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Speaker 1: league and win that that cash. You know what it is, Rocks.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen, when you were gone. We at the
Speaker 1: end of the regular season, we had some championships won,
Speaker 1: some championships lost. Um. I like how you are predicting
Speaker 1: that you are going to win championships in two thousand
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Speaker 1: all our listeners, uh you know, will be tweeting out
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Speaker 1: hopefully we'll get a nice field of competitive entries. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: that might be rout to your first opportunity to smoke
Speaker 1: one of those victory cigars. Getting it in early when
Speaker 1: we still have President Obama moving forward though. You know
Speaker 1: what we need to also do is one of those cigars.
Speaker 1: Maybe should go uh in a way to stip our
Speaker 1: cap to someone who you know has been doing it
Speaker 1: in Fantasy full been doing it for years. I would
Speaker 1: say he's been doing it for years. This cat has
Speaker 1: been running around with some of the sounds from under
Speaker 1: the ground. But suddenly now we uttered it loud in
Speaker 1: front of a crowd, So frounting is alloud because this guy,
Speaker 1: Steve Smith, he would punch you in the mouth, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. And this guy had only five nine Okay,
Speaker 1: what a hell of a career Rocks and Smith in
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Freestyle. Definitely want to tip our cap to
Speaker 1: Steve Smith. This guy, I think is a no brainer
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, a thousand catches five time All Star
Speaker 1: guy was just like, had you know such determination, grit grind,
Speaker 1: this guy would punch you. Also, when you consider his
Speaker 1: return yardage, um, you know, second maybe only to Tim
Speaker 1: Brown in terms of you know, production from the white
Speaker 1: out spot. When you consider returning as well, Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I mean you look at the numbers and it's it's
Speaker 1: absolutely surprising. Steve Smith had a bunch of years that
Speaker 1: really jump out the page off the page when you
Speaker 1: look at his total career. But he was really a
Speaker 1: guy who year in and year out, people kept saying
Speaker 1: he was going to decline, and he did not. He
Speaker 1: finishes an illustrous career that started with him being the
Speaker 1: third round pick out of Utah in two thousand and one.
Speaker 1: I repeat that two thousand and one blow well in
Speaker 1: career was sceptions in the NFL seventh in career receiving yards,
Speaker 1: and that's an attribute to his big play ability and
Speaker 1: as you just said, speeds seventh in career all purpose yards.
Speaker 1: One of my defining moments of Steve Smith as a
Speaker 1: Saints fan was constantly watching Steve Smith running down the
Speaker 1: field catching bombs from quarterbacks ranging from Jake Delme to
Speaker 1: Cam Newton with no other Saint in the picture. It's
Speaker 1: been absolutely ridiculous, and he proved a lot of people wrong,
Speaker 1: finishing up his career with the Baltimore Ravens as a
Speaker 1: productive wide receiver in the latter half of his thirties.
Speaker 1: Tip of the cap to see Smith to all your
Speaker 1: other defensive backs out there, but Ice up Son, Ice
Speaker 1: off Son. You know Steve Smith, he be getting down
Speaker 1: like that. And I mean when he was in the
Speaker 1: Carolina Patis referenced Shake Delme throwing him the ball. I
Speaker 1: mean that team went to the Super Bowl one year
Speaker 1: and he was a prime weapon. This guy, first second
Speaker 1: round draft pick, year in year out, would get you
Speaker 1: undred yards and he would get you in the end zone.
Speaker 1: Big play ability from the wide receiver position. You'll check
Speaker 1: it out, though, Rocks. Another thing you missed when you
Speaker 1: were out in international waters was Black Monday. I know
Speaker 1: a couple of coaches that wish that they had Steve
Speaker 1: Smith or some kind of production like that from the outside,
Speaker 1: because maybe it would have saved them their jobs. There
Speaker 1: are currently six openings in the NFL, which is you
Speaker 1: know what I'm doing the math like almost a fifth
Speaker 1: of the league. I'm telling you, so I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I would wonder. You know, if you've been listening to
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Sports radio network, you're here. Species has been
Speaker 1: in statistician on shot callers, and earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: I kind of ranked the jobs that I thought were
Speaker 1: most desirable, and I gave some some reasons that people
Speaker 1: not may not be interested in or know about, like,
Speaker 1: for example, Rocks. I kind of think the San Francisco
Speaker 1: job is pretty good. Let me give you three reasons why. Okay.
Speaker 1: One is that it is the only opening right now
Speaker 1: where the team is going to be hiring a head
Speaker 1: coach and a GM at the same time. For the
Speaker 1: for the head coach and the GM to be on
Speaker 1: the same page and come in without any kind of
Speaker 1: in one inheriting the other, I think is very very important.
Speaker 1: Is the covered pretty much? Bear? Yes? It is. Do
Speaker 1: I think there is talent? No, I do not. But
Speaker 1: what I did hear Jed York the owners say was
Speaker 1: that he wants to try to establish a new winning
Speaker 1: culture and you know what that takes time. You know
Speaker 1: what else, they have had four head coaches in the
Speaker 1: last four years, and I don't think that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I think they are also in a division where you
Speaker 1: also have Los Angeles that is a basement kind of team,
Speaker 1: and uh, this is Speeds calling his shot. The Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals are primed for regression over the next two to
Speaker 1: four years with an aging quarterback. I can see David
Speaker 1: Johnson being the only shining light there for years to
Speaker 1: come with it looks like Larry Fitzgerald is gonna be
Speaker 1: gone as well. I think this is a division where
Speaker 1: you can kind of spring up and uh, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have some time on the same page with the g M.
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of important one of these jobs
Speaker 1: to her interest box. Well, I would say, you know,
Speaker 1: as you as you astutely pointed out, it's there is
Speaker 1: an entire new organization basically up in San Francisco, and
Speaker 1: if I'm coming in as either a coach or a
Speaker 1: g M, I really really like that. I will say though,
Speaker 1: that in Los Angeles, I'm not entirely sure that less
Speaker 1: Snead is necessarily going to stick around as the GM there.
Speaker 1: I know that is a very very high profile opportunity
Speaker 1: as well. I think a lot of coaches would be
Speaker 1: interested in that. That said, I wouldn't be shocked to
Speaker 1: see people choosing the Denver job. You know, if you're
Speaker 1: one of these young guys that maybe had a chance
Speaker 1: and kind of fell flat like an Adam excuse me,
Speaker 1: like um, like a Josh McDaniels, you know I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be you know, you've been waiting. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It may be hard for him going staying
Speaker 1: in the a f C with a competitive team, but
Speaker 1: that is a team that justusin. Dennis was already the
Speaker 1: head coach of the Broncos in his career. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna go back there when he left the first time
Speaker 1: he became the Broncos head coach. I don't think they
Speaker 1: want to go back to that. Can not play with him,
Speaker 1: cannot win with him, cannot coach with him, can't do
Speaker 1: it right. Bad, my bad, my bad, my bad, bad,
Speaker 1: bad gentleman. I'll let you. I'll let you take that one.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I think Denver is gonna wind up
Speaker 1: going a bigger, a bigger splash than that. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is a kind of win now team. I think you
Speaker 1: make a good point about being lucky to try to
Speaker 1: when you're an ascending coordinator or something like that. You
Speaker 1: have to be careful because you only get so many
Speaker 1: opportunities unless, of course, your last name is Ryan for
Speaker 1: some reason. But here's the reason I don't like the
Speaker 1: Denver job as much as many people that are out
Speaker 1: there that I've heard from. Um, you have expectations in Denver, Okay.
