NFL Week 16 Analysis + Week 17 Preview | Fantasy Football Playoffs | Start/Sit | Bradley Stalder

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He is Bradley Stallder and he joins me on a
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Monday night in December, A cold Monday night in December
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here in northeast Wisconsin. How is it on the left, Bradley.
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Yeah, it's still cold here. Unfortunately, it's been warm at
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the end of last week, so the snowman that my
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children built in the front yard has smelted away. We
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had just over the weekend. Our ho way has like
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awards that they give out for like front lawn decorations,
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and we ended up winning this year because of the
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snowman and a thirty foot Santa inflatable that somehow got
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you know, is still standing right now, So I'm very
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proud of that. Unfortunately, not as much snow in the
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front yard here Eric.
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It happens right like we're worried about. I shouldn't say
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we're worried about, but there's some people here in northeast
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Wisconsin worried that we're not gonna have a white Christmas
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because everything's been melting over the last couple of I
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wouldn't say last couple weeks, but about last week, week
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and a half or so. But trust me, it got
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cold again outside today, so I don't think we're in
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any danger of that. So glad to have you aboard tonight.
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Let's go around the NFL. Bradley shall we Brockbours gets
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five targets yesterday from Gino Smith, The Return of Gino Smith.
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He catches five of them for thirty three yards and
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a touchdown. They lose to the Texans, but they put
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up a good fight. There are certain people that are
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dragging brock Bowers to the forefront of the Championship Round
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and the FFPC Main Event and the FFPC Big Gorilla.
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This is more of A and Bradley. We'll get into
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this tonight more of a wide skull, you know, not
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only next week in Week seventeen, the final round or
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the final week of the Championship sprint in the FFPC
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main event in the Big Gorilla, but next year as well,
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because we'll have Best Ball drafts starting up, you know,
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in January. I know you guys have player profiler will
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do the same. Your thoughts on brock Bowers now, it
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just seems like he just needs like a half step
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up at quarterback this year or in twenty twenty six
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to become the alpha quarterback or alpha tight end that
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he was coming into this season. He's got to compete
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with Trey McBride, who also quarterback questions. But I wonder
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if knowing the way that blck Bauers ended this season
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or seemingly is gonna end this season, is actually gonna
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make him the de facto by as the number one
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tight end over Trey McBride, who seems to be firing
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on all cylinders with Week sixteen, you know, you know,
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as the outlier. I wonder if brock Bauers is actually
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the sharky play as the number one tight end next year.
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Even though McBride is gonna have the stats over Bowers
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this year, how do you weigh in on this as
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we look forward to twenty twenty six.
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Yeah, going into this twenty twenty five season, I actually
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I had Trey McBride over brock Bauers by a little bit,
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and the argument was touched on regression. Right, there was
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a lot of expected touchdowns for McBride and Bowers was
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the pendulum hadn't swung so negatively for him in twenty
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twenty four. But there's a lot of optimism for Bowers
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from this season, even though he missed some games with
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the injuries and Geno's has been inconsistent throwing all these
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interceptions drive killing picks. He's number two among tight ends
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in target share on the season, number two among tight
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ends and air yard share, number two and first read
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targets like he's putting up data metrics that are indicative
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of elite status. So yes, you want to get your
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shares of brock Bowers. And if there's any dip, like
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how there was a slight dip in Trey McBride this
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past year, I want us to buy slight dip on
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brock Bowers because The Raiders are probably not going to
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enter twenty twenty six with Gino Smiths as the starter.
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Kenny Pickett is clearly not an option. I know that
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some coaches like Aidan O'Connell, but he's already run his course.
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So there's going to be a fresh new face in Vegas.
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And with brock Bauers there and Jacoby Myers shipped out, yeah,
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there is a pathway for brock Bauers to break the
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tip end position in twenty twenty six.
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Do you view that fresh face at quarterback in Las
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Vegas as a rookie quarterback or do you view him
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as a veteran Because the way that we draft Boers
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and best ball that call may affect the way we
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select him and how high or how low we drafted
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Bradley in twenty twenty six.
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I think it comes down to who's the coach for
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the Raiders in twenty twenty six. Pete Carroll very much
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underperformed this year, and so you have a situation where
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maybe the Raiders look at their entire team and say,
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you know what, Pete, thanks for giving us a solid year.
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We want to move on. So if there's a new
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coach in play, yes, I think a rookie is most likely,
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but if Pete Carroll is there, again, I don't think
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Pete Carroll wants to ride along with a rookie. He's
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gonna want to target one of those veteran quarterbacks who's
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more proven than Gino Gino Smith and that can sustain offense.
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You know, ultimately you have Ashton gent who had a
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big game in Week sixteen, and then brock Bauers as
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well though, that's who the offense is going to run through.
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I think that the Bowers versus McBride discussion in especially
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the FFPC tight end premium leagues in twenty twenty six
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is going to be very compelling as we watch that
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begin here in the next couple of weeks with the FFPC,
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as we look at it after the NFL Draft, as
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we look at it throughout the summer, and then of
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course at the end of summer at the live main
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events at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, that is going
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to be very compelling as we see what unfolds there. Now,
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that is not the only and at least in my opinion, Bradley,
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that's not the only compelling ADP conversation We're going to
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have in twenty twenty six, and quite frankly, we have
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to make a decision about this guy. In Week seventeen,
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in Championship Week of the FFPC Main Event and the
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FTPC Big Gorilla, Ashton Genty gets twenty four carries this
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past week against the Houston Texans unbelievable defense. Obviously it
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has been all season long. He gets twenty four carries,
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he turns that into one hundred and twenty eight yards
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and he gets into the end zone. Plus he gets
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one catch, but he makes it a sixty yard touchdown
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catch on his only target. This is what we were
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looking for when we drafted Ashton Genty this year. This
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is the kind of player we thought we were going
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to get. Now. I don't want to penalize him too much, Genty,
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because I think a lot of what he underwent this year,
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And congratulations if you drug him into the Championship Rown
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Championship Week here coming up in week seventeen, where you
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can put him in your lineup as an RB towur
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of Flex Bradley. The world of fantasy football is very
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open to Ashton Genty this coming year. There's gonna be
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a lot of people that are gonna be closed minded
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on this as well. I think, not necessarily, Genty is
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who I'm watching in the offseason, watching what the Raiders
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do in free agency, as you mentioned, the head coach,
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and in the draft as far as offensive line goes,
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because I think a mediocre offensive line would have shot
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Ashton Genty into orbit where he would have been on
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a lot of teams that are competing for a million
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bucks in the Big Gorilla and the FFPC main event
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this weekend. I have no quarrels. I don't believe Genty's
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a bust. The Raiders got to get better on the
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old line. How do you see Genty not only in
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week seventeen, but next year as well.
