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Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, everybody, It's Thursday, January sixteenth, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. We're starting to

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Speaker 1: go fund me for Florio's plane ticket. Me and your

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Speaker 1: man MG Marcus, joined by Michael F. Florio and Lakwan Jones.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, so, Floria, you were saying to us after

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Speaker 1: Tuesday show, you're considering a little road trip for the weekend.

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Speaker 2: Huh yeah, I uh.

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Speaker 3: I've always wanted to go to a Bills playoff game,

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Speaker 3: and you guys can attest like going to a regular

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Speaker 3: season game is not really possible with the job that

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Speaker 3: we had, playoffs could be. Last year, I had my

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Speaker 3: tickets all booked, not not booked, but like about to

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Speaker 3: hit book and then they were like six feet of

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Speaker 3: snow's coming into Buffalo. So I said no. And then

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Speaker 3: this trip around, I guess because it's the game of

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Speaker 3: the week, It's Sunday night. Everyone all the TV people

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Speaker 3: need a fly home Monday. They want four figures to

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Speaker 3: fly home just to fly home. Oh my god, I'm

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Speaker 3: not sure I'm gonna But also after that, I went

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Speaker 3: and I checked the weather for the game. Uh, they're

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Speaker 3: predicting it's gonna be something around ten degrees with the

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Speaker 3: real feel of like in the negatives. So I think

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Speaker 3: me watching from home might be the best bet.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that feels like a good call.

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Speaker 3: You gotta pick a team that doesn't have to deal

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Speaker 3: with that type of weather, my boy.

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Speaker 4: Or at least one in a dome or something.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like why don't they have a dome at this point?

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Speaker 3: Seriously though, They're building a new stadium and it's an

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Speaker 3: outdoor and finans are like, build a dome, and they're like, look,

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Speaker 3: we're gonna make it where the snow won't fall on

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Speaker 3: the fans, but the field we want snow. And I'm like,

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Speaker 3: you have, Josh Allen, let's not take them away in

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Speaker 3: the snow.

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Speaker 1: The word part about this, and I know, like you

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Speaker 1: know you have, you have the football whether people out

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Speaker 1: there who are like this is the way the game's

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Speaker 1: supposed to be played, like it's not an advantage really

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Speaker 1: for anybody, Like you have the greatest athletes in the world,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna make them play in awful conditions. And on

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Speaker 1: top of it, it's not like it's not like all

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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills are from Buffalo and are used

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Speaker 1: to playing in the snow, right, like I get it.

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen went to Wyoming and he played in the

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Speaker 1: snow and.

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Speaker 4: The cold, you know.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure he did at some point when he was

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Speaker 1: was you know, in Wyoming. But like James Cook, it's

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Speaker 1: more like Florida. He's from Miami, right, he went to Georgia.

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Speaker 1: Like sucks right, Like he's not rum He's not He

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Speaker 1: wasn't born playing in this kind of weather. Like, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. That's just me and I'm sure that, you know,

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Speaker 1: the football people will be like whatever. Me as a

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Speaker 3: I don't get it. Man, even like I've I don't know,

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Speaker 3: growing up doing snow removal and being in that weather

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Speaker 3: and stuff, it sucks. Like there's it's fun for an

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Speaker 5: Like will my socks get wet because of snow and rain?

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Speaker 5: I just want to fight.

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Speaker 3: My day is ruined. My socks are wet, and I

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Speaker 3: can't go home. One of the worst experiences of my

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Speaker 3: life is walking at like five in the morning in

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Speaker 3: a blizzard to the New York City subway and I

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Speaker 3: like wanting to fight everyone in my path.

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Speaker 1: That day, or exactly like you said, snow is fun

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Speaker 1: when you know you can leave it, like when he's

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Speaker 4: That's when snow is fun. When you have to live

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Speaker 1: I'd imagine I say this just guessing because I've never

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Speaker 4: It doesn't seem like it'd be a whole lot of.

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Speaker 3: You would want to buy a flame thrower. You look

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Speaker 3: like a flame for a guy. It's fun if you

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Speaker 3: don't have to go out. If you're home with a

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Speaker 1: Having a flamethrower. Though, that does sort of change my opinion.

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Speaker 1: Do I get the win and just like use it that?

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Speaker 3: That does seem kind of coo once upon a time

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that seems kind of Also, we got plenty of

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Speaker 1: something talking about We're gonna get sind you. Our exit

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Speaker 1: interviews with draft picks five through eighths also give you

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a preview for the divisional round.

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Speaker 1: But before we dive into this too, so on the

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Speaker 1: last show, uh Lakwan, you debuted your blonde hair, which.

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Speaker 4: You know, Florida I thought looked good. We thought it

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Speaker 4: was a good look on you.

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Speaker 1: Today it is back to normal, which makes me wonder

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Speaker 1: what was the response from the family when they saw it.

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Speaker 3: So the wife called me off guard.

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Speaker 5: She kind of just like walked in and I was

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Speaker 3: But she was just like jaw dropping, like what did

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Speaker 5: But like eventually, like once you see it in the light,

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Speaker 5: She's like, it doesn't look that bad on you, but

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Speaker 5: I just need some time to get used to it.

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Speaker 5: And I'm like, oh, this is a good thing. I

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Speaker 5: could probably rock this look.

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Speaker 3: My kids hated.

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Speaker 5: The kids they thought was Halloween. Like Layla's like touching

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Speaker 5: my hair, like is this why is it like this?

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Speaker 5: And the kids they say to Darness things.

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Speaker 1: Well, your son had a p it'sicularly interesting review of

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Speaker 1: what your hair looked like.

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Speaker 5: Like he oh my god, Like Marcus, I forgot to

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Speaker 5: tell you the story last time on the pod. He

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Speaker 5: makes you out to be cooler than you already are.

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Speaker 5: Like we're watching the Rams game and he's looking like Marcus,

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Speaker 5: let's go, and he's saying number fifteen DeMarcus Robinson, but

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Speaker 5: he's like Daddy's friend.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, dadd nosing.

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Speaker 1: He really thought it was you.

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Speaker 3: But Mason, he's one of a kind man.

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Speaker 5: But one of my friends actually real quick said that

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Speaker 5: I look like the evil negative.

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Speaker 3: Version of a monrod Say Brown. I can sake. I

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Speaker 3: love that one.

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Speaker 1: Ah. That's funny. By the way, you can. You can

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Speaker 1: let Mason know. And I'm letting you guys know.

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Speaker 4: I love you all.

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Speaker 1: If I was making even DeMarcus Robinson money, I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be here doing a podcast with you all.

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Speaker 3: No, no, tressed. It would be if you did a show

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Speaker 3: on Sunday mornings and then laced up for the.

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Speaker 1: Was running routes Sean McVay, I'd be amazing. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: even if I was making like NFL minimum money, I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be here doing the podat I love you, but no,

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Speaker 1: I just I absolutely wouldn't be doing that.

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Speaker 3: Look, LaQuan, it sounds like if you do want full

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Speaker 3: time blonde hair, you just ease it in a couple

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Speaker 3: of days and day it's just permanent.

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Speaker 4: It's just there. Yeah, you just do that.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we do that, man, I like say, all right,

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Speaker 1: let's get to our exit.

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Speaker 3: Interviews.

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Speaker 1: Here, we will start with the number five pick that

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Speaker 1: belongs to the Jacksonville Jaguars. They went four and thirteen

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Speaker 1: this season.

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Speaker 4: What went right?

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Speaker 1: Undoubtedly it was Brian Thomas Junior. Eighty seven receptions, over

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Speaker 1: twelve hundred nearly thirteen hundred receiving yards, ten touchdowns. He

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Speaker 1: was the wide receiver four. I mean, look, Florida, I

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Speaker 1: know you were a elite Neighbors person. I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of people were Marvin Harrison people. I look not

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Speaker 1: to say that we didn't think Brian Thomas couldn't be good.

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Speaker 1: Did you imagine a world of where he was a

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Speaker 3: No, No, And as much as you know, I like

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Speaker 3: to take credit for being on like Jaden and Melik

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Speaker 3: the draft, one of my I won't say like I

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Speaker 3: wasn't like Brian Thomas Junior is a buster or anything

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Speaker 3: like that, but I thought he was the fifth best

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Speaker 3: clearly a swing at a miss. He's much better than that.

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Speaker 3: Like Ladd McConkie, Melik Neighbors and him are the clearcut

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Speaker 3: top three from this class or as of right now,

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Speaker 3: Marvin Harrison and Roma Dunza maybe could change that. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: I think it's easy to feel good about Brian Thomas

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Speaker 3: for next season because well, I know Lakwan hates his quarterback,

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Speaker 3: but he's tied to way the better quarterback than than

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Speaker 3: Malik Neighbors is right now. And the offense is gonna

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Speaker 3: change with no Doug Peterson being there, but a lot

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Speaker 3: of the pieces are gonna stay the same. And I mean,

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Speaker 3: things through Brian Thomas Junior.

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Speaker 4: So then is he a first round pick next year

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Speaker 4: in fantasy?

