Speaker 1: Wow, everybody, It's Tuesday, January fourteenth, twenty twenty five. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast, where we are definitely
Speaker 1: thinking about all the folks in Los Angeles. Be your
Speaker 1: man named g. Marcus Grant, joined by Michael f. Florio
Speaker 1: and Laqwan Jones.
Speaker 2: I was gonna sa.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year, but we have we have, We have
Speaker 1: spoken since the New Year, right, we've done a show
Speaker 1: since the two weeks. Yeah, I mean, look, I mean
Speaker 1: you say that, but on the other hand, it's been
Speaker 1: a whirlwind two weeks.
Speaker 2: It's been it's been crazy. So you know, I just
Speaker 2: wanted to make sure right that we had actually had
Speaker 2: done a show on New Year's Day together. Oh that's
Speaker 2: a good point. Yeah, we did do a show.
Speaker 1: We did do an NFL Fantasy Live show on New
Speaker 1: Year's Day.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm the.
Speaker 1: Regular season ends, in the fantasy season ends, and I
Speaker 1: sort of go into a brain FuG for a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, and like, I'm still a little bit away
Speaker 1: from coming out of it.
Speaker 3: I'm right there with you, man. Incredible year, incredible season, man,
Speaker 3: And like I feel like with the season being so great,
Speaker 3: it's a new year and it's a new me. Guys like,
Speaker 3: I know, but my hair is blonde. Guys like you know,
Speaker 3: oh my god.
Speaker 1: Okay, so obviously for the for the folks who aren't
Speaker 1: seeing the audio, and trust me, this will end up
Speaker 1: on socials. When we started the show, you know, we're
Speaker 1: on stream Yard and Lakwan's camera wasn't on and he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is weird, this is new.
Speaker 2: And in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, all right,
Speaker 2: is he doing something weird? Is he doing a bit?
Speaker 2: But I didn't really, I didn't. I didn't really push it.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden he opens up the
Speaker 1: camera and here he is looking like Cisco.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, demolition man, you gotta show it.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Oh wow, lady, I'm not gonna lie
Speaker 2: to you. It's not a bad look. Hey, I like it.
Speaker 4: I want I still want us to be in studio
Speaker 4: one day for a grand reveal like live on YouTube
Speaker 4: or something.
Speaker 3: I will I will take it. The folks that are listening, like,
Speaker 3: this is really for my Australia people to all see
Speaker 3: you guys DM and me like, when you're gonna do it,
Speaker 3: when you're gonna do it. This is just a teaser.
Speaker 3: You're listening now, you got it to next week.
Speaker 2: I didn't know the folks down under had such a
Speaker 2: vested interest in your hairing God, it.
Speaker 3: Was like, oh, you got to be a man of
Speaker 3: your word, ladies and gentlemen. I am a man of
Speaker 3: my word. He is a man of his word. Absolutely so.
Speaker 1: John news Smith finished out a career year for himself.
Speaker 1: He ends the year as the tied end for and
Speaker 1: true to his word, Lakwan Jones now has blonde hair. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so what what did the wife and kids say about it?
Speaker 3: So? Uh well, they have not seen this yet. So
Speaker 3: we're lady on the reveal at home.
Speaker 2: Thought magnifico and wowno.
Speaker 4: Sabrino went to work and you were normal, and she's
Speaker 4: gonna come home and and this.
Speaker 2: Wow, you gotta we'll be married after this. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You gotta videotape the reaction and put that on socials
Speaker 1: as well, because that was wow. All right, all right,
Speaker 1: but shout out to you man. You know, I know
Speaker 1: you were dreading this for a while, but.
Speaker 2: Have your kids seen it? No, nobody have seen this.
Speaker 2: You guys are in the first.
Speaker 3: You're gonna pick them up from school or something.
Speaker 2: Later and they're just gonna like.
Speaker 3: Layla's gonna side on. I mean, like, what is.
Speaker 2: Wow? All right, boom there it is. We don't even
Speaker 2: know the rest of the show. I'm happy now, you.
Speaker 1: Know we can we can just like say so thanks
Speaker 1: everybody for listening. Uh, and we'll see you. We'll see
Speaker 1: you next week. Now we have later to talk about.
Speaker 1: We obviously, the the Fantasy season itself is done. I'm
Speaker 1: we're still doing a couple of shows a week for
Speaker 1: the next few weeks, so figure out this is a
Speaker 1: good time to start our exit interview portion where we
Speaker 1: talk about the teams in terms of what happened this
Speaker 1: past year and what we hope for for next year
Speaker 1: as well. Normally, in the past when we've done these shows,
Speaker 1: I've done it by division, but it always sort of
Speaker 1: felt awkward because inevitably we would run into some teams
Speaker 1: that were still playing in the playoffs. So this time around,
Speaker 1: the genius in me not just a hat rack, guys,
Speaker 1: I think we would do it by draft order because
Speaker 1: that means we're very less likely to run into teams
Speaker 1: that are still playing in the playoffs as we do it.
Speaker 1: So we're going to start with the number one overall
Speaker 1: draft pick and work our way all the way down
Speaker 1: through thirty two. Presumably we are done by with this
Speaker 1: before or after the Super Bowl happened, so that we
Speaker 1: know who the final picks in the first round are
Speaker 1: going to be.
Speaker 3: That Bill's Rams Super Bowl, That Bill's Rams Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: You know that.
Speaker 2: I'll say this.
Speaker 1: I mean, while on the one hand, I guess I'm
Speaker 1: sort of sad that the forty nine ers aren't in it.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, watching stress free football this weekend.
Speaker 2: Was kind of nice. Nice, you know, it was really good.
Speaker 1: I Well, first off, I guess I'd probably take this
Speaker 1: opportunity to say, because we are obviously the three of
Speaker 1: us living in Los Angeles, there are still a lot
Speaker 1: of folks who are very much dealing with the fires
Speaker 1: going on there. You know, we have had coworkers who
Speaker 1: have had to evacuate their homes, a lot of folks
Speaker 1: who are dealing with incredible trauma having lost everything, and
Speaker 1: so we certainly go out to them. And if you
Speaker 1: can find someone to somewhere to donate or volunteer time,
Speaker 1: I strongly urge you to do that, because a lot
Speaker 1: of people need help, not just now, but are going
Speaker 1: to need help in the future as they put the
Speaker 1: fires out and everybody tries to to sort of rebuild
Speaker 1: their lives as they are. The three of us are
Speaker 1: fortunate and that we haven't had to evacuate.
Speaker 2: Floria.
Speaker 1: I know you were the closest to some of the fires.
Speaker 1: You guys were sort of on watch there for a while,
Speaker 1: weren't you.
Speaker 4: We never got close to having to evacuate, per se,
Speaker 4: but the warning got like I don't want to give
Speaker 4: exact streets away, but you guys would know better, Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: it got not that far away from us, and like
Speaker 4: our highway exits got shut down for a night or whatever.
Speaker 2: But that was the worst part of it for us,
Speaker 2: and the worst part of it.
Speaker 4: I feel like for you guys could probably relate to
Speaker 4: this as well, Like when you're kind of far enough,
Speaker 4: it's rough not only seeing every like people lose stuff,
Speaker 4: but like seeing establishments that you like to go to
Speaker 4: and stuff that.
Speaker 3: Are no longer around anymore.
Speaker 4: That was for me the hardest part. But yeah, I
Speaker 4: just echo everything Marcus said. Any way that you can,
Speaker 4: you can help. It is very needed right now.
Speaker 2: For sure, Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, We my family and I we weren't near any
Speaker 1: evacuation zones, but the air quality was horrible. We decided
Speaker 1: to just sort of leave the area for a couple
Speaker 1: of days just to kind of get some try to
Speaker 1: get some clean air, some fresh air, you know, but
Speaker 1: very much on the mind and you know, friends, family,
Speaker 1: having to evacuate, and just kind of keeping in touch
Speaker 1: with people the whole time. But as a long way
Speaker 1: of saying, I did get to enjoy stress free football
Speaker 1: as a fan this week, and for the first time
Speaker 1: in a while.
Speaker 2: He was kind of nice to just like, I can.
Speaker 1: Check in if I wanted to, I can sit down
Speaker 1: and have some food and a drink and not really
Speaker 1: freak out. You gentlemen, did not have that, although I
Speaker 1: guess you kind of did, because, like neither one of
Speaker 1: your games, LaQuan, your game was over before halftime, Florio,
Speaker 1: Yours kind of got out of hand somewhere midway through
Speaker 1: the third quarter and the Bills just got to cruise
Speaker 1: along from there.
Speaker 4: The first half was stressful, the second half was a
Speaker 4: lot of fun. I'll say this though, like even when
Speaker 4: your team is in Laqwan. I'm sure you felt this
Speaker 4: way too, Like even when your team's up two scores
Speaker 4: in the playoffs, You're like this, this isn't over yet.
Speaker 4: Like yeah, after stressing every single play for three hours,
Speaker 4: the Eagles Packers game felt.
Speaker 3: Like a preseason game to me because I was like,
Speaker 3: my team one, I don't have to stress it all.
Speaker 2: I don't care more.
