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Speaker 1: Wow, what is up? Welcome to another edition of the

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Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's me your man, MG. Marcus Grant,

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Speaker 1: fully vaccinated and still trying to dodge the Delta variant

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Speaker 1: like I was Neo in the matrix. Uh. We are

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Speaker 1: getting close to the regular season. We are fully into

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Speaker 1: training camps. We got another fun show for your. Producer

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Speaker 1: Justin is alongside for the ride as always, fresh off

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Speaker 1: his nice vacation in St. Thomas. You know, I I

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Speaker 1: took some time off, but I stayed here and I

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Speaker 1: went to like, you know, really exotic places like Hawthorne

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Speaker 1: and Lawndale. Uh. Producer Justin was like chilling on a

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Speaker 1: yacht in St. Thomas. We are not the same, um,

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Speaker 1: but joined it today. UH for a fun show by

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Speaker 1: a woman that I met a couple of years ago

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Speaker 1: at the King's Classic. At the legendary King's Classic after

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Speaker 1: party at the fabulous Buffalo Wild Wings in Canton, Ohio.

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Speaker 1: She decided at the time that a trade of her

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Speaker 1: Moscow mule for whatever beer I was drinking was an

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Speaker 1: even trade. I will never let her forget it. It's

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Speaker 1: all in good fun. It is from bab Blast One

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Speaker 1: on the Michelle ma Duke Michelle. I love talking to you.

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Speaker 1: I love having you on. I know we've been trying

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Speaker 1: to do this for a while. Schedules finally aligned, so

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you making some time. How are things? I'm

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Speaker 1: great and I want to clear the air here. I

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Speaker 1: feel like, in my memory you said I don't want

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Speaker 1: this moscow mule? Do you want it now? I was

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Speaker 1: like many many drinks in, so I think I made

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Speaker 1: this up and I just stole your Moscow mule. But

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Speaker 1: in my head, I swear you offered it to me.

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Speaker 1: It could be who knows, you know, like we're we're

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Speaker 1: a couple of years removed from it now. I know

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Speaker 1: we were both a couple of drinks in. So the

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Speaker 1: whole thing gets fuzzy. But you know, I love giving

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Speaker 1: you a hard time about it because it's just it's

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Speaker 1: just a fun thing to do. I'm supposed coming up,

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Speaker 1: and it's coming up. Yeah, So a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: we'll a bunch of us will gather in Canton. Should

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Speaker 1: be a good time. Shout out to Bob Long and

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Speaker 1: Brad Evans who originally kind of put The King's Classic

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Speaker 1: together and from that has grown the Fantasy football expo,

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Speaker 1: which has become really kind of a nice, uh meet

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Speaker 1: the industry. I know, for me, it's been a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun to just meet people in person that I

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Speaker 1: only know from social media. Uh so that has been great.

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Speaker 1: Um And you know, randbably I came across the business

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Speaker 1: card you and Kate gave me. At that time, we

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Speaker 1: were handing those things out like crazy. I mean we

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Speaker 1: were a brand new company at that time. We were

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Speaker 1: just starting out like two months in. So now it'll

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Speaker 1: be really fun to go back and like, we have

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Speaker 1: so many more people that we actually know, and just

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Speaker 1: a blast. Yeah. Absolutely. I was just I was like,

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Speaker 1: card there. So all right, we got plenty to talk

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Speaker 1: about because training camps are underway. I mean, not only

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Speaker 1: So you are if wee neck deep in all of

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Speaker 1: the Packers. I know that everybody was sort of holding

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Speaker 1: how that was going to impact him. For you, where

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Speaker 1: it's like all offseason long, especially working with NFL Network,

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Speaker 1: it's like Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Rodgers, and you

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Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen, and then he ends

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Speaker 1: mean it's going to come down a ton, right, like

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Speaker 1: he's going to disappoint in fantasy football compared to where

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Speaker 1: you have to take him. And then he just had

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Speaker 1: an insanely efficient year everywhere else as well, like completed

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Speaker 1: anyone one else, like Randall Cobb and Marie Rodgers. Is

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Speaker 1: not moved an ittle for me, No, not at all.

