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Speaker 1: Beat Cipher Ready to rock. My boys down in the
Speaker 1: pit of misery ready to rock. We got Fasano, we
Speaker 1: got Venmo Brian. Big shout out to my man dany
Speaker 1: Otto out there in the meadowlands as well, if he
Speaker 1: can hear me. Big time week. Okay, you may think
Speaker 1: it's a down part of the sports calendar, but here
Speaker 1: we focus on football. We are going to continue the
Speaker 1: conversation I had with Alex last week about free agency,
Speaker 1: the merry go round. Where might some of these key
Speaker 1: free agents go at other positions. We talked about running
Speaker 1: backs and wide receivers. We thought a little bit about
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. There have been some updates since we
Speaker 1: last talk. We'll get into that quarterback market later on
Speaker 1: in this show. XFL also popping off. Okay, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about the XFL takeaways. What was good, what was less good.
Speaker 1: Everyone is pretty much coming up roses for the XFL.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about my biggest takeaways with Alex Fasano as well.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you've heard about this guy's
Speaker 1: but Major League Baseball they're tinkering a little bit. Okay,
Speaker 1: They've announced some rules that are going to go effect
Speaker 1: into effect this season. We'll talk about it down there
Speaker 1: with the guys in the Pit of Misery. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about it with the Status over Beat Cipher And there
Speaker 1: is a pole question up as usual hit me up
Speaker 1: at spitting speeds. I want to know which is the
Speaker 1: biggest name quarterback that will change addresses in this offseason?
Speaker 1: Do you believe it might be Tom Brady? Is it
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers? Who? I guess they're parting ways? What is it,
Speaker 1: guy like Cam Newton? Someone else? Let me know. We
Speaker 1: will get into all of that and more with the
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Speaker 1: the fantasy Freestyle in the NBA. For his team to
Speaker 1: beat the Toronto Raptors. Nets coach Kenny Atkinson said that
Speaker 1: Brooklyn's effort and complete level has got to be two
Speaker 1: levels higher than normal. We have to pitch close to
Speaker 1: a perfect game and beat this team. Well, the Nets
Speaker 1: fulfilled that nearly perfect metaphoric pitch, defeating the Raptors one
Speaker 1: on one to snapping Toronto's fifteen game win streak. Brooklyn's
Speaker 1: win came only four nights after the Nets lost by
Speaker 1: one point to the Raptors in Scotia Bank Arena. Kyle Lowry,
Speaker 1: the Raptors guard, said afterward, we were like walking zombies.
Speaker 1: We didn't play well tonight, simple as that we missed shots,
Speaker 1: We weren't aggressive. With Toronto streak ending a fifteen Milwaukee
Speaker 1: Bucks hold the law win streak of this season at
Speaker 1: eighteen games. Sticking with the NBA Phoenix Suns, Vivin Booker
Speaker 1: will replace the injured Damian Lillard in the All Star
Speaker 1: Games three point contest. NBA named Booker as Lillard's replacement Thursday,
Speaker 1: one day after the Trailblazers star suffered a right groin
Speaker 1: injury right groin strain to be more specific. Booker will
Speaker 1: make his first career All Star appearance in his fifth season.
Speaker 1: The former Kentucky star is the NBA's tenth leading scorer
Speaker 1: averaging twenty six point four points per game and in
Speaker 1: the NFL will His status with the type of a
Speaker 1: Bucks going into next season remains up in the air.
Speaker 1: Quarterback Jamis Winston has taken steps to correct his knee
Speaker 1: hear sidedness. His representative, Denise White, said he had LASIK
Speaker 1: and he didn't want to count out any options that
Speaker 1: he had that could possibly help him win the game
Speaker 1: he loves so much. Winston has struggled with near sightedness
Speaker 1: throughout his career. When he was at Florida State, television
Speaker 1: cameras frequently panned to a squinting Winston. You got NBA, NHL,
Speaker 1: and college hoops. Tonight. In the NBA two games before
Speaker 1: the All Star Break, the l A Clipper is visiting
Speaker 1: the Boston Celtic. Celtics are your two point favorites. The
Speaker 1: total is two and a half. And the Oklahoma City
Speaker 1: Thunder visit the New Orleans Pelicans. This line is moving
Speaker 1: a little bit. It's now three point favorites for the Pelicans.
Speaker 1: The total is two thirty three and a half. I'm
Speaker 1: Alex Possano for your Sports Created News update. Gonna sit
Speaker 1: back to the spitting statistician, Dame Martinez on the Fantasy Freestyle.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Alex. Back down there in the pit,
Speaker 1: shout out to the pit, Dilley, Dilley, to all the
Speaker 1: guys down there. They're doing Yeoman's work, making us look good,
Speaker 1: making us sound good. You know, I gotta ask you, though,
Speaker 1: Alex Jamis Winston getting lace six is hysterical to me.
Speaker 1: Isn't it like the idea that the man is gonna
Speaker 1: throw for thirty picks? Oh yeah, he did an eye surgery.
Speaker 1: Oh he can't see a word like this is hysterical
Speaker 1: to me, that the guy coming off his thirty interception season.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, we need to fix his eyesight. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: And plus you it's true though, like cameras did used
Speaker 1: to panda all the time and it was squint ng
Speaker 1: and can you even see? And and coach arians said
Speaker 1: after the season this year he was like, yeah, well
Speaker 1: he can see the players in front of him, but
Speaker 1: not the scoreboard. So we're finally yeah. Well, Also, what
Speaker 1: b A Is saying is that you know they can
Speaker 1: win with Jamis, they can win with anybody else as well.
Speaker 1: Remember Alex, we're gonna talk about the quarterback Merry Go
Speaker 1: Round a little bit later on in the show. Jamis's name,
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers his name, These are names that will be
Speaker 1: on it. I also want to listen in the in
Speaker 1: the gambling world, right, the NFL made an interesting higher. Um,
Speaker 1: I think it was last week they are hiring their
Speaker 1: first ever VP of sports wagering, Okay, And I think
Speaker 1: this is interesting. I think this is a signal that
Speaker 1: we're even fully embracing it a little bit more. And honestly,
Speaker 1: I think this has a in response to the XFL.