Speaker 1: As soon as you walk in, you are expected to
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. You have a defense that is win now,
Speaker 1: but the window is slightly closing, and you have strong
Speaker 1: personalities there in John l A and guys like Von Miller.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing. When that defense has to win now,
Speaker 1: that's when you're supposedly developing either Accident Lent or Trevor Simeon.
Speaker 1: I'm not that excited about that. And the last point
Speaker 1: I'll say about that, with the expectations that you have
Speaker 1: as Denver, you are in a very difficult division. The
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs are solid team year and year out.
Speaker 1: The Oakland Raiders, many people believe, are in ascending team.
Speaker 1: And with young former m v P Chansigator until he
Speaker 1: got hurt car out there, they're gonna be there four
Speaker 1: years to come. I don't think it's an easy road
Speaker 1: to host similar how to like free agents, don't want
Speaker 1: to be in the like Western Conference when it's so
Speaker 1: bad in the NBA. I think there's expectations, but you're
Speaker 1: set up so continue to be mediocre, especially with these
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks. Well what do you think maybe about the
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan. Yeah, I like given his father has given
Speaker 1: his list, there's relationship, given the fact that you know
Speaker 1: he's going to be treated with a little bit of respect,
Speaker 1: and also that the fans there are gonna see that
Speaker 1: last name and remember the good times. Yeah, I like
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan a lot. When I did uh talk about
Speaker 1: candidates on Shock Caller's earlier on this week, Um, Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan was someone I had big faith in. I have
Speaker 1: big faith in this Atlanta offense. He's done it before
Speaker 1: everywhere he has been. This Atlanta offense is number one
Speaker 1: in the league. And I do think Kyle Shanahan is
Speaker 1: interested in Denver, and I think Denver is interested in him. I, however,
Speaker 1: placed Kyle Shanahan instead because maybe about like you said,
Speaker 1: stepping out of Dad's shadow a little bit. You know,
Speaker 1: Shanahan obviously did have some time in Denver, but I
Speaker 1: was thinking that Shanahan was viable in one of two
Speaker 1: jobs where they might be looking for a quote unquote
Speaker 1: quarterback whisperer. And I think there are two jobs out
Speaker 1: there that also, to be quite honest, I think are
Speaker 1: better than most. When I did my rankings, they were
Speaker 1: a number one and number two jobs. I think if
Speaker 1: he could go out to l A and actually develop
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, you have all the other pieces in place
Speaker 1: with Todd Darley in the running back a defense with
Speaker 1: guys like um all Pro, Aaron Donald Donald to the ogletree.
Speaker 1: You have a new market where that can attract free agents,
Speaker 1: you have some buzz, you have an owner that's building
Speaker 1: a new stadium that wants to keep it fill, and
Speaker 1: we'll have resources behind you. And if you're the guy
Speaker 1: who thinks you can develop Jared Goff, I think it
Speaker 1: would be a good play. The other place where I
Speaker 1: think that is largely similar is in Jacksonville. Listen, the
Speaker 1: defense is getting better and better with guys like Millie Jackson, Fowler,
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey. You are also in an imminently winnable division
Speaker 1: as we have seen, and you know the Allen's on
Speaker 1: the outside piss. You are the guy that can fix
Speaker 1: Blake Bortles. Then you have an interesting you have an
Speaker 1: interesting possibility, and he in a winnable division. The only
Speaker 1: thing I don't like about that job is you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to deal with that trip to London every year,
Speaker 1: which is a bit of a problem for me. Well,
Speaker 1: and another thing that I'll say to you there is
Speaker 1: that you know, it's kind of a damned if you do,
Speaker 1: damned if you don't, because you're dealing with a quarterback
Speaker 1: in uh, you know, in mortal service that's shown some
Speaker 1: NFL success, but who's also it seems like every other
Speaker 1: year he's having his mechanics needing to be fixed. And
Speaker 1: at what point do you just get sick of that?
Speaker 1: I would also say, we're hearing that Doug Moron might
Speaker 1: get a look there, We're hearing that Tom Coughlin might
Speaker 1: even be brought back. I mean, does Jacksonville's owner or
Speaker 1: Shad Con, does he view them as as a project
Speaker 1: team or does he think that they're really close to
Speaker 1: being win now because of that week division? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think that Week one now either. I think though,
Speaker 1: he will give his next coach a little bit of leeway. Um,
Speaker 1: and you have you've bought time because you know you
Speaker 1: inherited Blake Bortles. Going back to my point before at
Speaker 1: the timeline, that's why that San Francisco job is pretty
Speaker 1: interesting to me. The last name I want to mention,
Speaker 1: the job that I actually ranked the least desirable um
Speaker 1: is the San Diego Chargers job. And here is why. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's been said in any sport, one of the hardest
Speaker 1: things to do as a manager or as a coach
Speaker 1: is to deal with an aging superstar. That's what you
Speaker 1: have in the quarterback position in San Diego. Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: coming off a season where he led in the league
Speaker 1: in interceptions twenty one interceptions. He made it very public
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year that he didn't know
Speaker 1: if he would want to ever move his family and
Speaker 1: is like twenty seven kids to Los Angeles. It seems
Speaker 1: like that's what the Chargers are always to be doing.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Philip Rivers wants to inherit a
Speaker 1: new coach and a new scheme and all this stuff.
Speaker 1: I think Actually you mentioned Josh McDaniels, offensive coordinator of
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. I'm actually hearing that the defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator of the New England Patriots. Matt Patricia has been
Speaker 1: granted permission to interview with San Diego, and I can
Speaker 1: see that as a possible thing. You mentioned the first
Speaker 1: time defensive coordinator getting a job. When you don't have
Speaker 1: that much demand, you might have to take what you
Speaker 1: can get, and I think that might be the case here.
Speaker 1: But I don't like this job to charge is potentially
Speaker 1: moving to l A to be Little Brothers second class
Speaker 1: citizens in the Rams Stadium. In fact, just having alienated
Speaker 1: a fan base. With Philip Rivers having two years left, Max,
Speaker 1: I don't like this Chargers job, and I think the
Speaker 1: lunk of the litter in this case is Matt Patricia. Honestly, though,
Speaker 1: I agree with you and Philip Rivers. Though let's not
Speaker 1: forget that he did lose his number one weapon this year.
Speaker 1: That defense did them absolutely no favors, and you know,
Speaker 1: Mike McCoy was pretty overwhelmed the last couple of seasons
Speaker 1: he did. You know, it's obviously not all on the
Speaker 1: head coach, but there are worse things to do than
Speaker 1: Inherit the twilight of Philip rivers career, and at least
Speaker 1: as the first year on the job for a young coach.
