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Speaker 3: At five dollars? This is a rat up having a

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Speaker 1: You're saying that humans need fantasy to make life bearable.

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Speaker 2: Humans need fantasy to be human.

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Speaker 1: My goodness, that miss prone bets, relentless, refusing to give up.

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Fantasy Flax podcast, presented by

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Speaker 1: Price Picks. I'm your host, Samantha Pravidi on today's very

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Speaker 1: special episode of twenty one questions. I am so happy

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Speaker 1: to be joined by a man who needs no introduction,

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Speaker 1: but I will do my best. Thego the godfather of

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Speaker 1: fantasy football, Matthew Berry, who you can find all over ESPN,

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Speaker 1: on Fantasy Football Now, the Fantasy Focus Football Podcast, the

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Show Sports Center, and on the Fit Life app

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Speaker 1: and on Twitter at Matthew very TMR. Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Flex Matthew. How are you doing, Samantha.

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Speaker 3: It's good to be here.

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Speaker 2: Happy to be here, you said, it's a very special

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Speaker 2: episode of twenty one questions are Are you and I

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Speaker 2: going to go through a journey and then at the

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Speaker 2: very end learn of an important life lesson, you know,

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Speaker 2: like after school specials that as a or a very

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Speaker 1: I can only hope for that, that kind of emotional

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Speaker 1: we cry, all of it. So thank you, Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much again. It's it's been so great to you know,

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Speaker 1: You have been playing Fantasy since you were fourteen years old,

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Speaker 1: so what do you remember the most about your first league?

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Speaker 2: Yates would would just say, like, hey, you played back,

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Speaker 2: I was fourteen years old. I was fourteen years old

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Speaker 2: what I remember about my very first fantasy league, it

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Speaker 2: which is to say, the Rotissary League Baseball book, the

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Speaker 3: Was a ten team only, auction style draft.

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Speaker 2: I paid thirty seven dollars for Tony Gwynn, who had

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Speaker 3: But in essence, I was a fourteen year old.

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Speaker 2: The book just came out in the winter of eighty three,

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Speaker 1: Is a really cool story. I think a lot of us,

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Speaker 3: I think that would be a lot of fun. So

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Speaker 1: Something tells me that Lebron would be honored to play

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Speaker 2: I've never met Tom Brady either, that would that would

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Speaker 2: I know for a stone cold fact that Lebron games

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Speaker 1: That is a very cool intel. All Right, name one

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Speaker 2: Kyle Pitt's, oh they're facing New England. If one of

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Speaker 3: So yes, I think it's Belichick.

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Speaker 1: I think that is the very obvious answer. For sure.

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Speaker 1: from infuriating things. What made you angrier Alfred Morris not

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Speaker 2: It's a great question. Both made me very angry. Both

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Speaker 2: losses I've had in a thirty year career of playing

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Speaker 2: fantasy sports, watching it eating away because of where I was,

435
00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,280
Speaker 2: because of all the attention that was on that league,

436
00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:20,960
Speaker 2: and you're designer.

437
00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,120
Speaker 3: I need one, you know, all I needed was one

438
00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:26,320
Speaker 3: stupid point from a starting running back, and I didn't

439
00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:27,680
Speaker 3: get it. I didn't get it.

440
00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:31,000
Speaker 1: Very very tough. I think that's why people love these

441
00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:34,040
Speaker 1: rants and gave you these millions of views, because it's

442
00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:37,800
Speaker 1: so relatable, especially like when you are the King. People

443
00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:39,879
Speaker 1: want to know that you are still super connected and

444
00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,160
Speaker 1: care about fantasy as much as you still do. So

445
00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:45,720
Speaker 1: that is a terrible story but also a very funny story.

446
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Speaker 3: Well, no, thank you, and I appreciate that.

447
00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:49,239
Speaker 2: And I will say, like, I know this is one

448
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Speaker 2: of your questions, but I think this is maybe potentially

449
00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,640
Speaker 2: helpful or interesting people. Which is that like yeah, Like

450
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Speaker 2: I think my appeal, at least one of my appeals,

451
00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,440
Speaker 2: is that I think, like I'm a fantasy player first,

452
00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,959
Speaker 2: Like I'm like, I'm not. I'm not Nate Silver, I'm

453
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,199
Speaker 2: not some brilliant analytical mind that just sort of, you know,

454
00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:09,680
Speaker 2: decided to come down from the mountain mountaintops and and

455
00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:14,320
Speaker 2: and do everything. Like I've always thought about this, like, remember,

456
00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:16,679
Speaker 2: Huey Lewis in the news. You're much younger than I,

457
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Speaker 2: But have you ever heard of the group we Loose

458
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Speaker 2: the News. I'm sorry, No, I know I'm an old

459
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,520
Speaker 2: you're young, but anyway, Hue Loose the News was a

460
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Speaker 2: was a very.