Speaker 3: I think I had the most anxiety because my game
Speaker 3: was on Monday, But overall, when I look at it,
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm not really stressed. Man, I'm not
Speaker 3: scared to say im Darnold. I was gonna say. We
Speaker 3: texted in a group text yesterday. Kaul was like, I
Speaker 3: have no worries at all about this game. No, I
Speaker 3: already figured out how this was going to go. We're
Speaker 3: going to get a ton of pressure, which we did
Speaker 3: nine sacks, which tied the playoff record. We were supposed
Speaker 3: to break it, but we tied the playoff record in
Speaker 3: NFL history. But listen, I was not stressed at all
Speaker 3: because I know we're going to handle business. And Dan
Speaker 3: Campbell might actually have to eat his words because there
Speaker 3: may be a possibility does see the vikings in two weeks,
Speaker 3: right on the couch when the commanders come in and
Speaker 3: surprise everybody.
Speaker 1: So already calling a commander's upset over the Lions. We
Speaker 1: will get to that a little bit later in the week.
Speaker 1: We will have some picks for the divisional round games
Speaker 1: and that sort of thing here, but we do have
Speaker 1: we will do some more all.
Speaker 2: I just think we'll do some some takeaways.
Speaker 1: I guess we can do some more takeaways from the
Speaker 1: wild card weekend later at the show. The show that
Speaker 1: was that was kind of how we had it on
Speaker 1: the rundown, whatever things happened organically here, you guys, we.
Speaker 3: Love the rundown sometimes, you know how it works.
Speaker 2: Come. Like I said, we will get through the exit interviews.
Speaker 1: We want to start with a little bit of news
Speaker 1: because obviously it's the off season. Even for the teams
Speaker 1: that aren't any playoffs, there are things happening. There are
Speaker 1: coaching changes afoot. The Patriots introduced their new head coach,
Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel, who obviously played for the Patriots for a
Speaker 1: long time, was the head coach of the Tennessee Titans
Speaker 1: for years, was out of the coaching game for a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 2: Now he is back.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the Patriots because they are right now
Speaker 1: are sitting in the number four slot overall.
Speaker 2: But I mean Lakwan.
Speaker 1: For all the excitement about about Mike Rabel, if this
Speaker 1: roster doesn't get any better, does it matter a whole lot.
Speaker 3: No, There's some key moves that need to be made,
Speaker 3: some like configurating of obviously the wide receiver room. I mean,
Speaker 3: I love the Maryo Douglas, but he's not as effective
Speaker 3: as an alpha wide receiver in that offense. And Mike
Speaker 3: Rable's gonna want to run the rock as well at
Speaker 3: some point, you know. Rashid, I mean raroand j Stevenson,
Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, he's a great running back
Speaker 3: for a guy that could play both sides, the dual
Speaker 3: thread passing out, catching passes out of the backfield, but
Speaker 3: you need that hard nose runner. And I don't know
Speaker 3: if they grab it in the draft, bring and see
Speaker 3: whatever the case may be. But there's a lot of
Speaker 3: pieces that need to be fixed, you know, before it
Speaker 3: start mattering to Patriots fans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Florida, you as a fan of a
Speaker 1: team in that division. Uh, it still doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: the Patriots are close to being competitive yet. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know, look and we're just starting the offseason, but
Speaker 1: it still feels like they're ways away.
Speaker 4: Maybe I'm foolish. I think they're a year away, but
Speaker 4: I think long term they are the biggest threat to
Speaker 4: the Bills in the AC East. Because I've been on
Speaker 4: record for a while I'm a big, big supporter of
Speaker 4: Drake May, and like just happened organically.
Speaker 2: I don't go into the year being like I want.
Speaker 4: To support the Patriots quarterback, but watching him play, he
Speaker 4: quickly won me over and I was like, this guy
Speaker 4: is awesome. And then the roster's going to look extremely
Speaker 4: different next year. They have the most cap, they have
Speaker 4: their picks. I mean, the Bills kind of messed them
Speaker 4: up by losing that game in Week eighteen, or they'd
Speaker 4: be selling off the number one pick right now and
Speaker 4: getting a Kings ransom for it. But yeah, I expect
Speaker 4: this to look a lot different, And in fact, Drake
Speaker 4: May playing as well as he did.
Speaker 3: This year might be the reason they made the change.
Speaker 4: Because if he didn't look good, I think maybe you say,
Speaker 4: all right, we run this back with another year. But
Speaker 4: I think you're looking at it now like, hey, we
Speaker 4: got four more years on this rookie deal. We have
Speaker 4: the most cap this year, we got our picks. The
Speaker 4: time to strike is now. So I think the Patriots.
Speaker 4: I'm not saying they're going to be like a Super
Speaker 4: Bowl contender or anything next year, but in the next
Speaker 4: year or two, I think they could.
Speaker 3: They could make noise in surprise people.
Speaker 1: So I was at home yesterday and I turned on
Speaker 1: on our network and caught the beginning of the introductory
Speaker 1: press conference, and after a few minutes of it, I
Speaker 1: turned it off because I got It's just made me
Speaker 1: a little bit wheezy, and I wanted to enjoy the
Speaker 1: Chariso on eggs I.
Speaker 2: Had in front of me.
Speaker 1: This is not the first cynical and disingenuous NFL head
Speaker 1: coaching hiring search that we've ever seen.
Speaker 2: It sures hell won't be the last.
Speaker 1: This one, though, felt, at least of any of them
Speaker 1: in recent memory, the most egregious because it felt like
Speaker 1: a slow motion train wreck we saw coming for like
Speaker 1: half the season. Because it felt like midway through the year,
Speaker 1: they were already Fans are fickle.
Speaker 2: I know that there are fans.
Speaker 1: There were sort of media reports asking questions about whether
Speaker 1: or not Gerard Mayo was the guy, and it just
Speaker 1: seemed like, what what were the expectations for him and
Speaker 1: for this team?
Speaker 2: Because coming into the season.
Speaker 1: There were no expectations on this roster, right, Nobody looked
Speaker 1: at it from top to bottom and said, there's just
Speaker 1: not a lot of talent here. And you know, the
Speaker 1: Bills we knew were going to be good. The expectation
Speaker 1: was the Dolphins were going to be good. Two were
Speaker 1: getting hurt, obviously torpedoed a lot of that. A lot
Speaker 1: of us believe the Jets would be at least competitive, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, we didn't think they were going to bottom out.
Speaker 2: The way they did.
Speaker 1: So where were the expectations for the Patriots? Yet midway
Speaker 1: through the season, there's already sort of these rumblings that
Speaker 1: maybe Gerrodmeyo wasn't the guy after the organization spent all
Speaker 1: this time grooming him as the coach in waiting after
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick was going to go. So then we get
Speaker 1: to the end of the season and Mike Rabel's name
Speaker 1: starts popping up as a guy who wants back in
Speaker 1: as a head coach, and immediately he's sort of linked
Speaker 1: to well, maybe he can go back to New England
Speaker 1: and maybe, you know, maybe they would want to have
Speaker 1: a sort of a reunion with one of their favorite sons.
Speaker 2: And you know, then you have Rod Mayo who's.
Speaker 1: Let go, and it just sort of it sort of
Speaker 1: rubbed me really wrong, even at the time that Robert
Speaker 1: Kraft stands there with sort of these this hang dog's
Speaker 1: sad face talking about how I failed him. You know,
Speaker 1: we put him in this position and he didn't succeed
Speaker 1: and it's on me and I failed him, to which
Speaker 1: I said, well, why didn't you try harder? You give
Speaker 1: it one year with a terrible roster, and you moved
Speaker 1: on from him, and now you're going to somehow give
Speaker 1: this big Maya kulpa, only to turn around a couple
Speaker 1: weeks later and bring in Mike Rabel after mind you,
Speaker 1: maybe the most cynical of all Rooney Rule interviews with
Speaker 1: Pep Hamilton and Byron Leftwich, like two guys who hadn't
Speaker 1: been in the league since twenty twenty two. You do
Speaker 1: these two interviews sort of back to back and have
Speaker 1: your social media staff stick them on one graphic and
Speaker 1: throw it out just to sort of what provide cover
Speaker 1: that you actually did it, and it just the whole
Speaker 1: thing just made me feel ill watching all of a
Speaker 1: sudden then pivot to this favorite son who now you
Speaker 1: feel like is going to get all the resources that
Speaker 1: they didn't give to their guy, throwing the fact that
Speaker 1: you had people leaking, possibly from within the organization. The
Speaker 1: reason that they moved on from Gerrodmeo had nothing to
Speaker 1: do with on the field, or not as much to
Speaker 1: do with on the field, but because he was unprofessional
Speaker 1: on radio interviews and press conferences, ignoring the fact that
Speaker 1: their previous coach dressed like a hobo and gave mono
Speaker 1: salamic answers and press conferences most.
Speaker 2: Of the time.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was well known for that, right, So like,
Speaker 1: don't hit me with unprofessionalism in press conferences because.
Speaker 2: You loued this thing that happened for years and years
Speaker 2: and years.
Speaker 1: I just found it just incredibly distasteful. It just felt
Speaker 1: like it made a mockery of the whole thing. But
Speaker 1: Robert Kraft has certainly favored nation status among ownership and
Speaker 1: in the NFL front office, So chances are those all
Speaker 1: things are gonna skate. We're all gonna celebrate Mike Vrabel.
Speaker 1: I think he's a good coach. Jets aren't gonna have sess.
Speaker 1: I just felt wrong about it.
Speaker 2: The end.
Speaker 3: Simply amazing, simply amazing. That take right there.
Speaker 1: Speaking of barcacle organizations, the Dallas Cowboys looking for a
Speaker 1: head coach right now they let go of Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 2: The other look, I don't really know.
Speaker 1: The rumor now at Florio is that Dion Sanders might
Speaker 1: be interested and the Cowboys might be interested in in Dion.
