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Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Lawn Podcast. Your host here, James co.

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Speaker 1: We've got a different cast of characters, a different cast

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Speaker 1: I'm doing wonderful. It's great to have me on the

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Speaker 1: what's going on? Thanks for letting me sit in. Yeah, alright,

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Speaker 1: in the world of sport, breaking, breaking news, breaking the

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Speaker 1: in Oaktown, Marshaan, you were seeing at the Raiders facility today.

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Speaker 1: Barstool Sports, Yes, barstool correct. Alright, So it is a

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Speaker 1: not not really, I mean, this is this is Carlos

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Speaker 1: Hide's job, at least as at the running back spot. Now,

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Speaker 1: maybe with Kyle Shanahan there in San Francisco, they may

425
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Speaker 1: want to do some different things with you know, Harris

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Speaker 1: or something like that. Um, but I still think, look,

427
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Speaker 1: they still don't have a lot. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: Pierre Garson with a nice pick up for them, Um,

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Speaker 1: but who the hell's the quarterback Brian Hoyer at the moment.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, unless unless Matt Barkley rises up

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Speaker 1: and the you know, takes that gig away from him.

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Speaker 1: Fight on. But you know, I mean, right now, Carlos

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Speaker 1: Hide is I think the closest thing they have to

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Speaker 1: a centerpiece in that offense. So as long as he's healthy,

435
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Speaker 1: I'm not really worried about his touches. Tom Brady says

436
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Speaker 1: he can play another five years. Drew Brees says he

437
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Speaker 1: could play until forty five, howls Tom Brady. So he

438
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Speaker 1: could playtill forty five. So Drew Brees says he could

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Speaker 1: play till forty five. Mike McCarthy says Aaron Rodgers can

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Speaker 1: play just as long as Tom Brady. Philip Rivers says

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Speaker 1: he won't be around forever quote unquote, what does that mean?

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Speaker 1: Probably forty five? I mean why. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: what is this whole age thing? I think is the

444
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:09,160
Speaker 1: new thirty eight, that's what it means. It's like everyone

445
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,560
Speaker 1: wants to know how long these quarterbacks are gonna play now.

446
00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,280
Speaker 1: It's just it's baffling. I don't I don't understand Tom

447
00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:20,960
Speaker 1: Brady's gonna play before Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers. Great, I don't. Okay, whatever, Well,

448
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Speaker 1: here's my question. What about guys who are like Carson Palmer?

449
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Speaker 1: So you're not necessarily because like, no one's gonna tell

450
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady when to retire, no one's gonna be no,

451
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Speaker 1: but like what like we can agree that the names

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Speaker 1: on this list are elite, yes, right, and then you

453
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Speaker 1: can say that there's like a step down. I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: Carson Palmer is a good quarterback. I'm not I mean

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm just not calling him so. But he's

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Speaker 1: better than would you rather him or would you rather

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Speaker 1: an unknown entity in this year's draft class? Oh no,

458
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that for all the teams involved, yeah, I

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00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:04,160
Speaker 1: mean the Patriots, the Saints, the Packers, they want these

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Speaker 1: guys to hold on as long as possible, especially as

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Speaker 1: they if they continue to play anywhere near the level

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Speaker 1: they're playing right now, Um, any percent, and Drew Brees

463
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Speaker 1: is still better than you know, a lot of these

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Speaker 1: incoming quarterbacks over the next five years. But even even

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Speaker 1: like to me, like get a guy to like get

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Speaker 1: someone for Drew Brees's replacement. Do the whole you know,

467
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Speaker 1: Brett far Baron Rodgers situation. Then you have yourself a

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Speaker 1: pretty nice I mean, I think it's I think it's

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Speaker 1: one thing to also say that you want to play

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Speaker 1: that long. I would say that too. It's good for contract,

471
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Speaker 1: it's good for your contract, is good for your breath.

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Speaker 1: And look, and I say this as someone who is

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Speaker 1: never taking a hit on an NFL field, but just

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Speaker 1: just seeing the way the same the way, for instance,

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Speaker 1: that Brett Farve's career ended, and just kind of that

476
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Speaker 1: that sense from him that yeah, you know, after a while,

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Speaker 1: you do reach an age we're taking those hits and

478
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Speaker 1: trying to not only get up within the course of

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Speaker 1: the game, but getting out of bed on a Tuesday

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Speaker 1: or you know, trying to get ready for a game

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Speaker 1: that following week. It gets harder. I mean, it's just

482
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Speaker 1: it's a fact. Look, we joke around and say Father

483
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,399
Speaker 1: Time is undefeated. But I mean that's real, That is

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Speaker 1: really real. You know. It is interesting though, because Tom

485
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Speaker 1: Brady doesn't take a lot of hits, Drew Brees doesn't

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Speaker 1: take a lot of hits, Aaron Rodgers doesn't take a

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Speaker 1: lot of hits. Philip Rivers gets hit a lot. He does,

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Speaker 1: and he's the guy that says that I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to be around forever. So Philip Rivers has what eight kids?

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Speaker 1: I mean that's true, nine actually nine like at some point,

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Speaker 1: like you know, I want to know where he's gonna

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Speaker 1: live in l A with nine kids, That's what I

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Speaker 1: want to know. I don't know. It ain't gonna be

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Speaker 1: Manhattan Beach. Let me tell you no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: no no. Is he gonna live in Riverside? That's a

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Speaker 1: hell of a commute. Is this dude gonna be living

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Speaker 1: in Ontario? That's a hell of a commute. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I can see he's gonna rock the nine o nine though.