461
00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,600
Speaker 3: Popular band in the eighties and nineties and had a

462
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Speaker 3: number of hits.

463
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Speaker 2: And anyway, I want a new drug, art of rock

464
00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:34,760
Speaker 2: and roll, power love any of these names?

465
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Speaker 3: Ring a bell?

466
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Speaker 1: No, all right, I really don't know how culture very well, but.

467
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Speaker 3: Am not your producer? Does your producer know this? He

468
00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,480
Speaker 3: Lost the News? Definitely know them? All right, you've heard

469
00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,440
Speaker 3: you've heard of that group? Yes, all right, thank you? Dan?

470
00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 3: All right, I got you, all right, So anyway you

471
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Speaker 3: take you Dan? All right? Good? Anyway, whatever, all right,

472
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Speaker 3: So Samantha's has made me a thousand made me feel

473
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Speaker 3: a thousand years old, but all right, so sorry, that's okay. Anyway.

474
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Speaker 3: The point is is that this would be a better

475
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Speaker 3: story if you knew who they were.

476
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Speaker 2: But in essence, I remember reading an article an interview

477
00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:07,680
Speaker 2: with some news and they basically said, like, we think

478
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:09,920
Speaker 2: our appeal like we're like you know it was. There

479
00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 2: are musicians that are better than us, there are songwriters

480
00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:13,840
Speaker 2: that have bet on us, But we think our pee

481
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,800
Speaker 2: our appeal is we're like a bar band that made it.

482
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Speaker 2: We're like a good time, hard rocking work our ass

483
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Speaker 2: off kind of bar band that just happened to make it,

484
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Speaker 2: and they had you know, they had a they've sold

485
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Speaker 2: a million album, I mean the millions and millions of

486
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Speaker 2: about they're they're well known to a super a group

487
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Speaker 2: of people in a certain a drink, and so I

488
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Speaker 2: always sort of feel like that's kind of my appeal

489
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Speaker 2: on some level, is that I'm a fantasy player who

490
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:37,359
Speaker 2: made it.

491
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Speaker 3: Right, Like, I try not to talk down to my audience.

492
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Speaker 2: I try to talk with my audience that I'm just

493
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Speaker 2: I'm one of you, you are one of.

494
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Speaker 3: We are all in this together kind of thing.

495
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Speaker 2: We all we've all had that those moments, and so yes,

496
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Speaker 2: that was a lot of the feedback I got on

497
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Speaker 2: the Alfred Morris rant, which was completely spontaneous to sort

498
00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:57,280
Speaker 2: of poured out of me.

499
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Speaker 3: It was just like we've all we've all been there

500
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Speaker 3: so anyway.

501
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Speaker 2: But I always try to like sort of like I

502
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,119
Speaker 2: just feel like I'm I'm a fantasy player who made it,

503
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like I'm just a like

504
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 2: all of us, so well, I.

505
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Speaker 1: Do we all love that raw emotion that you have

506
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Speaker 1: looking forward to the fantasy playoffs, could you name a

507
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Speaker 1: player or two that's lesser known that you could see

508
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Speaker 1: breaking out during the playoffs.

509
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Speaker 2: I mean, Javonte Williams is the obvious answer, but I

510
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:26,640
Speaker 2: feel like he's not lesser known.

511
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:31,680
Speaker 3: He's not so he's not really that lesser known.

512
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Speaker 2: All right, I'll give you a couple of ideas here.

513
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Speaker 2: I do think DeAndre Carter of my Washington ball team

514
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:39,639
Speaker 2: is sort of interesting.

515
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,600
Speaker 3: They're using him a lot. Be interesting to see what

516
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,560
Speaker 3: happens now that Curtis Samuel gets up to speed.

517
00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,359
Speaker 2: But I know they like DeAndre Carter a lot, and

518
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,520
Speaker 2: so he's sort of doing the role that I think

519
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 2: we expected Dianie Brown to have in the preseason. Washington

520
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,040
Speaker 2: sort of has a winnable schedule down the stretch. You

521
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,479
Speaker 2: know that they're gonna play Philadelphia twice and Dallas twice,

522
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 2: which again are a good second, but the expectation there

523
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:04,160
Speaker 2: is that they're going to focus on Logan Thomas and

524
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 2: Terry McLaurin. Of course, so DeAndre Carter is uh is

525
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 2: kind of interesting to me. I was impressed with Dontrelle

526
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Speaker 2: Hilliard and Deonta Foreman for the Titans. They're obviously on

527
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,160
Speaker 2: a buy this week, but I think you will see

528
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Speaker 2: both those guys.