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Yeah, this is a player who the efficiency metrics just
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hadn't been there for. But the opportunity, oh man, I
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was worried, actually bulky, when you were like, in free agency,
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they're gonna sign an RB two, I was worried you
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were gonna say that, because well, they still could.
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I mean that's possibility as.
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Well, because right now Genty is number two. An opportunity
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share among running backs that's unheard of, you know, it
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is eighty two percent opportunity share. Holy buckets, Like there's
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no one else really getting involved in this Vegas Raiders
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offense in the backfield where he mostered is an afterthought,
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Like sincere McCormick isn't even on the Vegas Raiders anymore.
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Like that's how wild wild it is is. Remember in
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twenty twenty four, since here McCormick was like flex worthy
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for the Raiders. Nevertheless, you have genty here who we've
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seen these explosive games, and that's what happens when you
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have a talented player on a bad team. You just
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don't know when he's going to explode. And so if
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there's any improvements at all in this offense, you're gonna
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see some more consistency because the opportunity share is gonna
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we think it's still gonna be there even if he
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falls to six, Like, that's still massive opportunity. So there's
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room for him to regress in terms of opportunity share
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and get a more consistent offense and still pay off
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like a round two ADP next year, because maybe he
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goes round three, but I think that there's gonna be
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enough chatter for the former first, you know, running back
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overall off the board into the twenty twenty five draft
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that you know, I think that he's going to solidify
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as probably a back end second round pick, you know.
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And and I think that's very interesting because we could
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see that blow up in our faces like Steve Slayton
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did a few years ago. Right. We could also see
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it pay off huge dividends like James Cook did this year. Right.
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So there's a lot to unpack. Thank God, this show
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is year round, so we'll be able to attack this
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conversation every single week here throughout drafting season and then
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into the twenty twenty six season as well. I want
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to bring up God. Who oh yeah, Tom Smith in
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the chat right now. Our good buddy Tom Smith plays
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in the KFFC. The FFPC. Ashton genty quietly has scored
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nine touchdowns this year. And I'll be honest with you, Bradley,
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I did not know that. And when he said nine,
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I'm like Jesus, that strikes me as a pretty high number.
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But I guess it's accurate, and I trust Tom on this.
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It's one of those things too, where you just you
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connect the dots, you can see the path for him
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and maybe at this time next year, Bradley, we're talking
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about God if only would have taken Ashton Genty in
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the mid first round, we would be paying off there.
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And there's a pathway to seeing that in next year
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as well with Genty, and we'll see what they do
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at quarterback and head coach. There are moving parts there,
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but there is a pathway for Ashton Genty to be
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a potential league winner coming up in twenty twenty six. Okay,
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I have this and as a Packers fan, I'm watching
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it very closely. As a guy who has advanced to
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the championship matchup in several of my private dynasty leagues
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with Lamar Jackson, I'm watching it even closer. He's day
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to day with a back injury, something that John Harbaugh
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called a serious contusion. Now, Bradley, I don't know for me,
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I hear serious contusion. I just assume he's gonna miss
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but maybe not so much. The issue with him too.
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He played Sunday night. He's got to get ready to
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go Saturday night in Green Bay this week. Your thoughts
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on the likelihood that Jackson is going to be available
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to players who are playing him in the Championship round,
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in the main event in the Big Gorilla in the
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FFPC as well as even if he's available, is he
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a guy that you want to sit given his injury
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and given his performance over the course of the last
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month and a half two months, Bradley.
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Yeah, this is a player that I spoke with Wyatt
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Bertoloni on Man versus Machine last week and the week before,
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and we came to the conclusion that there's no way
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you play Lamar Jackson the rest of the season, even
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if he is healthy, even if he is good to go.
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You look dating back to Week eleven six point seven
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fantasy points, Week twelve seven point two, Week thirteen seven
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point five, and then yes, he leaves this game early
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in Week sixteen four point seven fantasy points. He's just
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not rushing as much. He's definitely been battling injuries. And
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so you also don't have like, I don't think that
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there's clarity and a good game plan for the coaches.
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So whether they are getting good practices in with Lamar
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and with the rest of the starters, I also don't
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have a lot of confidence in their game plan without
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Lamar there, you think about Derrick Henry just being pulled
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off the field inexplicably for a lot of the end
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of the game. It was just wild. So I'm not
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sure what Baltimore's like macro cosmic plan is, but microcosmically like,
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we're not starting Lamar because we don't have a lot
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of trust with what is happening overall in this offense,
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even without the injuries which seem to just be piling
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up for Jackson.
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Excuse me you have We're gonna get to the DK
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Metcalf stuff in a little bit, guys, trust me. Rubio says.
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It just seems like Lamar gave up on this season
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a while ago, And normally I don't like to and Bradley,
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I don't know how you feel about this, but when
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it comes to like reading the body language and the
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postgame quotes and even like midweek quotes from players, I
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don't like to put a whole lot of stock into
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that for how I treat my fantasy lineups. But I
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do say that there is a stronger than normal narrative
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that Lamar Jackson is already looking at twenty twenty six,
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given the fact that they are two games back of
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the Steelers in the AFC North, given the fact that
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this dude has not been healthy for the better part
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of two months, maybe even more given the fact that
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their backs are against the wall, and even if they
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are able to squeeze out a Packers are a victory
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over the Packers at lambeau Field Saturday night. If the
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Steelers win on Sunday, it's all over. So there is
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like I do, and I'm glad that the Ravens. As
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a Lamar Jackson owner, I'm glad that the Ravens are
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playing Saturday night where all this stuff is not still
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known like that you want to play him. But I'm
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really regretting starting Lamar Jackson this week over brock Perty.
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I think that people who are still in the thick
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of it in week seventeen are looking at it from
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the standpoint of like, yeah, I know how talented he is,
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but I also know the situation his team is in,
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and I also know the state that his injury is
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in right now. It's it's you know, if you have
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a guy like Purty, I mean, you know, all systems
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go for Purty stuff like that. But but man, Lamar
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Jackson in week seventeen, dude, even knowing that he is
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playing for something here or or should be playing for something,
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I have a lot of misgivings about that. And I
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think anybody who is playing for a million bucks in
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the FFPC, they need I don't want to say tread lightly,
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but they need to really analyze this situation because I
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think it's more nuanced than we've had over the course
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of the season for Lamar Jackson so far.
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Yeah, Lamar, it's going to be so hard to pick
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a player that you would not start over, you know,
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in terms in terms of him. So like, okay, maybe Bulky,
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we can play play a little game like Lamar or
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or Caleb Williams.
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And I'm bringing them this up right now because I
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want to know who they play in Week seventeen. Here
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the Niners, right for Caleb Williams, Am, I right on?
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That?
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Is that? Who it is in week seventeen?
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Caleb Williams? And yeah, they at San Francisco.
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At San Francisco, Oh boy, because.
