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Speaker 1: live TV show. We have the WISKT from Wisconsin. Alex Gilhard,

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Speaker 1: of the glasses. Yeah, it's it's an interesting change of

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Speaker 1: NFC North by the Way Special thanks to Dylan Milner

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Speaker 1: breaking news. All right, we talked about it last week,

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Speaker 1: welcome again Alex Gilhard, James co, Adam Rank, and Marcus Grant.

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Speaker 1: which is, of course the NFC North. Will start with

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Speaker 1: the Packers. They led to the division at ten and six.

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Speaker 1: great going between the tackles and then not giving the

428
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Speaker 1: ball to zac cent or enough, not giving hey when

429
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Speaker 1: they when they fed him the ball down the stretch,

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Speaker 1: he performed. Well, that's all right, All well, stop trying.

431
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's an back I'm just saying like

432
00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:27,720
Speaker 1: they had an option there and they weren't using Hi

433
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Speaker 1: as much they could. Alright, let's stay with you, wiz,

434
00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:31,520
Speaker 1: and let's stay in that backfield. A mirab Dula played

435
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Speaker 1: just two games last year. Theoretick played in just ten games,

436
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Speaker 1: three fifty seven rush yards, three seventy one through the air.

437
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Speaker 1: So obviously a great dual threat and Theoretic, as we know,

438
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Speaker 1: break down the backfield for me in Detroit. This is

439
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Speaker 1: a tough one to peg because obviously a big fan

440
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Speaker 1: of Abdullah and would love to see him he's not

441
00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:51,600
Speaker 1: gonna get the like a featured back workload because theoretic

442
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Speaker 1: is there and it's gonna steal some of the passing

443
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Speaker 1: game work. So you kind of fall into this area

444
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Speaker 1: where I was actually talking about this with the Great

445
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Speaker 1: rich Rebar on Twitter yesterday about how he was saying

446
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Speaker 1: how it's on a baffling right now that a mere

447
00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,640
Speaker 1: Dula's ADP is around RB twenty, Tevin Coleman's is there,

448
00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,760
Speaker 1: and um, I forget who the other one was, balal Powell.

449
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Speaker 1: Maybe because you can get backs that could have a

450
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Speaker 1: similar slice of their offensive pie, like balal Powell or

451
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Speaker 1: like Kenneth Dixon or Paul Perkins. Rounds later and I

452
00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:19,760
Speaker 1: can see that. I think. I think the reason people

453
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Speaker 1: might be comfortable chasing I do a little higher is

454
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,040
Speaker 1: because his talent is so tantalizing. But sometimes we have

455
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Speaker 1: to uh distance ourselves from just pure talent evaluation and fantasy.

456
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,280
Speaker 1: It's certainly a factor, but so is opportunity. And I

457
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Speaker 1: think he'll be a good value if you can get

458
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Speaker 1: him in the right round. But I what is the

459
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Speaker 1: right round? I don't know, five, six, maybe you know seven.

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Speaker 1: Even if you can slide him back that far, I'd

461
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Speaker 1: feel comfortable with him in seven. Yeah, this is a

462
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Speaker 1: it's a good it's a good offense. It's a good offense.

463
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Speaker 1: There's going to be scoring opportunities. You know, Um, he

464
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Speaker 1: should be fully healthy. They wanted to treat him like

465
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Speaker 1: more of a prominent have give him a prominent role

466
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Speaker 1: in the offense last year. Didn't come to fruition when

467
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Speaker 1: he felt when he got injured, So that the potential

468
00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:01,080
Speaker 1: is certainly there, but it could also be frustrating split

469
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Speaker 1: backfield with theoretic getting so many catches, although rumor as

470
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:06,600
Speaker 1: he could move more into just almost like a slot

471
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Speaker 1: receiver this year. So with Ann Kwan Bolding gone, especially,

472
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Speaker 1: Matt Stafford was a top ten quarterback last year for

473
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Speaker 1: yards approximately twenty four touchdowns, ten interceptions. Marcus, your thoughts

474
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Speaker 1: on Matt Maddie Stafford going. I think he remains to

475
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Speaker 1: be kind of a lower tier QB one this year.

476
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Speaker 1: Man match up based guy. Yeah, kind of mats basically,

477
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Speaker 1: But I mean I think that the way the offense

478
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Speaker 1: shakes out, and you know, Alex alluded to it, the

479
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Speaker 1: way they went to kind of a shorter passing game,

480
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Speaker 1: more accurate, high percentage throws that benefited Stafford. I mean

481
00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:38,960
Speaker 1: he looked good doing that. And and you know, it's

482
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Speaker 1: not the same offense we saw a couple of years ago,

483
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Speaker 1: where you know, Stafford's gonna throw the ball, you know,

484
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Speaker 1: six hundred, seven hundred times a year and you'll get

485
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Speaker 1: a clothe and and get around five thousand yards. But

486
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Speaker 1: because he's going to be more efficient, the interceptions I

487
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:53,639
Speaker 1: think will come down. The touchdowns will still be you know,

488
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Speaker 1: they may not be spectacular, but it'll be nice. Uh.

489
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Speaker 1: And like I said, he's gonna be that guy. He

490
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Speaker 1: is that guy that Tony Romo was for so many

491
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Speaker 1: years in the sense that you can wait until you

492
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Speaker 1: know round nine, ten eleven, he's gonna be there. He's

493
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Speaker 1: gonna give you solid, maybe not great, but solid week

494
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Speaker 1: to week production. At the end of the year, said

495
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Speaker 1: he'll he'll end up with somewhere around the QB eight

496
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Speaker 1: nine or ten say something. Stafford, Um, he's one of

497
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Speaker 1: my favorite quarterbacks. Really, I love him. I I thought

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Speaker 1: during his rookie season, is it because he goes with

499
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:27,920
Speaker 1: the backward flat bram is that one I don't learn mine? Backward? Uh?

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Speaker 1: He's the best. He's one of the best miked up quarterbacks.

501
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,240
Speaker 1: He's always good. But he had that miked up situation

502
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 1: against the Browns where his shoulder was falling off and

503
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Speaker 1: he's like, no, I could throw it and he went

504
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 1: in and almost died in whatever. Um So I really

505
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Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan football wise of Matt Stafford, but

506
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:49,359
Speaker 1: he sucks as a fan of absolutely sucks up. He

507
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 1: had five He had five touchdown passes the last five

508
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Speaker 1: weeks of the season, and that came in three games.

