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Speaker 1: Wow, fantasy freaks and geeks. What's cracking? James co Here

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Speaker 1: on the NFL Fantasy Live podcast. We have Matt Harmon,

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Speaker 1: the Son of West Virginia, in the podcast studios. I'm

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Speaker 1: up top. I want to go counterclockwise. Normally I'm like

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Speaker 1: just kidding MG, my guy Marcus Grant, what's cracking? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Not much, that's good. A little bit of morning. It's

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Speaker 1: not the day after morning, but the week of morning.

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Speaker 1: Because Alex Gilhar is here in full packer gear. Oh well,

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Speaker 1: this is just because I'm fighting a cold right now

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Speaker 1: and I one didn't want to do my hair, and

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Speaker 1: as we've discussed ad nauseum on this podcast, this is

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Speaker 1: the only hat that fits my head. And b I

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Speaker 1: wanted to wear a hoodie to to keep myself warm

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Speaker 1: hoodie pile. Basically. So, Matt Harmony, I have a question

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Speaker 1: for you. Was Alex Gelhar wrapped in a blanket on

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Speaker 1: the ground after that game? Well, this there's been a

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Speaker 1: his whole family, That's right. And what I was telling

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Speaker 1: Marcus about this, yes, when we were when we were

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Speaker 1: discussing it, is that it became too depressing, too fast,

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Speaker 1: and it was there wasn't even much tilt after that, exactly,

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Speaker 1: But after that, I mean, it just became so non competitive.

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Speaker 1: getting into it. We've got a big time show in

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Speaker 1: Gonna give you who could go crazy statistically anyways, from

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Speaker 1: take a look back at the running back position, give

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Speaker 1: So this will be a fun conversation, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: The camera highlights in the world of spreaking continue to

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Speaker 1: follow breaking kids. Why obviously from a real life perspective,

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Speaker 1: it not. And of course that speculation begins ends in Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: where Big Ben is quote unquote mully retirement. The thirty

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Speaker 1: that he's going to quote consider all options this offseason,

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Speaker 1: You talk about making eighteen million next season, which is true,

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Speaker 1: I like it. Maybe next Folk, maybe next maybe I'll

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Speaker 1: have to report from the wilderness is next week you're

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Speaker 1: last week. Yeah, next next week's big or a week

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Speaker 1: after begins Harmon's voyage into the Wilderness. But a lot

428
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Speaker 1: of surprises, a lot of surprises are going to come

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Speaker 1: out of the Wilderness piece. You have two weeks left

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Speaker 1: to right after next two podcasts. Okay, well at some

431
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Speaker 1: point here you're going to join franchise and where Jean

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Speaker 1: jackets in the desert and start campfires and stuff. Right,

433
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Speaker 1: we got some exciting stuff to report. But well that's

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Speaker 1: another team good, just this whole this is the tease episode.

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Speaker 1: I like it. You know what you know it isn't

436
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Speaker 1: a tease, though you're gonna say is. You can watch

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Speaker 1: the Senior bawl and Network on Saturday June the run down, James,

438
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Speaker 1: did you not tune in to watch the Senior bow

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Speaker 1: You will be very disappointed by the way I did

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Speaker 1: write this at one thirty in the morning. That's all right, January.

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Speaker 1: Was that after you got back from making millions and

442
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Speaker 1: billions of dollars of basketball commentator? Got it in, Marcus,

443
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Speaker 1: don't even it's gonna be really awkward. It's a good

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Speaker 1: it's a good thing today, Like James is not dressed

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Speaker 1: down and his button up. First of all, he's got

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Speaker 1: his watch on, but but twist behind the watches. He's

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Speaker 1: got this this bracelet here that kind of makes him

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Speaker 1: appeal to the common man. Oh, I see it now,

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Speaker 1: I see you see. I see exactly what you're trying

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Speaker 1: to do. There. You've got your You've got your three

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Speaker 1: thousand dollar watch on. Right behind that, you've got this

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Speaker 1: little bracelet that looks that looks like it was made cheaply.

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Speaker 1: But I bet you it's cost something weird, like fifty

454
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Speaker 1: bucks or I don't think it. Well, I think it

455
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Speaker 1: was like ten bucks. Anyways, how about Senior Bowl Saturday,

456
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Speaker 1: NFL Network janum there Eastern for those on the best coast.

457
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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about playoff challenge. Alex Gelhar, we

458
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Speaker 1: turned to you, who could ball statistically in Super Bowl? Ly? Uh? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think uh? I like it? Uh is that Jetly's cousin?

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Speaker 1: It is? I think it interesting. Want to watch matchup

461
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Speaker 1: wiser if you lost out on like leve On Bell

462
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Speaker 1: or you were like ranking had hitched your wagon to

463
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Speaker 1: Time Montgomery. But the Falcons running backs, I think a

464
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Speaker 1: really interesting in this matchup. I saw. I think Evan

465
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Speaker 1: Lazar or Laser. I don't know how to pronounce his

466
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Speaker 1: last name, sorry, Evan. One of our researchers downstairs was

467
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Speaker 1: tweeting about how the Patriots have been exposed by pass

468
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Speaker 1: catching running backs, and both Tevin Coleman and Devant Freeman

469
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Speaker 1: are very good at that. I mean, Julio Jones probably

470
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Speaker 1: gonna ball tight end, now do you think so? The

471
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Speaker 1: Patriots have done such a good job eliminating top receivers.

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Speaker 1: But this is this Julio Jones we're talking about. But

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Speaker 1: I'll say the one thing that concerns me though, right

474
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Speaker 1: is like that you know, for sure, almost for sure,

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Speaker 1: they're getting his bracket coverage to guard to cover Julio Jones,

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Speaker 1: and Matt Ryan has shown proclivity to not force feed

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Speaker 1: him the ball, so I actually wonder Julio Jones will

478
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Speaker 1: will get off. Statistically, he's still he's still a good choice.

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Speaker 1: They're actually throwing him the ball in the red zone

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Speaker 1: these days, as we saw against the Packers, and again

481
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Speaker 1: he's he's Julio Jones. He stole the soul of two

482
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Speaker 1: Packers cornerbacks on that touchdown, one of the greatest after

483
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Speaker 1: catches I've ever seen. He just like smacked that one

484
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Speaker 1: cornerback like no, uh, and I think both quarterbacks are

485
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Speaker 1: good tight end. It's kind of a wash. You have

486
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Speaker 1: to go with Martellis Bennett because the type the Falcons

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Speaker 1: kind of emplore like a tight end by committee, I

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Speaker 1: guess lack of a better term. Um, but I don't know.

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Speaker 1: What about what about you guys, Harmon, You picked Malcolm

490
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Speaker 1: Mitchell is a little contrarian play in your lineup? Well,

491
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Speaker 1: I mean I wasn't gonna pick Julian Edelman just for reasons,

492
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Speaker 1: since I mean it's Holgan. I mean, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I just I think that right now. So what piece

494
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be writing next week is like who could

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Speaker 1: be the the surprising, you know, hero of the super Bowl? Yeah,

496
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Speaker 1: and so that was kind of the way I wanted

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Speaker 1: to go. I have obviously, I have not written it.