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Speaker 1: Come on, we know this right you a meagine Philip

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Speaker 1: Rivers and the I E huh, I think so. I

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Speaker 1: think that's his speed. First of all. Rancho Cucamonga up

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Speaker 1: like upland you know, wander like where is he I

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Speaker 1: don't Wanda, I love it. Is he gonna live in

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Speaker 1: the valley or is he gonna live in the I mean,

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Speaker 1: like James you can speak to I mean, what's life like?

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Speaker 1: What's life like in Diamond Bar? Mean? Can you go?

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Speaker 1: Can you go chill there? He can't. I mean I

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Speaker 1: guess I guess, yeah, I guess he could live in

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Speaker 1: you know what that would be? That's a heights. Now,

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Speaker 1: there's too many Chinese folks in hasienda heights? I think

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, bro, I'm just saying it. Didn't even

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Speaker 1: know what that means. Like, he needs a country style lifestyle,

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Speaker 1: that's what he needs. He needs, he needs cowboy hats. Uh,

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Speaker 1: he needs some farm folks. So then Fontana. I think

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Speaker 1: Fontana would be a fine choice for him. There you go,

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Speaker 1: there you go. I'm sure, but but I think Diamond

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Speaker 1: listeners have no idea what you're talking about. Has no

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Speaker 1: idea what you're talking about right now. I watched the

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Speaker 1: I watched the O C and that's why I suggested,

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Speaker 1: you know, but that was about all I could add.

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Speaker 1: Diamond Bar, which is where my family is from. Uh

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Speaker 1: is right next to Chino. So when O c came

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Speaker 1: out and they were disparaging Chino. We all felt very

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Speaker 1: disparaged as you're you're disparaged by association because adjacent you

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Speaker 1: felt you felt as though Diamond Bars Diamond War High

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Speaker 1: School's direct rival is in Chino. UM. I would just

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Speaker 1: like to add something here. I think we all could

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Speaker 1: be wrong because I just received intel that the first

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Speaker 1: actually has a Mercedes Spinner van. Spinner van. Wow, well

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Speaker 1: it's it doesn't surprise me that he has a van.

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Speaker 1: That that makes a lot of when you got nine kids,

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Speaker 1: nine kids you have, you got a rock a van

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Speaker 1: like an suv, and suv is not gonna cut it.

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Speaker 1: You got to get the van. You just got it.

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Speaker 1: You gotta buckle down and get the van. Ok. Maybe

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Speaker 1: they just sall stay in down in San Diego and

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Speaker 1: he like takes a helicopter. That's actually I think pretty

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Speaker 1: Oh that could be a decent Okay, that might be

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Speaker 1: something we're talking about this way too much. Yes, all right,

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Speaker 1: let's uh we go from talking about agent quarterbacks to

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Speaker 1: talking to the Late Round QB. Let's go to the phone.

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Speaker 1: All we got on the horn JJ is Zacharison at

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00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 1: Late Round Cube. You could find his work on Number Fire.

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00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 1: You can find his work in a lot of different places.

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00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,040
Speaker 1: But JJ, welcome to the program. Man, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Hey listen, we'll start you off. You you wrote a

547
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: great piece on Tony Romo. Uh, fill the listeners in Overrated, underrated, undervalued.

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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on Tony Romo? Look, man, I

549
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: think that he is the most underrated player, not just

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Speaker 1: of the last few years, but of this era. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And the reason for it. I mean, he's absurdly efficient.

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Speaker 1: You know, even you know this isn't adjusting for era necessarily,

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Speaker 1: but since the merger, we've had a d two quarterbacks

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00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 1: throw the ball a thousand or more times in their career,

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Speaker 1: and Tony Romo ranks fourth and adjusted net yards per attempts,

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Speaker 1: He's third and touchdown rate. Uh. He basically only trails

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning and every efficiency metric.

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Speaker 1: But I think the big thing for Romo, UM that

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Speaker 1: that why he gets such a tough time and why

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00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 1: people think that that he's not clutch is because of

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Speaker 1: that two thousand seven wild card game against the Seahawks. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: within fumbling the ball and then not being able to

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Speaker 1: kick the field goal. But if you look at what

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Speaker 1: he's done in the fourth quarters, specifically throughout his career

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Speaker 1: since he became starter in two thousand six, Uh, no

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Speaker 1: player in football has of higher yards per a tenth

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Speaker 1: average than Tony Romo in the fourth quarter. Uh. He's

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Speaker 1: second in completion percentage, second and quarterback rating in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. And even if you look at only what

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Speaker 1: happened in the final five minutes of the game, so

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Speaker 1: those really high leverage situations, Tony Romo is fourth in

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Speaker 1: yards per attempt, fourth and quarterback rating, second in completion percentage.

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Speaker 1: So basically, you can take that narrative, throw it in

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Speaker 1: the trash, unbelievably, unbelievably under it. Here's the thing, not

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Speaker 1: that I necessarily totally disagree with that, but I feel

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Speaker 1: like we're we're apologizing for some of the I mean,

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Speaker 1: just there are backbreaking moments that he's had in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. And I feel like this is a narrative

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Speaker 1: that we've heard a lot with Peyton Manning as well,

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Speaker 1: where the eyeball test for a lot of folks feels like, look,

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Speaker 1: Peyton Manning late game not great, but then would suggest otherwise.