509
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Speaker 1: You know he had. He had one big game against

510
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Speaker 1: the Rams. He had four sounds against the Rams. The

511
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Speaker 1: week before he had three against the Eagles. He had

512
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Speaker 1: another three touchdown game against the Packers. He had a

513
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Speaker 1: three touchdown game against the Colts, which means there's too

514
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Speaker 1: much variance. It's way up in with that guy. He

515
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,199
Speaker 1: will murder your fantasy team because of that. And it's like,

516
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Speaker 1: it's not because he's a bad quarterback. And I know

517
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Speaker 1: at the end of the season when you look at it,

518
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Speaker 1: you're like, hey, he was the number season long. He

519
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Speaker 1: was number ten, and I listen, I enjoy him. I'm

520
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Speaker 1: not knocking him as a quarterback, but as a fantasy option,

521
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Speaker 1: I can never draft me he reminds me. And I

522
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Speaker 1: was gonna say, it's two and Marcus that you can

523
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Speaker 1: get him there. I was like, I don't feel good

524
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Speaker 1: about having him. There's a lot of guys in that

525
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 1: area that I'd rather take if I waited on a quarterback,

526
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Speaker 1: because like he said, he's a goo quarterback. Reminds me

527
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Speaker 1: even Mark Brunell, like back in the day with the Jaguars,

528
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Speaker 1: like great quarterback, but at the end of the year,

529
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Speaker 1: at the end of the year, he'd be around like

530
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Speaker 1: QB twelve or fourteen and fantasy and you look and

531
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Speaker 1: you'd be like you had thirty yards and like twenty

532
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Speaker 1: four touchdowns and like two games with twenty plus points.

533
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Speaker 1: Like I'd honestly probably rather stream the position and play

534
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Speaker 1: the matchups then then ride try and ride Matt Stafford

535
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 1: every single week where I'd take him for high scoring

536
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Speaker 1: games and then stream other weeks. I didn't get to

537
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Speaker 1: Week fifteen because of him, But bitter against the Giants,

538
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Speaker 1: two hundred seventy three yards, no touchdowns, an interception, all right,

539
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Speaker 1: So there you go, so much fun, so happy the

540
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Speaker 1: Vikings and even eight and mate. Last year, Dalvin Cook

541
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Speaker 1: was drafted by the Vikings it was an end of

542
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Speaker 1: an era. Really, Adrian Peterson uh now off that team

543
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Speaker 1: and it's Latavius Murray who they signed in the off

544
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Speaker 1: season then drafted Dalvin Cook. Sorry, Buchet, look, Latavius Lottavias

545
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,160
Speaker 1: ran for seven eight rushing yards, had two sixty four

546
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Speaker 1: through the air, twelve touchdowns. Twelve touchdowns for Latavius Murray

547
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Speaker 1: behind that massive offensive line in Oakland four point oh

548
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 1: yards per carry. The the offensive line in Minnesota, I

549
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Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, they're grade. Last year was obviously

550
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 1: not great, but a lot of injuries befell that offensive line.

551
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Speaker 1: What do we make of the backfield there? Adam ranked

552
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Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook, Latavius Murray. Dalvin Cook is gonna be your

553
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 1: number one guy, and uh he's gonna be a stud

554
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 1: I'm I I'm amazed that so many people are are

555
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,159
Speaker 1: not regarding him. Were highly I think that because the

556
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: offensive line will be a little bit better, and I

557
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 1: know he had some off the field issues. You know,

558
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 1: he got beat up during the combine too. In terms

559
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Speaker 1: of his metrics and all those things. I don't care

560
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Speaker 1: about any of that because when you look at his

561
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:35,159
Speaker 1: metrics in pads and it's not sports science. But it's

562
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Speaker 1: one of those not spark, but one of those other

563
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: ones where like when you measure him doing football moves

564
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 1: and pads, he's off the charts. He's he's as fast

565
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 1: as John Ross in pads as he is. So yeah, sorry.

566
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Speaker 1: So if I was drafting a team based on how

567
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,880
Speaker 1: well you'll do in a Superstars competition where you're running

568
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Speaker 1: around an under armour and that, like you know what,

569
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Speaker 1: I might not want him not drafting there. That's a

570
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,199
Speaker 1: straight up football player. It reminds me so much of

571
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,160
Speaker 1: Randy Moss, Like nobody wanted Randy Moss, like, oh, he's

572
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: got off field concerns whatever, and then he came out

573
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 1: and he destroyed everybody, including the Cowboys UM in that

574
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: first uh that first season. So I think that I

575
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: think Dalvin cook Man he should be outside of Christian McCaffrey,

576
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Speaker 1: he might be the number one rookie running back that

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Speaker 1: I'm going out interesting. Okay, there you go, ahead of

578
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: Leonard four Nett from Adam Rank there. All right, we

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Speaker 1: welcome in Daniel Stevenson and our very own Katherine Chance

580
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Speaker 1: Smith on Facebook Live. She's like a zar of social media.

581
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Speaker 1: You should watch out. I want to be a czar

582
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Speaker 1: of something that's such a cool title. You're the tsar

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Speaker 1: of mark Ingram hayter Ry. I hate the NFC South, Yes,

584
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Do you mean on pace? What a what

585
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,439
Speaker 1: a jerk to ruin that joke to actually get to

586
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: a thousand yards? He did, He broke the curse. He's

587
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: no longer on but but he passed down the on

588
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: pace moniker to Carlos Hide. Carlos Hide is then paced

589
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 1: the NUAN pace. All right, we'll go there. Stefon Diggs.

590
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: Adam feeling the wide receivers there from Minnesota kind a

591
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: touchdown them already, Yeah, a little bit. So I'll just

592
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: give you the stats and will move on. But Stefon

593
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,560
Speaker 1: Diggs nine hundred and three yards, three touchdowns, he was

594
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Speaker 1: your wide receiver forty three. So overall, a pretty disappointing

595
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Speaker 1: season for Stefon Diggs, also considering the brilliance that he

596
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 1: flashed against Green Bay. He suffered a groin injury in

597
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: Week four, which is the thing to remember, and he

598
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: said this soft season, and he was never the same

599
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: after that. And I think you can kind of tell

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00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: and even perhaps like they switched coordinators when norv Turner

601
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: resigned I think after Week eight and Diggs went from

602
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: doing a lot more downfield to having a lot more

603
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: shorter routes. But that also could have been because of

604
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: his injury and like not being able to get up

605
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: to full speed as much down there to win those

606
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: routes deep. Something something to think about, but fully healthy.

607
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 1: I mean thirteen games last year, he was just shy

608
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Speaker 1: of a thousand yards and just had kind of bad touchdown.

609
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Speaker 1: You know, he's a positive he's a positive regression chance.

610
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Speaker 1: So if he you know, if he crosses a century

611
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: mark and hits six or seven touchdowns instead, he's gonna

612
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: be a tremendous value in there. And I just want

613
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 1: to throw out this kind of hot take. It could

614
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Speaker 1: have saved it to the end for a Storylands for

615
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Speaker 1: forgetting Sam Bradford stream was streaming Quarterback Week Place just

616
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Speaker 1: place the Saints. There's some tough matchups with other quarterbacks

617
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: playing the Saints there in Minnesota, so he's at home.