Speaker 1: I'd rather than twilight of Philip Rivers career than Jared
Speaker 1: goss sophomore season. Absolutely. Uh. San Diego Chargers. Remember we
Speaker 1: talked about it with the Denver job. They are just
Speaker 1: out of leave, fourth out of four in that division
Speaker 1: and a tough road to hoo. You know who is
Speaker 1: not ever fourth? It is Rocks and Speeds, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna prove it in our DFS lineup. But when we
Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna give you a little sneak pee
Speaker 1: view of our DFS lineup. Maybe we shouldn't give them everything, Rocks,
Speaker 1: because then they know how to compete against us in
Speaker 1: a tournament. We're also going to give them our breakdowns
Speaker 1: of all four wild card games where we come back, right, Rocks,
Speaker 1: We're going game by game. We're giving you Saturday, We're
Speaker 1: giving you Sunday. We're giving you those a f C games,
Speaker 1: giving those NFC games. We are with you on the
Speaker 1: march to the Super Bowl. Let's get uh Fantasy Freestyle,
Speaker 1: the Fantasy sports radio network that look, hello, you play
Speaker 1: to win the game? You don't play it, just play it? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna hit him off with all this wild card
Speaker 1: knowledge to give them. Also, you know, shout out to
Speaker 1: it's always sunny in Philadelphia. That started again, Charlie Kelly,
Speaker 1: the ultimate wild card Rocks. You ready to get into
Speaker 1: these wild card games? Yeah? Man, Let's let's take it
Speaker 1: down south, baby, Let's take it down south. We're going
Speaker 1: to Houston, aren't we. We are going to see an
Speaker 1: Oakland Raider team traveling Oakland, Maryus who very well could
Speaker 1: have been the second seed. Unfortunately, that Derek Carr injury
Speaker 1: changes everything and now they're gonna be on the road
Speaker 1: playing a Houston Texan team. It's going to be Connor
Speaker 1: Cook versus brock Ostwiler Speeds. Is that what you expect
Speaker 1: in terms of quarterback play in playoff matchup? No, absolutely not.
Speaker 1: It's funny. I wanted to say this is a matchup
Speaker 1: of two backup quarterbacks, but The sad part is that
Speaker 1: brock Oswiler has been that seventy two million dollar news
Speaker 1: around the Houston Texans all season long. He is a backup,
Speaker 1: but you know this is pretty bad quarterbacks, Like this
Speaker 1: is a rematch of that Mexico City Monday night football
Speaker 1: game where there were lasers in brock Oswidler's face. I
Speaker 1: wonder if he has recovered from those. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I've been fading the Houston Texans all season long and
Speaker 1: I can't believe it, but I'm gonna have to pick
Speaker 1: them to win this game. I mean Connor Cook as
Speaker 1: the third string quarterback. He got absolutely zero reps with
Speaker 1: this offense all season long. Do you remember it was
Speaker 1: actually mcgloyn who was the backup. Connor Cook is the
Speaker 1: first NFL quarterback in history to make zero starts in
Speaker 1: the regular season and then start a playoff game for
Speaker 1: his team. And I think they're gonna struggle to move
Speaker 1: the ball against the number one defense in the NFL,
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans only giving up three and ten yards
Speaker 1: a game. I struggle to see how the Oakland Raiders
Speaker 1: moved the ball here. And so let's brock Oswidler serves
Speaker 1: it up on a platter, which he is known to do.
Speaker 1: I can't believe this, but I think the Texans are
Speaker 1: gonna win this game at home. Yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: agree with you. I will say that I thought Connor
Speaker 1: Cook was actually, before the draft one of the better
Speaker 1: quarterback prospects in the class. I felt like he was
Speaker 1: really victim of a savage, anonymous attack from NFL scouts,
Speaker 1: and part of me would really like to see Connor
Speaker 1: Cook prove all of the haters wrong on the road
Speaker 1: in his first career start. But the reality of it
Speaker 1: is that this is the NFL and that is a very,
Speaker 1: very very tough road to travel. From a fantasy perspective,
Speaker 1: I'm really having a hard time looking at these fan
Speaker 1: duel prices and having, you know, selecting really anyone from
Speaker 1: this game I want to target. There are the two
Speaker 1: Oakland wide receivers and a price very very reasonably. But again,
Speaker 1: you talk about Connor Cook, I'm looking for Lamar Miller
Speaker 1: at on fan duel in this game. Oakland's defense has
Speaker 1: not been very very good at all. You know, Houston
Speaker 1: is gonna want to play conservative heap brock Off Wilder
Speaker 1: from losing the game for them. And resting their laurels
Speaker 1: on that defense. I see this being another big workfload
Speaker 1: for Lamar Miller and I wouldn't be shocked if he
Speaker 1: got a rare for him rushing touchdown in this one.
Speaker 1: I would keep Lamar Miller at in mind. And what
Speaker 1: is a very very weak group of running backs this
Speaker 1: week on Van Duel, Non tell Rocks, I understand what
Speaker 1: you're saying out there, and I agree with you. I'm
Speaker 1: fading the Oakland side of this game. I want no
Speaker 1: part of receivers crab Street and Cooper in this matchup. Also,
Speaker 1: you know, Rocks, I've been talking about it on Fantasy
Speaker 1: Freestyle and on Shot Follers on the Fantasy Sports Radio
Speaker 1: Network all season long, at this Oakland backfield and how
Speaker 1: like it's been a committee. It has not been Latavia's Murray.
Speaker 1: And you've seen even recently apparently Washington is back in
Speaker 1: the fold. They're going three headed again. So it's very
Speaker 1: hard to pick, you know, if you think you could
Speaker 1: pick the right one who gets in the end zone
Speaker 1: or pops off, whether it be Jay la Chard or
Speaker 1: Washington or Murray more or to you, I'm going away
Speaker 1: from it the I am I do however, rocks in
Speaker 1: that lineup where I'm competing against the fantasy freestyle listeners.
Speaker 1: I had to Houston Texans in that lineup, but they
Speaker 1: might not be the ones you think we got. The dork.
Speaker 1: The first one is, uh, the Houston Texans defense. I
Speaker 1: have the Texans defense. We can talk there about a
Speaker 1: third string quarterback. They're the second highest defense on the
Speaker 1: Lord at forty hundred. But I like Ja, Dave and
Speaker 1: Pliny and the number one defense going at home, going
Speaker 1: against the third string quarterback, the second one, go ahead,
Speaker 1: rock you. Houston really showed something this year without J. J. Watt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the J Watt all world. But you know, tip of
Speaker 1: the cap to the Houston defense for not folding when
Speaker 1: a lot of people thought they would when J. J.
Speaker 1: Watt was lost for the season. I'm sorry to interrupt.
