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Speaker 1: a BFF. I am Greg Susman. There is no Frank Staffle,
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Speaker 1: Greg Susman. But today I am joined my good buddy
Speaker 1: Jim Day the Fantasy tass. Just heard him all on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Football Frenzy and then you get him for
Speaker 1: another hour here on the BFF. What's happening Jim? Hey? Greg?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? Thanks for asking me to join you.
Speaker 1: Always good to tough football with you. Absolutely, it's fantastic
Speaker 1: to have you aboard the program today. It's weird. I
Speaker 1: got surrounded by Christmas stuff. I don't celebrate Christmas, but
Speaker 1: I will take I will take it the opportunity to
Speaker 1: hang out with you for an hour or so, uh
Speaker 1: and kind of just dive right in. What are your
Speaker 1: Christmas plans? Sir? Uh? Not so much much tonight, Just
Speaker 1: me and the wife hanging out and relaxing and doing
Speaker 1: all that last minute Christmas stuff tonight. But actually I'm
Speaker 1: waiting till the second. The second is actually when we
Speaker 1: will be celebrating Christmas because it was the only day
Speaker 1: all my family could get together, so we'll be doing it.
Speaker 1: Then they all coming here. We're gonna have a big
Speaker 1: feast and have a grand old time with all the kids.
Speaker 1: That's absolutely fantastic. A a big party January second. You
Speaker 1: got more to look forward to. It doesn't just end
Speaker 1: when Christmas ends. For me. Uh here in the control
Speaker 1: room today we ordered in Chinese food to celebrate Jewish
Speaker 1: Christmas for lunch, and then tonight I will be going
Speaker 1: to see a movie and probably eating more Chinese foods.
Speaker 1: Don't really celebrate Christmas the only way I know how Jim,
Speaker 1: what what movie you going to see? So it's a
Speaker 1: really good question that you asked that. So if I
Speaker 1: had my way, I want to go see Uncut Gems.
Speaker 1: I don't know that my wife will be into it.
Speaker 1: Um I can see me convincing or see Richard Jewel,
Speaker 1: although you know that's kind of second on the list.
Speaker 1: If we stay home, we'll watch Marriage Story on Netflix.
Speaker 1: And those are the options. Okay, sounds okay. Are you
Speaker 1: happy that you asked I gave you are courtalysis there? Yeah? No, no,
Speaker 1: that that's fine. Absolutely. I just wanted to know what
Speaker 1: was out there that people are enjoying these days. I
Speaker 1: still haven't seen the new Star Wars one, so that
Speaker 1: would be my first. I'm not a Star Wars I've
Speaker 1: never seen there seen any Star Wars, not a single minute,
Speaker 1: not one. And wow, are you not a sci fi
Speaker 1: guy at all? Or you just have this thing about
Speaker 1: Star Wars. I don't know what I have a thinking
Speaker 1: about Star Wars. I just I guess I'm not a
Speaker 1: sci fi person. I don't hate sci fi. I I
Speaker 1: watched certain sci fi I just never I never did it.
Speaker 1: I never did a Star Wars thing. And now I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm just kind of stuck in my ways.
Speaker 1: But what you gotta do is you gotta sit down,
Speaker 1: put them all together, and watch them all together one day.
Speaker 1: And exactly, there's nine. There's nine movies are all about
Speaker 1: three hours long. It's perfect twenty seven hours or so.
Speaker 1: But that, to me, that would be a great day.
Speaker 1: I would enjoy that day. I like my Star Wars,
Speaker 1: so let me um, it's last night. I was. I
Speaker 1: lost my championship on Sunday. I had Mike Boon going
Speaker 1: in the last night, but I lost my championship on Sunday. So,
Speaker 1: like most fantasy players that are out, the last thing
Speaker 1: I wanted to do on Monday night, let's watch football.
Speaker 1: We're like, I'm out. I don't want to deal with
Speaker 1: this crap anymore. I am so sick of it. I
Speaker 1: have not wasted, but I have spent so much time
Speaker 1: reading and analyzing and talking about it. I lost my
Speaker 1: major championship was lost on Sunday, so I was happy
Speaker 1: to I watched the season final series finale, Mr Robot.
Speaker 1: I was ready to watch the season finale holiday baking,
Speaker 1: ready to rock my freaking wife Jim, because, oh is
Speaker 1: there a good game that night? I was like, it's
Speaker 1: Vikings Packers. She was, Oh, it's Aaron Jones. I gotta watch.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Judy, you didn't even make the playoffs. Why
Speaker 1: do you care what Aaron Jones does? She goes well.
Speaker 1: I feel a sense of loyalty to him. I feel
Speaker 1: a sense of loyalty. He's been my guy all year.
Speaker 1: I want to watch him and cheer him. On Jim,
Speaker 1: you play a thousand leagues, you have every player in
Speaker 1: the NFL on your teams. Do you feel a sense
Speaker 1: of loyalty to your guys after your season is over
Speaker 1: come the playoffs? Like, do you find yourselves rooting for
Speaker 1: the guys that you had on your team and you've
Speaker 1: rooted for all year? No, there's one guy, but he
Speaker 1: didn't make the playoffs, so it won't come to matter.
Speaker 1: The only guy that I seem to really just haven't
Speaker 1: that kind of feeling for his Larry Fitzgerald. Um, I've
Speaker 1: just been a huge fan of his for so many
Speaker 1: years now that I have that kind of feel for him.
Speaker 1: But he won't be in the playoffs. So no, anybody else? No,
Speaker 1: not really see I agree. I was like, who cares?
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones does? Well? You think I'm gonna root for
Speaker 1: Zekiel Elliott this week? No? Absolutely not. I want the
Speaker 1: worst half of my players because they didn't do well
Speaker 1: enough to get me into the channel, like I mean
Speaker 1: well into the championship. They didn't do well enough to
Speaker 1: win me the championship. So for me personally, I don't care.
Speaker 1: That's why I shouldn't say this is a fantasy analyst
Speaker 1: Jim last night when Mike Boon stunk, I didn't mind
Speaker 1: it because I had Mike Boon I already stunk. So
Speaker 1: for all of you out there that started Mike food
Speaker 1: as well, that sucks. Sucks peace, I can't really say
Speaker 1: much to that. I agree. There was so much. You know,
Speaker 1: Boone was the most talked about running back. Everybody was excited.
Speaker 1: Everybody wanted a piece of him. Everybody wanted, you know,
Speaker 1: both Cook and Madison to be ruled out, and they weren't.