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Speaker 1: Should be a positive game script to score a much

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Speaker 1: touch on Mattre. Sam Bradford could push for top twelve quarterbacks,

620
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 1: go get it. And the Oways has that reputation for

621
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Speaker 1: being a quarterback who's heard all the time. He started

622
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Speaker 1: twenty nine games over the last two years. Okay's and

623
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Speaker 1: last year murdered each failed to make double digit starts

624
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 1: in the season once. And it's like the Red Witch

625
00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: from Game of Thrones went over there and resurrected Sam Bradford.

626
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: I think three times during the season. I love Sam

627
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Speaker 1: Bradford as a as a stream Bowl Week one though

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Speaker 1: place the Saints, he's at home words I was not

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Speaker 1: expecting to hear today. I love Sam sam Bradford. Teams,

630
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Speaker 1: your quarterbacks had a crap matchup in Week one, consider

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Speaker 1: Sam Bradford. Adam Feeling was one of the favorite targets

632
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Speaker 1: of Sam Bradford nine and sixty seven receiving yards, five touchdowns.

633
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Speaker 1: He was your wide receiver twenty nine. But we warned

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Speaker 1: you always to not look at the season long totals,

635
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Speaker 1: you know, generally speaking, because why Adam Faland had two

636
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Speaker 1: hundred and two yards and two touchdowns in Green Bay

637
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Speaker 1: in Week sixteen. That's a huge, a huge chunk of

638
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Speaker 1: his production coming in one week when generally most folks

639
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Speaker 1: weren't playing against a Green Bay defense that had just

640
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: been absolutely destroyed by injuries. In lackluster play. So but

641
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 1: he started just ten of those games, so it wasn't

642
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 1: like he was a full time starter. And maybe it

643
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: was because Diggs was hurt. But like watching the Vikings,

644
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, Theland's better just by watching them. The

645
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 1: chemistry between him and him and Sam Bradford, That's what

646
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: I said. It could be with Diggs was hurt. It

647
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 1: could be that he was hurt or whatever. But they're

648
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 1: both good though. I mean, the bottom line is you're

649
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: getting Adam Feeland in I mean late late in your draft,

650
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 1: so you know the risk is minimal to say the

651
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 1: least regarding Adam Cleland. And again, if if Sam Bradford's

652
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: your guy going throughout the season, they have a you know,

653
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: a chemistry going. So why not I like it. The

654
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears three and thirteen. It's the hometown team of

655
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: our very own Adam Rank. Jordan Howard was a rookie

656
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: last year and despite that rookie status, thirteen on the

657
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: ground so again, thirteen hundred yards rushing, nearly three hundred

658
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 1: yards receiving five point one yards per carry, seven total touchdowns.

659
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: He is universally regarded as a top twelve pick in

660
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: this upcoming Fantasy Drafted seventeen. But I will throw the

661
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 1: question out to you, Adam Rank, Is he worried because

662
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: you like Jordan? Why are you gonna Why are you

663
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,959
Speaker 1: trying to trigger me? You just come out with your

664
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: hot takes. Just do your Todd Gurley, come on, Jordan

665
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: Hebster's dictionary defined as Jordan Howard. Just say it, oh,

666
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 1: Hodd Gurley. I'm just saying because there was one other

667
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: rookie who who failed to live up to expectation. Okay,

668
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 1: tell me why, because when you look at it, look

669
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: at the numbers, numbers, there's not a lot of number

670
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: one running backs out there. Somebody who's gonna get three

671
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: hundred touches in an offense with the head coach who

672
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: loves to run the football, who wants to keep games close,

673
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: who's on a team with its strength is in its

674
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: front seven, which means you don't want Mike Glennon going

675
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: out there and throwing it three times. You don't get away,

676
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: you don't. I mean I don't think that he will

677
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: all the time, but I still think that you're going

678
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: to try to establish the run. And one of the

679
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: big differences between him and Todd Gurley, is that his

680
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 1: offense functions in two thousand seventeen. Uh, and you look

681
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 1: at some of the some of the I can't say

682
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: that it's going to function. Yeah, Mike Glennan's the starting quarterback.

683
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: I'm sorry we lost. We lost the Hall of Famer

684
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 1: Matt He had Brian Hire from several games last year

685
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: to cutting like two games, like he's can color. Yeah,

686
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: so exactly, it's the it's the same. But you look

687
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: at it the the offensive line, though, even with the

688
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: injuries to their strength too long and too John sitting,

689
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: they were still the eighth ranked rushing offensive line according

690
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: to Football Outsiders. Our friend Brad Evans was able to

691
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 1: dig up some of these points. Some of these see

692
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: these metrics. He was third in breakaway runs, tenth in

693
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 1: yards after contact, seventh in yards after contact per game,

694
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 1: in yards per touch, and tackles have aided, he was

695
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: sixth overall. He's an actual running back. It's not a

696
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: verted wide receiver or anything like that. So I I

697
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: feel very I there wasn't a shot at anybody. I'm

698
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: just saying that he's a running back and that's his position,

699
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,399
Speaker 1: and it's been his position for a long as time,

700
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: and so I know it's well, you're heated again. I

701
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: asked you, I'm with Adam Rank, though I'm a hundred

702
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:20,800
Speaker 1: percent with Adam Rank on this one. I know, I know, James,

703
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: you had Jordan Howard's top of year like players to

704
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,920
Speaker 1: avoid or this year, which I am. I actually was

705
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 1: considering writing a counterpoint. I like your article, which may happen,

706
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:32,880
Speaker 1: so keep you know what, I should just do a

707
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: point counter articles together because he wanted to do with

708
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,839
Speaker 1: I have a much longer piece ready to rock and roll.

709
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: You should just usually should just back, chop it up

710
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 1: and go at each other. But I think this is

711
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 1: the anti Jodan Howard side of the table. Then apparently

712
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: I think he's being overvalued right now. I think we

713
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: need to learn from the lessons the Todd Garlan thing.

714
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 1: Our friend Man Harmon wrote a great article focusing on

715
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 1: you know, the three things for UM at least top

716
00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 1: five backs UM were quarterback performance, scoring, offense, and targets.

717
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: Howard really only checks one of those boxes coming into

718
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: this next year, and that's targets. He's a great he's

719
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: a good pass catcher. I think he got attributed with

720
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: seven drops last year. I went back and watched all

721
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 1: of his targets. They were not all on him. Brother,

722
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:16,879
Speaker 1: he's not a good receiver. He's he's a good receiver.

723
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 1: He caught with his hands, He's he's pretty fluid. I

724
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 1: went back and literally watched every past target of hit. Yeah,

725
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: he had a couple of tough here's something to note

726
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: to be concerned about that. I dug up on next

727
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,439
Speaker 1: Gen stats for an article that will publish on NFL

728
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: dot com later about running backs and bad offenses. But

729
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 1: first it's gonna appear in a magazine tit shelves later.

730
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: But per next Gian Stats, Jordan Howard had one of

731
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:42,239
Speaker 1: the best yards per carry when facing seven or fewer

732
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: men in the box. It's six point six point one

733
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 1: yards per carry, drops to three yards per carry when

734
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 1: there's eight plus men in the box. So if teams

735
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: start not respecting that passing game with Mike Glennon and

736
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: Cameron Meredith and Kevin White, like Kevin White over three

737
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 1: yards per carry, which means on at that's that you

738
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 1: did run that four times. That's the first time. So

739
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,280
Speaker 1: my point is, like that was that was the argument

740
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 1: for Melvin Gordon, which that was my argument, Like I'm not.