Speaker 1: You keep who's that second guy? Now? We're gonna keep
Speaker 1: the second guy's secret, I guess because I don't want
Speaker 1: people finding this. I really like display um within the
Speaker 1: Houston game. Maybe it's your boyd Lamar Miller. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: someone you don't even know about, you know, maybe you know,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that. Keep it moving though, Let's go
Speaker 1: to that next game, we have the Detroit Lions. They
Speaker 1: go up to the Pacific Northwest, and let me tell
Speaker 1: you something, this Seattle team has kind of stumbled to
Speaker 1: the end. Okay, you know, Earl Thomas. That's a big
Speaker 1: injury for the legion of boom they have. The Seattle
Speaker 1: defense has been giving up twenty four points a game
Speaker 1: since that injury, very different than the sixteen or seventeen
Speaker 1: they were giving up before that. And the other thing
Speaker 1: that's really a problem in my opinion with Seattle is
Speaker 1: this run game. This run game is an absolute nightmare
Speaker 1: for the Seattle Sea box. Thomas Rawls has not impressed
Speaker 1: in three yards and carry. It is not doing well,
Speaker 1: you know, like actually even less than one of his
Speaker 1: games eight carries for eight yards. They're bringing in Alex
Speaker 1: Collins and whatnot. I will say this, Um, I do
Speaker 1: think this is gonna be a little bit higher scoring game.
Speaker 1: Then you think I like the over on this one.
Speaker 1: The total is fourty three in this game. I can
Speaker 1: easily see both teams in the mid to upper twenties.
Speaker 1: I can see this being a twin kind of game.
Speaker 1: And that is also why I think it's a close game.
Speaker 1: And uh, the eight point spread is too much for me. Rocks,
Speaker 1: Seattle is giving up eight points at home. If you
Speaker 1: realize Detroit is in every game, they play all the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter comebacks, and honestly, Seattle, especially with this running game,
Speaker 1: is not blowing anybody out. They even lost at home
Speaker 1: to Arizona recently. I think, um, I think Seattle get
Speaker 1: to win, but I'd go again, I'd go Lions against
Speaker 1: the spread here. That's my take on the overall game.
Speaker 1: You started what some of the kids in Speeds versus
Speaker 1: the kids had to say about this game. You've got
Speaker 1: speeds and spitting statistician picking against kids nine years or
Speaker 1: old or younger. We got a couple of interesting experts.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see how they do. Rocks. Throw your hat
Speaker 1: in the ring. Were you like in this game? You know,
Speaker 1: I think that it's been a nice run for the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions and that Jim Bob Cooder offense. They've really
Speaker 1: done some interesting things this season. That said, I haven't
Speaker 1: liked the way that Matt Stafford played down the stretch
Speaker 1: sce he's hurt that finger. You know, losing Theo Riddick
Speaker 1: has really been bad for their overall balance. On offense,
Speaker 1: They've had to change things up a bit, and I
Speaker 1: find that, you know, while I don't think Seattle is
Speaker 1: nearly as complete as they have been in years past,
Speaker 1: the running game is a complete concern. It would probably
Speaker 1: be nice to have Marshawn Lynch on the roster right now.
Speaker 1: Losing Earl Thomas is a big deal, but this is
Speaker 1: a defense that still has four guys going to the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl and they still have Russell Wilson at quarterback
Speaker 1: who's never lost a game. I think Seattle is gonna
Speaker 1: win this game fairly handily. I really don't think Detroit
Speaker 1: is going to be able to do much against them
Speaker 1: on offense. However, again talking about that dearth of good
Speaker 1: running back options this week, in Fanue, I really do
Speaker 1: like him this week. He played something of the snaps
Speaker 1: last week. He excelled in a multi down role, and
Speaker 1: that allows that allows Detroit to kind of change up
Speaker 1: from what they were doing in the middle part of
Speaker 1: the season, which was playing slow to keep that offense,
Speaker 1: keep keep their defense, which is a big liability off
Speaker 1: the field. That defense has gotten a lot better and
Speaker 1: their offense has shown the ability to actually move quickly.
Speaker 1: They if you watch them against the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: They were really really moving the ball and they were
Speaker 1: doing it with pace. If Zack Zentner stays on the field,
Speaker 1: He's shown the ability to pick up yards after contact.
Speaker 1: He's a complete asset in the receiving game. And I
Speaker 1: think that they don't really have another running back on
Speaker 1: their roster right now that they trust and in the
Speaker 1: playoffs where game flow is such an important thing, He's
Speaker 1: someone who's proven that he really has established a high
Speaker 1: floor in the last couple of weeks. I like him
Speaker 1: a lot at st combine with Lamar Miller as a
Speaker 1: high touch floor option at the running back position. That said, uh,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham, Jimmy Graham back in the playoffs, Jimmy Graham healthy.
Speaker 1: What do you think he's the most expensive option this
Speaker 1: week at the tight end position at sixty six hundred.
Speaker 1: Is he someone who might be in play for you? You
Speaker 1: You fading him this week? I am not on Jimmy
Speaker 1: Graham this week. He's the most expensive option at the
Speaker 1: tight end position. I think I could do better value
Speaker 1: for that, but uh, we'll leave that for a later conversation.
Speaker 1: This couple of lions that I wanted to discuss with
Speaker 1: you because I think they're you know, I like the
Speaker 1: Zack Center. I like the Zack Center. Call at sixty
Speaker 1: two hundred two things. Uh here and a lot of
Speaker 1: people are talking about Zack Center this week. Michael Bennett
Speaker 1: is talking about Zack Zenter. Here what he said. But
Speaker 1: they are who we thought they were. Not I didn't
Speaker 1: hear what he said. Michael Bennett, you know, always outspoken,
Speaker 1: both of these a lot of things. He does, both
Speaker 1: the Bennetts, Bennetts in the playoffs, both the Benett brothers
Speaker 1: say a lot of things. Um, he called Zack Center
Speaker 1: the best Caucasian running back in the NFL right now.
Speaker 1: I'm reminded of Peyton Hillis, who even graced the Madden
Speaker 1: cover at one point. But Michael Bennett saying, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: really respecting the work he did out in the D
Speaker 1: two college that he was going over two thousand yards.
Speaker 1: See he's in three of his four years in college,
Speaker 1: said that he is the best white running back in
Speaker 1: the NFL right now. But they are who we thought
Speaker 1: they were. Got about the hook. You also heard my
Speaker 1: man Jim Bob Cooder talk about that. Um, he can
Speaker 1: see zat Center in a multi down role, like he said,
Speaker 1: and that they can get that pace afterwards. So that's
Speaker 1: an endorsement on both from your team and your opponent.
