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Speaker 1: Wow, what is up? Welcome to another edition of the

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Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's me your man, NAMG Marcus Grant.

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Speaker 1: You know the deal still dam asking socially distancing all

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Speaker 1: of that when and where necessary, and we're continuing on

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Speaker 1: with our exit interviews. Me Michael F. Florio joining me. Floria.

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Speaker 1: How you feeling day, man, I'm feeling better than expected

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Speaker 1: when I woke up this morning. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: get too into baseball with the Mets to Scotland Door

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Speaker 1: and Carlos Carrasco, and I'm a big Mets fans, so

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm pretty excited right now. I'm sure you are.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is look it has been. It has

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Speaker 1: been a great couple of months for Mets fans, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you get a new owner who's like obviously

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Speaker 1: invested in trying to rebuild this thing and winning. Then

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Speaker 1: you go out and you get top talents like Carrasco

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Speaker 1: and Francisco Lindor. So um, I do like for the

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Speaker 1: first time in a while, Florida, there's there's hope in

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Speaker 1: Queens right now. Yeah, And people Met fans were like

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Speaker 1: tweeting Steve Cohen a little bit like when are you

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Speaker 1: guys gonna make a move? And he was kind of

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Speaker 1: just getting a little snarky these last couple of days,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's because he's known that this is

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Speaker 1: coming and he's like, here, it is the first big

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Speaker 1: move of my erraw. But Marcus, like my whole life,

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Speaker 1: all of my favorite teams have been bad. That's got

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Speaker 1: this trade. The Bills are the two seed in the

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Speaker 1: a f C. And the Nicks are over five hundred.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on right now. Everything is

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Speaker 1: coming up in the old House right now. All I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say is that this is the biggest move in

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Speaker 1: Queens since Prince Akim showed up from Zimunda. Like that's

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Speaker 1: all I know. Uh, it's that big of a deal.

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Speaker 1: Also alongside is our producer Steven Banny and Steve you

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Speaker 1: were talking about you guys were talking about Matt Stafford

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Speaker 1: and the Lions before before we started this show today.

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Speaker 1: And look, I have no idea exactly what what Stafford's

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Speaker 1: future is gonna be. We'll talk about that a little

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Speaker 1: we have seen the last of effort in a Lions uniform.

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Speaker 1: You as a Lions fan, how do you feel about that?

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Speaker 1: What's his legacy? I mean, what what do you what

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Speaker 1: are you guys feeling at the moment. Man losing Matt

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Speaker 1: Stafford with not one playoff win to his name would

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Speaker 1: be a tough pill to swallow. However, I think we're

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Speaker 1: at a point now with the Lions that we just

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Speaker 1: want to see the guy wins something, and even if

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Speaker 1: it's in a different colored jersey, I think we would

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Speaker 1: be okay with it. Like, because it's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: minute or two before the Lions are anywhere near where

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Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers are, So you know, it's a

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Speaker 1: it's a disappointing era. Uh, you know, we'd like to

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Speaker 1: smile because it happened, you know. I mean, look, Stafford

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Speaker 1: has given you some good years, even if the the

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Speaker 1: win loss record hasn't been great. You know that that

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Speaker 1: guy generally is going to be their game in and

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Speaker 1: game out. He's going to give you a full effort. Um.

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Speaker 1: He has battled through some stuff with this franchise, so uh,

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Speaker 1: as somebody who is an impartial observer, it would be

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Speaker 1: nice to see him go somewhere and be successful. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, once upon a time Marcus. I was at

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Speaker 1: that Cleveland Browns and the one the NFL films one

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Speaker 1: where he gets hurt and he comes back in the

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Speaker 1: that day. Um, and I think at this point, yeah, now,

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Speaker 1: now we're ready to see maybe in New England or

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Speaker 1: maybe San Francisco, Jersey on Stafford. We'll see where he goes.

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Speaker 1: So I appreciate that, Steve Um. So let's get back

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Speaker 1: into it though, Florida. We we did our exit interviews

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday. We started with the four worst teams, the

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Speaker 1: teams that in theory have the first four picks, although

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans have traded their number three pick away. Um,

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Speaker 1: and that is the Cincinnati Bengals. They were four eleven

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Speaker 1: the win loss record obviously not good. But fantasy wise,

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Speaker 1: what did you see from this team that that was

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Speaker 1: I think that what we saw of Joe Barrow earlier

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Speaker 1: is John Is the John Ross experiment over? Is that done?

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Speaker 1: Like he was someone that in Best Ball drafts this year,

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Speaker 1: Joe Mixon is the late second, early third round because

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Speaker 1: And if they do improve that offensive line and Joe

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Speaker 1: one draft that I joined just for you know, to

431
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Speaker 1: see where players are going. There was a big quarterback

432
00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:18,600
Speaker 1: run in like rounds five and six, and I took

433
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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts at the last pick of round seven after

434
00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:24,480
Speaker 1: like Herbert and Russ and all those players, because I

435
00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,520
Speaker 1: was like the quarterbacks left. I think he has the

436
00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:29,880
Speaker 1: upside to be a difference maker, and I don't want

437
00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:31,760
Speaker 1: to miss out on one of those types of quarterbacks.

438
00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,360
Speaker 1: But then looking at it, like you have Ryan's, Tannehill

439
00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,840
Speaker 1: and Taysom Hill going round eleven, and if that's gonna

440
00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:39,520
Speaker 1: be the a DP next year, I think I'll just

441
00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,359
Speaker 1: wait on those guys. But so I'm somewhere in the

442
00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,800
Speaker 1: middle right now with Jalen Hurts because I'm somewhere in

443
00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,160
Speaker 1: the like he has the upside to be a league

444
00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,680
Speaker 1: winner and to be like version of Kyler Mary or

445
00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:53,240
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson because of what he can do with his legs.

