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Speaker 1: welcome to the show. You are It's it's all right,

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Speaker 1: There was he was unstoppable. And now, I mean, there

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Speaker 1: are a couple of backs like that, and that's what

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Speaker 1: made the fit so hard. I think that I think

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Speaker 1: Chris Thompson, like gives you someone that he's already to

430
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Speaker 1: your third down dude, he's your passing specialist. I don't

431
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Speaker 1: know if his role changes that much, And maybe that

432
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Speaker 1: kind of helps that you already know that whoever was

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Speaker 1: going to be there on down one and two probably

434
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Speaker 1: wasn't going to be the third down specialist anyways. But

435
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Speaker 1: losing Darius guys, I think that's just their whole plan changed.

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Speaker 1: They're the one team that had that first round pick

437
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Speaker 1: where it's like, ouch, man, we lost the guy we

438
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Speaker 1: were going to lean on. He look good too. Yeah, no, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I completely agree with that. But I'm curiously and I know,

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Speaker 1: you know, after what happened over the weekend, I started

441
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Speaker 1: seeing Adrian Peterson get drafted in like the single digits

442
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Speaker 1: and fantasy lass and fantasy drafts, and that that made

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Speaker 1: my brain itch. So I you know, I couldn't is

444
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Speaker 1: that people like they just don't they know the name,

445
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Speaker 1: and so there there's a lot of that. I think.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a cow many people who just know

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Speaker 1: the name and do and I think there's just people

448
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Speaker 1: who just genuinely get too hyped up over what they

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Speaker 1: see in preseason games. Probably these guys drafting before Week three,

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Speaker 1: Um after New York, Sam Donald looking strong again and

451
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Speaker 1: it looks like he has locked down the jets starting

452
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Speaker 1: quarterback job. I mean, I guess this part doesn't surprise me.

453
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Speaker 1: They obviously they spent the number three pick overall on him.

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Speaker 1: They have high hopes for the guy. He's played well.

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Speaker 1: My biggest question is why hasn't a Teddy Bridgewater trade

456
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Speaker 1: happened yet? You know, I think there's probably a lot

457
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Speaker 1: of pride inside a team like because where with the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars will make a lot of sense. But they just

459
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Speaker 1: spent an all off season floating endless wind about how

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Speaker 1: much they believe in Blake Bordles, and they gave him

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Speaker 1: a contract extension, and they didn't draft anyone to really

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Speaker 1: come in and compete with them, And so a trade

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Speaker 1: I think would need to be when their hand is

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Speaker 1: forced because there one in two or one in three

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Speaker 1: and suddenly they realized, listen, jobs are on the line here.

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Speaker 1: We've got to figure this quarterback thing out. The other

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Speaker 1: thing is, if I'm the Jets, I don't give anyone

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Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater right now. I would like dangle that that

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Speaker 1: Carrid out there and let that let you want you

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Speaker 1: want a team that deals with an injury, and then

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Speaker 1: you want the Jaguars to get into a bidding war.

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Speaker 1: Then Mike mccagnet looks very smart. Yeah, I know, that

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Speaker 1: was one of the things you wrote about recently. They

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Speaker 1: had four preseason trains that need to happen, and that

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Speaker 1: was sort of one of them. I think would have

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Speaker 1: killed me if I didn't put that in. I know.

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Speaker 1: That's why like watching the Jets the last couple of

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Speaker 1: games that you know, Twitter has just gone nuts, right, like,

479
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Speaker 1: you know, insert team that needs a quarterback, backup quarterback,

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Speaker 1: you know, trade for Teddy And maybe you're right, maybe

481
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Speaker 1: the Jets are just trying to like what this build

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Speaker 1: and trying to pull and we don't know that the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars have reached out with the other teams. We there

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Speaker 1: are apparently two other teams that have two teams that

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Speaker 1: have reached out. Maybe one of them is the Jaguars.

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Speaker 1: But I you know, is he someone that you plug

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Speaker 1: into the starteroid away? He has looked good. And it's

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Speaker 1: funny because the Bridgewater injury is the one of the

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Speaker 1: last outside of Jimmy g the big quarterback trades. Because

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Speaker 1: that injury forced the Eagles, or got the Eagles the

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Speaker 1: chance to change Sam, send Sam Bradford to Minnesota, creating

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Speaker 1: that three headed quarterback mess that to send Teddy Bridgewater

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Speaker 1: sailing out the building this offseason. So please, now, I

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Speaker 1: think you're right, and you know, this is the thing

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Speaker 1: I keep telling people, like, obviously for fantasy you're not

496
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Speaker 1: drafting Teddy Bridgewater, but just knowing that in this league,

497
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks get hurt often that wherever he goes, there's a

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Speaker 1: chance we could see at the Bridgewater playing this year.

