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Speeds a k a to 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:09.240 spitting Statistician a k a to Stable Genius and vocal Minority. 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.840 And welcome to another edition of the Fantasy Freestyle right 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.160 here on the Sports Grid Network, episode number four hundred 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:20.720 and thirty eight, the four hundred and thirty eight Convening 0:01:21.160 --> 0:01:23.200 of the Status of a Beat Cipher, where we help 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.520 you win your leagues and win that cash. I do 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:30.720 represent the South South Bronx. I represent all sorts of things. Now, 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.399 as you know, I wasn't in here last week. I 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.959 am back now, maybe looking a little bit different. We'll 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:38.560 get to that a little bit later on, listen, we 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.000 got a lot to talk about. In my stead, my 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.560 man Alex Fasano was down there in the pit of misery, 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.360 and quite frankly, in this episode, we are gonna get 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.880 all caught up together. We're gonna talk about the big 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.840 time takeaways, the winners and losers from the NFL combine 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.480 last week. Okay, we will update you on what you 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.920 need to know for the XFL moving into week five. 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.360 Some trends have held true. We'll talk about that. I 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.760 also have a couple of interesting stories that you know 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.440 are similar to me in the vein of you know, 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:11.480 sports investors. Sports bettors need to really chill the f out. Okay, 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.160 you'll win some, you lose some, and when you lose, 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:17.160 the right thing to do is not necessarily go ahead 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:21.200 and troll the athletes or threaten the athletes that were 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.480 in that game. This is starting to become a thing. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.120 I'll tell you about that a little bit later on. 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.280 My guys down in the pit, we will also be 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:32.280 updating what's going on with the cheating scandal in Major 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.400 League Baseball, the Houston Astros, the Buzzers. As you know, 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.840 I'm all about hashtag buzz al Tov and the like. 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.040 And then yes, we will share a little bit of 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.880 where I was the last for the last week, week 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.200 and a half, I was down in Jamaica. You may 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.639 notice a little bit different. We got something non a 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.600 finger right there, so we'll talk about that as well. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:54.600 So we got a lot to get to and of 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:58.120 course we've got a pole question up for sure, all right, 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.600 and that pole question is what are you What are 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.160 you learning from the NFL combine? You know, we talked 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.280 about it all the time, the Wonderlick test, the bench press, 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:10.080 the forty, this shuttle run. Does it really matter? Do 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.080 the interviews matter to teams? Doesn't matter what they look 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:16.720 like in jim shorts and tank tops. Will find out. 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.200 But right now we go back down to the pit 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.239 when mom man Alex Vassano gets you caught up on 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:29.239 everything here from Scorts broad Come on back, sports grade 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:37.960 news Update. Welcome back the spitting statistician, Dame Martinez. I 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.880 am Alex Vassano, here with your sports grade news update 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:45.119 on the Fantasy free Style in the Association. Golden State 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:49.600 Warriors guard Stephen Curry will return Thursday against the Toronto Raptors. 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.320 He missed more than four months while recovering from a 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:55.480 broken left hand. The two time m v P tweeted 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.120 his excitement about rejoining Golden State after missing the previous 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:03.240 fifty eight games. Curry, who is thirty one years old, 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.840 suffered the injury on October thirty when Phoenix Sun center 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.040 Aaron Baines fell on Curry's hand after a collision under 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:14.080 the basket. Curry underwent two surgeries to repair the fracture. 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.400 Here is a quote from head coach Steve Kerr. This 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.320 has been a long, long haul for Steph. He loves 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:21.640 playing so much. I'm happy for us, I'm happy for 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:26.760 our fans, but I'm happiest for Steph. In Major League Baseball, 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.040 the Boston Red Sox starter Chris Sale he is not 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.920 expected to undergo Tommy John surgery. Sales elbow injury is 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.520 still a concern, and it's unknown for how long the 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.280 left hander will be sidelined. However, the surgery would have 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:41.840 ended his season before it even began. As the Red 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.599 Sox pondered sales future, they gathered several medical opinions. Interim 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.880 manager Ron Renicky told reporters earlier on Wednesday that the 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.800 team was still waiting to hear from renowned surgeon Dr 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:55.800 Neil a'l eltross and sticking with the association. Last night 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.760 we saw some great games. The Mavericks took on the 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:02.279 Pelicans three in oh For time it was Luca versus Zion, 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:06.080 but it was KP Kristaps Porzingis leading the way thirty 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.080 four points, twelve rebounds. Nice double double for him. Alonzo 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:10.800 Ball on the other side for the Pelicans, nice double 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.800 double twenty five points, eleven rebounds. We also saw the 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:18.560 Trailblazers take down the Wizards one oh four. Hassan Whiteside 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.359 led the way for the Blazers twenty four point sixteen rebounds. 