Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, Hey everybody, It's Thursday, February twentieth, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. We're wondering why
Speaker 1: isn't it called the NFL combined to me and your
Speaker 1: man named G. Marcus Grant, joined by Michael Florio and
Speaker 1: Laqwan Jones. LQ you were you were back in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: You were there in the STU What week or two ago?
Speaker 1: I mean it was not long ago, two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: right weeks ago? How much different is the city out
Speaker 1: of there? It was two weeks ago.
Speaker 2: It's a little bit colder actually, Like it was like
Speaker 2: thirty degrees this morning when I was walking to go
Speaker 2: get breakfast and the wind is like eighteen miles per hour.
Speaker 3: I'm like, Yo, where the heck am I at right now?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: Am I really down south?
Speaker 1: This is crazy? Now, Florida. You're going to New Orleans
Speaker 1: sometime in the near future. Correct?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a bachelor party that I'm actually the
Speaker 4: one throwing.
Speaker 1: I haven't planned it.
Speaker 4: Out per se just yet, but I'm the one planning it.
Speaker 4: So I have some I need some recommendations. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: have to talk to you guys, and apparently Steve Weisch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey Weisch, Yes, Yeah, that's done there. Steve is
Speaker 1: like kind of the unofficial mayor of New Orleans. If
Speaker 1: you need to know where to go eat, what to
Speaker 1: go do, Steve's probably got to talk to you. I
Speaker 1: would also suggest talking to Greg Rosenthal, who is an
Speaker 1: alum of Two Lane University from right there in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: So nice, go go talk to Rosie too. He may
Speaker 1: have some I'm sure, some recommendations, some suggestions for you.
Speaker 1: For this one, we are going to do kind of
Speaker 1: some more mock draft stuff, but this is more sort
Speaker 1: of NFL mock draft related. Daniel Jeremiah put out his
Speaker 1: mock draft two point zero. There are some interesting things
Speaker 1: in there. I think we want to dive into. Also,
Speaker 1: Maurice Jones Drew put together his rankings of the top
Speaker 1: seventy four running backs. I kind of looked at the
Speaker 1: top ten and we can kind of kick that around
Speaker 1: because we just did our own fantasy rankings justast week
Speaker 1: on the show. Coming up starting I think next week
Speaker 1: or every week after. I got to check my dates again,
Speaker 1: but we'll start getting into free agency stuff too, because
Speaker 1: the new league year begins in very short order. So
Speaker 1: we will very soon start previewing the free agents what
Speaker 1: we think they should do or what we would like
Speaker 1: to see them do to help our own selfish fantasy purposes.
Speaker 1: So we'll do that in just a little bit. But
Speaker 1: I want to start with one quick news headline. Eagles
Speaker 1: quarterback coach. That quarterback quarterback coach, Doug Messmeyer eyes heading
Speaker 1: down to New Orleans where you are right now, Lakwan,
Speaker 1: to join Kellen Moore. He will be the offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: that is neus Meyer, with More as the head coach.
Speaker 1: I know we talked a little bit about it last week,
Speaker 1: with More taking the head coaching job down there, Lakwan,
Speaker 1: you were very much on the I still don't think
Speaker 1: I'm in on Chris o'lave. Does this make you anymore
Speaker 1: in on Chris o'lave?
Speaker 3: Well, two things real quick.
Speaker 2: It's kind of funny being in the Saints faculty yesterday
Speaker 2: and seeing some of the coaching staff, and then I
Speaker 2: guess the sports science guy that's going to be operations
Speaker 2: over there got hired, and he's like sitting at the
Speaker 2: table across from I'm like, what the heck here?
Speaker 1: See that news?
Speaker 2: To actually see him, so nog To launches eating and
Speaker 2: then it's been now in the last few weeks, I've
Speaker 2: seen in Rand into Chris o' lobby. I haven't spoken
Speaker 2: to him, I haven't said anything to him, just seeing
Speaker 2: him and it's like, wow, that uh Sachel of what
Speaker 2: do we call it?
Speaker 1: Discontent? Discontent? Yeah, yeah, it's starting to unravel.
Speaker 2: So I am kind of getting more on board with
Speaker 2: Chris o' lobby this season, not because I'm seeing him
Speaker 2: in person. It's more so of just the moves that
Speaker 2: they're dealing with Kellen Moore, the QB coach, and hopefully
Speaker 2: they bring in a competent quarterback to where you know,
Speaker 2: they can get this offense more on a scoring, you know,
Speaker 2: opportunity situation because chrysal Lobby needs more touchdowns. That's always
Speaker 2: been my problem with chriso Lobby. It's like he doesn't
Speaker 2: have that quarterback that's going to be able to get
Speaker 2: him touchdown at the touchdown at the top down. We
Speaker 2: draft them as a wide receiver one, we don't get
Speaker 2: the wide receiver one return. We keep drafting them high
Speaker 2: and drafts every single summer, but we don't get that ADP,
Speaker 2: you know, for him to smash it. So I'm liking
Speaker 2: all the changes that they're doing right now. Everything seems
Speaker 2: to be on course.
Speaker 3: They just need.
Speaker 2: To make the button tight when they go get Jalen
Speaker 2: Moro in the second round.
Speaker 1: All right, So I mean Floria and the mock draft
Speaker 1: that we all did together a few days ago, Chrys
Speaker 1: o'lavey was the first pick in the fifth round. Is
Speaker 1: that okay with you? And is that gonna maybe start
Speaker 1: to move up a little bit with some of these changes?
Speaker 4: To me, this doesn't really move the needle all that much.
Speaker 4: I was excited for Kellen Moore because I think Kellen
Speaker 4: Moore is a good, smart, offensive minded coach. He and
Speaker 4: especially for fantasy, he likes to throw the ball down field.
Speaker 4: He likes to run an up tempo, paced offense, which
Speaker 4: usually needs more plays, which means more opportunities for yards
Speaker 4: and touchdowns.
Speaker 1: All of that.
Speaker 4: I do think Chrystal Lovey gets pulled especially. I think
Speaker 4: it depends on what they do a quarterback. If we
Speaker 4: come into next year and Derek Carr is the starting quarterback,
Speaker 4: I could see him going in that range still. If
Speaker 4: they make a more exciting move, Chris Alov is definitely
Speaker 4: getting pulled. Up because the fantasy community just absolutely loves him.
Speaker 4: But to me, this hire is just like it's someone
Speaker 4: that has rapport with Kellen Moore. They have chemistry, we
Speaker 4: know they obviously work well together. So to me, I
Speaker 4: don't have they stated which one is going to be
Speaker 4: actually calling the plays yet.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that has been announced yet. I
Speaker 1: think we're still waiting.