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Speaker 1: My other question, and we've kind of kicked this around

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Speaker 1: with some friends, is that this is the first time

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Speaker 1: in recent memory that you can go through the list

502
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Speaker 1: of nearly every team, not not all thirty two, but

503
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Speaker 1: close to and there's at least a a decent quarterback

504
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Speaker 1: on the rod. This feels like the deepest quarterback season

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Speaker 1: we've had in a while. It really does. And it's

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm thinking back, I saw the rundown here,

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Speaker 1: and I was thinking back, like my whole life, because

508
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Speaker 1: they're always crappy quarterbacks starting every team has had a few,

509
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Speaker 1: and we're sort of in this balance right now that

510
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Speaker 1: there are five rookies and in the book is not

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Speaker 1: written on any of them. So there's hope with all

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Speaker 1: of them. And so so they're they're sitting there as

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Speaker 1: like that candidate. You could say, well, we could, we

514
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Speaker 1: could build this franchise around that person. But it's about

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Speaker 1: time that because we're about to lose Brady Breeze, Big Ben,

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Speaker 1: Eli Manning and Philip Rivers you know, in the near future,

517
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Speaker 1: and so we're gonna be back in that situation. We

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Speaker 1: need a five pack of players to kind of replace

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Speaker 1: that five pack. Yeah, I agree, and I think I

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Speaker 1: mean just kind of spitballing here. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson looks like he could jump in there, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, curious to see what we get out of

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Speaker 1: you know, Jimmy Garoppolo, Nowrick Mahomes. You know, I don't

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Speaker 1: know we really put Jared Goff in there just yet.

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Speaker 1: I am with that coach. And also I thought that

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Speaker 1: he I was last offseason. I was quite annoyed that

527
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Speaker 1: everyone was assuming Jared Goffer is gonna become great, and

528
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Speaker 1: then he had quite a nice season, and I think

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Speaker 1: that the offense around him is really strong at this point.

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Speaker 1: I feel like the guy that never gets mentioned right

531
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Speaker 1: now is Mitch Drabinsky, he really just never gets mentioned.

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Speaker 1: I feel like he is still so much of an

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Speaker 1: unknown right very much. Last year, I mean, he struggled,

534
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Speaker 1: but he didn't really have anything around him to help out.

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Speaker 1: And then this year, you know, everybody's excited about Matt

536
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Speaker 1: Nage and what that offense could be. But at the

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Speaker 1: same time, we've seen very little of Mitch Drobinsky in

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Speaker 1: this preseason they've shown I mean, I guess maybe to

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Speaker 1: their credit, they've shown literally nothing about what they're gonna do.

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Speaker 1: But it is interesting just because he just seen there's

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Speaker 1: the Q rating on Mitch Robinsky is lower than some

542
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Speaker 1: of these other guys at this point where you think

543
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Speaker 1: it would be exploding right now. Yeah, No, I just

544
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Speaker 1: I'm curious. I have high hopes for Mr. D Bisky.

545
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Speaker 1: I just kind of want to see it before I

546
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Speaker 1: kind of, you know, weigh in fully. Eric Decker announces

547
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Speaker 1: his retirement after eight seasons. I keep coming back to

548
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Speaker 1: this Patriots wide receiver group, right, I mean, we know

549
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,040
Speaker 1: Chris Hogan is there. Beyond that, I mean, Julian Edelman

550
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Speaker 1: is coming back off an injury and has a suspension.

551
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Speaker 1: There's so many question marks there and we keep falling

552
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Speaker 1: back on the greatness of Tom Brady. You know, even

553
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Speaker 1: though he's forty one years old, everybody still believes and

554
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Speaker 1: I get that, but I still think if something happens

555
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Speaker 1: to Rob Gronkowski, does this thing completely fall apart in

556
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Speaker 1: New England? I would just say never, because Something's happened

557
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 1: to Rob Gronkowski many many times. I thought Edelman looked

558
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Speaker 1: really good against the Panthers. He had one one pass

559
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Speaker 1: you should have caught that that was a drop, but

560
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Speaker 1: other than that made two really athletic plays, and you know,

561
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Speaker 1: you could tell Decker was out the door when Riley

562
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Speaker 1: McCarron came in ahead of him in the game. They

563
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Speaker 1: used a lot of Philip Dorset and Cordarrel Patterson in

564
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Speaker 1: that game, and they those guys have speed, but it's

565
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Speaker 1: hard to project out of one of them. Especially Dorset

566
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Speaker 1: was there all last year. Is like high volume dudes

567
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,119
Speaker 1: in that offense. So they do need like someone to

568
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Speaker 1: step up, and I just I do have faith in them, though,

569
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Speaker 1: because the Bills had no idea what to do with

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Speaker 1: Chris Hogan. The Patriots turn him into a really talented

571
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Speaker 1: Why don't who I nearly want a Sandwich bet off

572
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Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl by saying it would have a

573
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Speaker 1: hundred and eight yards, thinking like got a hundred twenties something.

574
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Speaker 1: But I mean, they also have running backs that double

575
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Speaker 1: as wide receivers, and I just they always find a

576
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: way to get like eighteen people touches in one game.

577
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Speaker 1: It's quite mystifying. It's it's amazing because Tom Brady is

578
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 1: consistently a top three fantasy quarterback right and he has

579
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Speaker 1: consistently done it without anyone really leaning on any of

580
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Speaker 1: his receivers fantasy why. I mean, like I said, there's

581
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Speaker 1: been Edelman. Uh, you know, Chris Hogan is kind of

582
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Speaker 1: getting some love right now, but it I guess it

583
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Speaker 1: speaks to and look, I I am a Joe Montana guy.

