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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. Guys, welcome back to another

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Speaker 1: addition to Be Around the NFL Podcast, presented by New Era.

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Speaker 1: My name is Dan Hensas and I'm joined in a

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Speaker 1: room filled with heroes Mark Sessler, Chris Westling and Greg

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Speaker 1: Roseatal What is up? Boys? Hey? Dan? Whoa? You guys

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Speaker 1: were talking a little s n L for the show,

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Speaker 1: and I know that taking over here. Dan and West

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Speaker 1: like to uh kind of like be the SNL guys.

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Speaker 1: Did you read like the yeah, yeah, sorry Danny Gregg

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Speaker 1: And it's like, you know, listen, West and I we

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Speaker 1: jumped out when Nora Dune jumped out. I feel like

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Speaker 1: that's the last time that you know, held any interest

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Speaker 1: some time. I left with Jane Hooks getting rid of

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Speaker 1: some of that nervous We are experienced. We are what

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Speaker 1: you would in an HR world you would call we

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Speaker 1: are experienced. Now. It's a good that's a good reminder Mark,

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Speaker 1: because there's any new listeners, and I hope there are

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Speaker 1: some that are season welcome. We want to tell you

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Speaker 1: that Mark and West are way older than Dan. Well,

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Speaker 1: that is utter nonsense, different generations, different like decade, I

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Speaker 1: mean literally lucky to be alive. Who's that we have

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Speaker 1: a guest that wants to stop in. Oh special delivery

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Speaker 1: the good Deaker. Speaker, he Deaker from the other side

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Speaker 1: of the office. What's going on here? It's better be good.

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Speaker 1: This is like a peewee playhouse in here. So Deaker

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Speaker 1: has showed up in the office in the podcast studio

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Speaker 1: with a bag almost like a just like a little

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Speaker 1: gift bag. You know, um, I have heard the recent

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Speaker 1: podcast where you have brought up the infamous Laura Dern.

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Speaker 1: Everybody Speaker is good friends with several celebrities, including that's

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Speaker 1: not entirely true, but I mean I am you know. Yes,

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Speaker 1: So word has gotten back to miss Laura Dern that

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Speaker 1: Dernaissance and her producing partner, who's one of my best friends.

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Speaker 1: Her name is Jamie Lemons. She wanted to give you

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Speaker 1: guys a gift fans of Laura. Oh look at this den.

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Speaker 1: We are all in on Laura Dern more than ever. Now. Wow,

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Speaker 1: if you guys don't deserve those T shirts, I don't

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Speaker 1: know who. Wow, Deaker, Well, thank you. It's so good

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Speaker 1: to be plugged in with Deaker. You know what am

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Speaker 1: I going to do with this, um like, there's no

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Speaker 1: one in my family that's going to fit in. Well,

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Speaker 1: we'll take that back then we'll give it to another

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Speaker 1: dern fan. Um, I did mention, listen, I did mention sizing.

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Speaker 1: I said there was one gentleman that's slight, and he's

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Speaker 1: strong and silent and slight. Thank you, miss Lemon. I

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Speaker 1: mean you you did not allow me, um, you know,

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago to text Laura Durn on

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Speaker 1: your phone. Now I feel, you know, not this moment,

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Speaker 1: but later on today or tomorrow that would be appropriate

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Speaker 1: for me to connect with her to say thank you.

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Speaker 1: A conference that is tremendous. Thank you deakers like Red

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Speaker 1: from Shawshank. If you need to get something, you go

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Speaker 1: to so many famous friends too. I mean we've barely

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Speaker 1: reveal I've been known to get things from time to time. Alright, anyway,

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Speaker 1: that's awesome. Al Right, So now we have new T

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Speaker 1: shirts T shirts man, Big Show today, Big Show, and

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Speaker 1: we're already off to a fly and start Big Show

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Speaker 1: today because as you probably know, this is the fourth

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Speaker 1: annual Fantasy Extravaganza. Oh yeah, and the reason why, like

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Speaker 1: why do you guys do a fantasy show I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you why we do a fantasy show every August. It

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Speaker 1: is because the two men that that that put on

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Speaker 1: the hard hats and built Rhodo World. Um nothing, Greg

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Speaker 1: Rosenthal and Chris Westling happened to be on this podcast,

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Speaker 1: so we need to take advantage of their knowledge. Even

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Speaker 1: if they're getting further away from their fantasy days, it's

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Speaker 1: excited not to have to prepare just because he's expected

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Speaker 1: nice side benefit to this this this episode. Um so yeah,

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Speaker 1: very exciting, we're gonna go through it. And also a

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Speaker 1: very special guest. We've got a big fish uh from

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Speaker 1: we got so much to get to. Let's do it.

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Speaker 1: But before we get to the fantasy extravaganza, let's take

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Speaker 1: a quick spin through the news. You know, I'm blessed

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Speaker 1: with all these shoes on giving some shoes away, Corey,

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Speaker 1: it's some shoes. It works, Stay off the ground, Joy

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Speaker 1: Corey Coleman from the most recent installment of Hard Knocks. Uh.

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Speaker 1: That episode opens with Corey Coleman showing his extravagant shoe

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Speaker 1: collection and then being demoted to second team, confronting his

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Speaker 1: on the dollar to the Bills. Uh. Two episodes in

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Speaker 1: this is a fine season of Hard Knocks. I think

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Speaker 1: through two episodes it's my favorite season ever. It's it's

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Speaker 1: It's got a chance, the first two episodes back to back,

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Speaker 1: of Craig Likes Rapping? Who's the Rapper? Saying? It does

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Speaker 1: thousand yards away. With the last night's episode was all

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Speaker 1: pure football. Uh, they didn't have to cook up any characters.

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Speaker 1: I've I've talked to the people behind the scenes at

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Speaker 1: have it up on NFL dot com slash Hansas. They

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Speaker 1: are essentially you know, it comes down to luck, a

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Speaker 1: And I think the Browns and one of the reasons

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Speaker 1: also there's no shortage of juicy subplots. Could Juice love

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Speaker 1: We'll start with uh speakings of drama. Jalen Ramsey Uh

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Speaker 1: about what Jalen Ramsey said. Set some headlines. I like

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Speaker 1: it that, you know, Dalen Ramsey's just talking like every

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Speaker 1: like Jalen Ramsey is just like talking to the guy

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Speaker 1: I think he likes people talking about him. Well, I

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Speaker 1: think just being an honest person, being yourself all the time,

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Speaker 1: the integrity of the word literally is over. It's been

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Speaker 1: I've been trying to fight it. It's it's over. The

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Speaker 1: literally everyone, well not literally every, I mean, it's just

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Speaker 1: not true. But that battles over there are there are

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Speaker 1: forgive me. Uh. Seahawks first round pick Rashad Penny underwent

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Speaker 1: This came from rap Sheet. The surgery is expected to

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Speaker 1: sideline the rookie running back three to four weeks. There's

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Speaker 1: HyperPo heading into the studio right now. Listen, we're running

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Speaker 1: out of Fantasy and Analyst. Let's keep it real. Once

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Speaker 1: upon a time, Marcus Grant was part of what was

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Speaker 1: known as the Fantasy Stronghold Strong no more. Um let's

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Speaker 1: the company now it's just a fantasy hold left the company.