Speaker 1: The XFL is unabashedly talking about lines, talking about totals
Speaker 1: on the broadcast, posting it in graphics, and everyone's still okay.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not all of a sudden becoming some
Speaker 1: crazy degenerate like black hole, right, And so I think
Speaker 1: the NFL has to respond. They're seeing more and more
Speaker 1: states legalized sports investing, They're seeing the XFL be explicit
Speaker 1: out there with it. So that cross also another higher
Speaker 1: in the NFL that I want to mention. Jennifer King. Okay,
Speaker 1: she was the Carolina Panthers intern during the two thousand
Speaker 1: seventeen season. She will join the Washington football team as
Speaker 1: a full time assistant coach. This marks the first hire
Speaker 1: of an African American woman on an NFL staff as
Speaker 1: a full time coach. She joins Tampa Bay who as
Speaker 1: a D line coach Laurie Locus and the San Francisco
Speaker 1: forty Niners, who has a offensive assistant, Katie Sowers. You
Speaker 1: saw her in uh commercials throughout the Super Bowl. Uh so.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, kudos, I guess to the Washington football
Speaker 1: team first ever African American female. Uh so, those are
Speaker 1: some key hires. Let's talk a little bit about Alex's
Speaker 1: baseball stuff. You know we had in the update you
Speaker 1: were talking about n B A NHL, UH. MLB was
Speaker 1: interestingly absent, and the Astros, you know, pitches and catches
Speaker 1: are reporting this week. The Astros came out, they ran
Speaker 1: out Bregmant, they ran out al To to talk for
Speaker 1: combined ninety seconds when they were like, yeah, we apologize,
Speaker 1: We're really sorry. And then they were pressed a little
Speaker 1: bit in locker rooms and someone asked out to um,
Speaker 1: were you wearing anything in two thousand nineteen, in two
Speaker 1: thousand seventeen, in two thousand eighteen, did you have wearables on?
Speaker 1: Why the hell didn't you want these guys to rip
Speaker 1: off your shirt when you hit that home run? By
Speaker 1: the way, Gary Sanchez has already said, if I hit
Speaker 1: a walk off in the ALCS, you can rip my
Speaker 1: damn pants off for all I care. And now Tuve's
Speaker 1: response was really interesting, and I gotta tell you something.
Speaker 1: It's what guilty people do. They asked ol TV, did
Speaker 1: you have any wearables? You know what the right answer
Speaker 1: is there, No, absolutely not. That's not what A said.
Speaker 1: What Al said is major League Baseball investigated and they
Speaker 1: didn't find anything. Are you kidding me? That's like in
Speaker 1: the steroids, being like my name was never on a
Speaker 1: Mitchell report. You know, I think they're being a little
Speaker 1: bit cute with it as well. You hear Verlander Korea,
Speaker 1: you hear Springer out there talking, and then also you
Speaker 1: heard Jim Crane, and I thought it was ridiculous. He
Speaker 1: literally said he won't use the word cheating. He says
Speaker 1: we broke the rules, and then he had the audacity
Speaker 1: to say that he doesn't think in effect it affected
Speaker 1: any competitive balance or any outcomes. I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: something in Fantasy baseball coming up, I ain't drafting Bregman
Speaker 1: in the in the in the first round. I ain't
Speaker 1: drafted Al Twove as my as the top second basement
Speaker 1: on the board. I'm gonna take a weight and see
Speaker 1: attitude on this. It's the same way as like someone
Speaker 1: used to play in Colorado and Course Field for years
Speaker 1: and then they moved there, Like, are his numbers still real?
Speaker 1: Is it okay? Y'all didn't think dj le Mayhew was
Speaker 1: gonna do what he did last year for the Yankees.
Speaker 1: Why because it's numbers were from coors Field. Larry Walker
Speaker 1: wasn't a Hall of Famer for years? What do we
Speaker 1: know about all twas numbers? What do we know about Bregman?
Speaker 1: Here's what I mean to take it to the gambling world. Right,
Speaker 1: I look, guys at the A L West numbers right
Speaker 1: now where the Houston Astros are still minus two eighty favorites.
Speaker 1: You got the Oakland A's at plus three forty, and
Speaker 1: you have the l A Angels at eight to one.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you if you believe that this is going
Speaker 1: to be a big deal that the Astros offense will
Speaker 1: be impacted this year because you know they don't know
Speaker 1: the signs, and take a gang throughout the Oakland A's
Speaker 1: at plus three forty. Take a gander at the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Angels who got Rendon? Who signed other kind of
Speaker 1: guys like Julio Tehran, Dylan Bundy. Right, you got Otani
Speaker 1: coming back. You still have the best player in the
Speaker 1: game and Mike Drought there if you want to fade
Speaker 1: the Astros because this stain this cloud. I encourage you
Speaker 1: to look at the a L West when the A's
Speaker 1: and the Angels are at big time numbers. But that's
Speaker 1: not the only thing that happened in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about it a little bit more on
Speaker 1: the other side of the break, Alex, I want to
Speaker 1: know how do you feel about some of these rules
Speaker 1: changes that are happening. The playoff format may be different,
Speaker 1: the idea of the lefty specialist that's going away, and
Speaker 1: rosters are expanding. We're gonna talk about those three things.
Speaker 1: I want to get Alex's take on them as well,
Speaker 1: and then we will turn our attention to the XFL
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Speaker 1: I got my man, Alex Passano in the pit of misery.
Speaker 1: It's like real love your little Mary J. Blige. As
Speaker 1: we cruise into Valentine's Day. You got a real love, Alex. Oh,
Speaker 1: girls have cooties. Okay, I see this is millennial over here. Okay, fine, fine,
Speaker 1: uh you know I got some Valentine's Day stuff going
Speaker 1: on tomorrow. Good for you. I'm making happy. Please please
Speaker 1: celebrate for both of us. You know. It's interesting though,
Speaker 1: I think, as you know, I'm getting married at the
Speaker 1: end of the month, right, so we're trying to necessarily
Speaker 1: we're trying to do home play the Valentine's Day because
Speaker 1: you know, in about two or three weeks there will
Speaker 1: be more than enough celebration going on and you know,
Speaker 1: and it will cost a pretty penny, so we're keeping
Speaker 1: it tight right now. But in any event, you know, Alex,
Speaker 1: we talked about this. I mentioned kind of the Astros
Speaker 1: trying to get up in front of the microphone al
Speaker 1: tuve Um Bregman, Jim Crane. It left me feeling empty, Alex. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it did not make it sound like they were truly accountable.