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to talk about Spectacle bringing coach
Speaker 1: prime to Dallas and pairing him up with Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: in what is already just a circus on wheels down
Speaker 1: there in Dallas. Please please Floyle like I'm five years
Speaker 1: old explaining the Dallas Cowboys to me.
Speaker 4: Uh, look, I actually think that Dion, if that's the
Speaker 4: route they go, I think it makes a lot of
Speaker 4: sense because he's a big enough personality one he'll have
Speaker 4: all everyone in the country's eyeballs will be on the
Speaker 4: Cowboys games, which is what Jerry Jones wants and what
Speaker 4: the NFL wants. I'm going to talk about it. What
Speaker 4: I think we're gonna get to the Titans in a
Speaker 4: couple of minutes. I think if the Cowboys hire Dion,
Speaker 4: it can have a ripple effect around the NFL. But
Speaker 4: to me, what is even crazier is the fact that
Speaker 4: like literally two days before it, the Cowboys blocked Mike
Speaker 4: McCarthy from talking to the Bears. He's free to come
Speaker 4: to them now, like it, this is the thing, And
Speaker 4: like I get it if you are an NFL team
Speaker 4: and you view things like everything changes so much year
Speaker 4: to year and stuff that like a whole lot could
Speaker 4: change in a year, And if you want to say
Speaker 4: that with Jeron Mayo, Mike McCarthy, Antonio Pierce.
Speaker 3: I get it. The results kind of speak for themselves
Speaker 3: on the field, but the way these teams have handled
Speaker 3: these things are, in my opinion, not great.
Speaker 4: Like Marcus, you spoke about the Patriots, the Cowboys coming
Speaker 4: out and saying like Mike McCarthy's going to be back
Speaker 4: where we're blocking him from other places, and then firing
Speaker 4: him a week after every other team moved on from
Speaker 4: their head coach. The Raiders allowed Antonio Peers to do
Speaker 4: a press conference on Black Monday, and he was like, yeah,
Speaker 4: as far as I know, I'm coming back, and then
Speaker 4: two days later him and the GM are fired. Like
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 2: It's a business.
Speaker 4: You want to make the best moves for on the field,
Speaker 4: and what you believe is best for your team, and
Speaker 4: like I do think Mike Vrabel's a better coach than
Speaker 4: Geron Mayo at this point in their career. Stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So, like from a football landscape, I can understand why
Speaker 3: teams make these moves, but from a human standpoint, you
Speaker 3: could go about it a whole lot better.
Speaker 4: And not make people do press conferences, not drag it
Speaker 4: out a week like you have to make the decision,
Speaker 4: but don't I don't know. Don't make it a spectacle,
Speaker 4: and don't.
Speaker 3: Embarrass the people that you're getting rid of.
Speaker 1: Side note, as you were as you were speaking on that,
Speaker 1: I saw a skeet on Blue Sky come through from
Speaker 1: Tom Pro. Tom Pelsero is saying, Mike McCarthy's to you
Speaker 1: with the Bears, it's gonna be on Wednesday. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be on Wednesday at hallis Hall, right. So they held
Speaker 1: him off for like two days or whatever it was
Speaker 1: from not being able to talk to the Bears, and
Speaker 1: now he's gonna talk.
Speaker 3: To them, Like you gotta give it to Jerry Jones.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: He is going full WWE. He is going full storyline
Speaker 3: entertainment to keep the eyeballs on that star when it's
Speaker 3: on TV. If they get Dion. That is all we're
Speaker 3: gonna be talking about for the next twenty two weeks.
Speaker 3: It's gonna just straight deon to the Cowboys and what
Speaker 3: this can do to the draft, what shifts, and what
Speaker 3: are his sons going to be, what teams are going
Speaker 3: to be on, Like he obviously wants to coach one
Speaker 3: of his sons, if not both. So it's like, if
Speaker 3: Dion goes to the Cowboys, I don't care what platform
Speaker 3: you're on, I don't care what Mike's fronting with camera
Speaker 3: front of you. You're going to be talking about Cowboys
Speaker 3: and any type of like positive, negative, whatever the case
Speaker 3: may be. But that is the formula that Jerry Jones wants.
Speaker 3: That is straight people care about Colorado football.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say I almost quit college football because
Speaker 1: I got tired of hearing about coach product.
Speaker 2: I really did, And I think there's gonna be a
Speaker 2: different end.
Speaker 1: Look, if this happens, we're gonna talk about it plenty,
Speaker 1: because you're right, it's going to be a story. I
Speaker 1: think it's going to be a different world coaching in
Speaker 1: the pros versus coaching it.
Speaker 3: Like, can I get it? Can I get an interview
Speaker 3: next year? With the Cowboys or if it doesn't work.
Speaker 4: Out, I say two candidates for the Cowboys Belichick and
Speaker 4: Dion like anyone else, I don't know I as a
Speaker 4: not a Cowboy fan, but as someone who knows everything.
Speaker 2: That goes with that organization.
Speaker 3: I think hiring a first time head coach is a
Speaker 3: risk there because you always hear about all the added
Speaker 3: responsibilities that a head coach has. Now you add on
Speaker 3: the fact that you're gonna have more eyeballs on you
Speaker 3: than any other team in the league.
Speaker 2: So like to me, I think Jones.
Speaker 4: I think McCarthy would have been back if Jones didn't
Speaker 4: think he could go out and make a huge splash.
Speaker 1: You you named two coaches who could not be more
Speaker 1: opposite sit in temperament, then Dion Sanders and Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1: Just I mean again, one dresses like a hobo, One
Speaker 1: wears gold chains and sunglasses and cowboy hats all the time.
Speaker 2: They could not be or different. This is just beginning.
Speaker 1: The whole thing is just starting. It's gonna be planning.
Speaker 1: Want to talk about as we go through the off season,
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break, we'll come back, we will
Speaker 1: dive into our exit interviews starting the Tennessee Titans, who
Speaker 1: are currently on the clock. That's next on the NFL
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Podcast. All right, so let's get into some
Speaker 1: of these exit interviews. It's kind about the things that
Speaker 1: went right, what went wrong, and just some general thoughts
Speaker 1: about these teams as we wrap up twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: and get ready for twenty twenty five. We will start
Speaker 1: the Tannesse Titans, who currently have the number one pick
Speaker 1: in the upcoming NFL Draft. They finished the year at
Speaker 1: three and fourteen. Things that went right, gentlemen, Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: a pretty good year after being a big discipppointment the
Speaker 1: previous season. He comes to Tennessee, stays healthy and ends
Speaker 1: up I'm playing well. Thirteen over thirteen hundred scrimmage yards,
Speaker 1: five total touchdowns. He was the RB twenty one, I
Speaker 1: think without a doubt. I mean, he sort of made
Speaker 1: Tija Spears an afterthought there in the backfield, and I
Speaker 1: thought it was a good season for him. Calvin Ridley,
Speaker 1: but you know, I don't know if it was a
Speaker 1: lights out, you know, wide receiver one side year, but
Speaker 1: sixty four catches over one thousand yards, five touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Wide receiver twenty eight.
Speaker 1: I mean anything else. I don't know theo quit that
Speaker 1: jumped out at you. And on the good side with
Speaker 1: the Titans.
Speaker 3: Their defense, I mean they have a solid defense where
Speaker 3: if you go into this draft, you you already know
Speaker 3: in your head you have a solid defense. And honestly,
Speaker 3: I'm thinking about something crazy, like hear me out real quick. Now,
Speaker 3: what if they move out of that first spot right
Speaker 3: and he switched with the Raiders. Let's just say at
Speaker 3: six they can go out there and get a veteran quarterback.
Speaker 3: They are literally a quarterback away. And I say that
Speaker 3: when you have a good defense, or you have Calvin,
Speaker 3: you have Tony Poller who had a great season, Like
Speaker 3: their defense was second viewers in yards for a game.
Speaker 3: That's a great foundation to build off. There they were
Speaker 3: able to get some type of pressure. You bring in
Speaker 3: a guy like Kirk Cousins, this elevates this team as
Speaker 3: a contender automatically. I know Kirk went through his downs
Speaker 3: in Atlanta, but he doesn't really fit that bill No, Like,
Speaker 3: I really think that they have a good team. It's
Speaker 3: just that we just don't know what it is right now.
Speaker 3: It's because of the quarterback position. So I believe their team.
Speaker 3: When you draw it up, they're quarterback away, and this
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins thing, it can work. I mean, honestly, they
Speaker 3: could take on the twenty seven million if it's posts
Speaker 3: June first that they trade him, and then Atlanta eats
Speaker 3: the cap and Tennessee it kind of fits Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I'm glad you said this because this
Speaker 1: sord gets me to what went wrong, which Florida was
Speaker 1: pretty much Will Levis. Yeah, yeah, you know, look, the
Speaker 1: male commercials were fun and cute and whatever. He was
Speaker 1: very smart to catch and shout out the best foods,
Speaker 1: who kept run best foods. They believed and best believe
Speaker 1: that Will Levis way longer than the Tennessee Titans did
Speaker 1: just over two thousand passing yards, thirteen touchdowns, twelve picks.
Speaker 2: He was the QB thirty.
Speaker 1: If you were running the Titans right now, Florida, would
Speaker 1: you try to draft a quarterback or would you go
Speaker 1: Lakwan's route of maybe trading getting some extra assets and
Speaker 1: trying to find a free agent guy.
Speaker 4: I want no parts of Kirk Cousins, but I think
Speaker 4: if you find a different veteran quarterback, like if the
Speaker 4: Steelers move.