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Speaker 1: And I feel a lot. You know, this feels a

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Speaker 1: lot like that with Tony Romo. Am I wrong at

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Speaker 1: saying that? No? I don't think you're wrong at all.

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Speaker 1: I think that one thing that we do as fans

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Speaker 1: and as humans even is that we just pay attention

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Speaker 1: to these awful moments way more than we pay attention

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Speaker 1: to the good moment. Tony Romo made a ton of comebacks.

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Speaker 1: That's the other thing too. If you look at fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter comebacks, you know a lot of times people will

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Speaker 1: look at them from accumulative sense and they'll say Tony.

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Speaker 1: So Tony Romo ranks fourteens all time and fourth quarter comeback,

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Speaker 1: So that doesn't really tell us everything because we don't

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Speaker 1: know how many opportunities he had to come back in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. So if you look at fourth quarter

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Speaker 1: comebacks divided by those opportunities, Tony Romo actually, among active quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: tranks sixth best in coming back in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 1: So and that that's better than guys like Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: like uh even even a Drew Brees or Matt Ryan.

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Speaker 1: So Tony Romo is right there with those guys in

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Speaker 1: those high leverage situations. But he just doesn't get the

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Speaker 1: credit for its well, j J. Because I am always

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00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 1: seeking validation. I gotta ask you about Rick Burke Hicks.

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Speaker 1: I know you love him the way that I love him,

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00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: but but I am concerned about him being in what is,

606
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: at least for the moment, a pretty crowded New England backfield.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Dion Lewis is still there, James

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00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 1: White is still there. Um you know, is there a

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Speaker 1: level of confidence that he could get enough work with

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Speaker 1: those other guys there that he has the kind of

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Speaker 1: season I think we all hope he can. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm less worried about James White just because we

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Speaker 1: kind of know what he does is catch catch football

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00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: is really well. You know, he was in the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl late in the game because they were in that

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Speaker 1: negative game script. Dion Lewis, who knows what's going to

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Speaker 1: happen with him and his health seems like it's just

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Speaker 1: a roller coaster ride at this point. Right now, as

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Speaker 1: where we stand, I think Rex Burkhead has a lot

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Speaker 1: of opportunity and store for him on those early downs,

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Speaker 1: and really he's not a bad pass catcher either, so

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Speaker 1: he could be a potential three down back. The problem

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Speaker 1: that I see obviously is that it's April right now,

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Speaker 1: and it wouldn't be surprising if they do bring someone in,

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Speaker 1: if they if they get like Eric Blunt back, or

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Speaker 1: or if Adrian Peterson ends up signing there. But right now,

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Speaker 1: as it's very difficult to not be excited for a

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Speaker 1: guy who's going to see early down work in an

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Speaker 1: offense where their lead running back to scored eighteen touchdown.

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Speaker 1: All right. J. J. Zach Or reeson Editor in Chief.

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Speaker 1: At number five, you talk about five guys that you

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Speaker 1: who stock has risen considerably since free agency. You put

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Speaker 1: Rex Burkehead on that list. On the flip side of

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Speaker 1: that coin, you also wrote five players who stock has

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Speaker 1: fallen uh since free agency began. Brandon Cooks was one

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Speaker 1: of the guys on that list, one of the five

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Speaker 1: biggest losers in fantasy after free agency. I'm a little

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Speaker 1: bit surprised by that there's not a drop off in

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Speaker 1: quarterback play and it seems to me like he becomes

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Speaker 1: at least the number one wide receiver there in New England. No, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think that that he's still going to

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Speaker 1: be uh, a guy that's gonna be targeted a good bit.

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Speaker 1: But I think that the one thing we have to

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Speaker 1: remember is that uh, New England's pass catching situation is

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Speaker 1: a little bit more crowded than what he had in

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Speaker 1: New or Islands. So even if his market share, let's

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Speaker 1: just say, his market share in the offense stays relatively

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Speaker 1: similar to what he saw in New Orleans, because New

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Speaker 1: Orleans does love to spread the ball around. The differences though,

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Speaker 1: is that New England doesn't throw the ball as much

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Speaker 1: as New Orleans does. So to me, if if his

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Speaker 1: you know, if you break it down and you look

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Speaker 1: at how many UH targets or with the market share

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Speaker 1: from from Julian Edelman is going to be or or

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Speaker 1: Robernkowski and you bring it all together, and the fact

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Speaker 1: that New England uses their running backs out of the

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Speaker 1: backfield so much, that's a really big key as well. Uh,

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Speaker 1: It's it's very easy to see that he could have

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Speaker 1: a very similar market share going to New England. Even

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Speaker 1: if it ups one or two percent um, it's not

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Speaker 1: gonna be significant enough for him to really see a

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Speaker 1: crazy amount of more targets and when he saw new

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Speaker 1: in New Orleans, because New Orleans does throw the ball

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Speaker 1: so much. And then the other side of this too,

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Speaker 1: that I think is being ignored a bit is that

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Speaker 1: in New England they have a lot of good red

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Speaker 1: zone weapons. But I mean they have the best red

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Speaker 1: zone weapon of all time and Rob Bronkowski. So if

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Speaker 1: Gronk is healthy, I do think that that's gonna hurt

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Speaker 1: naturally Brandon Cook's touchdown upside. So I don't think that

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Speaker 1: it's necessarily a terrible terror will move for Cooks. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you can definitely find many worse situations than flying with

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady, but I do think that he had a