Speaker 1: It's almost like they wanted to do it because they
Speaker 1: thought that that would have it blow over. This is
Speaker 1: not going to blow over, Alex. No, I mean, like
Speaker 1: I was telling you before during the break like it
Speaker 1: sounded like the Astros were just trying to use this
Speaker 1: as a as a cover up or just like a
Speaker 1: quick publicitly stunted, keeping people happy, let them get a
Speaker 1: stage bad and then move on and keep it moving. Backfire,
Speaker 1: complete backfire. Bregnan gave no intuitions, nine ban what what
Speaker 1: was even the point? Like you said, maybe maybe if
Speaker 1: they were in front of the team in the front
Speaker 1: office would have been a little better look. Maybe if
Speaker 1: they actually got a little in detail. Hey, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what I actually did mess up. Instead of just
Speaker 1: saying I'm sorry for the decisions, I made. It was
Speaker 1: just a complete backfire for the Astrows in my opinion, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with you, and and and and we're gonna
Speaker 1: see how big of an impact this is over the
Speaker 1: course of this year. Right. Do I think jose Al
Speaker 1: too is still a good player? Do I think Springer
Speaker 1: and Bregman and their crew and Korea? Yes, I do.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna find out, you know. And so I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stay away from them until they proved. Right there,
Speaker 1: like you're saying it right here, I'm staying away from
Speaker 1: him that's already affected by the stress conference absolutely immediate reaction.
Speaker 1: And I do not know how much of an impact
Speaker 1: them having the damn signs and knowing if it was
Speaker 1: the fastball off speed, I don't know. I know I
Speaker 1: played college baseball, Alex. I'll tell you what, if you
Speaker 1: told me if it was all speed or fastball, my
Speaker 1: average would be about fifty points higher. So we'll see.
Speaker 1: But but Alex, that was not the only thing we're
Speaker 1: here in at a major league bseball. I want to
Speaker 1: bound some of these proposals off of you real quick,
Speaker 1: because one of the things we're hearing is that or
Speaker 1: I guess it's been decided. Um, if you come on
Speaker 1: in now, you gotta face a minimum of the three batters. Alex,
Speaker 1: and I think this is very interesting, especially with as
Speaker 1: you know, the lefty specialists. It spans you know, decades
Speaker 1: and generations, right, you know, so that idea of the
Speaker 1: lefty specialist. You better get right these out too, you know,
Speaker 1: because they're not gonna be able to mix and match
Speaker 1: in the seventh and eighth inning. And here's what I
Speaker 1: don't get about this, Alex. Where is the Players Association
Speaker 1: on this, Because if they were going to eliminate the
Speaker 1: d H, let's say the Players Association be piste off.
Speaker 1: That's like fifteen people's jobs that are going by the wayside,
Speaker 1: where there are dozens of guys in Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: right now who will lose all of their value to
Speaker 1: be gainfully employed if this rule holds, you know, like
Speaker 1: you're gonna bring in a guy to face the lefty
Speaker 1: and then he's gonna get blown up when lineups you know,
Speaker 1: have switch hitters or stack lefty verse right righty, lefty,
Speaker 1: righty lefty. I think this is really weird. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: if there's two outs in the inning, you want to
Speaker 1: bring him in because if the ends the inning, then
Speaker 1: it's okay. But I find an issue with this for
Speaker 1: the lefty specialist. And also, let's say you bring in
Speaker 1: a reliever Alex and he just ain't got it and
Speaker 1: the first batter boom, second batterer boom. You gotta do
Speaker 1: he has to face the third hitter. Nah, I don't
Speaker 1: want to give him the hook. So so, so what
Speaker 1: do you think about this? Man? I just think I
Speaker 1: see what they're doing. I see what major League. I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna spead the game act. But it's it's
Speaker 1: the same thing with the Astros. You think you're gonna
Speaker 1: do one thing with this, and it's a complete backfire.
Speaker 1: Like we get it. We just had Tom Gladden on
Speaker 1: the morning after today. He said he used to hate
Speaker 1: watching managers walk up every single time after the seventh
Speaker 1: inning because he knew, oh, here comes after the seventh
Speaker 1: you know, three trips to the mound in one inning. Um,
Speaker 1: so I get it, but this is not the way
Speaker 1: to go about it. You're gonna ruin careers. Listen, and
Speaker 1: let's put these both together. The Astros got caught cheating,
Speaker 1: and the big part was the technology. Right, where the
Speaker 1: hell is the technology in this if you want right,
Speaker 1: if you want to uh robot um, but if you
Speaker 1: want to pull your picture, why does a sixth year
Speaker 1: old man have to walk out to the mound, like,
Speaker 1: can't they just buzz something? Can't they just send the signal,
Speaker 1: just walk off saying like, oh, I'm done, let me
Speaker 1: just let me just walk up instead of going up
Speaker 1: there you're like, oh, this big, this is a tough
Speaker 1: pinch hitter. Let me give you the scouting report on it.
Speaker 1: You can't have a microphone on the guy's helmet the
Speaker 1: same way there is in the NFL, the same way
Speaker 1: there is everywhere else. Why maybe it's because they're already
Speaker 1: using these things to cheat. It's ridiculously, it's ridiculous. Um.
Speaker 1: Here's the other thing. I think it's interesting, Alex. They're
Speaker 1: going to a twenty six man roster. There will be
Speaker 1: an extra roster spot, okay on Major League Baseball rosters
Speaker 1: this year, And I think this is incredibly fascinating. What
Speaker 1: would you do with your last man, Alex? What would
Speaker 1: you do with that last player? You have a roster
Speaker 1: spot that you didn't have last year? What is this?
Speaker 1: Is it another bullpen arm? Well, guy's gotta phase three batters. Now,
Speaker 1: is it a super utility? Guy? What would you do
Speaker 1: with this twenty six man? I know what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do with it. I personally use the utility because it
Speaker 1: eliminates the whole picture. I expect, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like you said, you just said three three batters, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: so it was you don't need an extra need exactly,
Speaker 1: we don't need this big of a bullpen. I think
Speaker 1: this could be two things. I think this could be
Speaker 1: played two ways. One, this could be the opening of
Speaker 1: a door to Major League Baseball teams going to the
Speaker 1: six man rotation. Alex. They do it. They do it
Speaker 1: in Japan. We talk about the stress the innings pitched right,
Speaker 1: and how we have to lessen the stress on these
Speaker 1: pictures because there's such assets right and assigning long term contracts.
Speaker 1: But they have Tommy John surgery. It happens in Japan already, Alex.
Speaker 1: What about the six man rotation? I believe rotations will
Speaker 1: be a lot different in Major League Baseball. You know,
Speaker 1: fast forward five years, right, some teams are using the openers.