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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not going to drapt Aaron Rodgers where

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, I feel like ten it's still fun. Right,

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Speaker 1: you're still talking about him solidly in the QB one range.

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Speaker 1: Last year I kept referring to, you know, it was

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Speaker 1: he felt disrespected because they had drafted Jordan's love and

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Speaker 1: here's the thing, Michelle, Remember last year, we were sort

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Speaker 1: So and you talk about, you know, them getting Randall

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Speaker 1: Did you do the same for Davante Adams? Is he

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Speaker 1: too until the Aaron Rodgers news was official, it Stefon

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Speaker 1: for fantasy football better than any otherwide receiver by far.

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Speaker 1: He's going to get a hundred and fifty plus targets

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Speaker 1: You know, Adams is going to score double digit touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: was amazing to watch Davante Adams put up the numbers

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Speaker 1: too excited about it, and that was before this injury. Like,

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Speaker 1: You you can't. You can't draft a guy that's already

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Speaker 1: and then he's going to miss anywhere from you know,

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Speaker 1: a month to two months. Yeah, you know, I two

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Speaker 1: years in a row. Now I have sort of tried

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Speaker 1: to believe in Carson Wentz resurrection last year in Philly,

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Speaker 1: Frank Reich, this is a chance for him to sort

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Speaker 1: a well justin producer, Justin Uh. He funneled me some

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Speaker 1: then obviously you're probably going to want to take those seriously.

429
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Speaker 1: But if they have one or two days, you know,

430
00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:39,240
Speaker 1: a bad practice. It happens, especially these young guys, Like

431
00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:41,959
Speaker 1: you cannot change your rankings because of that. But you know,

432
00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,600
Speaker 1: if there's bad reports today and still we're getting to

433
00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:46,359
Speaker 1: the end of August and it's like, oh, this player

434
00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:49,040
Speaker 1: is just looking really terrible, then yeah, change them. But

435
00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,159
Speaker 1: we heard one week before the season last year that

436
00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,200
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson was still running with the second team and

437
00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:57,320
Speaker 1: he couldn't beat at all of B. C. Johnson still

438
00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,480
Speaker 1: and then he came out immediately and killed it. So

439
00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,200
Speaker 1: is hard to take these training camp reports too seriously.

440
00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,199
Speaker 1: One way I like to look at them is like,

441
00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:09,080
Speaker 1: how are these players being used? Um, Like you can

442
00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:11,440
Speaker 1: see if a guy's just being mainly used in the

443
00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:13,879
Speaker 1: slot right, or if he's going if they're putting them

444
00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:17,120
Speaker 1: all around the field, like they're purposely getting the ball

445
00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,920
Speaker 1: in this player's hand. That's something I'm looking for, and

446
00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:21,439
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, this guy is going to be a

447
00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,439
Speaker 1: big part of the offense. But you know those flash

448
00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:28,120
Speaker 1: plays that you see, those highlights, those big, those big bombs,

449
00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:30,959
Speaker 1: you see them coming from everyone in training camp, Like

450
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,920
Speaker 1: those those really don't matter. There's some guys out there,

451
00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,240
Speaker 1: like you're going to see him to catch a few

452
00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,680
Speaker 1: big bombs during the summer and then you won't see

453
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,320
Speaker 1: him on the field at all. So you can't you

454
00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,639
Speaker 1: can't take those two seriously, right. I feel like I

455
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:48,320
Speaker 1: feel like the the mantrave sort of taken recently has

456
00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,159
Speaker 1: been it's the ted lasso be a goldfish, right Like,

457
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,040
Speaker 1: you see it, you take it in, you internalize it,

458
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,560
Speaker 1: but you don't dwell on it. Right. Um, you know

459
00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,880
Speaker 1: like some of these things, some of these things are important. Obviously,

460
00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,880
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz being out for a couple of months, that's

461
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 1: a big deal. That's something to pay attention to. Saying

462
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:06,480
Speaker 1: with Quinton Nelson, Julio Jones, you know, takes tumble, goes

463
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 1: into the locker room. You know, Tyreek Hill with a