446
00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:56,719
Speaker 1: But on the other side, it's like fantasy players are

447
00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:58,800
Speaker 1: wise and up to these types of quarterbacks and they're

448
00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,480
Speaker 1: going earlier and earlier, and you may be able to

449
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,680
Speaker 1: get a big discount on a still unproving quarterback. So

450
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,440
Speaker 1: I'm somewhere still kind of trying to figure out exactly

451
00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,520
Speaker 1: where I land on Jalen Hurts, but I do have

452
00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,359
Speaker 1: him ranked as a QB one. I think for me,

453
00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,960
Speaker 1: what is I don't know the word not confusing or

454
00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,480
Speaker 1: or uh. The thing I want to see most from

455
00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,879
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts is what kind of work he's doing in

456
00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,480
Speaker 1: the offseason to improve his his situation as a passer,

457
00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:27,359
Speaker 1: because I think that was the thing we sort of

458
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,800
Speaker 1: learned over the last couple of weeks is that we

459
00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:32,320
Speaker 1: know he can run effectively with the football. We saw

460
00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:36,160
Speaker 1: him do that. Um, can he be a better passer?

461
00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,520
Speaker 1: Because I will say this in terms of you know,

462
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Speaker 1: you mentioned Taysom Hill is a guy that's ranked sort

463
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Speaker 1: of near him. I think the Jalen Hurts is is

464
00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:45,399
Speaker 1: right now a more developed passer than Taysom Hill is.

465
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,520
Speaker 1: They're both, I think, very effective running the football. One

466
00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,120
Speaker 1: is a slightly more advanced passer. And if if Hurts

467
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,200
Speaker 1: can take another step forward there, I think that's gonna

468
00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:56,840
Speaker 1: go a long way toward improving his draft stock. UM.

469
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Speaker 1: The other part of it is the Eagles still have

470
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Speaker 1: to figure out their wide receiver group. You know, like

471
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine they come back another year with al

472
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,159
Speaker 1: Sean Jeffrey and de Sean Jackson on the roster. H

473
00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,960
Speaker 1: J j Artego Whiteside is proving to not be the

474
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,000
Speaker 1: guy that they thought he would look. I would say this,

475
00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:15,840
Speaker 1: two years the old you got when they drafted him.

476
00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:17,719
Speaker 1: I waved the flag for him as a deep sleeper,

477
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:20,040
Speaker 1: mostly because I think I was you know, I just

478
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,520
Speaker 1: had visions in my head of him mossing smaller USC

479
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:26,119
Speaker 1: cornerbacks when he was at Stanford. UM, that didn't happen.

480
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:28,440
Speaker 1: And you know, this year, I I thought about trying

481
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:31,439
Speaker 1: to go back on board with that. I decided against it. Um.

482
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:34,480
Speaker 1: You know, but they need somebody to help out, right

483
00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,159
Speaker 1: Jalen Rado needs to step up. I don't know if

484
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Speaker 1: you want Greg Ward or Travis Folgon to be those guys,

485
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,720
Speaker 1: but they have to do some things, so I would

486
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Speaker 1: I'm kind of with you. I think right now he's

487
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 1: a fringe quarterback one, but depending on what the Eagles

488
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 1: do this offseason, I'm willing to kinda to move that

489
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,399
Speaker 1: up and make some adjustments to that when we get

490
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Speaker 1: by's time, we get to you know, July or August

491
00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,560
Speaker 1: or something like that, all right. So we talked about

492
00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:58,560
Speaker 1: the Lions a little bit with Steve at the top

493
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Speaker 1: of the show. The Lions finished at five and eleven.

494
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:06,359
Speaker 1: They have the number seven pick right now, and it

495
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 1: just seemed to be kind of a lion Z season, right, Like,

496
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,639
Speaker 1: you know, there were some some moments there where you're like, hey,

497
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:14,359
Speaker 1: there's some things that are kind of worth watching. Then

498
00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 1: there's some moments here where you're like, this is really

499
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 1: bad and why am I watching any of this? Uh?

500
00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:20,199
Speaker 1: And and the end they ended up, you know, finishing

501
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,200
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the NFC North. They're picking in

502
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,679
Speaker 1: the top ten once again. They just you know, it's

503
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 1: Groundhog Day in Detroit. It feels like um. But let's

504
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,080
Speaker 1: let's start with the positive. What was good from the

505
00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:35,720
Speaker 1: Lions in I think this is a pretty easy team too.

506
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 1: They had two good things happened for at least on

507
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 1: offensive Tony twenty DeAndre Swift being one of them. Like

508
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift in my opinion, showed that he is a

509
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,879
Speaker 1: RB He has RB one potential in fantasy and he

510
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 1: is very much so in RB one in real life.

511
00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,880
Speaker 1: Like they found their lead back. I think no questions asked.

512
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: He showed that he could do it. In the passing game,

513
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:56,560
Speaker 1: he showed that he can be a goal line runner.

514
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Speaker 1: Uh he just I think everything they asked of him

515
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,399
Speaker 1: to do, he passed. And the only thing that was

516
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 1: frustrating about DeAndre Swift this year is how much they

517
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 1: used Adrian Peterson and carry On Johnson um. And I

518
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:09,600
Speaker 1: think the other bright spot was t J. Hockenson. He

519
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 1: finished as the Titan three this year. He was third

520
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 1: in receiving yards, and even more so than that, he

521
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 1: was the one thing that not a lot of tight

522
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,600
Speaker 1: ends are and that is consistent, like you would the

523
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 1: second half of the year I would in the league.