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Speaker 2: I I think he'll be one of those players on

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Speaker 3: But I do think his ADP will be a late

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Speaker 1: Then, as for what went wrong, and like, I don't

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Speaker 1: know literally everything else pretty much in Jacksonville, I mean, Ark,

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Speaker 1: unusable in fantasy, but take Bigsby wasn't really usable. He

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Speaker 1: wasn't doing enough. You know, Trevor Lawrence got hurt. We

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Speaker 1: saw mac Jones. So I do ask you, because you

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Speaker 1: know Florida pointed out, look on you are an unabashed uh,

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Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence hater. The problem is they have signed him

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Speaker 1: to an extension. They are tied to Trevor Lawrence. How

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Speaker 1: much does that impact you're thinking when you're looking at

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Speaker 1: drafting Brian Thomas j or. I guess Evan Ingram or

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Speaker 1: Does that knock them down a couple of spots for you?

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Speaker 5: Well, Like like Florio said, I could see him living

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Speaker 5: on that back into that first early second, maybe even

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Speaker 5: mid second. I just feel more comfortable in the second

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Speaker 5: round with him because a lot of his emergence was situational.

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Speaker 5: He's a great player, he's in a great situation. But

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Speaker 5: you have Trevor Lawrence, he got injured, play ten games.

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Speaker 5: You have ten forgettable games from David Davis. I mean

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Speaker 5: he had twenty catches in ten games.

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Speaker 4: Yikes.

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Speaker 5: But then you have Evan Ingram, who's obviously a high

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Speaker 5: priority target share at Christian Kirk, obviously a high priority

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Speaker 5: target share in the offense. All these guys are returning

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Speaker 5: next season, so this might change a little bit of Like,

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Speaker 5: right now, it feels good saying he's a first round,

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Speaker 5: early second round, but then once we get closer to

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Speaker 5: draft day, ADP might slip a little because some of

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Speaker 5: these guys are gonna come back healthy, still employed. Parker Washington,

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Speaker 5: I hope he gets more opportunity if they move off

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Speaker 5: of Christian Kirk, but more so looking at Trevor Lawrence,

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Speaker 5: his habits, his tendencies, It's constantly going to be in

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Speaker 5: should have had a bigger scope on mac Jones because

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Speaker 5: he went out there and looked very similar to whichever

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny too, because I at the end of

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Speaker 1: to next year, my immediate reaction was, yeah, man, Brian

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Speaker 4: Of the moment a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I think I'm landing more to where you are, Lakwan,

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 3: The thinking is like, unless I'll take everything back if

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Speaker 3: Ben Johnson ends up there, because I will trust him

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Speaker 3: and if you don't get the most out of him

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I've lost I, like many, I was a

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Speaker 3: I've lost all that. We all were. We all sold

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Speaker 1: They threw around the G word, right, generational. That was

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Speaker 1: the thing when he came out of Clemson, because I look,

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Speaker 1: he had an amazing college career, right, There's no denying

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Speaker 1: this year. Obviously, the injury limited him to just ten

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Speaker 1: not great before the injury. We're coming up on year

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Speaker 1: there's still hope that maybe he turns it around. Is

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Speaker 1: as long as he's healthy. He's going to be there

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Speaker 1: to ask you, Ques, what do we do about Travise

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Speaker 1: etn because again, he was another guy that it looked

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Speaker 4: Really in the offense.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I look, he played fifteen games, Like you

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Speaker 5: This year, you have to just change your expectations, take

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Speaker 5: it at RB two low end RB two on him

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Speaker 5: and just have your expectations in order when you go

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Speaker 5: be drafting his handcuffing Tank Bigsby. He can't get out

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Speaker 5: have your expectations in order because there's plenty of games

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Speaker 5: where you know, I just had to play Travis Etn,

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Speaker 5: one of those guys that you're gonna have to play

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Speaker 5: based on matchup and based on who they bring in.

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Speaker 5: You know, the coaching staff is gonna alter a lot

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Speaker 5: of the conversations that we're having right now.

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Speaker 3: Honestly. So it's a little bit early, but overall, Travis Etn,

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Speaker 3: you just have to change your expectations for some running backs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't even know if he's an RB two.

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Speaker 1: take Bigsby like they were back to back.

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Speaker 3: I had a league where I had both of them,

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Speaker 3: reason because there would be weeks You're like, all right,

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Speaker 3: they're gonna be trailing and it wouldn't be an easy

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Speaker 3: like I want no part of this backfield next year.

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Speaker 1: No, just yeah, I mean really, outside of Thomas, I

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Speaker 1: it's Brian Thomas Junior and maybe Christian Kirk. That's kind

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Speaker 1: of it, guys that I'm I have any real level

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Speaker 4: For sure.

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Speaker 3: With Thomas, I think it's gonna be a little of

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Speaker 3: what we both said. Like in home leagues he's gonna

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Speaker 3: be a second round pick, I think, but in those

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Speaker 3: like June Best Ball drafts, he'll go in.

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Speaker 4: The first I think.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I did so. I did a mock draft,

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Speaker 5: like on my own XL sheet. I got him right

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Speaker 5: now at the two to one spot. I'm okay with that.

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Speaker 5: I'm okay with going Rock Bowers at that one twelve

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Speaker 5: you're so you're taking Brock Bauers round one now one? Yeah,

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Speaker 5: that's my prediction. This is my early predictions right now

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Speaker 5: like I can't see myself taking Brian Thomas Junior over.

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Speaker 3: Pooking Nakua, you know.

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Speaker 5: I can't see him take us over Drake London. So

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Speaker 5: that that makes the back like Elie Neighbors, he's going

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Speaker 5: to be on that one ten spot, Like he's gonna

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Speaker 5: be at that one ten, one twelve spot, Like can

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Speaker 3: Honestly? Like I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's yeah, that's gonna be an interesting conversation once

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Speaker 1: we start doing some more mock drafts and that sort

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Speaker 1: team up. Who has the number six pick, and that's

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Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Raiders at four and thirteen. It was

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Speaker 1: was Brock Bowers. You know, one hundred and twelve receptions

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Speaker 1: rookie has been the overall tight end. One phenomenal season

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Speaker 1: not gone to the Raiders, I think the draft capitol

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Speaker 1: on him would have been nuts. He goes to the Raiders,

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Speaker 1: I for one was kind of like, oh no, I

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Speaker 1: Will be fine and everything worked out well for him.

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Speaker 4: He was the wide receiver nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Definitely I think benefited from Devontae Adams getting traded at

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Speaker 1: some point during the year. But career numbers for him,

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Speaker 1: said he's got Brock Bowers as a first round pick. Florio,

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Speaker 1: do you have him as a first round pick this year?

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Speaker 3: I could see him getting drafted as one me personally,

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Speaker 3: I will not be the one doing it. Not that

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Speaker 3: he doesn't deserve to be a first round pick, like

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Speaker 3: the numbers he gave us this year with the quarterbacks

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Speaker 3: that he did as a rookie, And it's not just

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Speaker 3: like I know, we could be like, oh, well, look,

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Speaker 3: running like ever. But for rookie tight ends, it really

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Speaker 3: than that's not the reason though I'm fading Bowers. I

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Speaker 3: so I need like a lot, like Lakwan says often, like,

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Speaker 3: Tray McBride in round two rather than take Brock Bowers

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Speaker 3: in round one, because I do think Bowers will go first.

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Speaker 3: I think the name, the hype of being younger, stuff

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Speaker 3: like that. But I just if he goes in round two,

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Speaker 3: I could maybe convince myself to do it. But in

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Speaker 3: and I've always hated it.

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Speaker 1: First thing, yes, Sam Laporter was worse in year two

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Speaker 3: It looks like it would be though for a bit.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, Kyle pins went from a thousand yards

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're talking about going from sixty yards a

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Speaker 4: That is dramatic. Laporter did not have. He did not

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Speaker 1: He's sort of he sort of walked down a hill.

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Speaker 1: I think for me to consider a tight end in

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Speaker 1: the case. I mean, Bowers was was phenomenal. He beat

437
00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:41,040
Speaker 1: Trade McBride by thirteen points. You know, like, that's not

438
00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:43,760
Speaker 1: that's not so, that's that such a huge gap that

439
00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:45,280
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I gotta have him, Like I.

440
00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:47,000
Speaker 4: Can wait this time.

441
00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:52,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I mean if Trade McBride scored more

442
00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:54,920
Speaker 1: than two touchdowns receiving touchdowns all season.

443
00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:57,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're only separated by the touchdowns really yeah.

444
00:20:57,600 --> 00:20:58,399
Speaker 4: I mean it really is.

445
00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yardage why, I think it's about about

446
00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,280
Speaker 1: fifty yards difference. It's like one reception different, Like that's

447
00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,240
Speaker 1: really it. It's the touchdowns that sort of made the

448
00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:09,080
Speaker 1: gap there between the two of them. So that's the

449
00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:12,480
Speaker 1: only reason I think I can't really do brock Bauers

450
00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,639
Speaker 1: in the in the first round at this point. So

451
00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:17,480
Speaker 1: that went right for the Raiders. What went wrong for

452
00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:21,719
Speaker 1: the Raiders? Sa Mere White? We can start there. I

453
00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:25,160
Speaker 1: was gonna put the quarterbacks here, but let's be honest.