464
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:10,680
Speaker 1: little bit of ten denis sitting out practice for a

465
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,959
Speaker 1: little bit. That to me, is not something that we

466
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,640
Speaker 1: need to really really worry ourselves about. Like you said,

467
00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:17,399
Speaker 1: if we start getting to about a week out from

468
00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,840
Speaker 1: the season and they're saying Tyreek Hill has a knee

469
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,399
Speaker 1: issue and you know they're not sure, that's when you

470
00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,159
Speaker 1: start to panic a little bit. But right now, I

471
00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:26,320
Speaker 1: think we still have plenty of time. I think you

472
00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:29,199
Speaker 1: don't panic. Um. That being said, though, is there a

473
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,119
Speaker 1: guy or guys out there that you sort of have

474
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 1: an irrational love for that no matter what you hear, um,

475
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 1: it's not gonna it's not gonna change your your feeling

476
00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 1: about them. Yeah, and it's it's Alijah More. I say

477
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,120
Speaker 1: that I am wearing a Zack Moss shirt right now.

478
00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:44,159
Speaker 1: I know how much you love Zack Moss, and I

479
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,399
Speaker 1: have a Zack Moss question for you later just because

480
00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:49,480
Speaker 1: of that. Zack Moss is my dude. But this offseason,

481
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 1: Elijah More, rookie wide receiver out of the Jets, he

482
00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:55,040
Speaker 1: is like he's a guy that I think is going

483
00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:58,399
Speaker 1: to pop immediately. Like last year and no one talks

484
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:02,440
Speaker 1: about it, but he had more receiving yards per game

485
00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,959
Speaker 1: than DeVonta Smith did. A hundred and forty nine receiving

486
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 1: yards per game is what he averaged last year all miss,

487
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:12,159
Speaker 1: which by the way, is an FBS record. So like,

488
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 1: he's pretty awesome. So I've already been so excited about him,

489
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,439
Speaker 1: and camp reports are just glowing. And this is what

490
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like we we believe the camp reports. We

491
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Speaker 1: want to believe. But one area that I've been reading

492
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Speaker 1: about with more. You know, coming out of the draft,

493
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,080
Speaker 1: we didn't know he's a smaller sized guy. He's five

494
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,399
Speaker 1: ft nine hundred and like not even d eighty pounds,

495
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 1: so a lot of people wanted to say he was

496
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,320
Speaker 1: going to be a slot guy in the NFL. But

497
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:41,159
Speaker 1: so far in practice, they're using him all over the field.

498
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 1: And he actually took first team reps today at the

499
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Speaker 1: beginning of practice for the first time and replaced Keelan

500
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 1: Cole out in the outside. So he's been moving outside, inside,

501
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 1: all over the place. And the reports are like they're

502
00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 1: purposely getting the ball in this guy's hands. And by

503
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,000
Speaker 1: the way, he is just one of my favorite players

504
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: because he's swear his hands are made out of glue.

505
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:06,400
Speaker 1: If I had to just make up a conspiracy theory here,

506
00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,200
Speaker 1: his hands are made of glue. He does not drop

507
00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,920
Speaker 1: a ball, and he's just a fantastic rout runner and

508
00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 1: he works harder than anybody else, Like he went to

509
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Speaker 1: school at all. Miss so DK metcalf A J. Brown

510
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 1: just took him under their wing and showed him the ways.

511
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 1: And they've been pretty good in the NFL so far

512
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 1: in their short careers. You know, there's something just intriguing

513
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,200
Speaker 1: about the Jets offense, right, I mean, between Elijah Moore

514
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:28,679
Speaker 1: Michael Carter, there are a lot of things to be

515
00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 1: excited about. Um. You know, I keep saying this, and

516
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:32,719
Speaker 1: I know at some point it's probably gonna come back

517
00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,439
Speaker 1: to bite me because you know, Jets, but I just

518
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,320
Speaker 1: I'm getting kind of excited about them. That's just just

519
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 1: all others do it. Um, all right, I'll give you

520
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,560
Speaker 1: a list of guys. I got some either ors, guys

521
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,000
Speaker 1: that you think are most likely to have breakout seasons