Speaker 1: At the one other guy on Detroit though, Listen, you
Speaker 1: know about the Legion of Boom, and you know about
Speaker 1: how they you know how they can cover the receivers.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to go Eric Ebron either, but some
Speaker 1: of do they employ similarly to a tight end that
Speaker 1: they look to on third down, that they look to
Speaker 1: in the red zone. And it's only forty eight hundred
Speaker 1: this week on the fan, do well. I like an
Speaker 1: Kwan Bolden. Okay, you're not gonna have Richard Sherman traveling
Speaker 1: around to cover an Kwan Bolden. They're gonna try and
Speaker 1: shut down your boy Golden Tate. It's gonna be An
Speaker 1: Kwan Bolden in key situations getting the third in thirteen.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be the one person on the Detroit Lions
Speaker 1: who was equipped to be physical with the Seattle Seahawks,
Speaker 1: and at only forty eight hundred, I like him a lot,
Speaker 1: you said, Jimmy Graham. Part of the reason I'm not
Speaker 1: playing Jimmy Graham because because I went elsewhere at D
Speaker 1: I am going with Doug Baldwin in my DFS lineup.
Speaker 1: I think, um, Doug Baldwin. You know listened when you
Speaker 1: play DFS, you know sometimes you need to pop off
Speaker 1: to win weeks, and Doug Baldwin does that from time
Speaker 1: to time. With Russell Wilson, Big plays multiple touchdowns and
Speaker 1: against I think against the Detroit secondary that can be had.
Speaker 1: And like I said, a game that I picked the
Speaker 1: over over the total of forty three. I like Doug Baldwin,
Speaker 1: and I gotta tell you the truth there, Rocks. I
Speaker 1: know you have a love hate relationship with this dude,
Speaker 1: but there's only eight quarterbacks this weekend and at seventy
Speaker 1: seven hundred. I like Russell Wilson as well. That's a
Speaker 1: stack for you from SPEECI spentance that astician, Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: and Doug Baldwin. That is my speed stack. You know,
Speaker 1: the most expensive option is Aaron Rodgers going against that
Speaker 1: incredible UM Giants defense lately, Big Ben is your second
Speaker 1: most expensive option. I happen to pay up instead for
Speaker 1: Levy on Bell. I like Russell Wilson in this game
Speaker 1: as well. Like I said, a game that I think
Speaker 1: is going to go over Yeah, and just one thing,
Speaker 1: you know, all of those are very very reasonable takes.
Speaker 1: One thing I also say is I could not agree
Speaker 1: with you more about an Kwon Bolden his price and
Speaker 1: also a Quan Bolden is someone that you know the
Speaker 1: moment is not going to be too big for on
Speaker 1: a Detroit Lions team, were very very few people have
Speaker 1: playoff experience. Rocks and Speeds. When we give it to you,
Speaker 1: what we agree that is what you need to win
Speaker 1: your league and win that cash. Take it to the bank.
Speaker 1: He would take it to the bank. We go to Sunday.
Speaker 1: Rocks first game on Sunday is Miami coming up north
Speaker 1: in January to take on the Pittsburgh Steelers at home.
Speaker 1: This is his biggest line on the board. The Steelers
Speaker 1: are ten point home favorites. There's been a lot of
Speaker 1: double digit action so far. Um you know in this
Speaker 1: NFL season. I checked my lines with that with that
Speaker 1: app Sports Action. It's a great app. If you remember that,
Speaker 1: you get the lines, you can see what the public
Speaker 1: is saying, and they're saying it's a ten point spread
Speaker 1: for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Big Bend Lady on bell An
Speaker 1: Tonio Brown and Home a lot of fantasy and goodness
Speaker 1: there right Rocks. Yeah, man, Hannah, there were two things
Speaker 1: that I've been watching pretty carefully in missing game as
Speaker 1: I decide whether I'm going to pay up eighty five
Speaker 1: d upper Van Roethlisberger on the fan duel is, uh,
Speaker 1: how is Ladarius Green doing? He was in the dark room.
Speaker 1: He's practiced in full the last couple of days. It
Speaker 1: looks like he's trending towards starting, which is great news
Speaker 1: for him because he's really been the seam stretcher, the
Speaker 1: difference maker that we expected him to be going into
Speaker 1: the season before he was forced to miss it under
Speaker 1: closed reasons. We're still not sure that was an ankle
Speaker 1: or a concussion. I would say it's trending works looking
Speaker 1: like it was a concussion or both. Also, Sammy Coats
Speaker 1: is looking like he may be back in the lineup
Speaker 1: for this one. Hopefully those broken hands or whatever he
Speaker 1: had going on has been cured. Giving the offense another
Speaker 1: dimension and not forcing not forcing them to rely on
Speaker 1: the likes of people like Eli Rodgers and Darius Hayward
Speaker 1: bay across from Antonio Brown, big Ben is at home.
Speaker 1: We've talked about this all season long. He's been money
Speaker 1: in the bank at home. I don't really see Miami
Speaker 1: necessarily putting up a ton of points on Pittsburgh, but
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh defense has been susceptible Um, And I just
Speaker 1: think Big Fan is going to be a really great
Speaker 1: play if he has all of his weapons healthy. And
Speaker 1: I think that they are going to want to make
Speaker 1: sure that they're in the best position possible for the
Speaker 1: next game that they're playing, because I don't think they
Speaker 1: should have any trouble. What'stoever the Miami Dolphins team that's
Speaker 1: starting Matt Moore at quarterback for sure, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think Pittsburgh when is this
Speaker 1: one going away? Which is actually one reason why I
Speaker 1: would stay away from Ben Um. I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to park the bus a little bit in
Speaker 1: the second half and get late Jean Bell a ton
Speaker 1: of touches. I see something like twenty four to ten
Speaker 1: in the second half a Rocks. You want to make
Speaker 1: a gentleman's bet about Big Ben, it seems like you're
Speaker 1: high and Big Ben. I will say that Big Ben
Speaker 1: is not one of the top four quarterbacks in this week,
Speaker 1: not one of the top four scoring quarterbacks. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: realized I should have said three, but okay, I'll say
Speaker 1: I'll take it. I think Big Ben will finish as
Speaker 1: a QB four or above in this week of of
Speaker 1: Daily Fantasy. I also think that I agree what you're
Speaker 1: saying about possibly getting the foot off the taking the
Speaker 1: foot off the gas a bit, But I think that's
Speaker 1: a Miami secondary that's been exploited through the year, and
Speaker 1: they could do so much early in the game. Antonio Brown,
Speaker 1: big play threat. I could see it happening even just
Speaker 1: in the first half. So I'll take that. Gentleman's bet.
Speaker 1: Speeds and two thousand and seventeen were fading this Miami
Speaker 1: side nowhere. That's actually no Miami Dolphins in my fantasy line.
Speaker 1: I'm moving on to the last game of the weekend.