Speaker 1: We're doing all sorts of ways. We know what it
Speaker 1: does to the stress on the human arm. We are
Speaker 1: pushing the limits of human performance six man rotation. Haven't
Speaker 1: we seen some teams already experiment to these essence last
Speaker 1: year or in the previous years. In essence, Alex, the
Speaker 1: Dodgers are trying to cheat the system. Okay. Remember they
Speaker 1: also had the ten man i l last year. So
Speaker 1: what they were doing, and they had a couple of
Speaker 1: guys that were on the shuttle bus from Triple A, right,
Speaker 1: guys like May, guys like Urious Guy, you know, others,
Speaker 1: guys like Strippling. Even that they were able to massage
Speaker 1: the injured list, right and the Triple A Major League
Speaker 1: shuttle and in essence manage their roster so that they
Speaker 1: did do that. Okay, So I think that's one way
Speaker 1: to look. Here's the other thing I would do, and
Speaker 1: this is gonna sound crazy, but you know me, I'm
Speaker 1: the spitting statistician, Alex. I would just employ a world
Speaker 1: class sprinter, a pure speed guys, straight pinch runner, straight
Speaker 1: pinch runner. Yep, that's that would be my man. I
Speaker 1: would get Usain Bolt or someone pure speed. Okay, because
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Do you talk about that super utility man? Cool? Okay,
Speaker 1: we don't need the bullpen guy. Now, maybe it's a starter,
Speaker 1: but like what we do need and I this is
Speaker 1: going away in baseball, right, the stolen bases going away.
Speaker 1: But if you're in a two two game, Alex, and
Speaker 1: you know that this picture has to face three batters
Speaker 1: and you get your leadoff man on, I'm bringing in
Speaker 1: my pinch runner, my guy that the whole damn stadium
Speaker 1: knows is gonna steal and it doesn't matter because he's
Speaker 1: that damn fast. Okay, we don't have these guys anymore,
Speaker 1: the pinch runner, and especially in the playoffs where things
Speaker 1: get tight, you know what I mean, especially in close
Speaker 1: games towards the end. That is a skill set that
Speaker 1: is vanishing that I believe with an extra spot, could
Speaker 1: he be like some kind of super utility defender. Could
Speaker 1: he be someone who could play all three outfield positions? Sure,
Speaker 1: But the primary skill set I want on Man twenty
Speaker 1: six on my roster is speed. Alex, what say you?
Speaker 1: I like it. I think it's a great idea, especially
Speaker 1: because like you're saying with it, if if a picture
Speaker 1: stuck up there for three batters and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: all I need to do is it a single off?
Speaker 1: This home run. I don't have to go for power
Speaker 1: from first, it's going all the way to the other
Speaker 1: corner on third. I think it's a great idea. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would like let's keep an eye out on this, okay, Alex.
Speaker 1: I want to see, um how teams start to use
Speaker 1: this extra spot in the roster, especially when you factor
Speaker 1: in we don't need to have as many people in
Speaker 1: the bullpen because you can't mix a match. You can't
Speaker 1: just burn through them all in an inning and a half,
Speaker 1: you know, or an ending and third. Okay, So I
Speaker 1: think that is gonna be very interesting. You gotta keep
Speaker 1: an eye out on that. The last thing I'm hearing,
Speaker 1: Alex is the idea of seven teams making the playoffs,
Speaker 1: uh right, and and then ironically division winners getting to
Speaker 1: pick their opponent. That's crazy to me. MLB is MTV
Speaker 1: now Day. Yeah, they wanted to be like a reality show.
Speaker 1: They wanted to be a big thing like where you know,
Speaker 1: we unveil stuff. I think they're going way too far.
Speaker 1: Here's what's gonna happen, Alex. It's kind of like a
Speaker 1: be careful what you wish for, right the first time
Speaker 1: someone you know, like the Yankees or whatever. They're like,
Speaker 1: we want to see Minnesota in the first round and
Speaker 1: then Minnesota beats them. Who's gonna take the blame for that?
Speaker 1: Does the coach get fired? Does the GM who makes
Speaker 1: this decision of who they want to play? The organization?
Speaker 1: Is that the GM? Is that the owner? Is that
Speaker 1: the manager? I think it's a slippery slope, you know.
Speaker 1: And and do you really trust teams and managers to
Speaker 1: make the right decision on who they want to face?
Speaker 1: I don't. I think it's really really weird. I think
Speaker 1: they're trying to over engineer at alex for for TV.
Speaker 1: You said, it's like their MTV right now right They
Speaker 1: want to produce and make a TV show out of it.
Speaker 1: They see what's happening in all these other leagues they
Speaker 1: haven't been able to do it, by example, for example,
Speaker 1: with with their Major League Baseball Draft, or the same
Speaker 1: way the NFL and the NBA has, So they're looking
Speaker 1: to make a made for TV program. It sounds like
Speaker 1: they're trying to be And my initial thought after hearing oh,
Speaker 1: they want to do a reality show for it, my
Speaker 1: initial thult was NBA with the All Star Draft, they
Speaker 1: want to make a show out of it. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: But that's the thing. Major League Baseball is not the
Speaker 1: National Basketball Association. It can't be. Let's keep an eye
Speaker 1: out on that. Let's see if this comes through. I
Speaker 1: want to see how teams manage the three in it
Speaker 1: a three batter limit or minimum, let's say. And I
Speaker 1: want to see how teams are using this. Man, if
Speaker 1: you see me on you know, if you hit me
Speaker 1: on the chatting room, if you hit me on Twitter
Speaker 1: at spitting speeds, let me know what you think about
Speaker 1: the twenties six man, and let me know what you
Speaker 1: think about you know, the lefty specialist. How is the
Speaker 1: Players Association not you know, arguing this for collective bargaining?
Speaker 1: I do not know. I mean, quick check up on
Speaker 1: the poll question Alex. Right now, thirty seven percent say
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers will be the biggest name quarterback to move.
Speaker 1: Say Tom Brady, say Cam Newton and h nobody has
Speaker 1: voted others. We know Philip Rivers likely will be moving.
Speaker 1: So the question is does Brady go somewhere? Does Cam
Speaker 1: go somewhere? We're gonna talk about that. Yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about that. The merry go round continues on the
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Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all saw, but the XFL popped
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Speaker 1: We gotta pull question up. I am intrigued to see
Speaker 1: who you guys think will be the biggest name moving.
Speaker 1: Alex and I will continue our conversation on the quarterback
Speaker 1: free agency, trade draft, Merry go around later on in
Speaker 1: this show, Alex. The x f L kicked off, uh
Speaker 1: last week alright, So you know, uh, we had some
Speaker 1: I thought good games, Okay. I I gotta tell you something.