Speaker 1: It was a perfect situation. It's actually everybody forgot to
Speaker 1: tell Boon. It's actually amazing and we do use a lot.
Speaker 1: And the King talks about this right like, opportunities always
Speaker 1: create production. And I was one of those people that
Speaker 1: said as because I owned it going into the going tonight.
Speaker 1: I didn't want Dalvin Cook. I didn't when I was
Speaker 1: into Madison. I just wanted Mike Boon because he would
Speaker 1: get all the touches. What they forgot was that Mike
Speaker 1: Boon and I tried to explain this the Frank during
Speaker 1: the week, and of course I don't always listen to
Speaker 1: my own advice, but Mike Foond was third string for
Speaker 1: the reason A reason, right, Like Alexander Madison passed from
Speaker 1: the depth chart because he's better, David Cook, certainly he's better.
Speaker 1: And Mike Foon was the third string running back certainly
Speaker 1: not gonna be in a passing downs or a mirror
Speaker 1: dula was gonna be in there. And that was it.
Speaker 1: And I try to tell Frankie views that good. They'd
Speaker 1: find a role for him, much like Kyle Shanahan finds
Speaker 1: a role for all of his guys, and he's like, no,
Speaker 1: you don't understand the guys better than it. It just
Speaker 1: does mean he's never got a chance for I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, Like I'm with you, man, Like Mike Boon
Speaker 1: Rock Solid RV two, the whole deal. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: just that Mike Boone. You know, stuck can hurt people
Speaker 1: like people benched, really good players. I'm gonna get into
Speaker 1: that in a few moments ago over everything from in
Speaker 1: the Night Football, what Aaron Jones did to win people championships,
Speaker 1: what is the the press piss of doing as well?
Speaker 1: A whole lot more to come. Joe and I have
Speaker 1: maybe a lot to talk about. We're gonna do it
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Speaker 1: Thank Christmas, SUSA, Oh yeah, celebrating Christmas. BFFs, Greg Susman,
Speaker 1: Jim Day hanging out here as well. And Jim just
Speaker 1: one of my buddies at all these great players, and
Speaker 1: he goes, I don't know what to do, and everybody
Speaker 1: went through this this week. He didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1: Where do I start? What do I do? Do I start?
Speaker 1: Mike Boone over the following Terry McLaurin, Manuel Sanders, Anthony Miller,
Speaker 1: he Moster, Patrick Laird, Austin Ekeler, Keen and Alan And
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god. And I think what he
Speaker 1: wound up doing was starting my Boon over Keen and
Speaker 1: Allen and losing because he started Mike Boone over Keen
Speaker 1: and Allen. And that's just one of many stories, Jim,
Speaker 1: that people have from riding the Mike Boon train straight
Speaker 1: to hell. No, I agree, I got a million questions
Speaker 1: about him, you know, I had one guy actually asked
Speaker 1: me if they should sit Aaron Jones for Mike. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's how crazy he gets. Yeah, everybody's got
Speaker 1: to have the new, bright shiny toy. But you know,
Speaker 1: like you said, there's a reason that guy's a bright,
Speaker 1: new shiny toys because he's been sitting his butt on
Speaker 1: the bench. U. So he did have the two touchdowns
Speaker 1: a week before that gave a you know a lot
Speaker 1: of people hope. But how could you even think about
Speaker 1: starting him over a guy like Aaron Jones who coming
Speaker 1: into the game at what sixteen touchdowns already on the season. Seriously,
Speaker 1: that is like the epitome of trying to be too cute.
Speaker 1: Levin carry twenty yards is the final line at four.
Speaker 1: Mike Boone played like a snap in the second half,
Speaker 1: bench for Mer Doula, What did you think the Vikings
Speaker 1: game plan last night? I thought it was terrible. Obviously
Speaker 1: there everything was embarrassing that they couldn't do anything right.
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins was outside of that one past and that
Speaker 1: Diggs was terrible. Um, you know, I even said this
Speaker 1: on the Frenzy today. When they have a primetime game,
Speaker 1: they should really think about using the backup at quarterback
Speaker 1: because it's not something Kirk Cousins does well. And you know, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: there's players out there that are like that. There's players
Speaker 1: that clamber to be in that you know, primetime thing
Speaker 1: and put up big games in this the guys that
Speaker 1: fold under that pressure. And you know, talking about a
Speaker 1: guy who's oh and nine on Monday Night football at
Speaker 1: this point and he's got a rock solid team that
Speaker 1: there was really no excuse for how badly he played.
Speaker 1: I'm really interested to find out, um, what the line
Speaker 1: will be because these two teams, uh could see each
Speaker 1: others in the playoffs. Now Minnesota has is most likely
Speaker 1: traveling to New Orleans in the first round. And you know,
Speaker 1: the Vikings are a weird team. The Vikings always have
Speaker 1: trouble in the division, but outside of the division, especially
Speaker 1: as to the conference. UM. He's very, very good, and
Speaker 1: it'll be very interesting to see what these teams, if anything,
Speaker 1: can do in the playoffs, getting Dalvin Cook back, getting
Speaker 1: this defense healthy, and seeing which Kirk Cousins shows up.
Speaker 1: Obviously has had no success in prime time. That's been
Speaker 1: well documented. No success in the playoffs. That's been well documented.
Speaker 1: These Vikings team is kind of the same team they
Speaker 1: are always every year, and that's simply not good enough.
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs had that big catch, had to touch down.
Speaker 1: He was good enough, as he has been for most
Speaker 1: of this year. It's crazy where he started where he
Speaker 1: ended three for fifty seven last night. On the other side,
Speaker 1: you mentioned Aaron Jones who had twenty three carries a
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four yards rushing, including the fifty six
Speaker 1: yard touchdown. Two touchdowns on the night gave him, As
Speaker 1: you mentioned Jim sixteen touchdowns. On the year, he has
Speaker 1: just nine hundred and eighty four yards rushing. If he
Speaker 1: ends the season with under eleven hundred yards, you will
Speaker 1: become uh the only running back in NFL history to
Speaker 1: have that many touchdowns and that a few yards. It's
Speaker 1: been a weird year for Aaron Jones. Obviously, touchdowns have
Speaker 1: been there. Yards having always there times where he had
Speaker 1: like twenty yards and four touchdowns in a game. So
Speaker 1: the obvious question I have for you is touchdown regression.
Speaker 1: I have to imagine you believe he's coming next year.