741
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,800
Speaker 1: And I'm not arguing here with Jordan Howard. Let me

742
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: let me let me just finish this this statement here

743
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 1: with you. We look at things. So Howard was great

744
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 1: last year largely because he was so efficient with his touches,

745
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: and he did create a lot of yards for himself.

746
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: He had his five point three yard per carry. I

747
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 1: Whige was actually looking at some other stuff in nection

748
00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: stats haven't digested at all, but he had one of

749
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,240
Speaker 1: the biggest differences between yardage he ran before a defender

750
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: was within one yard of him, and then yardage ran

751
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:40,760
Speaker 1: after a defender was with him. So he was creating

752
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 1: for himself. But the trouble is if boxes are getting

753
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,319
Speaker 1: stacked against him. He only scored six touchdowns last year,

754
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 1: three of which came in one game, and it was

755
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: that snowpocalypse against the forty niners where nobody wanted to

756
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: throw the damn ball. So if the scoring opportunities stay

757
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: the same or slide back a little bit, he's less

758
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: efficient simply because the offense is and his great and

759
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: there aren't they They're not scoring, like all you're gonna

760
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: have to bank on are his passing targets, And it's

761
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:07,320
Speaker 1: just that's a dicey proposition for me to sick a

762
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 1: top ten pick in. I think he's still around a

763
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: you know, top ten to top twenty back for sure,

764
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 1: but I don't want to take him in the first

765
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,400
Speaker 1: or second round. This is all well and good, and

766
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: this is all analysis that resides in the world where

767
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: running backs are actually a living thing. You don't live

768
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: in that world. Running backs to dead. They're dead now,

769
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: they're dead now. And and I just think that regardless

770
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: of how good or bad the offense is. And Alex,

771
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:29,879
Speaker 1: I mean you wrote about not being scared of guys

772
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: in a bad offense, this is the guy who's going

773
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: to get three hundred touches are close to this year.

774
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,360
Speaker 1: And that's something you just can't find anywhere anymore. I mean,

775
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,959
Speaker 1: literally three quarters of the league is running a committee system.

776
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 1: And so now Jordan Howard is a guy with with

777
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: UH with an opportunity, with nobody really behind him. Because

778
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 1: you know, we all know that that Jeremy Langford was

779
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,839
Speaker 1: laid the fantasy rest last year. Um, poor Mike Clay,

780
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: Mike clay Man. Mike Clay wrote the eulogy on him

781
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: last year, and so you know, and so it's a

782
00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: situation where I mean we we I mean we signed here.

783
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: We sat here the last couple of weeks and talked

784
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: about how much blal pal And or Matt Forte can

785
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: be valuable on a Jets team that's going to be abysmal.

786
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 1: So the Bears, who should be in theory a little

787
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: bit better. Why wouldn't you feel better about their one

788
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 1: and only running back, their one and only offensive option. Really,

789
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: for me, it's it's about relative. Yeah, it's cost this

790
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: this one and only option is going in the top

791
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 1: fourteen picks, Power met four, Tarrant going to the double rounds,

792
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: even bill a Power if he gets crazy drafted in

793
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: the sixth round, Like I would jump out of my

794
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: seat draft Jordan Howard and slap everyone in the face.

795
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 1: If he was in the sixth round. Is about sixteen

796
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: and he's the RB eight, Yeah that's I think. I

797
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 1: haven't ranked as my RB seven. But I like Jordan Howard.

798
00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 1: I think he's a great player. I just don't want

799
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: him at that cost. Yeah, I mean I think for

800
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 1: me just to to button up the Jordan Howard conversation,

801
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 1: we talked about him being h I mean, I I

802
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 1: appreciate and I love the fact that you saw every

803
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 1: single one of his targets. But the numbers man fifty

804
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,799
Speaker 1: targets last year, twenty nine receptions. It's a fifty eight

805
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: percent catch rate. It's literally he couldn't even catch if

806
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:09,879
Speaker 1: he was eight feet tall. I understand what you're saying,

807
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 1: but it's literally the worst catch rate of any qualified

808
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: uh running back. Seven he was so effective, And now

809
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: it's gonna go up because it's and his seven and

810
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:29,760
Speaker 1: his seven drops too, I mean, by far the most drops,

811
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: but he was a rookie. He will be working part

812
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: of us. The only way you get seven drops is

813
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: if they trust you enough to throw you the ball

814
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: that many times. Here's the and then and if you

815
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 1: look into his past too, it's like, look, it's crazy.

816
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,280
Speaker 1: When you look at the scouting report on Jordan Howard,

817
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 1: one of the major concerns was, well, this guy doesn't

818
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:49,760
Speaker 1: really know how to catch the ball. He didn't didn't

819
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: get a lot of targets out of the backfield at

820
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: Indiana and also the school he transferred from, which is

821
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: alluding me right now. Ye there you go, uh, And

822
00:39:57,880 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: I think that was one of his major concerns coming

823
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 1: into the league. And we saw it play out in

824
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: the numbers in as well. I I have serious reservations

825
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 1: as to whether or not this guy's actually can actually

826
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: catch the ball out of the back of I just

827
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: don't I don't buy it. That's a skill you can learn, though,

828
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's it's a learnable, teachable skill catching

829
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,879
Speaker 1: the football at the teachable skill. Get on the jugs machine, kids,

830
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: all right? So there you go. So the Bears at

831
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: three and thirteen, al Sean Jeffrey gone. Now Cameron Meredith

832
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: steps in to be there. I guess their top target.

833
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 1: Eight receptions, four touchdowns in fourteen games for Cameron Mary.

834
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 1: Big boom er bus guy, though, double digits in in

835
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 1: terms of fantasy scoring seven of his fourteen games, but

836
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 1: less than three fantasy points in five games. So big

837
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: time boom er bus guy, Adam Brink. Where do you

838
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: take a guy like Cameron Meredith in? Uh? I prepared

839
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 1: for Jordan Howard. I you know what, I know that

840
00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 1: we took him in. Trying to remember where I Adam

841
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 1: in our draft. I'm just basing it on where guys are.

842
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: I mean, he falls to the double digit rounds because

843
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: for the same reasons that everybody looks at that Bears

844
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:10,799
Speaker 1: offense and thinks that they're straight dukes, and nobody wants

845
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 1: a part of it, and everybody would rather make aerial

846
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: poof jokes about Mike Glennon and said, although there's a

847
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: better comparison in our world, I'm not gonna get a OK,

848
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: thank you, we appreciate it. No, I don't want to

849
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 1: do Wait now I'm debating. I don't want to do it.