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Speaker 1: near ideal situation in New Orleans. I know, you know,

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Speaker 1: part of what you guys do. One of the podcasts

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Speaker 1: you you are on which I enjoy immensely is Living

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Speaker 1: to Stream You and Denny and um. Obviously you guys

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Speaker 1: talk a lot about streaming tight ends. But because I

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Speaker 1: look at this, this tight end group. Now, obviously Martell

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Speaker 1: has Benett going to Green Bay is a big deal.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned Gronks still there in New England, and in theory,

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Speaker 1: we've got a class of tight ends coming in that

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Speaker 1: that could be really good. I mentioned, you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: I include Hunter Henry who had a really good rookie year,

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Speaker 1: Jack Doyle, Baby Jack Doyle are are we are we

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Speaker 1: past the point of needing to stream tight ends or

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Speaker 1: is this still going to be a part of our

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Speaker 1: universe for a while. Yeah. I mean, bottom line is

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Speaker 1: that you know, I'm gonna draft my tight ends late

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Speaker 1: just because of the supply and demand formula where you're

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Speaker 1: only starting one of them, and there's you know, there's

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Speaker 1: only twelve teams near the leagues, there's gonna be an

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Speaker 1: excess of tight ends out there. I do think that

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Speaker 1: the tight end group this year is gonna be stronger

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Speaker 1: than what we saw last year for sure. Hopefully there's

696
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Speaker 1: not as many injuries as well. And as a result

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Speaker 1: of that, you know, if I can get a guy

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Speaker 1: in the eleventh or twelfth round that I can then

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Speaker 1: plug and play each week, sure, I'm definitely going to

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Speaker 1: be into that. You know that that's really the goal

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Speaker 1: with streaming, too, is to try to get those plug

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Speaker 1: and play guys that you can just play each and

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Speaker 1: every week, rather than kind of playing the guessing game

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Speaker 1: and and and hoping that those guys that that that

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Speaker 1: a streamer finds the end zone. Because of all the

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Speaker 1: four positions and Fantasy football, tight end is easily the

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Speaker 1: toughest to predict week the week. All right, So give

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Speaker 1: me a guy like Matt Ryan for seventeen. He's a

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Speaker 1: good And this is what I said last year was

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Speaker 1: I don't think that we should have been that surprised

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Speaker 1: that Matt Ryan broke through, because again he was playing

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Speaker 1: in a high octane offense that threw a lot and

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan himself a talented guy. Can you give me

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Speaker 1: a guy like Matt Ryan in seventeen, a good real

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Speaker 1: life player that finally breaks through in fantasy. Yeah. So

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Speaker 1: one of the big things that why I was in

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Speaker 1: the Matt Ryan last year for instance, not trust me,

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Speaker 1: I missed a lot of guys, but I was on

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan. But out of a big read in for it, though,

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Speaker 1: was because he threw a touchdown on only three point

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Speaker 1: four percent of his passes in whereas from two thousand

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Speaker 1: and six and since the turn of the century, quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: have usually hovered around that four point five percent touchdown rates.

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Speaker 1: So if you look at quarterbacks and in their touchdown

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Speaker 1: rates a year to year, usually they'll regress back to

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Speaker 1: that four point five percent number. And that's what we

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Speaker 1: saw from from Matt Ryan. Not only did he play better,

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Speaker 1: but his touchdown rate jumped to seven point one percent,

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Speaker 1: which is absurdly good. Uh, you know, almost twice as

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Speaker 1: good as what he saw or over twice as good

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Speaker 1: as he saw the previous season. I think there's two

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Speaker 1: answers of this. If you're looking for kind of a

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Speaker 1: mid mid round maybe you know, not necessarily a late

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Speaker 1: round guy as late as Matt Ryan went. If you're

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Speaker 1: looking strictly at this touchdowns, this touchdown rate formula, I

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Speaker 1: think that Russell Wilson is one that you should definitely

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Speaker 1: be targeting. He had just the three point eight percent

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Speaker 1: touchdown rate last year after a seven percent one the

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Speaker 1: year before. And he's also seen volume increase every year,

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Speaker 1: which means if he does see an increase in touchdown

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Speaker 1: rate and he sees more volume, uh, that that means

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Speaker 1: he's gonna throw more touchdown I think from a late

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Speaker 1: round quarterback standpoint, Andy Dalton's one who really jumps out

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Speaker 1: to me. He had a three point two percent touchdown

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Speaker 1: rates this past year, and people forget that in he

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Speaker 1: was kind of a monster. He had nine top and

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Speaker 1: low weekly performances in thirteen games. Only two players, Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady and Blake Bortles had more than Andy Dalton did,

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Speaker 1: and twenty fifteen is touchdown right, rose to six point

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Speaker 1: five percent, which is partially why that that drop happened

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Speaker 1: this past year. But look, there's a chance of the

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00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: Bengals aren't that good or as good this year, especially defensively,

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Speaker 1: which could lead to more negative scripts which could lead

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Speaker 1: to more passing. And if they stay healthy, especially if

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Speaker 1: a J Green stays healthy, I could see Andy Dalton

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Speaker 1: kind of making that jump and being more relevant fantasy

757
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Speaker 1: this year. I love the fact that Blake Bortles somehow

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Speaker 1: got into the conversation with with with good quarterbacks. This

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Speaker 1: is amazing, unbelievable. You know, I this is not a

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Speaker 1: fantasy question. But but JK, you made the Jeff Fisher