522
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Speaker 1: this year. So we'll start at quarterback more likely to

523
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:51,879
Speaker 1: break out Daniel Jones or Drew Lock. This question just

524
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:55,159
Speaker 1: hurts me because like neither, I just want to be

525
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Speaker 1: able to say neither. Reports coming out for both of

526
00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 1: these guys have just been pretty rutle. But if I

527
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Speaker 1: have to go with one, I'll go with Daniel Jones. Um,

528
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 1: he has the more he has, the better rushing upside,

529
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 1: and he is better at throwing that deep ball. Now,

530
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay did go out of practice today with a

531
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Speaker 1: hamstring injury. Hopefully that's just a small one, but at

532
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 1: least say surrounded Daniel Jones with Kenny Golladay and Darius

533
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: Tony and hopefully Sapon Barkley is fully healthy this year.

534
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,680
Speaker 1: Like we haven't seen Daniel Jones with too much talent

535
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 1: around him where it drew locked. Like he's had talent

536
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,400
Speaker 1: around him and he's still been really, really, really bad.

537
00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 1: He's had a few good games. Don't come at me, Twitter,

538
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: I know he said a few good games. With the

539
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:38,080
Speaker 1: rest of the terrible, I don't. He can't even beat

540
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 1: out Teddy Bridgewater right now in training camp. I know

541
00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,360
Speaker 1: it's just week one, but if you can't read out

542
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater, then it's probably not gonna happen for you.

543
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Speaker 1: So if I had to pick one, I'd go Daniel Jones.

544
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, there was all that talk that

545
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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers might get traded to Denver. It does seem

546
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Speaker 1: like the Broncos are are still searching for answers at quarterback.

547
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Speaker 1: So um, I mean, that's that's just my my way

548
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 1: of saying, I guess I should reluctantly get back in

549
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,199
Speaker 1: on the Daniel Jones train. Maybe I don't think you

550
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: need to, Okay he not being on either of them,

551
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 1: and just go with Jalen Hurts because he's we should

552
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: do this which has which has been more of the

553
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:15,880
Speaker 1: way I've gone with a lot of things, is going

554
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Speaker 1: with Jalen Hurts in that situation. So all right, So

555
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:23,880
Speaker 1: next one, j K. Dobbins or DeAndre Swift. I love

556
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:25,680
Speaker 1: both of these two guys, And if I had to

557
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Speaker 1: pick one that I like better as a talent as

558
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 1: a pure running back, it's j K. Dobbins. But if

559
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Speaker 1: I had to pick one fantasy, it's DeAndre Swift. Uh.

560
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,320
Speaker 1: And I know the Lions offense could be really, really

561
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 1: terrible this year, but he could also see triple the

562
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 1: targets that j K. Dobbins is going to see, and

563
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,959
Speaker 1: I don't even think that's being unrealistic. Uh. The Ravens

564
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:48,880
Speaker 1: just don't use the running backs in the passing game.

565
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,120
Speaker 1: And I know they say they're going to this year,

566
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 1: but I don't get why. You know, you add all

567
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 1: of these playmakers, you add Sammy Watkins and Roshotte Bateman

568
00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 1: and Thayland Wallace, you still have Markus Brown, you still

569
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,679
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews that this would be then the year that

570
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,160
Speaker 1: you finally start using your running backs in the passing game.

571
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,679
Speaker 1: Like that doesn't make sense to me when you needed

572
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: to use them before and you didn't. J K. Dobbins

573
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 1: had four total receptions, no, sorry, four targets. One reception

574
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: in the month of December. One total reception in the

575
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 1: month of December, and that scares me because that limits

576
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 1: his upside so much. If he's not getting forty plus

577
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: targets next year, and I don't see that happening. We

578
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 1: saw Mark Andrews back a couple of years ago average

579
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Speaker 1: five yards per carry, scored fifteen touchdowns and he was

580
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 1: still just the running back eleven Like, I want higher

581
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Speaker 1: upside than that, and that's would be an amazing year

582
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 1: for j K Dobbins averaging five yards per carry. I