Speaker 1: I thought, Yes, the quality of play was a little
Speaker 1: bit lower, okay. And we saw some places where like
Speaker 1: guys were just blowing assignments, like the DC defenders would
Speaker 1: have blocked point. I was like, oh that could be
Speaker 1: you know, that was pretty bad. He he whipped on
Speaker 1: a block. You know, some trick plays. There were definitely
Speaker 1: some plays where it was obvious they were attacking people
Speaker 1: that were not, you know, professional football players, right. So
Speaker 1: I understand that. But I've got about six or seven
Speaker 1: things here that were takeaways from the XFL that are
Speaker 1: varying in terms of like how good they were or
Speaker 1: if there's something that could be done away with. And
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Alex, I think that the XFL
Speaker 1: is onto something in a lot of ways. A lot
Speaker 1: of the feedback has been positive, and there's even a
Speaker 1: rule that I think the NFL and college football need
Speaker 1: to adopt a sap, Alex, you know what's one it is?
Speaker 1: It is the kickoff absolutely absolutely Okay, it's the kickoff
Speaker 1: a linement. First of all, the first time I saw it, Alex,
Speaker 1: it looked weird, right, It was just visually looked weird
Speaker 1: with the two lines of guys on the other side.
Speaker 1: But honestly, it combines excitement and player safety. Like any
Speaker 1: rule that can bring excitement and be under the guys
Speaker 1: of player safety sounds good. You know, you don't want
Speaker 1: these kickoff team guys running for sixty yards for these
Speaker 1: crazy collisions. Okay, that's why they moved up the kickoff
Speaker 1: in the NFL to try and have more touchbacks because
Speaker 1: they don't want those violent collisions. This takes away the
Speaker 1: violent collision, and then they put in penalties for touchbacks
Speaker 1: and stuff to encourage an actual runback, balancing excitement of
Speaker 1: the game and player safety. Alex, I absolutely love this,
Speaker 1: and I honestly think combined with the touch at the
Speaker 1: touch back penalties, this is like number one thing that
Speaker 1: the XFL got right in my opinion, so much so
Speaker 1: that I don't see why the NFL and college football
Speaker 1: don't adopt it as soon as possible. Oh. I think
Speaker 1: it's a collection of number one things that they got right.
Speaker 1: This is definitely one of them. It's one of them
Speaker 1: we're gonna go through for sure. But let me let
Speaker 1: me just say this, Um, when you did you did
Speaker 1: you see any penalties on like a block of the
Speaker 1: backs or anything on that of the golf? So so
Speaker 1: they're right there, tells you this is a good idea
Speaker 1: word because also you know, when you're just you're your
Speaker 1: five ten yards apart, there isn't that weird crackback block.
Speaker 1: There isn't that, you know, there's more less time for
Speaker 1: the formations to get warped. Quite frankly, so I agree
Speaker 1: with you on that. Here's the other thing that I
Speaker 1: truly loved. But we'll never come. But I don't think
Speaker 1: will come to the NFL. Everyone's miked up, Alex. Everyone
Speaker 1: is miked up, right. You can hear the play calling
Speaker 1: coming in. You can hear the quarterback with the hot reads.
Speaker 1: You can hear them trying to align the wide receivers up.
Speaker 1: You could also hear the referees, Alex, and I thought
Speaker 1: that was incredible, huge and you could hear the replay booth. Alex,
Speaker 1: I thought that was great and you can see them
Speaker 1: working through it. Okay, so this is actually incomplete, So
Speaker 1: the ball needs to be spotted here, we run the
Speaker 1: time back because we don't we don't trust it these days.
Speaker 1: Right in the NFL. You're like, I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're gonna get it right, you know, and and and
Speaker 1: we're like, what were they looking at here? At least
Speaker 1: you see and hear what they were looking at. I
Speaker 1: also saw a play that you know, Pat McAfee, who's
Speaker 1: on the sideline. These guys are interviewing players right as
Speaker 1: they come off the field, whether they made a great
Speaker 1: play or a bone head play, and seeing the thoughts
Speaker 1: with them. That level of access on the sidelines, the
Speaker 1: coaches headset, and the refs and the replay booth, I
Speaker 1: think it's awesome. Okay, I don't think. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's gonna like be able to happen in the NFL.
Speaker 1: But like positive mark in the column for the XFL,
Speaker 1: hunh absolutely, And you're right, it probably won't happen in
Speaker 1: the NFL, because we did see it too this past weekend.
Speaker 1: I gotta be careful the f bombs. You gotta, you gotta.
Speaker 1: We're trying to make it happen. These guys are probably
Speaker 1: it's live, that's the thing. I don't think NFL will
Speaker 1: ever adopt that. But one more thing to this point,
Speaker 1: Dane um they I don't think they were hearing those
Speaker 1: refs in the replay at the stadium, were they? No?
Speaker 1: I think that was the TV was just a TV thing.
Speaker 1: So does this hinder the XFL from a live stand?
Speaker 1: That's what I was going to on television because the attendance,
Speaker 1: the ticket sales are going through the roof, Alex. But
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you the truth. I'd rather watch an
Speaker 1: XFL game on TV because of some of the things
Speaker 1: you're saying. Right, I get to see behind the curtain
Speaker 1: a little bit. Right. But here's the other thing. It's
Speaker 1: damn February in the Northeast, Alex. I am going I'm
Speaker 1: I'm serious, like in Tampa, cool l A, cool, Houston,
Speaker 1: cool d C, New York. I ain't sitting out and
Speaker 1: freezing my ass off for three and a half hours
Speaker 1: in mid to late February or early March. I ain't
Speaker 1: paying money to freeze my ass off when I can
Speaker 1: see it on TV. Absolutely, So you're not gonna go
Speaker 1: to a half filled stadium too, because I think they
Speaker 1: cut off like half the stadiums on top, so they
Speaker 1: want people in the bowl in the lower area, so
Speaker 1: you're only in half the stadium anyway. One of the
Speaker 1: other things I will say, though, I saw the l
Speaker 1: A Wildcats, I believe against the Houston Roughnecks. I took
Speaker 1: that money line, do not remind me Wildcats? So l
Speaker 1: A they drew more people to the stadium than the
Speaker 1: damn Chargers. Hmm, I'm dead serious, interesting, dead serious, Alex.
Speaker 1: There were more l A fans there for the damn
Speaker 1: Wildcats or whatever the hell they're called than for the Chargers.
Speaker 1: And the l A Wildcats are home again this week.
Speaker 1: They have Dallas now. The only thing I want to say, also,
Speaker 1: don't people care about recency bias? You know I was.