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Speaker 1: gift such a big part of your brand life and

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00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: and it is no longer there. Um, have you figured

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Speaker 1: out who's going to fill that empty hole in your

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Speaker 1: your Twitter life? And if you haven't had a name,

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Speaker 1: may I suggest Ben McAdoo to you. Ben McAdoo would

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Speaker 1: be a great one. He's got to look for sure,

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Speaker 1: he's got the dad look down. I think that I

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Speaker 1: think that he would be He would be fantastic. I

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Speaker 1: I kinda I was. I've been kind of interested in

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Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien as well. Um, But but O'Brien also, you know,

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Speaker 1: if he wasn't in the division that he was in,

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Speaker 1: he wouldn't have been making the playoffs the last few years.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I think that Bill O'Brien is kind

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Speaker 1: of borderline there as well with McAdoo. Man, macadoo could

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Speaker 1: be a very very good gift football coach. It's mostly

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00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: because you know, if you talk about Jeff Fisher, it's

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Speaker 1: the semi confused, semi self content look, and I think

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Speaker 1: McAdoo has that as well. We'll stay with the Rams. Bro.

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00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you a real, real heart to hard

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Speaker 1: question here, brother, why do you hate Jared goff so so?

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, I'm a big proponent and believer that

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Speaker 1: you find a lot out about a quarterback the instant

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00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: he starts playing quarterbacks a season. Man, very rarely do

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Speaker 1: you see a quarterback with somewhat of a significant significant

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Speaker 1: sample size when they're young and a rookie. Uh, And

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Speaker 1: very rarely do you see them all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: become good. I mean you can look back in in

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Speaker 1: in history. Derek Carr is one where he kind of

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Speaker 1: struggled from an advanced UH analytics standpoint, his rookie season

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Speaker 1: turn things around, but uh, you know, if you look

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00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: back in history, it's really like Drew Brees and Alex

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Speaker 1: Smith has two guys who who who really changed things

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Speaker 1: and turn things around after somewhat struggles earlier in the careers,

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Speaker 1: and both of those guys needed a change in environment

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Speaker 1: in order to let that happen. So for me, with

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Speaker 1: Jared Goffe, he was one of the worst quarterbacks that

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Speaker 1: are databases have ever seen, uh this past year, which

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Speaker 1: which definitely plays into the idea that I just don't

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Speaker 1: have a lot of optimism in him moving forward. Oh man,

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Speaker 1: that's just a pressing. What about Peyton Manning his rookie

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Speaker 1: heere he he had a horrendous rookie year. Now, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's it was a different you know, it's

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Speaker 1: at different times. If you were to compare his numbers

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Speaker 1: to Jared goss I'm sure that it would it would

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Speaker 1: look more similar than it should. But you know that

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Speaker 1: was back in ninety eight or whatever. So so there

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Speaker 1: you go. Jaredkoff is the next Peyton Manning. Boom. That's right,

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Speaker 1: that's Right's perfect but we can we can finish that one. There.

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Speaker 1: There you go. Hey, okay, so why the why the

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Speaker 1: Twitter handle? By the way, you're the editor in chief

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Speaker 1: of Number fire, but your Twitter handle is late Round QB.

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Speaker 1: Why the Twitter handle? Yeah? So you know, five or

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Speaker 1: so years ago, I wrote an e book called The

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Speaker 1: Late Round Quarterbacks and uh, just kind of telling people

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Speaker 1: why you should be drafting quarterbacks late. And that that

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Speaker 1: happened right after that crazy, crazy year with Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: and Matthew Stafford and everyone just started wanting to draft

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Speaker 1: their quarterbacks early. But really it's a it's a strategy

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Speaker 1: that that that doesn't fluctuate year to year because of

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Speaker 1: the supply and demand side of fantasy football. So I

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Speaker 1: just went with it, and I just kept the handle.

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Speaker 1: And now the late Round Quarterback is kind of you know,

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Speaker 1: I'll go to a conference or something and they'll say, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're the late Round quarterback. It is just kind of stuck.

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Speaker 1: So I just I left the handle as is hashtag brand.

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Speaker 1: I like it. Hey, franchise is working with you guys

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Speaker 1: over at Number five a little bit. I want to

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Speaker 1: know how much of appearing in the as he is

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Speaker 1: for you The biggest Now he's great. I love French. Alright, great, Hey,

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Speaker 1: I know you've got a new project here as well.

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Speaker 1: You've got your your your podcast that you've you've been

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Speaker 1: doing for a while living the stream, but you've got

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Speaker 1: a new project. You want to fill us in on

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Speaker 1: that as well. Yeah, so Number five we we just

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Speaker 1: launched the Number fire podcast network, so you can get

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Speaker 1: stuff for every sports. We cover all sports, but I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm specifically doing a podcast called the Late Round Podcast

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Speaker 1: where I'm looking at specific topics on each show and

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Speaker 1: I'm bringing in kind of thought leaders or guests on

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Speaker 1: those shows to talk through those specific topics. So the first,

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Speaker 1: the first episode he did, did one with Evan Silva

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Speaker 1: talked about the running back landscape, and then the one

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Speaker 1: coming out very shortly is with the NFL dot COM's

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Speaker 1: own Matt Harmon of player charting and reception reception. But

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Speaker 1: it's a great time, really enjoyed. So basically they're like

846
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: they're like fantasy Ted talks. Yes, yeah, yeah, I mean

847
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 1: I I ran a little bit at the beginning and

848
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:19,880
Speaker 1: talk about things and I probably shouldn't talk about Jason exactly.