Speaker 2: On from Russ or something like that.
Speaker 3: I think you go the way of like we're going
Speaker 3: to get a bridge one one year stop gap quarterback
Speaker 3: and we're going to draft a quarterback of the future,
Speaker 3: because that that is the most important position. You don't
Speaker 3: get chances like this with the one pick every year.
Speaker 3: But I said, when we were talking about Dion, my
Speaker 3: big uh.
Speaker 4: I'm not the first one to think of this, but
Speaker 4: I saw it on social media, and I think it
Speaker 4: makes all the sense in the world. If Dion Sanders
Speaker 4: becomes the next head coach of the Dallas cowb you
Speaker 4: trade Dak Prescott, you get Shador Sanders.
Speaker 2: And and that's your team for You're going all in
Speaker 2: on the Sanders guys.
Speaker 4: But uh so, yeah, Dak Prescott leading the way for
Speaker 4: the Tennessee Titans, and they would be a playoff team
Speaker 4: with Dak.
Speaker 1: I think they're definitely a playoff team with Dak, especially
Speaker 1: in the AFC South, which is you know, Look, I
Speaker 1: know the Titan or the Texans have won it the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, but certainly what we saw out
Speaker 1: of Houston this year doesn't give you any confidence that
Speaker 1: they're loaded up and ready to stay. Look what how
Speaker 1: much is I feel like Sam Donald has just really
Speaker 1: hurt himself the last two Oh yeah right, I mean he.
Speaker 2: Spent fifteen sixteen weeks.
Speaker 1: As like man like, he's gonna he's gonna make some bank.
Speaker 1: Either the Vikings are gonna have to pay up or
Speaker 1: franchise tag him, or somebody else is gonna swoop in.
Speaker 1: It feels like those last two weeks, that season finale
Speaker 1: against the Lions and then what we saw on Monday
Speaker 1: Night as a friend Texapy, you could just see the
Speaker 1: dollar is falling out of his pockets as that game
Speaker 1: went on.
Speaker 3: These last two weeks were rough for him, Like it
Speaker 3: was like a really good show that you know you
Speaker 3: watched every season and then the season finale and it's terrible.
Speaker 2: However, you're.
Speaker 3: I'm not watching any of those shows. But that's how
Speaker 3: bad it is that you hear it and you don't
Speaker 3: want to watch it. And I honestly think like Sam Donald,
Speaker 3: man is, it was a tough task for him to
Speaker 3: finish up this season like this with these defenses Detroit,
Speaker 3: they got at them with pressure. The Rams obviously man
Speaker 3: handled that old line and got to him was just
Speaker 3: making them see ghosts again. So you honestly, you do
Speaker 3: put you know, put in consideration that, you know, maybe
Speaker 3: the Titans go out there and throw bag them. They
Speaker 3: got money, they can afford them. And I think that
Speaker 3: if the Vikings decide to go with JJ McCarthy and
Speaker 3: move on and have Sam Donald go elsewhere and don't
Speaker 3: have to drop that big bag on why not. I mean, honestly,
Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, Sam Donald deserves another chance
Speaker 3: just based on how good he's been playing this entire season, Like,
Speaker 3: don't let the last two games mass exactly what he
Speaker 3: did all season long. You know what's gonna happen. I'm
Speaker 3: telling you, I could see it. Either the Vikings are going.
Speaker 4: To franchise him and he will lose his job at
Speaker 4: some point next year to JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 3: Or they are going to let him walk. He is
Speaker 3: going to go to a not great team.
Speaker 4: He is not going to put up numbers like he
Speaker 4: did this year because he doesn't have the weapons in
Speaker 4: the system and all of that, and he will, you
Speaker 4: will get paid for like two years, it'll fizzle out,
Speaker 4: and he will finish his career as a backup like
Speaker 4: the Tyron Taylor route. That's what he's on right now.
Speaker 1: Ye look, I mean, I think he's done enough that
Speaker 1: we will see him hang around the league for a
Speaker 1: little while longer. I I was of the opinion that
Speaker 1: even if the Vikings brought him back, we were going
Speaker 1: to see a legitimate competition between Donald and McCarthy. I mean,
Speaker 1: look that there was a strong sentiment that JJ McCarthy
Speaker 1: was going to be the starters this year had he
Speaker 1: not gotten hurt, and we didn't see him for the year.
Speaker 1: So I think we see at least a legitimate competition
Speaker 1: between the two of them. But it's certainly a very
Speaker 1: good chance at this point, after what we saw the
Speaker 1: last two weeks, that they do let him walk. And
Speaker 1: I'll say this, Darnold on his own played poorly. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt the offensive line deserves some blame for it too.
Speaker 1: In my head last night, and Florio, you might get
Speaker 1: this more than La Kwan would.
Speaker 2: The Vikings O line.
Speaker 1: Right now, they're Alex Gonzales. They're Alex Gonzales with the
Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs. Where before the whole Steve Bartman thing happened
Speaker 1: and the Marlins come back to win. You remember there
Speaker 1: was an easy two hot ground ball right to Alex
Speaker 1: Gonzales which would have been in any ending double play.
Speaker 1: He boots it, the Cubs collapse and Steve Bartman catches
Speaker 1: hell for it. Alex Gonzalez skates. That's the Vikings offensive line.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 4: I also think Koc deserves some blame too, Like I
Speaker 4: think he's a phenomenal coach.
Speaker 2: I think he should be Coach of the Year because fourteen.
Speaker 3: Wins with Sam Donald, everyone wrote them off all.
Speaker 2: Of that, But like this is two years, not two
Speaker 2: years in a row, but two times in a row.
Speaker 4: The Vikings have made the playoffs with a huge like
Speaker 4: a bunch of regular season wins, and then last night
Speaker 4: they got their doors blown off, and the last time
Speaker 4: they lost to the Daniel Jones New York Giants.
Speaker 2: Like, at some point the whole everyone deserves.
Speaker 3: Part of the blame, not just damn Laio the Actually
Speaker 3: they're actually one in five since two thousand and eight
Speaker 3: in the wildcore rounds. That is really disgusting when it
Speaker 3: comes to the Vikings, like they are known to disappoint.
Speaker 4: My timeline was filled with ai pictures of Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 4: and a Viking jersey.
Speaker 1: Really, we're cooking the earth for this, We're cooking the
Speaker 1: earth to put Aaron Rodgers in a Vikings Jersey, like,
Speaker 1: come on, let's just work. Come on, let's just go
Speaker 1: the old round. Just photoshop it, y'all, Like we can
Speaker 1: do this. We don't need to, we don't.
Speaker 4: I saw someone photoshop Jesse Plemmings on Sam Darnold's body
Speaker 4: like people are AI is just wild right now.
Speaker 2: I never really put the two him in the other
Speaker 2: that they do. They do bury resemblance to one another.
Speaker 3: I'm the same person.
Speaker 2: Wow, there it is all right.
Speaker 1: So yeah, the Titans, by the way, some of the
Speaker 1: free agents too worth mentioning Tyler Boyd, Nick Westbrook A
Speaker 1: Kine are set to hit free agency, so that was
Speaker 1: already sort of shorthanded a wide receiver. I would think
Speaker 1: they're going to pursue that pretty heavily in the draft
Speaker 1: or free agency or maybe both.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that goes back to my scenario though, with
Speaker 3: trading with the Raiders at six. I mean, Milan from
Speaker 3: Arizona might be there, but you gotta ship off Max
Speaker 3: Crosby to Tennessee, which builds on a great foundation of
Speaker 3: defense that they have already. That scenario works for me,
Speaker 3: Get Max.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it works why did you care
Speaker 1: about Max Crossey being out of Vegas like.
Speaker 2: You guys, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, he's looking for a change, and he's
Speaker 3: the one who went out there publicly for the job
Speaker 3: for Antonio Pears and I think you know, Brady, you
Speaker 3: know he's kind of running the show there. He wants
Speaker 3: a new uh, a new regime, let's say that new
Speaker 3: dynasty to be built under him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, if you if you believe the interwebs, which
Speaker 1: is always a dubious thing, Josh Jacobs trying to recruit
Speaker 1: Max Crosby to come to Green Bay the number two
Speaker 1: pick in the upcoming draft, alongs to the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1: They also were three and fourteen this season, and things
Speaker 1: that went right. Floydell, this is always going to be
Speaker 1: a sore spot for me. But Jerry Judy had a
Speaker 1: good year this year.
Speaker 3: He was receive receiver fifty before Jameis Winston took over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ninety catches over twelve hundred yards, four touchdowns, and yeah,
Speaker 1: you as you mentioned a good chunk of that happening
Speaker 1: with Jameis Winston. This is the Jerry Judy that I
Speaker 1: think people that the Broncos thought they were drafting several
Speaker 1: years ago.
Speaker 2: It finally showed up in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: But are we still in him if there's another quarterback
Speaker 1: name not named Jamis there James going.
Speaker 4: I don't even think it was just Jamis because we
Speaker 4: found out after that when they made the move to Jamis,
Speaker 4: they let Ken Dorsey start calling plays. And trust me,
Speaker 4: as someone who was a victim of Ken Dorsey play
Speaker 4: calling for a year and.
Speaker 3: A half, I could tell you what his like. I
Speaker 3: literally wrote about it before the year. What he does
Speaker 3: is he throws the ball a bunch, He has his
Speaker 3: quarterback lock in on the wide receiver won a bunch,
Speaker 3: and just air it out. It's why Josh Allen let
Speaker 3: almost led the league in interceptions last year. It's why
Speaker 3: Jameis Winston was like, and then dtr and whoever the
Speaker 3: Browns quarterback was was throwing so many interceptions because.