529
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Speaker 3: Foreman played no more snaps.

530
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Speaker 2: Hilliard had the one big play, but they like Hilliard

531
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Speaker 2: a lot. So uh those are those are two guys

532
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Speaker 2: that are that I think are lesser known that'll be

533
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Speaker 2: uh interesting as we move forward in the playoffs. And

534
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Speaker 2: also one last one I'll just try to give you.

535
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Speaker 2: I met Gabriel Davis, Manuel Sanders. You know, older players,

536
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Speaker 2: production has slowed down. They go for wide a lot

537
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Speaker 2: in Buffalo. Don't love the matchup obviously this weekend against

538
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,399
Speaker 2: the Patriots, but after that. I've always liked Gabe Davis

539
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 2: as a player, just as a prospect, and so maybe

540
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Speaker 2: he has some production. But it's hard to say that

541
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Speaker 2: here's a guy that's gonna make noise in the playoffs

542
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Speaker 2: that lesser known, because if they're lesser known, it's because

543
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,360
Speaker 2: they're not getting a lot of run, right, And so.

544
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Speaker 3: You know, I mean, like, right, if Dalvin cooks out

545
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,119
Speaker 3: for the playoffs, Alexander Madison is going to make a

546
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Speaker 3: huge difference. But I mean, do we qualify him as

547
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Speaker 3: lesser known? I don't know. Like here's one it's.

548
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Speaker 2: Because I feel like anyone that's listening to Samantha Pervid's

549
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 2: Action Network podcast isn't like, wait, Alexander Madison, who's that?

550
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Speaker 3: Like?

551
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Speaker 2: I feel like it's you know, this is probably a

552
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Speaker 2: deep dive audience. You know, this is obviously probably a

553
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,080
Speaker 2: fairly smart and a well informed audience. So it's hard

554
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Speaker 2: to come up with a name of somebody that would

555
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 2: be lesser known to that audience. I'll give you one

556
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Speaker 2: other one that I think is interesting. Byron Pringle. I

557
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,199
Speaker 2: mentioned this on my podcast today. If you look at

558
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 2: the last couple of games, Byron Pringle playing a lot

559
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,160
Speaker 2: more snaps, running a lot more route than any non

560
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:58,360
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill Travis Kelcey pass catcher in the Chiefs offense.

561
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Speaker 2: It hasn't translated into big production. He does have Doublejon

562
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Speaker 2: Fantasy points in two of the last four. But Byron

563
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:06,640
Speaker 2: Pringle is somebody I think coming out of the by

564
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 2: is kind of an interesting name for deeper leagues.

565
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for those you did mention someone

566
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Speaker 1: from your Washington football team. So I want to ask

567
00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: you predict when you think the Washington football team will

568
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: win their next Super.

569
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Speaker 3: Bowl, hopefully before I die. How about that? I don't know.

570
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 3: I think we're headed in the right direction.

571
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Speaker 2: I think there's still some flaws with a franchise that

572
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,199
Speaker 2: certainly don't think it's going to be this year. But

573
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Speaker 2: I'm impressed with what coach Rivera has put together. We

574
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Speaker 2: need a quarterback, honestly, it's like, tell me what I like.

575
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 2: Jury's still out on Heinekee, and I like Heinekee, but

576
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 2: I guess is Heineke's probably like a really good backup,

577
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 2: you know, like and i'ld say this any disrespect, but

578
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Speaker 2: you know, like a case Keenum case Kean's a really

579
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Speaker 2: good backup quarterback. Cole McCoy's like a really good backup

580
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 2: quarterback can come in and run the offense and do

581
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Speaker 2: a good job. I'm hoping, listen, he hasn't gotten a

582
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 2: lot of reps, so I would love it if finally

583
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 2: he became the guy. Not sure he is yet. I

584
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 2: don't think Washington sure he is yet. But so that's

585
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 2: the thing. Many I do think Washington will be in

586
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 2: the mix for Russell Wilson this offseason. I will say

587
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 2: that I do think they will be in the mix.

588
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 2: I don't think Russell Wilson plays for Seattle next year,

589
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 2: and I do think Washington is one of the teams

590
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:21,760
Speaker 2: that'll be in the mix.

591
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 1: A lot of teams need quarterbacks, and this is such

592
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 1: a lean class, so it's going to be interesting how

593
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: free agency sort of shakes out. Hail to the football team.

594
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 2: Because football team especially because like by the way, Russell

595
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,360
Speaker 2: Wilson's going to change teams, Sean Watson's going to change teams,

596
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 2: one other guy that went blanking on. There's one other

597
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 2: guy that there's a chance that Tua changes teams. Here,

598
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:47,439
Speaker 2: chance that Derek Carr changes teams. Somebody be really interesting,

599
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 2: really interesting to say, chance, you know, depending on how Sam,

600
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 2: how the season goes for the Niners.