849
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 1: Reason Find his work at Number five, Find his work

850
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: on Twitter at late Round QB. Thanks man, I appreciate

851
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: your time. Appreciate it all right. Santhia Freeland, analytics expert.

852
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:31,800
Speaker 1: You heard some of the stuff that JJ zach a

853
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 1: reason the knowledge that he was spitting there. What were

854
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 1: your takeaways in regards to, you know, somebody like Rex Burkhead. So,

855
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,359
Speaker 1: I love j J. I think his works amazing, and

856
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: it's always fascinating because he's kind of like because he's

857
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 1: like in it so deep all the time. I'm always like,

858
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,320
Speaker 1: that's great. That's like I'm just sitting there like in awe. Um.

859
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: I think if you factor in the Bengals schedule and

860
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: you look at kind of some of the stuff he

861
00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,320
Speaker 1: was talking about Andy Dalt with Andy Dalton too, Um,

862
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 1: that schedule for Cincinnati is very favorable. So I think

863
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 1: that's a great one that he pointed out there. I

864
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:08,320
Speaker 1: mean they yeah, I think that they they do have. Um,

865
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if you just look at

866
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: the opponent's ease of schedule there, what fourth easiest schedule?

867
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: So strength of schedule, So that's something he keeps. So

868
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton does seem like he could bounce back and

869
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: have a pretty good year. Yes, I mean, he's in

870
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: the position to I'd love to get your thoughts on

871
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,760
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks though, so he again, he goes from New Orleans,

872
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 1: he goes to New England. Now, um, and to me,

873
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 1: I don't know the upside for Brandon Cooks going to

874
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 1: a Patriots offense where they're able to effectively get the

875
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,839
Speaker 1: ball downfield and he is one of the best field

876
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: stretchers in the game, don't It seems to me like

877
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,800
Speaker 1: the upside certainly is enticing for Brandon Cooks. But again

878
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 1: J J says, Brandon Cooks is one of the five

879
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,399
Speaker 1: biggest losers if in fantasy after free agent and totally

880
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,839
Speaker 1: with him. Drew Brees through the ball six hundred and

881
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: seventy three times last season. I know Tom Brandy didn't

882
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: play as many games, but I think he's like four

883
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 1: seventy or something like that. And then you have factor

884
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: in the four games that he missed that would like

885
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 1: that doesn't map to any like it's still maps to like,

886
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: you know, something like six hundred twenty five, Like there's

887
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:08,520
Speaker 1: six hundred not even right, Like there's not a lot

888
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:10,879
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks who throw over six hundred. Last one too,

889
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 1: like six or seven so you're just the volume is

890
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: a huge deterrent in general. Plus who knows what who

891
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 1: the red zone target is going to be, So if

892
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: you're looking for those extra touchdown upside like, it's totally

893
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: there's going to be one game where Brandon Cooks is

894
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: going to score three touch I mean, maybe not three,

895
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 1: but there's gonna like where I'm gonna like and I'm

896
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: gonna totally eat my words on this, but you know,

897
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 1: I don't think the consistency there. I totally agree with him.

898
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,319
Speaker 1: I also do wonder about Brandon Cooks. You know, part

899
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,399
Speaker 1: of the story with him last year was when things

900
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 1: weren't going his way or he wasn't getting the balls much,

901
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: he wasn't he wasn't happy about it, and he made

902
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: his feelings known. That doesn't seem like the Patriot. Look,

903
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 1: you know exactly, I mean what it's not the Patriot.

904
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: But also there's a really good chance that there will

905
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: be weeks when you're not seeing a lot of targets.

906
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,800
Speaker 1: I mean, as long as long as Rob Gronkowski is

907
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 1: walking this earth, he's going to be Tom Brady's favorite get.

908
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 1: And you know, you throw in the guys like you know,

909
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: Malcolm Mitchell who really has the potential to take off

910
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:09,239
Speaker 1: this year. Julian Edelman is still alive. So many guys

911
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:10,919
Speaker 1: that can catch the battle the backfield. We talked about

912
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 1: Rex burkehead on Andy On Lewis Um. I mean, there's

913
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 1: a really good chance that Brandon Cooks isn't going to

914
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: see the kind of volume that he wants. And how

915
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: does he react to that? I mean, does he make

916
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 1: a stink about it? Does Tom Brady basically tell him

917
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:24,399
Speaker 1: that stfu and uh and get out there and play?

918
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: I mean, like, how is this going to play out? Yeah?

919
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: I mean what's his I'm looking at his height right now.

920
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:32,280
Speaker 1: He's not very tall. It's not this jump ball situation

921
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,640
Speaker 1: like you're still going ground in the end zone. Why

922
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 1: wouldn't you write, Well, it's a it's to me a

923
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: question of of course, when he scores, it's gonna be

924
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 1: from fifteen yards out or more. Right right, there's it's

925
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: gonna be very few situations words five nine six nine

926
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:50,839
Speaker 1: six five nine and yeah no so and again he's

927
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 1: never been an elite, you know, goal to go type receiver.

928
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: I get that, but I mean, look, I'm not comparing him. Yes,

929
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: you know what forget it. I'm comparing him to Randy Moss.

930
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 1: Just which is that's that's a nope, Okay, I'm just

931
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:08,479
Speaker 1: saying is he No, I'm not saying he's Randy Moss. Guys.