Speaker 4: I feel like either way though, it's gonna be Kellen
Speaker 4: Moore's fingerprints all over this offense. So I to me,
Speaker 4: this doesn't really change anything. Although his son the new OC,
Speaker 4: his son is the quarterback for LSU, so that that's
Speaker 4: a pretty cool story.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Garrett Nsmeyer, who you know? Okay, I mean
Speaker 1: I saw a little bit of him last year that
Speaker 1: he definitely need some development, a little more seasoning. But
Speaker 1: be the starting quarterback at LSU means you're not a
Speaker 1: total slouch. So very cue kind of how this this
Speaker 1: is going to work out?
Speaker 4: Louisi had to put all their eggs in this family's
Speaker 4: basket pretty much, because the whole state, the whole Bayou
Speaker 4: State's gone all in on the neus Meyers.
Speaker 1: So we'll see, we'll see how this turns out. We
Speaker 1: did do the mock draft recap on Tuesday show Lakwan
Speaker 1: you were in there on your way to the Crescent City.
Speaker 1: But we have questions. Yes, thankfully you landed safely, so
Speaker 1: congrats to you on that, but we do love questions
Speaker 1: about your mock draft because you did not get a
Speaker 1: chance to speak for yourself on this one. Mainly mainly
Speaker 1: three things that are all ram related. Because you have
Speaker 1: been the chief flag bearer of the Puka Nakua maybe
Speaker 1: even at one one, but certainly in the top three.
Speaker 1: You had a chance to get Puka at four you
Speaker 1: passed on him. Please explain.
Speaker 2: So I wanted to, honestly see because like I saw
Speaker 2: the room, I read the room very well, like we
Speaker 2: were in a room with you know, some of the
Speaker 2: people that were really sharp about how they were gonna draft.
Speaker 2: So I honestly just wanted to gauge how far Puka
Speaker 2: was gonna fall, and like he fell in the back
Speaker 2: and in that first round to where I'm like, hmm, interesting,
Speaker 2: if I do end up drawing a pick and I'm
Speaker 2: at that one oh six due to one twelve spot,
Speaker 2: I still have pookin nakool in my heart to be
Speaker 2: able to be on my team because honestly, I'm taking
Speaker 2: them at one on one. I'm gonna stamp that flag
Speaker 2: that I'm going to be very aggressive with that. And
Speaker 2: this is all based on with the cap salary being
Speaker 2: moved up a couple more million dollars, so that's a
Speaker 2: low wiggle room for Matthew Stafford to get restructure in state.
Speaker 2: Now obviously Mattew Stafford's not there, then okay, then I'm
Speaker 2: not taking Pooka at one on one. But overall I
Speaker 2: just wanted to see where he was going to end
Speaker 2: up in that in that first round.
Speaker 1: There is some Matthew Stafford rumblings going on. We'll dive
Speaker 1: into that in just a little bit. That angers me
Speaker 1: that true. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I think me and you are now the Puka guys
Speaker 4: on the pod Marks apparently really actually the pukah stands
Speaker 4: here and was cosplaying as a Pukah stand for a while.
Speaker 1: I don't know the other parts of this. You were
Speaker 1: very hesitant when it came to the subject of Kyron Williams.
Speaker 1: You have been very I don't know how to describe it,
Speaker 1: sort of I would say out on Cooper Cup, I
Speaker 1: think you're just willing to sort of, you know, move
Speaker 1: on from Cooper Cup. Yet you drafted both of those guys.
Speaker 1: You took Kyroen in the second round, you took Cooper
Speaker 1: Cup in the sixth round. Your your thought processes on that.
Speaker 2: Well, Kyron based on on the wrap round in that
Speaker 2: second round where I got him, I didn't really like
Speaker 2: my choices at running back, and I didn't want to
Speaker 2: reach on Joe Mixon, who I ended up getting anyway
Speaker 2: in that fourth round. So it was more so looking
Speaker 2: at it as like, man, I have my questions about
Speaker 2: James Cook, who was still you.
Speaker 3: Know, on the board there. It was like either between
Speaker 3: those two.
Speaker 2: But I just felt more comfortable with Kyron just being
Speaker 2: that I know he's going to get the workhorse load
Speaker 2: or we're gonna get more versatility in this offense next
Speaker 2: year out of Sean mcvay's mouth saying that, you know,
Speaker 2: he wants to change sing things up. And when Micha
Speaker 2: la Flora there shot at the OC he's coming from
Speaker 2: the Jets. We've seen breist Hall catch over like seventy
Speaker 2: eight to ninety balls like it was crazy. You know,
Speaker 2: the running backs were heavily involved in that passing game.
Speaker 2: And that's what I'm hoping for, you know, for Kien
Speaker 2: to get more involved in that passing because he can catch.
Speaker 2: My only issue with Kyraen is that keeps dropping the ball,
Speaker 2: So we limit his opportunities of carrying the rock and
Speaker 2: crucial moments. Maybe we give Blake Orum some run. Maybe
Speaker 2: we get him, you know, Marcus, you drafting him was
Speaker 2: kind of like a punch in the face to me
Speaker 2: because I was gonna wait late to drab him as
Speaker 2: a hand cut. But thankfully, these are monks. These are
Speaker 2: Monck drafts. Thankfully, But that was just my thinking there
Speaker 2: with Kyroen. Now Cooper, I think Cooper still has football
Speaker 2: left in him. I think he's gonna be playing with
Speaker 2: a chip on the shoulder in no matter where he goes.
Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, I want him to stay, but I
Speaker 2: understand that it's time to move on. Like the mantle
Speaker 2: has been give into Pookah, like it's just clear's day.
Speaker 2: Cooper Cup is not the same wide receiver he was
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: How about this, How about the Niners in rams just
Speaker 1: swap receivers. We get Debo, you get Debo. We'll take
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup. I don't think. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: really like that. I don't know if I want. I
Speaker 1: don't know if I want to have to deal with
Speaker 1: Deebo twice a year and McVeigh offense him might be interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, look to go from to go from Shanahan,
Speaker 1: To go from Shanahan to McVeigh, I think does the
Speaker 1: most to keep his value pretty stable.
Speaker 2: Right like in fantasy Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in fantasy last yeah, right, like, going from Shanahan
Speaker 1: to McVay feels like a pretty even swap in terms
Speaker 1: of play calling and that sort of thing. So I know,
Speaker 1: I literally just thought about it just now. That's all.