Speaker 1: We have the New York Football Giants going up to
Speaker 1: landbou Field, which is probably frozen by now and actually
Speaker 1: the site of you know, a rematch of games that
Speaker 1: you know, go back in Giants. Lord, you remember Tom
Speaker 1: Coughlin and the Rosy cheeks um. You remember, you know,
Speaker 1: Eli Man named twice having to go through Lambeau in
Speaker 1: a Giant Super Bowl runs. Do you think the Giants
Speaker 1: are a team that are looking like teams of yore
Speaker 1: that have made this kind of run. You think he
Speaker 1: like steps his game up in the playoffs like he
Speaker 1: actually has done before. How do you see this game
Speaker 1: going rocks? Well, you know, there's a big difference in
Speaker 1: temperature between Miami, where a lot of the Giants wide
Speaker 1: receivers have been this week, and in green Bay. And
Speaker 1: I found it pretty amusing the media coverage the the
Speaker 1: old man waving the finger, Get off my lawn, Get
Speaker 1: off my lawn. And I would not be shocked if
Speaker 1: Eli Manning and Odell Beckham came out there and absolutely
Speaker 1: shocked the green Bay Packers. Green Bay has been a
Speaker 1: team on the clear ascension. Aaron Rodgers said, to relax,
Speaker 1: the team relaxed. They ran the table and they've had
Speaker 1: a nice run of it. However, that's a team that
Speaker 1: to me has still looked a little bit vulnerable through
Speaker 1: the air. You know that Green Bay has been shutting
Speaker 1: down running games. One of the things we've talked about
Speaker 1: all season speeds is when the defensive strength goes with
Speaker 1: some of the offense isn't necessarily trying to do The
Speaker 1: Giants running game has basically been stuck in neutral or
Speaker 1: worse all year. You've seen Paul Perkins getting more snaps,
Speaker 1: so I think it's going to be a committee. He's
Speaker 1: a lot more effective on a big play basis, and
Speaker 1: Rashia Jennings has been through the air, and I would
Speaker 1: not be surprised to see Eli Manning go into Lambeau
Speaker 1: in the freezing cold, add to his hate to say it,
Speaker 1: but add to his Hall of Fame resume and pull
Speaker 1: off that upset. And if he does, old man Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham will be worth the eight nine hundred that Fan
Speaker 1: Dwell is charging for his services this week. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: oldl Becum at eight hundred, you know you pretty much
Speaker 1: gotta get him in those lineups of Green Bay Packers
Speaker 1: that even more banged up in the secondary in their
Speaker 1: season finale having safeties play slot corner, So you gotta
Speaker 1: think Odell is ripe to be able to take one
Speaker 1: of those seventh ten yards slants to the house. I like,
Speaker 1: also what you're talking about, fault Parkins. Faull Parkins only
Speaker 1: at looks like the more explosive back that the Giants
Speaker 1: have to end through the whole. One thing I will
Speaker 1: say on the Green Bay side of the thing. You
Speaker 1: know about all the weapons, right, but do you know
Speaker 1: who Aaron Rodgers himself credits their ability to, like you say,
Speaker 1: run the table. They actually say that the difference has
Speaker 1: been the return of the health of their tight end.
Speaker 1: Jared cooked. Jared Cooked at only fifty two hundred in
Speaker 1: a game where if you remember, one of the strengths
Speaker 1: of the Giants defense recently has been the fact that
Speaker 1: they have three good cover corners to maybe be able
Speaker 1: to handle these weapons like Adams or Nelson on the
Speaker 1: outside in a game where I'm guessing it's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be pretty cold, you might want to see what they
Speaker 1: could do over the middle. Despite all pro Langdon Collins
Speaker 1: being there at safety, the Giants have been notoriously bad
Speaker 1: her guns defending the tight end and Jared Cooking building
Speaker 1: chemistry with Aaron Rodgers. So that is an interesting play
Speaker 1: in that game. There you have it, Rocks. Those are
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Speaker 1: Rocks and Speeds back at it again. But we've been
Speaker 1: doing if you've been listening to the network, is you
Speaker 1: know we give you our diamonds in the rough, Well,
Speaker 1: give you our game flow geniuses, and then we hear
Speaker 1: at the fantasy freestyle. We give you our fantasy few
Speaker 1: days is get about the best, right. So what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do now that the season, we're not gonna give
Speaker 1: you one for just a week. We're gonna look take
Speaker 1: this opportunity to look back. We're gonna go position by
Speaker 1: position and give you not what's hot in the streets.
Speaker 1: We do that in baseball. We're gonna give you our
Speaker 1: season long edition. This episode we're focusing in on the
Speaker 1: running backs and rocks. Let's give him first of all
Speaker 1: your diamonds. Who are your running back diamonds? You know?
Speaker 1: And these are people that probably could have won you
Speaker 1: your league and one you that cash. Who are you
Speaker 1: running back diamonds for the NFL season two thousand and sixteen? Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: the first, the first one I've got is Melvin Gordon.
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon, this is a player who is coming off
Speaker 1: micro fracture surgery, who showed absolutely nothing in his rookie year,
Speaker 1: he did not even score a touchdown. Despite basically missing
Speaker 1: the last four games of the season, Melvin Gordon was
Speaker 1: the RB seven in PPR Leasus. He totaled three yards
Speaker 1: shy of a thousand on the ground with ten touchdowns
Speaker 1: forty one catches four twenty yards two more touchdowns through
Speaker 1: the air twelve is infinity times more than zero, and
Speaker 1: those touchdowns were a big difference that made Melvin Gordon
Speaker 1: a fantasy factor this year. In lineups he was better
Speaker 1: in every way, but obviously the big thing for him
Speaker 1: was Danny Woodhead going down, which allowed him to play
Speaker 1: a much bigger role and earned the trust of Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers and the Chargers coaching staff. He's got his career
Speaker 1: on the right track and he's almost definitely going to
Speaker 1: be drafted as an RB one in drafts in two
Speaker 1: thousand seventeen. My second diamond in the rough the running
Speaker 1: back position is someone at the complete other side of
Speaker 1: the spectrum. Old Man Frank or Frank Gore, was actually
Speaker 1: forty three years old when the season started. He rumbled
Speaker 1: and stumbled and bumbled his way to the twelfth overall
Speaker 1: finished among running backskin PPR League. We thought this was
Speaker 1: going to happen for two reasons, because the Cults were
Speaker 1: gonna be so much better on offense and also because
Speaker 1: Frank or had no competition for touches. Well, guess what.
Speaker 1: The Cults were not who we thought they were this year.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of problems. That line was pretty
Speaker 1: garbage all season, but Frank Gore, for however, showed he
Speaker 1: had a very very very high floor. The ceiling was
Speaker 1: not necessarily there, but what Frank Gore was able to
Speaker 1: do was add enough production in the passing game and
Speaker 1: scored four touchdowns receiving to make up for Robert Turbin
Speaker 1: coming in there and stealing those goal line carries from
Speaker 1: him late in the season. Frank Gore was a guy
Speaker 1: you were able to get at an RB two price,
Speaker 1: who is a solid fringe RB one for you all
Speaker 1: season who made sure that your team had that nice,
Speaker 1: solid floor. He was a guy both of us talked
Speaker 1: up as a value going into drafts this season, and
Speaker 1: that's why he was a diamond and the rough for me?