932
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:12,439
Speaker 1: All I'm saying is the role that he fills as

933
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: a straight up downfield guy. We've seen success there before,

934
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: and I think fantasy fans will remember that. That's all

935
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: I'm saying about Brandon. I don't know, you know what,

936
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: to be honestly, I don't know what his draft price

937
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: will be if it gets up into fifth round. I'm

938
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,919
Speaker 1: not buying there's a zero role percent chance I would

939
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 1: buy that happening. I don't see that happening either. But

940
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 1: let's say he gets down to like eight or nine,

941
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: you won't buy that. I don't know. I'm super enticed

942
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,919
Speaker 1: at eight or nine, absolutely, or that in the fifth round,

943
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 1: No way. But Patriots receivers always frightened me. Just that

944
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 1: one to me is like, you know, if you're able

945
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,760
Speaker 1: to change it every week and get him, then great,

946
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: Like once you figure out the script. But if you

947
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: know that script, then chances are you know somebody else will. Well.

948
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 1: I guess is probably that if you if you are

949
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 1: lucky enough to pick him on the one week where

950
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:05,399
Speaker 1: he does where it is the Brandon Cooks week, then

951
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: you've you win, you win, and then and then flipped

952
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 1: that for a trade. Flip it for a trade. I

953
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: love it all right. Let's get to our daily depths,

954
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 1: desinite do alright, daily DAP time. Let's start with my guy, MG,

955
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: Marcus Grant. What's up? A couple of things. One I

956
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 1: mentioned the s Town podcast. Last week you did this

957
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 1: show and I finished it and it was incredible. Um,

958
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 1: it does not go where you expect it to go, uh,

959
00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 1: you know, the the ending time, it takes a left

960
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 1: turn from where you thought it might potentially go at

961
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,800
Speaker 1: the start, but was still really just an incredible piece

962
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: of storytelling. I'd say that as person who uh sort

963
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 1: of has a weird thing about radio dramas, that in

964
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 1: the sense that I loved them, even though the the

965
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 1: genre that died out decades before I was even born. Um,

966
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:02,479
Speaker 1: I just kind of love the concept and the idea

967
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 1: of it. And I felt like this really even though

968
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: even though it was you know, a real life story

969
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 1: and talking to real life people, it just very much

970
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 1: had that feel of of a great radio drama. So

971
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: again I completely recommended. All seven episodes are out. Now

972
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: you can go and binge listen to that, So go

973
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 1: do that. The other one is um Rick and Morty

974
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,240
Speaker 1: is back, y'all, at least at least for one episode.

975
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:26,720
Speaker 1: They did a weird thing where season three. The season

976
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 1: three premiere came out on April one, last Saturday, on

977
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 1: April Fool's Day. Uh, and it picks up where season

978
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:35,640
Speaker 1: two left off. For those of you who who watched

979
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:38,880
Speaker 1: the show, you know, Rick Sanchez was an intergalactic space

980
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:41,760
Speaker 1: prison and so uh, it basically picks up from there.

981
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: And but it's a giant April Fool joke. Well, no,

982
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 1: the the premiere actually premiered, but now the rest of

983
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 1: the season doesn't come until sometime this summer. So they

984
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,319
Speaker 1: kind of wet our whistle with that and got us

985
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,319
Speaker 1: all excited about Rick and Morty coming back. The belt

986
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 1: Swim did a whole marathon showing the whole first two

987
00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 1: seasons of the show, then the premiere, and now we

988
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:02,879
Speaker 1: have to wait till the summer. So that is that's

989
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: cruel dub. But that is cruel man. Alright, I've got

990
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 1: a few here. I will daily DAP the show Legion

991
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,359
Speaker 1: on f X. Holy good god, that's a great show.

992
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: Go watch it. A couple of Google searches for you.

993
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,480
Speaker 1: Fresno mermaid go look that up. That's an actual thing.

994
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 1: Is it actually in Fresno. It's actually in Fresno. There

995
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:26,360
Speaker 1: is a woman that was found nearly naked with web

996
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: feet claiming and just drenched in water, claiming she is

997
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: a mermaid. That is a legit thing. Okay, so okay,

998
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: so I'm googling it right now. But as an aside,

999
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 1: just to interrupt you here briefly, I have a very

1000
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: good friend who once worked for Noah, the National Oceanic

1001
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 1: and something something something, yeah exactly. Um. One of his

1002
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,800
Speaker 1: jobs one day was to actually write a press release

1003
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 1: saying that Noah this avows the knowledge of actual mermaids,

1004
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,279
Speaker 1: right because of that mocumentary. Is that documentary thing? So

1005
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: he had to I had to write. That was his

1006
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 1: job for day to write, prest and send it out

1007
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: saying that Noah disavows any So I may actually I

1008
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: have to email or text him this article to see

1009
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:08,680
Speaker 1: if he wants to retract his statement. I do like it.

1010
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:11,359
Speaker 1: That was a girl found. It's like a movie. It's

1011
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,560
Speaker 1: a it's a movie story. Man. A girl was found

1012
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 1: stopping wet with web feet, claiming she's a mermaid, and

1013
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:20,840
Speaker 1: they asked her where she's from. She said from the ocean.

1014
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 1: That's unfortunate for her with a web feet. I mean,

1015
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 1: but that's a real thing. Like people. There are people

1016
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:27,240
Speaker 1: out there who actually have I hear what you're saying,

1017
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 1: that's unfortunate for her. I'm just saying, go google the story.