524
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Speaker 1: I had him, and I didn't even consider other tight

525
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Speaker 1: ends because I was like, this guy is gonna give

526
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Speaker 1: me ten, twelve, thirteen fantasy points, and if I can

527
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: get that out of my tight end, I'm gonna be

528
00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 1: so much happier than trying to stream someone off the

529
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 1: waiver wire who could potentially outscore Hackinson but also very

530
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 1: well may give me two fantasy points. So for me,

531
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:43,639
Speaker 1: those were the two bright spots of the two that

532
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,919
Speaker 1: I feel good about going forward. I think the Hawkinson thing, too,

533
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,560
Speaker 1: is is kind of underrated because I think what what

534
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,560
Speaker 1: ended up happening is we got to a point in

535
00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:56,959
Speaker 1: the season where the the Titan narrative was just it sucks,

536
00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,280
Speaker 1: like unless you have basically was like, unless you have

537
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:03,160
Speaker 1: Travis Kelly See or Darren Waller, it sucks. And that's

538
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 1: sort of ignored the fact that t J. Hopkinson was

539
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,879
Speaker 1: putting together very quietly, a very good season. And I

540
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: think also some of it is that we we do

541
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 1: have to sort of recalibrate what we think of as

542
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 1: good tight end production, right we we can't one, I

543
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 1: think we can't use Travis Kelsey as the benchmark, Like

544
00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 1: I just don't think that's fair, right if we if

545
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 1: we're if we're using Kelsey or a healthy George Kittle

546
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,399
Speaker 1: or Darren Waller for using them as the benchmarks for

547
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 1: what we consider to be acceptable fantasy tight end play,

548
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: then we're going to be perpetually disappointed. Um. And so

549
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: I think when you talk about Hawkinson kind of having

550
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 1: that steady you know, thirteen to fifteen points every single week,

551
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 1: that's pretty good, and I think that's sort of kind

552
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 1: of where we want to land with our tight ends.

553
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,879
Speaker 1: And so because we kind of you know, went on

554
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,639
Speaker 1: the whole tight end sucks. It's a waste land. I

555
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 1: want to get my guy early. I think that's sort

556
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 1: of ignored what Hawkinson put together late in the year,

557
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,200
Speaker 1: and let's use it. We sort of loved Robert Tanyan,

558
00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 1: but it was up and down with tany and he

559
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 1: had some he had some big smash games. He also

560
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 1: had some games where he really kind of left you

561
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: hanging with nearly nothing to show for him. You talk

562
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:11,360
Speaker 1: about those two point games, Tanian had a couple of those,

563
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 1: so to know you could roll Hawkinson out in that

564
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: lineup and feel pretty good about getting double digit points

565
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:18,680
Speaker 1: that you know you you were gonna get probably a

566
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: weekly tight ened one finish um even if it worst

567
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 1: it was like eleven or twelve. I think that's something

568
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: worth talking about. And then and then Swift. Obviously it

569
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 1: was nice when they finally figured it out late in

570
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,640
Speaker 1: the year. One of my favorite parts of the year

571
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 1: was the Lions saying, hey, we're gonna make DeAndre Swift

572
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 1: our number one running back and take him the workhorse,

573
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 1: and Adrian Peterson was like, I mean about time, I

574
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,959
Speaker 1: would take you so long? Should happen weeks ago? Uh?

575
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:47,760
Speaker 1: It was nice to see that. We were all, you know,

576
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,359
Speaker 1: as a football community, sort of on the same page

577
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,120
Speaker 1: about that one. There, Um all right on the flip side,

578
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,320
Speaker 1: what needs to get better for the Lions heading into

579
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: everything else other than uh, like, because Kenny Golladay is

580
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 1: a free agent this year, I really like Marvin Jones,

581
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 1: like it's a best ball pick and fantasy, but he's

582
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 1: pretty inconsistent in a real life aspect. So I think

583
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: they need to first they need to figure out what

584
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 1: they're doing with quarterback. They need to do a whole

585
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: lot right like GM coach quarterback, Like, it's just everything

586
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: from the ground up. It feels like has to change

587
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 1: in Detroit and uh sorry, Steve. I feel like they're

588
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 1: about to enter a pretty big rebuild here, especially if

589
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,840
Speaker 1: they move on from Stafford. I'm truly wondering that, Like,

590
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: if they move on from Stafford, I'm assuming Kenny Golladay

591
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: is going to leave. I have no idea what this

592
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 1: offense may look like. It could be like a a

593
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 1: pretty boring veteran quarterback starting for them with like Marvin

594
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 1: Jones is their wide receiver. One like that to me

595
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: would be a fantasy nightmare. That Yeah, it's the weird

596
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,640
Speaker 1: thing about about this season. One of the weird things

597
00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:00,400
Speaker 1: about this season was the whole Kindny Golladay saga where

598
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: he had the injury and the Lions wouldn't put him

599
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 1: on I r uh. They kept sort of stringing him

600
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: along and stringing us along about you know, what's he

601
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: going to play? Is he going to practice? And it

602
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 1: never happened, and I don't, I, for the life of

603
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 1: you don't understand what what was going on with that.