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Speaker 1: H left the industry, James Co out of the company,

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Speaker 1: it's all over. But the one man that's still here

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Speaker 1: Marcus Grant, and uh, listen, while we're bummed that that's

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Speaker 1: how that all played out, it really is a bummer

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Speaker 1: because you guys were a great team and do great

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Speaker 1: work together. It's good that you're still staying and welcome

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Speaker 1: to me around the NFL. You don't you You referred

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Speaker 1: to me before, as you said, you landed a big fish.

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of the only fish really. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: guess technically that makes me the big fishs right, you know,

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Speaker 1: the proverbial big fish in a small pond. I'm the

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Speaker 1: only fish in the pond. But I appreciate you can

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Speaker 1: kind of do what you want now though, right it is,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of nice. It's like my own little fief

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Speaker 1: them that I can stomp around in, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: just to be clear, I mean, it looks like everyone

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Speaker 1: left of their own free will or various you know,

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Speaker 1: corporate reasons. This isn't This wasn't the result of some

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Speaker 1: sort of um. They seated Machiavelli and uh sort of

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Speaker 1: you know, house of cards moved by you where suddenly

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Speaker 1: you're the only fantasy person left. Maybe I won the

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Speaker 1: Game of Thrones and nobody will ever know Brillion. I

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Speaker 1: never thought of it, but that is one way to

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Speaker 1: look at it. Marcus actually was on our Fantasy Extravaganza

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Speaker 1: last year as well, so to time um UH contributor

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Speaker 1: and likely to be likely to be back next year.

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Speaker 1: There's no other options. Interesting that he said he'd only

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Speaker 1: go on this time if Evan Silva was not back.

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Speaker 1: So we're starting to see that Game of Thrones most

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Speaker 1: because Evan Silva, as great as he is, is a

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Speaker 1: physically imposing man. Yeah. Yeah, it's large, dudes. I've been

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Speaker 1: intimidating even on a phone calls three thousand miles away,

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Speaker 1: all right, So yes, and we are doing a home

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Speaker 1: at home. I will be joining Marcus in Fantasy UH

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Speaker 1: Live podcast on Thursday. Looking forward to that, and I

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Speaker 1: thought a good way to get into and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: go through several different discussions here because we know UH

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Speaker 1: and I checked with Marcus on this just to make sure.

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Speaker 1: Although I kind of know this from decades of losing

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Speaker 1: in fantasy leagues, that most leagues draft or should draft

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Speaker 1: right after the week three preseason games, which puts you

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Speaker 1: right at the last week of August. So what we

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Speaker 1: thought is bring it up a little bit earlier than

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Speaker 1: we did last year to get people prepped to know

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Speaker 1: when they should be and if you already drafted your clown,

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Speaker 1: look I mean good love, Peter p people do it

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Speaker 1: and then you know, inevitably somebody drafts like a Darius

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Speaker 1: guys and then they're they're struggling, mom bro. So with

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Speaker 1: Marcus here with the Fantasy Live podcasts, still uh fighting

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Speaker 1: the good fight despite all the defections, we thought a

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Speaker 1: good way to start this is to bring one of

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Speaker 1: the popular Fantasy Life segments onto the Around the NFL podcast,

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Speaker 1: which of course is what Marcus b s o h L.

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Speaker 1: It's the thing, Yeah, we like doing, especially in the

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Speaker 1: off season because you get these guys who show up

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Speaker 1: in camp and they always say they're in the best

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Speaker 1: shape of their lives. Right. And this was originally a

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Speaker 1: thing that was more in the baseball domain. You hear

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Speaker 1: a lot of it in spring training, but football guys

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Speaker 1: have lately started because the NFL can't do let anybody

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Speaker 1: have its own thing, you know, we have to have

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Speaker 1: we have to have something as well too, So I've

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Speaker 1: started kind of tracking the guys who come in and

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Speaker 1: say that they are in the best shape of their

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Speaker 1: lives and trying to figure out how much this actually

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Speaker 1: means for them going forward into the season for their

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Speaker 1: their fantasy prospect. It's a trope, It's a famous trope

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Speaker 1: that we get every spring, but how does it tie

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Speaker 1: into fantasy? So why don't we start, Marcus while you

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Speaker 1: throwing out some of these guys that say their bodies

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Speaker 1: have never been more strong and their hot bods will

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Speaker 1: leave fantasy deliveries. The first one is David Johnson, who

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Speaker 1: obviously missed the bulk of last with a wrist injury,

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Speaker 1: and he said, uh, all I did was run and

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Speaker 1: all I did was workout right. So David Johnson, who

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Speaker 1: two years ago had a phenomenal season, missed nearly all

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Speaker 1: of last year. Now he says he's in even better shape,

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Speaker 1: which to me, these signals bad news for everybody else

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Speaker 1: in the NFC West because he was someone I've never

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Speaker 1: looked at him and thought that guy's, you know, not

545
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Speaker 1: in good day kind of an amazing body before, so

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Speaker 1: taking it to another level would be special. I think

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Speaker 1: that um Also, last year he went number one in

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Speaker 1: a lot of leases, and I feel like because when

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Speaker 1: you miss a year even if it was a risk injury.

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Speaker 1: So it wasn't a lower body injury, which is very important.

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Speaker 1: Some people are going to kind of maybe sleep on him.

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Speaker 1: Is he drifting in most drafts a little deeper into

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Speaker 1: the first round this year? You know, early on in

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Speaker 1: the spring he kind of was. He was sort of

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Speaker 1: in the back half of the first round and were

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Speaker 1: drafting in the spring. People are drafting. Look, they were drafts.

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Speaker 1: There were drafts that opened right after the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: I don't like the best ball. Yeah, so some of

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Speaker 1: those opened right after the Super Bowl. People have been

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Speaker 1: drafting since February. I mean, is that just so that,

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Speaker 1: like you don't feel nervous when you were doing the

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Speaker 1: real draft? What are we Why are we doing this

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Speaker 1: in the spring? Because some people just are addicted and

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Speaker 1: can't get enough. It's why Marcus makes seven million dollars. Wait,

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Speaker 1: I do a h So, yeah, he, you know, early

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Speaker 1: of the first round. Now he's moved up and he's

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Speaker 1: probably a top three or four pick, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of that feels like a safe pick and a great pick.

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Speaker 1: Who else is in the best shape of their life?

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Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette, who last year played around you know, two

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Speaker 1: five pounds. Now he says he's down to about twenty three,

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Speaker 1: which is where he played his last year at L

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Speaker 1: s U. So hopefully he thinks this will help him

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Speaker 1: stay healthier, avoid some of those injuries he had last

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Speaker 1: year two years old. This one's believable. He's probably never better, right,

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Speaker 1: and he was someone where his conditioning seemed like it

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Speaker 1: was a problem like as games went on. As the

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Speaker 1: season went along. It's funny because Jalen Ramsey kind of

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Speaker 1: talked up playoff Blake portals and it did get me thinking,

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Speaker 1: like I was happy whenever they handed the ball off

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Speaker 1: to Leonard Fournette in the a f C Championship game.

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Speaker 1: He made a good point that they rate they were

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Speaker 1: too predictable running with Leonard Fournette on first and second

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Speaker 1: down in the game, and it was partly because Leonard

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Speaker 1: Fournett wasn't effective better he was playing on a high ankle.

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Speaker 1: Was yeah, he's he's a little bit on my race beat,

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Speaker 1: a little overrated. How about how about you? Why are

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Speaker 1: you come into the best shape of your life in

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Speaker 1: your second year as a rookie entering the league, wouldn't

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Speaker 1: you be on fire about sometimes? Maybe he was. In

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Speaker 1: this year he's gone even a step further best shape.