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Speaker 1: I have not begun researching for it yet to me

499
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Speaker 1: to do it with next Gens stats. But like, I

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Speaker 1: just I think Mitchell could be kind of an X factor.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't I don't really have a good

502
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Speaker 1: reason for it, but I'm looking for that that here

503
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Speaker 1: random hero of the super Bowl, and I want it

504
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Speaker 1: could be him and more. I'm more interested in the

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Speaker 1: what's up with Julian that he did Julian Edelman like

506
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Speaker 1: make fun of Charlie. He blocked you on Twitter too. No,

507
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Speaker 1: that was just Cordarol Patterson. Oh my god, what is

508
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Speaker 1: the story behind this? I don't know what the story

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Speaker 1: is behind it's it's almost I mean, it was a

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Speaker 1: little jarring to me because like, I'm a big CP fan,

511
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Speaker 1: I I are you though, well, this is a CP

512
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Speaker 1: was the first reception, reception, second second, but first like

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Speaker 1: the big like this is a new like the first

514
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Speaker 1: one was about Jordy Nelson. Then I was like Cordariol

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Speaker 1: Patterson and like, yeah, it ended up being obviously well see,

516
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Speaker 1: the data ended up being correct. My interpretation of it

517
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Speaker 1: ended up being incredibly wrong. But I so I've always

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Speaker 1: loved CP, and I even tweeted a couple of times

519
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Speaker 1: this year about like, man seeing them actually get him

520
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Speaker 1: touches like warmed my cold dark heart or whatever. Because

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Speaker 1: I went back and looked at old tweets, I'm like, man,

522
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Speaker 1: that I ever like rip on him or anything, but nope,

523
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Speaker 1: I'm blocked. So whatever. But it was just it was funny.

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Speaker 1: I I normally I wouldn't acknowledge something like that, but

525
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Speaker 1: because I'm team leave players alone. But it was just

526
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Speaker 1: so funny because it's just a nice little underline on

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Speaker 1: the weird little storyline of of my little career. Here

528
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Speaker 1: starts with being wrong about CPS from the full circle

529
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Speaker 1: to be blocked blocked by cord. But anyways, you guys

530
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Speaker 1: can still play playoff challenge. If you want to challenge

531
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Speaker 1: some friends or family into a little Super Bowl Fantasy

532
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Speaker 1: NFL dot Com slash Playoff challenge, you will likely not

533
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Speaker 1: win the trip to Super Bowl fifty one because everybody

534
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 1: else has bonus multipliers. But I don't know, but you

535
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Speaker 1: could put some gummy bears on the line. Put some

536
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Speaker 1: gummy bears, you know, maybe you know, get some some

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Speaker 1: Tritos in there. I'm sure absolutely why not up the

538
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Speaker 1: antie a little bit? I like it. I like it

539
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Speaker 1: a lot. Let's take a look back at here, talk

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Speaker 1: about your top scores at the running back position. Of course,

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Speaker 1: David Johnson your RB one twelve thirty nine on the ground,

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Speaker 1: eight seventy nine through the air. I don't even want

543
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Speaker 1: to do the math. That's like yards uh sixteen touchdowns

544
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Speaker 1: rushing for receiving Football Focus is number one receiver, right, Matt,

545
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, give me a break. What. Yeah, he

546
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Speaker 1: was the number one PFFS, number one, number one receiver

547
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Speaker 1: for I respect a lot of what goes on at PF.

548
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:02,280
Speaker 1: They got a lot of buddies right over there. They

549
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Speaker 1: do a great job. But if there was ever a

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Speaker 1: reason for me not to take your grades seriously that

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Speaker 1: you put David Johnson as the number one receiver, because

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Speaker 1: if you're going to tell me that that his grade

553
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Speaker 1: as a receiver as a running back means more than

554
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Speaker 1: whoever the hell your top receiver is, that's ridiculous. That's

555
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 1: it's good. Whatever you do, just what we're talking about it.

556
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Speaker 1: So they win. He was the only running back over

557
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Speaker 1: three hundred points. Smashed it three seven fantasy points in

558
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Speaker 1: standard scoring leagues, did play sixteen games technically, although it

559
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Speaker 1: got hurt in Week seventeen. Four point two yards per carry,

560
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Speaker 1: two three total carries, third most in the NFL, and

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Speaker 1: a d D receptions. All right, boys, does he do

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Speaker 1: it again? No? Probably not? Probably not. I mean, this

563
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Speaker 1: this was a historic season. This is a special kind

564
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Speaker 1: of year. Alright, alright, let me let me back it up, then,

565
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Speaker 1: so not in twenty touchdowns? Okay, fine, but I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: does he end up as your RB one? I say no,

567
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Speaker 1: just because the list of guys in recent memory who

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Speaker 1: have repeated as number one running backs is really short

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Speaker 1: and there are so many things that that have to

570
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 1: kind of break your way for that to happen. Um,

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Speaker 1: I still think he's, you know, a top three running back,

572
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Speaker 1: but I think number one is tough. I mean, who

573
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Speaker 1: really cares between breaking those top three? I mean, if this,

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Speaker 1: if you really have, I question the validity of even

575
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Speaker 1: having like a strong opinion or discussion on breaking ties

576
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Speaker 1: between those three? You know what I mean? Do you

577
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Speaker 1: mean David Johnson, Zeke and Left Belt? I mean I

578
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 1: assume that that would be everybody's top three running backs

579
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Speaker 1: going into next year whatever. So like basically, you know,

580
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 1: people ask all summer, like, who's the number one pick?

581
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Speaker 1: Whoever the hell you want? Out of those, You're likely

582
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Speaker 1: not going to be disappointed, pack can I can I givetphe?

583
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Speaker 1: Of course, I'm really really worried about David Johnson going

584
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Speaker 1: into next year. He was approaching what amost four hundred

585
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Speaker 1: touches and what we've seen from running back, So what

586
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 1: do you have two hundred and uh two basic touches

587
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 1: in the NFL? Or'm sorry, um, what we've seen in

588
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: the NFL, and this goes back, I mean decades, We've

589
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Speaker 1: got a lot of data. Once they started approaching three

590
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Speaker 1: seventy five in terms of total touches, you start seeing

591
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: a massive decline and we're talking, I mean huge decline.

592
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm worried. I know that he's young, so

593
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Speaker 1: I don't know, we haven't really seen running backs his

594
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: age get this many touches, But I'm just worried Nike

595
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: wasn't far behind him. Though. Also it's true, I also

596
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: think David Johnson will see a few touches simply because

597
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: spreading the ball around will make the Cardinals offense harder

598
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Speaker 1: to the finn. I mean, I think part of the

599
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Speaker 1: reason he saw those that number of touches because after

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Speaker 1: a while, he was all they had. They had to

601
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 1: do it, they had to do it, and I think

602
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: they were also chasing records and stuff. They were pretty

603
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Speaker 1: open about. Well, I mean, by at the end, once

604
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: they were at a playoff contention, everything, Yeah, you might

605
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: as well just go feed your guy and see what

606
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: he can do. But I think, you know, all things

607
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Speaker 1: being equal, with this team being trying to be competitive

608
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: once again, you're gonna see you know, more, hopefully more

609
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Speaker 1: John Brown, more J J. Nelson, you know, more of

610
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,240
Speaker 1: these guys getting involved, which means fewer touches for David Johnson.

611
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Speaker 1: The big concern for me with David Johnson and all

612
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Speaker 1: of these next four or five running backs that we're

613
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Speaker 1: gonna talk about is injury. And we saw David Johnson,

614
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Speaker 1: Zeke uh Levan Bell, DeMarco Murray, and Todd Gurley all

615
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 1: finished with more than touches and none of them missed

616
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Speaker 1: a game. That's pretty crazy, you know. And I wrote

617
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Speaker 1: about zero RB and like why this was such a

618
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: strange year for wide receiver scoring and strange year for

619
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Speaker 1: running backs Scory and the biggest thing was, like wide

620
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: receivers had a really epidemic year of injuries and running

621
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: backs picked up just a little bit. But we just

622
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 1: saw all of these guys go Berzark and all of

623
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Speaker 1: them not miss any games. So that was shocking and

624
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Speaker 1: it wouldn't be surprising if he's gonna approach much workload

625
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: next year. Like, and the crazy part is we saw

626
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 1: in week seventeen you know, he got he got hurt.