604
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: They never put him on the I r Ever. They

605
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 1: never did no, they never did. They just they just

606
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,639
Speaker 1: sort of, you know, said he's you know, he's questionable

607
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,680
Speaker 1: or he's doubtful this week, he's not practicing. It just

608
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 1: it was a weird. It was a weird tug of

609
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: war they had with themselves for no real reason. I

610
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: don't I don't quite get that. Um. But there's so

611
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: many things about this year that that's sort of we're

612
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: just baffling about the Lions and you're right there there,

613
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 1: and I think I have to start a really big

614
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: undertaking of sort of overhauling this team. I don't know

615
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 1: where to start with it. So actually, here here's the thing.

616
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 1: Maybe this is where we start. How much of what

617
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: happens next year hinges on whether or not Matt Stafford

618
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: is there. I feel like it all sort of you know,

619
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: once they figure out the GM and the coach, is

620
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: it really about what happens at the quarterback position, then

621
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: they can sort of build outward from there. I think so,

622
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 1: because first of all, quarterback is the most important position

623
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 1: in all of sports. I think so. I think it always,

624
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: like all of your decisions as a football team kind

625
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: of start at the quarterback position. But also, like Matt Stafford,

626
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: at least in my opinion, isn't above average quarterback. Even

627
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: though I know he hasn't had a whole lot of

628
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: winds like win success with Detroit, like he's still kept

629
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,920
Speaker 1: that offensive float and kept this team afloat. In my opinion,

630
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 1: I think if you move on from Stafford like one,

631
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: who are you bringing in to replace him? And too,

632
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: if it's like a boring veteran or a like a

633
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: maybe they draft a quarterback this year, but if not,

634
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 1: like I would imagine that they entered one as the

635
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: favorite to get the top pick next year. If their

636
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: quarterback is not Matt Stafford or a top that that

637
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: probably is the case and I'm trying to think, so.

638
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: I mean, so I'm looking at a couple of mock drafts.

639
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: I see, I see Zach Wilson, the quarterback from b Y,

640
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 1: you possibly being being a guy that that goes there.

641
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: I could see that. Um, you know, I guess if

642
00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,360
Speaker 1: they decide to go the free agency route, you're talking

643
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 1: about a guy that is a stop that's literally a

644
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,959
Speaker 1: bridge quarterback a great year or two. Uh. If there's somebody,

645
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 1: maybe it's somebody you don't you don't like anybody in

646
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: the draft, or there's somebody you're looking ahead as you

647
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 1: feel like you might look like a little bit better. Um,

648
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 1: maybe that's a possibility. But this is a really big undertaking,

649
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: and I feel like for fantasy, how we value a

650
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,719
Speaker 1: lot of the other players around this offense is going

651
00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: to be impacted by who the quarterback is. I mean

652
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: maybe look like I would think that, you know, sort

653
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: of like you with with Miles Sanders. Is DeAndre Swift

654
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: the guy? You know? Do you feel like he's quarterback proof?

655
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: Will you like the DeAndre Swift regardless of the quarterback

656
00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 1: is next year in Detroit? Probably? Um beak is I

657
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: think DeAndre Swift is is a true is a really

658
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,719
Speaker 1: talented running back. I think I love that he can

659
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 1: catch passes out of the backfield because I'm a big

660
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: believer that that you need to be versatile unless you

661
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: could be like a Derrick Henry or something like that,

662
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 1: where you can make up for the fact that you

663
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: don't catch passes. Otherwise, those running backs to me that

664
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: don't really catch a whole lot of passes there more

665
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: r B two is because they just don't have that

666
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: floor or ceiling that the catches really inflates. So I

667
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: think the fact that he was already top ten and

668
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: catches catches per game amongst running backs this year is

669
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 1: a huge sign, especially if this is a team that

670
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: is going to be playing from behind a lot, because

671
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: it kind of showed us that they won't phase him

672
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: out even if they're trailing. But yeah, if they're coming

673
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: into next year with like I'm trying to think of

674
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: like who a veteran stop gap quarterback could be that

675
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: they can bring in. But like let's say, like the

676
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: Niners move on from Jimmy g I think that he'll

677
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: be fine there. But if it's someone like like the

678
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,479
Speaker 1: Bears approaches past year with like a Nick Foles, then

679
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna like him a little bit less because I

680
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: think that is obviously a downgrade. Um, but I still

681
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: can see myself being a DeAndre stip supporter, regardless of

682
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: who the quarterback is, trying to pull up some some

683
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: potential free agent quarterbacks. I mean, you know, we'll see

684
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: what happens with Philip Rivers if he comes back. Uh,

685
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: you know, Travisky maybe out there, he could be a

686
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: free agent potentially. Uh, you know Fits Magic. Maybe showing

687
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: up in one Fits Magic in Detroit actually would be

688
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: kind of fun. Might take to the playoffs. Who knows

689
00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: he might take to the playoffs. They might win two games,

690
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: Like there's a whole outcomes where Fitzpatrick as the quarterback.

691
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: That would be a lot of fun though. Um alright,

692
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: So our last one for this episode is the Carolina

693
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,920
Speaker 1: Panthers five and eleven. Uh they were the number they

694
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: have the number eight pick after their season. Um, you

695
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: know it it was I don't even know how to

696
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: describe the Panthers season. It was just sort of there. Um,

697
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: you know, it just it just sort of was there.