Speaker 1: I was on there last week saying that I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take the points. I'm gonna take underdogs because we're on
Speaker 1: even footing with the people who capt these games, right,
Speaker 1: the people who have the information. Don't all of a
Speaker 1: sudden go too crazy, though, Alex. Okay, two of the
Speaker 1: teams that lost were without their starting quarterbacks. And I
Speaker 1: think people really really need to know about that. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're talking about l A. Josh Johnson is their starting quarterback, Alex.
Speaker 1: He wasn't in there, alright. They went to Kaf. They
Speaker 1: went to the third stringer as well, because Kanaf wasn't
Speaker 1: getting it done, all right. So Josh Johnson was nursing
Speaker 1: a thigh injury. They say he may be back. So
Speaker 1: the l A team you saw was not what it
Speaker 1: will be because their starting quarterback wasn't there. The same. Um,
Speaker 1: I think the Dallas team, Alex, the Dallas renegades. I
Speaker 1: believe they are Landry Jones. He wasn't there as well,
Speaker 1: all right, So that's something you gotta keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you something. I was impressed with Houston.
Speaker 1: I was impressed with Houston, Alex for two main reasons,
Speaker 1: and it it is the same themes that I talked
Speaker 1: about in the NFL. You've heard me on this air, Alex.
Speaker 1: In the NFL. I talked about that it was gonna
Speaker 1: be one of these superhuman African American play making quarterbacks
Speaker 1: who's gonna win the Super Bowl. And I said it
Speaker 1: was either Patty Mahomes, Russell Wilson, Deshaun Watson, or Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: What do you know? It was this kid, P J.
Speaker 1: Walker for Houston. Okay, he is a guy who can
Speaker 1: be that playmaker, that dual threat from the quarterback position
Speaker 1: in a way that card L. Jones ain't gonna be
Speaker 1: Landry Jones ain't gonna be Josh Johnson ain't gonna be.
Speaker 1: I like that they have the dual threat, and I
Speaker 1: like that they're slinging it all over the field on
Speaker 1: the defensive side, Alex, this Houston roughnext team, they got
Speaker 1: a D line, Bro, they got a D line. They
Speaker 1: are big Coney Eally among them. These are names I
Speaker 1: know from the NFL. You give me the elements of
Speaker 1: a playmaking quarterback and a D line that can get
Speaker 1: pressure in this secondary football league where offensive line play.
Speaker 1: I still believe in suspect I will like the Houston Roughnecks.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be my adopted team. Playmaking quarterback, spread offense
Speaker 1: and a D line that can get pressure. I think
Speaker 1: you're onto something here, Dane, especially with Walker too. I
Speaker 1: mean I was watching Look he looked a little like
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, but he was moving around. He had some mobility,
Speaker 1: so it was nice to see that. Um And also
Speaker 1: till you look at Houston and there's the Dallas Renegades. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there could be an in state rivalry here. That just
Speaker 1: it's more to Houston wanting to play harder and play better.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, so, Houston is gonna be my
Speaker 1: adopted team. All right. The Houston Roughnecks are at home
Speaker 1: laying eight points against the St. Louis battle Hawks. And
Speaker 1: this comes to my last point, the one, two and
Speaker 1: three point conversions. Alex, I think it's cool, but I
Speaker 1: don't like it. I don't like it. Ultimately, I think
Speaker 1: I understand they're trying to do something. I understand, no
Speaker 1: extra points, I understand, get more offense on the field.
Speaker 1: I understand it. Here's what I don't like about it.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you know I just now said the
Speaker 1: Houston Roughnecks are eight point favorites this weekend. I've got
Speaker 1: no idea, Alex, Because in the NFL, three and seven
Speaker 1: are the key numbers, right, we know about this all
Speaker 1: three verse three and a half. Right in the XFL.
Speaker 1: That goes out the damn window, because these guys could
Speaker 1: be attempting one, two, and three point conversions. If you're
Speaker 1: down by eight, it don't matter. You go for three,
Speaker 1: you know. And it is going to change the way
Speaker 1: scoring happens to a point where I'm worried about the
Speaker 1: key numbers that we know and love not really being
Speaker 1: in play anymore. Right. I was just talking with my
Speaker 1: man window Will, and he says he's on New York, right,
Speaker 1: and he's like, oh, but New York is six and
Speaker 1: a half and plus six and a half. And you
Speaker 1: know what I texted him. I texted him, Yo, if
Speaker 1: it gets to seven, let's hammer it. But that is
Speaker 1: my NFL way of thinking. Seven is not the key
Speaker 1: number in the XFL. And so I think that's gonna
Speaker 1: take an adjustment for fans and sports investors, And to
Speaker 1: be quite honest, it's too much of an adjustment for me.
Speaker 1: It's it makes It gives me cause for pause to
Speaker 1: put my money in. It really really does, Alex. Because
Speaker 1: this eight point spread for Houston, the seven point spread
Speaker 1: for d C at home this week against the Guardians,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a key number or not.
Speaker 1: It's gonna take me some time. Now. Nobody attempted the
Speaker 1: three point conversion in week one. But what happens if
Speaker 1: you're down by seven in the fourth quarter. That's what
Speaker 1: I don't know. And because I still don't know about that,
Speaker 1: I am going to be a little bit leery to bet,
Speaker 1: and that's something the XFL does not want. On the
Speaker 1: other side of the break, we talk quarterback news and
Speaker 1: quarterback Merry go Round. I've been hearing some things. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you have to some new addresses. We keep playing
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Speaker 1: thirties six you have to spit the statistician holding you
Speaker 1: down for another fifteen minutes. Um, we were talking about
Speaker 1: the XFL and were right, Fasano, Fasano down there in
Speaker 1: the pit of misery holding it down. Dilly dilly to
Speaker 1: the crew down there. You know what it is, Um.
Speaker 1: You know it's still early. We're gonna see teams try
Speaker 1: for three. We're gonna find out one of these offenses
Speaker 1: is going to realize real soon that they're in efficient offense.
Speaker 1: And guess what, They're gonna go for two right away
Speaker 1: in the first quarter. You know, I think it just
Speaker 1: throws off the dynamic. It's interesting, Alex. You also made
Speaker 1: an interesting point that we haven't seen like the double pass,
Speaker 1: which is something that people were like, how is this
Speaker 1: gonna work out? We haven't seen that just yet. Easy either.
Speaker 1: One last thing on the XFL, Alex. So I'm adopting
Speaker 1: to Houston Roughnecks. Okay it for the betting markets people.