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.600 Bradley Field for the Wizards led the way with twenty 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.920 nine points and six rebounds. You got a full slate 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.120 of NHL, NBA and college hoops tonight. Let's look at 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.640 the Hockey League because well, my Aisles will be going 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.200 to Ottawa to take on the Senators. Aisles are going 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:39.120 to half favorite. The total is five and a half. 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.960 We also got the Capitals visiting the New York Rangers 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.640 in Madison Square Guarden. The Capitals, you're going to have favorite. 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.080 The total is six and a half. And why not 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.760 the Dallas Stars taking on the Nashville Predators Stars your 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.600 goal and a half favorite. The total is five and 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.080 a half. I'm Alex Passano and this has been your 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.080 Sports Grid News update. Now back to Dame Martinez on 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:04.760 the Fantasy Fury Style. Thanks a lot, Alex. We're back 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:06.919 here in Studio thirty four making it happen. As I 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.240 mentioned before, we got a pull question up right now 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:11.719 on Twitter at spitting Speeds. How much do you learn 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.919 from the NFL combine? Right? Does it really matter? Do 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.880 you now know who you team, your team wants to draft, 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.560 who you want them to draft, who you think you 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:22.840 want to draft in fantasy doesn't help a little bit? 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:24.960 Or is it absolutely nothing? I'll tell you right now, 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.640 over two thirds of you think that is what it is. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.080 Alex mentioned a couple of updates. You know, I've been 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.039 gone for a little while, but two things that I've 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.440 heard over the last twenty four hours that I wanted 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.360 to mention real quick. One yesterday Tom Brady and Bill 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.640 Belichick had a phone call, had a meeting whatever it was, 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.680 and reports are that it did not go well. Okay, 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.960 And I think, listen, people, the writing is on the wall. 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.359 They're just being coy about it, kind of similar to 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.800 Tampa Bay and Jameis Winston. All right, I think they 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:55.120 are just you know, waiting until the new league years starts, right, 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.440 and then they're gonna go ahead and announced that yeah 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:59.320 he's out there, or the buck set will announced yeah 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.200 they're not gonna go and look to retain Jamis Winston. 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.520 It is very very interesting. There have been rumblings for 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:09.200 years now that these guys didn't necessarily getting wrong get 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.240 along in New England. I'm talking about right, there was 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.880 that big piece that the trainer, Alex Guerrero TB twelve 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:19.360 and the gym's were all involved. But winning, it's a 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.880 great deodorant. Winning changes a lot of things. Just go 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.920 ask Charlie Sheen for goodness six right, But then all 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.960 of a sudden they're not winning anymore. That's when you're 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.080 starting to hear the cracks. And to be quite frank, 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:35.000 you know, there were odds up before around where were 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.880 these quarterbacks play? And the Tom Brady odds, you know, 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.240 continue to change a little bit, they really really do. 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:45.160 And now listen, I hear Tennessee, I hear the Chargers, 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:48.160 I hear the Vegas Raiders. And that's why Alex and 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.440 I were doing that kind of quarterback merry go round 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.680 with you guys over the last couple of weeks to 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.760 see where they may fall. Because if he goes to Tennessee, 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.520 what does that mean for Mariota and Tannehill. If he 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.680 winds up with the Vegas Raiders, what does that mean 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.480 for Derek Carr. But what is interesting is that I 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.120 believe these dominoes will start to fall in the next 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:11.080 couple of weeks as the new league year approach approaches. 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.080 But the riding is on the wall. In my opinion, 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.320 it looks like Tom Brady may in fact go elsewhere 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.800 that it's uh, finally time to move on. What will 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.200 the Patriots do? What they look at a guy like oh, 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.880 I don't know, Jacobe Brissette, who may not have a 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:30.600 starting job if Philip Rivers winds up on the merry ground. 