601
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 3: And how they feel about Trey Lance. Chance Baroppolo changes teams.

602
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 3: So anyway, made interesting offseason in the quarterback market.

603
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,680
Speaker 1: Of course, So hail to the football team does not

604
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 1: seem right to me, just doesn't feel right. So what

605
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: would you rename the football team too?

606
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 2: I actually like that it's grown on me. I like

607
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 2: I like the football team. I actually I've also said this,

608
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 2: I sort of like Washington FC football club, right, kind

609
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 2: of a nod to our uh, to our brethren overseas.

610
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 3: So it's sort of like Washington f C.

611
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:24,679
Speaker 2: I don't think this will be one of them, but

612
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,040
Speaker 2: I kind of like, uh, I know it's been pitched

613
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 2: out there as like either the Washington Hogs or the

614
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,119
Speaker 2: Red Hogs or something like that, which I sort of

615
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,359
Speaker 2: I like that because that sort of that's something that

616
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 2: is uniquely Washington, meaning that franchise and speaks to our history,

617
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 2: like some of the ones that have come up, like

618
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 2: the Warriors or the Red Tails.

619
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 3: Or the Red Wolves. You're sort of like, it's just.

620
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 2: Kind of a name picked out of a hat that

621
00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 2: doesn't have anything to do with the team and part

622
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 2: of the history. So so if I guess if they

623
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 2: weren't going to go with football team or Washington f C,

624
00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 2: which I sort of like, I just like the classic

625
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 2: nature of that it's grown on me.

626
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 3: I would go with.

627
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 2: I performerbly with like Hogs or Red Hogs or something

628
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 2: like that to harken back to the days of your

629
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 2: the glory days, the Gibbs days.

630
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: Awesome. We probably won't see another Corderyl Patterson type breakout

631
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 1: next year, but give us one name that you think

632
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: of a player who could have a really big breakout

633
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: season next year.

634
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I should just go back to see who else

635
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 2: I promoted like eight years ago, because I was all

636
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 2: in a cuero Patterson, but it was like eight years ago, Samantha,

637
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 2: And then you know, like I was just eight years

638
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 2: too early. So here's my question. Let me ask you

639
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 2: back the question. When you say a Cordero Patterson like breakout,

640
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 2: are you saying that somebody that just sort of comes

641
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 2: out of nowhere to have a monster season or are

642
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 2: you saying kind of an older player that was forgotten

643
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 2: that finds himself in a new.

644
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 3: Role on a new team.

645
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 2: Because that's the thing that's what's so shocking about Patterson,

646
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 2: and he's thirty years old.

647
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 3: You know, it's his eighth NFL season.

648
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 2: It's like it's fourth or fifth NFL team and all

649
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 2: of a sudden, like out of the one of the

650
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 2: guys at top ten fantasy running back after spending most

651
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 2: of his career as a wide receiver. So you know,

652
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 2: it's it's just it's a weird story all the way around.

653
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say more of the former, just someone

654
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 1: that kind of comes out of nowhere. It doesn't have

655
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: to be a specific situation change like that.

656
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 2: Listen, you know we've only seen flashes. But Kadarius Tony

657
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 2: is really interesting, right. I think that's a really talented player.

658
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 2: We just have a Thursday night game, so it's in

659
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 2: my mind. But we talked about this podcast. Michael Gallup's

660
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 2: a free agent after this year, and given how much

661
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 2: money the Cowboys have and Zeke and Dak and you

662
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 2: know they're gonna want to resign Ceedee Lamb at some

663
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 2: point soon and like they've got Michael Gallups likely moving on.

664
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 2: You never know, but there's a chance that Michael Galap plays,

665
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 2: especially because they've gotten some nice production at a Cedric

666
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 2: Wilson and Noah Brown, like they have some depth behind Gallup.

667
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 3: Galb's really really talented.

668
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 2: So that's a guy that's going to go from like

669
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 2: a wide receiver for to potentially a top fifteen guy

670
00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 2: next year. So I think Michael Gallup is is really

671
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 2: interesting as well. And I'll give you one that I

672
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 2: just to give you a Cordero Patterson sort of a

673
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 2: guy that is, you know, an older player if you will,

674
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 2: I sort of think David Johnson in the right situation,

675
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 2: if they use him as a pass catcher more than

676
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 2: like as a between the tackles guy. If it was

677
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 2: a better offense with a good quarterback and a coordinator

678
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 2: that knew how I use him. I could see David

679
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 2: Johnson having you know, one more run at Fantasy Glory.