584
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Speaker 1: I grew up in the Bay Area of Montana, was

585
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Speaker 1: in my wheelhouse as a kid, and so I have

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Speaker 1: grudgingly like held onto this. You know, Joe Montana is

587
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Speaker 1: still the greatest, But like I have to, I guess

588
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:03,680
Speaker 1: I have to let this go, right. I think your

589
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,880
Speaker 1: you might start to slowly see yourself on the wrong

590
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: side of history. I know, I love Joe Montana, but

591
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Speaker 1: I know and like I'm I'm it's one of those

592
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Speaker 1: things that as you get old kids, is when you

593
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Speaker 1: get older, you start to have to realize that the

594
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Speaker 1: guys that you thought were great as a kid might

595
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: not be the greatest anymore. You know. It's like, I

596
00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: don't quite understand why Bernie Cozar hasn't been shoveled into

597
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 1: Cantons at this point. But as I the deeper study

598
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 1: I get into it, I start to understand why. Uh, Finally,

599
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:33,240
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh has I won't say he's changed the game necessarily,

600
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Speaker 1: but he's barely played his starters at all in the preseason.

601
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 1: You know, you got Todd Gurley out here saying that

602
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,120
Speaker 1: he's living everyone's dream basically of not playing. We haven't

603
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,959
Speaker 1: seen much or any of Jared goff Um. I'm waiting

604
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:48,640
Speaker 1: for somebody in the football media to write a column

605
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,120
Speaker 1: that says millennials are killing the NFL preseason because they've

606
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 1: apparently killed literally everything else. But it does, it does

607
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Speaker 1: for me. Beg the question for for those of us

608
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Speaker 1: who do this for a living and you know, trying

609
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:02,479
Speaker 1: to use these games to gauge how teams are going

610
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Speaker 1: to be, do we have to sort of change how

611
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 1: we watch preseason and how we use that to evaluate

612
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 1: teams and players. Now, Yeah, I mean I I I

613
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Speaker 1: almost wonder if millennials would deserve credit for killing at

614
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: least part of the preseason versus um critique. But I

615
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,919
Speaker 1: think I think Sean McVeigh is probably when you with

616
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Speaker 1: a guy like Todd Gurley, like if you believe this

617
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 1: player is complete, And we see this at the running

618
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: back position a lot too, they're gonna they're the shape

619
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Speaker 1: they're in is gonna dictate what happens, you know come

620
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Speaker 1: the regular season. Do you really need to see him

621
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Speaker 1: in there? I mean, but the trend we're starting to

622
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Speaker 1: see it sprinkled throughout the league is just yanking starters

623
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,520
Speaker 1: like this so called dress. By the way, dress rehearsal,

624
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:40,880
Speaker 1: it is meant for, meant to be for when you're

625
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: in a play and you're in street clothes and it's like,

626
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 1: let's all get into our our dresses and our top hats,

627
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,159
Speaker 1: and suddenly it feels no more real. There's no football

628
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 1: game where it's like a non dress rehearsal team between

629
00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 1: go out and street clothes and hit each other without pads.

630
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: So the whole thing needs to go. But if I'm

631
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Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh. I I think I think it will be

632
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Speaker 1: smiled on down the road where we need to reduce

633
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,959
Speaker 1: preseason games. I just think two would be fine. And

634
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Speaker 1: and maybe though because not every team does this, you

635
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: mandate that you scrimmage with a team for a week

636
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: or do two scrimmage weeks, I think a lot's to

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00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:11,400
Speaker 1: be gained from that. And I think I think that's

638
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: the argument for cutting down preseason games is because more

639
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: of these teams are scrimmaging with one another, so you're

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Speaker 1: still getting some of that live action against different opponent.

641
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Speaker 1: And I think that that, you know, I don't know

642
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Speaker 1: that that lends itself to not having four preseason games,

643
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Speaker 1: because it's it's been kind of a slog through this preseason.

644
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Speaker 1: We still have one more week of it left. We

645
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Speaker 1: can't be in slog mode in August, like we check

646
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Speaker 1: back post Thanksgiving where everyone's like, oh, please with the

647
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,320
Speaker 1: regular season. But I mean it's a little early for

648
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Speaker 1: us to be feeling that way. So I agree, Well,

649
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Speaker 1: we'll keep an eye on the rest of the preseason.

650
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Speaker 1: But the first everyone knows about the risks of drunk driving.

651
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Speaker 1: You could get into crash, people could get hurt or killed.

652
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Speaker 1: But let's take a moment to look at some surprising statistics.

653
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Speaker 1: Almost twenty nine people in the United States die every

654
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Speaker 1: day in alcohol impaired vehicle crashes. That's one person every

655
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Speaker 1: fifty minutes five zero minutes. Even though drunk driving fatalities

656
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Speaker 1: have fallen by a third in the last three decades,

657
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Speaker 1: drunk driving crashes still claim more than ten thousand lives

658
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Speaker 1: every year. Many people are unaware that driving while high

659
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: can be just as dangerous in drivers killed and crashes

660
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Speaker 1: tested positive for drugs. Not so harmless after all, is it?

661
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Speaker 1: And get this from two thousand seven to marijuana use

662
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Speaker 1: among drivers killed and crashes. Double truth is driving while

663
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Speaker 1: high is deadly. So stop getting yourself if you're impaired

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Speaker 1: from alcohol or drugs, don't get behind the wheel. If

665
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Speaker 1: you feel different, you drive different, Drive high, get a

666
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Speaker 1: d U I drive sober, or get pulled over. Part

667
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Speaker 1: of of what I like to do here is to

668
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Speaker 1: try and learn stuff and try to hopefully educate all

669
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Speaker 1: you guys out there listening to some stuff, because I

670
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: think being smarter about football makes you smarter about fantasy football.