454
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Speaker 1: I don't know that we had any real expectations for

455
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:29,840
Speaker 1: Raiders quarterbacks, did we.

456
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,160
Speaker 4: I mean no, the pre.

457
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,840
Speaker 3: Four wins, I did they not have? Hey, they gave

458
00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:39,400
Speaker 3: the Rams. They gave the Rams a game too, apparently,

459
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,080
Speaker 3: so it was just whoa all right?

460
00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:45,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the preseason was a mid off between Gardner

461
00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:49,720
Speaker 1: Minshew and Aidan O'Connell. At one point, things got so

462
00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:54,280
Speaker 1: bad between injury and under performance that we saw Desmond

463
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:58,439
Speaker 1: Ritter get a start. Yeah, we just had noise I

464
00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:00,399
Speaker 1: can't say that it went wrong because we didn't really

465
00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,800
Speaker 1: expect much from them in the first place. But Zamir White,

466
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:04,359
Speaker 1: there was hope.

467
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:05,639
Speaker 4: There was a lot of excitement.

468
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,320
Speaker 1: I said before the season, you know, Josh Jacobs left

469
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,479
Speaker 1: and everybody was like, all right, it's a mere White season.

470
00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,560
Speaker 1: And the Raiders went out and got Alexander Madison and everybody.

471
00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,000
Speaker 4: Was like, all right, it's a mere White season.

472
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,760
Speaker 1: And then in the end two hundred and thirteen scrimmage

473
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:23,119
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown and ended up missing the final

474
00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,919
Speaker 1: seven games because of injury. Ol Q, I don't know

475
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,960
Speaker 1: where where did you fall on Zamir White at the

476
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,600
Speaker 1: start of the season compared to like, you know what happened.

477
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Speaker 5: I would say as the summer started coming to it

478
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,040
Speaker 5: and I started coming around on the hype because it

479
00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:39,959
Speaker 5: was just everywhere, and you're just like, you know what,

480
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:42,720
Speaker 5: I don't you know, think that I can make a

481
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,280
Speaker 5: case not to really draft him out. I feel like

482
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,439
Speaker 5: he has the lead role. We've seen Alexander Madison produced

483
00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,040
Speaker 5: and it hasn't been much. But there's a lot of

484
00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:55,439
Speaker 5: folks in therapy right now experience like that was a

485
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:58,160
Speaker 5: terrible experience. Like all my teams that I had him

486
00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,159
Speaker 5: on were just complete nightmares. Like one of those leagues

487
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,880
Speaker 5: that I happened to have, you know, a Mir Duelo

488
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,639
Speaker 5: on the waiver wire. It saved my league and I

489
00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 5: still didn't make the playoffs. So it was just like

490
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 5: running backs, when we make these hype trains, we need

491
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 5: to look at the entire situation. Expectations at quarterback we

492
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,560
Speaker 5: didn't have any, so we knew it was bad. Expectations

493
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,440
Speaker 5: for the coaching, eh first year, first job, We'll see

494
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 5: how it goes with the culture and see if they

495
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:24,960
Speaker 5: go out there and win games. But they weren't gonna

496
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:27,200
Speaker 5: win a bunch of games. The whole entire situation just

497
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,479
Speaker 5: had a red flag of just bad, bad, bad, And

498
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:32,560
Speaker 5: we still went out there and drafted this guy in

499
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,119
Speaker 5: the first six seven rounds like it's real nasty one.

500
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 3: I think the big like, it's so funny to me

501
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 3: that him and Alexander Madison shared the backfield because Samir

502
00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 3: White was the Alexander Madison from the year prior. And

503
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,879
Speaker 3: to me, I think what the big lesson is is

504
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,359
Speaker 3: we need to stop seeing a running back, a backup

505
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 3: running back have a good game or a couple of

506
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,240
Speaker 3: good games and be like, now, imagine what he could

507
00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 3: do over seventeen because it's so much easier to do

508
00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:03,119
Speaker 3: it in a spot start or for a couple of games,

509
00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,679
Speaker 3: especially when there's not tape out on you late in

510
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:08,119
Speaker 3: the year, especially when defenses are banged up, like Zamir

511
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 3: White did it last at the end of twenty twenty three.

512
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 3: So I don't know who fits the bill. I have

513
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 3: to like think more who fits the bill for this

514
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 3: year in that mold, but like stop chasing these small

515
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,360
Speaker 3: sample sizes and thinking like, all right if it hits

516
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,200
Speaker 3: over seventeen games, because it's there's a reason why Zamir

517
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 3: White and Alexander Madison were career backups for so long,

518
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 3: taking a pen and scratching out my sincere McCormick takes.

519
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:33,919
Speaker 3: I love.

520
00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 4: Sincere McCormick.

521
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:40,879
Speaker 1: We love the sincere McCormick, But the Sincere McCormick sample

522
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 1: size was really small. It was basically two games. Then

523
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,119
Speaker 1: unfortunately he got hurt. We didn't see him for the

524
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:50,200
Speaker 1: rest of the year. Uh yeah, granted it's a little

525
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: bit different. He was a rookie, but he was also

526
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 1: a rookie that wouldn't have seen the field, were it

527
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 1: not for Zamir White being awful and getting injured in

528
00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 1: an Alexander Madison sort of being out Xander Madison. You know,

529
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,080
Speaker 1: so I hope, I hope we did take that lesson

530
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:07,879
Speaker 1: away that Hey, look, let's not get too hyped on

531
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,919
Speaker 1: Sincere McCormick. The Raiders another situation though, where there's a

532
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 1: complete overhaul with Antonio Pierce being let go, Tom Telesco

533
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 1: being let go. I did sort of weirdly appreciate that

534
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: the Raiders did those two things on on separate days,

535
00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 1: so that, you know, we got the.

536
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,640
Speaker 4: Time to mourn them both individually.

537
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,679
Speaker 1: It was like, oh, Antonio Pierce got let go, like

538
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:30,960
Speaker 1: I have a day, and then like two days later, like,

539
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:34,000
Speaker 1: oh Tom Telesco let go, Like okay, we can mourn

540
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 1: him for a couple of days.

541
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 4: I was shocked they.

542
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 3: Fired to LESCo like he he hit, he hit one

543
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,000
Speaker 3: draft and he hit he got, you guys, the best

544
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 3: tight end in the league.

545
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:43,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, even if it.

546
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 1: Was on accident, Like even if he didn't plan for

547
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 1: it to happen, right, I mean everything said they wanted

548
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 1: Michael Pennix and the focus with surprize, and then they

549
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,159
Speaker 1: were like all right, Well, I guess we'll.

550
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 4: Just take brock Bauers and it worked out.

551
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,359
Speaker 1: So, Yeah, some of the free agents coming up for

552
00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,919
Speaker 1: the Raiders, Alexander Madison, I mean, Abdullah Tarras Marshall junior,

553
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 1: Desmond Ritter.

554
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 4: The Marshall was the guys who knows who knows.

555
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,879
Speaker 1: Marshall was interesting because he started to get on the

556
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: field late in the season, and I think everybody had

557
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 1: the same reaction, like he caught a pass and a

558
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 1: game late and hear everybody's like Sarah Marshall juniors with

559
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 1: the Raiders, Like I think we all sort of collectively

560
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: did that, Like, oh, I have no idea.

561
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 4: We'll see if he's with the Raiders next year.

562
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: Anyway, that gets us to time to see who will deliver.

563
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:35,159
Speaker 1: Presented by Uber Eats, Let's get back to brock Bowers

564
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: because he is kind of the one thing that's really

565
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 1: fun to talk.

566
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 4: About with the Raiders right now.

567
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:43,640
Speaker 1: So I will ask each of you, both of you

568
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: you Eat individually to plant the flag here in mid January.

569
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 4: Will brock Bauers not can he?

570
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 1: But will brock Bauers repeat as the tight end one

571
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 1: throwing in for context the last player to go back

572
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,159
Speaker 1: to back as the tight end one overall, probably not

573
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 1: a big surprise. It was Travis Kelcey in twenty nineteen,

574
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: did it again in twenty twenty, Lakwan, I will start

575
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 1: with you, will Brock Bauers if you had to say

576
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 1: it right now in mid January?

577
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 4: Will he be the tight end one?

578
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,679
Speaker 5: Yes, only because I do not expect good things from

579
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 5: this offense and he remains to hyper focus and have

580
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 5: a high target share. Like just being honest, there's not

581
00:27:23,680 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 5: much of a talent threat around him versus with Trey

582
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:27,959
Speaker 5: McBride having Marmon Harrison junior.

583
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 3: Hopefully Greg Dorsch is there as well next.

584
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 5: Season, but I just feel like there's more talent around,

585
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 5: you know, Trey McBride. But Brock Bowers, Yeah, I think

586
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 5: he does the repeat back to back Florida.

587
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 4: Does he go back to back?

588
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,640
Speaker 3: I think he should be the favorite to do so.