Speaker 1: So where do you feel comfortable drafting Aaron Jones. We
Speaker 1: were just talking about this on the Frenzy and I'm
Speaker 1: not so sure that is the case because look at it,
Speaker 1: even in limited touches last year, he's score touchdowns. So
Speaker 1: he's just kind of nose for the end zone. And
Speaker 1: for that reason and that reason only, I mean, I
Speaker 1: have no problem if he falls into the third round.
Speaker 1: I take him into heartbeat and I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of probably be a third fourth round discussion
Speaker 1: for him next year going in. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: this is a guy that right now on the season
Speaker 1: m p PR leagues is the number two running back
Speaker 1: only beyond Christian McCaffrey. That's how good Aaron Jones has been.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad you brought that up. And we're too
Speaker 1: running back behind Christian McCaffrey. Uh, the amount of touchdowns
Speaker 1: there is just stupid, right, Like it's stupid good. How
Speaker 1: many touchdowns Aaron Jones has scored in this spot? Uh?
Speaker 1: For Green Bay? Jones is a monster, monster year for
Speaker 1: a team that wants to run the ball. I know
Speaker 1: we don't think of a Green Bay's team that wants
Speaker 1: to run the ball, but at this point that's precisely
Speaker 1: what they are. You saw the statue that football last
Speaker 1: night when he gets like twenty carries of he made
Speaker 1: much more successful. He did have significantly less points of
Speaker 1: Christan McCaffrey eighty or so, he was ninety to be exact. Um,
Speaker 1: But Aaron Jones more points than any other running back
Speaker 1: in fantasy football this year not named Christian but Yeahfrey.
Speaker 1: Also on the Green Bay side here, Jim, you had
Speaker 1: Davante Adams of a big PBR game. Davante Adams, comedy
Speaker 1: drafted as the first or second wide receiver off the board,
Speaker 1: finished with a monstrous thirteen for one sixteen in this one,
Speaker 1: a ridiculous sixteen targets. Where has this been all year? Yeah? Exactly? Well,
Speaker 1: you know he was dealing with that turf tone for
Speaker 1: a good portion of the years, So that hurt um,
Speaker 1: and that really took us down. It really, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, it really got to a point it seemed
Speaker 1: like that when he was on the field, that Rogers
Speaker 1: wasn't looking for anybody else but him. We did see Lazard,
Speaker 1: you know, have five catches for forty five yards last night.
Speaker 1: But then everybody else, I mean, Marcus Valdin, Scantling, Gerona Moll, Allison,
Speaker 1: the guys that we were both. You know, we were
Speaker 1: all fighting over these guys in drafts, not early round drafts,
Speaker 1: but later on, thinking they'd be great value. Yet neither
Speaker 1: one of them has done a thing all year. They've had,
Speaker 1: you know, a good game here, a good game there,
Speaker 1: and that's it. Um. And you can't even really say
Speaker 1: that about Marquez Valves Scantling because I can't even remember
Speaker 1: a good game. Okay, Allison had a couple, but that's it.
Speaker 1: I trust he's got. You talk about everybody fighting over him,
Speaker 1: you're right. I had an auction draft UM in August,
Speaker 1: and I didn't know which one to choose, mv Aster,
Speaker 1: John Allison, I got both. I was like, no matter
Speaker 1: which one I get, I'll get one, right, I got none, right,
Speaker 1: I I after week one, I think I was offered
Speaker 1: David Montgomery for MVS. I can't do that. I can't
Speaker 1: do that. Well, when you got a quarterback like Rogers,
Speaker 1: you expect more wide receivers to be fantasy relevant and
Speaker 1: to put up good points. And that's what we were
Speaker 1: banking on. But we weren't banking on the Rogers we
Speaker 1: got this year, first of all, being nowhere near where
Speaker 1: he's ever been. He's just a new new m for
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. Oh man, if it isn't, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. I think, you know, another year in
Speaker 1: this system, they should, you know, round it out, get
Speaker 1: it a little better. But he's obviously he obviously needs
Speaker 1: another receiver he can count on because I don't think
Speaker 1: he has that feeling for Alison or MVS at all.
Speaker 1: I don't think he has any trust in either one
Speaker 1: of those guys. Maybe it becomes lazard. Maybe we've seen
Speaker 1: him pop up a few times, but then right away
Speaker 1: he has a you know, decent game, next game, a
Speaker 1: couple of games, he doesn't do anything. So at this point,
Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be hard to trust. I mean
Speaker 1: next year, going into next year's drafts, we were talking
Speaker 1: about this, where do you draft him? I'm not drafting
Speaker 1: him as a quarterback one next year, if somebody else
Speaker 1: takes him, I'll say, Okay, good for you. I hope
Speaker 1: it works out. But I'm not gonna lose any sleep
Speaker 1: if I don't get him well, I would say I
Speaker 1: would I would not say I hope it works out
Speaker 1: of you someone else drafts, I hope he's it's terrible
Speaker 1: chick um. But Uh, to answer my own question, I
Speaker 1: kind of do think this is the new norm. I
Speaker 1: think that from legitimately beginning to end, from that first
Speaker 1: Thursday night game between the Bears and the Packers on
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football, they ran the football where they attempted
Speaker 1: to run the football, whether it was Jamal Williams or
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones changed by the day, but they never let
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers loose at all from beginning to end. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's Roger slowing down. I don't
Speaker 1: know if this is the offense that the Fleur wants
Speaker 1: to run. I don't know that it matters. Yeah, you'll
Speaker 1: get your good games here and there from Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: but I don't see Aaron Rodgers with someone to me
Speaker 1: in today's NFL. And I know we've done this so
Speaker 1: many times with the breaking of the Patriots. But this
Speaker 1: is not a guy I want to count on next
Speaker 1: year in fantasy football. Like, sure, Damante Adams, you'll count
Speaker 1: on Aaron Jones. You'll take no when you're not getting
Speaker 1: sixteen touchdowns most likely again, ye, Aaron Rodgers thing like
Speaker 1: we talk a lot about taking the name off the
Speaker 1: back of the jersey and and for Brady we've had
Speaker 1: to do it, Breeze at times, we've had to do it.
Speaker 1: Rogers over the last two years. You should have done
Speaker 1: it Aaron Rodgers. If you look, uh, you look at
Speaker 1: this year here, Jim at the quarterbacks. Where did Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers finish? Right? Like, what is the guy? What was
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers here? This year? You end up being quarterback nine.