671
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: And so I went and found a guy who has

672
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Speaker 1: done a lot of scouting kind of looks at guys

673
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Speaker 1: on a deeper level and and has some kind of

674
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Speaker 1: deeper names for folks in deeper leagues and some dynastee

675
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Speaker 1: league uh names that we haven't talked about a whole lot,

676
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 1: but could have the potential fantasy value depending on who

677
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Speaker 1: you play or where you play. And that's Emory Hunt,

678
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Speaker 1: founder and analyst at Football game Plan. You can find

679
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Speaker 1: him on Twitter at f Ball game Plan. Also a

680
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Speaker 1: fantasy writer at The Athletic and a guy that I

681
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Speaker 1: have enjoyed reading over the last few months. Emory, thanks

682
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Speaker 1: for coming on the show man. How are you? I'll

683
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Speaker 1: find Marcus Man. I appreciate you have me all, dude,

684
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Speaker 1: I'm glad to have you on. First, I want to start.

685
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Speaker 1: You did an article for fantasy Traviesa's, which you know

686
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Speaker 1: usually like it's generally just sleepers, but you wanted to

687
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Speaker 1: not call it sleepers because there are a gazillion sleeper

688
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Speaker 1: articles out there. So I will tell you that your

689
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Speaker 1: your title immediately worked on me. I was like, what

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Speaker 1: is it Traviesa and so I clicked on it. Um

691
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Speaker 1: But but it was great, you know, so I wanted

692
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Speaker 1: to there's a couple of names on there that that

693
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Speaker 1: you had that we haven't talked about a lot. The

694
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Speaker 1: first one is is Tavon Austin. And I bring this

695
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Speaker 1: up because so a couple of years ago I went

696
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Speaker 1: out on a limb and said that it was going

697
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Speaker 1: to be the big breakout year for Tavon Austin. The

698
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Speaker 1: RAMS had just signed him to a big extension. I

699
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: thought for sure that meant that the big, great things

700
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Speaker 1: were coming for him. They didn't, um. But now he's

701
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Speaker 1: in Dallas and I know there's hoping, there's excitement for

702
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Speaker 1: him there, and you look at him as a guy

703
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Speaker 1: with some maybe some PPR values. So make make me

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Speaker 1: feel right two years after the fact, Why should I

705
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Speaker 1: buy back into Tavon Austin. Well, you're always right, man,

706
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Speaker 1: It's always guys like this right because I feel like

707
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Speaker 1: the same thing is going over because Arrel Patterson. But

708
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Speaker 1: as far as Tavon Austin, you know, we live in

709
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Speaker 1: the world nowadays. When people look at UH, it's almost

710
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Speaker 1: like it's old schoolhre People want guys to do one

711
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Speaker 1: thing and one thing. Oh, there's only one way to

712
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Speaker 1: play the receiver position. But when you look at Tavon

713
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Speaker 1: Austin and you think about his unique set of skills,

714
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Speaker 1: like man, we have to find ways to get him

715
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Speaker 1: in the football. Nine times I attend he's gonna be

716
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Speaker 1: the quickest guy on the field. He's probably gonna be

717
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Speaker 1: the fastest, the most dynamic and explosive. So why would

718
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Speaker 1: you have that waiting in collecting us on the sideline?

719
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Speaker 1: So when you you combine that with a guy that

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Speaker 1: our coach has suppos to be a creative mind and

721
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Speaker 1: wanting to maximize opportunities with the roster, especially a roster

722
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Speaker 1: like Dallas where there are some openings for, you know,

723
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Speaker 1: a guy to step up and be a playmaker. I

724
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Speaker 1: think that's what makes this a unique fit as far

725
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Speaker 1: as fantasist concerned. Because when they traded for him, which

726
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: again chose value um, they talked about him playing running back,

727
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: you know, a web back or something like that. But

728
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Speaker 1: now that you see him start to get a little

729
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Speaker 1: bit more comfortable, you know, as a receiver as far

730
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Speaker 1: as route running and how he's gonna be utilized, maybe

731
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Speaker 1: in a slot, sometimes coming out of the back to

732
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Speaker 1: us at studo third down back. I think the way

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Speaker 1: he's being utilized in Dallas with the fact that they

734
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Speaker 1: traded for him, and the fact that he's coming off

735
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Speaker 1: a year where the blueprint was laid out of how

736
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Speaker 1: to utilize him. I think it both as well for

737
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Speaker 1: his chances as a PPR guy. Is it just that

738
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Speaker 1: no one could ever find a way at how to

739
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Speaker 1: exactly use it, because I mean, his talent goes back

740
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Speaker 1: to West Virginia. It just feels like he's never had

741
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Speaker 1: a coach who's figured out exactly what to do with him.

742
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Speaker 1: And it's so frustrating because when you look at him

743
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Speaker 1: and you look at Cardero Pattersons and you see itself, like, Wow,

744
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,719
Speaker 1: this guys that them for the ball. Let's trying to

745
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: make his job harder by having him run these complex

746
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Speaker 1: routes and figure things out. No, you can turn around

747
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: either handed to him or you turn around and do

748
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: dump it off to him and let him do his thing.