589
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 3: I think it's probably a three man race between him, McBride,

590
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 3: and Kittle. But I'll take the field just because you're

591
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 3: giving me thirty one other options versus one, So that's

592
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 3: really only thinking. But I do think Bowers should be

593
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 3: viewed like again, it should be him and McBride as

594
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 3: the top two tight ends going off the board, and

595
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 3: I'm a sucker for Trey McBride, but I'll be honest,

596
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 3: I probably won't have either one of them on my

597
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 3: teams because I don't love if he's going a second

598
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 3: round pick on a tight end either. I think what

599
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do with tight end this year is what

600
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 3: I always It's January, We'll see I always get sucked

601
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,880
Speaker 3: into the middle tier like the donkin Caid's, the Kyle Pitts's.

602
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 3: I think this year, I'm just gonna punk the position,

603
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:29,679
Speaker 3: like I'm not gonna suspend a second round pick on

604
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,440
Speaker 3: these two guys. So I'll just wait till the double

605
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 3: digit rounds and hope I could find something off waivers

606
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 3: or something. As the year JO get yourself from John Smith.

607
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 3: This year you did better than drafting a tight end

608
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 3: outside of the top ten.

609
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: Sehan, Who's not gonna last tho the double digit rounds? Though,

610
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,360
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the thing. I'm saying that right One.

611
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 1: I'm planting my flag on two things right now. One,

612
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: if you're gonna ask me right now, I say Trey

613
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: McBride finishes the year as the tight end one, like

614
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: he's gonna score more tons, he's gonna score more touchdowns

615
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: next year. They're gonna work that out to make that happen.

616
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: And if you were looking for a later round tight

617
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: end to be your guy, Tyler Warren from Penn State,

618
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: that's the guy that I am planting my flag on.

619
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: He's going to be the next Like we're gonna go

620
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: from Laporta to Bowers to Warren. I'm not sitting here

621
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 1: telling you that Tyler Warren is going to be the

622
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: tight end one. But if you're looking for a late

623
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 1: round tight end, I think he's going to be the

624
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 1: guy that.

625
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 4: A lot of folks are going to be excited about.

626
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 3: Black Licent, Ohio State gets you jail time.

627
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: That's right, thank you, Thank goodness. I'm nowhere near Columbus

628
00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: right now. That's all I'm saying. I'm nowhere near Columbus anyway.

629
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 4: That was Who Will Deliver.

630
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,480
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631
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,320
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633
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:49,000
Speaker 4: Order. Now, all right, we're just getting started.

634
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,239
Speaker 1: We got a couple more teams to dive into the

635
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: Jets because I think the Carolina Panthers will dive into that.

636
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: Plus our divisional round preview that's coming up next on

637
00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Football Pod. Continuing our exit interviews, we

638
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 1: are doing draft picks five through eights and coming in

639
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: at number seven the New York Jets.

640
00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 4: It went five and twelve.

641
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: When I was going through the what went right, what

642
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,760
Speaker 1: went wrongs, it just so for one went right, I

643
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: went Breeze Hall, I went Garrett Wilson, Breese Hall over

644
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 1: thirteen hundred and fifty scrimmageyards, eight total touchdowns, the RB sixteen,

645
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson over one hundred catches, over eleven hundred yards,

646
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns, the wide receiver ten. But Florida, it just

647
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: it didn't feel like they went right right because of

648
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: where we drafted them and what the expectations were. Like

649
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 1: I think in a vacuum, if you look at it,

650
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, those are pretty good seasons. But it

651
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 1: just felt like because our expectations were so high for

652
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:49,440
Speaker 1: both of those players. I mean, Brice Hall we were

653
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 1: talking about is a top five, maybe even top three

654
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: draft pick, depending on your situation. I don't know, just

655
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: it felt disappointing. Even if I guess statistically it wasn't

656
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: is that is that wrong?

657
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 3: No? No, I think that you hit the nail on

658
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 3: the head there. I think if you asked a football fan, like,

659
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 3: did these guys have a good season, they would say yes.

660
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 3: If you asked a Jets fan, and I have a

661
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 3: chat with a lot of Jet fan friends, uh, they

662
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 3: would say no. Like they were very disappointed in breze Hall.

663
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 3: The inconsistency and it wasn't even bres Hall, it was

664
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 3: the way he was used. But if you ask fantasy players,

665
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 3: this was a huge disappointment for bris Hall because there

666
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 3: was wars waged on Fantasy Twitter last summer who should

667
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,959
Speaker 3: be the RB two, Bijon or bris Hall and then

668
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,959
Speaker 3: he finishes as the RB sixteen and he had I

669
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 3: believe I don't want to get the stat wrong, but

670
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 3: I believe it was he had more games with single

671
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 3: digit carries than he did with twenty or something along

672
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 3: those lines, Like they just weren't using him well, they

673
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 3: weren't using him near the goal line. And then for

674
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 3: Garrett Wilson, like he was, he was putting up number

675
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 3: He started off slow, then he put up numbers in

676
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 3: the middle of the year, and then Devonsea Adams took

677
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 3: over and it was extremely hit or missed, so like

678
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 3: I didn't have a ton of either of them on

679
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 3: my fantasy teams. But the bit that I did, I

680
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 3: was like, they're too good nut to sit, Like you

681
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 3: gotta start them every week. There's gonna be some weeks

682
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 3: where you're happy, and more often than not, though, there's

683
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 3: gonna be a lot of weeks where you're like I

684
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 3: expected better. So yeah, I I'm really curious, whethy, Like,

685
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 3: where do you guys think Hall and Wilson get drafted

686
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 3: next year?

687
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: So I was gonna I'm gonna ask, so Lakwano, you

688
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: have you have unequivalently said you are not taking a

689
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: running back in the first round, that you're you're going

690
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 1: to go wide receiver. Do you don't care where you're drafting,

691
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: but look, somebody is going to take running backs in

692
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: the first round. Do you envision Brice Hall being one

693
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 1: of those guys that shows up in the first twelve picks?

694
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 5: No, And my mock, I got him at two oh three,

695
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 5: two a four, where I think he'll live and brief

696
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 5: and this is very very early of where I got

697
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 5: him because obviously he can move up based on different situations.

698
00:32:55,680 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 5: But you literally, Marcus explained, like the numbers are good,

699
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 5: but it was a disappointing.

700
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 3: Show, and how are they not the Jersey Shore.

701
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 5: Like the numbers in eight gree The show's discussing it's terrible,

702
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 5: but it's entertaining. You cannot stop watching the circus. It's

703
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 5: literally the Jets. Like I just feel as though, like

704
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 5: if you're going to draft a Jets player, just whatever

705
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 5: your draft is, just put in your mind and expectations

706
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 5: that there's going to be ups and downs if Aaron

707
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 5: Rodgers is still in that building come next season, like

708
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 5: they need to blow the entire thing up, Like they

709
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 5: need to start fresh at the quarterback position. Get Davonte

710
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 5: Adams back to the Packers, since he's talking about in

711
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:37,440
Speaker 5: the interviews he wants to go back to Green Bay

712
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 5: because they need a league guy. How'd you leave the

713
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 5: first place they needed you then now they're trying to

714
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,560
Speaker 5: go back. But anyway, looking at the whole scope of it,

715
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 5: like I just feel disgusting taking Garrett Wilson or Bris

716
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 5: Hall in those first two rounds, just based on just

717
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 5: the entire circus of this past season.

718
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 3: What running backs do you have ahead of him and

719
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 3: what right behind him?

720
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 5: So I sayqua Bijon, Jamier Gibbs, Christian McCaffrey, Derrick Henry.

721
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 3: That is literally the argument.

722
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 5: You can't and there's a debate that you take Kyram

723
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 5: Williams over Breese Hall and it's like he ends up

724
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 5: almost RB seven.

725
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 3: The only one I think you could debate is Christian McCaffrey,

726
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 3: and that just depends on if you want to take

727
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 3: that risk or not.

728
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 1: That's just the injury risk. Yeah, no, it's it really

729
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: is the injury risk there. I if this is the

730
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: consensus right, which means you have Breecee Hall falling to

731
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 1: the second round, I can envision myself getting suckered back.

732
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 4: Into Breese Hall again.

733
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he's incredibly talented. I didn't really understand the

734
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: usage for the jets of them just kind of sprinkling

735
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: in other guys in the backfield.

736
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 4: I didn't. I didn't really understand.

737
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 1: You know, when we started seeing Braylan Braylan Adward, I

738
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 1: almost call him Braylan Edwards, Breylan Allen, you know Isaiah Davis, Like,

739
00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: I didn't really understand that. I'm but if you know,

740
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 1: we had a new head coach in here and maybe

741
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,479
Speaker 1: a new play caller that's just like, hey, we're gonna

742
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: run the ball. We're gonna establish I don't even know established,

743
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: but we're gonna use Breeze Hall. Like I can see

744
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 1: myself getting sucked back into it. But if the going

745
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: rate is the second round, I take that. No, I'll

746
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: take that.

747
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 3: What about these so a couple of names that LQ

748
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:23,320
Speaker 3: did not say that, I'm just like, I'm gonna throw, well, five,

749
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 3: it's five, But I think you can make a case

750
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 3: for all five of these names over him. Devon hn

751
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 3: Josh Jacobs, James Cook, Jonathan Taylor, Bucky Irving, Joe Mixon

752
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 3: there Joe Mixon in there too.