680
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 1: Love to see it. Which NFL combine event would you

681
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: excel at? And do you think you could beat Darren

682
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: Ravel in the forty yard dash?

683
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 2: That's a good question. I've met Darren. I'm taller than him,

684
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 2: but I think we're about the same weight. I might

685
00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 2: have a few pounds on him. I don't know how

686
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 2: fast he is. I don't think he's a particularly good

687
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 2: athlete from the videos I've seen. I was a good athlete.

688
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 2: But I'm also old, and I'm probably about ten year

689
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 2: older than I don't know how old Darren. My guess

690
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 2: is Darren's like in his mid forty, so I'm like whatever,

691
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 2: I'm like five years older than him. Could I beat

692
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 2: him in a forty yard death? Sure I'll say that

693
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 2: I can't. I don't know that I can, but sure

694
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 2: I'll say that I can't.

695
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,040
Speaker 1: I would want which in which event would you be

696
00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: best at? Broad jumps with three cone, drill, shuttle, bench press,

697
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: anything like that?

698
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 2: I mean, is there is there a beer chugging part

699
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 2: of the combine is there, like the you know, getting

700
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 2: drunk at Saint Almos at three am, that event at

701
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 2: the combine, Like, I'm pretty good at that.

702
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 3: That's the one I would say. I would say that one.

703
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 2: I would say getting drunk with the NFL personnel at

704
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 2: Saint Almo's or or Prime, you know, like two three

705
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 2: in the morning during combine week. That's that's the That's

706
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 2: the one I excel at the post. Let's see of

707
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 2: the of the actual combine ones. I guess the jump.

708
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 2: I don't know that I would sell at it. I'm

709
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 2: just saying I would be better at the jump than

710
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 2: all the other stuff. That I would suck less at

711
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 2: that than I would suck at all the other stuff.

712
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 2: How about that?

713
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: That is the key, just sucking less at Certainly.

714
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 2: We used to we made this joke on the podcast

715
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:06,760
Speaker 2: where we're like, you know, how like Notre Dame has

716
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 2: the you know, play like a champion today for a

717
00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 2: for like a year and a half when we were

718
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 2: in our old studio, because I joked about that we

719
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 2: needed this, and then somebody actually sent in a sign,

720
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 2: so we did it. We had a sign above the

721
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 2: studio that we all that me and uh Me and

722
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 2: Field actually made it. Was back back in the eight days,

723
00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 2: we would touch the sign on away and that just said,

724
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 2: don't suck today. So it's not play like a champion today,

725
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 2: but just don't suck today. So yeah, suck less, don't

726
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 2: suck today.

727
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 3: All those all those words of.

728
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: Encouragement on the topic of athletic ability is how many

729
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: attempts would it take you to make an extra point?

730
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 2: I'm actually not a bad kicker. We've done this before,

731
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 2: the fantasy of a marathon. We actually set up we

732
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 2: actually set up goal posts. And I had a kicking

733
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 2: competition with Tim Hasselbeck, who was a former NFL player,

734
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 2: and I beat him and I made it. I made

735
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 2: it soon. So how many attempts? I'm going to say

736
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 2: I would set the line at ten and I would

737
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 2: take the under.

738
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 3: How about that? I think I could do it in

739
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:08,919
Speaker 3: less than ten.

740
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,839
Speaker 1: That is a very impressive. They are say they are

741
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: making a movie about the talented mister Rodo. Which actor

742
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: would you want to portray you? And who makes a

743
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,720
Speaker 1: surprise cameo in this movie?

744
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 2: Uh, let's see who plays me? I mean, you know,

745
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 2: probably Ryan Reynolds or the Rock. I feel like, uh no,

746
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 2: who plays me? I mean, you know, Plony's like the

747
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,880
Speaker 2: obvious answer. You'd love Ploney to play you, right, But

748
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 2: I think actually to give you a genuine answer, to

749
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,280
Speaker 2: give you not a you know, not a joky answer

750
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 2: in terms of, you know, some really good looking leading man.

751
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 1: Uh.

752
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 3: I actually think.

753
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 2: Whatdy Harrelson we have we are both politically challenged. I

754
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,759
Speaker 2: think Whatdy Harrelson is like a really good actor. I

755
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 2: think he's I think he's I think he's very funny.

756
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:01,800
Speaker 2: But I also think he can uh play played dramatic.

757
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:04,720
Speaker 2: And so I think if you were to actually decided

758
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 2: to do the story of my life, which no one

759
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 2: would ever do, but if you ever decided to do

760
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 2: the story of my life, I think he would be

761
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 2: able to hit There's there's some comedy, and there's some

762
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 2: tragedy in my life and uh so yeah, I'd say,

763
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 2: what a Harrelson would actually be a good choice in

764
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 2: terms of an actual movie star that sort of looks

765
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 2: like me, the movie star version of me could be.