627
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,479
Speaker 1: He got hurt, and and we saw that with uh,

628
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Speaker 1: with Levian Bell on the playoffs, and like fantasy owners

629
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Speaker 1: won't remember that because they stopped carrying a Week sixteen.

630
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Speaker 1: But those things did happen. Those touches do add up,

631
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Speaker 1: all right, So I won't. I love David Johnson, absolutely

632
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: love him. If you guys remember the end of last year,

633
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: I was like, this guy, to me is a top

634
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Speaker 1: three pick um. And this was before I looked at

635
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Speaker 1: any David's fine. I just I just loved the kid, right,

636
00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 1: and you were dead right, and I just was. But

637
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: going into next year again, I'm just saying I love them.

638
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: I'm just extremely worried. That's all I'll say. All right.

639
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 1: How about Zeke kellett U sixteen hundred rush yards, three

640
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: hundred sixty five receiving yards. Uh what is that? Nineteen

641
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: hundred almost uh almost two sixteen total touchdowns, fifteen on

642
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: the ground one through the year, two nine total Fantasy

643
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: points played, fifteen games sat out voluntarily in Week seventeen.

644
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: Uh five point one arts per carry as a rookie,

645
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: perty darn good carry the rock three hundred and twenty

646
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 1: two times the most in the NFL also had thirty

647
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: two receptions. Okay, projecting him out for next year, gentleman

648
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: Alex Gale hard will start with you. I mean, it's

649
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna he'll regress just to touch because you

650
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: know his touchdown totals are very high. But I think

651
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,479
Speaker 1: he's gonna he might morph into that Adrian Peterson kind

652
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: of mold earlier in his career. He can basically just

653
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: check him off for eleven d plus yards and ten

654
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: plus touchdowns. I don't think there's gonna be any regression

655
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: at all. I mean, the fifty touchdowns sounds like a lot,

656
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: but is it I mean, historically is it that much?

657
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: Though it's quite high, quite high for what we've seen recently.

658
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: So I mean, I'm not saying he's gonna drop off tremendously.

659
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: But that's why you'll take him as a top three

660
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: pick because you're pretty much guaranteed. You know, like I

661
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: said my number one, I was gonna say, I was

662
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: actually just gonna say that he might be my number one.

663
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: You're not worried about the passing production, right, That's what

664
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: That's what concerns me more than anything is the fact

665
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: that when the Cowboys needed to move the ball quickly

666
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: down the field lands Dunbar. Yeah, but how much did

667
00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: Dunbar really play? Like actual snap count, Stills took Zeke

668
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: off the field. I get it. But at the same time,

669
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,760
Speaker 1: I think, like he's the youngest, he's in the best

670
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: situation of all of these guys, he has the least

671
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: red flags. I love. I don't know he's my number one.

672
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 1: He's yeah, he might just be my number one just

673
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: for the hell of it. I mean, like I said,

674
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not gonna get into a contentious debate

675
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 1: about breaking ties between these guys. But I think, like

676
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: you said, pretty much say that now, wait till July

677
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: and August happens, Wait till your mentions are flooded in.

678
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: How is my This is my promise to you right now,

679
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: I will to all the listeners and to you guys,

680
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: I will not have some foe the hot really preference

681
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: for these next three to Twitter dot, I'm not gonna

682
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 1: falsify creates fake accounts. I'm not gonna harmon, I'm not

683
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: gonna falsibly make up some debate that like here's why

684
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: I have a really strong opinion about why seek over

685
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: over huge drop off from number two to number three

686
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: is Shady McCoy. You'r RB three this year, twelve sixty

687
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 1: seven on the ground, three fifty six through the air,

688
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: thirteen rushing touchdowns, just one receiving touchdown, which I thought

689
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 1: to be a little bit odd. But we go from

690
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: two ninety three for Zeke to two hundred and forty

691
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: eight points for Shady McCoy. Played fifteen games five point

692
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 1: four yards per carry. I believe that's a career high

693
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: for him, but regardless, it was the first time above

694
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 1: four point five yards per carry since he carried the

695
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: rock two hundred and thirty four times, had fifty receptions.

696
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 1: He turns twenty nine next year, Shady McCoy, Are you

697
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: fading away as here? First round draft pick next year?

698
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 1: Man Harmon? Don't probably not. I think that. Listen, we're

699
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: talking to all of these these guys you know should

700
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: go number one or whatever. I don't even care if

701
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 1: you take a receiver over one of these three guys. Wow,

702
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: he's you see that position correct to mean more this

703
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: year and see any of these guys fall off. So

704
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: I would consider probably about three to four wide receivers

705
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: before i'd consider McCoy in the first round, and like

706
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: I said, you want to throw one of the top

707
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 1: guys into that mix next year with the three running backs,

708
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 1: be my guest. Levian Bell twelve sixty eight on the ground,

709
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 1: six sixteen through the air, tremendous production. We're talking nearly

710
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:28,800
Speaker 1: uh nine hundred yards on just twelve games. Had the

711
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 1: nine total touchdowns, two two fantasy points, four point nine

712
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 1: yards per carry, uh two hundred and sixty one carries

713
00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:41,240
Speaker 1: seven b five receptions in just twelve games. This guy's

714
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:45,240
Speaker 1: workload was massive, UH. And we saw in the playoffs

715
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: and in the last week of the regular season Levian

716
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: Bell be kind of dinged up. UM. I think this

717
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: is gonna be a guy to me that is very

718
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 1: interesting and probably a polarizing character uh in the fantasy

719
00:35:57,880 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: community because you kind of figure he's gonna go in

720
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:03,240
Speaker 1: the top five. Alex Gilher but a lot of red flags.

721
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: I'm not too concerned about the red flags. I mean,

722
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: as as long as the contract situation works out, whether

723
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: he gets tagged or whatnot, and there's no suspensions. Like

724
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 1: I think he's a locked and loaded top three pick,

725
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 1: maybe even my number one, just because of how important

726
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: he is to that offense. And when we're talking about

727
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: how Zeke has a great situation, so too do do Shady.

728
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 1: His offensive line is in pretty good shape. He's got

729
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:29,399
Speaker 1: unless he retires, uh an amazing quarterback under center as well.

730
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 1: One of the best wide receivers in the game out

731
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,320
Speaker 1: wide should be getting back Martavis Bryant. Like I, I

732
00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: don't see any I don't see any concerns right now

733
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,359
Speaker 1: other than the same concerns for everybody, like well, unless

734
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,720
Speaker 1: he gets injured or unless but he has the century

735
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: history though I think that's the number one thing. Yeah,

736
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 1: I don't know. I still I think I think the

737
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: argument or the discussion for most of the summer is

738
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 1: going to be who should be the number one out

739
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: of the three of David Johnson, Zeke and love Bell. Yeah,

740
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,319
Speaker 1: and I think I think that's going to that's going

741
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 1: to be the merry go round we play. Yeah. Look,

742
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: I personally I feel like leve Bell is my number one,

743
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: but I don't Again, I'm not going to chastise anybody

744
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: who has a different opinion on that, Okay. DeMarco Murray

745
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,879
Speaker 1: twelve eighty seven on the ground, three through the year,

746
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: twelve total touchdowns, two forty Fantasy points. He played all

747
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:21,840
Speaker 1: sixteen games. I was surprised by that. I thought he

748
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 1: sat out of game or two four point four yards

749
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: per carry, two hundred and ninety three carries, fifty three receptions.