583
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,879
Speaker 1: think we all expect that, but scoring fifteen touchdowns is

584
00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: not an easy thing to do. And there's not a

585
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Speaker 1: whole lot changing for j K Dobbins from last year,

586
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Speaker 1: at least towards the end of the year. Like Mark

587
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,840
Speaker 1: and Mark Ingram was not seeing touches, Gus Edwards isn't

588
00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:58,959
Speaker 1: going anywhere. Like he's a really good running back, He's

589
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 1: still going to get his touch is. The last six

590
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 1: games last season, Dobbins saw double digit carries and each

591
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,080
Speaker 1: of them and he scored seven rushing touchdowns during that time,

592
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: he was still only the running back twelve and points

593
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: per game during that time from weeks eleven to twelve,

594
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:17,400
Speaker 1: and that's scoring seven touchdowns and getting all the carries

595
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 1: you know that he's going to get this year. I

596
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,320
Speaker 1: just don't think it's upsides high enough, and I see

597
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,919
Speaker 1: DeAndre swifts upside being way higher. So I'm gonna go

598
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: with Swift here. If the worst comes to worst, I

599
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 1: see them like scoring the same amount of points. Yeah,

600
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: I mean I think that I think in the end

601
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: will probably be pretty close. Um. I have tended to

602
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: draft Edwards more than I've drafted J. K. Dobbins, just because,

603
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, I don't think he's going anywhere. I

604
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: think their production, while it might not be one to

605
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: one comparison, I don't think it's going to be a

606
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: huge gap. And the draft price is so much nicer

607
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: for Edwards and it is for Dobbins that I've tended

608
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: to go that way. All right, So this is one

609
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: I I did this to kind of poke at you

610
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 1: a little bit. Zack Moss or a J. Dillett. Yeah,

611
00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: obviously I'm going to go with Zach Moss. Zach Moss

612
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 1: is my dude. But for real, Like if this answer

613
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: probably seriously comes down to injuries, right, Like, if Aaron

614
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: Jones is to go down with an injury, then clearly

615
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: A J. Dillon is going to break out. And if

616
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary goes down with an injury, then I think

617
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: things Zack Moss would just kill it. But if both

618
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 1: of their guys in their backfield that they have to

619
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: share with stay healthy, I think Zach Moss provides a

620
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: lot more value than A J. Dillon does because I

621
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:30,960
Speaker 1: believe even with Devin Singletary staying healthy, Zach Moss will

622
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 1: be the lead back this year. Now for him to

623
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: be consistent in fantasy, he's going to have to be

624
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: more than just oh, I'm the starting running back for

625
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 1: the Bills. Like he has to take the majority of

626
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary snaps and the team does seem to like

627
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: Devon Singletary as well. So it's a muss As I

628
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: think that Zach Moss will start and he will be

629
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 1: the lead back, he'll get the most snaps in the backfield,

630
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: and he's going to get all the goal line work.

631
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: Still might be hard to trust him consistently. What's nice

632
00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 1: is his cost His draft cost um kind of it's

633
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: will into that, right. You don't have to take him

634
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: to the tenth round. So if anything does happen to

635
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,040
Speaker 1: Devon Secretary, I do believe he would break out. When

636
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: Zack Moss got the opportunity last year, he was, you know,

637
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: he was really really good. He averaged over five yards

638
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 1: of carry and scored three touch jones in his four

639
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 1: games that he saw ten plus carries. He created the

640
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,240
Speaker 1: fifth most yards per attempt and had the seventh highest

641
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: duke rate among all running backs according to Fantasy Data.