Speaker 4: Did you see the report that, uh, if the Rams
Speaker 4: do trade Matthew Stafford, they might start forty nine ers
Speaker 4: legend Jimmy Garoppolo. Like we're in the year where reports
Speaker 4: are coming out they trust Jimmy G to be their
Speaker 4: starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: No they don't, No, they don't. No, I don't. That's
Speaker 1: that's what you say when you're trying to maybe engineer
Speaker 1: a trade, like oh, yeah, no we don't. We don't
Speaker 1: need Matthew Stafford. We got Jimmy G. Like, no one,
Speaker 1: no one believes.
Speaker 4: You even Jimmy jig is that meme of the dude
Speaker 4: like holding the beer like me?
Speaker 1: Seriously, No, he really is. He's like really, Oh, he's
Speaker 1: like I was just hanging out here and enjoying Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: like what I do work now? Who knows? Well, since
Speaker 1: we're talking about it. That kind of gets me into
Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah's mock draft two point zero, which came out recently.
Speaker 1: You can find it, of course over at NFL dot Com.
Speaker 1: Went through some of the notable selections that that DJ
Speaker 1: has here. A number two is his first quarterback off
Speaker 1: the board. He's got cam Ward going to the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1: I mean Florya. I don't know if I remember. I
Speaker 1: think you you stated you're a cam Ward guy over
Speaker 1: Shudorg Sanders. Correct. Yeah, I like both of them.
Speaker 4: I think Sanders is a little bit more safer like
Speaker 4: to me when I watched him, he really reminded me
Speaker 4: a lot of like Alex Smith, like a guy who
Speaker 4: could run an offense who has good tools, not great tools.
Speaker 1: But cam Ward to me, has that, Like he's not.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say as polished, maybe like day one could
Speaker 4: start as good as Sanders can, but those tools are
Speaker 4: absolutely elite man like he there's nothing he can't do
Speaker 4: on a football field, and I I have become a
Speaker 4: believer in like you you want to take a shoot
Speaker 4: for the moon to kind of approach. You take the
Speaker 4: tools and you hope that you can coach because to me,
Speaker 4: his one big negative when I watch him play is
Speaker 4: that I think he trusts his arm a little too
Speaker 4: much and he tries to force throws too often.
Speaker 1: But if you're a good coach, you can coach that
Speaker 1: out of a player.
Speaker 3: You should be familiar with that.
Speaker 1: You can't be able to throw eighty yards, you know,
Speaker 1: so like give me cam Ward Yeah, quin as a pull.
Speaker 1: You as a Bills fan, should be used to that
Speaker 1: sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of hero ball, Like you should be
Speaker 2: wanting that, like it gives you the throw of watching
Speaker 2: him play. I mean, I love Kim Wardy. I got
Speaker 2: him over Shador just based on there's stuff that he
Speaker 2: does you can't coach.
Speaker 3: Like you can't teach like.
Speaker 2: His pocket awareness and his evasiveness out of that pocket
Speaker 2: and being so elusive. It's Patrick Mahomes like, like there's
Speaker 2: no way you can coach that for any quarterback, Like
Speaker 2: you cannot like is either you have it or you don't.
Speaker 4: He is so good in the pocket, like I call it,
Speaker 4: like he trolls people on the field, like you knows
Speaker 4: I have enough time to get to the sideline, but
Speaker 4: I'm going to do it as slow as possible to
Speaker 4: let you get close to me, but you can't touch me.
Speaker 4: Like he's actively out there messing with people. And I've
Speaker 4: never seen a player.
Speaker 1: Do that before. It's like he's like the kid on
Speaker 1: the playground that when you play tag who kind of
Speaker 1: stands near your base and then you know, just waits
Speaker 1: and like when you start to get close and he
Speaker 1: puts his hand down, right, I'm a base like that.
Speaker 1: That kid that's cam Mood going to the sideline where
Speaker 1: he's just kind of cruising and he sees the defender
Speaker 1: get closed and he's like, I'm gonna step out of bounce.
Speaker 1: That's kind of it there.
Speaker 3: Now we're voting that get.
Speaker 1: Out, well, I vote that kid in just because I
Speaker 1: think that that needs something for Jerry, Judy, David and
Speaker 1: Joku and the rest of the pass catchers there. I
Speaker 1: think this offense is transitioning. I don't expect Nick Chubb back.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna see this become more of a
Speaker 1: pass heavy offense as opposed to one that had been
Speaker 1: centered around a really strong running back, because I think
Speaker 1: that running back is done, at least in Cleveland in
Speaker 1: the near future.
Speaker 4: I have thoughts, man, I won if you're the Titans,
Speaker 4: why are you pet Like I'm not saying that Dukee
Speaker 4: Carter isn't the best player in this draft, like DJ
Speaker 4: knows way more than I do, but like, you need
Speaker 4: a quarterback and then two.
Speaker 1: For cam Ward's sake, don't put him on a team
Speaker 1: where he gets no.
Speaker 4: Benefit of being on a rookie contract because you're giving
Speaker 4: the most guaranteed money to a Please don't strap his
Speaker 4: future to Deshaun Watson's. I want no quarterback should want
Speaker 4: to end up in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: I think Deshaun Watson's future, at least in Cleveland has done.
Speaker 1: It may be a rap in the NFL after the setback,
Speaker 1: but that money's on the books. Oh well, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean ain't my money. But in the meantime, I think
Speaker 1: there's a roster spot that will be available in the
Speaker 1: very near future for sure. So the one that was
Speaker 1: really interesting to me Travis Hunter, who is right now
Speaker 1: listed as wide receiver slash quarterback. I assume he'll be
Speaker 1: you know, athlete atch at the combine, but DJ has
Speaker 1: him going number three to the New York Football Giants.
Speaker 1: And one of the responses to DJ's tweet, someone asked, so,
Speaker 1: what changed with your Giants pick in two weeks? They're
Speaker 1: desperate for a quarterback, but go hunter? Are they out
Speaker 1: on Shoudoure? And DJ's response was a gift of Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford waiving as if to say, I'm going to be
Speaker 1: the quarterback of the New York Giants. You said the
Speaker 1: que that it makes you upset this whole thing. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it gives you a little bit of indigestion. Are
Speaker 1: you prepared for one James Richard Garoppolo to be your
Speaker 1: starting quarterback? Absolutely not.
Speaker 2: No, I will leave Los Angeles Los Angeles if Jimmy
Speaker 2: Garoppolo is our starting quarterback in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: There's no way that this logically makes sense.