750
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: He turns twenty nine as well. Marcus, grant your thoughts

751
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 1: of DeMarco Murray this year and going into next year.

752
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: This year was I think it caught us all by surprise.

753
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean he looked washed in Philadelphia and

754
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,720
Speaker 1: it just was like, you're going to tennesseee this exotic

755
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: smash mouth. I don't know what this is gonna be. Um.

756
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: He played extremely well. I mean, there's just no way

757
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: around it. My only concern with de Marco is how

758
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: much do the Titans start to try to work in

759
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,080
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry next year? And I think we started to

760
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:01,919
Speaker 1: see some of that later in the years. They wanted

761
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: to give DeMarco some rest and I get him to

762
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: beat up um, But I mean, Derrick Henry is a

763
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 1: huge back, I mean just physically enormous, bruising back, and

764
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: you wonder how much they're gonna start to work him in.

765
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: But I don't know that I'd have a problem taking

766
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 1: a shot at DeMarco late second early third round, and

767
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: he's gonna fall down there. You know, I think he

768
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: will probably be around there, and you know, in that range,

769
00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: I have no problem at all taking DeMarco Murray three

770
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: feels about right? Yeah, I think so. I think you're

771
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 1: about right, although depending on how much we hear about

772
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, maybe he falls even more. Of course. Uh,

773
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 1: DeVante Freeman one, excuse me A one thousand to seventy

774
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 1: nine rushing yards, four hundred six to receiving yards, so

775
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 1: about fifteen hundred total yards, thirteen total touchdowns. Believe it,

776
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: I only had two receiving touchdowns, which I thought to

777
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,879
Speaker 1: be pretty surprising. Played all six team games, four point

778
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 1: eight yards per carry, which again is actually really good

779
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 1: for him. Two seven carries and fifty four reception so

780
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: he had about two hundred and sixty total touches. But uh,

781
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: Dove Andante Freeman, Matt Harmon your takeaways from and what

782
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: do we use uh that? How do we use that info?

783
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: Looking at let's say he had just three games of

784
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,680
Speaker 1: under eight points. He was so good again. I was

785
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 1: happy to see that with him met me too, because

786
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: he was you know, obviously talked about like wanting to

787
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: load up on wide receivers early, but he was one,

788
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: especially when he started falling to the second round that

789
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,280
Speaker 1: I was like, he could be your sort of anchor

790
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: running back with a bunch of stud receivers around him.

791
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: Freeman is awesome. He's a great player, He's in a

792
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 1: great offense. I think the one question that we have

793
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 1: to have with all of these falcons is does that

794
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: offense become the next greatest show on turf or does

795
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: it take a big step back next year? As we

796
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 1: talked about last episode, they scored seventy one more points

797
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: than any other team in the NFL. Uh, that's a

798
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: lot to lose. And how much of that impact is

799
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 1: impacted by Kyle Shanahan potentially not being there? Right, There's

800
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,320
Speaker 1: that as well, Right, So there's a there's some questions

801
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 1: about Freeman, but I think like as far as the

802
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,479
Speaker 1: second round pick goes at the running back position, he's

803
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,919
Speaker 1: as he's as pretty good as you can feel about

804
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: anybody love him there. And of course there's gonna be

805
00:40:04,239 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: the whole time and Coleman conversation as well in this offseason,

806
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: as we saw coming into this season as well. But

807
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: we'll see Coleman's interesting with with Shanahan gone because they

808
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 1: used him so well as someone to attack like teams

809
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: inside linebackers, in pass coverage. They used him really well

810
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 1: as almost like as a big play threat, and he

811
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,879
Speaker 1: became a movable chess piece for them. And he caught

812
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,320
Speaker 1: two passes as a rookie, So they really took a

813
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,400
Speaker 1: big step in that fashion. This year is compared to

814
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: his his rookie year, and I wonder if the next

815
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,399
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator leaves those same wrinkles in the game play.

816
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 1: That's true. The creativity from Kyle Shanahan there was was

817
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,240
Speaker 1: pretty special. Uh this year all right? Le Garrett Blunt

818
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,280
Speaker 1: eleven sixty one on the ground, just thirty eight receiving yards,

819
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: eighteen total touchdowns, all of them on the ground. Um,

820
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 1: this guy was unbelievable sixteen games. Uh. The yards per

821
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 1: carry obviously not there, but he had a lot of

822
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 1: short yard situations three point nine yards per carry two

823
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety nine carry, second most in the NFLA

824
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,479
Speaker 1: just seven receptions. He's thirty years old, will be thirty

825
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: years old, a free agent too, will be a free agent.

826
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 1: He's going to be thirty years old, going into next season.

827
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: There's so many question marks. I was gonna say, I

828
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: love Lagaric Blunt, but ask you guys, like, what the

829
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 1: hell do you do? I don't know supposing he comes

830
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: back to because he's a free agent, but I mean

831
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:24,879
Speaker 1: he's been pretty much just a guy basically and even

832
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: a troublemaker in every other spot besides New England. And

833
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: I think he knows that too, So you'd imagine that

834
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 1: he comes back early. Right now, I would say I

835
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,439
Speaker 1: kind of like him, maybe in the range we took

836
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 1: guys like Jeremy Hill and Melvin Garden and DeMarco this year. Yeah,

837
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 1: like five to seven, give that like nebulous range, because

838
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:49,439
Speaker 1: I don't want to sink one of those earlier around

839
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: picks in him because so much could go could go wrong,

840
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: like Dion Lewis another your healthier could come back in

841
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:58,399
Speaker 1: he could you know, only score ten touchdowns would still

842
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: be great, but his his rushing total could drop. But like,

843
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: and what we've seen from Belichick to is that he

844
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: definitely views this position as a replaceable, fable, replaceable piece.

845
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: So that's it. Where's Chip Kelly going? That's my question,

846
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 1: Where's Jiff Kelly going? Because that like, even though McDaniels

847
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: didn't leave, there's was at least some talk that he's

848
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: going to join them as you know, some sort of

849
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: offensive I think is a great fit for Let's say

850
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: he goes down to Jacksonville. He's not going to They've

851
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 1: already they've already kept just trying to move the Ivory out.

852
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: Aren't you just trying to make Chris Ivory be not

853
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: a thing? Obviously they're kind of They're gonna more t

854
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 1: j They're keeping Nathaniel Hackett there though. By the way,

855
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: oh that's terrible. Um, I don't think it's that bad,

856
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,360
Speaker 1: but whatever, okay, all right, anyways, I just want to

857
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 1: see what Chip Kelly goes. Maybe he gets reunited with

858
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: Jets are looking for an oc still, right, So I

859
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: don't know. But Melvin Gorton on the ground four on

860
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:59,720
Speaker 1: UH four nineteen, receiving ten rushing touchdowns to receiving touchdowns

861
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 1: as well, had a pretty good season. Played thirteen games,

862
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 1: three point nine yards per carry, which is concerning UH

863
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:11,360
Speaker 1: three fifty four rushes carries and forty one receptions. He

864
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,280
Speaker 1: actually had a pretty darn high usage rate, uh considering

865
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,919
Speaker 1: he only played thirteen games. He got what almost three

866
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 1: hundred total touch he had average point seven touches per

867
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:24,919
Speaker 1: Game's that's a lot Melvin Gordon. Of course, I'm gonna