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Give me Caleb Williams. That game could very much turn
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into a shootout.
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Here's the thing with that. And the total is up
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on that it's fifty and a half right now. Jeez. Yeah,
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I think you're right. I think it's Caleb Williams. I
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think it's Caleb Williams over Lamar Jackson.
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Okay, we'll go deeper Aaron Rodgers.
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Yeah, right here, Aaron Rodgers. Is that Cleveland? Here's why
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where I draw the line. Have you seen the total
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on that Brown Steelers game at all, Bradley?
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What is it like? Thirty seven thirty three?
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I mean, there is no points being scored in that game.
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At that point, I will throw caution into the win.
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I think we found our line of demarcation, right, So
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yes on.
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Caleb Williams over Jackson, No on Rogers, although I will say,
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I mean, I don't know, Maybe this is just me.
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Does it seem like the Browns defense is not Capital
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Letters Brown defense, a Brown's defense the way it was
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the first couple months of the season, or is that
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just me? I don't know.
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It seems like the rushing has not been as strong.
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You have to wonder if the team is more focused on,
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like over the last game, like trying to sack Aaron Rodgers, right,
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like Miles Garrett getting him that record. You have to
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think that that is the moral victory for the Cleveland
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Browns this year. Look, if I were Cleveland and I
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had nothing else to play for and you've got the
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sack record possibility, going into like the other part is
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like this is week's week seventeen. So just like all
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the other seasons, there's Week seventeen, you get an extra
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week you want to like legitimately set the record if
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you're Aaron Rodgers, if you're if you're Miles Garrett and
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the Cleveland Brown. So yeah, I think that's their focus,
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less about stopping the run and more so trying to
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penetrate to stop the pass.
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Okay, let's I want to talk more about the Lamar
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Jackson here, but I think it's more important to get
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into this DK Metcalf stuff. Sure, all right, So Metcalf,
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we found out from several sources that he is being
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suspended for the remainder of the regular season for this
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altercation he had with a fan. I don't want to
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get into the ins and outs. God, I've read so
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much about this Bradley, about the history with this guy,
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some other people saying this guy has a mounted illness.
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I'm talking about the fan, not DK Metcalf. There's a
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lot to get into with this, but right now he
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is appealing his suspension for two games. I have Metcalf
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going in one league where it matters, right the rest
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of the leagues. It doesn't matter like I'm onto twenty
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twenty six, but the one league that I have him in, Bradley,
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I'm planning on him not being available this week. I
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can't imagine a two game suspension comes down on Monday
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afternoon here and we still think that there's a possibility
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that he's going to be eligible for Week seventeen. Maybe
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he's eligible for Week eighteen, but two games coming down
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on Monday right after Week sixteen, I am counting him
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out for Week seventeen. Is that the way you're viewing
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this situation as well?
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Yeah, DK Metcalf's definitely gonna miss one game. I don't
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think that on an appeal they'll get rid of both games,
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because it looks like he physically approached a fan, and
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based on the NFL statement that they came out with
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a couple hours ago, it was clear like they were
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using NFLPA and NFL player's language, and when you use
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that type of lawyer language, when you're citing the handbook
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and you are really trying to make sure that you
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get whatever happens stick. And so definitely he's missing the
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Cleveland game. Now he's appealing, I'd give it a fifty
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to fifty shot for Baltimore, So not that it really
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matters much for most leagues for a Week eighteen, but
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there are like five to ten percent of leagues that
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you're in managed leagues that are in Week eighteen. So
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I wouldn't plan for him in your championship week though.
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I think by the way, Tom Smith has chiming right here,
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and Tom, I'm gonna give you this right now. He
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wants to know the over under in the Giants Raiders
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game this week, and I'll tell you this right now
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as I look at it, that is a four or
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five start. I didn't realize that significantly higher than that
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Brown Steelers game. Forty one and a half for that game.
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Still not great, Bucky.
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And it's not great, But you know what's interesting about
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that game. The loser of that game probably has the
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number one pick in the draft, right and one of
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those teams needs a quarterback, and one of them does it.
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So if at least I think one of them does it,
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so I would say in regards to New York and
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in Las Vegas, there's probably going to be a command
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coming down from the front office from Joe Shane or
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Joe shoan, however you pronounce it like, listen, I don't
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care if we win this game or lose this game whatever.
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If well, he know, he'll say, we want to lose
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this game because the Raiders will really want to lose
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this game to have the inside track on Francisco Mendoza
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or whatever quarterback is going to be number one in
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the draft. This could be a race to the finish
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where both teams are trying to lose that game, which
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I know sounds bad on the surface, but I think
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it'd be very compelling to watch this unfold on Red Zone.
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People to consider Wandel Robinson, Tyrone, Tracy brock Bauer's Ashton genty.
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All four of those players may be neutered by their
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front offices in this game, So if you are starting
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any of them in a championship game like I am,
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you have to be aware that there could be some
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malfeasance and skullduggery going on there where these guys. I mean,
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don't I don't think I'm speaking on a turn here, Bradley.
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Can you see this happening as well?
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I I less likely. Yeah, There's there is a lot
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of pride that teams take even if it's facing off
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with a bad team against a team that is they
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know the stakes, but they also know that there's another week,
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you know, in week eighteen, and so many of these
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players just want to win, like they come to the
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team they play in the NFL, and very rarely do
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you see a coach tell a guy to like, you know,
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fall before the end zone or anything like that. But
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that's more competitive because that secures the victory. So I
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don't think that there's going to be a Malfeasan's game plan.
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I'm not worried about that, Bulky, Like you're starting these
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guys with the same level of confidence that you were
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starting with them three weeks ago or two weeks ago.
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By and large, I think you're right. Okay, for the
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most part, I think you're right. But allow me to
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play Devil's advocate here again. Tom Smith chiming in Jackson
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Dart this past week thirty three passing yards. How does
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that happen? He was not asked to throw the ball
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until the second quarter of that game. Steve g chiming
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in two Dart is already being restricted. I'm going to
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say this and this is how I view it, and
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I could be wrong. And maybe I am wrong. You
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can't tell players to tank. Players that have contracts expiring
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at the end of the year, players entering into a
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contract year. You can't tell them to say, hey, we're
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trying to get a higher draft pick. Just give up,
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don't go the extra mile, don't give us one hundred
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and ten percent, just give us seventy or eighty percent.
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That's not the way that NFL players' minds work, that's
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not the way that they play the game. That's not
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the way that they have been conditioned to play the
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game since they turned nine or ten years old or whatever.
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But what you can do is what the Giants did
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last week, Well, oh, we're gonna we're going to implement
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a run heavy game plan. We're going to implement a
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game plan that is going to shorten the game, give
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us an opportunity to win it at the end, and
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that's how they'll defend it at the end of the game.