Speaker 1: There are four teams in each conference. Okay, four out East,
Speaker 1: four in the West. It is a ten game regular season, Alex. Okay, ye.
Speaker 1: After one week. Do you know that Houston was the
Speaker 1: only team that won in the Western Conference, So they
Speaker 1: had right, So they have a full game lead on
Speaker 1: everybody in their division. And there's only ten games. This
Speaker 1: is not a six team game season. This is a
Speaker 1: ten game season. So having a game lead on everybody
Speaker 1: is just a bigger lead then if it was a
Speaker 1: sixteen game season. And so that's all I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: to that point too, like you said it before, but
Speaker 1: the public isn't informed Johnson was out, That's right. One
Speaker 1: week where you don't have your starters isn be the
Speaker 1: difference because it's listen, it is a bigger chunk of
Speaker 1: the season. Absolutely, But let's turn to the guys who
Speaker 1: played the highest level of football out there. Okay, the NFL, alright,
Speaker 1: in the last week, here's what we're hearing. It's official.
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers and the Chargers are partying ways right, There's
Speaker 1: a lot. There's even odds up Alex of where Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers may end up, Tampa and Indianapolis. We heard he's
Speaker 1: moving his family to Florida. We know he has history
Speaker 1: with Frank Reich. Uh. Those are probably reasons why the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers and the Colts are favorite. There. I'm hearing, I'm
Speaker 1: hearing stuff, and these are all about quarterbacks, Alex, that
Speaker 1: we talked about and we played the game last week.
Speaker 1: I'm hearing quote unquote things are fixing to heat up
Speaker 1: with Dak Prescott and the Cowboys and their contract negotiations.
Speaker 1: Panthers general manager Marty Hernie will not answer questions about
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, and silence is golden when it comes to
Speaker 1: will he stay or will he go? Um. The Bengals
Speaker 1: are saying that they are willing to deal Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: to a place that appeases him, that is a good
Speaker 1: fit for him. Andy Dalton would one year seventeen million
Speaker 1: dollars left. Um, And then I heard some rumors. I
Speaker 1: don't buy it, but there are some rumors out there
Speaker 1: about Matthew Stafford and the Detroit Lions. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you why it won't happen. Uh. If he moves on,
Speaker 1: it is a thirty two million dollar cap hit for
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions to like not be there. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the time maybe waning with Stafford and and the Detroit Lions,
Speaker 1: but he'll be there this year, all right. So Um,
Speaker 1: we played a little bit of this game last week, Alex.
Speaker 1: We said we'll tee will will certain players stay? Will
Speaker 1: they go? And will they be a backup or a
Speaker 1: um a starter. We talked about guys like Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, Andy Dalton put the graphic up that we
Speaker 1: have if you got it there, okay, So I love it.
Speaker 1: First of all, my man Steve in the pit of
Speaker 1: misery making the graphics for us. Right. So the top
Speaker 1: right our guys we thought will be playing for new
Speaker 1: teams but are still starters. The top left are starters
Speaker 1: that we think will stay. We think Car stays with
Speaker 1: the Raiders, Prescott does eventually sign or get tagged in Dallas.
Speaker 1: Tannehill gets that money to stay in Tennessee. Brady you
Speaker 1: can yeah, I'll believe it when I see it. And
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick, listen, they brought in um offensive coordinator that
Speaker 1: he has experienced with. They're gonna sling it there in Miami.
Speaker 1: Now here's what we have here now, Alex, because we
Speaker 1: have decided we think Andy Dalton is moving on, Cam
Speaker 1: Newton is moving on, Philip Rivers is moving on, and
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston is moving on. And then you think Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater stays but as a backup, and you think Jacobe
Speaker 1: Brissette stays but as a backup. So to me, that means,
Speaker 1: and let me see if we got this right, Alex,
Speaker 1: you think since he will have a new quarterback, you
Speaker 1: think Carolina will have a new quarterback. You think the Chargers,
Speaker 1: you think the Bucks, you think the Indianapolis Colts, and
Speaker 1: you think New Orleans are in the quarterback market. So
Speaker 1: one name we didn't necessarily put, you can take down
Speaker 1: the graphic. Now, Alex, what do we think about Drew Brees?
Speaker 1: Is Drew Brees gonna retire? Is he walking away? Is
Speaker 1: he coming back from one last hurrah? What's going on
Speaker 1: with Breeze? I remember we were talking about this last week.
Speaker 1: I think if he had one the Super Bowl, no question,
Speaker 1: he's done off into the sun. Teddy retiring to finish
Speaker 1: business exactly. But now I think, yeah, he's he's probably
Speaker 1: got like back of Ben roethlisbergermedia. As an a Steelers fan,
Speaker 1: I have to get the Steelers in there. Um, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, he's probably got one maybe two years left
Speaker 1: in him. Finale comes, then you free stays. Then you
Speaker 1: continue to think Teddy Bridgewater stays absolutely because then you think,
Speaker 1: then what about Taysom Hill. See he was saying too
Speaker 1: he does he thinks he deserves to be a start.
Speaker 1: They cannot pay. All three are exactly. I think you
Speaker 1: gotta keep Teddy. You have to keep Teddy. So Taysom
Speaker 1: Hill is on the market, you think, I think as
Speaker 1: a utility player, he could be more valuable on the market.
Speaker 1: But Teddy Bridgewater loves being there, he loves learning from
Speaker 1: the freeze, and he's stepped in for them this past
Speaker 1: season and we've seen him win. So I think Teddy
Speaker 1: has a comfortable spot. So what we're talking about here,
Speaker 1: it sounds like we're talking about Alex We're talking about
Speaker 1: since Carolina, Tampa, the Chargers, the Colts, right, yep, and
Speaker 1: put the graphic up one more time if you can.
Speaker 1: And these guys on the right are they are the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks you think will be kind of playing musical chairs
Speaker 1: that are out there in the market. Right, And let's
Speaker 1: not act. Let's not forget. You know, you can take
Speaker 1: it off. Let's not forget. You know, Joe Burrow will
Speaker 1: be an answer somewhere. Absolutely, justin her will be an
Speaker 1: answer somewhere. Tah. I kind of think toa goes to
Speaker 1: Miami and you talk about Fitzpatrick is already there. He'll
Speaker 1: be there as a bridge to us still healing up,
Speaker 1: you know that kind of thing. So really, some of
Speaker 1: these openings, like everybody's connecting the dots on Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: with the number one overall pick to the Cincinnati Bengals, right,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, even though I heard rumors that they were
Speaker 1: saying they wanted to shop it. But so what does
Speaker 1: that then mean for Dalton exactly? Do you think they
Speaker 1: trust them? And what does that mean for one of
Speaker 1: these backup guys? Like does Mariota for example, get signed
Speaker 1: as an insurance policy backup with Cincinnati? Were they to
Speaker 1: keep for like not not to draft They're gonna draft Carrow. No,
Speaker 1: they're gonna draft Borrow. But without Andy Dalton, then your
Speaker 1: QB two on that roster becomes Ryan Finley, who we
Speaker 1: saw last year, right, And so with a rookie quarterback,
Speaker 1: do you really want Ryan Finley as the backup? Know? Right?