1018
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: It's it is totally interesting. I can't wait for somebody

1019
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:36,720
Speaker 1: to do a good, you know, piece on this because

1020
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,359
Speaker 1: this is this is definitely worth a deeper look, no

1021
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 1: doubt about it. By the way, Uh the there's a

1022
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: program called The Nightly Show. Go google this as well.

1023
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 1: Uh daily DAPs to The Nightly Show for giving us

1024
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:55,320
Speaker 1: John Legend singing Gordon Ramsey insults. One of the best

1025
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: was you put so much oil on this the US

1026
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 1: wanted to invade the plate. Wow, that's incredible. You have

1027
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 1: to google this. It is. It's wonderful. Just google John

1028
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:13,799
Speaker 1: Legend sings Gordon and Ramsey and you will find it there.

1029
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:17,399
Speaker 1: All right, kick us out of here, man, Okay, so

1030
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna not say his last name. Correctly, But there's

1031
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 1: a teenager in Arizona. He had quite possibly the best

1032
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 1: amazing prom proposal. Absolutely. I mean he's asked so in

1033
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: his name is I believe it's Jacob Stowden Meyer. He

1034
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: recreated the La La Land. What he rewrote the words?

1035
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: He's seventeen years old. You have to google this. It's

1036
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 1: so cute. He rewrote the lyrics to Another Day of

1037
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: Sun and then he basically made all of his friends

1038
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: be extras and it's this incredibly like this is to

1039
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 1: get Emma Stone, you had to to. He said, he

1040
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 1: wants to ask Emma Stone to prom, and he's recreating

1041
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: the opening scene from La La Land and it's so

1042
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 1: stink and cute, you have to go. And if he doesn't,

1043
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:08,240
Speaker 1: if a Stone doesn't, she I think I'm not really

1044
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: sure if she is of right now, right here in

1045
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: this moment when we're taping this um she has not

1046
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: yet responded, but I'm pretty sure. That's how I feel

1047
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:21,400
Speaker 1: about proposals. On the one hand, like I feel like

1048
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 1: it's sorts of port to put to the celebrity in

1049
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 1: an awkward situation, like if you say no, you seem

1050
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 1: like a jurch. But on the other hand, if I

1051
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 1: was in high school, I would have totally recreated the

1052
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 1: Rhythm Nation video to get Janet Jackson to go. So

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Speaker 1: is that the hands one? Yeah? Oh no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: that okay? So my friend brought bought me a poster

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Speaker 1: of that, and like, man, yeah, you know, I like

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Speaker 1: I used to do choreograph dance. I was like teach

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Speaker 1: myself the choreograph dances to music videos. So like just

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Speaker 1: in case I ever needed it, that wasn't one of them.

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Speaker 1: But I feel I feel like that poster. I feel

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Speaker 1: like that poster would be if you ever were in

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Speaker 1: Shawn if Mark, because grant that's the post that that

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Speaker 1: would be the poster. I would have a big tunnel

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Speaker 1: dug out with a spoon and a rock hammer behind

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Speaker 1: and hands post. Absolutely okay, absolutely makes sense. Alright, great

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Speaker 1: way in the show about Bang. By the way, do

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Speaker 1: you do listeners know that you have a tattoo? I

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Speaker 1: don't don't. I don't think they do. I mean you're

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Speaker 1: kind of an unexpected ink guy. They do. Like, I

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Speaker 1: think that might that should have been my depth. Had

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Speaker 1: I known that ahead of time, I would have written

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Speaker 1: something and probably had a musical number to performed to it.

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Speaker 1: But I did not realize that that you had some

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Speaker 1: And now everybody knows. I just suppose you were being

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Speaker 1: way cooler than anyone even thought. I thought you were here,

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Speaker 1: and you're really way up here. I have a I

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Speaker 1: have a giant, uh left shoulder lion tattoo exactly that is,

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Speaker 1: that's actually true, and you have a really cool scar

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Speaker 1: in your form. You're like low key tough, low key tough.

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Speaker 1: And no, we've never talked about that on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: And no, I don't think listeners or viewers who have

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Speaker 1: seen me on NFL Fancy Live. No, I sport a

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00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 1: little bit of I have to tell so glad I

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00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 1: could pull my weight to but don't secret. James Coe

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00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:16,320
Speaker 1: actually was an extra in high school production of The Warriors.

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Speaker 1: I have to By the way, this is a I

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00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 1: have to tell my three year old daughter. She she

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Speaker 1: doesn't understand the whole concept of tattoos. So she said why,

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00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 1: she said, hop out, why do you have a stamp

1089
00:52:30,680 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 1: on your arm? And she's like, where did you get

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Speaker 1: the stamp? Did you get it from the stamp store.

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Speaker 1: I was like, yes, I did. She's actually pretty. You

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00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 1: might have a brilliant daughter did. She asked her she

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00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 1: could get a stamp of her own from the stamp

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Speaker 1: she did, but we don't. Yeah, she doesn't know about it.

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00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:52,839
Speaker 1: They're no, they're stamp stores for kids. Just yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: What a way to close the show. I'm glad I

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Speaker 1: could pull my way. I add something that's the show

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00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 1: for something of Freeland, exposing all my deepest, darkest secrets

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Speaker 1: for MG, my guy Marcus Grant of course, Ryan Bartlett

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Speaker 1: behind the class. I'm James go, We're out. I'm gon't go.

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Speaker 1: I don't go.