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I am with you for the most part on I'm
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not going to radically change my lineup decisions for the
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Giants and Raiders this week right based on what could
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be the battle for the number one pick. However, and
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JJ zach Reason talks about this all the time. The
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range of outcomes, Right, there is a range of outcome,
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or there is a range of outcomes that include the
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Giants and the Raiders, both of them, one of them
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putting up nothing and not helping you at all for fantasy.
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So I do think when you submit your linus, and
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like I said, Bradley, I think I'm with you on
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the most part. In submitting my lineups this week, I
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do have to have in the back of my head,
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or maybe in the front of my head, that this
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could blow up in my face. Maybe not a high possibility,
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but still a possibility.
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Okay, Yeah, I looked at the Giants, like how many
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points they given up? Yeah, sixteen against Minnesota, fewest points
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allowed on the season, and they had they tied for
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the most sacks on the season. They had a ton
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of seven tackles for loss, Like their defense was playing
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very well. So you can't I can't really blame them
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for trying to lean into this when they only lost
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by three points. Right, you know, the game plan didn't
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result in a win, but it kept them very close
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and they knew they couldn't get into a shootout with
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Minnesota given that you have Aaron Jones. You have TJ. Hockinson,
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Jordan Addison, Justin Jefferson. So you know, I think that
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the game plan there was to, well, if we can
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slow the game down, we can allow fewer points and
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maybe we'll get lucky. And they did get a defensive touchdown. Yeah,
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so we'll see how they play it out. But I'm
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I think it's a lower percentage. I'm not as worried
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about a tank. I do think that there's gonna be
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game specific plans that the Giants will have for Vegas
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and then Dallas in Week eighteen.
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So I have to ask you this too. Do you
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believe that there are mandates coming down from the front
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office when it comes down to restricting yardage, restricting points
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or anything like that. Do you view that that that
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is a thing or does that not happen in the NFL?
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As far as your best guest is, I know you're
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not connected to like you're not like at the hest
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of any NFL front office, But Bradly, in your experience,
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does that happen at all?
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I think that it happens in a from a you
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have to think about like the Tua situation, or you
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think about the Kyler situation. These players are superior talents
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to the quarterbacks that are currently on the roster, even
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if you think that they've been playing very poorly, they
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are just more talented overall, and maybe they're not getting
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the scheme, maybe it doesn't make financial sense, whatever the
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case may be. Bulky that the the decisions to sit
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these quarterbacks. I think that's as far as the front
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office goes in terms of outwardly doing that. And I
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don't think that there would be any paper trail because
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they could get in trouble, real trouble with the league
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in terms of in terms of competitive balance. So I
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doubt it Balky, But you can think of a couple
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examples like Tua and Kyler where they're clearly or like
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a couple of years ago you had Russ Wilson, you know,
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or the Daniel Jones situation. They're benching these players from
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a financial perspective and clearly they want to move on
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from them. So it's more player focused for the franchise
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than I would I would say from a well we
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want to win or lose or secure a particular draft position.
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I want to talk about the Sunday night game last
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night and for anybody who went to bed early, you
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missed the Drake May comeback last night and he was very,
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very good thirty one to forty four, throwing the ball
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three inner eighty yards, two touchdowns, one interception as the
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Patriots defeated Baltimore twenty eight to twenty four. He also
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had ten carries believe it or not, for twenty five yards. Now,
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he did lose the football twice. One fumble was recovered
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by Baltimore. And I do have to say the fact
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that this dude had his team down by eleven in
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the fourth quarter to Baltimore. He leads the charge to
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spur the comeback. They end up closing the deal and
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New England wins the game. We had an MVP chance
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from the Patriots fans in attendance in that game last night.
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It was the first time that Drake May had more
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than three hundred passing yards. This year, New England will
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be in the playoffs. We know that after they win
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this game. I will say that that thirty seven yard
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touchdown to Kyle Williams late was pretty impressive. And now
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they get the Jets in Week seventeen. So many things
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I could ask you here Bradley, I'm gonna ask you,
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this May looks awesome. I wouldn't say league winner, but
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it looks awesome this year. Number one, what did we
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miss on with Drake May in letting him as far
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as fall as far as we did in high stakes
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drafts this year? And then number two, as far as
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quarterbacks go as of right now December twenty second, twenty
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twenty five, as far as quarterbacks go in twenty twenty
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six drafts, how many quarterbacks would you take over Drake May?
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For me, it's kind of a short list. I've been
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very impressed with what I've seen from this guy so
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far this season.
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Yeah, Drake May, I would to answer your first question,
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why do we let him fall so far? It has
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to be the supporting cast like Hunter Henry has always
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been a solid tight end. Stefan Diggs was coming off
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of an ACL injury, and that's why it was major
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discount season for the Patriots to get a player like Diggs.
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Kyle Williams really hadn't hit. He had his you know,
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he had went two for forty six in the touchdown
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on three targets. Matt Collins played pretty well. Kishon Booty
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has had good games here and there downfield presence. But
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the reason why, I think was because, and this is
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my logic, the supporting cast. We weren't sure whether Diggs, Williams, Hollins,
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Henry would all be enough to even be elevated. If
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May was able to take the next step, would they
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be elevated enough. And Diggs is clearly doing very well
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top twenty four wide receiver on the season, and you
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have Drake May who is getting a lot of rushing.
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I think the other component for May and now there's
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absolute confidence in Mike Rabel that Rabel had in his
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time in Tennessee. You know, worked with Marcus Mariota, but
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we didn't see Mariota become this big time fantasy producer.
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We knew he was a little mobile. But outside of that,
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you had just a J. Brown, who Mariota was thrown
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to in Tennessee, believe it or not. So you know,
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there were concerns that, well, the Patriots would just run
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the snot out of the ball with Stevenson and Traveon Henderson,
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so maybe May would get nuked. And forty four pass
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attempts for Drake May in Week sixteen. That's real nice.
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And you look, even back May had forty six pass
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attempts in Week one, he was consistently getting like between
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thirty one and thirty five pass attempts. So there have
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only been a couple games where he's been, you know,
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less than twenty five. So I would say the volume
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is there, probably top five. I think an easy top
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five quarterback for next season. Right, if Lamar is healthy,
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I think he's there. In that conversation, you know, you
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have a couple other running quarterbacks. Josh Allen when he's healthy,
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is always there as well.
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Jalen Hurts.
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Yeah, Jalen Hurts. Something's up with Jalen Hurts though, you
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know the vibes are not great in Philly. Yeah, And
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I wonder if Philly does move off of aj in
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twenty twenty six. You know, he's a post apex alpha
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with a history of knee issues and caused some drama
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over the season. And if they lose, they don't win
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the Super Bowl again, I can see them moving off
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of him. And who are they going to replace AJ
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Brown with?