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Speaker 1: I feel like sometimes you don't know what you don't

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Speaker 1: and you started to hit that wall. And it's their career,

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Speaker 1: it's their life goal to get drafted, and the pre

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Speaker 1: draft process is like its own season. And I think

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Speaker 1: there's a natural kind of let up. I mean, not

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Speaker 1: realizing what it takes out there's liked Marius Thomas. A

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Speaker 1: story came out last week where he finally has decided

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Speaker 1: to maximize his diet to improve. I think you absolutely

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Speaker 1: you're not getting a full offseason when you're drafted in

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Speaker 1: April two. I mean it probably does make sense in

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Speaker 1: year two you get your act together a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Who else, Uh see, Mike Williams are the Chargers now,

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Speaker 1: he said, you know, last year obviously he was he

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Speaker 1: was injured. He said, my back limited me from doing

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Speaker 1: a lot of things. Now my back is right, I'm

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Speaker 1: healthy and I'm feeling great. It feels like the destiny

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Speaker 1: of every Mike Williams to be a little overweight. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: that's a big man. When I went to Chargers practice

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Speaker 1: just like you. He is basically a tight end and

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Speaker 1: it does make you think he can take a lot

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Speaker 1: of what Hunter Henry was going to do in that offense. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that's the anticipation now that a lot more

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Speaker 1: three wide receiver sets. And I think Mike Williams is

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Speaker 1: poised for a nice year. I think he could be

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Speaker 1: a sleeper and a lot of mid the light round draft,

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Speaker 1: I think, so, I'll see there's a little tip there

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Speaker 1: from Marcus Grant uh And finally, best shape of his

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Speaker 1: life Chris Carson. And this one didn't come from him specifically.

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Speaker 1: This one came from Pete Carroll, which background it was weird.

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Speaker 1: So Pete Carroll went on and praise c J pro

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Speaker 1: size for being in great shape. He praised Chris Carson

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Speaker 1: for being in great shape. He's a JD. Makissic was

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Speaker 1: ridiculously fit. Then he got through a shot Penny and

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Speaker 1: he said, we're just learning about him right now. So

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Speaker 1: everybody else seemed to be a great shape. And Chris

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Speaker 1: Carson has actually played pretty well in the in training camp,

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Speaker 1: i should say, and the preseason, as we know, we

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Speaker 1: just talked about in the news Penny now on the

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Speaker 1: shelf of the broken finger. Everything set up well for

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Speaker 1: Carson to make his move in Seattle. Pete Carroll has

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Speaker 1: a little John Gruden in him where he's he'll blow

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Speaker 1: sunshine up your you know, and then two weeks later

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Speaker 1: you're benched and forgotten about your what. Yeah, well, I'm

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Speaker 1: not clear where this Where is the sunshine going? Took

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Speaker 1: us here you go? Isn't that a weird expression, by

639
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Speaker 1: the way he took us? No? Well, blowing sunshine just

640
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: in general? Is that something that's a good thing? Whatever

641
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: flips up your skirt, Dan believe sun would do that potentially. Um?

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Speaker 1: All right, so there you go, B s O h

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Speaker 1: L Hey one what one other thing before? I don't

644
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: want to forget this. Um. Marcus Grant going viral on

645
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: the internet. UM playoff Jarvis Landry's fiery hard Knocks Premier speech. Uh,

646
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: and Marcus responded to that by tweaking it, using elements

647
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: of that speech and a fiery diet tribe against people

648
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,959
Speaker 1: that auto draft. Let's listen to a little bit of that.

649
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: I don't know what has gone on in this league before.

650
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:57,239
Speaker 1: If your cell phone has at least one bar, if

651
00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: you're near a coffee shop with free WiFi. You shouldn't

652
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: auto draft. Well done. Check out that whole video on

653
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 1: Marcus's Twitter. Uh can't. What's your Twitter? Marcus? This makes

654
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: me think actually the Fantasy stronghold was holding Marcus down

655
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 1: and he did take them all out because it's his

656
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: thing together, you know, pretty pretty securely. It's like what

657
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 1: what's the Kevin Spacey movie where he's revealed them of

658
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Live group. All right, let's move on to

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Speaker 1: our next discussion topic. All right, this segment is called

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Speaker 1: wake Up. Here are some sleeper sleeper Okay, obviously under

661
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: the radar fantasy guys, guys that maybe not told you

662
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: we're not looking for like Terik Cohen from last year necessarily,

663
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: but you can get real deep if you want. But

664
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Speaker 1: just guys that maybe aren't getting a lot of buzz

665
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: right now that are hot, Greg, why don't you get

666
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:58,319
Speaker 1: us going? I'm going to start with Chris Godwin and

667
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: Mark east Goodwin because I just like to have come on.

668
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:07,800
Speaker 1: The scientists stole my mars Marquis Goodwin. Well, we're just combining.

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Speaker 1: But you guys can discuss it now together and you're

670
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: both right, different different parts of the draft, Godwin of

671
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: the Bucks. So I just think it's so talented he'll

672
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 1: find a way to get numbers. Good end of your

673
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,800
Speaker 1: draft guy, and Markis Goodwin is one of those number

674
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: one type of receivers that you can get. It looks

675
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 1: like in the middle rounds where he's a guy not

676
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: a lot of people think of. And it wouldn't surprise

677
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: me if he gets yards west. Markis Goodwin was number

678
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 1: one on my list. He's going about wide receiver thirty

679
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:37,320
Speaker 1: in the late eighth or early ninth rounds. This guy

680
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: was sixth in the NFL and receptions and yards over

681
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: the final five weeks of the season, he was a

682
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:47,359
Speaker 1: top ten fantasy receiver with Jimmy Garoppolo under center and

683
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 1: in Shanny we trust Kyle Shanahan's this guy and I

684
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: saw like tangible improvement from him. He was an injury

685
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:58,280
Speaker 1: prone deep threat and he might still be injury prone,

686
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 1: but he started moving the chain. Garoppo was looking for

687
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: him on third downs. He was a possession receiver in

688
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: addition to the big playability. He's becoming a well rounded receiver.

689
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: Throw someone else out West, Jeremy Hill. You have to

690
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: pay the Evans Silver attacks to get Rex Birkhead now,

691
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: because everybody knows he's pretty good. People are reaching way

692
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 1: too high for Rex Burkhead in a backfield where it's

693
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,760
Speaker 1: inconsistent from week to week most years in New England.

694
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 1: But I have a rule that Patriots steal a running

695
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: back from the Bengals, saddle him up and take a

696
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:34,839
Speaker 1: chance on the Burkhead. But if the Patriots see something

697
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 1: in your former former Bengals running back, take a flyer

698
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: on interesting. I think I can see him scoring fifteen touchdowns.

699
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 1: Will think that has more merit now to with Sony

700
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: Michelle not being a dent healthy too, so that means

701
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: more operations. We saw a lot of Jeremy Hill last

702
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 1: week in the preseason game. What do you got. I'm

703
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,359
Speaker 1: looking at c J Anderson, and I know everybody's big

704
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: on Christian mechategy, but c J Anderson, who had his

705
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 1: career year last year, steps in emy Jonathan Stewart role.

706
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 1: But is a younger, healthier, better version of Jonathan Stewart

707
00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: right now. And so for all the work that McCaffrey

708
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: is going to get, it's still gonna be c J.