Speaker 4: It's just a It leads to a lot of stats
Speaker 4: for your wide receiver one, which is great for fantasy,
Speaker 4: but it also leads to a lot of turnovers.
Speaker 2: And he's gone now, so.
Speaker 3: I'm going to be very skeptical of Jerry Judy next year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just you know, I don't know it feels
Speaker 1: like the Browns are in for another rebuild. Jerry Judy
Speaker 1: had a great season. I probably I could have stood
Speaker 1: to put David and Joku in here as well. I
Speaker 1: know he was beat up at times. The yards before, Yeah,
Speaker 1: has Rockbland here before? Five hundred and five yards nothing
Speaker 1: super exciting. Sixty four catches, did have five touchdowns. He
Speaker 1: finished the year as the tight end eleven. When he
Speaker 1: was healthy and on the field, generally was pretty productive.
Speaker 1: He just did miss uh some decent stretches throughout the season,
Speaker 1: so that sort of tanked his overall production. Here you
Speaker 1: talk about what went wrong, I am waving my hands
Speaker 1: wildly and generally at the quarterback position, I'm sort of
Speaker 1: like I'm like the Lebron Mema Jr.
Speaker 2: Smith, just like looking at quarterback, like what what are
Speaker 2: you doing?
Speaker 3: Smith? With Jada right?
Speaker 1: You know, Like I mean Lakwan they suck with Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson forever. Like I felt like Kevin Stefanski was in
Speaker 1: a hostage situation every week when he took the mic
Speaker 1: and they would ask him about the quarterback position and
Speaker 1: he would basically give you some It was like he
Speaker 1: was reading off a telepri about how they would have
Speaker 1: to have Deshaun Watson back at quarterback and finally, finally,
Speaker 1: finally he gets hurt and not force them to have
Speaker 1: to make a change. But on top of that, we've
Speaker 1: since learned that in the rehab for his achilles injury
Speaker 1: that Watson has had another setback which is going to
Speaker 1: push his recovery time back again. So I'll ask you,
Speaker 1: has he played his last down of NFL football? And
Speaker 1: is this, in its own twisted way, sort of good
Speaker 1: news for the Browns.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's over. It's a doub we could pack it up.
Speaker 3: You know, shut the lights off, close up. You know,
Speaker 3: Deshaun Watson is done, and honestly, I think that's better
Speaker 3: for him, for his mental health and try to just
Speaker 3: you know, find a way to get through this recovery.
Speaker 3: I mean, having a setback so early, you know, I
Speaker 3: would say after the injury. It is what it is,
Speaker 3: like the writings on the wall, my guy, like you
Speaker 3: got to write it. You got to just shut it down.
Speaker 3: And look, you're gonna be collecting checks. That check is guaranteed.
Speaker 3: That's a fat check to live for the rest of
Speaker 3: your life. But for the Browns, you know, somewhat this
Speaker 3: is good news. They can finally pull the band aid off.
Speaker 3: They can go and tack this draft. They have a
Speaker 3: great grat draft position, and like you can go out
Speaker 3: there and get a cam Ward or whatever the case
Speaker 3: may be. You know, I just feel like, you know,
Speaker 3: it's time to change quarterbacks. It's time to close that
Speaker 3: chapter and move on. And we probably won't be talking
Speaker 3: about Deshaun Watson, you know, after this offseason, because it's
Speaker 3: like there's really no real reality of him coming back
Speaker 3: and being a starter for this team and take them
Speaker 3: to the promise lane.
Speaker 1: I will slightly correct you on one thing in that
Speaker 1: we will always be talking about Deshaun Watson in some
Speaker 1: form because we will always ask the question, what is
Speaker 1: the worst trade in sports history?
Speaker 2: Contract ever?
Speaker 4: Contract, trade, all of it, like it's gonna be there,
Speaker 4: like they're not out, Like they still have to pay
Speaker 4: for their sins, because even if they move on from
Speaker 4: Deshaun Watson, like his money is on the book. So
Speaker 4: you're going to waste that rookie contract on another quarterback
Speaker 4: if you draft one, because you're paying someone the most,
Speaker 4: Like they're probably going to lose Miles Garrett this offseason
Speaker 4: because because of that contract, that they have, So I
Speaker 4: feel very bad for Browns fans because they're gonna be
Speaker 4: paying for this one for a number like it sets
Speaker 4: their franchise back maybe a full decade.
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, some of some of the notables Fantasy
Speaker 1: relevant free agents, Jamis Winston, Nick Chubb, Elijah Moore, Deonta
Speaker 1: Foreman all set to be free agents. I would think,
Speaker 1: like for a guy like Chubb, I don't imagine the
Speaker 1: Browns bring him back. He's gonna be a guy that
Speaker 1: I would think sort of hangs out there in free
Speaker 1: agency for a while, you know, one because running back,
Speaker 1: but also a guy who's sort of getting up there
Speaker 1: in AH has had some major injuries over the last
Speaker 1: couple of years.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I think when he's right, I would love to see
Speaker 1: him have a JK. Dobbins like resurgence somewhere else. I
Speaker 1: don't think it happens in Cleveland, and I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna get big money. He's probably gonna end up
Speaker 1: taking I think a kind of a minimal contract go
Speaker 1: wherever it is that he goes this offseason.
Speaker 3: Speaking of the Browns, little breaking news, Tom Peli Sero
Speaker 3: just tweeted that they are promoting Tommy Reese to be
Speaker 3: their offensive coordinator. And speaking of breaking news, the Texans
Speaker 3: wave Deontay Johnson.
Speaker 2: What in the middle of.
Speaker 4: Like, we've had enough, We've seen this is the third
Speaker 4: time being waived in one year. I mean, he's a
Speaker 4: good player, might be the worst dude in the world.
Speaker 1: Like, I mean, like, what does it say that about
Speaker 1: him as a teammate and in the locker room that
Speaker 1: he's gone through three teams in one season and getting
Speaker 1: progressively less run with each successive team that he's been on.
Speaker 3: And the crazy thing is, of the eight teams left,
Speaker 3: there is a twenty five percent chance that he gets
Speaker 3: a ring.
Speaker 2: All right, here's a I don't I feel like neither
Speaker 2: the Ravens nor Texans would vote for him getting a
Speaker 2: share a playoff share if they win, and.
Speaker 4: He probably wouldn't want it either, Like, I mean, what
Speaker 4: this is gonna be one of those things. Ten years
Speaker 4: from now, You're gonna see Deontay Johnson in the Ravens
Speaker 4: or Texans jersey and.
Speaker 2: Be like what, like when did that happen?
Speaker 3: It's like total bolt Jax Jersey, Like.
Speaker 2: What it'll it'll be.
Speaker 1: It'll be one of those things where if he ever
Speaker 1: Lands a media gig or whatever, and they put the
Speaker 1: the font up that you know identifies him.
Speaker 2: It'll be like super Bowl Winner. You'd be like, when
Speaker 2: did that happen?
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, oh, when he was like when he
Speaker 1: was on the Ravens for four games or whatever, it
Speaker 1: was like that, Yeah, no.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: Way, that doesn't care.
Speaker 1: Uh So yeah, So the Browns they are, you know,
Speaker 1: certainly in a tough spot. Quarterback I think a very
Speaker 1: very high priority for them being the two spot memes
Speaker 1: a good shot for them to grab either sduor Sanders
Speaker 1: or cam Ward. I mean, I know, we haven't officially
Speaker 1: started our draft season stuff. We'll get into that probably
Speaker 1: very very soon. But quarter I think he's got to
Speaker 1: be high on the list. Wide receiver, running back also
Speaker 1: things that I think the Browns are going to chase
Speaker 1: coming up this offseason. We'll see Kevin Stefanski seems to
Speaker 1: have made his offense work literally with every quarterback not
Speaker 1: named Deshaun Watson. So at least there's some optimism that
Speaker 1: if they have another guy, when they have another guy
Speaker 1: under center next season.
Speaker 2: That it looks a little bit better.
Speaker 1: I still got a couple more teams to dive into
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a pause, come back, get into the
Speaker 1: Giants and the Patriots.
Speaker 2: That's next on the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. The New
Speaker 2: York Football Giants, which I don't know if you have
Speaker 2: either of you ever called their offices or anything.
Speaker 3: I've never called a team's office. I haven't called recently.
Speaker 1: But for a while they were answering the phone New
Speaker 1: York Football Giants, you know, ignoring the fact that the
Speaker 1: Baseball Giants have been gone for like sixty years. It's
Speaker 1: been a long long time since the Baseball Giants were
Speaker 1: in New York. But I think they still answer the
Speaker 1: phone New York Football Giants. So good on them in
Speaker 1: New Jersey.
Speaker 2: I had no idea. It's a good question.
Speaker 1: But you know, like I'm guessing, if I call the
Speaker 1: Saint Louis Cardinals baseball club, they don't think they say
Speaker 1: Saint Louis Baseball Cardinals.
Speaker 2: The Saint Louis Football Cardinals.
Speaker 1: They left more recently than the Baseball Giants left New York.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: With the Cardinals, you know, they just stand on business.
Speaker 1: They know that everybody knows who they are. Uh. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the New York Football Giants, they were three to fourteen
Speaker 1: this season, they are in the number three spot.
Speaker 2: A lot of Giants fans were.
Speaker 1: Salty because they won late in the season and kicked
Speaker 1: themselves out of the.