Speaker 1: Who do you got at the diamonds as far as
Speaker 1: the position and goals? For sure? Yo, You love Frank
Speaker 1: Gore for so long and he once again turns in
Speaker 1: a thousand yards. He's in one of only twelve backs
Speaker 1: in the NFL to do so, so likely to do
Speaker 1: it over there, I look at my diamonds. I look
Speaker 1: at guys that, you know, we had to look a
Speaker 1: little bit deeper, guys that were not necessarily drafted at all,
Speaker 1: and that would be the case in many leagues. For
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard Chicago Bears, this is a guy who you know,
Speaker 1: was not the starting running back at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season, was on waiver wires, and finished the league
Speaker 1: years second in the NFL and rushing thirteen hundred and
Speaker 1: thirteen yards. People were talking about Jeremy Langford before the season,
Speaker 1: So I think if you look deeper and you found
Speaker 1: the rookie out of Indiana, Jordan Howard, it did you
Speaker 1: very well. And then similarly, do you remember week one,
Speaker 1: this guy was not even um allowed to board the
Speaker 1: team plane, and now he went all the way up
Speaker 1: to twelve hundred and seventy two rushing yards fourth in
Speaker 1: the NFL. JI he definitely won you some weeks. He
Speaker 1: went not one, not too but three different two hundred
Speaker 1: yard games of them against the Buffalo Bills. That will
Speaker 1: get you your head coach fired My two diamonds of
Speaker 1: the rough J G. I. E And Jordan Howard at
Speaker 1: the running back position. I think those are candidates for
Speaker 1: the fantasy nut relative to where they were drafted. Hey, routes,
Speaker 1: we go to the game flow genius because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of running backs out there. You know, it all
Speaker 1: depends on what their team likes to do. We've talked
Speaker 1: about exotic smashed mouth, and we know the rise, especially
Speaker 1: in VPR leagues of third down back pass catching backs.
Speaker 1: A lot of them got earth this year, but still
Speaker 1: the weapons they can be in PPR leagues. What running
Speaker 1: backs you want to focus in a game flow kind
Speaker 1: of way for the last season, I laugh at PPR
Speaker 1: backs for this. My game flow genius is Legarrett One,
Speaker 1: who had all of seven catches for thirty eight yards
Speaker 1: and still finished as a ninth overall running back in
Speaker 1: PPR leagues. Eighteen touchdowns along with eleven hundred sixty yards
Speaker 1: on the ground will do that for you. Nobody really
Speaker 1: saw this coming, but he was completely consistent. Nine touchdowns
Speaker 1: in the first eight games, nine type downs over the
Speaker 1: last eight games. His two carries were second most in
Speaker 1: the league to Zeke Ellie and the most buy a
Speaker 1: New England back since two thousand four. He saw two
Speaker 1: hundred eighteen of those carries and saw twelve of those
Speaker 1: touchdowns while New England was ahead and scored eleven touchdowns
Speaker 1: in the second half. This was a guy speeds and
Speaker 1: I spotlighted all season long as a game flow genius
Speaker 1: when New England was more than a touchdown favorite at home,
Speaker 1: which happens kind of often when your team winds up
Speaker 1: fourteen into so La Garrett once for me was a
Speaker 1: game flow genius and just for just for laughs, he
Speaker 1: added in three runs of forty yards or more, which
Speaker 1: was tied for the most in the league. My second
Speaker 1: game flow genius I'm going a little bit of a
Speaker 1: different direction here is mark Ingram. Mark Ingram had a
Speaker 1: complete up and down year, but he wound up as
Speaker 1: the RB seven overall playing for the Saints number one offense. However,
Speaker 1: his role wasn't consistent. He split carries with Tim high
Speaker 1: Tower basically sixty forty, and he watched high Tower, John
Speaker 1: Coon and Drew Brees total ten rushing school words while
Speaker 1: he only had six. However, playing for the number one
Speaker 1: overall offense as its advantages and through the seven games
Speaker 1: the Saints one, he was completely spectacular. I'm talking a
Speaker 1: hundred yards of game average of one touchdown and two
Speaker 1: catches for a total of eighteen Fantasy points of games.
Speaker 1: That's more than five and a half more than he
Speaker 1: had in the Saints losses. While the Saints were a
Speaker 1: little bit tough to predict this season, if you were
Speaker 1: able to tell when they would win a game, you
Speaker 1: would be able to tell when the game flow would
Speaker 1: go mark Ingram's way. And he's going to be an
Speaker 1: interesting player to watch next season, particularly after his first
Speaker 1: thousand yards season in an offense with playmakers and it
Speaker 1: looks like Drew Brees is coming back. Who do you
Speaker 1: got on that game flow side of things? I'm telling
Speaker 1: you man, you know they they they did it all
Speaker 1: season long. Exotic smash mouths, you know, and at first
Speaker 1: it was almost a joke between us. Ross was walking
Speaker 1: this exotics, you're member a photo us. We gave the
Speaker 1: listeners on the fantasy freestyle we leave them over unders
Speaker 1: in uh, you know, early on in the year season long,
Speaker 1: early over unders, and we hit three out of the
Speaker 1: four the ones that we gave, you know, win that
Speaker 1: cash where you mail it off to Vegas. Another one
Speaker 1: that I strongly, strongly considered was the Tennessee Titans were
Speaker 1: five and a half win season total one, and I
Speaker 1: thought they were gonna go over. I really like Marcus
Speaker 1: Mariota to take a step. But they have an identity
Speaker 1: which is something that a lot of teams do not have.
Speaker 1: And you know some of the teams that are really
Speaker 1: doing great, they are also doing exotic smash mouth. You
Speaker 1: got the Oakland Raiders are really doing it behind that
Speaker 1: offensive line. The Dallas Cowboys, we've heard about their offensive line.
Speaker 1: The Tennessee Titans are doing the same thing. And I
Speaker 1: think it was a great game flow for DeMarco Murray.
Speaker 1: DeMarco Murray finished third in the NFL twelve hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty seven yards. I also want to tip my cap
Speaker 1: to him because he was battling turf toe for a
Speaker 1: good chunk in the middle of the season, and this
Speaker 1: is something that they wanted Derrick Henry to kind of
Speaker 1: assume more and more of responsibility as the season went along.
Speaker 1: But then Derrick Henry got hurt and DeMarco Murray continued
Speaker 1: to play that exotic smash mouth role all season long.
Speaker 1: So my number one game flow genius is to Marco
Speaker 1: Murray at the running back position. The only other one
Speaker 1: I'll give you is Philadelphia. He gives Darren Scrolls down.
Speaker 1: Scrolls is a guy who you think he's just that
Speaker 1: pass catching back, but he added to his repertoire in
Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen. This is a guy who carried
Speaker 1: the ball in between the tackle and in this game
Speaker 1: that is a war of attrition. We're running backs started
Speaker 1: getting lost left and right. There was still tiny Darren
Speaker 1: getting in all the tiny touchdowns, and so Sweez has
Speaker 1: been statistician. Has to tip my cap to Darren sproles
Speaker 1: as well as to Marco Murray his game flow geniuses blocks.