642
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: That's only behind Nick Chubb, Derrick Henry, J. K. Dobbins,

643
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: and Dalvin Cook, who I think we can all agree

644
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 1: are very good running backs. Like Zach Moss is a

645
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 1: really good player. I just think he's stuck on an

646
00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: offense that's not going to give him the workload he

647
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: needs to show what he can do. But I still

648
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: take him over a J. Dun all right, that's fair,

649
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 1: you know. I just I tend to kind of just

650
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: be hands off on Bill's running backs because I just

651
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, for all the good that they do,

652
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: I think they're talented. I love Devin Singletary, and my

653
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: my constant duck is that like he needs three forms

654
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: of ida to get in the end zone, like he

655
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: just can't score touchdowns. Uh you know, and in the

656
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:01,479
Speaker 1: end ends up me and Josh Allen, who gates those

657
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns. So um, but I mostly just wanted to

658
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: I just wanted you to make your case for Zack

659
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: Moss because I know how much you loved him, So

660
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:11,959
Speaker 1: you make your case for him. Um, all right, Brandon

661
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: Ayuk or Jerry Judy. So another two guys, I'm really

662
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: I love. I wish Jerry Judy had better quarterbacks, and

663
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 1: I do think if he has Teddy bridgewatter throwing him

664
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: the ball, like he's gonna have a really solid fantasy season.

665
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 1: I just don't know how his how high his ceiling

666
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: is with Teddy Bridgewater. And then if it's Drew Lock,

667
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: I don't know how high his floor is. His floor

668
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: guy's sewer super low with Drew Luck, like we saw

669
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: it last year. So I'm gonna go out with Brandon

670
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: Iyuk here because I love both of their talents, but

671
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: I like Brandon aiyuk situation better. I'm a little bit

672
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: nervous if it's Trey Lance at quarterback, not because I

673
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 1: don't trust him right, Like, I think he's going to

674
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: be a good quarterback in the NFL, but he's gonna

675
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 1: be a rookie and he runs a lot, Like I'm

676
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 1: scared how much this offense will turn to just being

677
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: a running game kind of like Baltimore. Uh if tray

678
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: Lances starting, but for now, it looks like it's going

679
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: to be Jimmy Garoppolo. So I'm definitely going Brandon Ayuk.

680
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 1: Last year, I mean, he absolutely killed it. He averaged

681
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: over fifteen Fantasy points per game. Only six rookie wide

682
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: receivers have done that since, and the list is pretty great.

683
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: It's Odell Beckham, Mike Evans, Michael Thomas, Julio Jones, Justin Jefferson,

684
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: and Brandon Ayuk. Uh. He just saw an insane amount

685
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: of targets towards the end of the year. And it

686
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: seems like reports out of camp for saying he's the

687
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 1: clear cut wide receiver one in this offense, like he's

688
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,840
Speaker 1: getting the majority of the targets when they're running their drills.

689
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: So I'm high on Brandon Nayuk this year, but I

690
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: think his cost is fair with all the question marks.

691
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: You know, Kittle coming back to Eva, coming back, so

692
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: I'll take a chance on him. Though. I feel like

693
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,239
Speaker 1: there's a reason though that the forty Niners traded up

694
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: to draft Brandon Ayuk. And I know at the time

695
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: it seemed sort of surprising to a lot of people. Um,

696
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: but I think you saw how they used him in

697
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: that offense and it gave you reasonably like, oh, Okay,

698
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan has a plan for this guy. He sees

699
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: his skill set and wants to get him the football,

700
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: and so I know that, you know, I feel like

701
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: has been one of the more polarizing guys uh in

702
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: fantasy this offseason because I think of what you talked

703
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 1: about with George Kittle being back in Deebo Samuel being

704
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: back and how exactly he's going to get the ball

705
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: in his hands that much. But I just think, you know,

706
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: with I, I sort of placed my trust in Kyle

707
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: Shanahan and trying to figure out how to get the

708
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 1: ball to talented players, and I think Brandon and he

709
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,479
Speaker 1: was super talented. Um. You know, I like Jerry Judy.

710
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: I just I'm sort of with you. I just I

711
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: wish the quarterback play was better in Denver, and that

712
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 1: would make me feel a little bit more confident there,

713
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: all right, Last one IRV Smith or Gerald Everett because

714
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 1: we're thirsty for tight end, So if we can add

715
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: one more to the list, that would be great. This

716
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: feels a lot like Daniel Jones or Drew Lot. I'll

717
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: go I'll go with Jerald Evert here. I mean they're

718
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 1: both stuck on teams that they're not going to pass

719
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: a ton, and they're both stuck on teams that have

720
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 1: a great wide receiver one and a great wide receiver too,

721
00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: which is not a great um formula for a tight

722
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 1: end to break out. You want your tight end to

723
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: be better, at least better than the wide receiver to um,

724
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: and those are usually the guys that you see succeed

725
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,240
Speaker 1: in fantasy. That's not the case for either of these guys.