Speaker 2: Like I don't think that people understand that he gives
Speaker 2: us our best shot to even sniff a playoff, Like
Speaker 2: he gives us our best opportunity to get back to
Speaker 2: the Big Dance. We have the young defense, we have
Speaker 2: the alpha wide receiver.
Speaker 1: We have a.
Speaker 2: Decent position in the draft in the back, and in
Speaker 2: that draft at twenty six, I believe we can get
Speaker 2: some studs. We can get some wide receivers. Wide receivers
Speaker 2: are deep in these prospects. I think we have the
Speaker 2: right tools, the right pieces, the.
Speaker 1: Running game, the O line.
Speaker 2: We need to resign Keith Matthew Stafford, Appy in La
Speaker 2: the dude thirty seven, great, he could be four.
Speaker 1: He's still going to ball.
Speaker 4: I agree with everything LQ said from a Rams standpoint,
Speaker 4: Like I think it's best for the Rams and for
Speaker 4: Stafford to stay together. But like I have a lot
Speaker 4: of friends who are Giant fans and they're like, we
Speaker 4: need to make a move. We need to we can't
Speaker 4: be like we were last year and Stafford helps us win.
Speaker 4: And I'm like, but isn't that desperation on the GM
Speaker 4: and the head coach's part, and like you're not probably
Speaker 4: at best, what are you making the playoffs with matt Stafford?
Speaker 1: Probably even if that, because that roster.
Speaker 4: Needs a lot of work, Like I don't know, to me,
Speaker 4: he just grabs Sanders if he's there at three and
Speaker 4: see if you could build on your future, because my
Speaker 4: argument to the whole, like the the head coach and
Speaker 4: GM need to save their job is I if you
Speaker 4: draft Sanders and Sanders looks the part, you save your
Speaker 4: job naturally there.
Speaker 1: So I don't get this thinking for either side. I
Speaker 1: think what it is is maybe an admission that neither
Speaker 1: cam Ward north Schuder Sanders. Look, if they were in
Speaker 1: last year's draft, they might be. They might be QB
Speaker 1: five or six.
Speaker 4: I was gonna ask you guys, if you have if
Speaker 4: you've decided where they would rank amongst last year's Yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Mean I think I think they're outside the top five probably,
Speaker 1: you know, I think they are where they are this
Speaker 1: year because they are the best of this group. But
Speaker 1: I don't know that it's the strongest group. I'll say
Speaker 1: this to Florida. Look, I know you were a big
Speaker 1: Molak Neighbors guy for good reason. He goes tenth in
Speaker 1: our mock draft. If Matthew Stafford's there, does that put
Speaker 1: him in the top five.
Speaker 4: I joked with my Giant Fans friends yesterday that if
Speaker 4: you give him League Neighbors a Matthew Stafford, he's winning
Speaker 4: the triple crown. Like he's gonna get he was already
Speaker 4: getting double digit targets per game. Now one, they're gonna
Speaker 4: be much higher quality. Two, he's gonna have a quarterback
Speaker 4: who could actually still throw down fields. And three some
Speaker 4: of the greatest wide receiver seasons ever, two of the
Speaker 4: greatest ever Cooper Cup his triple Crown year and Calvin
Speaker 4: Johnson his record setting year. Would just Stafford being like,
Speaker 4: you're clearly my best option. I'm only going to you.
Speaker 4: So look, the Rams and Pooka would be losers. I
Speaker 4: don't I said, I don't get it from the Giants standpoint,
Speaker 4: but yeah, Melik Neighbors would absolutely shoot up and I
Speaker 4: would push him to. I don't know if he goes
Speaker 4: top five overall, because you probably have a couple of
Speaker 4: running backs potentially going in there, but I think he
Speaker 4: would be a top five wide receiver off the board.
Speaker 1: I mean, in no particular Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson, I'm
Speaker 1: on Ross, Saint Brown, Ceedee, Lamb, Malik Neighbors.
Speaker 4: Would you take Puka or Neighbors if Stafford hadn't it,
Speaker 4: because I'm taking neighbors in that situation.
Speaker 1: If Stafford's in New York, excuse me, I'm taking neighbors
Speaker 1: over Puka.
Speaker 3: Yes, because who like, oh my god, I'm getting trader.
Speaker 2: I almost punched my.
Speaker 1: Like, it does not make sense. Nothing makes us to
Speaker 1: trade Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 2: There's nothing that makes sense for this to even happen
Speaker 2: like it can can.
Speaker 1: I We'll say, I mean again, this is a This
Speaker 1: is according to Daniel Jeremiah speculation. Obviously, it's February. There's
Speaker 1: a long way to go. It's if an interesting discussion.
Speaker 1: Point a couple others in the draft that I thought
Speaker 1: were interesting. Shadrew Sanders at six to the Raiders. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know how I think is the best.
Speaker 1: I think he's the second best quarterback in this draft.
Speaker 1: I think the ceiling isn't necessarily high for him. My
Speaker 1: comparison for Shudur Sanders has been Geno Smith. Outside of
Speaker 1: the big Geno Smith year, It's fine, it's not great.
Speaker 1: That's so like, I don't know how much that gets me.
Speaker 1: Rock Powers is going to be fine. I guess Jacobe
Speaker 1: Meyers would be all right. But I don't know that
Speaker 1: it does anything for me. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: does anything for either of you.
Speaker 2: I do want to say something I made that same
Speaker 2: cop with Gino Smith to my friends and they were
Speaker 2: ripped me in the group chat for hours. So I'm
Speaker 2: glad they're going to listen to this episode that here
Speaker 2: come from your mouth mark, because they're huge fans of you,
Speaker 2: so whatever you say. So it's like, hey, guys, Marcus
Speaker 2: said it.
Speaker 1: Not me, I will, I will. I will double down
Speaker 1: on that because I made that comparison to our friend
Speaker 1: and wide receiver whisper Matt Harmon, and he also thought
Speaker 1: it was spot on. So there. I wrote two.
Speaker 4: Smith's when I was watching him play Gino and Alex
Speaker 4: like I, which both to me kind of feel like
Speaker 4: what Sanders is. I think like if you put the
Speaker 4: right offense around him, he could he could manage that
Speaker 4: thing and get you.
Speaker 1: To the playoffs and stuff.
Speaker 4: But if you put him on a team baron of
Speaker 4: weapons and stuff, I don't think he I don't think
Speaker 4: he can elevate you, like put the team on his
Speaker 4: back something like the top quarterbacks do. And that's why
Speaker 4: I think Ward has that capability if he can get
Speaker 4: to that point.