Speaker 1: So that maybe where the where the case Keenums, the
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco's come in, right, the Tarad Taylors, That's where
Speaker 1: those kind of names may come in as well. So
Speaker 1: the merry go round is endless. But do you believe
Speaker 1: in your heart of hearts Burrow is the pick for
Speaker 1: Cincinnati at one, I think all the hy are not.
Speaker 1: You just gotta go so then you know so, then Carolina,
Speaker 1: the Chargers, the Bucks, the Colts. Here's the first dot
Speaker 1: I'm going to connect. I think Philip Rivers is going
Speaker 1: to be the starting quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts next year.
Speaker 1: And I say this because he has a history with
Speaker 1: Frank Reich. If you are a borderline Hall of Famer
Speaker 1: entering your seventeenth season, you know what you don't want
Speaker 1: to do have to deal with a coach who you
Speaker 1: have to want to build trust with who you are like,
Speaker 1: you don't know, if you buy into what's happening, you
Speaker 1: will want a respected coach. Now, Bruce Arians is that,
Speaker 1: but he has experience with Frank Reich. And as we
Speaker 1: talked about in this game already, Jacoby Brissette we think
Speaker 1: is a backup. I think there's a fit there. And
Speaker 1: here's the other part. You know what I don't think
Speaker 1: is strong in Tampa Bay. The offensive line. You know
Speaker 1: what is an Indie and offensive line. I think Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers needs that offensive line in front of him. He'll
Speaker 1: have guys like t Y Hilton, He'll have a running game,
Speaker 1: he has tight ends on that roster who he could
Speaker 1: like you know, and so I believe Rivers is a
Speaker 1: fit for lost for Indianapolis. As we begin to connect
Speaker 1: the dots, what do you think where where do you think?
Speaker 1: Since I wish we could add maybe like a as
Speaker 1: weird as it says, a retired uh of the quad.
Speaker 1: You mentioned that, and that is very interesting. Okay, because
Speaker 1: we have this on fan duel, Philip Rivers. Next team,
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers are the favorites at plus one seventy. The
Speaker 1: Indianapolis cultol I'm mentioning, are the second choice at two
Speaker 1: to one. Alex No team slash retired is the third
Speaker 1: choice for Philip Rivers. That's six to one. Then we
Speaker 1: see Miami, the Vegas Raiders, the Carolina Panthers, the Bears,
Speaker 1: the Titans, and the New England Patriots. It's interesting all
Speaker 1: teams that we were just talking about will be on
Speaker 1: the Merry Go Round. Okay, so they think Tampa. The
Speaker 1: books say Tampa. I say, Indie, you want to bet
Speaker 1: no team that he retires. I'm just saying because I
Speaker 1: think the Cults fits. The Colts is definitely a fit.
Speaker 1: The question is will he get along with Jacoby bris said, matter,
Speaker 1: I think it does. Considering Jacobe was the guy last season,
Speaker 1: maybe he wants to be like, let me see if
Speaker 1: I can have an opportunity to dethrone a potential future
Speaker 1: caller quarterback. Interesting, So we didn't cover this because we
Speaker 1: said Jacoby Brissette was gonna stay and be a backup.
Speaker 1: You know where else Jacoby Brissette could do that. His
Speaker 1: former team in New England is India. As the Patriots say,
Speaker 1: Belichick likes him sure right, like Jared's Stidham is not
Speaker 1: necessarily the man there, right they You know, maybe Jacoby
Speaker 1: Brissette is a safe security blanket that Brady knows is
Speaker 1: not the real threat for a year. But Belichick is
Speaker 1: familiar with him. Brisett knows it. He'll know what have
Speaker 1: He'll have an opportunity. Don't don't look now about that one.
Speaker 1: You think Jamis goes somewhere that creates an opportunity in Tampa,
Speaker 1: and that means Jamis has to go somewhere where Where
Speaker 1: in the hell does Jamis go? Well, he's got new eyes,
Speaker 1: so I'm sure somebody's gonna be looking at him. And
Speaker 1: as he's gotta be someone who like I think I
Speaker 1: said this last week, it's gotta be someone who has
Speaker 1: enough of a of a defense to to make up
Speaker 1: for his interceptions. Essentially, so because you know you're gonna
Speaker 1: get four touchdowns with James, but you're gonna get four interceptions.
Speaker 1: What about the Chargers? Do you think he's gonna want
Speaker 1: to move across? Don't you like that? I don't know.
Speaker 1: He's gonna go wherever his options. It's where are his
Speaker 1: options he'll go where If if the Charges were the
Speaker 1: only team that are gonna offer starter level money, then
Speaker 1: that's where he's gonna go. And maybe him and to
Speaker 1: Rod they fight it out. That could be an interesting one.
Speaker 1: I am also very intrigued by the Carolina Panthers because listen,
Speaker 1: they bring in Matt Rule, right, they bring in Joe
Speaker 1: Brady as the coordinator there, and they've got this Sean
Speaker 1: Payton system. We saw what happened in l s U.
Speaker 1: Who do you think that is the fit for? Is
Speaker 1: that like Andy Dalton doesn't move the number the needle?
Speaker 1: There are they gonna try to trade up get Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1: The guy that they know it'll work because Brady worked
Speaker 1: with him, is an Andy Dalton. That guy I don't
Speaker 1: really think so. Do they make a play for Philip Rivers?
Speaker 1: I don't think that fits. It's very interesting, Alex. We
Speaker 1: will continue this conversation and by the time we'd come back,
Speaker 1: maybe Dac is signed or franchised, maybe someone else. Parts ways,
Speaker 1: we'll keep our eye on it. We'll keep on moving
Speaker 1: that graph throughout. We'll see if the Astros fully apologized,
Speaker 1: and we'll see if the Houston Roughnecks continue their dominance
Speaker 1: of the Western Conference of the XFL. Come on back
Speaker 1: n see free Style next week. I'm out.