Speaker 1: We're back nine overall. That's the same as the rest
Speaker 1: of them. Not somebody I'm super interested in. Next year.
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Speaker 1: e y today with Jim Day hanging out with me
Speaker 1: uh day before Christmas? All here on Christmas Eve, we're
Speaker 1: talking a lot about Monday Night football last night. I
Speaker 1: do want to get into other news and notes you know,
Speaker 1: Jim you running big playoff? Um, a big playoff league?
Speaker 1: What's going on there? Yeah, it's just setting it up
Speaker 1: on my fantasy league. It's gonna be a free league. Basically,
Speaker 1: you can start any player you want any week, but
Speaker 1: you can only use them twice throughout the entire playoffs,
Speaker 1: trying to fill as many spots as weekend I got.
Speaker 1: I got about twenty spots filled already. Uh. I was
Speaker 1: gonna ask you if you wanted me to include you
Speaker 1: and Frank in that. Uh put you in there with
Speaker 1: this up to you guys. But you know, anybody who
Speaker 1: wants to get in can send me an email and
Speaker 1: Fantasy taz at gmail dot com and let me know
Speaker 1: and I will get you involved. You totally totally free leagues,
Speaker 1: all right. Didn't feel like collecting money? Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: feel like collecting the money. So yes, totally free league,
Speaker 1: all right. So there you go. It's a a totally
Speaker 1: free league with with Jim Day playoff. Well, I'm in.
Speaker 1: I'm in a playoff fool, which is really fun and
Speaker 1: it's a hundred dollars of team were so, and everybody
Speaker 1: has a salary. You pick a player, one player per team.
Speaker 1: You don't. You don't use the two teams, and it's
Speaker 1: like a quarterbacks you running back, three wide receivers and
Speaker 1: so on and so forth. Everyone's priced out. It's hard, man.
Speaker 1: And last year we nailed it. Like everything I kind
Speaker 1: of projected out works really really well. And the big
Speaker 1: game last year for us was the Charges Patriots where
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle and Keenan Allen back and forth, and we
Speaker 1: had both of them and we were going, um, we
Speaker 1: we had a chance to win it all. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of money in the pool and we just has
Speaker 1: to win it all. But we we got Todd Gurley
Speaker 1: in the super Bowl and that wasn't so good. Jim, Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that did not quite work out the way anybody expected
Speaker 1: it to, most assuredly not Girly himself, that's for sure,
Speaker 1: certainly not. He's an interesting name. Also next year with
Speaker 1: what you do with Tod Gurley, what do you think? Oh,
Speaker 1: definitely he's gonna fall. He's got a fall after this year.
Speaker 1: I mean I was one of the ones that we're
Speaker 1: hyping him this year. I thought he bounced back and
Speaker 1: have a strong year. And while he finished, he finished
Speaker 1: out strong. For you, if you'd got there with him.
Speaker 1: He really wasn't that strong all year, So next year
Speaker 1: it is definitely gonna be tough. I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: at all if we're looking at him, is you know,
Speaker 1: like a fifth round pick. Yeah, you know, Todd Gurley
Speaker 1: is We'll see he bounces back at all. Here um
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh obviously down the stretch and said we need
Speaker 1: to use Gurley and they are and it makes me wonder, Hey,
Speaker 1: maybe they were saving him for later in the year,
Speaker 1: so he was fresh and was healthy toward the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Obviously they didn't get there, so they kind of push
Speaker 1: up the timeline here a little bit. But the reason
Speaker 1: that I brought up your playoff pool, the reason I
Speaker 1: brought up my playoff pool is because beast mode is back.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks are headed to the playoffs. Marshawn Lynch's headed
Speaker 1: to the playoffs and they're signing a deal with the
Speaker 1: Seahawks to return to Seattle. Eight days ago, he's serving
Speaker 1: shots at tequila in the parking lot in Oakland. Now
Speaker 1: he's a member of the Seahawks, expected to start potentially
Speaker 1: as soon as this week. Marshall Lynch will cost you
Speaker 1: a lot in these tools. The Seahawks they want to
Speaker 1: run the football and that is their offense. And no
Speaker 1: matter what, as we've seen in the past, Brian Shawnheimer,
Speaker 1: WI will not change. There's a team that has now
Speaker 1: lost Chris Carson or Shan Penny and c J prosise.
Speaker 1: They bring back Bob Turban, they bring back Marshawn Lynch's
Speaker 1: Marshall Lynch, someone that you can trust. Maybe it ain't
Speaker 1: playoff Fantasy Football League. I've always been a huge fan.
Speaker 1: When man steps on the field, he does it with
Speaker 1: attitude and I like that. You know, he reminds me
Speaker 1: a lot about Adrian Peterson that way, and that he's
Speaker 1: always looking like he has something to prove, that he's
Speaker 1: got to go out there and prove something. From all
Speaker 1: indications I'm hearing is that he's in terrific shape. Um,
Speaker 1: he was working he's been working out for a while now,
Speaker 1: thinking that he might get a chance to come in
Speaker 1: and get some playing time. Of course it just worked
Speaker 1: out that way. So he knows the offense, they know him.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot that he has to learn. So
Speaker 1: it really does come down to you know, what kind
Speaker 1: of shape he's in and everything I'm hearing is saying
Speaker 1: he was in really great shape. So you know, if
Speaker 1: I'm going into the playoffs, I think I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: a shot on him again. This is a team that
Speaker 1: loves to run. They want to do it as often
Speaker 1: as they can, and you know, he's a kind of
Speaker 1: guy that could change things off for me. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: with you. I do take a shot on Marshall Lynch
Speaker 1: for all the reasons I mentioned. Is he that wants
Speaker 1: to run the ball. And they're not going to change
Speaker 1: who they are Ryan Schadheimer, Pete Carroll. They refused to.
Speaker 1: And it's very, very very rare. They with the ball
Speaker 1: in marsh in Russell Wilson's hands and just kind of
Speaker 1: let him do his thing, although they should and they
Speaker 1: don't do it enough. That's not the way they are built.