Speaker 1: So that's why I just prefer Ward. Yeah, no, I'm
Speaker 1: sort of with you on that one. DJ has Ashton
Speaker 1: Johns to the Steelers at number twenty one. If that happens, Laquon,
Speaker 1: is that rip Najee Harris and what does that? What
Speaker 1: does it mean for the backfield? Then?
Speaker 2: I mean they already reported they're unlikely to franchise tag them,
Speaker 2: So I don't know if they got in the best
Speaker 2: product at in Naji. Like there's plenty of games that
Speaker 2: you know, people in Steely Frans that can pull up
Speaker 2: with Naji look great, but as an overall like workers
Speaker 2: running back of what you're trying to get at him,
Speaker 2: he's not Ashon Genty, He's not that if you have
Speaker 2: If you have Ashton Genty, say goodbye to Jalen Warm,
Speaker 2: say goodbye to Najie Harris, you put the crown on him,
Speaker 2: and he is your Steelers running back. And that's definitely
Speaker 2: gonna pull him up even further in that early second round,
Speaker 2: Like he might end up being like a one to
Speaker 2: twelve pick if he goes somewhere where you have Arthur
Speaker 2: Smith still calling the shots to have the run game
Speaker 2: be as strong as we've seen it in the past,
Speaker 2: So it's like, yeah, that's gonna be major.
Speaker 3: If he goes to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 4: I went on Insiders yesterday and was like, Jalen Warren
Speaker 4: could be a huge winner of free agency. If naj
Speaker 4: Harris walks and this would this would be worse than
Speaker 4: I najee.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it would absolutely would tank Warren. It would also,
Speaker 1: I think, at least in the short term, sort of
Speaker 1: put a lid on Johnsy as well. They're not They're
Speaker 1: not going to not use Jalen Warren. You know, He's
Speaker 1: still gonna be a part of the offense. And I
Speaker 1: think we're hoping to see Johnsy somewhere where he can
Speaker 1: get a large rule. I mean, that's why everybody keeps
Speaker 1: thinking Dallas, right, because they move on from Rico Dawdle,
Speaker 1: they bring it Ashton Johnsy. There's a whole lot of
Speaker 1: opportunity there, Pittsburgh. Imagine there's opportunity, there's a chance, but
Speaker 1: kind of a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think Dallas takes a running back in
Speaker 2: the first round as they now to run.
Speaker 3: They can go Ali Gordon, He's another.
Speaker 2: Guy Oklahoma State or Oose or Oklahoma State.
Speaker 4: So it's like, but you're expecting Jerry to be logical,
Speaker 4: so the logical move is not today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the little quand for you guys listening to the audio,
Speaker 1: pot he's wearing a shirt that says nothing makes sense,
Speaker 1: and you know that's very true in Dallas especially. Yeah. Look,
Speaker 1: I think I think Jerry would like to take a
Speaker 1: running back in the first round, and I think everybody
Speaker 1: around him will tackle him and hold him down and
Speaker 1: keep him away from the phone to make that call. No,
Speaker 1: I think the last time something like that happened was
Speaker 1: when the Cowboys run the clock and Johnny manziel was
Speaker 1: still available. I will tell you I was in the
Speaker 1: newsroom and NFL media when that happened. I have never
Speaker 1: experienced ten more minutes of anticipation. I mean there was
Speaker 1: an electricity and and anticipation and excitement going through the
Speaker 1: newsroom because we all expected the Cowboys were going to
Speaker 1: draft Johnny manziel And I think what happened is they
Speaker 1: tied Jerry to a chair and prevented him from making
Speaker 1: the call drafting Manzielo. Yeah, you know, just just like
Speaker 1: we can't we can't do we can't do it. A
Speaker 1: couple others, I meta Abuka wide receiver from Ohio State
Speaker 1: number twenty five to the Houston Texans, which Paris him
Speaker 1: back up with his old college teammate CJ. Stroud. You know,
Speaker 1: the Texans have said they are interested in bringing back
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs, so we'll see what happens with Tank Dell. Obviously,
Speaker 1: that gruesome injury means he may not be ready for
Speaker 1: the start of the season, so the Texans could be
Speaker 1: loading up at at wide receiver a little bit. And
Speaker 1: then Florida want to ask you, Matthew Golden wide receiver
Speaker 1: from Texas. DJ's got him going number thirty to the Bills.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've had a chance to watch Golden,
Speaker 1: but at least your thoughts on adding more wide receiver help.
Speaker 4: I haven't dove into his tape as much as I want,
Speaker 4: but what I have seen I do like and I
Speaker 4: think he would be a good fit for the Bills.
Speaker 4: And I love adding one more weapon to this offense
Speaker 4: because I think you saw it times last year, like
Speaker 4: the spread the ball out thing works until like you
Speaker 4: kind of need someone to step up in a big
Speaker 4: moment and that's where you need someone who maybe and
Speaker 4: Golden could potentially.
Speaker 3: Be that guy.
Speaker 4: But look, as long as Miles Garrett is still on
Speaker 4: the market, I'm saying that is the best use of
Speaker 4: that thirtieth overall pick. Bring Miles Garrett to Buffalo Bider
Speaker 4: wide receiver free agency or the draft or something.
Speaker 1: But if it goes this way, I will be happy.
Speaker 1: So either way, MG. Matthew Golden, MG Miles Garrett, that's
Speaker 1: 's what you're looking at right there in the first
Speaker 1: round for sure. Definitely not MG. Marcus Grant because I
Speaker 1: I'm slow getting off the line, my agility is suffering,
Speaker 1: and my hands are questionable. But other than that, I'm great.
Speaker 4: I would pay money, though, to watch you play wide
Speaker 4: receiver for the Bills for a game.
Speaker 1: Oh, it wouldn't last. It wouldn't last long. I did
Speaker 1: get under like five and a half. I'd like to believe,
Speaker 1: not that slow. He would run four seven. You're running
Speaker 1: four seven today. You understand how fast four to seven
Speaker 1: is like in actual human terms. I've done it in jeans.
Speaker 2: Advance when I was nineteen years old at my high school.
Speaker 1: Nineteen fourteen, thirty fourteen. Here's ago. It's a whole NFL
Speaker 1: career ago. Okay, the Rams are still in Saint Louis
Speaker 1: at that Seriously, the Rams are still in a different
Speaker 1: city than all Right, speaking of speaking of running we're
Speaker 1: gonn take a break, come back talk about MJD's top
Speaker 1: seventy four running backs list. We're not gonna go through
Speaker 1: all seventy four. We'll probably stop at the top ten
Speaker 1: and decide how much we agree or disagree with what
Speaker 1: Maurice Joan Shrew has to say. That's coming up next
Speaker 1: on the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast over at NFL dot com.