709
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 1: Anderson between the tackles and short yardage is gonna be

710
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: the important guy down near the goal line. Yards are great,

711
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: touches are great. Touchdowns are golden fantasy, and I think

712
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 1: c J. Anderson is gonna get a chance to get

713
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: a lot of them. I think Christian McCaffrey has has

714
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 1: something to prove whether he's a complete running back. I

715
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 1: thought a lot of things he did last year were

716
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: a lot of fun and he was uh, definitely piled

717
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 1: up points as a fantasy entity. But maybe if he

718
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:28,839
Speaker 1: doesn't show that he could be a between the tackles guy,

719
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: CJ is gonna have a nice role there. Uh it's

720
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,439
Speaker 1: time now to take a trip over for the first

721
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: time too, and this is you know, everybody, lock your doors.

722
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:40,399
Speaker 1: Haven't heard from Mark in a little bit. I haven't

723
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: heard from a little bit. He's he's over on the

724
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: fantasy corner there he is. Alright, let's get down to

725
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 1: brass tacks. My bit on my players to avoid lists.

726
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,760
Speaker 1: Do not be fooled by the off season hype trains

727
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 1: circling the Los Angeles Rams. I have three times now

728
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 1: review tape from l A's thirty three to seven preseason

729
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 1: thumping at the hands of the Ravens and unequivocally urged

730
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: fantasy enthusiasts and parlor game jabrones to stay away from

731
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:14,280
Speaker 1: all RAMS players in on my individuals to NAB list

732
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: Number one, I see undrafted runners Sherman Beatty as a

733
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:22,760
Speaker 1: major handcuff to Marcus Grants David Johnson in Arizona, forward

734
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 1: thinking fantasy heads would be wise to dial up Beatty

735
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: or Brady. I believe I've spelled it both ways. I

736
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:33,880
Speaker 1: round three and stay Claro Johnson altogether. Number two. Marcus

737
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: Grant with US Today informed me he once witnessed a

738
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: fellow fantasy enthusiast drafted kicker in the seventh round. True,

739
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: that's smart thinking. That is smart thinking. I'd zone in

740
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: on Boodher Tom o'barski out of Concordia St. Paul, Yes,

741
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: a free agent with no known tryouts on the slave,

742
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 1: but wise participants will stash them away for their playoff run.

743
00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: And three. An update one year later on free agent

744
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: ticket sales Rep. Rhonda Fontaine. Last we checked, Rhonda was

745
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: searching for work after being let go by the Packers

746
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,359
Speaker 1: and dealing with a hyper messy breakup from her on again,

747
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 1: off again boyfriend William Frank's. Fontaine relocated to Chicago to

748
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: live with her sister Patsy Bumbles and seek ticket sales

749
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 1: work with the Bears. Here's the skinny. Rhonda Fontaine never

750
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 1: found another job and was kicked out of the Bumble's

751
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:27,760
Speaker 1: household for drinking too much and getting mouthy with Patsy's husband,

752
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 1: Gordon Bumbles. Gordon Bumbles revealed the following to me. Gordon

753
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 1: Bumbles revealed to me the following in a text message

754
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 1: sent over the weekend. In quotes, Rhonda is a family member.

755
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 1: We did what we could for her, but she struts

756
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: around town with a sailor's mouth and I couldn't put

757
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,839
Speaker 1: up with the language anymore. Her salty vocabulary was only

758
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: heightened when she'd hit the red wine. After asking Rhonda

759
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,600
Speaker 1: to please lay off the alcohol inside the house, we

760
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:55,280
Speaker 1: found out she was stashing no less than thirty seven

761
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: bottles of Carlo Rossi brand Merlot behind a stack of

762
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:03,800
Speaker 1: two Cyclopedia's. When I confronted Rhonda, she proceeded to vanish

763
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: for twelve to fourteen hours at a time, and we

764
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 1: found out later she was camping out at Bonnie Queue's

765
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: tavern and Grill on thirty eight Street. She was kicked

766
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: out of that establishment three plus times, repeatedly getting in

767
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 1: fights with another female and biber named Ginger Lots. We

768
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,280
Speaker 1: love Ronda, but she brought the household to its knees

769
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 1: before relocating back to the Green Bay area. In an

770
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: attempt to win back William Franks, he phoned our house

771
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: last week and left a message asking why on earth

772
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,359
Speaker 1: did you people green light this flouzy minkstress moving back

773
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: to my town? W t F. My advice to you,

774
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:40,359
Speaker 1: Rhonda Fontaine is a deep stashed prospect that will be

775
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: gone by the end of round ten. If you fall

776
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: asleep at the wheel, stay safe, Mark And that's it.

777
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 1: We're at a time we will be back on another edition.

778
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: Uh well, there you go. Is the fantasy corner in

779
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: Where was that was? That was a dangerous trip to

780
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: the fan? That is that it for the sleepers? Uh no,

781
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: I I'll throw out a couple more. I like, this

782
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 1: is not a sleeper um at all, So I want

783
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: I was hesitant to even bring it up, But now

784
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: that I think of it, just like, stick it to

785
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: the scientists a little bit. Eli Manning sleep wows this.

786
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: This is sticking it to the scientists here. I mean,

787
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,720
Speaker 1: I know if I was in your league, please stick

788
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: it to me by drafting clean up all has he

789
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: even been on fantasy rosters lately. That's why he's a sleeper.

790
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 1: Jay would not draft It is going to break the

791
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: hearts of West and Greg, who's still grieving over those

792
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 1: two Super Bowls. When Eli is a Pro Bowl level

793
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: talent and not a replacement pick either legitimate yards thirty

794
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: touchdown Dalton on the all time Pro Bowl appearances, and

795
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: that is a sleeper. You beef up in your other

796
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 1: positions and then go get your quarterback and make it well.

797
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: I'm going to see where he's getting and then go

798
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: Seli in Kenton in seven years. I can guarantee you

799
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: that won't have I'm amazed at some of the quarterbacks,

800
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: like where they're going. Two quarterbacks going after Eli Manning

801
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 1: after the thirteenth round. Dak Prescott. I don't know if

802
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 1: he's a sleeper, but he should be a sleeper because

803
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 1: he's great at football and he runs the ball. Nobody

804
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 1: knows who he's throwing. I guess you don't worry about that.

805
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: You picked the talented player, someone who has been great

806
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: for has been good at fantasy for two years certainly

807
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: and great two years ago. And then Jamis Winston's getting

808
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: taken even later, who had a terrific season when it

809
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 1: came for fantasistic carry that guy on your roster for

810
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 1: a month. We're gonna get to that in a in

811
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: a second. And just and one more note with the

812
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 1: Eli thing, He's going very deep in drafts. According to

813
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: the UH Fantasy Football calculator, He's going they quarterback coming

814
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: off the board. Lamar Jackson is going ahead Eli, and

815
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 1: that to me is people getting too excited. That's hopeful.

816
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: I would definitely take Lamar Jackson. Of the purpose of

817
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: fantasy is to give yourself a weekly advantage of things

818
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: go right. Eli Manning's gonna be average no matter what

819
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: fantasy wise you shall see Lamar Jackson, there was a

820
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: chance to be dynamic and a weekly advantage you shall see.

821
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: Come it UH so obvious that we wound up in

822
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 1: an Eli Manning debate during the show. Uh next topic,

823
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: not on my team? And I think, Wes, you just

824
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,359
Speaker 1: said one of the guys, probably you don't want any

825
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 1: team which is Elijah Manning. Well, he ceased to be

826
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 1: relevant and fantasy circles for two times Super Bowl m

827
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: VP and future All Pro, but not on my team.