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Well, that's that's the crazy thing. And you could make
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the case that they could replace him in the aggregate, right,
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because think about what they have in Philly, they have
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Saquon Barkley, Sure, Dallas Goddard, maybe you can turn out
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another year, maybe two years with him. I don't know
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DeVonta Smith. I've heard people telling me that he is
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a sleeper number one wide receiver. And so even if
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you can't replace Brown, you get another, you know, number
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two type of wide receiver there. With as run heavy
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as that team wants to be, I think they can
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get away with not having Brown on that team still
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keeping Jalen Hurts relevant and replenishing the offensive talent that
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you lose with Brown via the draft or via free agency,
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dependent upon how you have this going. I think that's
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fascinating to look at. Now. If I look back at
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the FFPC main event drafts this past year, we had
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Lamar Jackson going one, Josh Allen to Jaden Daniels three,
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Dyeln Hurts for Joe Burrow five, Patrick Mahomes six, bow
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Knicks was seven. I'm gonna stop there and I'll break
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this down here. So obviously Jackson's end to this season
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is going to hurt him a little bit. Jadon daniels
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end to this season probably gonna hurt him a little
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bit fairly or unfairly. That's what we're looking at here.
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Joe Burrow. The fact that he's coming back, that'll be
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more fresh in our minds, so that'll help him move
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him up. And obviously playing in the division that is
635
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going to be won by like what a nine to
636
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eighteen probably this year. Something like that gives Burrow and
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people believing in Burrow some hope that Burrow is just
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gonna go ham and crush next year. So I think
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there's that. You have Patrick Mahomes who is coming off
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of a torn ACL. We don't know when he'll play,
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I think, and Bradley, you can feel free to disagree
642
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with me on this, but I think that the torn
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ACL thing for a player like Mahomes, who actually did
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run quite a bit this year, maybe the most he's
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ever had in his whole career, I think that's a
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little overrated because I think he can come back and
647
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not be one hundred percent Capital Letter Patrick Mahomes right,
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and still be really really good for fantasy teams. This year.
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He was crushing it for our fantasy teams the majority
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of the season. So the ACL as of right now,
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and we'll see how the he's already had surgery on it.
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We'll see how the offseason develops, but as of right now,
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I think I'm more bullish than the rest of the crowd,
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the high stakes players on this than Mahomes. We talked
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about Knicks, and then you have Mayfield, Prescott and so
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on and so forth. But Drake Man was drafted as
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quarterback eleven this past year, and I think you're right.
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I think that he is going to threaten that quarterback
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five level. In fact, if you wanted to take him,
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I think you can make an argument, and this might
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be me being too hot takey, I think you can
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make an argument for him going as the quarterback two
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next year over players like Jackson Daniels, Hurts, even Burrow,
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Mahomes for sure, Nicks, Mayfield, Prescott. Yes, I think that,
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especially the way that things seem to be building to
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a crescendo in New England this year, if you want
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to take him as a same quarterback off the world,
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I really can't formulate a good argument to say, hey,
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you're wrong in doing that.
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Yeah, there is a pathway for Drake may to not
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only keep where he's at right now, but ascend like
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he's going to be in that tier. And we also
673
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don't know what the off season is going to look
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like for New England. Over the last couple of years,
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they have been trying, the Patriots have been trying so
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desperately to get in another alpha wide receiver. And maybe
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they're happy with Stefan Diggs, but Diggs is on the
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wrong side of thirty and we know thet.
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He's been inconsistent this year too, Bradley.
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Right, So they may look at adding another wide receiver
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who like they tried to get t Higgins, they tried
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to get Brandon Ayuk. You know, Ayuk may become available
683
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this offseason, that's a possibility. But yeah, I think Drake
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may enters enters that tier, that top tier conversation with
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Josh Allen and the rest of them in terms of
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fantasy out but even without the addition of a wide receiver,
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yeah right. And I want to touch on your Patrick
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Mahomes point as well, like where is Mahomes going to go?
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And like how is it going to affect his rushing?
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So what are the players that most recently like quarterback
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wise toward their acl was Joe Burrow back in twenty twenty,
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right his rookie year, he played ten games one hundred
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and forty two rushing yards in the those ten games,
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so fourteen yards per game. Mahomes was averaging something like
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thirty yards to do the next season after Burrow returns,
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he played all sixteen games in twenty twenty one, only
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one hundred and eighteen rushing yards. The entire season, he
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was averaging something like seven yards per game, So a
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significant shift a half cut it in half the amount
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of rushing. So if we cut mahomes rushing in half
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down to fifteen like that puts him as most pocket quarterbacks.
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So I do think you have to take into account
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a significant dip for Mahomes compared to where you're where
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he was performing this year. He's gonna be stuck in
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the pocket. He's not gonna be able to get all
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the rush. He's setting a career high and rushing touchdowns
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this year, so you have a recovery. Even aggressively, he's
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going to push it up toward week one, and you
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know the type of player Mahomes is. At the same time,
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we have concerns about what this Kansty Chiefs offense even
711
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looks like because outside of Mahomes, who was producing, Rashie
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Rice was fine but you don't have a running back.
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Kelsey's probably going to retire. Xavier Worthy busted this year,
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and so you have like, what's the answer here, Balky.
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I don't see a pathway for Mahomes to repeat like
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a top five Fantasy points per game performance in twenty
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twenty six.
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I think that you're bringing up some good points here
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that I didn't consider, and which is why I have
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smart people like you on this show. The other thing too,
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not Travis Kelcey. What is that going to look like?
722
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You know? With yeah, Rashie Rice and who's probably gonna
723
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be suspended at least a portion of the season. The
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good part is his suspension will probably coincide with mahomes rehabilitation. Potentially,
725
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maybe Mahomes is ready for Week one. I don't know,
726
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but you have Worthy. I don't know about Marquise Brown
727
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if he's back next year. I don't even know if
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he's under contract there. They still don't have a really
729
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good solution at running back there as well. So there
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are some things working against Mahomes in addition to the
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injury next year. And quite frankly, Bradley, you might you
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might have pulled me back. I've been watching a lot
733
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of stranger things. You're pulling me back from the upside
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down back into reality right now. And maybe I won't
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be bullish on Patrick Mahomes next year now, a quarterback
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that we didn't talk about that I think is going
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to be ascending quite a bit in drafts next year.
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And quite frankly, somebody that you need to keep in
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mind in Championship Round Week seventeen next year is Trevor
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Lawrence egos against Denvery yesterday. And I'll say this too,
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mea culpa on this. I was telling people who've been
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Trevor Lawrence everywhere because what he did over the last
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four weeks was against these average to mostly below average defenses.
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Now he gets Denver in Week sixteen, well what did
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he do? Twenty three to thirty six, two hundred and
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seventy nine yards, not one, not two, but three passing touchdowns.