Speaker 1: Our friend in colleigue, Maurice Jones Drew. You'll be surprised
Speaker 1: to know wrote a piece about running backs. He put
Speaker 1: together his top NFL running backs of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: from number one through number seventy four. So this is
Speaker 1: based on what they did last season. Kind of curious
Speaker 1: your thoughts on whether or not he got his rankings right.
Speaker 1: I think in fantasy it sort of tracks a little
Speaker 1: bit and whether or not maybe you shuffle some things
Speaker 1: around for twenty twenty five. So we go through his
Speaker 1: top ten. Number one, no surprise, Sakwon Barkley. Number two
Speaker 1: is Derrick Henry, Jamir Gibbs is at number three, Jon
Speaker 1: at four, Josh Jacobs at five, Jonathan Taylor at six,
Speaker 1: Kyron Williams at seven, James Cook at eight, Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: at nine, Aaron Jones at ten, Florio anything that jumps
Speaker 1: out his shoe that you think is a little bit
Speaker 1: sideways there.
Speaker 4: No, I think the top two makes sense after the
Speaker 4: year they just had, Like Saquon had the greatest year
Speaker 4: a running back had Derrick Henry had the best running
Speaker 4: back season in any regular year. I do think the
Speaker 4: three and four, though, in my humble opinion, are quickly
Speaker 4: going to become one and two in the league. But
Speaker 4: I do want to give a shout out to a
Speaker 4: friend of the show, Emery Hunt, because a couple of
Speaker 4: years ago when we had him on during draft season,
Speaker 4: Jamir Gibbs was his RB one and he was telling us.
Speaker 1: That he was in a lot of hot.
Speaker 4: Water for that and people were like, Oh, you're a
Speaker 4: hot take artist and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Two years late, everyone is like, yeah, he's at
Speaker 1: the top, clearly the blah blah. So shout out to
Speaker 1: Emery hump Man. Yeah, I mean he did. He hadn't
Speaker 1: over over b Jean. What's funny? And we have Imrie
Speaker 1: on every year. I'm sure we'll get him on a
Speaker 1: game this year before the draft. Is that he always
Speaker 1: has one or two guys rated either way higher or
Speaker 1: way lower than the consensus. And every year he gets
Speaker 1: the same criticism that he's a hot take artist. He's
Speaker 1: just doing it for clicks, and more often than not,
Speaker 1: what Emory has projected sort of pans out. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's premer Imrio was the first place I heard Tarik
Speaker 1: Cohen's name a few years ago. So at this point
Speaker 1: we got to stop thinking. If if you follow emriy,
Speaker 1: if you if you read his stuff, you got to
Speaker 1: stop thinking he's a hot take artist. He is watching
Speaker 1: all these guys.
Speaker 4: He had Lamar as his QB one in that stacked
Speaker 4: quarterback class.
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, he's watching it. He's doing the work. He's
Speaker 1: got definitely strong opinions, but he backs them up and
Speaker 1: more often than that this to pan out. So I
Speaker 1: jim your gibbs to that list. There.
Speaker 2: He's down here now watching the HBCU combine the Legacy
Speaker 2: Bowl and Jada Buyers. Oh my god, watch out for him.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: He is from the Union. He's a guy that is
Speaker 2: from Jersey. So you know, I got to put it
Speaker 2: on from my folks. But he's going to be a problem.
Speaker 3: He's definitely one of those.
Speaker 1: Guys I see has a strong opportunity.
Speaker 3: To be drafted this year.
Speaker 1: All right, Jada Buyers making a note of that pork
Speaker 1: roll guy. Yeah, see yeah, Taylor Ham pork Roll.
Speaker 3: You gotta ask him.
Speaker 2: I got to ask him today that Actually, thank you,
Speaker 2: Floria Flora be knowing me.
Speaker 1: Man, You're giving me all honest with that.
Speaker 4: I think that should be anytime you meet someone from
Speaker 4: Jersey like that should be your confidence first question.
Speaker 1: Also, will that answer move him up or down your
Speaker 1: draft board? Yes, it would.
Speaker 2: Actually you get demoted if Taylor Ham comes out of
Speaker 2: your mouth.
Speaker 1: So totally all right, all right, good luck, good luck Jada,
Speaker 1: Good luck Jada Buyers. Anything there you saw in MJD's
Speaker 1: top ten that maybe you would shuffle around hel Q.
Speaker 2: Yes, I would shuffle around Joe Mixon over I would
Speaker 2: say James Cook and Kiren And I think Joe Mixon
Speaker 2: gets a little bit disrespected because again, this is a
Speaker 2: running back that can get it done on the ground
Speaker 2: and also be a threat in the passing game because
Speaker 2: he can navigate well in the open space. He's hard
Speaker 2: to bring down.
Speaker 1: He still has the quick fee.
Speaker 2: I feel like we're always down on Joe Mixon and
Speaker 2: he always just surpasses our expectations.
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon, at least in fantasy before this year, was
Speaker 1: one of those guys where you really have to look
Speaker 1: at the week to week versus the overall, right, because
Speaker 1: you look at him overall and he always like lands
Speaker 1: as an RB one, and the numbers, the final totals
Speaker 1: seem good, and then you go back and you look
Speaker 1: at the week to week and you remember that the
Speaker 1: forty point weeks are great, these seven point weeks not
Speaker 1: so much, right, And it's that's not on him. That's
Speaker 1: not on him, that's not all on him. I remember
Speaker 1: that season two years ago.
Speaker 2: I know exact season because I had the biggest headache
Speaker 2: whim of starting him good. This week, I had him
Speaker 2: on the bench and he blew up put him in
Speaker 2: three points. I remember that season very vividly. But he
Speaker 2: fits very well with the Texan. It's like last season
Speaker 2: he got hurt, he got banged up, and still ended
Speaker 2: up to be more efficient than he ever was in
Speaker 2: the Bengals Jersey. So I really look at Joe Mixon
Speaker 2: as a guy we constantly just put down and then
Speaker 2: just put guys above him just because of their names,
Speaker 2: and obviously they're good at football as well too, But
Speaker 2: Joe Mixon is a guy that needs to be in
Speaker 2: that mix. I will only change him over Kiren and
Speaker 2: James Cook. Other than that, I agree with JT, with
Speaker 2: Josh Jacobs, Bijon, etcetera, etcetera. All the way up to
Speaker 2: the board, I.