828
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:42,760
Speaker 1: There these are guys who are going to be picked

829
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: by teams in every league, uh and maybe high maybe

830
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 1: high picks, maybe first, second, third round, but you don't

831
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,360
Speaker 1: want them anywhere near your team. Marcus get us gone.

832
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 1: Lashawn McCoy is number one on my list right now.

833
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: Just obviously there's the off field stuff and we don't

834
00:43:57,960 --> 00:43:59,840
Speaker 1: know how that's going to play out. But more importantly,

835
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: this this Bill's offense is just gonna be bad this year.

836
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: I mean the quarterback situation is unsettled right now. You know,

837
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 1: Kelvin Benjamin is less than a hundred percent, so it

838
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 1: means Corey Coleman looks like their number one wide receiver.

839
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: They're counting on your Jeremy Curly and Za Jones. I

840
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:19,240
Speaker 1: don't see any situation where defenses don't just put twelve

841
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,439
Speaker 1: guys in the box basically and say, you know, throw

842
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: the ball on I see what's gonna happen. So there's

843
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: everything about it that just seems to scare me, throwing

844
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: the fact that this is you know, age thirty. Now

845
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: for the Shawn McCoy, which has always been that dreaded

846
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: death knell for running backs. Everything here just adds up

847
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: to this being a fall off year for him. You

848
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: gotta be on emotional, though, and everyone is already building

849
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: that into his draft because he's not getting taken in

850
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: the top thirty picks, even though he's probably the most

851
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 1: consistent running back in the NFL over the last five years.

852
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: I don't need to hang out with Lashawn McCoy. I'd

853
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: rather have him on my fantasy team than Jerick McKinnon

854
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 1: or McCaffrey or DeVonta Freeman or Jordan Howard or a

855
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: million guys taken ahead of him going and draft. He

856
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,720
Speaker 1: seems like a good He actually seems like a good value.

857
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 1: He absolutely do not have to be unemotional and fantasy football.

858
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 1: This is a hobby meant to be enjoying, So be emotional.

859
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,319
Speaker 1: But my only point is to try to win. And

860
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: if people are being emotional that they don't want to

861
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: take McCoy because he's a creep, I'll take him in there.

862
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: That was it was logical. I don't think the Bills

863
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 1: are gonna be quite as bad as people think. It's

864
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 1: not like they're gonna be worse off. I don't think

865
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 1: a ton offensively than they were a year ago, which

866
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: is pretty beast much more fun. It's much more fun

867
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: to let a robot like Greg draft these guys and

868
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 1: then still beat him, putting yourself at a disadvantage and

869
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 1: still win your lead. You're sort of overt Jets fan obviously,

870
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: like you're a fantasy guy. Do you go draft Patriots

871
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 1: and then have to root for them in real life?

872
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 1: I do? Yeah, I don't. I don't. I separate myself

873
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: from that, just because especially you're talking about a team

874
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: that generates a lot of points every season. So yeah,

875
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 1: I don't have an issue with Well, maybe you're the

876
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 1: robot then maybe I don't know. Maybe it is always

877
00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: tricky those two times a year when they play the Patriots,

878
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: But otherwise it's, you know whatever. You just got a

879
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:04,919
Speaker 1: zig west When people are zagging, that's not root. Well,

880
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: when you're zig and who are you zagging away from?

881
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: Chris Westley? I'm calling this my monkey wrench theory for

882
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,719
Speaker 1: running backs this year. Don't touch them in the third

883
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 1: and fourth rounds. You'll just throw a monkey rinch into

884
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 1: your draft. The old idiom you know from the nineteenth

885
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: century day, and I'm sure you remember this from the

886
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 1: cool talent day. When you have a machine and a

887
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: guy goes in there fix it, leaves his monkey wrench

888
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:29,239
Speaker 1: in there, jam's up the whole machine. That's what will

889
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: happen in the third and fourth round if you're drafting

890
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,799
Speaker 1: one of these high risk running backs and you've got

891
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,839
Speaker 1: stud receivers. Take it back to two thousand and three

892
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:39,280
Speaker 1: when you took running backs in the first two rounds

893
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 1: every year. That's what you should do this year. Take

894
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: a first round running back, then take a guy like

895
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 1: a Joe Mixing in the second round. Stay away from

896
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 1: running backs in the third and fourth. Load up almonide receivers.

897
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 1: Some names I don't like their Alex Collins, j j I,

898
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 1: Lamar Miller, Royce Freeman. I mean, how many years in

899
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: a row are we gonna draft Broncos rookie running backs

900
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:00,840
Speaker 1: and expect that they could don't do any of that?

901
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 1: Russian Penny, Ronald Jones, Rex Burkhead, all these guys in

902
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 1: the third, fourth, fifth round, stay away from him. Kenyan

903
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 1: Drake the one exception I would take it. I could

904
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:12,400
Speaker 1: take a chance on him. Do you hear that? Dolphins

905
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: fans pipe down as usual? Uh? Marcus uh, Derrick Henri's

906
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: another one on my list that because you know, I

907
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: was on the free Derrick Henry train a year or

908
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:27,320
Speaker 1: so ago, and I thought that after DeMarcus DeMarco Murray

909
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: left that you know, this was going to be his

910
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:31,840
Speaker 1: big opportunity. And then Lord behold, Dean Lewis shows up

911
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: in Tennessee and it all fell apart. So at this point,

912
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 1: I am off the free Derrick Henry train now, and

913
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,799
Speaker 1: I don't want Matt Ryan anywhere near my team. You've

914
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: been through that, But that's more I believe I it

915
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: comes from a personal feels like, you know, like a

916
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: place of hurt. Yeah. He he definitely hurt my feelings

917
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:50,600
Speaker 1: last year. It's not costing much. This is where you

918
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: want to kind of buy low, and well, it depends

919
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 1: I For instance, my league is a two quarterback league,

920
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: which is unconventional. Um it is a different set up.

921
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,879
Speaker 1: So um, I had to get Matt Ryan early last

922
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: year and thinking he would be close to that. Now,

923
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 1: do I think that Jalen Ramsey is right about Matt Ryan? No,

924
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:10,400
Speaker 1: absolutely not. But am I gonna take him among the

925
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,439
Speaker 1: top quarterbacks this season? I'm probably gonna be the wait

926
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: and see guy and let somebody else see if he

927
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: ever recaptures the Kyle Shanahan greatness of two thousand sixteen. Well,

928
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:23,360
Speaker 1: you have Eli Manning, so no worries. He's a sleeper.

929
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 1: He's a sleeper. I'll get him later, but I want

930
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: to get one guy early in my draft two quarterback

931
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: draft and then grab Eli late. I would not make

932
00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 1: one of those early qbs. Deshaun Watson. He's on my

933
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 1: do not want list because quarterbacks are so easy to

934
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 1: find according to the average draft position, and Deshaun Watson

935
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: is that your number two quarterback in fantasy right now,

936
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,360
Speaker 1: coming off a tour in a c L. He's played

937
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: what five starts in his entire career. It's just like this.

938
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:51,360
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's gonna have a great career, and he

939
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 1: might have a great year, but this just isn't the

940
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:56,839
Speaker 1: year where the value makes He's being He's being supremely overdrafted.

941
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:58,399
Speaker 1: I mean, people are talking about him as the number

942
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: two fantasy quarterback behind a Rodgers, and what he did

943
00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:04,879
Speaker 1: last year was amazing, but he also played so far

944
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,879
Speaker 1: above his head statistically that it's just impossible to think

945
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: he can continue that sort of success this year. Yeah,

946
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:15,320
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you, guys, and statistically specifically, there's

947
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: no way he's gonna have the same luck on deep

948
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 1: ball efficiency and interception luck, which he threw a lot

949
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 1: of interceptible passes that were dropped last year, and he's

950
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 1: a running quarterback coming off an a c L injury.