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Speaker 1: I think sometimes coaches tend to make football harder than

750
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Speaker 1: what it is. I've always said numerous times that football

751
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: is the easy game. You gotta think players not played,

752
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: and it looks as though going to Dallas they're thinking players.

753
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Speaker 1: And that's why I think he's gonna have lots of

754
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: stept looking around Seattle. Mr Darbo, who he's I know

755
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: he's had some injury issues so far in the preseason.

756
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Speaker 1: But a guy that I thought was kind of an

757
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 1: intriguing draft prospect when he came out of college. And

758
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: you know, there are you talking about openings in Dallas.

759
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: In Seattle. We know there's Doug Baldwin and maybe there's

760
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett, but it feels like there's an opening for

761
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Speaker 1: Amara Darbo to maybe be a playmaker up there. Absolutely man,

762
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: and his biggest issue has been his in availability. Um

763
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Speaker 1: you mentioned that him being injured and once he gets

764
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: out there, you talked about when he was on that

765
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Speaker 1: Michigan team with Chest and the other wires he was

766
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Speaker 1: in Kansas City. I believe when you look at what

767
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: dark Roll was doing from an explosiveness standpoint, he was

768
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 1: there a big playmaker. He was the guy that was

769
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Speaker 1: gonna go up and make the reception on those quote

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Speaker 1: on quote fifty fifty balls, uh and also do a

771
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: great job of coming up big and third down situations

772
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 1: are inside the red zone. And I thought Seattle gotta

773
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: steal when they drafted him, but he just hadn't been

774
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Speaker 1: able to be healthy enough to get out there, and

775
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,439
Speaker 1: that's usually an issue when you have guys that were

776
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Speaker 1: super fans. You know, That's something I've never had to

777
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 1: worry about. I never was that rap so camstring problems, right,

778
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Speaker 1: So when you look at a guy like Dark Boys,

779
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: he's out there healthy, he can easily do what we've

780
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Speaker 1: seen so far as this preseason that a guy in uh,

781
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Speaker 1: Michael gallab Doo in Dallas. He's the same type of player,

782
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: and I think it's just about him getting out there

783
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: and being able to showcase that night he got out

784
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: there last year in Spurts, But to get the full

785
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,399
Speaker 1: idea of what he brings to the table, he really

786
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 1: has to be out there and be able to utilize

787
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Speaker 1: that top end speed that he had. Uh, You're it's

788
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: also about some Dynasty picks. And looked a few of

789
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: the guys that you know, our Dynasty guys, maybe down

790
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: the road guys, but with some potential. And the first

791
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: name on there that that popped me was Chase Edmund,

792
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: especially because we saw a lot of him over the weekend.

793
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: His ability is undeniable. Just the question is do you

794
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 1: think there's room for a second our second running back

795
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: in Arizona with David Johnson there, I think so. And

796
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,359
Speaker 1: when you look at Hetman's apps out here in New

797
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: York City and we cover a lot of FPS football,

798
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: actually broadcasting a couple of Fordham's games. I've seen him

799
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: since his freshman season, and so I knew that the

800
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: potential he had, and I'm glad that he added a

801
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,240
Speaker 1: little bit weight. You know, he came in at about

802
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,919
Speaker 1: one eight five one ninety and now he's at two

803
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: ten and hadn't lost that speed in quickness, And when

804
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,720
Speaker 1: you look at him just from a pure natural running

805
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: back perspective, I have to preface it when I say this,

806
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:50,920
Speaker 1: because he's a better pure running back than David Johnson.

807
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 1: David Johnson is a great athlete who also can play

808
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: running back as well as receiver. We know about his

809
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: story and playing that at Northern Iowa. But as far

810
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: as like from a vision standpoint, fort with quickness, knowing

811
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: how to run with great Biden Leans, that's Chase Edmunds,

812
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: and that's why you don't see him have those injuries

813
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: that you've seen David Johnson had. David Johnson's explosive, but

814
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 1: he's a little bit stiff athletically, and I think that's

815
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 1: what kind of leaves the door cracked a little bit

816
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 1: for a guy like Chase that means to have some success,

817
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: so that way you can prolong the season for David Johnson.

818
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,720
Speaker 1: I think both guys will work well. Like I mentioned earlier,

819
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: where you talk about sometimes they think people gotta see

820
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: it before they saw it already. I think people saw

821
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: the formula last year with the same two lives in

822
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: two backs, and now that team says, okay, they gave

823
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: us a bootprint on how to do it and how

824
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: to make it work. And I think Arizona can do

825
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: the same thing. Especially when you have a quarterback like

826
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 1: Dan Bradford whom you don't want to expose to drop

827
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: backs maybe thirty five to forty top of the game,

828
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 1: you kind of want him to not, you know, be

829
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:50,280
Speaker 1: out there because it's kind of like glass Joe, he's gone,

830
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: you know. So I think that's what you have to

831
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 1: work here about with him. That's where they helped him

832
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 1: out that I had those two backs in the backfield. Yeah,

833
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: you know when you talk about not wanting to expose guys, Look,

834
00:36:57,680 --> 00:36:59,879
Speaker 1: I know David Johnson is going to be the focal