Speaker 1: Saw a couple of names not in the top ten
Speaker 1: that jumped out of me. What's that? Who's that? Like?
Speaker 4: David Montgomery's twentieth, Dace Hall is twenty second, and then
Speaker 4: Kenneth Williams is thirty first.
Speaker 1: Brice Hall, I think is a tough evaluation because obviously
Speaker 1: the talent and the production didn't match this past year,
Speaker 1: and we talked about for our fantasy rankings. There's just
Speaker 1: so much unknown with the Jets right now that it's
Speaker 1: really hard to truly, I think, evaluate Breece Hall. I
Speaker 1: think it's hard to evaluate what his twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: season was. I think it's hard to project what twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five is going to be. For what it's worth,
Speaker 1: he went eleventh overall in our mock draft earlier this week,
Speaker 1: so obviously there's still people who believe in Breece Hall.
Speaker 1: I think on talent alone. Yeah, I put him and
Speaker 1: we put him behind Jonathan Taylor. I mean, if we're
Speaker 1: just talking just straight talent, straight ability. But I think
Speaker 1: within the context of the offense and what it is
Speaker 1: in New York, I think that makes it hard to
Speaker 1: try to figure out a little bit. Truly, I would
Speaker 1: probably move James Cook down a couple of spots. I'm
Speaker 1: certainly behind mixing, maybe behind. I don't think I could
Speaker 1: put him behind Aaron Jones. I don't think I can
Speaker 1: do that, but I think I would drop him maybe
Speaker 1: a spot that's minor.
Speaker 3: Isn't Aaron Jones a free agent?
Speaker 1: Hold on? Yeah, he is. He has said he wants
Speaker 1: to come back. I think the I think the Vikings
Speaker 1: want to bring him back, So I would expect that that.
Speaker 1: I would expect that that relationship is going to continue.
Speaker 1: You know. I thought he gave them everything they could
Speaker 1: have asked for this past year, So I would not
Speaker 1: be surprised if we see them agree to a deal
Speaker 1: and keep that thing going for another couple of years.
Speaker 1: So I think he certainly earned that for sure. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you want to go check it out, though,
Speaker 1: you can go check out on NFL dot Com. I'm
Speaker 1: Maurice Jones Drew's list of the top seventy four running
Speaker 1: backs of this past year. So yeah, we'll give it
Speaker 1: a look for sure. Take a break, come back, and
Speaker 1: we'll talk a little bit of SNL Saturday Line. I've
Speaker 1: had their fiftieth anniversary special and what that means for
Speaker 1: sports because usually there are a lot of athletes involved
Speaker 1: in this as well. Stick around for that coming up
Speaker 1: on the NFL Fantasy Football Show. So on Sunday night,
Speaker 1: there were two big televised events going head to head
Speaker 1: against each other. There was the NBA All Star Game
Speaker 1: games since they played a round robin tournament, and then
Speaker 1: there was the Saturday Night Live fiftieth Anniversary Special. Foio,
Speaker 1: I think you said you and I were sort of
Speaker 1: the same where we both watched SNL over the NBA
Speaker 1: All Star Game lakwan, which did you? Did you choose
Speaker 1: one over the other or was it none of the above?
Speaker 1: None of the above?
Speaker 2: I'm actually never I've never watched SNL to be honest.
Speaker 1: Really really yeah, you never seem like clips or anything of.
Speaker 2: I saw clips, but if I seen the clip, I
Speaker 2: wouldn't know that was the show, Like when I was
Speaker 2: watching Eddie Murphy, Eddie Murphy do Tracy Morgan, I did
Speaker 2: not know that was that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that was hilarious, by the way, it was
Speaker 1: hilarious whole I wish I but I was just like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is funny. Well, I mean, look, you have time,
Speaker 1: you gonna have a flight back. I'm sure it's I
Speaker 1: know it's streaming. You can go back and watch it
Speaker 1: and you know, get your laugh on a little bit
Speaker 1: because I want to.
Speaker 2: When I seen the Rundown doc, I did go.
Speaker 1: Through some of the stuff that was in there.
Speaker 2: Like I seen Michael Jordan, he was kind of like, okay, funny,
Speaker 2: you know, but that was ninety one. I was in board.
Speaker 1: Well, I see, that's the things like because look SNL
Speaker 1: has a long history of having athletes as hosts as guests,
Speaker 1: two varying degrees of success, right, Like Michael Jordan not
Speaker 1: a great actor, I think, you know, like some of
Speaker 1: the funnier Michael Jordan's skits were because the people around
Speaker 1: him were very funny. You know. Peyton Manning has a
Speaker 1: couple of really classic skits, including him, uh the United
Speaker 1: Ways skit where he's mentoring kids and it's basically just
Speaker 1: pegging kids with a football and stuffing them in porta potties.
Speaker 1: Comedy gold Florio, any favorite athlete moments of SNL, so
Speaker 1: I can sit here for a while to go through
Speaker 1: a bunch of them.
Speaker 4: I think Peyton Manning is the funniest athlete that I've
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of more recent ones because I
Speaker 4: don't feel like they've had a ton of athletes as
Speaker 4: a lete.
Speaker 1: Now there's a lot more comedians, mostly in actors.
Speaker 4: SNL is always at its best. I think when you
Speaker 4: have a comedian, like when Dave Chappelle is the guest host,
Speaker 4: Sir John Mulaney, like, I will be like, I don't
Speaker 4: care what I'm doing tonight, I'm watching their monologue because
Speaker 4: I know it's going to be amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Sometimes I feel like when you get people who aren't
Speaker 4: in that realm, it can be a struggle at times.
Speaker 4: What I did love they did on the SNL fifty
Speaker 4: was when they went back and they had like all
Speaker 4: of their controversial hosts and there's one big athlete who
Speaker 4: is very controversial.
Speaker 1: One big athlete, Yes, just didn't run from it. I
Speaker 1: like that. James Simpson was, Yeah, he appeared on SNL
Speaker 1: at least once, maybe more than once. Well, so you
Speaker 1: have to understand because Lukwan, you I don't know were
Speaker 1: you were you around in nineteen ninety four ninety five
Speaker 1: for like the age Q, you definitely grew up knowing
Speaker 1: oj As what he is now known for, like letting
Speaker 1: to learn he was a Bills player to way later
Speaker 1: in my life.
Speaker 2: I didn't know he'd I did not know he played football, right,
Speaker 2: not know he played football.