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.000 These are things we have to know. The other thing 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.960 that may, in fact you'll get news on at the 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:40.160 start of this next league year is the fact that 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.319 the NFL is looks like they're gonna ratify a new 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.880 CB A possibly okay, the collective Bargaining Agreement. You've heard 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.960 everything from you know, the idea of the second by 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.880 to the playoff format being seven teams, to the games 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.000 out there in London that we appreciate. But here's a 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.200 little bit that we haven't talked about too much with 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.640 this new cb A. Alex and I don't know if 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.360 you've heard this, but they're saying in the new CBA, 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:08.600 the substance abuse policy is going to change in the NFL, 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:14.000 making it clear no player will ever be suspended again 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:19.600 for a positive drug test drug, in this case being marijuana. Now, 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:24.440 I ask you, Fasano, what do you think Josh Gordon 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:28.880 is doing right about now? Dude? Am I allowed to 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.160 say it? I mean, yeah, you can say it. But 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:35.120 here's the thing. Honestly, that man has had thousands, if 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:40.880 not millions of dollars, you know, in fines and suspensions 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.920 a whole year. Right. We were just talking about the 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:47.800 Browns Lineman a couple of weeks ago, right, Seantrelle Henderson 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.440 alignment for the bills. You know, you were getting suspended 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.680 as long for weed as you were for punching your 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.079 wife or wearing cleats that were not you know, deem 0:09:56.160 --> 0:10:00.000 designer and fashionably appropriate. I think it's ridiculous, but it's sound. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.200 It is like they are going to change this now 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:04.360 and kind of remove some of the penalties for the 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.360 drug testing. I think it's a good step in the 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.720 right direction, especially when you know twenty some odd states 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:10.680 have it legal. What do you think Josh Gordon's thinking 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:12.560 right about now, Alex, I'm thinking he definitely has another 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.720 opportunity does come into the league. I mean, he's saying himself, 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.600 I've only been suspended for marijuana abuse, and if it's 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.000 going to be pushed aside, then what's stopping you guys 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.920 from letting me play? But if you think from like 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.880 the player's perspective, is this enough to be like, all right, 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:28.920 we're gonna throw our bodies out there for another game 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.520 and other, you know, extra week in the playoffs? Is 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:34.120 that enough to be like, hey, give us the marijuana 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.400 policy and we'll we'll throw our bodies out there on 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.920 the line it helps their injury? I guess sure, profession 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.400 you gotta give something to get something, though, Alice, you 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.079 gotta give something to get it in negotiations, players, you 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:46.840 know what I mean? Is that enough to them saying huh, 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:48.800 I guess the league's giving us a little something something, 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.800 But I don't know it's gonna come down to their 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.480 health versus is this going to help it. Absolutely, we'll 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.640 keep your eye out on that. As they talk about 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.440 the new c b A. There are a lot of 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.560 factors in there, everything from revenue air in the TV 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.400 to the seventeenth game, to the buys to the London 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:07.319 to the policy on marijuana. So we want to keep 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.439 an eye out on that. I also was telling you guys, listen, 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.960 it was a bailor basketball game at this point about 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:19.920 a month ago, alright, where um a guy named mac otiges. Alright, 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:23.280 he's like an eight seven percent free throw shooter. They're Baylor, 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:24.800 you know, one of the top teams in the country. 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.679 They won this game by They won this game by five, 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:33.040 but they were favored by six. Okay. And Macotige starts 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:38.920 getting death threats, starts getting social media hate okay, and 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:42.240 you know, the head coach starts coming out talking about 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.960 this and this idea of what they are going to 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:47.520 have to face. You know, I mean he's getting and 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:49.679 and and the the quote here and some of these 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.400 articles are saying that he was getting you know, people 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.640 ven mowing him asking for money back because he missed 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.880 those two free throws right, and he's saying he didn't 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:00.440 even know what a spread was. He was like, he 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.280 won the game, he thought this would be good. But 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.680 that's not the worst of it. When we come back, 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.160 we're gonna talk about another guy who has literally be 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.320 going after something like three hundred different players in college, 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.120 in the pros, over in Europe on soccer, and the 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.440 man got arrested. We're gonna talk about this, and I 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.480 want to find out, Alex, where is the line for 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:23.000 you between heckling trolling, what's appropriate, what's legal, and what's not. 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.080 We'll get into that, and then the big time takeaways 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.560 from the NFL combine the XFL and more your boys spees. 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.479 The spitting Statistician is back. They're playing you know, thematic 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.280 music for me, But come on back, it's a fantasy freestop. 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:39.280 Were back in the chair. Daily Rhodo dot Com learned 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.640 from the game's best DFS players. We don't just give 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:47.760 you premier advice. We play every day, all major sports, 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.960 all year round. 