698
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: It was a thing that happened. We all kind of

699
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 1: experienced it collectively. Uh, I don't really know what else

700
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: to say about it beyond that, what did you think

701
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: about it? Was good in I think the fact that

702
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: their offense, even after losing Christian McCaffrey, were still able

703
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: to give us some fantasy reliant players was a good

704
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: sign um. But I do think that that the Panthers

705
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: are in the worst place you could kind of be

706
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: in football, which is where you have a good enough

707
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: quarterback to lose with. And that's what I think Eddy

708
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: Bridgewater is, Like, I think he will keep you competitive,

709
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: he will have you being a mediocre football team. Do

710
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: I think that Teddy Bridgewater can lead this team to

711
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: the playoffs or the Super Bowl? Me? Personally, no. I mean,

712
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: this is a guy whose career he threw his career

713
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: high and passing touchdowns this year was still under twenty uh.

714
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: He's never thrown for four thousand yards. Like, he just

715
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like the quarterback that could take you to

716
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: the next level. But I do think he's a good

717
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: enough quarterback where like you could convince yourself hard next

718
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: year with our receivers and with a healthy Christian McCaffrey,

719
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 1: we could and we improve our deep. It's a little

720
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: bit we could make a run here. But for me,

721
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 1: I think also one of the big thing about the

722
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: Panthers this year, Marcus was like, you look at where

723
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:11,280
Speaker 1: their wide receivers finished. Robbie Anderson was wide receiver fifteen,

724
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 1: d J. Moore was twenty three, and Curtis Samuel was

725
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 1: twenty six, and there was no consistency with those at all.

726
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: So it was a guessing game all year. It was

727
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: very frustrating this team for fantasy. I think the way

728
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: you talked about Teddy Bridgewater and I don't think you're

729
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 1: wrong about it. The first thing that came to mind

730
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:31,479
Speaker 1: was an old quote from Bill Walsh talking about Steve

731
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 1: the Burgh, who was the niners starting quarterback before Joe Montana,

732
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: and Walsh said about the Burg, he's just good enough

733
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: to get you beat. And that's sort of, I think,

734
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,439
Speaker 1: kind of where we are with Teddy. Teddy's not gonna

735
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: go out there, he's not gonna he's not gonna vomit

736
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: on his shoes. He's not going to, you know, have

737
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: these terribly embarrassing, awful games where you're like, you gotta

738
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 1: pull him, you gotta put somebody else in. But he's

739
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 1: also not the guy that if you need him to

740
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: rally you and get you a win. You know, I

741
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: don't know if you feel a hundred percent confident that

742
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: that's going to happen with with Teddy. Um, I would

743
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,280
Speaker 1: say that for me, seeing Robby Anderson sort of blossom

744
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: at least early in the year was kind of a

745
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: bright spot, although he did kind of fade in the

746
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,320
Speaker 1: back half of the season as you mentioned, you know,

747
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: DJ Moore, Curtis Samuel starting to get some more run.

748
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:16,839
Speaker 1: I guess we had those you know, two or three

749
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,959
Speaker 1: weeks of Mike Davis as a thing that we're sort

750
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 1: of eyes. But again back part of the season, Um,

751
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 1: he got to the point where a lot of us

752
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: felt like he was droppable because he just wasn't producing

753
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: on any kind of level that you felt confident in

754
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: having him in your lineup. So, like I said, it

755
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:35,360
Speaker 1: was a season for the Panthers that just kind of was.

756
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,840
Speaker 1: And I don't know if if really, if if Christian

757
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: McCaffrey really means that much to this team, or if it,

758
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,719
Speaker 1: you know, would they have been a five and eleven team.

759
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: You know, maybe they're maybe there's seven and nine with

760
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey as opposed to not as opposed to without him.

761
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. We'll never know. Some parallel

762
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 1: universe might might have that answer for us if we

763
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: could figure it out. Um So that being said, what

764
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: what needs to improve? If everything was just kind of

765
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,320
Speaker 1: men it feels like there's a lot of things that

766
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: maybe could get better or is everything just kind of

767
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: you know, oatmeal right now? I think it's like on

768
00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: the offensive least, I think it's kind of oatmeal because

769
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,320
Speaker 1: like Curtis Samuel is a free agent, let's say he leaves.

770
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: I think that helps more and Robbie Anderson become more

771
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: consistent for fantasy. Christian McCaffrey, though, is gonna come back,

772
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,879
Speaker 1: and like, yes, Mike Davis had seventy targets this year,

773
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: but Christian healthy, Christian McCaffrey over sixteen games, probably gonna

774
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: get over a hundred once again, so he's gonna get

775
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: more volume his way. I think this is gonna be

776
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: an offense next year that I'm gonna percent back in

777
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 1: on Christian McCaffrey. I'm not gonna have any interest in

778
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,919
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater at all, even in two quarterback leagues, because

779
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 1: he is safe. But he doesn't come with I feel

780
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: really any upside at all. I'd rather chase the upside

781
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: quarterbacks there because at least if one of those upside

782
00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: guys hit, I have a chance of winning my league.

783
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: Where even though in my biggest super Flex league this

784
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: year that the winner had Teddy Bridgewater on their roster, um,

785
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:00,480
Speaker 1: I just don't think he is a great set. He's

786
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 1: a safe one, but not a really high upside. And

787
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,720
Speaker 1: then the receivers. I can already feel it now, Marcus,

788
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: everyone is gonna get back into DJ more and they're

789
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: gonna price him too high, and I'm not going to

790
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: be interested. So I mean, that was my next question is, like,

791
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 1: which of those guys, let's let's just say, for the

792
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: sake of argument, Curtis Samuel resigns there in Carolina, Right,

793
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: so they've got Anderson Moore and and Curtis Samuel. Which

794
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: one of those guys do you most have interest? And

795
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 1: I know, you know, like I know that some of

796
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: it is about where they're available, but yeah, which one

797
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 1: of those guys, all things being equal, would you most

798
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 1: pull the trigger on? Probably Robbie Anderson because I just

799
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,439
Speaker 1: feel like he's going to get the least amount of hype.