868
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: go to the Melvin Gordon Truther MG my guy Marcus

869
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,759
Speaker 1: Grant talking about MG, his guy Melvin Gordon. Yeah. I

870
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 1: think my big concerned with Melvin Gordon this year is

871
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: what happens to his role in the offense when everyone

872
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 1: is healthy in San Diego. Um, for as as productive

873
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 1: as he was, especially for fantasy, a lot of it

874
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: is owed. And I always, unfortunately to you know, Keenan

875
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: Allen getting hurt and Danny Woodhead especially getting hurt, had

876
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: a lot to do with it. Um. Now you've got

877
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: a new coaching staff. You were in theory going to

878
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: have all those guys healthy. Uh, given mine, they suddenly

879
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,240
Speaker 1: have a very loaded wide receiving corps, Tweens, Gene and Allen,

880
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 1: uh Haarrah Williams, dentrelle Inman, Travis Benjamin. They got Hunter

881
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 1: Henry at the tight end spot, and maybe Antonio Gates,

882
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: I guess comes potentially comes back. He's coming back. That's

883
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: a really good a lot of mouths to feed suddenly

884
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: in that offense, and it does make me a little

885
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 1: bit wary of Melvin Gordon and how much opportunity he's

886
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: going to get. He's very good this year. I just

887
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: right now, as the way things said, I struggled to

888
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: imagine he's going to produce at a similar level. On

889
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: the plus side, Danny Woodhead is in his thirties and

890
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: it's probably not coming He's probably not coming back coming back,

891
00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 1: and I think that I think that should keep his

892
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 1: workload relatively safe. Maybe he'll see a little dip in

893
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 1: the reception totals, but he was he was work for

894
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,399
Speaker 1: He played really well for them this very well, no doubt. Yeah,

895
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: the yards per carry doesn't really concern me all that

896
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 1: much because he had it was fourth in the NFL

897
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,399
Speaker 1: and red zone carries and and he didn't even play

898
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: you know, full season obviously, so that will bring your

899
00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,359
Speaker 1: yards per carry out a lot. I thought he looked good.

900
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 1: You know, they don't have a great offensive line, so

901
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:04,800
Speaker 1: I wouldn't put that. And the offensive line had to

902
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 1: get shuffled around a lot this year like last year.

903
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 1: They constantly we're having to move pieces around and stuff,

904
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:11,879
Speaker 1: so there was no continuity. Whereas you look at somebody

905
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: like Zeke the same guys there basically the entire year

906
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 1: to run between you know, gardens looking at somebody at

907
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:19,359
Speaker 1: right guard. Next game they're playing left guard, next game

908
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 1: they're playing center. Likes tackles were in and out. So

909
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 1: yards per carry is uh is one of the least

910
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: correlated year to year consistent statistics. I mean, look at

911
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: any any number of examples of player. But I mean

912
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: the easy one is Todd Gurley, like goes from over

913
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 1: five or two below four, So I mean that like

914
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 1: it can bounce around year to year. So it was

915
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:41,840
Speaker 1: Tod like three point two or something. It was. It was,

916
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 1: it was pretty it was awful, one of the worst.

917
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 1: But hey, speaking of Todd Gurley, you know it's good

918
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: the city of Los Angeles finally has an exciting, young,

919
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 1: productive running back in it. Man, why would you do that?

920
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 1: I stole that joke from our friend Derek Stone or

921
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: still blame him. I mean Ronald Jones, you know, doing

922
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: the big things that you see what he's talking. I

923
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 1: mean in the professional league. Uh, USC's professional, right, I

924
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: mean they share of stadium with a professional football So

925
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: then again, so did the l Alexey Jordan Howard football

926
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 1: and football football Jordan Howard rushing to receiving six rushing

927
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: touchdowns one receiving touchdown. I can't believe. I could not

928
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: believe Jordan Howard was your running back nine this year.

929
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:35,359
Speaker 1: I want to jump in on this one quick because

930
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: I liked Jordan Howard coming out of college. But it

931
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: was a case where like he was always very good,

932
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 1: Like he didn't have a ton of super splash plays,

933
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 1: and I honestly, gun, I kind of feel like that's

934
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 1: how he was here to like you would just feel like, man,

935
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:49,320
Speaker 1: did Jordan Howard rip off like a six year run? Nope? No,

936
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 1: just like he'd have a ten yard run, four yard run,

937
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 1: like twelve yard run. He was just so consistently good though,

938
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:58,160
Speaker 1: which I think is a good sign for him moving

939
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 1: forward in that offense. That was because legitimately, remember one

940
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,640
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard highlight from this year. He had a big

941
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:09,399
Speaker 1: catch and run, didn't he on Thursday Night Football? Yeah

942
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:16,920
Speaker 1: that's the play. It's actually sort of almost proves James's point. Now, Yeah, No,

943
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:18,800
Speaker 1: I I don't. I think that is a that is

944
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,479
Speaker 1: a great point. All these other guys I remember, don't

945
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 1: plays all over the play. But he was just so

946
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:26,279
Speaker 1: consistently good, and what did he have what was his

947
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: street com trying to look it up, games like nine

948
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: plus scrimmage yards one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight,

949
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: nine straight games with ninety plus scrimmae yards to end

950
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 1: the year like that is very very good, I thought,

951
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: I thought evaluating him watching his game tape coming out

952
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 1: of college. I just thought those vanilla plays would turn

953
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 1: into negative plays. But they didn't didn't, And a lot

954
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,800
Speaker 1: of people shared that sentiment. And there was nothing really

955
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 1: in his uh in his workout from the NFL comm

956
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:56,800
Speaker 1: from his from the Combine, or really even like his

957
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: college profile from a production standpoint that really would have

958
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:02,319
Speaker 1: pointed this like sleeping superstark. Really, I think the only

959
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: evaluator that I can remember being high on him was

960
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 1: Lance Earline, our colleague here, compared him to Arian Foster,

961
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: and I remember I was like, that's nuts. He had

962
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:11,320
Speaker 1: a really high grade on him too. I think he

963
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 1: was a second He might have been his second or

964
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:16,400
Speaker 1: third rated back, something like that. But you know, it

965
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 1: was a great thing now for me, Jordan Howard next

966
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:21,919
Speaker 1: year is all gonna come down to price, Like where

967
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:23,439
Speaker 1: are you gonna have to draft him? Because I've even

968
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:24,759
Speaker 1: heard some people say like he could be a back

969
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:26,880
Speaker 1: end the first Trump pick. Count me out on that,

970
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: because this Bears offense is probably gonna be awful. They

971
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:35,279
Speaker 1: don't have They're probably gonna take Quack, probably gonna take

972
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 1: a quarterback at three or try to. Their offensive line

973
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,240
Speaker 1: has has some guys coming back, but so questionable. Alshon

974
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 1: Jeffrey is probably out the door, despite promising that they're

975
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: gonna win a Super Bowl next year, which is weird

976
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:48,520
Speaker 1: to me. Uh So, I mean, Cameron Meredith is going

977
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 1: to be their number one receiver. I like Cameron Meredith,

978
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 1: but holy hell, there's not a lot of talent on

979
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: that offense. You're just you're not gonna mention Reuben Randall.

980
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 1: They did sign Reuben Randalls, so they are making contingency

981
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 1: plans of Fushan doesn't weave. But I mean that that

982
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 1: that screams exactly what we saw with Todd Gurley last year.

983
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: And you know, obviously Todd Gurley is a greater individual.