726
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: But the reason why I'm going to go with Gerald

727
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 1: Everett is because you know, Russell Wilson's going to throw

728
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,799
Speaker 1: around thirty five touchdowns. He just consistently does it. So

729
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: Gerald Everet is going to have more scoring opportunities. And

730
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson does like to pass to a tight end,

731
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: he doesn't often have a reliable one out there because

732
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 1: they seem like every time Russell Wilson finally finds a

733
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 1: guy who likes They get hurt in about five seconds.

734
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: But hopefully Darryld Everett can stay healthy. And I do

735
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: believe if he stays healthy, like Russell Wilson and him

736
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 1: will build that connection. Or if Smith you know, Kirk

737
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 1: Cousins did score thirty five touchdowns last year, thirty five

738
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns, but that's not usual for him. It's the

739
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 1: highest he's ever scored by far in his career. I

740
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: expect that to come back down. So I definitely am

741
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: leading every over Smith here. Yeah. I mean, I think

742
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: the thing that I like about everything you talked about

743
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 1: is that in the red zone down there goal line,

744
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson does look for his tight ends. It's the

745
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: reason you know a guy like will dis Lee. We

746
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: tried to make him a thing until unfortunately he got hurt. Um.

747
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 1: So if every can stay healthy, I think he at

748
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: least has that touchdown upside. And look, we're at the

749
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 1: point with tight ends where unless you're getting one of

750
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 1: the elite guys that the Kelsey Waller Kittle group, um,

751
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 1: you're just sort of hoping for a touchdown every week.

752
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 1: Like if you're if you're streaming tight ends. You just

753
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 1: want a guy who can find the ends on it.

754
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,280
Speaker 1: He can get you, you know, three or four catches,

755
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: maybe about forty yards and get you a touchdown like

756
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: you're feeling great about your life. Um, and I think

757
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 1: you know, Gerald Everard has a pretty good chance to

758
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,399
Speaker 1: do that on a semi regular basis there. So um,

759
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: but I do you know, want to use the hashtag

760
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 1: let erve swerve too. I just think that would be fun.

761
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: That would be fun. Now I'm rooting for him just

762
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: to be able to do that. So here you go,

763
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 1: all right before I let you always like to do

764
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: so just kind of quick, fun, rapid fire questions. So

765
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit you with the first one. If you

766
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: had one beer to rule them all, what would it be?

767
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: So I saw this question. It's hard because drink any

768
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 1: hazy I p A you put in front of me,

769
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: because I like to go to different breweries, so I

770
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 1: don't have a specific brand, but hazy, I behay I

771
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: p A. But um, some more well known beers that

772
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: people probably know fat heads, Bumbleberry, I mean that's just elite,

773
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: that's for a summertime. And then Southern Tiers pumpking so

774
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 1: good in the fall and winter winter periods. All right,

775
00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: I look that you haven't broken down by seasons two

776
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: because I think that's important. I think I think we

777
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,399
Speaker 1: should learn to enjoy beers by season, you know, so

778
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: you gotta Yeah, you can't. You can't be drinking a

779
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 1: pumpking in eighty degree weather. That doesn't make sense. But

780
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: I am moving to Texas now, So now I'm realizing

781
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: that I'm going to have like one season and it's

782
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: going to be hot all the time. You gonna have like,

783
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,720
Speaker 1: you know, just one beer for the whole year. Basically,

784
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:47,399
Speaker 1: you're one style of at least for the whole year.

785
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: All right. Um, obviously we have all been you know,

786
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: sort of in our homes for at least a year

787
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: because of COVID and also other stuff. What is the

788
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: best movie or TV show you have watched in the

789
00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:00,080
Speaker 1: past year. Yeah, so, I'm so much a person that

790
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: rewatches shows over and over, so like The Office and

791
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: Friends and all those things. But I did watch The

792
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: Joker this past weekend. I don't ever watch movies because

793
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: they're too long and I have zero patients, so much

794
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: more thirty minute TV show girl, But I sat down

795
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: and I watched The Joker. It's so good. It was

796
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,760
Speaker 1: entertaining from the first second to the very last second.