Speaker 1: So if they if and when they go into Philly
Speaker 1: or Dallas, they're kind of right to be running. I
Speaker 1: know it's an away game. I know they do have
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson in their back pocket. Mars Shawn Dage could
Speaker 1: do some damage here in those matchups. Uh, the potential
Speaker 1: first round matchups either in Philly or in Dallas, these
Speaker 1: are one that's better for them, Jim than the other
Speaker 1: at this time, At this point, I'd rather play Dallas, um,
Speaker 1: just because Dallas just doesn't have a clue who they are. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, Week fifteen, they come out and they're all
Speaker 1: playing excellent, they're all on top of the game. They
Speaker 1: come out and have a great game this week against
Speaker 1: Philly in a win, and you're in situation. They come
Speaker 1: out look totally lost, like they have no clue what
Speaker 1: they're doing. Um. You know we were talking about this
Speaker 1: on a frenzy. How does Cooper be okay with standing
Speaker 1: on the sideline when it's fourth and your game? You know,
Speaker 1: any other main receiver, Yeah, right, any other main receiver
Speaker 1: on any other team would have been chopping it a
Speaker 1: bit to get on that field, would have had to
Speaker 1: helmet on, standing right next to the coach saying why
Speaker 1: am I not on the field yet? Cooper standing on
Speaker 1: the sideline chatting with somebody else and not looking like
Speaker 1: he cared he wasn't on the field? Is that thought right?
Speaker 1: Like Udell Beckham gets killed for the emotion he shows,
Speaker 1: Mark Hoover is the complete polar opposite of that. He
Speaker 1: gets killed as well. Is that fair? Avala both sides
Speaker 1: on the coin. Yeah, because you're talking about two polar opposites. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of Beckham. He does get
Speaker 1: too much. But that's the thing, he gets too much
Speaker 1: about everything. I don't care. You know, I don't want
Speaker 1: to receiver that's gonna get too much about everything. But
Speaker 1: I do want him to me on the field in
Speaker 1: you know, a big game, at a big point in
Speaker 1: the game, I want him to be on the field.
Speaker 1: You know, you go back to the Replacements movie and
Speaker 1: you know, Gene Hackman, well, you know, a winner wants
Speaker 1: to have the ball when it counts, And to me,
Speaker 1: that stands true in football. You know anybody you know,
Speaker 1: you go to Adrian Peterson and at that point in
Speaker 1: time he says, hell, yeah, I want to be on
Speaker 1: the field. Anybody like that, They want to be on
Speaker 1: the field. And for him not to care that he
Speaker 1: wasn't on the field, that balls me more than anything else.
Speaker 1: Winners want the ball in the games on the line
Speaker 1: and Jane Falco grabs the ball. Call back to earlier
Speaker 1: in the movie, I want, I want, I want to
Speaker 1: take this one. There's always do there you go, Gene Hackman, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Reeves the Replacements. Yeah, Football Classic, one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: I love that movie. Um so weird stuff in that movie.
Speaker 1: But movie in the last Um, but Marshal Lynch anyway
Speaker 1: comes back. He's somebody that always certainly wants the ball
Speaker 1: one of the in that Super Bowl where he didn't
Speaker 1: get it, Amari Cooper. That's interesting when we need back
Speaker 1: in Dallas next year. They never they never gave him
Speaker 1: the extension yet, right, Oh, they haven't given him the
Speaker 1: big money yet, and that's gonna be interesting. They got
Speaker 1: to be thoughts now of you know what's gonna happen
Speaker 1: if they do give him the big money. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that he might have hurdim. They still got a bad
Speaker 1: dack too. Yep, we'll see. And there's a lot of
Speaker 1: talk about whether or not they want tack back. I
Speaker 1: think I think Dak sport play had more to do
Speaker 1: with his shoulders than anybody's really talking, I'm sure. And
Speaker 1: it's amazing that whole storyline was so monstrous going in
Speaker 1: the Sunday and then by the time Sunday was over
Speaker 1: went away, right, nobody's talking about that. Nobody was talking,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's almost a perfect thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you're dealing with a shoulder injury, what you look
Speaker 1: when you look at that most of his passes, they
Speaker 1: were all high. They were sailing. Yes, a lot of times.
Speaker 1: That's because you're not coming all the way through with
Speaker 1: the football and if your shoulders bag, that's where you're
Speaker 1: letting the ball go early instead of following all the
Speaker 1: way through. You know, we see that a ton Baseball
Speaker 1: pitchers have that issue, and if they have a shoulder issue,
Speaker 1: their ball is always high. You know, same thing were
Speaker 1: a quarterback. So I think it had a lot to
Speaker 1: do with his shoulder. But you're right, as soon as
Speaker 1: the game was over, nobody was talking about his shoulder.
Speaker 1: He just sucked. Yeah, that was again. It such a
Speaker 1: big storyline going into the game and then disappeared once
Speaker 1: the game was over. Anyway, I'm just looking at some
Speaker 1: numbers here. The Eagles right top ten rush defense this year. Uh,
Speaker 1: Fantasy points against Dallas kind of middle of the road.
Speaker 1: So if you're Marshall this guy, you want Dallas somehow
Speaker 1: sneak into the playoffs, which means the Eagles need to
Speaker 1: lose this week and the Cowboys ultimately need to win.
Speaker 1: So that's how we don't want that though. We don't
Speaker 1: We don't want that. As a Giants fan, I don't
Speaker 1: want them to win another game. We're doing freaking idiots.
Speaker 1: They shouldn't have won this last game. They don't even
Speaker 1: know how to tank correct correctly. It's it's typically past
Speaker 1: Suder should be fired for the fact that they survived
Speaker 1: this game. Um So these motive is back, and it
Speaker 1: looks like JJ Watt could be coming back as well,
Speaker 1: just two months removed from surgery on his petorn factorial muscles.
Speaker 1: The surgery and a procedure or he keeps you out
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season, He's gonna sign a
Speaker 1: waiver and come back and play in the playoffs for
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. The move for J. J. Watton Houston,
Speaker 1: you know if he's on the field that he definitely
Speaker 1: gives them an upgrade. There's no doubt about it. You know.
Speaker 1: It's whether or not he's gonna end up hurting himself
Speaker 1: even more is the issue. But you know they're they're
Speaker 1: looking at it. They think they have a chance to
Speaker 1: do some damage. Now. I don't think they have that
Speaker 1: kind of team now, I just don't. The offensive line
Speaker 1: still needs a lot more work as we've seen, and
Speaker 1: Watson has been very consistent basically all year. So I
Speaker 1: don't think they have it yet. I just think it's
Speaker 1: a rash decision. But who knows. We've seen plenty of
Speaker 1: teams that played worse than the season get hot at
Speaker 1: the right time and go off on a run. I
Speaker 1: just don't know if they have it in them. Speaking
Speaker 1: of offensive lines, Raven's offensive lines with the best in football,
Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson he gave more rolex Is to celebrate.