Speaker 2: Number one spot. But what went right?
Speaker 1: I mean, Flooryda, your boy, elite neighbors, I know you
Speaker 1: were on the train all year long. One hundred and
Speaker 1: nine catches, which is a franchise rookie record, twelve hundred
Speaker 1: and four yards, seven touchdowns, he was the wide receiver
Speaker 1: six Also time Roun Tracy had been a good season
Speaker 1: for him as well, over eleven hundred scrimmage yards six
Speaker 1: total touchdowns.
Speaker 2: He was the RB twenty six.
Speaker 1: They Sakwan Obviously, I don't think anybody had expectations of
Speaker 1: the Giants going anywhere but Florida. It does seem like
Speaker 1: they at least have a couple pieces in place to
Speaker 1: get excited about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like, I mean one of the what is it
Speaker 4: like six times or something that's happened where they've teams
Speaker 4: had a rookie receiver and running back top one thousand yards.
Speaker 3: I feel good about those guys. I still trust Brian Dable,
Speaker 3: like we've seen him get the most out of offenses before.
Speaker 3: But yeah, this is a huge draft, huge year, all
Speaker 3: of that for the Giants.
Speaker 4: But Lak Neighbors doing what he did, like that would
Speaker 4: that is a rookie wide receiver record. The only reason
Speaker 4: it's not the rookie record is because Brock Bowers had
Speaker 4: more this year.
Speaker 1: Rights, By the way, that record keeps dropping like every
Speaker 1: couple of years or last year, like.
Speaker 3: Elik Neighbors did all of that despite missing two and
Speaker 3: a half games with the concussion, Like, yeah.
Speaker 2: The future is very bad.
Speaker 4: And he did it with maybe the worst quarterback room
Speaker 4: in the NFL this year, So yeah, the future is
Speaker 4: very bright for a few players on the Giants.
Speaker 1: I mean when we go to what went wrong, much
Speaker 1: like I did with the Cleveland Browns, Lakwan I am
Speaker 1: waving generally at the quarterback position there in New York.
Speaker 1: This season began with Daniel Jones in the seat. Eventually,
Speaker 1: not only did he get benched, uh, he just asked
Speaker 1: to leave and they're like, all right, well bye. You know,
Speaker 1: we had a we had a week or two of
Speaker 1: the passing paison with Tommy the Veto coming back. We
Speaker 1: had Drew Lockey of the you know, gift wrapping on
Speaker 1: the bench for a while. Tim Boyle played because that's
Speaker 1: part of the NFL bylaws that Tim Boyle has to
Speaker 1: play at least one game every single year. But for
Speaker 1: all of that, are the Giants like just a quarterback
Speaker 1: away from being a maybe not good offense, but like
Speaker 1: respectable offense.
Speaker 3: Absolutely no, we we got absolutely not.
Speaker 2: I mean, have you seen this O line?
Speaker 3: I mean, look, they are the worst. Like honestly, I
Speaker 3: just look at this old line like it just seems
Speaker 3: to be getting worse and worse every year. I don't
Speaker 3: know what's happening. Like whatever quarterback they put back there
Speaker 3: needs to be mobile. He needs to be able to
Speaker 3: run for his life and get out of it. I mean,
Speaker 3: the most QB hits, the fourthmost pressures, the eighth most sacks. Like,
Speaker 3: we need to address the old line there. And then
Speaker 3: you have wide receivers that are role players. But you
Speaker 3: got Wandel Rominson that wasn't effective with one hundred and
Speaker 3: forty targets but just top ten among wide receivers. It's insane,
Speaker 3: Like he was not effective at all. So you need
Speaker 3: to fix the old line, get some wide receivers in
Speaker 3: there that can be effective and actually produce. Next to
Speaker 3: Malik Neighbors your Melik neighbors is literally the only guy
Speaker 3: in the room just looking around like, yeah, this team
Speaker 3: sucks because he can say that because he's nobody else's
Speaker 3: around him.
Speaker 1: I mean, I go back to him being drafted, you know,
Speaker 1: the the Daniel Doones thing, and just generally looking disgusted
Speaker 1: and frustrated by being you know, by being draft. Have
Speaker 1: to buy the giants, you know, and like he obviously
Speaker 1: he went out there, he put up numbers, right, he
Speaker 1: played hard, one hundred and seventy targets, one hundred and
Speaker 1: nine catches. It was actually the was actually the team's
Speaker 1: leader in scrimmage yards, which you don't generally see that
Speaker 1: out of a wide receiver. It's usually a running back
Speaker 1: because there's so many more ways to get them the
Speaker 1: ball easily. And then to your point about Wandale Robinson,
Speaker 1: like for those of us who have been radicalized against
Speaker 1: full point PPR, like Wandale Robinson is the new poster
Speaker 1: boy for it, right, like it had been, like the
Speaker 1: Wes Welkers and the Julian Edelmans of the world. Wandale
Speaker 1: Robinson had one hundred and forty targets that he turned
Speaker 1: into six hundred and ninety nine yards.
Speaker 4: Oh my, Wandell Robinson makes Danny A. Mondola and Julian
Speaker 4: Edelman look like Jerry Rice.
Speaker 1: I mean, legitimately ninety three catches for six hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety nine yards, Like what are we doing here? But
Speaker 1: because it's a PPR world we live in, I mean,
Speaker 1: don't get it twisted. I kept throwing him in the
Speaker 1: Sleepers column, and I kept popping him up on Fantasy
Speaker 1: Live because I mean, if a loophole's gonna if it's there,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna dive right through it and keep wand keep
Speaker 1: Wondelle Robinson top of mind.
Speaker 2: Nothing about that satisfying. Nothing satisfying.
Speaker 3: It's like an old Honda Civic, Like, how's this thing
Speaker 3: still working? Like, okay, I'm running till.
Speaker 2: The wheels fall off, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, I got my old Tribe call Quest tape
Speaker 1: in the deck and it still sort of plays, even
Speaker 1: though it sounds a little warbly at times, but you
Speaker 1: know what, it gets me from point A to point B.
Speaker 1: There you go, Wandale Robinson, an old Honda Civic.
Speaker 2: That's what we've come up with.
Speaker 1: Since we're talking about free agents, though, Darius Slayton, Drew
Speaker 1: Locke Tommy, the Veto all set to hit free agency.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much. It's way. Darius Slayton is
Speaker 1: the guy that the Giants keep trying to move on from.
Speaker 1: It's just like they just blatantly don't seem to like
Speaker 1: the guy. But like every few weeks he pops up
Speaker 1: and has a pretty good game and you're like, why
Speaker 1: don't they use him more? But for whatever reason, they
Speaker 1: just you know, it's it's I don't know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: use a reference that makes me sound old, but it's
Speaker 1: like at the end of The Flintstones when Fred puts
Speaker 1: the cat out and it jumps back through the window,
Speaker 1: like that's that's that's Darius Slayton. Like they put him
Speaker 1: out on the curve and he somehow gets in the
Speaker 1: back door and they're like, why Darius Slayton's still here?
Speaker 2: Like that's the whole thing with him.
Speaker 1: So at some point they either need to just fully
Speaker 1: break up or just accept that, you know, he's actually
Speaker 1: halfway productive for them. Yeah, last one that we're gonna
Speaker 1: get to here today, the New England Patriots are the
Speaker 1: number four pick. They were four and thirteen. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you've heard they hired Mike Rabel as a
Speaker 1: head coach. Somebody should make a commentary about that. I
Speaker 1: don't know it should be, but we'll die.
Speaker 2: We'll move on past that.
Speaker 1: What right, we talked about Drake May a little bit, Florio,
Speaker 1: you already professed your your love for him. Look, I
Speaker 1: know where do you fall on Drake May, your thoughts
Speaker 1: on him after having watched him a little bit this season.
Speaker 3: I'm a big fan man, and I really think that
Speaker 3: you know, the Patriots, they have something to build off of.
Speaker 3: And I think the next decisions in this coaching cycle,
Speaker 3: you know, you have to bring in an offensive coordinator.
Speaker 3: My idea, you bring in a familiar face. You already
Speaker 3: did that Josh McDaniels. Like we already know that he's
Speaker 3: a candidate. He's been rolling around on the internets, and
Speaker 3: like you have to because when you look at it,
Speaker 3: when you look at it, you want somebody familiar. It's
Speaker 3: going to get the fans going. It's going to get
Speaker 3: the Patriots back in. Like, Okay, we're the old Patriots.
Speaker 2: We don't have Tom.
Speaker 3: Brady, but Drake May is good at football. And you
Speaker 3: look at what Josh mcdams was able to do. He
Speaker 3: bring the best season out of Mac Jones, Like, we
Speaker 3: can't discount that rookie season Mac Jones. That was his
Speaker 3: best season ever, even had Cam Newton come in, adapt
Speaker 3: the offense to Cam Newton to look somewhat functionable. So
Speaker 3: I think you get Drake May who holds some similar
Speaker 3: qualities as a Cam Newton, being mobile and et cetera.
Speaker 3: You can get that play action rolling and if you
Speaker 3: want a ground and pound, you have to bring a
Speaker 3: running back in there for Drake May. So there is
Speaker 3: foundation for, you know, the Patriots to build office. It's
Speaker 3: just going to come down to who they bring in
Speaker 3: as the offensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: I had more Treiza and eggs saying Josh mcdanne would
Speaker 1: have maybe turned this podcast off. I mean, I look,
Speaker 1: I get he's a he's a good he's an awful
Speaker 1: head coach who's been a good coordinator, But just like,
Speaker 1: how many times can we recycle this?