850
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: But no, he's falling into the double digit rounds. I mean,

851
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: that's the thing that's always incredible to me is like,

852
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: even though you might believe that that offense is dog feces,

853
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:44,280
Speaker 1: he is still a wide receiver one of an NFL team.

854
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,399
Speaker 1: You took him in round seven of our twelve team

855
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: most recent mock, he was your fourth winde receiver. I

856
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: feel that's about a great spot wide receiver for seventh round. Yeah.

857
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: I dig that the opportunities will present themselves, but I

858
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: thought I saw as adpo somewhere else. But I also

859
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:01,879
Speaker 1: will start reaching dudes that I liked because I'll see

860
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 1: you and do you like Cameron Merrith? I do. Yeah. Again,

861
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: he's a wide receiver one, and I'm if he's gonna

862
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 1: be my wide receiver four and the number one option

863
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 1: for the Bears. Who I think that? And unfortunately Glennon

864
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: does not getting a good rap for whatever reason, he

865
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: got beat out by Jamis Winston, who's a good quarter

866
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: The only person who really didn't like Jamis or who

867
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 1: didn't like Mike Lennon was Lovey Smith, the same guy

868
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:28,399
Speaker 1: who thought it was a good idea to start Rex

869
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: Grossman in the Super Bowl against the Colts. So actually,

870
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,839
Speaker 1: if if Lovey Smith doesn't like him, I love him,

871
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: that's a good Alright, that's good. Like I love Smith

872
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 1: looked at you and didn't think you were a good quarterback.

873
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: Sold I'm old I'm old up to remember when Mike

874
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: Glennon pushed Russell Wilson out of a college job, chased

875
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: him Wisconsin. I forgot about that. And the Cameron Mereth

876
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: going in the tenth round of Calculator Drafts twelve teams

877
00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: as well, that seems about right. I I reached for

878
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:01,839
Speaker 1: him because we're all, well, we're also doing that too.

879
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,800
Speaker 1: We're not using our own ratings, we're using the ratings

880
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: of one other person, and his are just so you know,

881
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 1: Chalckey there is a printer in the office. You could

882
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 1: print out your own rankings and you could cross guy's office.

883
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 1: They go, you know, old school like we used to

884
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: do with magazines, and you gather for the live draft

885
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:22,879
Speaker 1: I would do before the internet. L ten and you're

886
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: a millennial. What are you talking about? I'm immersed and

887
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: letting people are helping people decide which NFL team they

888
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:33,400
Speaker 1: want to h want to, want to be a fan of.

889
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 1: Storyline I am missing in the NFC North Quickly around

890
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:39,879
Speaker 1: the horn, Alex skellhar, you didn't talk about your boy

891
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: that you just wrote a love that mas Sennett James

892
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 1: tell us why should we be excited? The bottom line

893
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: is Martel's Bennett is a top ten fantasy quarterback. That's

894
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 1: his quarterback. Sorry sorry, he's that good. He's that good.

895
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: That's his that's his floor. That is his floor. Right now,

896
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: we're seeing this guy go in the ninth or tenth

897
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: round of of a lot of drafts. Right maybe later.

898
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: I think Michael Fabiano had him listened like like one

899
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:07,880
Speaker 1: fourteen or something outside of his top hunter, which is

900
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 1: that's just crazy talk. Martella's bene to me is a

901
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 1: top ten locked in loaded fantasy tight end that you're

902
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: getting a little bit later in your draft. I actually

903
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 1: have him ranked as my tight end four, which I

904
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: get is incredibly aggressive. I have him ranked ahead of

905
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 1: Greg Olson, who I'm a little bit worried about his

906
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 1: usage in seventeen, and I have him rand It ahead

907
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: of Tyler Eiffort in seventeen as well, mostly because of

908
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: injury concerns. But look, Marty beat in that offense. Man,

909
00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. I really honestly feel like eight hundred

910
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 1: yards and eight touchdowns is a is a fair conservative

911
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: estimate for him. But if there's injury sejority, if if

912
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: Davonte Adams falls off, if Randall Cobb gets injured, if

913
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 1: Time Montgomery gets injured, all of those targets to me

914
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: at least, I think Marty b would be the beneficiary there.

915
00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: I really feel like he could get to a hundred

916
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:03,359
Speaker 1: targets in seventeen. I think he can. I honestly think

917
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 1: he can get to seventy receptions and a thousand yards

918
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 1: if things break right for him, and he's got double

919
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 1: digit upside in terms of in terms of touchdowns as well.

920
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: So man, I'll tell you what, man, I I am

921
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 1: just through the Moon. I'm so excited to see what

922
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:19,919
Speaker 1: Morty B does. I love him there, I'm not quite

923
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,440
Speaker 1: as hyper on him as you, which is because Jordy

924
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 1: is the like the dominant red zone target there. I mean,

925
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 1: he led the league in targets inside the twenty and

926
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 1: inside the ten last year, as well as touchdowns in

927
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: both spaces. Granted, that's not to say that some of

928
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 1: those can slide to the six ft six Martella s Bennett,

929
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 1: but when it's crunch time, Rogers goes to who he

930
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:40,879
Speaker 1: trusts the most and has the brain meld with. But still,

931
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 1: I think your yardage, you know, Marker's right, and we've

932
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 1: seen in the past tight ends when they get utilized

933
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 1: as Mike McCarthy and Aaron Rodgers want them to, can

934
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: put up great numbers. Like you alluded back to the

935
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: Jawmichael Finley years. He I don't think you, like even

936
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: really played a full sixteen games there, but he had

937
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 1: like his best year was like what seven eight hundred

938
00:45:57,520 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 1: yards and eight touchdowns. But I mean, even if Marty

939
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: B doesn't get that touchdowns, even he gets five, like

940
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: last year, eight hundred yards and five touchdowns is like

941
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,320
Speaker 1: the tight end six that's what I'm saying. That's what

942
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying, and I think that's you can I mean,

943
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:12,919
Speaker 1: you could put that in pen permanent marker, that dude

944
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:16,120
Speaker 1: is going to be a top seven or eight tight end.

945
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 1: And I think just in my opinion, I just you know,

946
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: breaking down those numbers and again you can find that

947
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: on NFL dot com, slash co uh My Marty b

948
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:26,439
Speaker 1: love letter. But I just think the upside is there

949
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 1: for him to be a top three, a top two

950
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: tight end. I mean, obviously, if Gronk stays healthy, forget

951
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 1: about it. But if he doesn't stay healthy, all I

952
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 1: mean now I feel like top two or top three

953
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: is then you're really saying something. Because Mark Tel's Benett

954
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 1: was the tight end seven last year. You know, I

955
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: had these year, seven hundred yards, the seven touchdowns certainly

956
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: helped a lot, But being the you know, the top seven,

957
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:49,439
Speaker 1: top eight fantasy tight end isn't necessarily saying a lot. Yeah,

958
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:51,840
Speaker 1: I just but I look at where he's getting herat drafted.