Speaker 1: Don't know. Guys are gonna play this Sunday as they
Speaker 1: get healthy for the playoffs. All have two weeks off.
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson helping out the people that matter most in
Speaker 1: his life the Rolexes, which certainly makes sense well. Other
Speaker 1: news and notes before we hit the break, Mason Rudolph
Speaker 1: is out this week and a bad shoulder he has
Speaker 1: having surgery. He's out. Paxton Lynch will be the backup
Speaker 1: to Duck Hodges on Sunday. As the Steelers trying to
Speaker 1: find a way to make the playoffs, they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to beat this Ravens team to do it. The Titans
Speaker 1: will have to fall with the auf for mentioned Texans
Speaker 1: see Jim, we we connected all here on the BFFs.
Speaker 1: Not only that, but they're without their center and Marky's
Speaker 1: pounce Pouncy being out too. That's true pouncing. He's out.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy interviewed with the Panthers good fit Jim, Oh, No,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't like Mike McCarthy. I
Speaker 1: think he's people all right, fair enough. When we come back,
Speaker 1: I want to go over some of the fantasy scoring.
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Speaker 1: here all the BF as Greg Susman, Tom Day filling
Speaker 1: in for Eric Young. Frank Standfell already getting drunk or Christmas.
Speaker 1: So I want to take a few minutes, Jim, you
Speaker 1: know we're gonna dive in Frank and at some point
Speaker 1: going over the first round um for for next year,
Speaker 1: and that'll be fun to do. What I'm excited to
Speaker 1: do it before we yet, I wanted to take a
Speaker 1: look at the first round this year, and there were
Speaker 1: allowed to talk about, um, how bad it's been or
Speaker 1: how good it's been, or somewhere in between. So I
Speaker 1: wanted to take the opportunity just kind of go over
Speaker 1: it with you for a moment. So number one overall
Speaker 1: pick with Sakoon Barkley. Was he worth it given what
Speaker 1: he did in we fifteen and sixteen? No, because more
Speaker 1: likely than not your team didn't get there with him
Speaker 1: because he didn't do anything the rest of the time.
Speaker 1: So the in one league, my team, the team that
Speaker 1: draft to take on Barkley, he didn't make the playoffs. Right,
Speaker 1: Wayne Goldman played for a little while. He wasn't good enough.
Speaker 1: He didn't make the playoffs. The other league, my whole
Speaker 1: league that I was in the draft to take on Barkley,
Speaker 1: also drafted Lamar Jackson, the champion. That'll work, that'll work.
Speaker 1: You're saying stake on Barkley was the wrong pick obviously
Speaker 1: at number one number see Alvin Kamara was a DP
Speaker 1: wise number two overall. Camara obviously didn't score between we
Speaker 1: three and sixteen. It took four ever for him to
Speaker 1: get back into the end zone. Where's Alvin Camara go
Speaker 1: next year? Yeah, we were trying to figure that out
Speaker 1: as well. I think he still ends up going in
Speaker 1: the first round. I just don't think it's going to
Speaker 1: be in the top four like he's been consistently. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna bounce back. I think the injury heard
Speaker 1: him more than people expected. We finally started to see
Speaker 1: a little bit more burst in him this past weekend.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, we'll we'll know more based on how
Speaker 1: he plays through the playoffs. If he goes through the
Speaker 1: playoffs strong, then it's just gonna everybody's gonna forget about
Speaker 1: how the season went and they said, oh, he's back,
Speaker 1: he's ready to go, and they'll probably moved right back
Speaker 1: into that top four. But it's gonna be interesting. I
Speaker 1: think it really comes down to how well he does
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. We'll see if America back on the
Speaker 1: fantasy radar. But having a big time playoffs, we know
Speaker 1: how that works that we've seen it before. Uh Alvian
Speaker 1: Camara in a position to do damage here in the post.
Speaker 1: He's number three overall this year, Christian McCaffrey. Not enough
Speaker 1: wars you said about him. Christ McCaffrey even more points
Speaker 1: now than Lamar Jackson, easy short fire, number one overall
Speaker 1: pick next year? Is that correct him? Oh? Yeah, without
Speaker 1: a doubt. There's there's no reason not to at this point.
Speaker 1: Like you said, head and shoulders above anybody else with
Speaker 1: no thought. I mentioned Lamar Jackson. Where does he go
Speaker 1: next year? He's gonna go in the first round and
Speaker 1: a lot of leagues, just like we saw Pat Mahomes
Speaker 1: go in the first round a lot of leagues this year.
Speaker 1: But let that work out. But that's different because Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson is also running back. Right, he would finish I
Speaker 1: believe as a top ten running back if he was
Speaker 1: running back. Yeah, and you're right, he would absolutely no doubt. Um,
Speaker 1: we were talking about that with Austin Ekeler receiving wise,
Speaker 1: his numbers are receiving or good enough to be a
Speaker 1: top ten wide receiver uh this year. So it really
Speaker 1: does work out that way. But my problem with that
Speaker 1: is how long is he going to be able to
Speaker 1: keep that up without getting hurt. We seen him take
Speaker 1: a couple of big hits this year. You know he
Speaker 1: you know, he's not like a Russell Wilson, where Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson hill run from time to time. He's not looking
Speaker 1: to run, but he also doesn't take those big hits.
Speaker 1: He knows when to get down, he knows when to
Speaker 1: get out of bounds. Lamar Jackson is still young, he's
Speaker 1: still firing. He wants to fight for every yard and
Speaker 1: because of that, he's taking some big hits and they
Speaker 1: have to be a little bit concerning to anybody over
Speaker 1: the course of his career. How much can he take?
Speaker 1: How much could any of the running back qbs over
Speaker 1: the history take when they were getting a hit like that?
Speaker 1: We saw it happened to Cam Newton really just killed
Speaker 1: his body. Um, same thing with Watson has definitely been
Speaker 1: hurt because he gets hit so much. So it you know,
Speaker 1: it does add a lot a lot to a fantasy quarterback,
Speaker 1: no doubt. But it also I have to think it also,
Speaker 1: you know, takes away from his longevity. I don't think
Speaker 1: we can see guys like this playing as long as
Speaker 1: somebody like a breeze or a river or Robins Burger.
Speaker 1: I just don't think they'll be able to last that long.
Speaker 1: Running as much as they do, I agree that they're not.