835
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: point of that offense, but they also I think learned

836
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 1: what life is like without him, and I would think

837
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 1: that they would want to try to protect him at

838
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 1: least just a little bit, because I don't think they

839
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 1: can go through another season trying to go with a

840
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: commedian running back without having David Johnson there. Yeah, it's

841
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: all about the long play man, and you know, if

842
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 1: if teams could start seeing things long term, they can

843
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: really maximize the fifty three on their roster. To me,

844
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 1: I wish they could bring their ninety into camp into

845
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: the season because that that will solve a lot of

846
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 1: depth issues. But if you if you have to play

847
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: with forty six on game day, like these guys have

848
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: to do, maximize everybody on your roster. U. Looking at

849
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: the Broncos wide receivers, I mean we I've talked a

850
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: lot about Courtland Sutton and I like his ability, and

851
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: certainly it looks like he's going to get a shot

852
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: as their third wide receiver this year. But you wrote

853
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Speaker 1: about Dave Shawn Hamilton's who you know, was was really

854
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Speaker 1: good in college. I looked at this in the sense

855
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,800
Speaker 1: of both the Marius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders. The Broncos

856
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 1: can get out of their contracts after this year, they

857
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: can opt out and just kind of move on without

858
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 1: too much of a salary cap hit. Is there a

859
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 1: possibility that maybe this is and maybe not both those guys,

860
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: but at least one of those guys has gone and

861
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: something opens up for Davey Shawn Hamilton's in the near future.

862
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 1: I think so. I joked about it with a friend

863
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: of mine, saying, like, you know, they got the Marris

864
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Speaker 1: Thomas Immanuel asanas, then they went out and drafted great

865
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: value to Marry Thomason, right, because both guys are very

866
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: similar to the guys that they're playing behind. So you're

867
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,439
Speaker 1: absolutely right, they can get out their contracts after this year,

868
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 1: and why not have guys that are similar in styles,

869
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 1: skills and and playmaking ability to have going in on

870
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: rookie contracts and building that camaraderie and consistency and rapport

871
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:41,439
Speaker 1: with a quarterback hopefully changed kingam a case Kingdom Um

872
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: is gonna be there again next year and not the

873
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 1: draft a quarterback, but at least you have a guy.

874
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: Two guys in plate in Sutton and Hamilton's. I think

875
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:52,840
Speaker 1: Hamilton's is a better one outtitude for me because he

876
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 1: can play all through receiver spots. He he's a great

877
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: route one out though he was the best one in

878
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 1: the draft class in that regard. And he also is

879
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: a guy that it really takes his craft seriously when

880
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,399
Speaker 1: you have someone that's hyper focused like that and talking

881
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: with him as a shrane game both on and off camera.

882
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,240
Speaker 1: This is a guy that's gonna do the little things

883
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: to where he's gonna play. Attending the twelve year career high,

884
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,479
Speaker 1: Lary Fitzgerald got that you won't even have to worry

885
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 1: about off the field as far as is he putting

886
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: in the work? Is he getting better? He's already doing

887
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: that more so than what you already know. Uh Nahim Hines,

888
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 1: I know early in the preseason he was a guy

889
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: who was getting a whole lot of love. He hasn't

890
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: had the greatest preseason, but I think he has flashed

891
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: at certain times. There's a mess in that backfield. I mean,

892
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: we don't know if Marlon Max healthy. You know, I

893
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: know Jordan Wilkins is there. We've seen Kristin Michael, but

894
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,879
Speaker 1: I feel like there's that You can't completely count out

895
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 1: Nihim Hines to get a shot at some touches this year.

896
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,919
Speaker 1: Can you now you can't at all, And I think,

897
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: what with what hind and this is what I've seen

898
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 1: from him, and just going back from my experience, you know,

899
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: when you are a running back year thinking too much

900
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 1: out there, you can't you you're not really playing what

901
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 1: you are normally used to playing. And I see that

902
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:02,720
Speaker 1: a lot with Hinds. I see him trying to figure

903
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 1: out what's going on or am I taking the right

904
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: steps or am I picking up the right blizzer? You know,

905
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 1: is that cutback gonna be there? Instead of just trust

906
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:14,280
Speaker 1: me his instinct and running. I think as stuff starts

907
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: to slow down and he gets more comfortable to where

908
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: he should be and what he's supposed to do, will

909
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: see the nheim Hinds behind. I'm sorry that we saw

910
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,919
Speaker 1: at NC State and the one that everyone was talking

911
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 1: about free season. I do believe talent usually wins out

912
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,399
Speaker 1: in the end. And you can't coach see you can't

913
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: coach alusiveness. You can't coach a guy that can score

914
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 1: from anywhere on the field. And he has all those

915
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: those things. Now, he may not be the starter, but

916
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Speaker 1: uh as a third down guy, like I said before,

917
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 1: he could be their version of Duke Johnson and what

918
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 1: he brings to the table in the back of he

919
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:45,840
Speaker 1: just got to get rid of get rid of that

920
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 1: for you. Two number one, no doubt me. Keep in

921
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: mind these are you're talking about dynasty picks. These aren't

922
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: necessarily guys that will necessarily flash a big in a

923
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 1: big way this year. But maybe you have some some

924
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:00,040
Speaker 1: some future down the road. Um one of them what

925
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:01,600
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about. You wrote about

926
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: Jonathan Williams, and we know the first four weeks of

927
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:06,720
Speaker 1: the season there's no mark ingram there in New Orleans.