Speaker 2: Dude? It's just one team, that's what it is.
Speaker 4: But it's Drake May and and players who aren't on
Speaker 4: the roster yet because I pots to.
Speaker 2: Go out and sign they're the most cap Like sign
Speaker 2: a T.
Speaker 4: Higgins or a Chris Godwin and shout out to Chris
Speaker 4: Godwin who just had a child.
Speaker 3: Him.
Speaker 2: Then, yeah, like.
Speaker 3: They're gonna they're gonna do something to get Drake Mayson help.
Speaker 1: On the things that went wrong. I mean, you talk
Speaker 1: about bringing in talents. They drafted a couple of wide receivers. Look,
Speaker 1: I didn't think Jalen Polk or Javon Baker were going
Speaker 1: to be like breakout superstars this year. Like we weren't
Speaker 1: talking about them the way we talked about Neighbors or
Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison or Brian Thomas. I did not think they
Speaker 1: would combine for thirteen catches and ninety nine.
Speaker 2: Yards as a sleeper. Wasn't this Vroon Baker that said
Speaker 2: I make people people in wheelchairs stand up when they
Speaker 2: watch me. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's just I mean
Speaker 2: it's awful.
Speaker 1: Which honestly, look, if we're if we're comparing Gerrodmeo to
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, they seem to have equal success in drafting
Speaker 1: wide receivers. The Patriots were bad at that for a
Speaker 1: long long time, and it seems like they're still bad
Speaker 1: at drafting wide receivers. That's gonna have to be a
Speaker 1: top priority for them coming up this offseason.
Speaker 3: Is he still there is there still a thing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean we done.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I mean the Mario Davis ended up
Speaker 1: having a pretty good season for them late in the year,
Speaker 1: Kayshawn Boody ended up playing well for them. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I will forever lab I remember turning on one
Speaker 1: of the games halfway through and hearing hearing Spirit Deity
Speaker 1: show Booty he made a catch and it just was
Speaker 1: I was just jarring. That was the first thing I
Speaker 1: heard when I turned onto television.
Speaker 2: You know, he was not wrong. The timing was just bad.
Speaker 2: That's all that's on my part. Mike Rabel.
Speaker 4: The jury is still out because like he was there
Speaker 4: when they drafted AJ Brown, but he was also there
Speaker 4: when they drafted Traylon Burks as the AJ Brown replacement.
Speaker 2: So and traded AJ Brown to get Traylon Burks. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So we'll have to see how he how he
Speaker 1: handles that. Some of the free agents upcoming for the Patriots.
Speaker 1: I don't know there's anybody that's earth shaking here. Jacoby Brissett,
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper, Jamichael Hasty, which by the way, is how
Speaker 1: I learned that Jamichael Hasty was in New England.
Speaker 3: Patriot I don't know how they're going to replace him.
Speaker 2: I mean, you laugh at that.
Speaker 1: I remember a few years ago, before I even really
Speaker 1: knew who Jamichael Hasty was, I got a DM from
Speaker 1: somebody that said he played in like a twenty team
Speaker 1: dynasty league and asked if we could add Jamichael Hasty
Speaker 1: to our game.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, that's not a real person.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: So look, so there are people out there who were
Speaker 1: who were early on the Jamichael Hasty train. I will
Speaker 1: say that I was not one of them, but hey,
Speaker 1: good on you man. If that's if that's how deep.
Speaker 2: You go in your leagues.
Speaker 3: It was one of the twenty running backs that forty
Speaker 3: nine ers had a rostered.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and like they all play because at some point
Speaker 1: they all get hurt. It's it's it's it's like youth football,
Speaker 1: like everybody plays if you're a Niner running back.
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Speaker 1: Since we were talking about the Patriots and we all
Speaker 1: seem to have formed a mutual Drake May admiration society,
Speaker 1: I will ask either of you, first of Florio and
Speaker 1: Drake May be a let's let's put it at a
Speaker 1: top twelve quarterback. Could you could he be a top
Speaker 1: twelve fantasy quarterback next Yes?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like then I went on Fantasy Live at the
Speaker 4: end of the year. I think he's gonna finish higher
Speaker 4: than twelve if the Patriots get the right pieces, Like
Speaker 4: if the Patriots don't go out and add a bunch
Speaker 4: of wide receivers and stuff this year, I'm gonna change
Speaker 4: my answer. But they have the most cap, they have
Speaker 4: all their draft picks, Like you know that you have
Speaker 4: something in Drake May go out there and do what
Speaker 4: all these other teams do. What the Bills did when
Speaker 4: they had Josh Allen, the Bengals, what they had young
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow, the Dolphins with to the Eagles with hurts
Speaker 4: Lamar in the rate like all of these teams when
Speaker 4: their young quarterbacks are in like years two to three
Speaker 4: on these rookie contracts, they go out and they add
Speaker 4: playmakers and they give them wide receivers.
Speaker 2: They build up that offensive line.
Speaker 4: And Drake May did what he did this year with
Speaker 4: maybe the worst combination of offensive line in pass catchers
Speaker 4: in the NFL. And he also did it while his
Speaker 4: team was telling him actively not to run as much
Speaker 4: because they had nothing to play for. So yeah, I
Speaker 4: think I think the sky is very high for Drake
Speaker 4: may And I'm you know, I've been on record saying
Speaker 4: it before, but his rookie year reminds me of Josh
Speaker 4: Allen's rookie year in the sense of it wasn't great statistically.
Speaker 4: If you only box scored, watched or something like that,
Speaker 4: you'd be like, this guy's all right, But if you
Speaker 4: watch him play, there's a lot of flashes that are like, Wow,
Speaker 4: if this kid figures it all out and could be
Speaker 4: a little bit more consistent, he's gonna be one of
Speaker 4: the best quarterbacks in football.
Speaker 1: Drake May's rookie year was a you had to be
Speaker 1: there for a moment. You guys had to be there
Speaker 1: and see it happen. I mean, lakwan your thoughts. I mean,
Speaker 1: can you see him being a top twelve guy at
Speaker 1: the end of next year?
Speaker 3: I could see that, And like Florio was saying, if
Speaker 3: you know, if he pulls it together or as a
Speaker 3: matter of fact, if the Patriots pull it together for him,
Speaker 3: Because I didn't see anything wrong from Drake Mayo. It
Speaker 3: was like it was one of those things that you're
Speaker 3: watching this guy trying to learn on the job with
Speaker 3: a bad situation around him. And even with the bad
Speaker 3: situation around him, he's going out there making big time throws,
Speaker 3: making big time plays, making clutch plays Like we're looking
Speaker 3: at you know what Florio was saying, how Josh Allen
Speaker 3: transitioned to be this superstar. There is a possibility that
Speaker 3: Drake May could be the next coming of a Josh
Speaker 3: Allen two point zero, where he can possibly be a
Speaker 3: superstar if you have the right pieces around him. I
Speaker 3: don't think that really happened until they went out and
Speaker 3: got Sefon digs for Josh Allen to really take that
Speaker 3: next level. That's what we need right now for Drake May.
Speaker 3: It's very early in the game. Is his career. You
Speaker 3: see the flashes, you see the upside. Get him a
Speaker 3: big time wide receiver. Go in the draft and address
Speaker 3: to pieces that you need to address so we can
Speaker 3: get this division as crazy as it can be. If
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers comes back, Josh Allen MVP Super Bowl maybe
Speaker 3: fingers crossed. We shall see, But I definitely think, you know,
Speaker 3: there is a strong foundation there for Drake May to
Speaker 3: be great in this league.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think it's there too.
Speaker 1: I get where you're going with the Josh Allen comparison
Speaker 1: to Floria, and I know you said this many times
Speaker 1: over the course of the year. I will say it
Speaker 1: was a little less chaotic then early Josh Allen.
Speaker 2: I mean, which is a good thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it is a good thing. Like Josh Allen
Speaker 1: was super chaotic. I mean you remember those that first
Speaker 1: playoff game was against Houston. What I think it was
Speaker 1: when he just he made some throws that you were like,
Speaker 1: what the hell are you doing?
Speaker 2: Man? Like there were some moments where it's just like,
Speaker 2: what what is happening here? The lateral on the run.
Speaker 4: I don't know to this day, I have no idea
Speaker 4: what he was thinking, Like what had that in his
Speaker 4: game in UNC where there was a lot of players
Speaker 4: that you were like, oh, this guy is gonna if
Speaker 4: he just list in the NFL, it's not gonna work
Speaker 4: at all.
Speaker 2: And then he didn't really do that in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I don't know if it's because, you know,
Speaker 1: if somebody rained him in or he just sort of
Speaker 1: matured overnight.
Speaker 2: I'm not really sure.
Speaker 1: I will say that, you know, since we just had
Speaker 1: the conversation about the Patriots and their struggles at drafting
Speaker 1: wide receivers, I feel like they might be better off,
Speaker 1: at least in the short term, hitting the free agent
Speaker 1: market to try and find somebody there. The problem is
Speaker 1: a lot of the high level wide receivers that are
Speaker 1: free agents are a little bit older.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: You've got t Higgins, who I think is maybe the
Speaker 1: prize of this group right now, and he's coming up
Speaker 1: on being twenty six years old. But you look at
Speaker 1: the rest of them. Stefan Diggs is thirty one, Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen will be thirty three. I think by the time
Speaker 1: next season starts, Amari Cooper is north of thirty, Brandon
Speaker 1: Cooks north of thirty one. You know, you got Deontay
Speaker 1: Johnson and Chris Godwin who are both twenty eight headed
Speaker 1: toward twenty nine. You know, I would be shocked if
Speaker 1: the Bucks let Godwin get away. And we've seen Deontay
Speaker 1: Johnson apparently he's just on a conveyor belt across the
Speaker 1: NFL right now on tour. It's it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like that conveyor belt sushi. Like you look at it,
Speaker 1: you're like nah, and you put it back and it
Speaker 1: just keeps moving on. You know, I'm looking through like
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins right now is coming up on thirty three.