800
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,759
Speaker 1: Like again, fantasy community loves d J Moore, and all

801
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 1: year we hear how talented he is and how he

802
00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: and every time he has a big game, you would

803
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: see the DJ more supporters coming out and I would

804
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: sit there being like, but he scored single digits in

805
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 1: three of his last four games or something like that.

806
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 1: So like but and then Curtis Samuel, he also comes

807
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: with some hype because he he can get used out

808
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 1: of the backfield at times. And and I know a

809
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: lot of people again believe in his talent. But Robbie

810
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:09,799
Speaker 1: Anderson is a player that I think is also very

811
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: talented in his own right. Uh. And and also he

812
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: is the field stretcher in the downfield weapon there, so

813
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 1: he doesn't need as much volume to rack up Fantasy

814
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: points as those other two. And he was the cheapest

815
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: of the three in drafts, and a lot of drafts

816
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: was going undrafted or super late. And I would not

817
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:28,959
Speaker 1: be surprised if he goes in the double digit rounds

818
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: again because people hype up More and Samuel and McCaffrey

819
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 1: and say like, oh, he's just a field stretcher or

820
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 1: best ball pick or something like that. The first five

821
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 1: weeks for Robbie Anderson were really great. Weeks six and

822
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: seven were just okay, and then after that it was,

823
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: you know, less than great, with a couple of flashes

824
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: here and there. Um. But I do feel like he

825
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 1: was a he was a better fit for the Panthers

826
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: offense than I thought he was going to be. And

827
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 1: I credit some of that to, you know, what they

828
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 1: were doing down there and and and the way they

829
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: sort of scheme that offense and got him to to

830
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 1: kind of work in there. And shout out to to

831
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: Joe Brady for kind of making that happen, because my

832
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: my argument against him had been he's a field stretcher

833
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: on a team with a quarterback not knowing for throwing

834
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: the ball deep. But they made it work, and so

835
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:14,400
Speaker 1: maybe that's reason enough to kind of get back in

836
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 1: on Robbie Anderson. I feel like that finished. Though the

837
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: fact that he finished as a top fifteen wide receiver

838
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,359
Speaker 1: or top twenty wide receiver depending on where you're looking,

839
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 1: it was a little bit misleading because he started so fast. Um.

840
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: And so I think I think if we sort of

841
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: take the balance of it, um, I think I would

842
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: much rather have him is maybe my third wide receiver,

843
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 1: maybe a low end wide receiver to at best. Um

844
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: and so we'll see where the hype is with these guys.

845
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,239
Speaker 1: Kevin coming in the next year. But I do you know,

846
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: I sort of changed my mind on Robby Anderson as

847
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: the season went along. So all right, so that takes

848
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: us through the top eight. We will have four more

849
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: for you on Tuesday, and for more on Thursday. I mean,

850
00:39:57,719 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: you know how this works. You you can do the

851
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: math um. But there are playoff games coming up this weekend.

852
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 1: We have Super Wildcard weekend, or we get three games

853
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 1: a piece on Saturday and Sunday. So let means this

854
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: is a pretty decent DFS slate for everybody out there

855
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: who is interested in playing it. By the way, I

856
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: guess a little bit of shameless self promotion to be

857
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Speaker 1: a company man here. Uh if you haven't played the

858
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 1: Playoff Challenge, you can do that as well. You can

859
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: go to uh NFL dot com slash Playoff Challenge. I

860
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,399
Speaker 1: should actually confirm that now that I'm saying it out

861
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:28,840
Speaker 1: loud to me, let me type it in here to

862
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 1: my search bar and make sure that works before I

863
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:36,879
Speaker 1: give you all faulty information. Um no ha, see I'm glad,

864
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: I said, I'm glad to check this out. Um, we

865
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: got to playoff challenge that fantasy dot NFL dot com.

866
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 1: I know that's a mouthful, but you can always rewind

867
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: this and listen to me say it again. Go play

868
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 1: the playoff challenge. You can set up your team. You

869
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:52,080
Speaker 1: can play in a league with some other friends or

870
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: a bunch of random people you've never met in your life.

871
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: Pick your best team. Multipliers along the way, so every

872
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: week that you have a player on your stair, on

873
00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: that player's team advances. You can get double, triple, even

874
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: four times the points. Uh. So we check it out.

875
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,280
Speaker 1: It's a whole lot of fun play with your friends,

876
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: you know, in case you still can't you get enough

877
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: of fantasy football, it's a way to do it. But

878
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 1: for those of you who have the uh the DFS

879
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 1: itch who want to do the DraftKings thing, Florida and

880
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: I put together our preferred weekend slate. You guys can

881
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: mix and match as you see appropriate. So I will

882
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: see to the floor to you. How did you build

883
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: your lineup for this week? So I I started with

884
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson because the Tennessee Titans allow a lot of

885
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: rushing yards this season, and my thinking was, all right,

886
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 1: like Lamar has been this offense as of late, He's

887
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 1: been running once again really well like we we like

888
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 1: to see, and he's he just since he's returned, he

889
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: has just looks like last year's Lamar Jackson as the

890
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: m v P form. So I understand he is the

891
00:41:56,640 --> 00:42:00,879
Speaker 1: most expensive um quarterback on the slate, but I still

892
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 1: think that that he is worth getting in there. And

893
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:07,760
Speaker 1: then I took Jonathan Taylor as my RB one. I'm

894
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,720
Speaker 1: a sucker for Jonathan Taylor if you haven't seen that already,

895
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: but I just I'm a big fan of his talent.