753
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 4: A yeah, So are we are?

754
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 1: We? Are we right now putting Breeze Hall outside the

755
00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: top twelve running backs? Is he or is he right

756
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 1: at He's sounds like he's right at twelve right now?

757
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 3: Huh he's in that second year. That's still weird, Like

758
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 3: I'm taking JT over him.

759
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:55,440
Speaker 1: I think I think there's a there's an honest debate

760
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: to be had about all of this. But also because

761
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 1: I think I'm still again, I'm still kind of a

762
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:05,959
Speaker 1: sucker for the talent. I just have this right now. Again,

763
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: this being mid January and there's still a long way

764
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 1: to go, but this feeling that Breeze Hawking ended up

765
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: being one of those you know, late second round, early

766
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 1: third round picks that we get to, like late October,

767
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: you're like, man, we fed up letting him fall that

768
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: fuck Like, like it just feels like it could be

769
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: that way, but you know, on the flip side, it's

770
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 1: the Jets, so it could just be like, yeah, man,

771
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 1: this was a mistake, like what are we doing?

772
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what just blew my mind looking at

773
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 3: it right now. Of the top twenty one running backs

774
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:39,400
Speaker 3: in Fantasy Points, the only two to not run for

775
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,359
Speaker 3: nine hundred yards are Breeze Hall and David Montgomery, who

776
00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:42,799
Speaker 3: got hurt.

777
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 4: Wow.

778
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like Montgomery had the like I got hurt and

779
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: I'm sharing with another top tier back in Jamiir Gibbs.

780
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: That sort of made sense the Breeze Hall went. I

781
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 1: think this year is going to be a head scratcher

782
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: for a really, really long time. You mentioned Jarrett Wilson too,

783
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 1: I mean, how much of Garrett Wilson is going to

784
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 1: be dependent on.

785
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 4: Waves?

786
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 1: It everything? Play call her quarterback? Like all of that

787
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: For Garrett Wilson, Yes.

788
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 6: He also is unhappy he'd be somewhere if he goes

789
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 6: somewhere with a good quarterback.

790
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 3: I'm immediately right back in.

791
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: Will the Jets really prioritize Aaron Rodgers over Garrett Wilson?

792
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,959
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean it's it's very dumb. But if any

793
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 3: if I told you eighteen wants to do it, the

794
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:37,879
Speaker 3: Jets are probably the first one that come to mind.

795
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:43,280
Speaker 4: Yeah. No, I mean you're right, You're right.

796
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 3: They'll be back to square one at quarterback. Who are

797
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 3: they going to bring in? Who are they going to

798
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 3: They should just play Tyrod Taylor. I think, like, this

799
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 3: is I this is It sounds dumb, but I've said

800
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 3: this to my Jet fan friends a lot. They should

801
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 3: sign Rex Ryan higher Rex Ryan, I've leave and give

802
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 3: him two years and just be like, look, if it

803
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,319
Speaker 3: doesn't work out, you're gone and we're blowing everything up.

804
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 3: But like, let's see if we can make the most

805
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 3: out of this. Unless they really like Glenn and he

806
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 3: wants that job, but it seems like that not that

807
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 3: job is not that in demand right now, and Rex

808
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 3: is publicly checked. I'm like, yo, be fun at least

809
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 3: like if you're gonna be bad, be entertaining, Lake Jersey shure, Yes,

810
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 3: there you go.

811
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: I just I can't. I can't envision any right thinking

812
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 1: person really gonna side with a temperamental declining in skills

813
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:40,680
Speaker 1: forty something year old quarterback over an incredibly talented soon

814
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: to be twenty five year old wide receiver. But I

815
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 1: also never imagine that a NFL franchise would make personnel

816
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,439
Speaker 1: decisions based on Madden Rating.

817
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,879
Speaker 4: So there you go.

818
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 3: There are the ones. Oh so you think they like

819
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 3: if Breicehall struggles as Madden rating goes down, and like

820
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,359
Speaker 3: they get you for that, and.

821
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:02,839
Speaker 1: Then there's like and then the Jets were like, maybe

822
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 1: we should have rid of this guy? Is Madden rating stinks?

823
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: Like what are we doing?

824
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 4: Just man snake eating its own tail?

825
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 1: Uh? Ending free agents? Tyler Conklin. My question for what

826
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: I had on the rundown just peek behind the curtain

827
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: for y'all. I was really struggling to come up with

828
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 1: something to talk about with the Jets, and my question

829
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:21,760
Speaker 1: was just like, why are the Jets?

830
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 4: And I think we sort of dissected why.

831
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, I knew that wasn't the typo by the way.

832
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't a type of like I just really

833
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 1: didn't know what specifically to ask.

834
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 4: But it seems like we've sort of broken this link down.

835
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 5: I text you, I was like, I'm struggling to figure

836
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 5: out how to answer this question.

837
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm struggling to come up with

838
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 1: a questions.

839
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 4: That's what it is, all right.

840
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 1: The number eight pick belongs to the Carolina Panthers. They

841
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: were five and twelve h easily. What went right was

842
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 1: Chewba Hubbard in a year where we were all unanimous

843
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: that like, hey, man, go draft Jonathan Brooks. You might

844
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: have to wait a few weeks. Yeah, but Jonathan Brooks

845
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: is going to be the guy. I mean, Chewba Hubbard

846
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,840
Speaker 1: is just he's just a seat filler. And you know

847
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: it won't It won't be too long before Brooks is

848
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: in there and Chuba Hubbard basically just stiff armed Jonathan

849
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,919
Speaker 1: Brooks for most of the season. Thirteen hundred and sixty

850
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: six scrimmage yards, eleven total touchdowns, running back fourteen. Unfortunately

851
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,400
Speaker 1: suffered an injury late in the season, didn't get to

852
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 1: finish out the year, but a phenomenal season for a

853
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: guy that we were drafting sort of as like a

854
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: hey man like, draft him. Now you have to use

855
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:28,799
Speaker 1: it for a few weeks and eventually he'll go to

856
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: the bench and you can, I don't know, trade him,

857
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: do whatever. And it turned out that he was a

858
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:36,399
Speaker 1: worthwhile starter all year long. The other thing that went

859
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: right was late season Bryce Young, But what went wrong

860
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 1: was the early season Bryce Young. So I mean, Lakwan,

861
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 1: I'll ask you, I mean, with Bryce Song, where are.

862
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 4: We what are we thinking about him?

863
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 1: Because even at his best, like he was kind of

864
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 1: a barely usable fantasy starter. This feels like one of

865
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:57,319
Speaker 1: those things where it was encouraging, but we're still not

866
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 1: at hashtag good yet.

867
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,319
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're not as good yet, but it's definitely one

868
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 5: of those things, like a hot take. I could say

869
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,319
Speaker 5: right now in January that Bryce Shong will be a

870
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:09,280
Speaker 5: top twelve quarterback and I say that because we saw

871
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,640
Speaker 5: him play with confidence, him having fun out there. He

872
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 5: has weapons all around him. And I think now that

873
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 5: you know they go in the draft, they have draft pick,

874
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:19,240
Speaker 5: they have stock, they can keep adding to this arsenal.

875
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 5: They can keep adding weapons around him. And John out

876
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 5: to Chuba Hubbard having the season he's had. I mean, honestly,

877
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 5: they established a run a lot and that's what open

878
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:30,239
Speaker 5: up a lot for Bryce Young, having a capable running back,

879
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:33,359
Speaker 5: having a capable offense that have some functionality for him

880
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 5: to go out there and ball out. But overall, I

881
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 5: like a lot of the Carolina Panthers pieces in fantasy

882
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:42,280
Speaker 5: if they fall to me in drafts. I'd like Sanders

883
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 5: at the tight end position. He's young, he's up and coming.

884
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 5: I'd like obviously Chuba Hubbard, and you have Xavier Lee.

885
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 3: Get that.

886
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,800
Speaker 5: You know he's coming along as well. So this entire

887
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 5: Panthers offense, you're just looking at it like hmm, I

888
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,239
Speaker 5: can't wait to get these guys as flex options or

889
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 5: even like wide receiver two options.

890
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 1: That was gonna my next question Florida about the wide receivers, right,

891
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: because let's let's go way back to about this time

892
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: last year, maybe a little later, but Deoncey Johnson was

893
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 1: supposed to be the savior of this offense, right he

894
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: has he's run through three teams or three teams have

895
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,839
Speaker 1: just passed him around at this point, and he's him.

896
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 3: Yeah.

897
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 1: I mean, we saw flashes from Leguette, we saw a

898
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:26,839
Speaker 1: little bit from Jalen Cocher adam feeling and it took

899
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: some pet pills or something late in it. That's metaphor

900
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 1: I suggesting that he was out here doing you know, drugs,

901
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,439
Speaker 1: but like had some metaphorical pet pills late in the season.

902
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 4: They gotta get going.

903
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 1: But like, is there anybody that you're really like super

904
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:45,280
Speaker 1: excited about beyond say a late round flyer at this point.