766
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'll say, what he Harrelson, who would you

767
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:26,880
Speaker 3: cast for me?

768
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: Oh? Of course, George Clooney, that's just the obvious answer.

769
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: If you Field Yates, Adam Schefter, Mike Clay, and Stefania

770
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: Bell were all dropped into a Hunger Games Asque simulation,

771
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: who would be the victor? Me?

772
00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:44,839
Speaker 2: I would be the victor. Schefter and Field are both

773
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 2: more athletic than I am. Fine, Stefanya and Mike both

774
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 2: smarter than I. But all four of them are very

775
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 2: ethical people and not They are all incredibly above board ethical.

776
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 3: Listen.

777
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 2: I like to think I am, but when death is

778
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 2: on the line, I'm not playing that way. So if

779
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 2: you ask me, like, I feel like I have that

780
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 2: killer instinct that they wouldn't have, So I feel like

781
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 2: I would be more more conniding than they. I would

782
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 2: pit them against each other. Stefan, you as people get

783
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 2: injured and you know, to find would be busy trying

784
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 2: to like, you know, heal them with berries, you know,

785
00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 2: and like you know whatever, you know, cover their wounds

786
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 2: with blades of grass, and then I would come up

787
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 2: behind her and you know, boom, all right there, Stefani

788
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:33,280
Speaker 2: is done.

789
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 3: You know. Mike would just be like buried in his.

790
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 2: You know, buried like in his notebook, like trying to

791
00:36:40,640 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 2: calculate the stats and and the angle of the attitude

792
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 2: and like altitude of like where.

793
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 3: To shoot his bow and arrow or something like that.

794
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 2: He'd he'd be crunching all sorts of numbers and I'd

795
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 2: just come up to buy him and smack him and boom, okay,

796
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 2: so that's done.

797
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 3: Field.

798
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 2: Field would probably be distracted because we'd be like, oh, man,

799
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 2: leaves just changed and they suddenly don't match my you know,

800
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,439
Speaker 2: my jacket, you know, and so now feels like worried

801
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 2: about what he's going to look like. So he's worried about,

802
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 2: you know, the fashion, and he's probably like he's probably

803
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 2: wearing clothes that.

804
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 3: Look good but aren't functional for a wooded environment. So boom.

805
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,760
Speaker 2: Then he's done. And then Schefter is the easiest because

806
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 2: Schefter just be looking down at his phone the whole time,

807
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 2: you know, cont tweeting, and you're just like, all right, boom,

808
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 2: I'm gonna come behind you and boom boom boom a

809
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 2: right done. So I think it's me when you sort

810
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,799
Speaker 2: of think about, you know, how that all plays out.

811
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 2: I think a better question is, uh, who finishes second?

812
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,320
Speaker 2: And I'm going to say I'll say my play finishes second.

813
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 2: I would kill I would kill what.

814
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: I mean, was Joe Flacco ever elite? Yes?

815
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 3: Or no?

816
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 1: No, not even for a brief period of time elite?

817
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 3: It what or just just was he elite? Was he elite?

818
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 2: I'm going to say no. I'm going to say no,

819
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,400
Speaker 2: Joe Flacko was not elite. I would say Joe Flacco

820
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 2: had a really good month at the office. Sometimes you

821
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 2: have a good day at the office. They had a

822
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 2: really good month in the office. But I'm going to

823
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 2: say was the elite? No, he was not elite.

824
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: Definitely not elite. Who is on your all time Fantasy

825
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore?

826
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 3: Who's on my all time Fantasy Rushmore Mount Rushmore? As

827
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 3: a player? You mean yeah, the NFL player?

828
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Uh as an NFL player, Ladanian Tomlinson is

829
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 2: an obvious one.

830
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 3: Uh got to put Randy Moss up there. Let me think,

831
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 3: Uh I would put Peyton.

832
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:43,799
Speaker 4: Manning up there, and uh, I'll put Gronk. I mean,

833
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 4: you know Gronk. You know when Gronk was rolling, Gronk

834
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 4: was Gronk was elite. So there you go that that

835
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 4: would be my Fantasy rush Mount Rushmore. And you make

836
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 4: arguments for you can make arguments for Breeze or Brady

837
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 4: at quarterback, you could, you can make arguments for I

838
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 4: don't think you make an argument for another running back

839
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 4: other than Tomlinson there, but Jerry Rice would be on

840
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 4: the list obviously. Wide receiver Antonio Gates, Tony Gonzalaz, A

841
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 4: tight end.