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I was talking about 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.760 this Baylor game of a couple of weeks back where 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.920 Macot you know, and he says, and I quote, it 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.840 can really affect the mental health of some players. I'm 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.040 an older guy, so it doesn't really affect me. But 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.360 we've got younger guys like Jared and Jordan, they're an 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.560 eighteen and nineteen years old that might get under their skin. 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.920 If they see that on their Instagram, it may affect them, 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.120 and who knows, it could force even some guys to 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.480 give up basketball. I'm glad they did it to me, 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.800 a stronger, older person. It could have really affected someone else. 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:05.960 This is a guy playing college for basket for Baylor, 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.080 did not even know what a point spread was his 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.439 team won the game, they just didn't cover okay, and 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.839 he was getting the vile, the vitriol that we are 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.920 now seeing as commonplace. Alex, I want to ask you 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:22.560 because you know you're a millennial, right, and so I 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.240 kind of try to compare it to if I'm at 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:29.960 a stadium, I can scream out almost whatever I want. Right, So, 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.760 what is the difference in your opinion between maybe a 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:37.040 guy getting heckled at the arena and this kind of 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:41.320 social media trolling that is going on right now, fueled 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:43.720 I guess by the stakes and the investment raised by 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:47.960 sports betting. I think my personal take on this whole thing, 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.520 if you're at a sporting event, basketball, soccer, baseball, whatever 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.000 you want to be at, you can go as far 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:57.360 as taking it to the player based on their skill. Okay, 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.720 you can go, oh, you're the worst first basim I've 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.160 ever seen. You have hands, You've got no handles, your 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:06.680 footwork is terrible. The second you bit personal about family, 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:11.560 so like for example, so for example, your throat will 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:19.160 be severed open with a dull knife. Um, your entire 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:24.040 family will be beheaded and burned alive. Just a little behind, Okay, 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.920 I will enter your home as you sleep and kill 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:31.520 you just a little past of line. Interesting, interesting, interesting. 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.880 I mean I don't know where the line is, right, 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.400 I don't know where the line is. But I mentioned 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.440 these because you know you've probably heard the story by now. 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:40.840 Gabe is talking to about it on the commercial. I 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.680 I threw out the bailer thing as an example, but 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:46.400 these things are continuing, right, And so twenty three year 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.640 old New York Or a guy named Ben Pat's a 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:52.640 k a. Parlay Pats, right, He's got something like hundreds 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.640 of social media accounts and it is hitting up all 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.960 sorts of players with this stuff, like I said, severing 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.120 your throat with a dull knife, right, And he is 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.600 the funny part. Here's a funny part, Alex. I don't 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.200 know if it's funny, but here's the interesting part. To me. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.560 This guy hit a ten team parlay back in December 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:13.400 for one point one million dollars. So what does he 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.400 have to complain about if he's missing a bet here 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.280 were there? He just had a hit. He hit a 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:21.040 ten team or three months ago for one point one 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.640 million f in dollars. Alex, you don't think that would 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:27.800 subside some of the hate. How do they not find 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:29.640 the guy? And actually, like after the minute you you 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:31.800 fought you win a million dollars, don't they swarm you 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:33.720 and trying to find out more about you? Word up? 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:35.920 And he did have his little fifteen moments of fame. 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.640 But then they started tracking this and you know, he 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:42.240 he went hard on Julian Edelman over the playoffs. And 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.800 here's the thing, ron Kowski, and you're talking about it. 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.320 You know, he was going after their wives and girlfriends 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.160 and their kids as well, you know. And and in 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:54.440 my younger, non married days, I I said some nonsense 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:56.760 in the stands. I said some stuff that I'm not 0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:00.160 pleased with now, you know. But I wonder do you 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:04.000 think it is a different standard, because I believe, you know, people, 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:07.479 these trolls, they hide behind the computer also, you know, 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:09.920 And I believe like when I was doing this back 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.399 in the day, I was at least right there, you know, 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.720 and they saw me, everyone in the section saw me. 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.159 These guys that are not hiding behind the Internet or 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:20.720 hiding behind their handles. I think it's even more weak, Alex, 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.320 you know, the generational thing. I mean, look at That's 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.400 why I'm asking you about it. Absolutely, you know, I'm 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.000 never wanted to go behind a screen and do it. 