984
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,560
Speaker 1: Um real quick just went back to look out of curiosity,

985
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:18,280
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard had Lands Airline had Jordan Howard and Derrick

986
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 1: Henry with a six point one grade traieling only Ezekiel Elliott,

987
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 1: Who's right? Seven? Interesting? All right? Uh, he played fifteen games.

988
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,840
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard did five point two yards per carry. Talking

989
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: about just being able to grind out yards. I mean

990
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: he did a very good job this year. Uh two

991
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 1: d and fifty two carries, so it wasn't a small

992
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,439
Speaker 1: sample size. Keep in mind he had two hundred fifty

993
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 1: two carries, but in his first two games he had

994
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: twelve carries total, so two hundred and forty carries over

995
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: his last games they used him a lot. Great, Yeah,

996
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:51,719
Speaker 1: mark Ingram. But Jordan Howard, you're running back nine this year,

997
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 1: which is I gotta go back and watch more tape

998
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:56,479
Speaker 1: on him. Man, I just I don't know. I'm torn.

999
00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know where the hell? What the hell?

1000
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: I like maths exactly right, though, it's a gonna come

1001
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,279
Speaker 1: down to price. Yeah, alright, Uh, you're running back ten

1002
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 1: this year, mark Ingram. Yeah? What was he on pace? Four?

1003
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 1: James read? How many yards happen? Say it with your chest?

1004
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: He had thousand rush yards? Uh, just knuck in there,

1005
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:28,480
Speaker 1: a thousand and forty three good for three nineteen through

1006
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:33,120
Speaker 1: the air as well six touchdowns on the ground. Four touchdowns,

1007
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:37,280
Speaker 1: receiving tent total one in terms of fantasy points, sixteen

1008
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:40,840
Speaker 1: games played, five point one yards per carry, two hundred

1009
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:44,919
Speaker 1: and five carries, and forty six receptions as well. Let's

1010
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 1: take a look back at twenty sixteen UM Marcus Grant

1011
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:53,839
Speaker 1: and uh, I guess project him out for as well. Uh, look,

1012
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:57,200
Speaker 1: who knows me? That's kind of the short answer, because

1013
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:01,280
Speaker 1: who really knows. I mean, he did just he barely

1014
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 1: snuck in to get a thousand yards? Were you impressed

1015
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:07,840
Speaker 1: by his twenty six team UM? At times? At times

1016
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:09,960
Speaker 1: he was kind of a non factor in the offense.

1017
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 1: I mean, they really did a lot at the running

1018
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: back spot. We saw a lot of Tim high Tower.

1019
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:15,719
Speaker 1: Obviously late in the year we started seeing more Traveris

1020
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 1: Cadet getting run in there. And you know, it's just

1021
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 1: what an up and down here from mark ingram right is.

1022
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:26,320
Speaker 1: It's just it's so hard to really project any Saints

1023
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 1: skill position players. I mean, I think now we have

1024
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: a good handle on Michael Thomas because of what he

1025
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 1: did this past year, but beyond that, because they spread

1026
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 1: the ball around so much, and because Sean Payton in

1027
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: that offense is so uh insistent on just rotating personnel

1028
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 1: to make them harder to defend. Uh, it's just really

1029
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: really hard to project. So for mark Ingram, he could

1030
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: have another year like this one where he kind of

1031
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 1: you know, flirts with a thousand yards. He could go

1032
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:54,280
Speaker 1: back to being you know, seven eight hundred yard running

1033
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 1: back again this year. Just outside the top tan j A.

1034
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 1: G I at eleven, Frank Gore at twelve, Latavious Murray

1035
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 1: at thirteen, Isaiah crow Well at fourteen, and Carlos Hide

1036
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: at fifteen. Alex Galhart of that gross group, do you

1037
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 1: like any of them to put potentially savage? Uh? Come on,

1038
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: that is a gross group. Is Colonel's Hide disrespect j

1039
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 1: I would be the one I would expect. I mean,

1040
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 1: Gore love the man, he's an amazing football player, but like,

1041
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: is he gonna come back? What's he gonna do? Like

1042
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 1: there's so many questions. There would be the one to

1043
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 1: me that makes the most sense to go in there.

1044
00:52:27,719 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 1: Lettavia is a free agent and they have to like,

1045
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:32,000
Speaker 1: I know, the Raiders had a lot of success with

1046
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: him when they actually did give him the ball more

1047
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:36,840
Speaker 1: there's something you know, one of those obviously like silly

1048
00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:38,919
Speaker 1: stats were like, oh they wins x amount of games

1049
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: when he has you know why, I'm out of touches,

1050
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: But I wonder why that is. I know exactly, but

1051
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:45,799
Speaker 1: he's He's an interesting one to me because they got

1052
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:49,240
Speaker 1: so much production on A Richard and Washington, so curious

1053
00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 1: to see that was gone the offense. Look, Garbo, they

1054
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 1: still had some success without him. I think they were fine,

1055
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 1: but I just thought there was so much better balance

1056
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,320
Speaker 1: when Lottevious was in. Yeah, he gives him like a

1057
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 1: grind it out that they don't have. But as I

1058
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:07,359
Speaker 1: would be the one that I could see jumping in there.

1059
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: We need to see what happens on the rest of

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00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:11,759
Speaker 1: that office. And I make an argument. I mean, I

1061
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:15,800
Speaker 1: agree with, but I make an argument for one. Isaiah Crowell.

1062
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 1: H Crowell, I thought played awesome this year despite you know,

1063
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:23,000
Speaker 1: midd link statistics, because the problem with the Browns was

1064
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,440
Speaker 1: before obviously they had offensive line issues coming into the

1065
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: year because they lost two players in free agency, and

1066
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 1: Alex Mack and Mitchell Schwartz, both of them are great,

1067
00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 1: went great and went on to have success with playoff teams.

1068
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:35,359
Speaker 1: You know, good on them. One of them is going

1069
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 1: to the super Bowl next week. So I've heard um

1070
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: and Crowel though to his credit, like and not only that,

1071
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I got a track, but not only that,

1072
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:44,359
Speaker 1: Like they lost Joel Pltonio in the middle of the year.

1073
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:47,359
Speaker 1: He's a great guard to the big second round pick

1074
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 1: the year before. Kroll I thought still played really well.

1075
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 1: The problem with the Browns, of course, the offensive line,

1076
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 1: and they were losing all the time. They were twenty

1077
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:56,319
Speaker 1: nine and run play percentage last year, which is very

1078
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 1: contrary to what Hugh Jackson wants to do as a

1079
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:01,800
Speaker 1: play caller. There was a you know, they they've already

1080
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: talked contract extension with him. Uh, just they hit a

1081
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 1: little bit of a snag. I think Ian Rapport said that,

1082
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:09,359
Speaker 1: but like we'll see, they're gonna meet again. I think

1083
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 1: he could be the centerpiece of their offense next year.

1084
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:14,359
Speaker 1: And if they're even just a little bit better than

1085
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:16,240
Speaker 1: can run the ball more, you should get more opportunity.

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00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: He did kind of have like a swing to his

1087
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 1: season where he started out really hot, and then as

1088
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:23,359
Speaker 1: things went south for them, he dipped down a lot,

1089
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 1: and then he came back strong at the end. I

1090
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: think as they kind of got back to what they

1091
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 1: wanted to do. Yeah, they're they're run play percentage boosted

1092
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:32,240
Speaker 1: up inside the top fifteen there when they were winning

1093
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:34,839
Speaker 1: more games towards the end of the year at their place.