842
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:09,240
Speaker 3: Jimmy Graham. Jimmy Graham.

843
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 2: Oh, Jimmy Graham might be tough to I'm gonna I'm

844
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 2: gonna go with the Bronx. He's gonna be more fun

845
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:14,280
Speaker 2: at the party.

846
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: What was your biggest swing and a miss this season?

847
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I should have quit. Well it was ahead.

848
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,799
Speaker 1: Minor so long. So really it's like we all get

849
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: them wrong and yeah.

850
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, I have to let me.

851
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 2: What's a I'm trying to think, like, who is on

852
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 2: a preseason hate list that I got h that I

853
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 2: got wrong. I was lower than I should have been

854
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 2: on Jonathan Taylor just because I was nervous about no

855
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 2: Quenton Nelson, no Carson Wentz. You know, so Jonathan Taylor

856
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 2: I think would probably be you know, I mean because

857
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 2: I had him ranked as a low end RB one.

858
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,240
Speaker 2: They got him ranked in the ten to twelve range,

859
00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 2: and you know, so, I mean he's been just so

860
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:04,840
Speaker 2: so incredibly dominant there, so that would be a pretty

861
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:05,320
Speaker 2: big one.

862
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 3: Oh and Russell Wilson. I was all in on Russell Wilson.

863
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,319
Speaker 3: I had I loved Russell Wilson coming into this year.

864
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 2: I thought Shane Waldron was going to bring it this

865
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 2: really up tempo offense, and it looked good early on.

866
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Speaker 3: But obviously it's been brutal, you.

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Speaker 1: Know, definitely brutal. On the topic of Jonathan Taylor, are

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Speaker 1: we just ready to crown him the undisputed one oh

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Speaker 1: one of drafts next year? And if not, who else

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Speaker 1: is in that conversation?

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Speaker 2: I think if you're drafting today for next year, I

872
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Speaker 2: think he's I think he's the one on one. I

873
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Speaker 2: think it was a conversation called McCaffrey prior to the

874
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Speaker 2: second injury.

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Speaker 3: I think that's no longer.

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Speaker 2: In the mix, and so I think probably, although given

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Speaker 2: all the injuries to big name running backs, I think

878
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Speaker 2: the argument is still you know, Devonte Adams, depending if

879
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 2: him and Rodgers playing together, perhaps somebody safer, right, you know,

880
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 2: like whether it's whether it's Kelseier or Devanta Adams. But yes,

881
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Speaker 2: I think if you draft, if you had a draft

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Speaker 2: for next year today, Jonathan Taylor goes On has.

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Speaker 1: A two those twenty one been the most surprising or

884
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Speaker 1: unpredictable NFL slash Fantasy season of all time. I feel

885
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Speaker 1: like we have had some crazy, crazy upsets. And I

886
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: don't know if it's because media has less access to

887
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: practices that we're like a little bit less informed, or

888
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 1: just like COVID kind of introducing some randomness into things.

889
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Speaker 1: But do you feel like this has been the most

890
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:29,919
Speaker 1: unpredictable season of all time? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I really do. And it's so it's not just all that.

892
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Speaker 2: And it's also because it doesn't feel like I mean,

893
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Speaker 2: the Cardinal has been rolling great, but I didn't feel

894
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 2: like there's a dominant team where you're like, well, we're

895
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 2: all chasing those guys, right, every single team. We're Buffalo

896
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 2: is great and they can't beat Jacksonville. We're like Tennessee

897
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 2: their world beaters, lose the Jets, I mean, like you

898
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 2: know what I mean. Like, so it's just you know,

899
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay's Tampa Bay's repeating it lose to my Washington

900
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 2: football team, like Patrick Mahomes. Since Week seven, Patrick Mahomes

901
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 2: is the nineteenth best quarterback in Fantasy. Patrick Mahomes is

902
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 2: the nineteenth best war back in fantasy on a points

903
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Speaker 2: per game basis since week seven, Like we're week thirteen,

904
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Speaker 2: so it's crazy. And then also, just by the way,

905
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Speaker 2: all these like what I call fantasy zombies, mark Ingram Cordero, Patterson,

906
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:16,799
Speaker 2: Devonte Freeman, like all these guys like, wait, we left

907
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 2: you for dead, and now all of a sudden you're

908
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,720
Speaker 2: fantasy relevant. Like there's just a lot of people from

909
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 2: you know, like from from five years ago that are

910
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 2: suddenly becoming fantasy relevant.

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Speaker 3: So yes, it is. It is the weirdest year I

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Speaker 3: can remember.

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Speaker 1: All Right. Finally, if you had one cardinal rule to

914
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 1: tell someone just getting into fantasy this year, what would

915
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 1: it be.