959
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 1: He's getting drafted as you know, I think I have

960
00:46:56,239 --> 00:47:00,400
Speaker 1: him as my tight end seven. That's silly, No, not

961
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 1: the Titan seven. Yeah, that's silly. Don't think like I'd

962
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 1: take him over Hunter Henry in a heartbeat. I'd take

963
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: him over only only because only because Antonio Gates is

964
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 1: still hanging around. He's got some punch, He's got some

965
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 1: punches left to throw, He's got a record left to break.

966
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:18,839
Speaker 1: Once he break, they'll break that in the first week.

967
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: What does he need? Three? Who do they? Who do

968
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:24,719
Speaker 1: the Chargers playing week? Marcus, give me a storyline in

969
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 1: the NFC North I'm missing. I mean, I guess I'd

970
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 1: stay with Green Bay and uh, you know, will the

971
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:31,399
Speaker 1: real Davante Adams stand up? You know, is it gonna

972
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:33,880
Speaker 1: be from last year who bawled out of the guy

973
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: from a couple of years ago where you know he

974
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 1: had drop issues and they weren't sure if they had

975
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:40,320
Speaker 1: faith in the guy. Um? You know, I know that

976
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:42,439
Speaker 1: we had our mock draft about a week or so ago.

977
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:48,759
Speaker 1: Jake Seely took him really wide, receiver twelve him crazy. Um.

978
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm just I'm really curious to see which

979
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 1: Davanta Adams shows up. You know, I'm gonna split the difference.

980
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 1: I feel like he's going to be somewhere in between

981
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:58,680
Speaker 1: what we've seen Adam rank NFC storyline I'm missing now.

982
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: We talked about it earlier, Say Bradford, much maligned quarterback,

983
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: really doing doing this series of why you should root

984
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 1: for is what really drew me. Sam bradforcas. Remember last year,

985
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 1: people were he was being touted as an m VP

986
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 1: candidate for for some time because as well as he played.

987
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 1: And really now that they the Vikings look at him

988
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 1: as their long term answer at the quarterback like he

989
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:23,800
Speaker 1: is he is now their their franchise. I mean, I

990
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 1: don't know that. I feel I feel like he's a

991
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: seventeen rental until Teddy Bridgewater comes back. He could go

992
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 1: beyond because the way Teddy Teddy's contract works out. But

993
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:36,919
Speaker 1: I don't think they're so assured. If I I really,

994
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:38,920
Speaker 1: I think that they have their quarterback now. I think

995
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 1: that they're sold on him. I think it's gonna be

996
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 1: their number one guy going forward. Again, Still much maligned,

997
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: Poor Sam Bradford. What can he do? What can he

998
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: do to help erase one season where he was injured?

999
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 1: I mean, even though he gets beaten up a lout,

1000
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: but he makes his starts. He's out there, he's very efficient.

1001
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: He does he does throw a nice ball like there's

1002
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 1: there's a lot of This is a guy that people

1003
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 1: went number one overall, that's over all court back, and

1004
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Louis couldn't figure out a way to

1005
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 1: work with him. People won't take Sam Bradford seriously until

1006
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: he shortens up those sleeves. All right, I'm not trusting

1007
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: a quarterback with like mid mid range sleeves that go down.

1008
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: That's what makes him a boss. That's It's totally they

1009
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,440
Speaker 1: went from They went from Teddy two gloves to Sammy sleeves.

1010
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 1: I mean, like literally so great. I'm want to throw

1011
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: in one more storyline. Eric Ebron is a great underrated

1012
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 1: tight end if you want to find a guy to

1013
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 1: draft as the twelve fourteen tight end off the board. Uh.

1014
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 1: Ebron is a guy He's improved pretty much all of

1015
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 1: his statistics year over year except for touchdowns. Now An

1016
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: kom Bolden is at a picture. I think he had

1017
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: close to twenty red zone targets last year. A lot

1018
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: of those could have slide towards Ebron, who was a

1019
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 1: physical specimen, is a great presence of the red zone.

1020
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:52,839
Speaker 1: He's like six five to six. Uh So look look

1021
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 1: to Ibron. I mean he's he's been slowly evolving the

1022
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:56,760
Speaker 1: pick to the fifth year option. They think he's finally,

1023
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 1: finally might be turning into the player they took instead

1024
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: of Odell Beckham. But that's besides the point. Uh Ibron

1025
00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: is a good tight end value. Alright, So there you go.

1026
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:06,600
Speaker 1: NFL dot com slash Draft Kit to find all of

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1028
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Speaker 1: All right, let's close out the show with a round

1029
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Speaker 1: of Daily Depths des Depth Depth. All right, Daily DAP time.

1030
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Speaker 1: We shall start with the whiz kid from Wisconsin, Alex

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Speaker 1: gelhar Got going to DAP first and foremost better call

1032
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1033
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1034
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Speaker 1: I encourage everybody to go watch it, go catch up,

1035
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Speaker 1: tweet about it. Are they really thinking about not? Well,

1036
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Speaker 1: they haven't renewed it yet. They probably will, but um,

1037
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Speaker 1: one of their highest rated non zombie shows. But but

1039
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Speaker 1: the thing is, it's just phenomenal storytelling. I love to

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Speaker 1: But they are a guitar bending instrumental group from Texas. Uh.

1045
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Speaker 1: Really great stuff to listen to if you're grinding or

1046
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Speaker 1: working and need, you know, need kind of upbeat motivational music.

1047
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Speaker 1: Like I love to listen to that kind of stuff

1048
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:23,839
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1049
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 1: get distracted lyrics huming along or thinking about whatever. So

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Speaker 1: Um and I think that's all I've got to deapth

1053
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Speaker 1: so well. Oh and last remote real quick. UM got

1054
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Speaker 1: a new game over the weekend to play with some

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Speaker 1: buddies called the Players Unknown Player Unknowns Battlegrounds. It's this

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Speaker 1: first person shooter, well like third person shooter, but how

1057
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1059
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: a plane over this island, you parachute down. You don't

1060
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 1: start with any weapons, any arm or any anything, so

1061
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 1: you run and the map change, the weapons spawns change

1062
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 1: every time. But you're running through buildings, trying to find guns,

1063
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 1: trying to find armor, running into people killing them. But

1064
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 1: then what's great is the map so you don't just

1065
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 1: camp and turns into an eight hour campfest. The map

1066
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:08,719
Speaker 1: shrinks every couple of minutes and if you're outside the

1067
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:11,799
Speaker 1: zone you slowly die, so it forces you all into

1068
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:13,880
Speaker 1: the middle at the end, into this big firefight with

1069
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 1: whoever's left. How long does that gameplay take? It can

1070
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 1: take anywhere from you know, thirty seconds if you die

1071
00:52:19,280 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: right to like thirty minutes. Maybe it's amazing. It's it's

1072
00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 1: a super fun idea. It's it's adrenaline pumping when you

1073
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:29,240
Speaker 1: get down there. It's fun because you're finding different weapons,

1074
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: You're in different parts of the map from depending on

1075
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:32,960
Speaker 1: where the plane drops you off. It's really cool. It's

1076
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:35,040
Speaker 1: like thirty bucks on Steam, so I'd go check it out.