Speaker 1: I know you want to be all positive because it's
Speaker 1: a new year, if you want to be all happy,
Speaker 1: but we gotta give a full gaze. He's got to
Speaker 1: look back one more time at running backs that maybe
Speaker 1: if you looked a little bit deeper when you were
Speaker 1: doing your draft prep, you would have seen that this
Speaker 1: was not the season for Themszy looked as very notable
Speaker 1: gaz who was forget about it. The first guy I'm
Speaker 1: gonna start with is someone who tipped my cap to
Speaker 1: you Speeds, you did see Jamal Charles started the season
Speaker 1: with some injury concerns. He would supposedly full go and practice. However,
Speaker 1: he was not seeing the field early in the preseason,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people thought they'd be able to
Speaker 1: sneak him in at the price of a low, low
Speaker 1: ranked RB one, someone who had RB one high end
Speaker 1: upside still week winning upside. That was not the case,
Speaker 1: but Charles wasn't even activated until Week four, and he
Speaker 1: only saw fourteen touches over the three games he played
Speaker 1: this season. While in Jamal Charles fashion, he did turn
Speaker 1: them into thirteen fantasy points, that was not useful for you.
Speaker 1: He did not actually go on i R and have
Speaker 1: his surgery until after the seventh week of the season,
Speaker 1: meing that was dead weight on your roster. And while
Speaker 1: it's unfair to bland fantasy owners for unforeseen injuries, if
Speaker 1: you read the tea leaves as my man Speeds did correctly,
Speaker 1: you could see this one coming. And as the result
Speaker 1: of people who spent on Jamal Charles wound up shaking
Speaker 1: their heads and saying fool gaze as they watched Spencer
Speaker 1: where put a hold on that backfield? My second fool
Speaker 1: gaze is someone that I didn't see come in. I
Speaker 1: don't think you saw come in speeds. Lamar Miller. Lamar
Speaker 1: Miller was drafted in the first round and a lot
Speaker 1: of leagues, particularly in PPR League Speeds. I think both
Speaker 1: you and I had him as our RB three or
Speaker 1: four going into the season seven. He might be a
Speaker 1: he might be a dark horse for RB one. However,
Speaker 1: as you said, rock Oswiler, that entire Texans offense was
Speaker 1: a Joel but he also looked less explosive. He gained
Speaker 1: some weight, and even though he missed the first two
Speaker 1: games of the season, he only wound up as the
Speaker 1: RB nineteen. He was supposed to be a big play guy.
Speaker 1: He was supposed to be playing on an offense that
Speaker 1: would move the ball that was lacking. He was only
Speaker 1: an RB two because of that huge workload. He barely
Speaker 1: saw any carries in the red zone. He only scored
Speaker 1: five touchdowns on the ground. If you drafted Lamar Miller
Speaker 1: in the first or second round and you still won
Speaker 1: your league, hit me up on Twitter at Fantasy Freestyle,
Speaker 1: no eat, I want to hear about how you did that.
Speaker 1: Forget about just forget about him. I got two more
Speaker 1: running backs to forget about one. Sad to say, and
Speaker 1: Rocks and I sometimes we reference our home league. It's
Speaker 1: a dynasty's league, it's a keeper league. I was very
Speaker 1: excited that I was keeping this guy at value. I
Speaker 1: thought he was a replacement for deast Mode and that
Speaker 1: he was going to do work and provide the Seattle
Speaker 1: Seahawks with that rushing game that they had had. And
Speaker 1: he years passed in order to be a Super Bowl contender.
Speaker 1: But Thomas Rawls is my season long fool, Gazzy, forget
Speaker 1: about him. Listen. People are hyping him up. He was
Speaker 1: a top ten or fifteen running back at in draft
Speaker 1: boards going into the season. He gets right away again.
Speaker 1: They think it's supposed to be a three week injury.
Speaker 1: It turns out to be an eight or nine week injury.
Speaker 1: Then he finally comes back. It's all set up, Christine Michael,
Speaker 1: they ship him out. C J. Procise looked great but
Speaker 1: then got injured. So the backfield was going to be
Speaker 1: all roles. What does he do? Like you said earlier
Speaker 1: in the show, Rocks averaging like one school yard to
Speaker 1: carry for the Seattle Seahawks. That is not going to
Speaker 1: get getting done. Very disappointing year for Thomas lou Rawls
Speaker 1: in the deep voice forget about it, but the last
Speaker 1: Rue Rocks and I had to save this one for last,
Speaker 1: because this is quite frankly, the absolute worst fool gaysy
Speaker 1: of them all. I've been talking about this all year.
Speaker 1: I even coined new phrases about putting fifty three men
Speaker 1: in the box, largely because I said that's how I
Speaker 1: would play this guy. He's been a fool gays before me.
Speaker 1: Multiple weeks of the season. He was the number one
Speaker 1: overall draft pick for some of you out there, Rocks
Speaker 1: and Speech told you not to do it. Some of
Speaker 1: you did it anyway. But Todd Gurley fool gayzy Todd
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley five yards rushing this year. That is below
Speaker 1: Isaiah Crowell. Okay, that is below you know guys like
Speaker 1: Spencer Ware. But here's the worst part. Todd Gurley three
Speaker 1: point two yards to carry. He got the ball two
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy eight yards. There is not a running
Speaker 1: back in the top um. I gotta go all the
Speaker 1: way down to literally the running back in the NFL
Speaker 1: to find someone who had a worst yards per carry
Speaker 1: than Todd Gurley. I said it all year. That's a
Speaker 1: shot called by Speeds, the spitting statistician Todd Gurley, Fantasy
Speaker 1: fool gaysy forget about him, and you know the problem,
Speaker 1: it's not going to get that much different next year
Speaker 1: and early pick. I think David Johnson might join him
Speaker 1: in an offense that might look very similar next year.
Speaker 1: There you have it, your Rocks first episode of the
Speaker 1: new year. How you feel? I feel pretty good, man,
Speaker 1: and I just hope that our listeners enjoy, appreciate, and
Speaker 1: ununderstand that every second of playoff football is extremely important
Speaker 1: because we're gonna get into those dark days just the
Speaker 1: off season, but we'll be rocking with them through the
Speaker 1: rest of the playoffs, through the Super Bowl, and then
Speaker 1: we're gonna be giving them that Dion Sanders vo Jackson
Speaker 1: switching over to fantasy baseball because those boys of Summer
Speaker 1: are coming before you know it, aren't they. Speeds absolutely
Speaker 1: don't forget that. You can check for us on Twitter
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle leave off the last We're gonna have that
Speaker 1: DFS lineup going for wild card weekends. See if you
Speaker 1: can compete against Rocks and Speeds. We got money on
Speaker 1: the line. We'll be back next week Divisional weekend. We'll
Speaker 1: be holding you down. I'm giving you more insight to
Speaker 1: four best teams in football joined the party. Next week
Speaker 1: Rocks and Speech will have the party already bumping, dropping
Speaker 1: stats over beats on the fantasy freestyle. Think about it,
Speaker 1: the people rocks yo. Y'all have a great week, enjoy
Speaker 1: the games, stay safe and happy. New Year is Playoffs.
Speaker 1: Don't talk about playoffs. You're kidding me. Playoffs. I just
Speaker 1: thought we can win a game.