951
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 1: I'm like you, I'm not saying he's not gonna have

952
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,279
Speaker 1: a great career. If you really like this guy, go

953
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 1: get him. I just think it's it's terrible value people

954
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: get too into like trying to evaluate who's like really

955
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:42,760
Speaker 1: figure out who's good who's not. It's like who who knows.

956
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:46,879
Speaker 1: Just look at it like stock gambling. Whatever you buy high,

957
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 1: you buy low, you sell high. Like I'm just saying,

958
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 1: just like Watson is not gonna be it doesn't make

959
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 1: any sense that he's high coming off of that, so

960
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:57,880
Speaker 1: you stay away. I would stay and drafted ahead of

961
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:00,839
Speaker 1: Cam Newton by five. Cam Newton was another guy on

962
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: my like undrafted like under valued list. The other couple

963
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 1: of guys that I would stay away from the Gordon's

964
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,760
Speaker 1: Melvin and Josh. It's wild that people are still drafting

965
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:13,240
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon in two thousand eight. I would draft him

966
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 1: this high in the fifth round against some like really

967
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 1: great wide receivers that you can basically just plug in

968
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: and and totally expect them to do all. Like I

969
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 1: would rather have Chris Hogan than I would have Josh Gordon.

970
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 1: The odds on Josh Gordon not playing this season are

971
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:30,879
Speaker 1: a lot higher than him happen if he comes back

972
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,439
Speaker 1: next week. Does that change? That doesn't. It doesn't because

973
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 1: I don't really trust it to happen. I gotta disagree

974
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: with you. Yeah, the number three receiver I don't even draft.

975
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 1: I would rather have Cooper Cup, Kelvin Benjamin, like any

976
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 1: of those being taken after Josh Gordon. Right now, I'll

977
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 1: show on Jeffrey Allen Robinson, Jarvis Landry, Chris Hogan, Marvin Jones,

978
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:54,320
Speaker 1: Golden Tate, Sammy Watkins, Jordy Nelson, a lot of options

979
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman that are probably safer bets well here, like

980
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: I'll always take a risk on off field stuff. But

981
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:04,320
Speaker 1: he's getting drafted as if the last four years didn't happen.

982
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:06,399
Speaker 1: And I think Chris Hogans getting drafted is if he's

983
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:08,800
Speaker 1: not Chris Hogan. It's fair, it's fair to worry about

984
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,400
Speaker 1: him as a human. No one's speaking about what the

985
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:14,280
Speaker 1: heck is going on right now, and I think until

986
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:16,720
Speaker 1: he proves otherwise, like, yeah, I'll believe he's an NFL

987
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: player when he does it. Chris Hogan is interesting less

988
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 1: because before Tom Brady, according to seth Wickersham's piece, laid

989
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 1: out Chris Hogan and ruined his season, he was putting

990
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 1: up numbers, he was producing on that offense. And now

991
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 1: Edelman has the four game suspension coming off the A

992
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 1: c L. I wouldn't be stunned if he was. I think,

993
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:37,399
Speaker 1: as soon as Edelman comes my thing is I came

994
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 1: up with this theory about fifteen or twenty years ago,

995
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: But I don't draft wide receiver threes. You pick him

996
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:43,719
Speaker 1: up of the waiver wire. You drafted a bunch of

997
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 1: wide receiver twos to me, Hogan's a wide receiver three.

998
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: As soon as Edelman comes back. Edman was the guy

999
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 1: who would stay so far away from everyone, saying he

1000
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: doesn't look like himself in training camp, he's missing fourth

1001
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 1: in the last few days. That narrative had changed around

1002
00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: either way. At his age and just with his skill set,

1003
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: like I'll let someone else take his post. A c

1004
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: L season. I will say Chris Hogan in the short

1005
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 1: term has some value, but again he's the guy you

1006
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,319
Speaker 1: can kind of wait on because after you're right, after

1007
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 1: those four games are up, you know, everything changes. And

1008
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:13,359
Speaker 1: now I also would stay away from those tight ends

1009
00:52:13,360 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: getting taken early that like, aren't Gronk, Jimmy Graham and

1010
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: Greg Olson, Like take Gronk in the first round if

1011
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 1: you want. He seems undervalued. It's Gronk and Kelsey early, right,

1012
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 1: and then after that there's so many good players like

1013
00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: Injury with her boys, David and Joku. At the end,

1014
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 1: I don't need I don't need a fit Lanny Walker

1015
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 1: still gets no respect whatsoever. George Kittle is an interesting

1016
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:33,760
Speaker 1: he is an interesting one. I would say that David

1017
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:36,359
Speaker 1: and Joku like you know, meditation and jugs machines. Man,

1018
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:38,800
Speaker 1: that's the way that it seems to be working. I tried,

1019
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:41,720
Speaker 1: I've made the mistake before, getting sucked into Hard Knocks

1020
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 1: hype bunnies. So in Joco, as I was watching that

1021
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:49,800
Speaker 1: episode on Tuesday night, I was like, oh, yeah, well touchdowns.

1022
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 1: So it's like, calm down. Everyone looks amazing on hard Knocks.

1023
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:56,719
Speaker 1: Let's say send it back to the Fantasy Corner, Mark,

1024
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: Are you okay? Are you say these streets are increasing?

1025
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: Leave fraud with the sension in chaos, Dan, I'm currently

1026
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 1: huddled under the doorway of new Flavors. Set you on

1027
00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 1: Moon Dragon bistro. Let's talk some fantasy. Last year, this

1028
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: corner introduced the horizon expanding concept of max flex Triggers,

1029
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:18,319
Speaker 1: my method for unearthing low priced, moderate ceiling players who

1030
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: might possibly make a late season impact of twenty to

1031
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 1: thirty other athletes on the roster were to be taken

1032
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,760
Speaker 1: out by an assassin during the course of the season.

1033
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 1: This time around, I'm more concerned with the personal development

1034
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 1: of newsroom editor David Eally. My romper wearing rose, a

1035
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:37,120
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1036
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:40,400
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1037
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:45,040
Speaker 1: Let's talk about growing your brand. That is real. It's

1038
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: high time for you to get out of your comfort

1039
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 1: zone and actively network with area newsmen and newswomen. Expand

1040
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 1: your base. David Eally, Step one, how about be productive,

1041
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,480
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1042
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1043
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1044
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1045
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:11,719
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1046
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:15,440
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1047
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:19,560
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1048
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1049
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1050
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1051
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1054
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1055
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Speaker 1: This will allow you to beef up your Rolodex while

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Speaker 1: also meeting a fetching young female reporter named Regina Beth

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Speaker 1: tax Ley, a reporter for the Los Angeles Orange County

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00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:01,239
Speaker 1: Business and Accounting Insider. Your first date with Regina Beth

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00:55:01,280 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 1: Taxley will be a casual walk along the Pacific Ocean

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00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 1: with your dog, Cam and Regina Beth Taxley's cat Minx set,

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00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:10,880
Speaker 1: which she keeps on a leash. You will gain perspective

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00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 1: from Regina Beth Taxile's four years of experience covering Big

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00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:18,719
Speaker 1: five accounting houses in southern California. She will be way

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00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 1: into your dangerously v necked Cam Newton T shirt, backwards

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00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:26,319
Speaker 1: baseball hat and somewhat forced silver Lake hip survivee. The

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00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:29,439
Speaker 1: relationship will fast track from there. You and Regina Beth

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00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 1: will go on a series of dates, which she will

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00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:35,799
Speaker 1: mostly pay for. Because modern society is tumbling towards total implosion.