928
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: I just don't believe that Alvin Tamara is going to

929
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 1: somehow absorb all these opportunities. I can't see him suddenly

930
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: being a guy who gets thirty touches the game. The

931
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:19,840
Speaker 1: Boston Scott Jonathan Williams battle has been interesting to watch.

932
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 1: You you kind of side with with Jay will No

933
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,240
Speaker 1: one why? Why is that? Because he keeps the offense

934
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: on pace. He's the guy that's not gonna gamble and

935
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: coaches life consistency. That's why they trust guys that may

936
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 1: not be the most talented, but at least he knows

937
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 1: what he's doing out there, and so they put those

938
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: guys on the field. And I said that to say

939
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,280
Speaker 1: that a guy like Johnson Williams, who was also very talented,

940
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:42,879
Speaker 1: but he keeps the offense on peace. You don't see

941
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 1: any negative plays with him. And he's realistically a lot

942
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: like mark Ingram as far as like plant cut, get

943
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 1: downhill and try to make fools while going downhill and

944
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: next thing you know, it's second and five or is

945
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: you know, third and two or something like that. And

946
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,840
Speaker 1: I think that right there keeps the offense on schedule

947
00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 1: and allows in the utilized album Kamara in the role

948
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 1: that he you know, geniusly created for him last year,

949
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 1: which doesn't wear him out until Ingram gets back. As

950
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 1: I let you Gellan. Thing I always like to ask

951
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: my guests at the end, is there what I call

952
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 1: the pick of pop the thing in pop culture that

953
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: they are digging on, whether it's a movie, music, whatever,

954
00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: that they are digging on that they feel like they

955
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,319
Speaker 1: have to share with the rest of the world. What

956
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:25,439
Speaker 1: the what are you into right now? Man? I am

957
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 1: so into old school rap right now, even though that's

958
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 1: still you know, I've always been that way, but I

959
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 1: think right now the world needs to understand how great

960
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 1: of a rapper cannabis was cannabis has legit bar and

961
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,359
Speaker 1: I think that what's being slept or first of all,

962
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: he won the battle gets hell n but I think

963
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:54,759
Speaker 1: people have to people are sleeping on that because I

964
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 1: just feel like this dude said some things that really

965
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: have you going research and reads. Oh wow, let me

966
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: go find out more about that. So I'm listening to

967
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 1: cannabis old school, but this this is new rappers, I

968
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: W and he's another one. He's reading this story. The

969
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: guy that was a teacher or he is a teacher

970
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: right now. Um, but also is a hip hop artist

971
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,319
Speaker 1: and does a lot of great things in the community. Uh,

972
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: he's phenomenal. He says some things. He has a song

973
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:24,800
Speaker 1: called uh oh man, I forgot the name, now put it.

974
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 1: I put him on the spot. But he has a

975
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: lot of good therapy is the name of the song.

976
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 1: And um, and he does a great job in explaining,

977
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 1: you know, the process of a kid going through you know,

978
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: the troubles of school to what the you know, come

979
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,919
Speaker 1: to that forking road, to explaining what happens me do left,

980
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 1: what happens when you go right, and kind of summarizing

981
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,160
Speaker 1: everything and uh, like the lessons and you know, because

982
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: it's teaching background. So I would say, I w is

983
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,800
Speaker 1: what I'm listening to currently, and I think that's do

984
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 1: You Music? Key is Uh, it's UM label that he's on,

985
00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 1: so I guess I guess you can hear his music

986
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: that do You Music that m But he's a good

987
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 1: artist that I've I've been checking out now, alright, cool man, Like,

988
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 1: I'm glad you threw in though, the thing about cannabis

989
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: and the in the ll FEE because I feel like,

990
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 1: you know, I think people who listen to it felt

991
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 1: like cannabis one. But LLL has had better marketing and

992
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: you know he's got a you know, a television show,

993
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 1: so I can you know, I feel like you know

994
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,240
Speaker 1: that that was kind of slanted in his favor. I'll

995
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: tell you this though, and and and this is the

996
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: same analogy people swear by Starbucks, right, but deep down

997
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 1: you like man Duncan donnuts and McDonald I think people sleep.

998
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 1: People sleep on There's two places that people sleep on,

999
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: the coffee and McDonald's and seven eleven seven eleven coffee.

1000
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: I think is is slept on too much too, So

1001
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 1: I would agree with you, Uh, Emery hunt Man appreciate

1002
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,320
Speaker 1: you coming on this show. Appreciate the information, keep grinding,

1003
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: doing your thing and help. I talk to you sometime soon, anytime, man,

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Speaker 1: want to thank Emery Hunt for stopping by the show. Coach.