916
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 4: Have fun.

917
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 3: Look, it's here's the thing. We it is a it

918
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 3: is more fun to win.

919
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 2: And so many people, so many of the analysts and

920
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:49,359
Speaker 2: websites that you're reading and be like, we're gonna help

921
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:51,879
Speaker 2: you crush your draft and dominate your opponent and you're

922
00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 2: gonna play.

923
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 3: You're gonna do this, and you do that, and I'm like,

924
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 3: I get it, but it's something we do for fun.

925
00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 2: And people like argue on message boards and they're yelling

926
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 2: at each other and they're accusing and I've seen families

927
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:06,280
Speaker 2: break up and friendships break up, and you know, issues

928
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Speaker 2: at work, and it's just like it's a hobby, it's

929
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 2: a game. It's a game we play for fun, and

930
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 2: it's a game we play for fun that we have

931
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 2: no ultimate control over, and that it's a game that's

932
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:20,280
Speaker 2: played with an oblong shaped ball made of leather. Weird

933
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 2: crap's gonna happen. Weird, unpredictable crap's gonna happen. So you

934
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:27,880
Speaker 2: just you make the best guess you can. You say,

935
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 2: I think this is gonna happen. I think this is

936
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 2: why it's gonna happen, and you let the chips fall

937
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:34,440
Speaker 2: with them ay and hopefully they fall in your favor

938
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 2: more often than they don't. But it's a game we

939
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 2: play for fun. So that is if someone who's just

940
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 2: getting into fantasy football, that would be my first piece

941
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 2: of price is just go in with the attitude of

942
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 2: like this is fun. You're gonna go into this to

943
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:47,760
Speaker 2: have fun.

944
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,800
Speaker 1: That is super super important to remember. There are people

945
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:54,000
Speaker 1: that were asking me, should I kick this person out

946
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 1: of my league? Should I now speak to them because

947
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 1: they're starting to taste them hill at tight end last

948
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,400
Speaker 1: year or some things like that, just like your taking

949
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: this way way way too seriously. So yeah, very very

950
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: important to have fun out there. All right. That'll do

951
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,399
Speaker 1: it for this round of twenty one questions with our

952
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Speaker 1: esteemed guest Matthew Berry. Matthew, my boss Chad Millman also

953
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: wanted me to tell you that. He says, Hi, I

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Speaker 1: can't thank.

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Speaker 3: You enough D Chad. I work together, D have been

956
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Speaker 3: for many years. Chad is the absolute.

957
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Speaker 1: Best, absolutely great guy. I can't thank you enough for

958
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Speaker 1: joining me during this insanely busy time. Please remind everyone

959
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: where they can find you during this NFL season and beyond.

960
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 2: Well, I was ESPN right, So we're doing the We

961
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 2: do the Fantasy Focus podcast every single day wherever you

962
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Speaker 2: get podcasts. You can stream it live on YouTube. You

963
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,800
Speaker 2: can read my column on ESPN dot com every Thursday,

964
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Speaker 2: and I love hate column. We do Fantasy Will now

965
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Speaker 2: every Sunday morning, ten am Eastern on ESPN too, except

966
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Speaker 2: this week this week only Week thirteen, because of the

967
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Speaker 2: college Football Playoff announcement show and some other stuff.

968
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Speaker 3: We are streaming. We are only streaming this week.

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Speaker 2: We are on ESPN's YouTube page, the ESPN Twitter handle

970
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Speaker 2: ESPN dot Com, the ESPN Appy, it has been Fantasy App.

971
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 2: Basically any digital platform or social platform or ESPN as

972
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Speaker 2: a presence, be able to watch Fantasy Bromble now ten

973
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Speaker 2: am till twelve thirty this week and this week only,

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Speaker 2: Fantasy Show streaming a couple times a week on ESPN Plus.

975
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Speaker 2: And you can find me on social media where I

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Speaker 2: am at Matthew Berry TMR on all forms of social

977
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Speaker 2: media except the Fantasy Life app which you mentioned, Samantha.

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Speaker 2: I am merely at Matthewberry and the Fantasy Life app,

979
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Speaker 2: which is it. It's an absolutely it's a great app.

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Speaker 2: It's a free app. Highly recommend everyone check it out.

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Speaker 2: There's a reason why we have five stars with thousands

982
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Speaker 2: of reviews. It's a great tool and resource, especially given

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Speaker 2: it's free app downloaded. If you hate it, delete it,

984
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Speaker 2: but I promise you you will.

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Speaker 1: Love it well. Thank you, Thank you so much. Thanks

986
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Speaker 1: to everyone for listening. Please rate and review our show

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