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He also ran in a touchdown, had twenty yards on
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the ground as well. He did it against Denver, which
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to me is a significant thing. Ten total touchdowns over
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his last two games and Jacksonville, Liam Cohen, they are
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running hot in the NFL right now. He made everything,
752
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you know, all the things he was supposed to do. Bradley,
753
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he did the tough throws he was also able to execute,
754
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and his receivers came down with it. We'll get into
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Parker Washington a little bit, but Brenton's strange, Brian Thomas,
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all these guys that were out there, Jacoby Myers, for
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God's sake, and I definitely want to ask you about
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the wide receiver situation as it pertains twenty twenty six
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as well. But this is a guy that is as
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hot as any quarterback in the NFL right now. And
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what I think is so compelling about this is we
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have gone back and forth, back and forth, and it
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is Lawrence the guy. Is he not the guy?
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Oh?
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I think he's the guy. No, he can't be the guy. No,
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he looks like the guy. Again. Nah, he's not there.
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They need somebody else. And now he looks like the
768
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guy again. We'll talk about Bryce Young coming up later
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in the show, which I think is a similar question
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we're asking ourselves. But Trevor Lawrence, dude, how do you
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fall on in on him not only for the remainder
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of this season, but drafts next year as well, because
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he's giving us a lot of reasons to draft him
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potentially as high as the top five quarterbacks in next
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season's drafts.
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Ain't no way I'm drafting Trevor Lawrence the top five.
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But you have to have a lot of confidence in
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what Liam's Cohen's done for Jacksonville and for Trevor Lawrence,
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because it doesn't matter who the wide receiver is in Jacksonville,
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someone is going to step up based on the game plan.
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And that's what we saw in Week sixteen. Brian Thomas
782
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was being shadowed by Patrick Surtan, so only two receptions,
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eighteen yards, three targets, But that's why Parker Washington exploded
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six for one forty five, had the touchdown. Brenton Strange,
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you know, had the touchdown, was very involved in the
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passing game as well. And you think, but right before
787
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Travis Hunter's injury, Hunter got double digit targets in this offense.
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Jacoby Myers has been a consistent top twenty four wide
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receiver since moving to Jacksonville. Like this is it's clearly
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the system is working for Trevor Lawrence. So as long
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as Liam Cohen is there, you should be confidently throwing
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Trevor Lawrence into interesting stacks. I don't. I won't be
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drafting Trevor Lawrence as a top five quarterback, but I
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see his trajectory similar to that of what Baker Mayfield
795
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was in entering twenty twenty five, where you have Baker
796
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and you have a lot of other of these options
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at wide receiver that are gonna go around the same
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spot where Trevor Lawrence is probably gonna go off the board.
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Brian Thomas is gonna take a tumble, and Travis Hunter
800
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hopefully is going to be back, and Jacoby Myers is
801
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going to be there. So I think you've got three
802
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wide receivers in about the same I don't know, they'll
803
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probably each be within a round of each other, maybe
804
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two rounds of each other, and then you'll draft Trevor Lawrence.
805
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So I think it's going to be difficult to get
806
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like a quad stack for Trevor Lawrence if you're trying
807
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to go with a Jacksonville stack for next year. So
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that's that's how I'm approaching. I'm not getting carried away
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with Lawrence. This is an exciting year. He's clearly working
810
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with the system, and you know you but you just
811
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don't know who the guy is gonna be Is it
812
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gonna be Parker Washington, Is it gonna be Travis Hunter?
813
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Is it going to be Brian Thomas. We don't know
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whose game it's gonna be. That's why I think for Jacksonville,
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if you're targeting those players to be in a best
816
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ball league, not to manage league.
817
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So that that leads me into my next question, because
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just to gum up the works here, Bradley Parker Washington six,
819
00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:10.880
I beg your pardon ten targets. He catches six of
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them for one hundred and forty five yards and a touchdown.
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You alluded to this. They have him, they have Strange,
822
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they have Hunter, they have Myers, they have Bryan Thomas.
823
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There are so many guys there. You mentioned best Ball,
824
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which I totally get. You're the best ball expert. Like
825
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I think that I would agree with you that these
826
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guys are more best ball players than than than redraft
827
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and managed team players. Right, But when it comes down
828
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to it, can you comfortably say, hey and manage leagues?
829
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I'm just gonna roll with the who's ever drafted last, right,
830
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whether that's Thomas, whether that's Myers, whether that's you know,
831
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Strange or anybody, especially in premium leagues. Can we apply
832
00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:57.320
that logic to drafting Jacksonville players next year or is
833
00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:02.360
that too presumptuous as far as attacking these pass catchers
834
00:48:02.559 --> 00:48:06.480
in North Florida or Central Florida whatever Jacksonville is to
835
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attacking these pass catchers the correct way.
836
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Yeah, I think when you come to the re draft
837
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leagues and they're all in similar tiers, Like I talked
838
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about how Meyers, Hunter, and Thomas are probably going to
839
00:48:20.400 --> 00:48:24.360
be similar given their production this year and what we've
840
00:48:24.400 --> 00:48:27.440
seen in this offense, taking the cheapest option of those
841
00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:30.360
three is probably going to work out most of the time.
842
00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:34.440
You still want exposure to others. I want pretty even
843
00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:38.440
exposures in Bestball, But I really do want to be
844
00:48:38.519 --> 00:48:42.400
targeting Trevor Lawrence in a redraft league, in a managed league,
845
00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:46.000
because you know whoever's going to go off, you don't
846
00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:48.360
need to play that roulette game. Lawrence is going to
847
00:48:48.360 --> 00:48:50.920
be the one passing them the ball. We also don't
848
00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:53.159
know who the running back is going to be in
849
00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:56.039
twenty twenty six. Maybe it's still Travis Etn he's played
850
00:48:56.079 --> 00:48:59.840
pretty well. Maybe it's Baseial Touton will take the next step.
851
00:49:01.119 --> 00:49:03.719
There's so many options here. That I think the answer
852
00:49:03.719 --> 00:49:06.599
in redraft league is just you. You can draft Trevor
853
00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:09.599
Lawrence more comfortably than in a Bestball league.
854
00:49:11.519 --> 00:49:14.320
I have to ask you here. As we get into
855
00:49:14.760 --> 00:49:19.480
the Denver situation, Also in that Jaguars game, RJ. Harvey
856
00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:23.320
seven carries fifty yards he gets in a touchdown. He
857
00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:28.280
also catches four passes for seventy one yards as well,
858
00:49:28.760 --> 00:49:32.559
and Denver obviously was in you know, kind of catch
859
00:49:32.639 --> 00:49:37.719
up mode for most of this game. Twelve rushing attempts
860
00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:40.519
all game for Denver, he gets seven of them. He
861
00:49:40.679 --> 00:49:43.599
was tied for third on the team with five targets
862
00:49:43.639 --> 00:49:46.880
as well, fifty one dropbacks for bow Knicks, and r J.