1094
00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:37,400
Speaker 1: So I think that's the script that they ought to

1095
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:39,719
Speaker 1: be on. All right, there were your top fifteen ish

1096
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:43,719
Speaker 1: running backs for sixteen. Obviously, the debate will rage on

1097
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 1: this offseason, and I'll look it forward to it. I

1098
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:49,279
Speaker 1: love talking about running backs just because there's so much

1099
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:53,400
Speaker 1: game tape and so many hot takes chaos, I know,

1100
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:55,320
Speaker 1: and I love it. So of course we're gonna be

1101
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:57,839
Speaker 1: talked about it. Next week. We shall uh dive deep

1102
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 1: into the wide receiver zsition. We'll take a look at

1103
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 1: the top ten there. But let's go into your daily

1104
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: depths doth all right, daily tap time we go to MG,

1105
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:20,720
Speaker 1: my guy, Marcus Grant. What you got I wanna daily

1106
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 1: DAP Brent Musburger, who announced that he is retiring after

1107
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:30,480
Speaker 1: nearly fifty years of play by play. What I think

1108
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:33,320
Speaker 1: the end of the month January thirty leave. It's a

1109
00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:37,799
Speaker 1: correct Georgia, Kentucky, I believe is his last broadcast. Um wow,

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00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,280
Speaker 1: you know, as somebody who had a fair to middling

1111
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 1: play by play career, um, you know it's it's amazing,

1112
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:47,160
Speaker 1: and there were so many big games where Brent's voice

1113
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:50,359
Speaker 1: was there also. Fun fact, uh, part part of why

1114
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:52,520
Speaker 1: you know, my friends and I enjoyed listening to Brent

1115
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:56,319
Speaker 1: Musburger same without Michaels or for the the just unadulterated

1116
00:55:56,360 --> 00:56:00,839
Speaker 1: gambling references that he would make. I'm sorry, what what's

1117
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 1: this g word you speak about? Fun fact about that,

1118
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:07,080
Speaker 1: because you know, one of Brent's signature lines was always

1119
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:10,239
Speaker 1: you are looking live at you know, whatever stadium or

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00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 1: whatever they were. You know the shot was from the

1121
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:17,399
Speaker 1: reason that he did that was for gamblers because way

1122
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 1: back in the day, you know, for pregame shows and

1123
00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:22,080
Speaker 1: what have you, it would never be live shots of stadiums.

1124
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: It would just be generic static shots. So a lot

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00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:28,279
Speaker 1: of times you might get a generic static shot of

1126
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 1: Saint lambeau Field on a sunny day when in reality

1127
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:35,880
Speaker 1: it was cold and snowing and windy. So for Britt

1128
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,800
Speaker 1: to say you are looking live at a particular shot

1129
00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:41,960
Speaker 1: gave the gamblers out there an idea of what the

1130
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:45,919
Speaker 1: weather conditions were in case they wanted to change their wagers. Interesting,

1131
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:49,000
Speaker 1: I like it. That's a great little fun Fact Alex

1132
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:55,720
Speaker 1: Fact too. This will be Marcus Grant's last podcast. Alex Gillar,

1133
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: What do you got? I'm gonna daily dap The Vasquez

1134
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 1: Rocks Natural Park Area. It's a state park near Santa Clarita, California.

1135
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:04,440
Speaker 1: My family and I went there to do some hiking

1136
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:07,880
Speaker 1: on Saturday before going to Santa Clarita and drinking some

1137
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 1: beer and wine at local establishments there. But it's a

1138
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:13,720
Speaker 1: really cool park. They have a section called the Famous

1139
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 1: Rocks where there have been tons of movies shot there

1140
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 1: with the Rocks, like Western's More Modern Things and stuff

1141
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 1: like that. If you were to google Vazquez Rocks Natural

1142
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:24,520
Speaker 1: Park Area, you'd find probably a list of all the

1143
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:27,120
Speaker 1: films and stuff my mom had. And then, as an

1144
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 1: addendum to that, I want to daily that the Twitter

1145
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 1: accounts of national parks all across the country, because yesterday

1146
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 1: there were some regulations slapped on them for not being

1147
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:39,560
Speaker 1: able to tweet facts and science and things, and a

1148
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 1: number of them stood up. Whether or not they were

1149
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 1: actually rogue people quote unquote who still had access to

1150
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 1: the accounts or were some you know, inspired employees there.

1151
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty awesome that, you know, sometimes

1152
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: the the unlikeliest heroes we may need come up from

1153
00:57:53,800 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 1: the unlikely spots. And that was the National Parks Twitter

1154
00:57:56,320 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 1: accounts yesterday. Uh yeah, what a weird story that is.

1155
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:03,200
Speaker 1: Matt Harmon, give me a daily DAP. Yeah, I'm gonna

1156
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:05,160
Speaker 1: daily DAP. I meant to do this up top, but

1157
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 1: I forgot. I'm a daily DAP. You got two wrapped

1158
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 1: up in yourself and you're like, oh wow, I'm going first.

1159
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:15,680
Speaker 1: Damn it. You're right. Every day we got to work

1160
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 1: to be work to be a better person, um and

1161
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 1: me especially. But a daily DAP to listener Chris Allen,

1162
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:25,720
Speaker 1: who sent us all really great gifts, uh along with

1163
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: the story, and well we'll talk about the story here

1164
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 1: because his story to tell, not ours, but he sent it,

1165
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:32,760
Speaker 1: sent along all a bunch of beer glasses from his

1166
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:35,960
Speaker 1: buddies a home brewing company, and it's really cool, good

1167
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 1: story with it. Like I said, Chris is the loyal listener.

1168
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: He was in the Bearded league, and uh we talked

1169
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 1: back and forth because too so good guy, really great gift,

1170
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 1: appreciated man, and just again extend that DAP to all

1171
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 1: the people as we always should to all the people

1172
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:50,960
Speaker 1: that put up Yeah, and what was the we'll give

1173
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:53,080
Speaker 1: his friends Brewing company a little shout out. It was

1174
00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:57,400
Speaker 1: Homebrew your own beer, right h B y O B Yeah, Homebrew,

1175
00:58:58,000 --> 00:58:59,880
Speaker 1: which is a HB y O b B y OB

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00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 1: with an ancient from them good. It's a clever names.

1177
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 1: So you can check it out. Search for that online

1178
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:07,440
Speaker 1: for some items and tips and stuff like that for

1179
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:09,960
Speaker 1: buring your own beer. I've got two daily DAPs. One

1180
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 1: is going to go to cal A d Mike Williams,

1181
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 1: who uh ballsy move fired Sunny Dikes super late in

1182
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 1: the process, which I'm down with. Down I was doing.

1183
00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:21,360
Speaker 1: I was doing fist pumps like Jersey Shore when I

1184
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 1: when I read that on when I read that on Twitter,

1185
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 1: But Jersey Shore reference great, I'm a dad, stop it

1186
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:33,280
Speaker 1: all right? Who cares? Uh? So, Yes, I was doing

1187
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: Jersey Shore fist pumps. Whatever? Do GTL with baby co

1188
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:40,360
Speaker 1: and you're off days two? Oh my god, please let's

1189
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 1: let us glaby g t L record. I have never

1190
00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:47,120
Speaker 1: watched a second of that television program and I will

1191
00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: not in my second. Oh you've missed out. You haven't

1192
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 1: missed out, but I did. I did watch the season

1193
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:55,600
Speaker 1: one Season one first couple episodes because I was a

1194
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 1: freshman then it was a big like thing there. But

1195
00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 1: that was back during Galhard's real pretend just phase. No

1196
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 1: it wasn't, and I had graduated from my super end

1197
01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 1: of high school pretension at that point. I can't keep

1198
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:09,840
Speaker 1: track of when you're super pretentious, you're still in yours.