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00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 1: There will I'm almost done. There will be a handful

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00:55:39,480 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 1: of encounters that feature both of you awkwardly sitting on

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00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 1: her couch watching your favorite show, bachel Lear in Paradise,

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00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:48,799
Speaker 1: while mixing in floating episodes of Bachelor Winner Games and

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00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:52,400
Speaker 1: the proposal of hyper unnecessary mind reducing offering from ABC.

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00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:55,360
Speaker 1: Regina Beth will live with a haunting sense that she

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00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:58,400
Speaker 1: could explore other options, but you'll loom as a comfortable

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00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 1: presence that ultimately lures her in. She'll be into your

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00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:04,400
Speaker 1: claims that the Kennedy assassination has no historical relevance in

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00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:07,480
Speaker 1: and the fact you bought a bookshelf and filled it

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00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:10,280
Speaker 1: with books you openly tell us you'll never read, simply

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00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 1: to look chic at in house dinner gatherings where you

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00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 1: and your guy pals play shoots and ladders before rolling

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00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 1: down summer hillsides and your skinny jeans, all because you

1084
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:22,440
Speaker 1: put together this career expanding journal meet up in downtown

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00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:27,719
Speaker 1: l A. I'm out. That was so wait, how is

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00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:30,879
Speaker 1: that supposed to help me with my fantasy draft? Pull

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00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 1: from it what you must. That was a trench trench

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00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 1: at critique of dating life in Los Angeles. The lows,

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00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:43,920
Speaker 1: you'll laugh, you'll cry, a slumpus, a little bit of everything. Um. Finally,

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00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:47,600
Speaker 1: before we go, uh, we as we do every year,

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00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:53,720
Speaker 1: we impart some draft day advice and uh yes, um,

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00:56:53,760 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: this is where we speak from the heart, and we

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00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:59,680
Speaker 1: have so many listeners you just want to enter their drafts,

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00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:02,319
Speaker 1: uh with some confidence. So this is what we're trying

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00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 1: to do. Give you a leg up on the competition, West.

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00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:08,480
Speaker 1: Why don't you get us going with some draft day wisdom.

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00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:12,479
Speaker 1: You will hear the inverse of this philosophy from Greg

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00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 1: Rosenthal later. But unless you're playing in some high stakes

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00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: Las Vegas fantasy league where your salary is on the line.

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00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 1: There are there are no experts in fantasy football. There

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00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:31,600
Speaker 1: is a lot of group think. Trust your gut, draft

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00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:33,760
Speaker 1: the team you want. If you like a guy, if

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00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 1: he plays for a team, if you've got a great

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00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: feeling about a guy, if you want to watch him

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00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:41,040
Speaker 1: on Monday Night football or whatever, draft him. Don't listen

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00:57:41,040 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 1: to the expert, because there's no such thing as an expert.

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Speaker 1: Draft the guys. Don't draft the creeps. Don't draft the

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00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 1: guys you don't want to root for. Don't draft the

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00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 1: guys that will lesson your fun for your hobby. That is, like,

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Speaker 1: just have a team you want to enjoy roots for.

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00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 1: Why do we Why are we saying so? Greg you

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00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 1: you would rather pick players that you don't keep telling

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Speaker 1: the players I don't want. I want the players that

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00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 1: perform all that's what I enjoy. So you can look

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00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:11,320
Speaker 1: past some of the unsavory aspects of certain talent because

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00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:14,800
Speaker 1: it's all fantasy. It's all nonsense. It's literally a fantasy

1117
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:18,560
Speaker 1: literally okay, but I agree fantasy tends to have a

1118
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:21,400
Speaker 1: good connotation. These are the people, these are the scenarios.

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00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:24,040
Speaker 1: I'm with it. You day dream about and I'm pretty

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00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: sure each one of us has given that piece of

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00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 1: advice in this in this forum at some point. That's

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00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 1: find to repeat advice because it's the same. It's just

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Speaker 1: as helpful just to be reminded of certain things. Marcus,

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00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:40,680
Speaker 1: you hand out some advice, Uh, you know, I would say,

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Speaker 1: I mean aside from what West said, which is my

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Speaker 1: number one that I tell people. But in most leagues

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00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 1: there are what we call the onesies position quarterback, tight end, kicker, defense.

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Speaker 1: Generally mostly these you only start one of those players.

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Speaker 1: So you really only need to draft one of those

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Speaker 1: players because you're gonna you know, if you have an injury,

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00:58:57,560 --> 00:58:59,360
Speaker 1: if you have a bye week, you can find somebody

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00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:01,480
Speaker 1: off the waiver are you can stream the position if

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Speaker 1: you need to. So it doesn't make sense to carry

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Speaker 1: two in three quarterbacks or a couple of tight ends

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00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:08,720
Speaker 1: just because on a week tweek basis you only play

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00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:10,800
Speaker 1: one of them anyway, So you know, use that roster spot,

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00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:13,880
Speaker 1: that roster space for other wide receivers and running backs

1138
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:15,880
Speaker 1: where you will have to play multiples of them during

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Speaker 1: the week like that. Um see you're making notes there. Yes, Greg,

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Speaker 1: Please feel free to attack me personally. No, I I

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00:59:25,560 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 1: literally I think that was I'm totally, I completely agree

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00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 1: with you that you should just do it to have fun.

1143
00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what my my UH advice is

1144
00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 1: that you don't have to play fantasy football. I'm just

1145
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:40,240
Speaker 1: being real where I am in life. I don't even

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00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 1: play fantasy football anymore. And it's kind of great, Like

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00:59:43,920 --> 00:59:46,720
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not saying I'm not making judgments. I

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00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 1: loved fantasy football for like a long time, but I've

1149
00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 1: gotten older, and you change sometimes and you get different priorities.

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00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:56,520
Speaker 1: And just because everyone else is playing fantasy football, like,

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00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:58,840
Speaker 1: if it's starting to feel even like a little bit

1152
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:02,560
Speaker 1: like a drag, don't do it. Free up your Sunday liked,

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01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:04,120
Speaker 1: might come back to it in a few years, right,

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Speaker 1: I have some years I've done it, some years I haven't, like,

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Speaker 1: and it's fine when I do it. But I would say, like,

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Speaker 1: if you're if you're one of those who's kind of

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01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:13,960
Speaker 1: starting to feel like homework, like give it up. You'll

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01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:17,640
Speaker 1: probably enjoy it. I kind of do feel like saying

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Speaker 1: you don't. I don't have a fantasy football team is

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01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 1: the new I don't have a television. But that's only

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01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 1: because a bunch of people around you got out and

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Speaker 1: you're still here. I've never I've never talked about on

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Speaker 1: the show. I haven't editing. People that don't have a

1164
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Speaker 1: fantasy team love to tell you they don't have a

1165
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 1: fantasy But also is also true, everybody who has a

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01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:36,680
Speaker 1: fantasy team loves to tell you about who's on their

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01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:41,760
Speaker 1: fantasy No one cares about your fantasy team. That's the

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Speaker 1: one thing. Everybody cares about their fantasy team, But no

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Speaker 1: one cares about your fantasy right. My My draft day

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01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:50,960
Speaker 1: advice is one's practical because I got burned last year.