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:29.680 You know, I'm right there with you. You're gonna say something, 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.919 you stand up in you, you say it. I I 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:36.399 face to face like like a man, but or a 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.760 woman or woman absolutely or whatever whatever. Um, But you're right. 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.440 It's just it's easier nowadays a phone, you know, even uh, 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.240 a buzzer in the jersey and things like that to 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:48.920 cheat the system, whether it be against the game or 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.119 against players. It's it's it's kind of disrespectful and a 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.480 little it is. But here's the other thing, because I 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:55.239 read some of this article, not the not the one 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.160 about this guy, the twenty three year old New Yorker, 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.800 but back the Bailor kid. You know. Um. Their head 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:05.720 coach is um Scott Drew. You remember his son, Bryce Drew, 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:07.840 you know, from Valpo with a big shot back in 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:09.760 the day, about ten twenty years ago at this point. 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:14.880 But right, he also said this, though players are dealing 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:18.280 with mental illness and anxiety these days, and now they 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.600 have more issues to deal with than ever before. Trust me, 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.280 college players weren't dealing with anything like this ten or 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:27.800 twenty years ago. Now. Slow down, though, Okay, because I 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.560 think this is part and parcel of being an athlete. 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.719 Whether it's the college level, maybe okay, you should get 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:34.760 a pass, but at the pro level, like, I don't 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.520 care if players are dealing with mental illness and anxiety. 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.719 Oh boo hoo. Isn't this part of it? Though? I 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.480 understand when I'm going over the line talking about children, family, 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.719 blunt knives and whatnot, But isn't it part of the 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:49.560 game to get heckled? You know what you're getting into 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:51.639 what I'm saying, so like, oh, we have to be 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:53.639 gentle with these kids. I don't know if I'm all 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:55.480 the way there yet either, though, Alex, you know what 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:59.880 I mean to me, that's part millennial softness and part 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:03.320 these trolls are just shook and hiding behind the computer. 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:05.520 I think it's really should be something in the middle. 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:07.600 Well yeah, like, like there's one thing being a troll 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:11.359 and there's another thing of being disgusting and disrespectful. I 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:15.280 like being witty, that's the best, you know, and so 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:17.919 how how can you do that? You know in a 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:20.840 way that seven year olds around you or the internet 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.320 doesn't understand what you're saying or just kind of laughs 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:29.560 at it. Being you know, disruptive without disrespectful. That's what 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.399 I'm going for, you know, So we will see. I 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:34.560 just think it's very interesting. But listen, I deal with 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:37.040 trolls all the time. As you guys know, if you've 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.840 been on this network, you have seen and heard the vitriol. 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:42.080 And I just think, you know, especially in this climate 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:43.960 that we're in, we all need to take a damn 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.280 chill pill, Okay, and especially this dude. I mean, my 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:48.520 man just is coming off a one point one million 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:53.600 dollar win and now he's facing five years in prison 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:55.960 for some of this nonsense that he's putting online. And 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:59.080 quite frankly, I am completely cool with it. All right, 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:01.200 we do want to move Vaughan to what is actually 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:03.919 happening on the field, and Alex you know, you know 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.800 after the Super Bowl, you know, we have a little XFL, 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.480 but the NFL is starting to come back into focus 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:12.639 with the new league year happening. We'll get to see 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:15.479 where this free agent quarterback carousel that we have been 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:18.240 talking about, you know, where that pops off. But the 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.120 other thing that really happened since I was gone, since 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:24.359 the last convening of the Status over Beat Cipher is 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:26.919 the NFL Combine, Alex. You know, and this is always 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:29.639 interesting to me because you know, you run them out 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.600 there in shorts and and under armour, right and they're 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:34.720 doing their bench press and they're doing their forty times. 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.399 Nobody had a chance to win an island this year 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:39.880 or anything like that. But the first thing I want 0:20:39.880 --> 0:20:41.399 to ask you, and we have the poll question up 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.840 because right now, Alex, you know, like seventies some odd percent, 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:47.520 like two thirds of the people believe that you learn 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:52.800 absolutely nothing from the combine. Do you agree with that? 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:56.600 Or are there certain things you can learn? Like maybe 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.400 the teams are more interested in the interviews they have, 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:01.840 not the one their lick tests, but the interviews they 0:21:01.880 --> 0:21:04.120 have to see if they'll mesh as a culture fit, 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:06.120 you know, Or are there any of the drills out 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:08.480 there where you're like, this can actually tell me something 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:10.760