896
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 1: He's coming off the one of the best games of

897
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:18,919
Speaker 1: Colts running back has ever had. He was a top

898
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: six fantasy running back this year, and the Bills weakness

899
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: is against the run more so than it is against

900
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 1: the past. So I went uh in that direction with him.

901
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 1: Then my water my second running back is Kareem Hunt

902
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: markets just because at forty eight hundred, I feel like

903
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 1: that's a really good value. Like Kareem Hunt, I understand

904
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: he's a little bit volatile, but at that price, he

905
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: could catch a couple of passes, find the end zone.

906
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,800
Speaker 1: Especially if the Browns are trailing against the Steelers and

907
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 1: my water receiving corps a little bit cheaper guys, DK

908
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: metcalf as sixty seven hundred. He is cheaper than Tyler Lockett.

909
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: Markets Wow. I know it's the Rams and it's Jalen

910
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 1: Ramsey and he was held in check against them this year,

911
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: but I'm still gonn take my chances with d K

912
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 1: at that price. And then I got Deontay Johnson in

913
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: who I continue to say is the Steelers wide receiver

914
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: one uh and is gonna see big volume against a

915
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 1: Brown secondary that has struggled all year. Uh. And then

916
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 1: I got John Brown as my third wide receiver at

917
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: forty seven hundred because Cole Beasley and Stefon Diggs are

918
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:22,399
Speaker 1: banged up. I understand they did return to practice. Cole

919
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,919
Speaker 1: Beasley is looking a little bit more if he then

920
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:27,840
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs, but either way, John Brown is still this

921
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 1: team's field stretcher, and we know they're gonna take a

922
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 1: couple at least I anticipate them taking a couple of

923
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:34,839
Speaker 1: deep shots with him. And then I rounded it out

924
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,359
Speaker 1: with Austin Hooper just because the volume that he had

925
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 1: been seeing the last couple of weeks coming into the playoffs.

926
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 1: And then my my flex is Gus Edwards. Had to

927
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: go with a cheaper option after getting in some of

928
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: those higher end players, and he has just a nose

929
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: for the end zone. And I expect the Ravens are

930
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:55,720
Speaker 1: gonna try to run the ball a lot this weekend

931
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: and kind of keep it close. And then my defense

932
00:43:58,040 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: is the Bucks because I think they have the best

933
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: match ship going up against the Washington offense in the

934
00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: first week of the playoffs. All right, um, we have

935
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: some similarities. A different quarterback. I went with Josh Allen

936
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,839
Speaker 1: here just because the guy has been so good all

937
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: year long, and I think he's gonna take advantage even

938
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,360
Speaker 1: against a good Colts defense. Uh, the fact that that

939
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 1: rushing floor is so solid, I'm willing to kind of

940
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,760
Speaker 1: take the shot on him. He's not the most expensive,

941
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,479
Speaker 1: I think he's the second most expensive quarterback on the slate,

942
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 1: but I was definitely willing to kind of pony up

943
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: and get him in there with you on Jonathan Taylor,

944
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,399
Speaker 1: I put him in. I just felt like a great

945
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: opportunity for him, considering how well he's played end the season.

946
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 1: I have Gus Edwards as my second running back here

947
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,320
Speaker 1: because for all the hype about JK. Dobbins, Edwards is

948
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 1: still hanging around and being He's very explosive and he

949
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: finds the end zone and I'm willing to take sort

950
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:44,319
Speaker 1: of a shot on that and kind of get him

951
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 1: at a value price. My number one wide receiver this

952
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,800
Speaker 1: week is Terry McLaurin. Um. I think that, you know,

953
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 1: for Washington to stay in this game, they're going to

954
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 1: have to score a lot of points. And I know

955
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: their defense is good, but I still see the Bucks

956
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: being able to move the football and score points and

957
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:00,320
Speaker 1: the football team is going to have to sort of

958
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 1: responding kind and that means potentially a lot of opportunities

959
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: for McLaren. I know he's listed as questionable right now,

960
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: I'm expecting he'll be able to go, and if he's

961
00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 1: on the field, they're going to throw the ball in

962
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: his direction. Um. I thought about going Deonte Johnson, but instead,

963
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: because I went McLaurin, I've moved to Juju Smith Schuster.

964
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: Who I this is another one of those talent versus

965
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,800
Speaker 1: opportunity things for me, right Like, I think Deonte Johnson

966
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: on the field is the Steelers number one wide receiver,

967
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,799
Speaker 1: but weekend and week out, Juju has sort of been

968
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: the more consistent guy. He's kind of been the more stabilizing,

969
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: steady force, especially fantasy wise, in that offense. So that's

970
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: why I sort of took him. I did go with

971
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: John Brown for for a lot of the same reasons

972
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: you mentioned as my third wide receiver there, especially because

973
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 1: the price was really good. Jared Cook as my tight

974
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 1: end because the Bears have had their problems with the

975
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: tight end position all year long. Uh, this feels like

976
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,399
Speaker 1: a potential nice day for Jared Cook to have their

977
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:58,320
Speaker 1: Marcus Brown is my flex um. As frustrated as I

978
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: have been with him, you know, I I am starting

979
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 1: to sort of buy into the fact that he's become

980
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 1: a little more productive over the back part of the season.

981
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: And I know some of it has to do with

982
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 1: his touchdown dependence, but I mean, look, it's one thing

983
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: to say a guy's touchdown dependent, but if he continues

984
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 1: to score touchdowns, then why not roll the dice on him.