Speaker 1: They're not built for the long term. The obvious example
Speaker 1: goes back to Lamar Jackson's backup Robert given the third
Speaker 1: who just wasn't the same. If there's electrifying rookie year,
Speaker 1: the safer you are, the more set up for long
Speaker 1: term success you are, Russell Wilson being in the primary
Speaker 1: example of that, so I understand the trepidation. I think
Speaker 1: you could also make a similar thing that Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: Given the monsters he's takes, the amount of usage he has,
Speaker 1: I think you could actually make a case in regards
Speaker 1: to Lamar Jackson, not only is the first round pick Jim,
Speaker 1: he's a top five pick because of how good he is,
Speaker 1: if not the number two overall pick, I think in
Speaker 1: in super flex leagues, I think Lamar Jackson's the first
Speaker 1: overall pick. I don't know that he can do this again.
Speaker 1: What if he does, I want a piece of it, man, Well,
Speaker 1: and that's it. I mean, in super flext quarterback leagues,
Speaker 1: I agree with you, um, you know, definitely top five,
Speaker 1: maybe even that top one. I would take that chance,
Speaker 1: and to those type leagues. In a start one quarterback league, though,
Speaker 1: I just don't think I could do it. And it's
Speaker 1: not because I don't think he'll do it again. It's
Speaker 1: just that there's a lot of good quarterbacks always, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you can wait on quarterbacks and still get a
Speaker 1: good one and meanwhile beef up the rest of your squad.
Speaker 1: But you know it's gonna be interesting. I I didn't really.
Speaker 1: I only took Pat Mahomes in in like two different
Speaker 1: leagues this year. One, you know, a season long league
Speaker 1: where I have to make changes, and another one of
Speaker 1: best ball because he was going so early and you know,
Speaker 1: it didn't quite work out the way he expected it too,
Speaker 1: and everybody out there, of course he's screaming, all we
Speaker 1: told you they'd be regression. Yeah, of course, how how
Speaker 1: could he maintain that kind of level again? But you know,
Speaker 1: I think we're here the same thing all off season
Speaker 1: about Lamar Jackson. Can he do it again. These are
Speaker 1: monstrous numbers, uh that you know, just haven't seen the
Speaker 1: likes of. And Uh, it's funny because because he's taken
Speaker 1: this week off, he's gonna end up being behind what
Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes did fantasy wise last year, Whereas if he
Speaker 1: played the game, more than likely he would have passed
Speaker 1: Mahomes as the top fantasy quarterback of all time, which
Speaker 1: just shows you how good Patrick Mahomes was last season
Speaker 1: for this Tanta City Chiefs team. Ever, his fantasy owners,
Speaker 1: Jim I believe I'm the only person in fantasy football
Speaker 1: history that drafted Patrick Mahomes last year for one dollar
Speaker 1: in an auction and came in last with at least
Speaker 1: amount of points. Wow. You know, sometimes it happens that way.
Speaker 1: You can't can't predict anything this in this league. You know,
Speaker 1: we we want to, we try to. We we put
Speaker 1: a ton of effort into trying to figure all this
Speaker 1: stuff out, and then we have craziness come on that
Speaker 1: nobody saw coming. That's very, very frustrated, all right, back
Speaker 1: in the first round this year talking about things people
Speaker 1: saw and didn't see coming, right, because after that was
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott. How do you feel how do you feel
Speaker 1: like easy Elliott's year went. I don't think it went well.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's still put up good numbers. He did,
Speaker 1: so I'm glad that's exactly what he wants you to say.
Speaker 1: It feels like it didn't go well. You're right, it
Speaker 1: does feel like that. Consensus wise, Zekiel Elliott, through the
Speaker 1: hold out, through um some of this misery, he was
Speaker 1: drafting number four overall consensus wise, where did he finish
Speaker 1: among non quarterbacks five? Number five overall? Basically exactly where
Speaker 1: you drafted him to be. So, even though it doesn't
Speaker 1: feel very good, Zeke did his job. Jim Oh, no, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not blaming Zeke. More of it, really, to me, anyway,
Speaker 1: comes from the coaches. You know, we saw last year
Speaker 1: they finally got him involved in the passing game and
Speaker 1: how well that offense moved when they did. And this
Speaker 1: year they just didn't get him involved in the passing
Speaker 1: game as much, and that was just frustrating. You know,
Speaker 1: he only had fifty catches this year after having what
Speaker 1: eight something last year, and that was a huge drop
Speaker 1: down in production. For fantasy. You want to see those receptions.
Speaker 1: And again, I'm not saying Zeke was there, didn't play well.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I thought the play calling was terrible
Speaker 1: after the first couple of games. In the beginning, they
Speaker 1: were doing all the right things. They were you know,
Speaker 1: pre snap motion, they weren't running the ball every first down.
Speaker 1: And then you know, got a few games in and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they just went right back to
Speaker 1: being the pedestrian cowboys we've seen for the last few years,
Speaker 1: doing all, let's run on first down. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't have to do any pre snap you know
Speaker 1: changes that they put them out there and there's just
Speaker 1: roll and it just didn't work. It did not work.
Speaker 1: The offense did not work with what Kellen Moore did
Speaker 1: the second half of these years for this Dallas offense.
Speaker 1: Number five players really interesting because he was a guy
Speaker 1: that we started research and fantas football right around the
Speaker 1: draft last April, and I remember Frank was doing his
Speaker 1: first league and who who would you want? Which of
Speaker 1: these guys? Do you want? Which these wide receivers or
Speaker 1: do you want Travis Kelsey and my man? I had
Speaker 1: the running backs left. I think James Conner is the
Speaker 1: best one. I think James Conner has the ability to
Speaker 1: really step up more than any of these guys. And
Speaker 1: I explained to my reasoning is a better offensive line. Uh,
Speaker 1: the how good running backs have been, whether it's Livia Bell,
Speaker 1: D'Angel Williams, or whomever the Pitchburg stealers are out there.
Speaker 1: I wanted James Conner, and what was all said and done,
Speaker 1: e d P Wise, James Conner was the fifth player
Speaker 1: off the board that worked poorly. Yes, and you knew
Speaker 1: you were in trouble as soon as Ben Ben Roethlisberger immediately,
Speaker 1: especially Jim when I started multiple teams with James Conner
Speaker 1: and Jujuice Fithuster, Yeah, that was that was a tough start.
Speaker 1: I wasn't in on jun Jude that early. I was
Speaker 1: a little worried about him being a true number one receiver.