863
00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:50.159
Harvey ran a pass route on twenty six of them.
864
00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:55.039
This is very interesting given that, and I know Dobbins
865
00:49:55.800 --> 00:49:57.239
was hurt for this game, and we don't know if
866
00:49:57.239 --> 00:49:59.599
he's coming back this year, and quite frankly, we don't
867
00:49:59.639 --> 00:50:04.360
know what coming up in twenty twenty six. Fortune favors
868
00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:08.239
the bold. Do we end up drafting a guy like RJ.
869
00:50:08.400 --> 00:50:11.280
Harvey a half round maybe a full round ahead of
870
00:50:11.320 --> 00:50:15.519
everybody else next year, betting that whoever Denver adds to
871
00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:18.559
this backfield, Whether it's Dobbins for another year, or whether
872
00:50:18.599 --> 00:50:23.920
it's somebody else that RJ. Harvey actually takes a step
873
00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:27.519
forward as being quote unquote the guy in that Denver
874
00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:30.159
backfield next year. How do you see this situation? Is
875
00:50:30.199 --> 00:50:32.079
he ready to make that leap or do you think
876
00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:37.679
Sean Payton is just conditionally registered into not letting anybody
877
00:50:37.719 --> 00:50:40.440
be the guy in his offense? And regardless of what
878
00:50:40.480 --> 00:50:43.119
happens with Dobbins, Harvey is going to be competing with
879
00:50:43.119 --> 00:50:44.559
a one A or one B next year.
880
00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:46.760
Yeah, Harvey is the type of player that I want
881
00:50:46.760 --> 00:50:50.440
to put chips in on his player profiler. Best comparable
882
00:50:50.480 --> 00:50:53.239
player is Chase Brown. And we saw in rookie year
883
00:50:53.320 --> 00:50:56.079
Chase Brown him not do very much and then year
884
00:50:56.119 --> 00:51:02.000
two boom explosion, Year three boom explosion. Harvey has second
885
00:51:02.079 --> 00:51:05.280
round draft capital to him. We know this, and we
886
00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:08.880
also are uncertain about whether Dobbins is returning given the
887
00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:11.440
foot injury. He signed a one year deal. It was
888
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very late in the offseason as well. It wasn't like, oh,
889
00:51:14.559 --> 00:51:17.840
immediately after the draft, they're gonna be drafting a JK.
890
00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:23.000
Dobbins or signing JK Dobbins. So RJ. Harvey the pathway
891
00:51:23.079 --> 00:51:27.840
for him to hit majorly is clear, like he very
892
00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:31.800
well could be the guy. And when we look at
893
00:51:31.800 --> 00:51:35.400
the game log, you know, we see just a massive,
894
00:51:35.440 --> 00:51:39.000
massive uptick Week eleven and beyond eight fantasy points, twenty
895
00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:41.599
one fantasy points, twenty two fantasy points, ten and a half,
896
00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:45.679
twenty two point one, even before that Week eight and nine,
897
00:51:45.760 --> 00:51:49.960
twenty four and sixteen fantasy points for RJ. Harvey. Yeah,
898
00:51:50.199 --> 00:51:54.760
we want to be chips in on RJ. Harvey. So yeah,
899
00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:56.719
I want my shots. I want to take my shots,
900
00:51:57.599 --> 00:52:00.920
and we'll see if he gets more move in this offense.
901
00:52:01.599 --> 00:52:01.800
R J.
902
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Harvey went off as running back twenty in the mid
903
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fifth round last year, and while I do think that
904
00:52:08.039 --> 00:52:10.480
was high, I think he could go higher on drafts
905
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next year. At the FFPCKFFFC, I always bring up as well,
906
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those drafts are going to be starting here in the
907
00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:18.480
next couple of weeks. Be paying attention to see where
908
00:52:18.519 --> 00:52:21.119
Harvey goes. He's one of the many people we are
909
00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:23.960
keeping tabs on for twenty twenty six drafts as well.
910
00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:26.880
The expert on twenty twenty six Best Ball drafts and
911
00:52:27.119 --> 00:52:30.800
in any year Best Ball drafts is Bradley Staalder, who
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you can connect with on the X right now, ladies
913
00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:37.920
and gentlemen at Ffstallder and of course check out all
914
00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:41.840
his work at Player Profiler roto Underworld. I want to
915
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take a quick break when we come back. We have
916
00:52:44.199 --> 00:52:46.000
to get into this Monday night game and I know
917
00:52:46.039 --> 00:52:51.280
lineup decisions have been made, but Bradley, people playing dfs
918
00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:53.400
or what have you still have the opportunity to make
919
00:52:53.480 --> 00:52:55.440
changes here. I want to get your thoughts on the
920
00:52:55.559 --> 00:52:59.960
Niners and Colts tonight with Phillip blanking rivers at quarterbacks.
921
00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:02.920
Still can't get over that. It's been crazy. We'll get
922
00:53:02.920 --> 00:53:05.440
into Juwan Jennings. I definitely want to ask you about that.
923
00:53:05.480 --> 00:53:08.239
Tyler Warren, I think is an important person to be
924
00:53:08.320 --> 00:53:12.039
considering in the FFPC here as well. We'll step up.
925
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We'll catch our breath when we come back our Monday
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Night Football preview with Player Profilers Own Bradley Staalder. I'm
927
00:53:19.320 --> 00:53:22.760
Eric Balkman. Don't go anywhere. The FFPC Insider Access Show
928
00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:25.840
rolls on on Fantasy Football Night in America right here
929
00:53:26.039 --> 00:53:27.360
on the Better Sports Network.
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Folks, let me talk to you about my favorite weekly
931
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platform to play on. You know, we all play Dynasty,
932
00:53:33.960 --> 00:53:36.639
and we all play Redraft, but we got to find
933
00:53:36.639 --> 00:53:40.760
someplace to play weekly, and the FFPC Weekly Challenge is
934
00:53:40.880 --> 00:53:43.719
my favorite. If you're like me and you're tired of
935
00:53:44.000 --> 00:53:47.440
the constraints of salary caps, or having to do a
936
00:53:47.559 --> 00:53:50.639
draft to make a team, or even having to play
937
00:53:50.639 --> 00:53:53.000
against these people that are stacking up the same team,
938
00:53:53.079 --> 00:53:55.559
stacking up certain games and you feel like you have
939
00:53:55.559 --> 00:53:57.519
to put in a million entries or or have to
940
00:53:57.559 --> 00:54:00.000
have those certain stacks to win, then come play over
941
00:54:00.079 --> 00:54:04.039
at FFPC. Really, the only main rule that you have
942
00:54:04.079 --> 00:54:06.719
to deal with is that you cannot select multiple players
943
00:54:06.760 --> 00:54:08.880
from the same team. I'm going out and I'm trying
944
00:54:08.920 --> 00:54:11.239
to find the best of the best of the best
945
00:54:11.239 --> 00:54:13.639
players and put them into a lineup, and that's what
946
00:54:13.679 --> 00:54:16.480
you can do over at my FFPC. You can go
947
00:54:16.559 --> 00:54:19.519
out and you can take the number one running back
948
00:54:19.599 --> 00:54:22.880
in Bijon Robinson, and you can also have steak On Barkley.