797
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: I never even thought during it, like how much more

798
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 1: times in this movie, which I do every single time

799
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,280
Speaker 1: I watch a movie. Uh it, I mean it gets

800
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 1: in your head, like you think about it for a

801
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: while afterwards. Is very dark, um and kind of depressing,

802
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,239
Speaker 1: but it was very well done. It's I think it's

803
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 1: funny because you're not the only one who I have

804
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: a lot of friends who do this, who can binge

805
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: watch shows but can't watch movies. Is there something? Is

806
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: it just psychological because there's that break in between? Is

807
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: that what it is? I have no like a new

808
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 1: storyline each time. I have no idea because I can

809
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 1: sit down and watch like six episodes of The Big

810
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: Bang Theory, but try to watch make me watch a

811
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 1: two hour movie and I just like, I'm miserable about it.

812
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 1: But for some reason, The Joker just didn't feel like

813
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 1: a movie. It was fantastic. I know, I'm really late

814
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 1: to the party, Like everyone loved The Joker like two

815
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 1: or three years ago, but like I said, I don't

816
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 1: watch them, so uh, just be happy. I finally watched.

817
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 1: But also now that it's like, you know, two or

818
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: three years later, like you know, you're you're removed from

819
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 1: any like spoilers or any real talk about it, so

820
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 1: you can sort of enjoy it for it's, you know,

821
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: on its own. Like so that's true. So there you go,

822
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: all right, last one, who is the better fantasy player?

823
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 1: You or your wife? Kate? You know, I would love

824
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: to say me, but it's Kate. It's Kate. And you

825
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: know what's even more annoying is I taught her how

826
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,319
Speaker 1: to play fantasy. She did not watch a second of

827
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 1: football before she met me, Like she didn't care about football.

828
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 1: And then I got her into my brother's league and

829
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 1: she's like, well, now I had to study for it,

830
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 1: and then she and then she became a crazy person

831
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: in maniac about fantasy football like I have. But now

832
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:47,760
Speaker 1: she beats me all the time, and it's super annoying.

833
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: We both did like the same amount of research and

834
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 1: all that. You know, we make sure we're trying to

835
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: be our best fantasy selves. But for some reason, her

836
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: gut is just right, way more than my gut is

837
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 1: and it's super annoying. But yeah, I'll give hear the

838
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: crown on that one. Well, the honesty is refreshing. That's

839
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 1: really cool. Hey, Michelle, always appreciate the time. Um for

840
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: folks who are maybe just learning about you or want

841
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: to know more work, Where can they find what you're doing? Yeah,

842
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 1: you can find all of my work on Twitter. You

843
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: can find me at ball Blast, um bub blast em

844
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: uh and you know, anything I do, I post over there.

845
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 1: But go check out our website, ball blast football dot com.

846
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,240
Speaker 1: We have a whole team of writers and they are amazing.

847
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,720
Speaker 1: They're putting up content consistently and it's just some really

848
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: solid work they're doing over there. And then also me

849
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 1: and my wife Kate that we just brought up, and

850
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: um Jake, our friend Jake. We co host a podcast

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Speaker 1: I hope you do too. Awesome, very very cool. Well, Michelle,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Uh, and hopefully you and I and Kate

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Speaker 1: and many many others can run into each other and

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Speaker 1: swap beers and stories UH in Canton. That'd be great.

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Speaker 1: table second steal it, I will do I will do

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Speaker 1: that as well. So I appreciate it and it for us.

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Speaker 1: That is it. We are done. We appreciate you hanging

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Speaker 1: out with the NFL Fantasy Football show. You know the drill.

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Speaker 1: remember don't take candy from strangers unless of Halloween. Then

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Speaker 1: all bets are off. Be safe, take care of yourselves,

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Speaker 1: get vaccinated, and we will see you on Thursday. We're

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