Speaker 3: Ran for like two thousand yards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is definitely a line of demarcation in American
Speaker 1: culture about what you know oj For people born after
Speaker 1: a certain time only know him as the guy who's
Speaker 1: accused of murder and went through a trial. I am now.
Speaker 1: I didn't see him play. I was born after his
Speaker 1: playing career ended, But I knew he was a football player.
Speaker 1: I knew he played for the forty nine ers at
Speaker 1: the end of his career because he grew up in
Speaker 1: San Francisco. It was a homecoming. But I knew oj
Speaker 1: As like being a sideline reporter, being a sports commentator,
Speaker 1: and also for him being an actor.
Speaker 3: And for oj to.
Speaker 1: Have been accused of murder at that point, I think
Speaker 1: I don't know I was on this show or somebody
Speaker 1: was talking to We were trying to equate it to
Speaker 1: like somebody today, And the closest we care abouth was
Speaker 1: was if the Rock said they had been no literally,
Speaker 1: like if the Rock, if the Rock was accused, if
Speaker 1: Dwayne Johnson was accused of murder, right, like a guy
Speaker 1: who had an athletic career who has gone on to
Speaker 1: become a huge star in TV and movies, like that
Speaker 1: was sort of the That was kind of OJ, Like
Speaker 1: he had that sort of presence about him in a
Speaker 1: American pop culture.
Speaker 4: He was a USC legend too, write and you're a
Speaker 4: USC guy, so like.
Speaker 1: Yep, wow, So yeah it was. I mean it was
Speaker 1: a huge, huge deal. But yeah, like when he hosted SNL,
Speaker 1: like it made sense. Like OJ was a star and
Speaker 1: he had a great personality and a great smile, Like
Speaker 1: all of it made sense back then, and like now
Speaker 1: you look back on and you're like, yeah, but like
Speaker 1: that it you know it fit if are you at
Speaker 1: USC when it happened, Marcus? I know, So when when
Speaker 1: the murders happened, I was a senior in high school.
Speaker 1: I was still in the Bay Area, and in fact,
Speaker 1: I remember, uh, like the day of the news broke,
Speaker 1: going to like my second period math class or something,
Speaker 1: and this kid who I kind of thought was annoying
Speaker 1: I didn't really enjoy talking to, he came up to
Speaker 1: me and he said, so, do you think OJ did it?
Speaker 1: And I was like, what are you talking about? He said,
Speaker 1: do you think OJ murdered his wife? And my response was,
Speaker 1: that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Get away from me.
Speaker 1: The legend like that. I like, I didn't I think
Speaker 1: I don't even think I had really committed to going
Speaker 1: to USC. It was just like it was like OJ Simpson, like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean accused of murdering? It? Just it
Speaker 1: did not compute like at all.
Speaker 4: It must have been hard on campus because like I'm
Speaker 4: sure they had a lot.
Speaker 1: Of stuff dedicated to you. Yeah, it was interesting because
Speaker 1: at the time, like you could still go to what
Speaker 1: they call Heritage Hall, which is where all the u
Speaker 1: you know, where the athletic department is located, and all,
Speaker 1: like his Heisman trophy was still there. It wasn't like
Speaker 1: we had people just roaming campus looking for OJ stuff.
Speaker 1: Like the campus itself was still pretty insulated from the
Speaker 1: outside world, like maybe like Good Morning America or the
Speaker 1: Today Show and at the height of the trial might
Speaker 1: have shown up on campus, but it wasn't like it
Speaker 1: wasn't like it was OJ Central during the trial at all.
Speaker 1: So I was like, the trial happened during my freshman
Speaker 1: and sophomore years. It took place over a good year
Speaker 1: and a half, so it went through the firstuple of
Speaker 1: years of my college career there. But yeah, oj OJ
Speaker 1: was on SNL once upon a time, I'll say. Some
Speaker 1: of the other great athlete skits, Yeah, Charles Barkley did
Speaker 1: a couple of good wines. Tom Brady did one, and
Speaker 1: you know the meme where the handsome guy says something
Speaker 1: to a woman and she's like hey, and she's all like,
Speaker 1: you know whatever, and then the overweight, kind of nerdy,
Speaker 1: pimply guy says something and it's like hello, HR. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady basically did a skit like that where he was
Speaker 1: obviously the handsome guy, you know, and so when he
Speaker 1: went and approached his female co workers about going out,
Speaker 1: it was not sexual harassment. But when Fred Armison asked
Speaker 1: for something, immediately HR was called on him. So that
Speaker 1: was good. Joe Montana had a very good win where
Speaker 1: he was a roommate who said immediately everything that was
Speaker 1: on his mind. The kicker to the skit was a
Speaker 1: line that I cannot say here. I'll tell you guys
Speaker 1: once the show's over. I like this. It's hilarious. So
Speaker 1: but yeah, I thought overall was really well done. Special LaQuan.
Speaker 1: I know you've never watched the show. I would say
Speaker 1: that it's a good way on your fly back. Maybe
Speaker 1: if you can download it and watch it on the flight.
Speaker 2: You know what will get me to start watching the show.
Speaker 2: But James Winston on there, Get on there, and.
Speaker 1: I will be locked in for this James. I think
Speaker 1: it would be fun. Like I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: a big enough name outside of football, Yeah, to make
Speaker 1: it worth one in the shot, give him the opportunity
Speaker 1: he is, you know for TV the clip.
Speaker 4: That Marcus sent us of Will Ferrell playing the piano
Speaker 4: and singing out like us that that's from CNL.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh that is beautiful. There it is beautiful. Yep.
Speaker 1: So there we go. That's a that's our new goal
Speaker 1: is to get to get Lakwan to watch at least
Speaker 1: some you know, to watch a whole episode, but at
Speaker 1: least you know, watch some SNL. It's good for your soul.
Speaker 1: I kind of want to watch the old ones.
Speaker 2: If I could watch like the old ones from Like
Speaker 2: the Peacock, I'm pretty sure you can.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Peacock has I can dig through fifty seasons. It
Speaker 1: shouldn't take you too long to get caught up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there is. We'll send you some clips so you can
Speaker 1: dive in and uh and and check out a few
Speaker 1: of them. So all right, we have gone way way
Speaker 1: off topic here to end this show, so maybe we
Speaker 1: should just pull this. I was I was, I was
Speaker 1: involved to so I can't blame anybody but myself. So
Speaker 1: there you go. I'll do it for this edition of
Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. Stay happy, same and healthy,
Speaker 1: do good and live well. Eat something delicious, la Quan,
Speaker 1: be safe and enjoy New Orleans. For the rest of you,
Speaker 1: we would talk to you all next week.