I don't care if they have

979
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 1: a bad quarterback or not Watkins has taken fifth or

980
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 1: sixth round. That's one of my favorite picks in the draft.

981
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 1: Fantasy Outsider outside and Nelson Agolar he's overvalued, overvalued in

982
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 1: that off. I think that he's gonna he's gonna put

983
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 1: up numbers, but it might take some time. Jordan Matthews,

984
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 1: forget about That's what I'm talking about. Mike Wallace is

985
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 1: getting taken around after him. He had the worst year

986
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 1: of his career last year and he had two Yeah, West,

987
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: do you want to be the guy that expects Percy

988
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: Harden to stay healthy? No? And when we put his

989
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 1: name on this list, we didn't know he was getting

990
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 1: a shot for his hip and he's been He's like

991
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 1: the OUCHI sixty six receiver. I mean, you could at

992
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:35,720
Speaker 1: least take a flyer on the dude, West, your boy

993
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks, he's where he should be. I think this,

994
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 1: But you think he's properly valued. I think he's overvalued.

995
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 1: Now he's gonna catch as the number thirteen receiver in

996
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:50,240
Speaker 1: all the land. That's the guy coming off a pretty

997
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:55,240
Speaker 1: mediocre rookie season, undersized. He's right next to Alside Jeffrey

998
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: and he was on pace for ninety receptions as a rookie.

999
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: Before he got got outside, Jeffrey had inside towering over him.

1000
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 1: You got DeAndre on the other side. I'm taking those two.

1001
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: I don't have problem with Cooks where he is in

1002
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: this list. No, I like Cooks. Finally, Greg Dre d

1003
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: Andrew Johnson. Andre Johnson is undervalued. He's not cool anymore.

1004
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 1: Somehow playing with Andrew Luck in that offense is not

1005
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: a good thing for him. I don't get I don't

1006
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,320
Speaker 1: get back. People are taking Amari Cooper over him before

1007
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: before we go back to the Sessi's corner for one

1008
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:23,719
Speaker 1: more time, and maybe I missheard just pull him back

1009
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: the curtain in my ear TD, did you say t

1010
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: D sports car? Yeah, it's a callback so the start

1011
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 1: of the episode. Wait, but what was I missed? What

1012
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: it meant? Value? Other value? Oh? It doesn't exist out

1013
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:39,879
Speaker 1: there all right? TD sports car overvalued. I've never seen

1014
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: I like the once I drove off the lot. Definitely overvalued, undervalued.

1015
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:46,720
Speaker 1: It's getting mentioned on an international podcast when it doesn't exist.

1016
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 1: You're like Dez Bryan Bryan buying Bugatti. He's like the

1017
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 1: second he gets his contract. This happened the day after

1018
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:54,919
Speaker 1: you got your promotion or when did this happen? Let's

1019
00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:58,000
Speaker 1: just move on, guys, corner t D Dale's meth dot

1020
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Speaker 1: Com backslash members. Here we go back to the corner allegedly.

1021
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: All right, listen, I you know I'm gonna keep this

1022
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 1: one up here. All right, we're back. We're heading back

1023
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:11,400
Speaker 1: to the corner, back to his music. This guy he

1024
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 1: just put out the cigarette, put it out with his boot,

1025
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 1: and now he's ready to dispense more fantasy analysis. Well,

1026
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: this is something that annoys me and one of the

1027
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: reasons I jumped out of fantasy. Okay, you're still in,

1028
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 1: but yeah, Well in our last show we talked about it.

1029
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:27,440
Speaker 1: You know, it's clear that anyone who's in five or

1030
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: more fantasy leagues they need to seek help now, and

1031
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: we care about you seek help. But today I want

1032
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:35,520
Speaker 1: to talk about another massive Fantasy no no, and that

1033
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:40,319
Speaker 1: is people that draft players that you hate. Okay, I

1034
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: spent in a terrible year in Fantasy where I got

1035
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 1: stuck with hines Wards, my wide receiver, and it had

1036
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 1: to root for him to knock the Browns down week

1037
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: after week. And I can't stand hines Ward. He was

1038
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:52,879
Speaker 1: one of I mean, I never liked watching him play,

1039
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: can't stand his smile, and get him out of there.

1040
00:51:57,680 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: It got me out of fantasy. So my thing is

1041
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 1: have a hate list, all right? If you play fantasy,

1042
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 1: this is what you do. What's a hate list? Pick

1043
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 1: ten players that you refuse to draft or pick up

1044
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: at any point in the season out of pure standards

1045
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 1: that you have in yourself and or spite. You wouldn't

1046
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:19,319
Speaker 1: talk to these guys if you were next to him

1047
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:21,479
Speaker 1: at the doughnut shop. That's right. Get out of these

1048
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 1: messy situations. Okay, I would say unless you are an

1049
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: NFL agnostic like Wes, you might not run into this

1050
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:30,759
Speaker 1: situation as have you. I've always had hate list for

1051
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 1: fantasy football, then Manning, for instance. If you don't like

1052
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:37,160
Speaker 1: the guy, compile a list just too. If someone's too

1053
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Speaker 1: upsetting to see succeed, stay out of it for some

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Speaker 1: live with some pride, Live with some pride. Get a

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Speaker 1: hate list going and stick to it and don't veer

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Speaker 1: from it. Number one on your hate list. Mark, I

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Speaker 1: don't play fantasy. My list is clean. I'm pure. Mark

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Speaker 1: and I have shared a fantasy team for the past

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Speaker 1: four years. We name it after a female that we

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Speaker 1: find fetching every year. Mark thinks he's out this year,

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Speaker 1: but he's still in. Well here's the reason. If you

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Speaker 1: drop out him freezing the out of the show every week.

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Speaker 1: Every time we draft, he's got a microphone. I get

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Speaker 1: blamed for the entire year for anything that happened to narrative. You.

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Speaker 1: I think people understand that Dan can bend a narrative.

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Speaker 1: And it's like some player that Dan picked in the

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Speaker 1: seventh round blamed for I don't need it. All right,

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Speaker 1: that's it for Wednesday's edition. Yeah, we head away from

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Speaker 1: the Corner. Very disturbing place, but always fun and entertaining. Uh.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back on Friday with one more fantasy extravaganza

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Speaker 1: talking about the quarterbacks in our own philosophies. So make

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Speaker 1: sure make sure I have more on that hate list

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Speaker 1: on Friday. Okay, we'll dig into the hate list a

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Speaker 1: little more, but until then, thank you for listening and

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Speaker 1: watching on NFL Now and any anywhere else you can

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Speaker 1: watch us. This is Dan Hansas signing off for the

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Speaker 1: Quiet Storm, the Mailman, the Boss, t D and everybody

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Speaker 1: else behind the Glass till Friday. M