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Speaker 1: You can find him on Twitter at f Ball game Plan,

1027
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Speaker 1: also a fantasy writer the Athletic. Find his work at

1028
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Speaker 1: Football game Plan. It is fantastic. But of course doing

1029
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:08,279
Speaker 1: this job means I have to kind of scour and

1030
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: get information wherever I can. You know, part of doing

1031
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 1: this is using Twitter and the Internet and just the

1032
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 1: world at largest sort of a laboratory to to kind

1033
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,839
Speaker 1: of build my information and my knowledge. But I haven't

1034
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:22,279
Speaker 1: like have to go to some unorthodox spots. And one

1035
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: of my favorite spots to go to, UH is the

1036
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler Fantasy Corner. So if you want to know

1037
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: where I get some of my tips, just turn a

1038
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Speaker 1: Mark Sessor. He's got a missive for us from the

1039
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Speaker 1: Fantasy corner. What's going on over their corner? Mark, listen,

1040
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what good thing is. This was a

1041
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 1: nugget that got left out of our fantasy extravaganza. So

1042
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:41,399
Speaker 1: I'm glad that there's a four and where we can

1043
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 1: share it, because it was sitting out there as a

1044
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,120
Speaker 1: deep sort of a bit of deep knowledge that if

1045
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 1: you're I would see, if you're one of these people

1046
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: in sixteen team leagues, that that exists. And if even

1047
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 1: if you maybe you drafted before the three third preseason

1048
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 1: game like Eddie and someone got hurt and you're out

1049
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 1: on the outs, you need you need a deep prospect.

1050
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: I would suggest day thirteen to fourteenth round flyer on

1051
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:07,800
Speaker 1: Houston Texans receptionist Courtney Hazen Marcus. She's a real person.

1052
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 1: You can look her up on the Texans website. I

1053
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,120
Speaker 1: have at firsthand from a plant within the Texans org.

1054
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 1: The Miss Hazen is a rising star inside the building.

1055
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 1: In quotes, there was a time right after the draft

1056
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 1: when Hazen had nine separate phone lines lit up like

1057
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: a Christmas tree, my source told me, and like a

1058
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: focused warbot, she methodically shipped every caller to the correct destination,

1059
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: but also shut down caller number five, a suspicious sounding

1060
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 1: man asking to talk with coach Bill O'Brien about some

1061
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 1: fixes to the coaches forty ft yacht. Having done her homework,

1062
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:43,840
Speaker 1: Hasen already knew that O'Brien denounces voting as a leisure

1063
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: activity and casually but with authority, told caller number five,

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Speaker 1: I will not patch you through. Mr. Good day to you.

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Speaker 1: We know that Hazen has mad skills, but she can't

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Speaker 1: get cocky about her rise. My resolution for Courtney is

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Speaker 1: pulled from a Wicky how article on how to grow

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Speaker 1: as a receptionist. Take number one, love the ringing phone.

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Speaker 1: Start by understanding when that phone rings, it's a good thing.

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Speaker 1: If the phone quits ringing, we wouldn't need you to

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Speaker 1: love your job. Three leave the attitude at home, Eddie

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Speaker 1: or the customers should become your passion. Five remember the

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Speaker 1: three ease of the perfect receptionist. Enunciate with enthusiasm so

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Speaker 1: you can be effective. Six Write everything down, and seven

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Speaker 1: get in the habit of using that's a good advice.

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Speaker 1: Write everything down when you're taking phone notes. I like

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Speaker 1: that number six. Number seven. Get in the habit of

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Speaker 1: using the following phrases constantly to help break down barriers

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Speaker 1: and diffuse bad situations quickly. Words and phrases such as

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Speaker 1: thank you please, You're welcome, my pleasure. Marcus. Good morning, Eddie,

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Mr Commissioner, and have a great day again.

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Speaker 1: Courtney Hazen should not be ignored as a late round

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Speaker 1: gem who appears to have an evolving role for the

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Speaker 1: Texans this season. That that is good knowledge, you know.

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Speaker 1: It's it's interesting because the Texans are building kind of

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00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:07,320
Speaker 1: a young team, they really are, and you know, I

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Speaker 1: feel like she can be a cornerstone of what they're

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Speaker 1: seas a seamless add on. And I feel like the

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Speaker 1: three ese are even for what we do, you know,

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Speaker 1: enunciate with enthusiasm to be what more effective. I feel

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Speaker 1: like that that is important knowledge for all of its life.

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00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 1: Knowledge is it helps the receptionist, but we all answer

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Speaker 1: the phone and we all are alive. Plus plus uh,

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Speaker 1: the fact that she's writing down notes, which makes her

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Speaker 1: better than some roommates I had. Well, I will be honest,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure she's doing all of these things. I

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Speaker 1: think it's a check yourself at the door and make

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Speaker 1: sure that you're doing these seven things. But I would

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Speaker 1: assume she is. She sounds very talented absolutely, so again,

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Speaker 1: these are all the things you need to be armed

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Speaker 1: with when you go into your fantasy draft. Uh. Mark,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the visit to the Fantasy Corner and thanks

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Speaker 1: for just stopping by the show. It was fun. Listen.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it again. Um, maybe to the annoyance of

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Speaker 1: the listener, Absolutely do it again. So thanks to Mark

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Speaker 1: Cessa for stopping by. Thank you to Emery Hunt for

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Speaker 1: stopping by. Now I'll do it for this edition of

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Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Live Podcast. Thanks to Eddie Spaghetti Eddie

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Speaker 1: Murphy behind the Glass as well. And always remember sometimes

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Speaker 1: your purpose in life is to serve as a warning

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Speaker 1: for others. I'll see you on Thursday. Warm, Warm, don't go.

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Speaker 1: I don't go. H