1199
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:13,480
Speaker 1: So it happens, I am you're talking about that is

1200
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:26,200
Speaker 1: that is not true? That's look. I love the higher

1201
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:28,680
Speaker 1: of Justin Wilcox, and I love the fact that they

1202
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:31,360
Speaker 1: then went and go went to go get two different

1203
01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 1: head coaches to man the coordinator positions. They got the

1204
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:36,400
Speaker 1: head coach of Eastern Washington to be there o C.

1205
01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:39,320
Speaker 1: They got the former head coach of Fresno State to

1206
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 1: be their d C. I like where the program is

1207
01:00:42,320 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 1: moving in a lot of that has to do with

1208
01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: Mike Williams taking Lorraine there as you're a d at

1209
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 1: USC or excuse me, at CAL and doing um and

1210
01:00:51,480 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 1: doing a terrific job there. I will also daily DAP

1211
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Speaker 1: the f s w A. I can't believe you guys

1212
01:00:57,040 --> 01:00:59,480
Speaker 1: gonna talk about this yet, the fact that The Fantasy

1213
01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:04,240
Speaker 1: Hipster nominated for what is it, the Best Video Ward

1214
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:08,400
Speaker 1: by the Fantasy Sports Writers Association. Um, can we get

1215
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 1: a quick story on that. That's pretty cool. I didn't

1216
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:15,560
Speaker 1: know that. I don't know basically that submitted it. Yeah, see,

1217
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I didn't I have no backman. NFL

1218
01:01:17,720 --> 01:01:20,440
Speaker 1: on that submit videos and are articles or whatever and

1219
01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:23,600
Speaker 1: then they get nominated, get nominated, So you're one of

1220
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Speaker 1: three finalists. Yes, the Fantasy Hipster segment that was on

1221
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:30,640
Speaker 1: Fantasy and Friends on NFL Network. For those of you

1222
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:34,640
Speaker 1: who don't know, uh, you could also follow Franchise and

1223
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:37,520
Speaker 1: Matt Harmon on Facebook. They post those videos there, um,

1224
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:40,920
Speaker 1: and and they're really funny. Yeah, it's it's a good

1225
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:42,840
Speaker 1: remind I think I'm pretty sure that the one that

1226
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:46,240
Speaker 1: got submitted was the uh was the Tom Brady one too,

1227
01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 1: where we were wrong as hell. So that just goes

1228
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:51,880
Speaker 1: to show you it's all about being entertaining. Now that's great. Well,

1229
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:55,440
Speaker 1: I mean the information is is good and it's always

1230
01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:58,720
Speaker 1: interesting to me. It's it's how it's the delivery system

1231
01:01:59,320 --> 01:02:02,240
Speaker 1: of that. That's what was so great about it. It's

1232
01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:04,440
Speaker 1: and for those of you who haven't seen Fancy Hipsters,

1233
01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:08,919
Speaker 1: it's it's stupid, it's very stupid. But in the best way,

1234
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 1: absolutely the best way. They sit in some fake coffee

1235
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:14,240
Speaker 1: shop and they have like organic you know, pour over

1236
01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:17,800
Speaker 1: coffee and they make fun of David Damasheck. That's what

1237
01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:20,760
Speaker 1: I made sure when when we m j D and uh,

1238
01:02:21,080 --> 01:02:26,760
Speaker 1: Antonio Crimardi, anybody, anybody that's near the fancy and friend

1239
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:28,640
Speaker 1: set was not a safe space when the hipsters were

1240
01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:30,320
Speaker 1: on it. Let's just put it that way, the best

1241
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:32,880
Speaker 1: That's why I made sure on Twitter people, Yeah, that's

1242
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 1: why I made sure on Twitter, Like, you know, thanks

1243
01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:37,640
Speaker 1: everybody for the congrats on the nomination, YadA, YadA, but

1244
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:41,480
Speaker 1: we have to extend our thank you to Dave Damashek

1245
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 1: and Maurice Jones Drew as well, because without a dad

1246
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:46,760
Speaker 1: to beat up on, Yeah, the segments is not the same.

1247
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 1: The fact that they were the fact that Maurice Jones

1248
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 1: Drew too, was was open to being roasted like that

1249
01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:53,160
Speaker 1: on a week to week I have to say, you

1250
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:55,080
Speaker 1: know he was. Was he really open to it or

1251
01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 1: did you just roasting? Oh no, no, he was open that.

1252
01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:01,240
Speaker 1: I was gonna say that. There's there's plenty plenty you

1253
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:03,760
Speaker 1: can say about Maurice, for sure, but like one thing

1254
01:03:03,840 --> 01:03:06,120
Speaker 1: that's cool about him is he is very open to

1255
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: Like I told him, I was going to call him

1256
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:10,160
Speaker 1: a CE list celebrity on the last shot, and that

1257
01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:12,760
Speaker 1: is that's funny that he's pretty good. He's pretty good

1258
01:03:12,760 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 1: about that. He's one of the best trash talkers in

1259
01:03:14,680 --> 01:03:16,440
Speaker 1: the business, by the way, and he likes it when

1260
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:19,440
Speaker 1: you like he's There are plenty of people, maybe even

1261
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:22,160
Speaker 1: you know, high falutin you know, rich people or whatever,

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Speaker 1: that don't like it when it we'll trash talk. People

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Speaker 1: don't like it when you get back to them. But

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Speaker 1: he's pretty good about wanting you to give it back

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Speaker 1: right right right. I have to squeeze in one more death.

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Speaker 1: But I completely forgot about when you were homering up

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Speaker 1: and talking about cal Movest. Marquette unranked upset the number

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Speaker 1: one in the nation. I believe her. I think as

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Speaker 1: General Sentinel said that that was the first time Marquette

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Speaker 1: had upset in the regular season the number one AP

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Speaker 1: ranked team. So it was pretty cool, a right, pretty

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Speaker 1: exciting for for Marquette there. That is dope. They like

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Speaker 1: it's like a fifteen point come back in the final

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Speaker 1: five minutes I think to win. Oh yeah, they were

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Speaker 1: getting smacked for a while, so I wasn't watching it's much.

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Speaker 1: I was like, yep, this is going as expected, So

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Speaker 1: there you go. All right, So that's your show for

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Speaker 1: Alex Skill. How the Whisky from Wisconsin? M G My

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Speaker 1: got Marcus Grant, Matt Harmon, not franchise. Who is here

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Speaker 1: in the spirit? I am James Coe. We'll catch a later.

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Speaker 1: Is your later? Endless screaming just popped up on my timeline,

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Speaker 1: So that's a fitting. It's so perfect. Never doesn't work.

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Speaker 1: Ingest to Harmon, since one week the mics are typically on,

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Speaker 1: he usually tries to come in with some sort of

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Speaker 1: bit here. I was like, why don't you you know

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Speaker 1: we're recording all this, Why don't you hop on? I

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Speaker 1: don't do any bits, and I'm just always me you

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Speaker 1: don't do bit games. We're gonna be cut off. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna slide away so I don't get struck by lightning.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean you don't have bits? These aren't bits.

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Speaker 1: This is just me, YEA coming in before the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk to the entire show my impure voice,

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Speaker 1: right those first. If you're not if you're not doing bits,

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Speaker 1: then you're doing takes. I mean that's that's all it is. Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's unfair. Instead of that's unfair. Instead of boats and hose,

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Speaker 1: it's bits and takes. Should be a shirt.