Speaker 1: Um so I have to say that I was a
Speaker 1: little off him when everybody else is going. But I
Speaker 1: did like Connor. I thought Connor was gonna have a
Speaker 1: strong year. Uh. You know, like all the reasons you
Speaker 1: said that offensive line is great. Every running back they've
Speaker 1: ever put behind it has done well and I expected
Speaker 1: that to be the same. And you know, once Roethlisberger
Speaker 1: went down, it just took that whole offense with him.
Speaker 1: It's really interesting because the worst part oh a guy
Speaker 1: like Juju, Smith Schuster or Odell Beckham draft in similar
Speaker 1: positions last for this past season. The worst part about
Speaker 1: them were was that there wasn't much you can do
Speaker 1: because it's so hard to draft the bench, you know, Beckham,
Speaker 1: it's so hard, Smith Schuster, and when they're out there
Speaker 1: and healthy, you just suck right along with it. The
Speaker 1: best thing and I in my in another league, I
Speaker 1: was in an auction and I drafted Tyreek Hill and
Speaker 1: let Juju go. And when Tyreek Hill was hurt, like damn,
Speaker 1: I should have kept going on Juju and the Juju
Speaker 1: owners like, I'd much rather be in your position, especially
Speaker 1: once Ben went down this I couldn't play tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: when he was hurt, and when he came back, he
Speaker 1: was Tyreek Hill. Juju never regain that form, nor did
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Jr. Both really really struggled this year. But
Speaker 1: there world wide receivers that were taking before Juju and
Speaker 1: before Odell uh and those were DeAndre Hawkins and Davante Adams.
Speaker 1: This past year, UH DeAndre Hawkins finished as the nineteenth
Speaker 1: highest player on the board wide receiver wise, that is one, two, three, four,
Speaker 1: sixth wide receiver. He's the sixth wide receiver off the board,
Speaker 1: and he let a lot of people down in the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Championship. Oh yeah, no doubt about it. You know,
Speaker 1: under eight points in Week sixteen just doesn't get it done. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, especially from somebody like him. And yeah, and
Speaker 1: that was what going into the not only championship week,
Speaker 1: but the week before Week fifteen, which was my killer week.
Speaker 1: I lost five out of my six Championships teams in
Speaker 1: that week because guys like Sanders Edelman, Deebo Samuel of
Speaker 1: course Dalvin Cook with the injury, all just killed me
Speaker 1: in that week. Um. But again in Week sixteen, a
Speaker 1: lot of big names just came up super short, did
Speaker 1: nothing and really just hammered fantasy owners. So you know,
Speaker 1: again we say this all the time, Fantasy football is
Speaker 1: a game of knowledge, but it's also a game of luck.
Speaker 1: And you can know as much as you need to know,
Speaker 1: but luck always plays a part. Who would you rather
Speaker 1: have next year? John Hopkins, Davante Adams. I'm still staying
Speaker 1: with Hopkins. I still have him, as you know, my
Speaker 1: number two wide receiver behind Michael Thomas. To me, Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas is clearly the number one guy, and I don't
Speaker 1: care who they have on the center. He just all
Speaker 1: you have to do is get the ball anywhere near
Speaker 1: him and he's gonna catch it. Um His catch radius
Speaker 1: has got to be one of the best in the
Speaker 1: league because it doesn't matter where the ball is. And
Speaker 1: for that reason, that reason and alone, he's clearly my
Speaker 1: number one receiver next year, so much so that I
Speaker 1: think I'd take him a pick number two right behind
Speaker 1: all right after Chris McCaffrey. While we talked about go
Speaker 1: Thomas yesterday and Frank said how he had his six
Speaker 1: or seven by receiver because the upside it wasn't there.
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Speaker 1: three questions in three minutes. Jim, you're doing a playoff
Speaker 1: fantasy pool. Question number one, who's the number one pick?
Speaker 1: Gotta be Lamar Jackson? He gotta be. You gotta get
Speaker 1: him in this type of thing situation. You gotta get
Speaker 1: him out there taking a quarterback in the playoff pool,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson of the champion or the number one seed
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. He goes at number one according to Jim
Speaker 1: in the playoff pool. Uh number two, what is your
Speaker 1: favorite Christmas meal? Oh? Lamb roast, Usually having lamb roast
Speaker 1: every year, getting ready to make it, start getting it
Speaker 1: ready for tonight and then I'll cook it tomorrow. Are
Speaker 1: you gonna have it tomorrow and on January two. No,
Speaker 1: I'm January second. We actually get something like we we
Speaker 1: go down to Famous Daves and get a big barbecue
Speaker 1: feast for everybody. Very cool, very very cool. Alright. Question
Speaker 1: number three, what do you say to people that play
Speaker 1: fantasy football in week seventeen? Oh, don't do it, get
Speaker 1: out of it, stop it, don't do it anymore. It's
Speaker 1: very frustrating. You think regular fantasy football is frustrating, Week
Speaker 1: seventeen fantasy football is over the top frustrating. Week seventeen
Speaker 1: is brutal. I was talking about I was talking to
Speaker 1: my dad actually about this, and he plays on ESPN
Speaker 1: the default and Georgia talking about this yesterday on the
Speaker 1: Frenzy How in ESPN the default is week one of
Speaker 1: the playoffs is weeks fourteen and fifteen, weeks to sixteen
Speaker 1: and seventeen. It's like, I feel I need to drop
Speaker 1: everyone on my team because no one's playing. Oh yeah, Dad,
Speaker 1: how many times I told you don't stop playing Week seventeen.
Speaker 1: I never learned, George, they never learned, Jim, they never learned. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, it's it's crazy. It's just it's not a
Speaker 1: fun thing to do. No, I mean, it's just it's
Speaker 1: you thought Mike Boone was bad. You're gonna get a
Speaker 1: freaking league full of Mike Boon's this Sunday Cherry Week
Speaker 1: seventeen obviously Seattle, San Francisco that has a lot going
Speaker 1: on Sunday night, but a lot of other games. Well,
Speaker 1: you don't, you don't, don't. We'll see what happens. Jimmy
Speaker 1: has been an absolute blast hanging out with you for
Speaker 1: the last hour at a fantastic time, john S, talking
Speaker 1: football with you. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and I'll certainly
Speaker 1: talk to you on Thursday. Oh thanks man, Happy Hanaka.
Speaker 1: Thank you very very much so for jim Day, for
Speaker 1: Yang and for Matt downstairs, for everybody that's working hard
Speaker 1: and watching us here at Christmas. Have a wonderful holiday, Harry, Christmas.
Speaker 1: We'll do it all again on Thursday, we hope.