905
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 3: No, But I don't believe their wide receiver one is

906
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:52,879
Speaker 3: on their roster right now, or at least I don't

907
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 3: believe that they they wanted to be Like, I wouldn't

908
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 3: be surprised if they in the draft or or signed

909
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 3: someone or did something like that. The other thing is

910
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 3: I am a Bryce Young supporter. Look, any quarterback was

911
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 3: under six foot, I'm going to go to back but

912
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 3: Kings Unite, Yeah, exactly. And I was on Twitter a

913
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 3: lot this year being like Bryce Young is looking the

914
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:19,439
Speaker 3: part in all of that. And there's a difference though

915
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 3: between playing well and being good for fantasy, and Bryce

916
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 3: Young wasn't great for fantasy as good as he was

917
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 3: playing in real life. Like you look at his game

918
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 3: logs from week twelve on, he topped two hundred and

919
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 3: fifty passing yards three times, and twice it was two

920
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 3: sixty three and two fifty one. Never hit three hundred routinely,

921
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 3: was around two hundred or less. So like there's room

922
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 3: for growth, there's room for optimism. I think you feel

923
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,399
Speaker 3: very good right now if you are a Panthers fan.

924
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 3: I think the verdict on Bryce Young was way premature,

925
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 3: but not enough for me to really be bullish and

926
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 3: pull someone up the draft board from his pass kid

927
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 3: from what his past catcher group currently is. Although I

928
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 3: say that and I was the one that was pounding

929
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 3: the table last year for Deon s Johnson and Jonathan Brooks,

930
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 3: but really Deon say Johnson a whole lot.

931
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I don't think you were alone. I

932
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 4: think a lot of us were.

933
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: I mean, and I say this as somebody who you know,

934
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: went to you know who wrote the sleeper column and

935
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: kept going back to the Bryce Young well over and

936
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 1: over again late in the season, like after he came

937
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,840
Speaker 1: back from getting benched, he was playing better, but it

938
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: wasn't always translating fantasy wise, right, So it's like you

939
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 1: looked at the matches, Hey, maybe it's a good matchup,

940
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,120
Speaker 1: and it's you know, it's fourteen points, it's fifteen points,

941
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: it's twelve points. Like it was something that looked better

942
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 1: on the field. We talked on you know, on Tuesday,

943
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:45,440
Speaker 1: we talked about Drake Mang and sort of said it

944
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 1: was a kind of you had to be there sort

945
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: of moment, and I sort of feel that way with

946
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 1: Bryce Young, where you know, when you watched him it

947
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: looked better, although that also might have had something to

948
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: do with how bad it looked at the start of

949
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: the season. It just wasn't a thing that really really

950
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: translated for fantasy.

951
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 3: What's wild that we're not talking about c J. Stroud

952
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 3: and how they kind of think most like I mean

953
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 3: CJ at QB eighteen, Bryce Young at twenty, Like I'm

954
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 3: just sitting here just saying, like he helped a couple

955
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 3: of people out though you're.

956
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 1: Right, no, I mean they sort of they sort of emerged,

957
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: They kind of came back together again this year.

958
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, like they came back together conversation, but in a

959
00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 5: negative light. But I don't know, man, I'm taking the

960
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 5: flyer on Bryce Young, Like I just feel confident that

961
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:35,359
Speaker 5: you know, when you do draft him, he's obviously your

962
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 5: QB two or if you're in super flexily, he's your

963
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 5: QB three. There's just some upside there. There's something that

964
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 5: we're not really seeing. Yeah, maybe you know, maybe it's

965
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 5: worth diving back.

966
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,760
Speaker 3: Yet it was running more, which is great for him. Yeah.

967
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:53,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, the rushing touchdown numbers late in the season really

968
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: helped a lot. I that's the feeling. A thing though

969
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: that I don't know is sustainable. Like, I don't know

970
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:02,239
Speaker 1: if I'm the I want him running a whole lot,

971
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 1: you know. So it worked out. I just don't know

972
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: if that's a thing that comes back again next year

973
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 1: for sure.

974
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 4: Lay what are we doing about Jonathan Brooks?

975
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:15,360
Speaker 3: Though I'm not drafting him? And I say this as

976
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,720
Speaker 3: someone who wrote an article in the summer ten Biggest

977
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 3: League Winners and had him as number one. I thought

978
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 3: he was gonna be on the Todd Gurley path, like,

979
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 3: miss the first few games of the year and then

980
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:28,359
Speaker 3: maybe a game or two to get acclimated and then

981
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:32,719
Speaker 3: just run wild. And it did not one. Look at

982
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:36,360
Speaker 3: how they slow play, and look now in retrospect, it

983
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 3: looks like they did the right thing, but look at

984
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 3: how they slow played this last season. We didn't see

985
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 3: him return until double digit weeks and then he tore

986
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 3: his ACL later this year than he had the prior year.

987
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:53,080
Speaker 3: Now it's two. I don't want to wait until week twelve.

988
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 3: Like when I tell you that Jonathan Brooks was on

989
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 3: almost every one of my rosters this year, it was

990
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 3: so annoy being like I have this spot my IR

991
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 3: team's okay, but leaves that didn't have an IR, I'm like,

992
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,280
Speaker 3: I'm wasting a spot here. And like when the buys

993
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 3: hit an injuries start hitting, You're like, I don't want

994
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,720
Speaker 3: to drop this guy because I've already waited seven weeks,

995
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 3: but like it's the sucking cost fallacy or whatever it

996
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,240
Speaker 3: is and stuff like that. And uh, he's more someone

997
00:47:21,320 --> 00:47:24,399
Speaker 3: that I could see getting drafted and then throw him

998
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 3: back on waivers or something like that. And if he does,

999
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,960
Speaker 3: that's how I'll have him on my teams. But I'm

1000
00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:32,840
Speaker 3: not taking a unless I'm in a keeper league with

1001
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 3: an IR spot, I'm not gonna stash him on my

1002
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:36,359
Speaker 3: bench all year.

1003
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 4: Again.

1004
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's the thing, Like one you have

1005
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:42,240
Speaker 1: this situation where suba got paid, then you have books

1006
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:45,319
Speaker 1: getting hurt, so I just, yeah, it feels tough, which

1007
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: is a tough start to the season for Brooks or

1008
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:49,240
Speaker 1: the career, I should say for Brooks.

1009
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 4: It just makes it tough to really count on him

1010
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:52,720
Speaker 4: for Fantasy.

1011
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 3: Two ACL tears in thirteen months, that is insane.

1012
00:47:57,280 --> 00:48:01,839
Speaker 1: That's brutal, just brutal, absolutely brutal. Certainly, you know, best

1013
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 1: wishes in his recovery and we'd love to see him

1014
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 1: get on the field and get some actual time there.

1015
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:10,440
Speaker 1: So we'll see when that is going to happen. We

1016
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:12,439
Speaker 1: know there's going to be games on the field this week,

1017
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 1: the Divisional Round hits coming up on Saturday and Sunday.

1018
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: We'll take a break, come back in preview the four

1019
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:19,799
Speaker 1: games that you expect to see this week.

1020
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 4: That's next on the NFL Fantasy Football Show.

1021
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:28,400
Speaker 1: We are through the Wildcard round. We are onto the

1022
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: Divisional Round. Four games on DAP this week, just a

1023
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:35,720
Speaker 1: quick preview as we get ready to wrap up the show.

1024
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 1: We'll start with the Texans and the Chiefs and Kawani last,

1025
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: because look, the Texans defense has been really the thing

1026
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 1: kind of keeping this team afloat for much of the

1027
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: year because CJ. Stroud, We've talked about plenty of times,

1028
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 1: has been very inconsistent. The offense lost two big pieces

1029
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 1: with Stefan Diggs and Tank Dell, Joe Mixon kind of

1030
00:48:56,000 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: faded down the stretch. So can they Texans defense do

1031
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 1: enough to disrupt the Chiefs offense because it feels like

1032
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 1: that's really the only way they can win.

1033
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:06,399
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1034
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 5: I mean the Texans defense, they're disciplined, They're one of

1035
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:10,840
Speaker 5: the best defenses in the league. They had an amazing

1036
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 5: regular season in the stats, I mean, top of the

1037
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 5: table when it comes to delivering pressure, getting sacks and

1038
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 5: creating turnovers and taking the ball away. But they're going

1039
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 5: against the God of Mischief Loki. They're going against pat

1040
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 5: To Mahomes. So we're calling him now, Yeah, he's Loki, man.

1041
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 5: He is creative, he adapts to every situation. He's unpredictable.

1042
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 5: He's one of those quarterbacks you just can't count out.

1043
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 5: And that sounds exactly like Loki, who finds his way

1044
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 5: clean out of any situation. He adapts to the God

1045
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 5: of mischief. Man, this is Loki they're going up against.

1046
00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 5: And are you really going to bet against Patrick Mahomes

1047
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 5: as good as his text defenses, Like, I think they

1048
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 5: will be disruptive, but it's Patrick Mahomes at the end.

1049
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:49,439
Speaker 3: Of the day.

1050
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 1: So the difference is like Loki started off as kind

1051
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 1: of a bad guy with him, by.