985
00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 1: That's kind of where I am with with Mark Keiths

986
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: Brown right now. And then defensively, I took the Seahawks here, uh,

987
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,200
Speaker 1: for any number of reasons. One, I know the Rams

988
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 1: are hoping that Jared Goff is back, but we're talking

989
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: about a guy who just had surgery on his thumb um,

990
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: who has been inconsistent at best this year and is

991
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: dealing with the thumb injury. Uh and if not, then

992
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 1: it's John Wolford who, Um, I don't know. I feel

993
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: like the best thing I could say about how he

994
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:42,759
Speaker 1: played before was that he looked like a Kyler Murray

995
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 1: impersonator when he ran. I mean they have a similar

996
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,080
Speaker 1: running style. With the thing I noticed, I'm like, looks

997
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:50,840
Speaker 1: kind of like Kyler. Um he does not throw the

998
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:54,880
Speaker 1: ball nearly as well as Kyler Murray. So so one

999
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 1: way or another, I think the Rams have a big

1000
00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:59,880
Speaker 1: question market quarterback and the Seahawks defense. While they were

1001
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 1: terrible for the first two, you know, two months of

1002
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: the season or so, they seemed to kind of figure

1003
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 1: some things out late in the year. So that was

1004
00:47:07,760 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: that was where I went with that one. Um. Speaking

1005
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:12,279
Speaker 1: of Cold Beasley, by the way, I haven't listened. You know,

1006
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: he dropped a new a new single. I haven't heard it.

1007
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 1: I see it here and I wish I would have

1008
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: listened to it. So like I could have given you

1009
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: a review on this show. Maybe I'll do that and

1010
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 1: then we can, you know, review it for Tuesday's show.

1011
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 1: But he uh, he tweeted yesterday that he had a

1012
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:28,720
Speaker 1: new single dropping. I guess it came down at midnight

1013
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 1: last night. Um, so yeah, I'm gonna listen to it

1014
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:33,800
Speaker 1: at some point when we're done with this show. Have

1015
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: you listened to his past like music. I listened to

1016
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 1: one song because I think he goes by Bees. I

1017
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:43,320
Speaker 1: think it's like his rap name, which you know, I

1018
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: get so like he. I think he had one called

1019
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:51,400
Speaker 1: eighties Stings because you know Bees and staying right exactly this.

1020
00:47:51,719 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: This is when he was still with the Cowboys. That's

1021
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:57,399
Speaker 1: but that's the only Cold Beasley song I've ever listened to. Um,

1022
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:02,359
Speaker 1: I'm sort of waiting for the Cold easily Darren Waller collab, uh,

1023
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: because that would be kind of fun. Maybe I would

1024
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:08,959
Speaker 1: love to get like all rapping athletes on like one song,

1025
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:12,240
Speaker 1: or or have like a bad like NFL versus NBA,

1026
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 1: even though I think Dame would win, they would win, Yeah,

1027
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 1: so it would be fun. You I mean you you

1028
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:21,799
Speaker 1: probably don't remember this. This was g's a lifetime ago

1029
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:25,319
Speaker 1: for me when I was still doing college radio back

1030
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:27,840
Speaker 1: in the really well if the album was dropped in

1031
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:30,400
Speaker 1: the early nineties. By the time I saw it, it

1032
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 1: was a couple of years old. But it was an

1033
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:35,840
Speaker 1: album called The Ball's Best Kept Secrets, and it was

1034
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: it was just a bunch of NBA players rapping, um,

1035
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:41,800
Speaker 1: and it had you know, like guys who were stars

1036
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: at the time. And Jason Kidd had one. His song

1037
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: was actually kind of awful. Uh Gary Gary Gary Payton

1038
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 1: had one. Uh, Molik Seeley had one. I mean obviously Shack,

1039
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 1: who was you know, actually rapping at the time, and

1040
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 1: I think had a couple albums by then. He had

1041
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 1: a song on there. You may be able to go

1042
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: on YouTube and still find a couple of songs from it.

1043
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 1: But it would be interesting to have like the NFL

1044
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:08,879
Speaker 1: put together something like that, like let's make that happen,

1045
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:11,720
Speaker 1: and she tried to make that happen. Um. There's definitely

1046
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 1: a few, like I know, there's Beasley, There's Levan Bell

1047
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown's rap song was awful. Oh, I don't think

1048
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 1: I heard that. I saw the video where he made

1049
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: the video for I think, and it's just like it's

1050
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: like a two minute song and I'm not even exaggerating.

1051
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: I think a minute in like forty seconds of it.

1052
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:29,839
Speaker 1: It's just him saying like I got a whole lot

1053
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:34,840
Speaker 1: of money, just like over and over again. Oh no,

1054
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 1: don't have to take that out. That's gonna be great,

1055
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 1: all right, that's so yeah. So I'm gonna check out

1056
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 1: the Cold Beasley one, and uh, I don't know if

1057
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:42,239
Speaker 1: you want to listen to it, we can talk about

1058
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 1: it on Tuesday show. That might be interesting. Kind do

1059
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: that all right? In the meantime, Uh, that is it.

1060
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: We are done. We appreciate you hanging out with the

1061
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy Football Show. You know the drill. Tell two

1062
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 1: friends to tell two friends rate review and remember, just

1063
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 1: because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect. Be safe,

1064
00:49:57,640 --> 00:49:59,879
Speaker 1: take care of yourselves, wear a mask, and we'll see

1065
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. Wow wan wan a cocote Cocot