1077
00:52:35,920 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 1: That's like the video game version of Catching Fire. Yeah,

1078
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: of like Hunger Games or Battle Royale stuff like that.

1079
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:42,479
Speaker 1: You just put a bunch of people on an island,

1080
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:43,839
Speaker 1: they go find their weapons and you get it out.

1081
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:46,200
Speaker 1: It's it's fun. It's very fun. I like it. Adam

1082
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 1: Rank hit me. I'm gonna daily dap amtrack amtrack. Yeah. Day,

1083
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 1: I missed the last podcast. As we took the train.

1084
00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,320
Speaker 1: There's a train station right in the parking lot of

1085
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 1: Angel Stadi him took it down to San Diego, went down,

1086
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 1: watched the Padres in the afternoon playing the Cincinnati Reds.

1087
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 1: They beat him, uh, and they were so nice. They

1088
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 1: got they got done with their game early. There was

1089
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: a twelve forty game and it ended it like three,

1090
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:17,719
Speaker 1: so we had time to walk back for the three

1091
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 1: forty train. Took it back up to Anaheim, went in,

1092
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 1: watched the Angels. You did the double dip. We did

1093
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:26,880
Speaker 1: a double header. MLB doesn't want to give us, uh,

1094
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:29,839
Speaker 1: the one doesn't want to give us those uh double

1095
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:31,839
Speaker 1: headers anything. There have actually been a couple of them

1096
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 1: this year, which is sort of because of the rain

1097
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:35,879
Speaker 1: like that, And that was pretty cool. So I really

1098
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 1: appreciated that. And it's something that's underrated, especially for people

1099
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 1: who live out in California where we don't take any

1100
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:46,960
Speaker 1: sort of mass trains it ever, it's so nice just

1101
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:48,840
Speaker 1: to not have to worry about anything, and you just

1102
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 1: like boop boop, you know, and it's no big deal.

1103
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:52,960
Speaker 1: We had the baby on the train and she was

1104
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: fine and everything was compacetic, So I really appreciate it.

1105
00:53:55,640 --> 00:54:00,279
Speaker 1: And also, um, there was a nice man who was

1106
00:54:00,360 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: working one of the sections at Petco Park and uh,

1107
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 1: he a lot because like they have a cool like

1108
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:09,440
Speaker 1: standing room only area behind home plate. I mean it's

1109
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 1: up so you're there's an overhang, so you miss a

1110
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 1: little bit. Um, but it's a nice shaded area. And

1111
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 1: of course we can't have the baby out in the

1112
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:17,400
Speaker 1: sun the whole time because there's four of us. So

1113
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:21,439
Speaker 1: the wife actually her uncle was sitting there was able

1114
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 1: to hold in. The guy actually was like it was

1115
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:25,400
Speaker 1: the last row and normally they're sticklers and won't let

1116
00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: anybody sit there. But Greg with two geez, who works

1117
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 1: the section behind home plate at Petco Petco Park, looked

1118
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 1: it up. Let my brother in law and my daughter

1119
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:37,480
Speaker 1: sit in the shade. That's really cool. So she need

1120
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 1: to get sunburned. One person, that's all it takes to

1121
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 1: do something nice. So if you get an opportuniti but

1122
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 1: if you live in California, or if you live in

1123
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 1: New York where there's two stadiums close, I think you

1124
00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:48,239
Speaker 1: could probably pull this off. See, but it's it's cool

1125
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:51,800
Speaker 1: because in southern California, the Angels and Dodgers are always

1126
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 1: out of town at different times, so they're they're rarely,

1127
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 1: if ever home at the same time. Also, who the

1128
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 1: hell wants to sit in that traffic? Yeah? Who? So?

1129
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: I think I've heard of people pulling it off between

1130
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:07,400
Speaker 1: Wrigley and Miller Park because I've always wonted ninety minute

1131
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 1: drive apart if it look I don't. I think there's

1132
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 1: a decent like bus that can take you up there,

1133
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 1: or there might be a train, so I know there

1134
00:55:13,800 --> 00:55:15,359
Speaker 1: is a train. We've taken the train. I've always wanted

1135
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:16,920
Speaker 1: to do that, but my fears I'd go to Wrigley

1136
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:19,080
Speaker 1: and then, you know, kind of enjoyed too much of

1137
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:21,440
Speaker 1: the afternoon and i'd be safe to drive a car.

1138
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,719
Speaker 1: That danger could happen at either park. You go to

1139
00:55:24,760 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 1: water of a sudden five o'clock it is called Miller Park. Yes,

1140
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:32,920
Speaker 1: what about what about Derek Carr? No, it doesn't have

1141
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 1: a huge fantasy impact, but he got his long term cart.

1142
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 1: I think it that kind of does it does? That

1143
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:40,399
Speaker 1: is that officials closely tweeted that it is not done

1144
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 1: but close. I'm sorry, it's trending. It's so I thought

1145
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 1: it was fair game. Plus the last you know who,

1146
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:52,359
Speaker 1: that last quarterback to lead the Raiders in passing prior

1147
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 1: to Derek Carr was the way the last quarter the

1148
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: Raiders and not in the league, but like, who is

1149
00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 1: the Raiders number one? Who is the Raiders quarterback before

1150
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:06,799
Speaker 1: Derek Carr? Oh? Uh? Their starter court starting court at

1151
00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:11,560
Speaker 1: Jason h Jason Campbell. He's currently a wide receiver in

1152
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:17,719
Speaker 1: the NFL. Here's their starting quarterback and whatever was two

1153
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:21,800
Speaker 1: thousand that right? Then Derek Carr took over. Okay, so

1154
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 1: there you go. I'll give a daily DAP out. I

1155
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:25,919
Speaker 1: got two of them. One of them is the Ryan

1156
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: O'Callaghan story. For you're a football fan. I'm sure you've

1157
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 1: probably seen this already. But Ryan Callahan ocallaghan rather a

1158
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:36,880
Speaker 1: former Cal player. He's an offensive lineman. He played for

1159
00:56:36,920 --> 00:56:40,320
Speaker 1: the Patriots and the Chiefs. Um it's a great story

1160
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,799
Speaker 1: that he wrote. He basically came out um as gay

1161
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 1: relatively recently here and he wrote about his experience in

1162
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:50,640
Speaker 1: his journey uh through coming out. But it's an emotional piece,

1163
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 1: but basically, the the crux of it is. Uh, he

1164
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:58,640
Speaker 1: used football to kind of hide his sexuality, and he

1165
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 1: made a pack with himself that once he was done

1166
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 1: playing football at whatever level that was gonna be, if

1167
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 1: it was high school, college, NFL, as soon as he

1168
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 1: was done playing football, he was going to kill himself

1169
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:13,640
Speaker 1: because he did not want to come out or he

1170
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:15,759
Speaker 1: thought that coming out would be too painful for his

1171
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 1: family or whatever. It might be. So um, but he

1172
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 1: he got some counseling. Um. A really great backstory was

1173
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 1: Scott Pioli as well. But yeah, definitely go give that

1174
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 1: a read if you haven't already. It's a great story,

1175
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 1: which sidebar adapts to the Players Tribune like that was

1176
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 1: something I think some people scoffed at when it was

1177
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 1: first coming out, But they've had some really, really tremendous

1178
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 1: stuff on there, and it's cool getting that unfiltered perspective

1179
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 1: from the players. Yeah, that's true. But this one came

1180
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 1: out on Outsports was out Sports Outside it was I forgot.