1052
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:56,240
Speaker 4: The end it kind of come around.

1053
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: It was sort of working like with the Avengers, I

1054
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: would say, Mahomes has kind of gone the other way,

1055
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 1: where like at the beginning.

1056
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,479
Speaker 4: It was like, yeah, this is kind of fine, Will

1057
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:03,959
Speaker 4: and now.

1058
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:09,800
Speaker 1: It's just like, no, man, I've had enough done like that.

1059
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: That's the that's the only that's the only difference I

1060
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 1: would have with that one there. But yeah, I get

1061
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 1: the Census could be a lower scoring game. I mean,

1062
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 1: I could be wrong, because the Chiefs offense is starting

1063
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:23,880
Speaker 1: to come online. They just kept getting guys back and

1064
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: adding pieces and getting healthier and you know, starting to

1065
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 1: figure some things out. We know their defense is very

1066
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: good against a questionable Texans offense. I really think the

1067
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 1: Texans have to force some turnovers and and try to

1068
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,719
Speaker 1: set up short fields as much as possible to stay

1069
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: in this game.

1070
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 4: Otherwise it you know, I don't know.

1071
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 1: There's no way I think the Texans can score with

1072
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:49,759
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and try to go back and forth that

1073
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: way and be successful.

1074
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 3: How how do you guys feel about because we've seen

1075
00:50:54,719 --> 00:50:57,879
Speaker 3: we saw this game the week before Christmas, So like,

1076
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 3: how do you feel about when it's two non divisional

1077
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:04,319
Speaker 3: opponents matching up for a second time, because we had

1078
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 3: it twice last weekend and the Commanders beat the Bucks,

1079
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 3: which happened flip, but then the Rams beat the Vikings again,

1080
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:12,359
Speaker 3: so like we it was split results there.

1081
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 1: I think when the teams are a little bit closer together,

1082
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 1: Like I just think there's a big gap between the

1083
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 1: Texans and the Chiefs, right like I think I think

1084
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 1: with Bucks and Commanders, you could make a case that

1085
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,840
Speaker 1: they were a little more evenly matched. I think the Rams,

1086
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,279
Speaker 1: after that bad start, the one and four start, like,

1087
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: the Rams were one of the best teams in the

1088
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:34,239
Speaker 1: league the rest of the season, So I think you

1089
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:38,920
Speaker 1: could make the case that you know that it was

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00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:40,319
Speaker 1: possible that that could happen.

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00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:41,240
Speaker 4: I didn't think they would.

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Speaker 1: I think they would blow them out, blow out the

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00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 1: Vikings the way they did it, But I could believe

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00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: that they would win.

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00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:47,760
Speaker 4: I just don't think.

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00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 1: I think the gap between the tie the Texans and

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00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:51,239
Speaker 1: the Chiefs is.

1098
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 4: Too big for that thing.

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00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of the Commanders, Florio Commanders at Lions, like

1100
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: the commander defense is good, not necessarily great the Lions

1101
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:04,840
Speaker 1: defense even with all the injuries.

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00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 4: I mean, shout out.

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00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,399
Speaker 1: To Aaron Glenn for keeping this group together and having

1104
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 1: them continue to be productive. This feels like one I

1105
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:14,760
Speaker 1: said that I don't think the Texans can outscore the Chiefs.

1106
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 1: Does Jaden Daniels have to outscore the Lions? Does he

1107
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,360
Speaker 1: have to try to match Jared goffin the Lions for

1108
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 1: the Commanders to win this thing?

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00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 3: Yes, if they're going to win unique and this is

1110
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 3: out before the Lions played the Vikings. One thing I

1111
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 3: kept saying on Twitter was like, yeah, everyone could point

1112
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:33,640
Speaker 3: out how bad the Lions defense is and how many

1113
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 3: players they're missing and all of this stuff, you still

1114
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:40,239
Speaker 3: have to outrun them in a track race. And one

1115
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 3: team was able to do that, the Buffalo Bills. But

1116
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:47,759
Speaker 3: besides that, every team has come up short. And this

1117
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 3: is gonna be a wacky game where I keep joking,

1118
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:52,400
Speaker 3: I don't think we're gonna see any field goals. I

1119
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 3: don't thin we're gonna see any punts. I think it's

1120
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:58,839
Speaker 3: just gonna be touchdowns or turnovers and that's it. But yeah,

1121
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 3: Jaden's gonna have to go out there and put up

1122
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 3: thirty something points and I as much as I love

1123
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 3: Jayden Daniels, I would be shocked if the Commanders pulled

1124
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:11,319
Speaker 3: this one off because the Commanders did have a lot

1125
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 3: of bounces go their way in season and even this

1126
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 3: past week against the Bucks. Like you could argue that

1127
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 3: they cost themselves a lot of points by being overly aggressive,

1128
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:25,280
Speaker 3: and you could also argue that if Baker doesn't fumble

1129
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 3: the ball late, they don't win this game. So if

1130
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 3: the margin of error is that close against the Bucks,

1131
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 3: good luck going into Detroit, which I think is going

1132
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 3: to be of all the venues this weekend, I think

1133
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 3: Detroit is going to have the biggest impact.

1134
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 4: It's going to be insane.

1135
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 1: Yeah at Ford Field, I mean, the Lions are the

1136
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 1: one seed they had to buy. The fan base has

1137
00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 1: been hungry for ever, I mean literally ever. This is

1138
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 1: their moment. Like it's going to be a really, really

1139
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 1: tough place to play. I would say in that regard,

1140
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:01,880
Speaker 1: if I'm the Commanders, I just say to hell with it,

1141
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: right because everything is stacked together. I know, I know,

1142
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 1: you know, there's the shirts stuff out there that say

1143
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: Detroit versus everybody, But like the Lions would kind of

1144
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: become America's team right now, the commanders, like, you're going

1145
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:16,879
Speaker 1: in there, nobody expects you to win. You know you were,

1146
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:19,799
Speaker 1: you were excited to get your first win against Tampa.

1147
00:54:20,040 --> 00:54:21,440
Speaker 1: I go in there, I just say, to hell with it,

1148
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 1: Like nobody expects anything from us. Let's just play loose,

1149
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: let's get crazy, let's get nuts, and let's see if

1150
00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 1: maybe we can shock the world a little bit.

1151
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:31,720
Speaker 4: I think that's sort of we'll see.

1152
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:35,720
Speaker 1: Lakwan Rams at Eagles. Your guys are on the road,

1153
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 1: like actually on the road, like an actual road game

1154
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 1: as a post, like the neutral site game they played

1155
00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:43,839
Speaker 1: last week. I mean, I think we know a lot

1156
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:46,200
Speaker 1: about the offenses, but as I was looking at this game,

1157
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: it really feels like it's the offensive lines versus the

1158
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 1: defensive lines, and the Rams have been so successful because

1159
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:56,799
Speaker 1: they've been able to get pressure on quarterbacks, whether it's

1160
00:54:56,960 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 1: Verse Fisk, all those guys up front. Literally, the Eagles

1161
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:04,759
Speaker 1: are going to try to get after Matthew Stafford. Who

1162
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: wins that battle between you know, the old lines and

1163
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:08,080
Speaker 1: the d lines there.

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00:55:08,680 --> 00:55:08,960
Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 5: I mean, when I saw this question, I'm like, I

1166
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 5: really want to be unbiased. I want to be honest

1167
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,279
Speaker 5: and honestly, I just think it's going to be the

1168
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 5: Rams are going to win on both sides of the trenches.

1169
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 5: I feel like na Kobe Dean being out that's a huge,

1170
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:24,279
Speaker 5: huge factor for us. That's a good win for us

1171
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 5: because look, Matthew Stafford was sacked five times. That was

1172
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:29,359
Speaker 5: tied of seasonne you know the Cardinals were the other

1173
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:31,480
Speaker 5: team to do it. But you're looking at Nacobe Dean

1174
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:34,319
Speaker 5: the amount of disruption that he causing that game. Him

1175
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:36,279
Speaker 5: not being on the field is a plus for us,

1176
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 5: and I think we can get the bonehead mistakes out

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00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 5: with the penalties out of the way. Bo Limmer, you

1178
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:42,960
Speaker 5: know he's stepping up being at the young guy he

1179
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 5: is in the center, holding down in the trenches and

1180
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:48,040
Speaker 5: protect Matthew Stafford now on the defensive side of the trenches.

1181
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 5: I don't care about pressure this game. Do not have

1182
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:52,760
Speaker 5: Jared Vers going off the edge, going at the Jalen Hurts.

1183
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 5: I want you to cover the edge, just stuffed the middle.

1184
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:57,799
Speaker 5: You got Braden Fist there, you got Kobe Turner there

1185
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 5: that will just genuinely get after Jail and hurt and

1186
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 5: create their own natural pressure. We need to sustain Saquon

1187
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 5: Barkley like, for the next twenty four hours, I need

1188
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:09,479
Speaker 5: Sean McVay to lock itself in the room and watch

1189
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 5: the Eagles film. But then for the next seventy two hours,

1190
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:15,920
Speaker 5: you watch Saquon Barkley up to the whistle to stop him,

1191
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 5: because that needs to be the game plan, the only

1192
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:20,759
Speaker 5: game plan for us to come out as winners in

1193
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:21,320
Speaker 5: the trenches.