Speaker 1: Mike Williams is a free agent, he's north of thirty.
Speaker 1: So there's just not a lot of youth out there.
Speaker 1: So you know, their best bet, I think is probably
Speaker 1: to break the bank and bring in T Higgins and
Speaker 1: give him somebody like that. Yeah, maybe try drafting somebody.
Speaker 1: But the track record over the last decade and a
Speaker 1: half two decades not great.
Speaker 2: Not great.
Speaker 1: I mean you look at the guys that they've brought
Speaker 1: in who've been successful at wide receiver. I mean, Wes
Speaker 1: Welker was not drafted by the Patriots, Randy Moss was
Speaker 1: not drafted by the Patriots.
Speaker 2: You know, it just it just has not worked out
Speaker 2: in that regard.
Speaker 3: You know what, though, let's get crazy. I don't want
Speaker 3: to take too long on this, but let's ship Cooper
Speaker 3: Cup to the Patriots. Well, I say that with confidence,
Speaker 3: because you need a lot that knows the game and
Speaker 3: that knows the game that can actually be accessible for
Speaker 3: a young quarterback like Drake May And I really feel
Speaker 3: though there's some clutch to Drake Bay. I think there's
Speaker 3: still some Clutchess to Cooper Cup. We saw it last night.
Speaker 3: I just think that Cooper Cup's time in l A
Speaker 3: Is coming to her near ende. Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, but it seems like it's been trending
Speaker 1: that way. It seems like the Rams, for their part,
Speaker 1: have sort of been that.
Speaker 3: Hurts me to say. By the way, I'm emotional.
Speaker 2: I don't think l Q you'd be on that.
Speaker 4: I thought you'd be like, yo, let him retire, because
Speaker 4: sometimes I think like the fans should be allowed to
Speaker 4: be fans and and should want to see Cooper Cup
Speaker 4: retire as a RAM.
Speaker 3: I'm one of the realistic fans, and I think he
Speaker 3: still has something to offer though, But I don't you
Speaker 3: come back and sign the one day contract.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 4: That's we were talking about Josh Allen and Drake May
Speaker 4: like coaches coaching them out of doing their crazy things.
Speaker 4: We got to get both of those coaching stats together.
Speaker 4: And then to bring this full circle, let's let's have
Speaker 4: them spend the off season with Will Levis and see
Speaker 4: if they can coach all of that craziness out of here.
Speaker 4: That that should be their challenge.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the the make Will Levis challenge, make him not
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Speaker 2: Now, we're gonna.
Speaker 1: Talk a little bit about the Wildcard weekend playoffs as
Speaker 1: the start of the show, but kind of want to
Speaker 1: wrap up which is your your general overall thoughts Obviously
Speaker 1: for you guys, I know a lot of excitement, a
Speaker 1: lot of anticipation, both with big games, uh Lakwan, the
Speaker 1: Rams going on the road. They got to take on Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: which should be a really entertaining game on Sunday, and
Speaker 1: then Florio, you guys have the nightcap, the weekend ender
Speaker 1: with the Ravens, the one that is literally the marquee
Speaker 1: game over the weekend. But I mean, Lacwan, I'll start
Speaker 1: with you just your general takeaways from what we saw
Speaker 1: this Wildcard weekend.
Speaker 3: Man, Ravens, you do not want to see them in
Speaker 3: the playoffs. Man, I mean Lamar Jackson, Derek Carr, I mean,
Speaker 3: Derek Henry are literally the Shaq and Kobe. I mean
Speaker 3: you're looking at dynamic duos of Lebron James and d Wade,
Speaker 3: I mean Michael and Pittman, maybe not Scottie Pippen, Marcus
Speaker 3: Jordan and like that combination duo is a powerhouse. Is like,
Speaker 3: this is going to be a problem in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: I honestly see the Ravens taking it all the way
Speaker 3: to the dance.
Speaker 2: I look, Derek Henry adds a dimension that they haven't
Speaker 2: had for.
Speaker 3: No dangerous man. I think whoever wins Sunday wins it all.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's I think that's a legitimate I
Speaker 1: mean that Ravens Bills could be for the AFC Championship.
Speaker 2: I mean, it really could be.
Speaker 3: It's going to be awkward this week though, because one
Speaker 3: of them are going to win the MVP and lose.
Speaker 4: So these fan bases legitimately hate each other. They've been
Speaker 4: at war for six weeks now on which sort of wild.
Speaker 2: I mean, they don't play that often. It's just mostly
Speaker 2: because of the quarterbacks. They only play.
Speaker 3: Once in the playoffs. Like I think Lamarin is only
Speaker 3: lost to the Bills once, and they're only one these
Speaker 3: want to know against in the playoffs. To build the
Speaker 3: Ravens destroyed the Bills in Week four coming.
Speaker 2: It's the m v P race. That's that's it. That's what.
Speaker 4: I do think that the Ravens are and I've said
Speaker 4: it all year, They're the hardest matchup in the NFL
Speaker 4: for the Bills.
Speaker 3: But Lamar has to look. Lamar proved he could play
Speaker 3: in the playoffs, but can he play on the road.
Speaker 3: We have not seen him play on the road in
Speaker 3: years in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: So I I will talk to you guys about this offline.
Speaker 4: But I'm strongly considering flying to Buffalo. Oh we need
Speaker 4: that content, bro, nice man. I don't know, because my
Speaker 4: fear is that if I go and they lose, like,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna hate my life.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be flight back, miserable trip back if that
Speaker 1: doesn't work out, for sure.
Speaker 3: But look, I support it.
Speaker 1: I support the idea for sure. My big takeaway from
Speaker 1: this is that for everybody who complained about the first
Speaker 1: round or first couple of rounds of the college football
Speaker 1: and how those games were pretty one sided, I present
Speaker 1: to you wild Card weekend.
Speaker 2: We had one competitive game out of six. That's it,
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 1: And some of them surprised me, to be honest with Like,
Speaker 1: I figured the Ravens would handle the Steelers pretty easily.
Speaker 1: I thought the Packers would be more competitive, but then again,
Speaker 1: they they were just so shorthanded that maybe that shouldn't
Speaker 1: have been a surprise. Really, the Chargers, they I mean
Speaker 1: they were they were the kind of chargers like, you know,
Speaker 1: the freight phone cord chargers, right, like the I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try to plug this in and might set my house
Speaker 1: on fire sort of chargers.
Speaker 2: That's kind of what they look like. You know. The
Speaker 2: Broncos just ran out of gas.
Speaker 1: Really, Commander's Bucks was the only game that was really
Speaker 1: competitive to the end. Everything else ended up being really
Speaker 1: really one.
Speaker 2: So, you know, for.
Speaker 1: Everybody in college football who was moaning about the selection committee,
Speaker 1: the pro game has the same issues in the first round.
Speaker 1: And it's been this way in the last few years.
Speaker 2: This is not a new thing.
Speaker 1: The last couple of years we have seen the first
Speaker 1: round games be generally kind of lopsided, with one or.
Speaker 2: Two maybe competitive. I'm looking at last year. Texans blew
Speaker 2: out the Browns, Chiefs ran over the Dolphins, Packers and
Speaker 2: went to Dallas embarrassed the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Lions Rams was a really good game. Bills blew
Speaker 1: out the Steelers. Bucks stamped the Eagles like five out
Speaker 1: of six games last year in the wildcard round. We're
Speaker 1: pretty one sided. League's never gonna take away playoff teams,
Speaker 1: so we're just gonna have to live with this all
Speaker 1: it is my for I know.
Speaker 3: We're gonna talk wildcard round next, sorry, Division round.
Speaker 4: But my big takeaway is, like we look at the
Speaker 4: quarterbacks left right, The only two active quarterbacks to win
Speaker 4: Super Bowl are in Mahomes and Stafford. Then you got
Speaker 4: the top two MVP candidates Jalen Hurts, who was an
Speaker 4: MVP candidate a couple of years ago, and the future
Speaker 4: of the NFL Jaden Daniels. I think people learned about
Speaker 4: Jaden this year, but I think this past weekend was his,
Speaker 4: like his moment to be like I'm here and like,
Speaker 4: you guys are all gonna have to deal with me now?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, ark man, he is a land shark, dangerous Yeah.
Speaker 1: And it was very much his introduction, I think to
Speaker 1: a national audience too, where like everybody was focused on
Speaker 1: that for sure, because it was the playoff game. It
Speaker 1: was in prime time too, so I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people who didn't know about Jaden and Daniels now
Speaker 1: you know baby boaby boo.
Speaker 2: So uh there it is. Yeah, we will dive in
Speaker 2: later in the week. We will get to the divisional rounds.
Speaker 1: We'll kind of preview some of those games and will
Speaker 1: continue our exit interviews as well with picks five through eight,
Speaker 1: So look forward.
Speaker 2: To that coming to you in the very near future.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, that'll do it for this edition of
Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. They happy, safe and healthy,
Speaker 1: do good and live well during the days. Everybody will
Speaker 1: talk to you again real soon.
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