1181
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:47,440
Speaker 1: I haven't read it yet. It's bookmarked for yeah yeah yeah,

1182
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 1: and and you know players tribute me he tweeted it

1183
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:52,520
Speaker 1: or whatever. Pocket have you used that rank By the way,

1184
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 1: it's great. Is the yeah, let's stab pocket. I've dapped

1185
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: it back in the past, but I use it literally

1186
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:02,440
Speaker 1: all the time. I have it sinked on my kin

1187
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 1: my kindle now, so when I'm at home cooking or

1188
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: reading or whatever I do it, They're got rank in

1189
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 1: their coworker Andy Fenelon on it as well. So you go, Uh,

1190
00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:12,040
Speaker 1: that's a little bit of a downer, but has does

1191
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: have a good Styes, absolutely, But I will leave you

1192
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:19,840
Speaker 1: with something else as well. Uh. Go to Twitter and

1193
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 1: enter in the hashtag logo mania. Um the there's a

1194
00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 1: minor league logo competition, minor league baseball logo competition happening

1195
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 1: right now. Hashtag you said, yes, hashtag logo mania, and

1196
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:36,160
Speaker 1: you get and what you get or some I mean

1197
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:39,600
Speaker 1: just terrific. Ball Caps baseball hats are the best. Oh

1198
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 1: my god, They're so good. That would be a great

1199
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 1: hipster collection. These are some great ones. And by the way,

1200
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: special shout out to Matt Franchise, who I think lived

1201
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:55,120
Speaker 1: around Binghamton. Yes, he always talks about the bubble Ponies. Yeah,

1202
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 1: the rumble Ponies. So they've got some great names, and

1203
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 1: I wish some of these names would translate into actual

1204
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 1: professional sports. But Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp. I like, uh, the

1205
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:10,640
Speaker 1: the the clear Water Threshers, the Richmond Flying Squirrels. Yes,

1206
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:14,080
Speaker 1: give me some of that. There's the Hillsboro Hops as

1207
00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:17,840
Speaker 1: in beer hops. That's pretty good. That's not mascot. The

1208
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 1: Carolina mud Cat Mudcat mud Cats have have. That's a

1209
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 1: classic one. I like it. That's a classic. I like

1210
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:26,160
Speaker 1: it a lot. But there's Oxy Shuckers. Dude, there's so

1211
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 1: many good ones, man. Anyways, go check it out. Um

1212
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:33,080
Speaker 1: and the area fifty ones, the Albuquerque ice Tips as

1213
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:36,280
Speaker 1: May famous by the Simpsons, which is good. But yeah, no, look,

1214
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 1: there's some great ones out there. But I'm telling you, man,

1215
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 1: if you enjoy hats, if you enjoy logos or whatever

1216
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:47,280
Speaker 1: great sports names, hashtag logo mania. I actually have it

1217
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:49,479
Speaker 1: on my Twitter. I wish hats fit my head because

1218
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: I was looking for a snap. Oh. By the way,

1219
00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:58,840
Speaker 1: schuck Nation and uh shrimp Nation are coming after clip

1220
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:01,920
Speaker 1: Nation here, James hashtags. Well, just because they their hashtags,

1221
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:04,920
Speaker 1: they're getting on your clip nation. We need to put

1222
01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 1: a moratorium on nations. Now there's one that's I'll just

1223
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 1: say this, Syracuse, the Syracuse Chiefs their logo. I don't

1224
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:19,920
Speaker 1: know how they did not advance their logo is so sweet.

1225
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:23,720
Speaker 1: I did look at this whole desperately trying to find

1226
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:30,320
Speaker 1: a Syracuse Chiefs snap back aren't they they? No, no,

1227
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: they do. But if they're fitted only they have the

1228
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 1: fitted flat brim. See. I live that snap back flat

1229
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:39,360
Speaker 1: brim life because you have hair. So that's not fair.

1230
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:41,840
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to make that rhyme, by the way,

1231
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:45,320
Speaker 1: but go check that out on Twitter. You could find

1232
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:48,240
Speaker 1: I've linked to it. Oh my god, this is fascinating.

1233
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:51,120
Speaker 1: It's good. Contact the team. They'll be able to um

1234
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 1: the Montgomery Biscuits. Yeah so again. Hashtag logo mania or

1235
01:00:57,440 --> 01:01:00,200
Speaker 1: find me on Twitter at James Deco. Uh and I've

1236
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:02,960
Speaker 1: tweeted about it. This is I'm sorry, yes, please, I

1237
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 1: don't want to the Hillsboro Hops. What when you're looking

1238
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 1: at this logo you have to go to some stupid

1239
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:13,440
Speaker 1: ass gastro pub and wear this and it just seems

1240
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:16,480
Speaker 1: so appropriate. Or tap houses. I guess that's what they're

1241
01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 1: called now because I listen I hang out on all

1242
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:21,520
Speaker 1: the time. I'm buying one. I'm gonna get one of these,

1243
01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. I do love the Inland Empire

1244
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: sixty sixers, but I don't think they're in this. I

1245
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 1: might have to get one of the California ones if

1246
01:01:28,560 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 1: there's no Wisconsin. I'm telling you, man, some of these

1247
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:34,160
Speaker 1: are good. I'm I'm I Actually there's joy in my

1248
01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 1: heart right now because I have inspired these two fine

1249
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 1: gentlemen next to me to buy minor league baseball. Where

1250
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 1: is Hillsboro? I don't know, I really no, it's Oregon.

1251
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:47,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. Of course they would happen now total

1252
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:50,120
Speaker 1: and of course, yes, Okay, I was gonna make it

1253
01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:52,240
Speaker 1: if you go to the team websites, though you can

1254
01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 1: probably bypass. I've tried to do it. All doesn't work.

1255
01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 1: Call Um, you can't find my snap back flat brim. Anyways,

1256
01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:00,680
Speaker 1: MG might got Marcus Grant closest out real quick. Yeah,

1257
01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 1: I wanted to be back on Gilharst said about the

1258
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:06,640
Speaker 1: better call Saul, which has been fantastic. Um. Also just

1259
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:08,960
Speaker 1: the daily back two dads, because it was Father's Day

1260
01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:11,600
Speaker 1: the last weekend, so two of the people in this

1261
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:14,000
Speaker 1: room are father So happy related Father's Days to the

1262
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:17,240
Speaker 1: two of you. You know, I talked to my paw

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