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00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:23,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's all fair.

1195
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:28,399
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I think the defense that does

1196
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:31,360
Speaker 1: a better job of disrupting the quarterback is going to

1197
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,360
Speaker 1: be the team that wins. I mean, it sounds simple,

1198
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:35,919
Speaker 1: but I think that's really going to be the case.

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00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 1: If if the Rams can get to Jalen Hurts, who

1200
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 1: was not great last week, if they can get to him,

1201
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 1: I think I think they have a chance to win.

1202
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:46,840
Speaker 1: If you know, the Eagles can find a way to

1203
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 1: make life rough on Matthew Stafford, and I think they win.

1204
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:52,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I think it's that simple because

1205
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:55,880
Speaker 1: I think I think the quarterbacks are fairly even. I

1206
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:58,799
Speaker 1: think the you know, the skill position guys. I don't

1207
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 1: think there's one giant advantage to one side or another.

1208
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:05,360
Speaker 1: There's really gonna be about the guys up front that

1209
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,719
Speaker 1: make the difference in this game, yeah, last one and

1210
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:11,360
Speaker 1: the Marquee game. At least on paper of the weekend

1211
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:14,720
Speaker 1: Ravens at Bills, it appears that Florida will be watching

1212
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:20,280
Speaker 1: from his couch in the western part of Los Angeles. Obviously,

1213
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 1: I know the story is the quarterbacks, right, it's Lamar

1214
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 1: Jackson versus Josh Allen. But taking those guys aside, who

1215
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 1: or what do you think is the biggest X factor

1216
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:31,520
Speaker 1: in this game?

1217
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 3: I think there's two. One is more of a football

1218
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 3: thing and one is not. I think the football thing

1219
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:44,240
Speaker 3: is how the Bills handle the Ravens running backs. Because

1220
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 3: Derek Henry went for two hundred yards and two touchdowns

1221
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 3: should have been three, he literally fumbled the third one

1222
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 3: that got recovered in the end zone. And then when

1223
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 3: they played in Week four. But what I think it's

1224
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 3: overlooked in that game is Justice Hill had six catches

1225
00:57:57,680 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 3: for seventy eight yards and a touchdown. And the Bills

1226
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 3: have struck against pass catching running backs all years. So

1227
00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 3: if you get Dereck Henry running downhill and then Justice

1228
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 3: Hill beating you out of the backfield as a pass catcher,

1229
00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:10,880
Speaker 3: it's going to be a very, very long day for

1230
00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 3: the Bills. If you can bottle those guys up, I

1231
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 3: think things will go the Bills way because it then

1232
00:58:17,280 --> 00:58:19,520
Speaker 3: takes me to my not so much X as a

1233
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 3: o's factor, which is the mental side of it.

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00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:23,720
Speaker 4: One.

1235
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,760
Speaker 3: This is going to be the coldest game that Derrick

1236
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:29,439
Speaker 3: Henry and Lamar Jackson have ever played in, and it's

1237
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:34,000
Speaker 3: not all that close. It's also Lamar Jackson has never

1238
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 3: in his career thrown a passing touchdown on the road

1239
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 3: in the playoffs. Granted he's only played two road playoff games.

1240
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:44,160
Speaker 3: But I think if whoever comes out and takes charge

1241
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 3: first is going to win this game. Because if you're

1242
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 3: the Bills and you score first, now the Ravens, especially

1243
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 3: if you could take like a two score lead, let's

1244
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 3: say by some chance you have like they can't just

1245
00:58:56,880 --> 00:58:59,040
Speaker 3: run downhill with Dereck Henry and they have to try

1246
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 3: to come back on the in those cold elements potentially

1247
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 3: without Ze Flowers. Meanwhile, if you are the Ravens and

1248
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:08,160
Speaker 3: you jump out to an early lead, now you just

1249
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:10,760
Speaker 3: you grind the clock with Derek Henry, that opens up

1250
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 3: everything for Lamar's legs and everything, and they'll just bully

1251
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:16,800
Speaker 3: the Bills. They will they have more, they're bigger on

1252
00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:19,520
Speaker 3: offense and the Bills are on defense, and we've seen

1253
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 3: them do it all year long. If they get out

1254
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:23,919
Speaker 3: to a lead, they play bullyball, and they are the

1255
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:27,560
Speaker 3: best in the NFL at playing bullyball. So the way

1256
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,960
Speaker 3: to prevent them from doing that is by scoring early.

1257
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 3: So I think the running backs are the big football thing,

1258
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 3: but even more so, I think how the teams handle

1259
00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:40,080
Speaker 3: the weather and who scores, who takes charge first, I

1260
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:42,120
Speaker 3: think is gonna have a huge impact on this game.

1261
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 1: I appreciate you saying if they can figure out how

1262
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 1: to bottle up Dereck Henry and Justice Hill, which.

1263
00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 4: I get it.

1264
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:53,919
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not wrong. That is way easier said

1265
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 1: than done. I mean, there are how many teams out

1266
00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 1: there who who have been trying to do that and

1267
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 1: have unsuccessful at it.

1268
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:04,520
Speaker 4: And I looked at it last Yeah. Uh, I mean

1269
01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:04,920
Speaker 4: I look.

1270
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,880
Speaker 1: At last week though with the Steelers, and after that game,

1271
01:00:08,280 --> 01:00:11,240
Speaker 1: you know, a reporter asked Lamar Jackson about how the

1272
01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: Steelers were trying to stop you know, the the option

1273
01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:17,800
Speaker 1: there with the with Derek Henry and Lamar and he said,

1274
01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:20,000
Speaker 1: were you surprised that they gave you so much running room,

1275
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 1: and Lamar was like, no, He's like, honestly, he's I

1276
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 1: thought they defended it. Well, you know they had they

1277
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:27,680
Speaker 1: had JJ Watt or a TJ Watt rather, you know,

1278
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:30,720
Speaker 1: trying to crash down and they had, you know, different schemes.

1279
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:34,160
Speaker 1: He's like, we just outplayed them. You know, it wasn't.

1280
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:37,640
Speaker 1: It wasn't because you know, they had a bad idea

1281
01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:38,480
Speaker 1: or a bad plan.

1282
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 2: Uh.

1283
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:41,760
Speaker 1: And that is sort of where Lamar Jackson is kind

1284
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:44,520
Speaker 1: of that X factor where you can do everything right

1285
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:48,520
Speaker 1: and then Lamar just goes Lamar on you and there's

1286
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:51,120
Speaker 1: nothing you can really do about it, you know. I

1287
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:53,280
Speaker 1: think I saw a quote, I think Sean McDermot saw

1288
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 1: the quote from earlier this week that was just like,

1289
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:57,040
Speaker 1: Lamar is a one of one, you know, he said,

1290
01:00:57,040 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 1: we'll try our best to kind of approximate that in practice,

1291
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 1: but you can't really do that because there's just nobody

1292
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:08,160
Speaker 1: out there like Lamar Jackson. But similarly, and a lot

1293
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:09,800
Speaker 1: of Josh Allen's out there either too.

1294
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:14,080
Speaker 3: Which team do you think could survive their quarterback not

1295
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:16,600
Speaker 3: playing their best? Because I think it's an easy answer.

1296
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:18,840
Speaker 4: I think it's I think it's the Ravens that can more.

1297
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:21,200
Speaker 3: Survive, which is why.

1298
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:24,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, if if Josh Allen doesn't played well, I think

1299
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 4: the Bills are cooked.

1300
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:27,720
Speaker 3: If you're telling me that the Ravens have could beat

1301
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 3: the Bills on the road without Lamar playing well and

1302
01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 3: they are favorites, I'm like, how is MVP of really

1303
01:01:33,400 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 3: an argument? But I know it, But come on, man, Like,

1304
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 3: I think that narrative alone defeats everything. Like if you're

1305
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:45,160
Speaker 3: telling me one guy could play bad and still win

1306
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 3: and the other has no chance, one guy means more

1307
01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:48,920
Speaker 3: to this team.

1308
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:51,840
Speaker 4: I you know what, it is a strong argument.

1309
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:53,439
Speaker 3: Like that.

1310
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:55,920
Speaker 4: It is a strong argument, A strong argument.

1311
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,840
Speaker 1: Indeed, I should be a lot of fun this weekend,

1312
01:01:58,880 --> 01:02:01,000
Speaker 1: looking forward to it. We'll be back next week to

1313
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:03,520
Speaker 1: kind of recap some of that and continue along with

1314
01:02:03,560 --> 01:02:07,080
Speaker 1: the exit interviews as well. We will get through picks

1315
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:10,800
Speaker 1: nine through twelve coming up next Tuesday, So that should

1316
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:12,120
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun as well. So in the

1317
01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:14,080
Speaker 1: meantime though, that'll do it for this edition of the

1318
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Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. Stay happy, save and healthy.

1319
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:18,040
Speaker 4: Do good and live well.

1320
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:21,200
Speaker 1: Enjoy the weekend, enjoy the football, everybody, and we will

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Speaker 1: talk to you again next week.