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Speaker 1: Uh and I only do one league, and the league

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01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:56,800
Speaker 1: I got burned in Christian McCaffrey and Joe Mixon. I

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Speaker 1: kind of got cute. I got sucked into things that

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01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 1: were in the summer mill about who's gonna be great?

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01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:05,360
Speaker 1: And I took two guys, and I believe there was

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01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 1: another player in the mix there. And if you do

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01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 1: not get in with a big time running back, I

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01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:14,720
Speaker 1: feel like right now these top running backs are winning

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01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:17,520
Speaker 1: leagues more than ever with their ability to stack up

1180
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Speaker 1: points PPR leagues. UM, so don't get you to running back.

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01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:23,200
Speaker 1: It ties into kind of west was saying too with

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01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:25,920
Speaker 1: the monkey wrench. If you have a great running back

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Speaker 1: at the top of the in the first round of

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Speaker 1: the second round, grab him. You will regret it if

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01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:32,440
Speaker 1: you try to get somebody on the bargain in the

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01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:34,480
Speaker 1: third and fourth round, and then you'll be chasing that

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Speaker 1: position all season. And then the other one, which is

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01:01:36,920 --> 01:01:39,720
Speaker 1: an annual reminder, don't be the guy that gets drunk

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Speaker 1: at your fantasy draft. Get drunk after the fantasy If

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01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:46,160
Speaker 1: you're having a get together, have a couple of beers,

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01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 1: get loose. You're supposed to be having fun. But once

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01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:51,400
Speaker 1: you get too drunk, you can make decisions that will

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01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:54,120
Speaker 1: haunt you for three or four months. And that's not

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01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 1: where it's glass of Tito's or an extra I p A.

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Speaker 1: Just let the other guys get drunk, even if you

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01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 1: want to do the old water trick or like, oh,

1197
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:08,520
Speaker 1: let's let's everybody, let's have some makers mark before we

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01:02:08,560 --> 01:02:11,200
Speaker 1: get going. You pour yourself a little die coola, and

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Speaker 1: then your guys are drafting hines Ward in round six.

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Speaker 1: This is the type of stuff that Marcus did to

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01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:19,240
Speaker 1: eliminate all competition in this building. You have to be

1202
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:25,640
Speaker 1: playing chess checks alright, watch the a t N Live

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01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:30,600
Speaker 1: video show Thursdays, streaming at noon eastern NFL dot com

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01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:35,760
Speaker 1: Slash A t N Live. Marcus Grant, you are an excellent,

1205
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:39,600
Speaker 1: excellent fantasy expert. I call you an expert. I appreciate that.

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01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:41,880
Speaker 1: And I'm just I'm just a dude who I tell people.

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Speaker 1: Not only my job is playing fantasy football. Allowed it's

1208
01:02:45,440 --> 01:02:47,400
Speaker 1: sort of encouraged, so I just have more time to

1209
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 1: sit and stare at this stuff than the average person.

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01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:52,800
Speaker 1: So that's it. Yes, So follow Marcus Grant on Twitter

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01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:57,400
Speaker 1: and the Fantasy Live podcast, which again I will be mark.

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01:02:57,440 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 1: Do we have a final trip to the Fantasy corner?

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01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:01,160
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like I've kind of burned

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01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:04,040
Speaker 1: you guys out a little bit. How long is this one?

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01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:08,800
Speaker 1: This one is one single page, so it's half. Should

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01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:10,840
Speaker 1: we throw it to the fantasy corner? Yes? Because I

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01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:12,520
Speaker 1: liked this topic. I mean, this is where I get

1218
01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:18,880
Speaker 1: the foundation for my player ranking. So yes, this is

1219
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:22,480
Speaker 1: why I quit fantasy football A brief essay, uh and

1220
01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 1: I hopefully hopefully read for them the previous two. The

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01:03:25,200 --> 01:03:29,080
Speaker 1: last time I played fantasy football, but not as myself.

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01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:31,640
Speaker 1: My wife Simone was in a league with a flock

1223
01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 1: of clients from her work. She was the only female

1224
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:36,840
Speaker 1: in the league. I caught win that these bro types

1225
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 1: would occasionally make fun of her to her face. That's

1226
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:45,880
Speaker 1: exactly right, largely because and twelve team the previous year

1227
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:48,480
Speaker 1: was a crash and burn unit, the result of being

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Speaker 1: at home with a two year old and a newborn baby.

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01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:53,160
Speaker 1: Fair to say, she wasn't concerned with mining the waiver

1230
01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 1: wire for some two bit flex option with deep league

1231
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:59,400
Speaker 1: upside with two tots, causing utter mayhem on the home front.

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01:03:59,720 --> 01:04:04,160
Speaker 1: The followeing season, these guys invited her back. The commissioner

1233
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:07,400
Speaker 1: would put out this weekly newsletter, often taking jabs at

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01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:09,960
Speaker 1: Simone in print for mildly sucking at running her team.

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Speaker 1: The thing is, I think she was pretty good at

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01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:14,360
Speaker 1: fantasy football when she did not, you know how, the

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01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:17,880
Speaker 1: pro job of nursing two small humans. In response, I

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01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:23,040
Speaker 1: secretly took over her franchise in I picked up Julius Thomas,

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01:04:23,280 --> 01:04:25,840
Speaker 1: a Chris Wesleyan favorite and a guy we suspected would

1240
01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:28,120
Speaker 1: fly with Peyton Manny at the Helm in Denver. When

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Speaker 1: I grabbed Thomas early, the draft chatwon trap room went nuts,

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01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:36,880
Speaker 1: killing in quotes Simone for taking a nobody. I was

1243
01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 1: stunned at how they treated her. I decided to attack

1244
01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:41,960
Speaker 1: with a bow and arrow made a pure lava, killing

1245
01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:46,360
Speaker 1: her roster with a laundry list of breakout candidates. Long

1246
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:49,600
Speaker 1: story short, Simone's team scored more points than any other

1247
01:04:49,640 --> 01:04:51,960
Speaker 1: squad in this sixteen club league and ran away with

1248
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:55,800
Speaker 1: the championship. Simone never said a word to anyone all

1249
01:04:55,800 --> 01:04:59,080
Speaker 1: season and quietly retired after taking home the championship trophy.

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01:04:59,200 --> 01:05:03,680
Speaker 1: I've never touched man see since Seacrest out that was

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Speaker 1: That's fantastic, and I love Attack with a bow and

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01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:11,920
Speaker 1: Arrow made a pure love But I really love maybe

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Speaker 1: the first humble bragg essay of her. Now stay safe, Mark,

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01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:20,920
Speaker 1: you got the first because I think that was a

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01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:23,240
Speaker 1: trip to the Fantasy Corner a couple of years ago,

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01:05:23,360 --> 01:05:28,280
Speaker 1: that story. But wasn't sure the hits, you know, when

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01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:32,240
Speaker 1: it comes to anything fantasy related. My general catalog of

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01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:36,000
Speaker 1: data is very small, So love the corner. Um All right,

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Speaker 1: We'll be back on Friday, the return of Connie Fox,

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01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:44,120
Speaker 1: the Tiny Box. Colleen Wolf will rejoin us after a

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01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:47,680
Speaker 1: long break from the show. We'll get into history is

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01:05:48,240 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 1: very rich here, so We're excited to have her back.

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Speaker 1: Hey one plug, our friend the loose canon m a

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Speaker 1: VP and I guess Connie Fox, but not really. Let's

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