949
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As long as they're not in the same team, you
950
00:54:24.519 --> 00:54:26.760
can put them all into a lineup, right, And there's
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Staalder at ff Staalder on x tonight. He is with
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roto Underworld Player Profiler. Obviously, Stack Hunters is a show
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that you do with another friend of the show, Dan Williamson.
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00:56:29.639 --> 00:56:32.960
Is that more of like a early season podcast or
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00:56:33.000 --> 00:56:35.119
what's your schedule like for that, Bradley.
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00:56:34.960 --> 00:56:38.280
Yeah, it's mostly an off season podcast. So we Dan
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00:56:38.360 --> 00:56:41.519
and I have done two during the course of the season,
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00:56:42.159 --> 00:56:48.199
but it's mostly an off season reaction to doing live drafts, rankings,
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00:56:48.239 --> 00:56:53.280
those types of things. Lots of speculation. Let's start sit
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00:56:54.239 --> 00:56:56.119
because Dan does a lot of great work in the
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00:56:56.159 --> 00:56:59.119
high stakes streets with Fantasy Umpire podcast. That's his in
998
00:56:59.239 --> 00:57:04.079
season pod, which is awesome. Some of the best high
999
00:57:04.119 --> 00:57:06.960
stake players in the world, you know, are his co
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00:57:07.079 --> 00:57:09.320
hosts for that show. So shout out to Dan. We
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00:57:09.320 --> 00:57:13.280
love Dan Williamson, He's the Dan the Man. And looking
1002
00:57:13.280 --> 00:57:17.559
forward to getting Stack Hunters back up here, probably at
1003
00:57:17.599 --> 00:57:20.920
the end of January, maybe first week of February. We'll
1004
00:57:20.920 --> 00:57:25.639
see when the contests are announced, because a lot of
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00:57:25.639 --> 00:57:29.639
these way too early contests drop in February and the
1006
00:57:29.639 --> 00:57:33.280
degenerates like Dan and myself are already in the streets
1007
00:57:34.760 --> 00:57:40.440
drafting and making rankings and then debating and waiting another
1008
00:57:41.559 --> 00:57:45.480
you know, nine months, seven months until all of this
1009
00:57:45.559 --> 00:57:47.639
comes to fruition and we get things right. We get
1010
00:57:47.639 --> 00:57:49.719
things wrong, but that's the part of the analysis that
1011
00:57:50.760 --> 00:57:54.920
you know. That's why I like doing co hosted podcast
1012
00:57:55.039 --> 00:57:59.360
Bulky because iron sharpens iron in this industry, let people people,
1013
00:57:59.440 --> 00:58:01.920
we make each other better. We have a lot of
1014
00:58:01.920 --> 00:58:06.480
fun playing this game and just listening to other perspectives.
1015
00:58:06.519 --> 00:58:11.239
I'm always nugget hunting when I'm either co hosting or
1016
00:58:11.320 --> 00:58:14.119
a guest on a pod, So I'm listening very carefully
1017
00:58:14.119 --> 00:58:17.239
to what someone else is saying, so that you know,
1018
00:58:17.360 --> 00:58:19.760
is there something that I take away with Maybe I
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00:58:19.800 --> 00:58:22.639
disagree with them, but it's a new lens that maybe
1020
00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:23.920
I'll consider for the future too.
1021
00:58:24.559 --> 00:58:27.079
I think that's and I've said this on the show before,
1022
00:58:27.400 --> 00:58:29.760
that was one of my biggest hurdles to get over
1023
00:58:29.960 --> 00:58:33.920
playing fantasy football is living in my own echo chamber, right,
1024
00:58:34.360 --> 00:58:38.440
Like I automatically tune out people that are For years,
1025
00:58:38.559 --> 00:58:41.440
I automatically tuned out people that didn't share the same
1026
00:58:41.519 --> 00:58:44.079
viewpoint as me. And I'm like, why am I listening
1027
00:58:44.119 --> 00:58:47.000
and watching all these podcasts if I just am tuning
1028
00:58:47.000 --> 00:58:50.039
out people with opposing viewpoints? And I think, what's so great?
1029
00:58:50.159 --> 00:58:52.760
Not only about your show, because I think you attack
1030
00:58:52.880 --> 00:58:55.400
things from a high stakes level in the early part
1031
00:58:55.400 --> 00:58:58.800
of Bestball season, but you mentioned the Fantasy Empire podcast.
1032
00:58:58.880 --> 00:59:02.880
Dan Williamson, former FFPC main event co champion, Nelson Susa,
1033
00:59:03.239 --> 00:59:06.000
Matt Odico, who I've had on the podcast before, and
1034
00:59:06.000 --> 00:59:08.239
of course Chris Phacara, one of the most accomplished high
1035
00:59:08.239 --> 00:59:10.800
stakes players out there. You have all four of those
1036
00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:13.239
guys in the Fantasy Empire, which is great, and they
1037
00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:15.760
do that show every week in season. But as far
1038
00:59:15.840 --> 00:59:19.519
as building up your rosters for best Ball Stack Hunters
1039
00:59:19.519 --> 00:59:21.880
with you and Dan, I think is just that is
1040
00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:25.599
Chef's kiss good. So I encourage everybody to be listening
1041
00:59:25.920 --> 00:59:29.239
to that once you guys get going for twenty twenty six,
1042
00:59:29.280 --> 00:59:31.599
which won't be far away quite Frankly.
1043
00:59:31.239 --> 00:59:33.480
It's sneaking up on us, Eric, it's sneaking up on us.
1044
00:59:33.559 --> 00:59:39.159
You know it. Absolutely, Let's get into tonight's game. It
1045
00:59:39.199 --> 00:59:42.039
is the Niners and Colts. This is a game that
1046
00:59:43.639 --> 00:59:47.800
I I don't know, man like, I didn't necessarily have
1047
00:59:47.920 --> 00:59:50.960
the circle down my calendar when it comes to week sixteen.
1048
00:59:51.480 --> 00:59:53.559
But I also didn't think that both these teams would
1049
00:59:53.559 --> 00:59:56.039
be in the situations that they're in, with the Niners
1050
00:59:56.079 --> 01:00:00.519
being so battered on defense, the Colts starting Phillip blanking
1051
01:00:00.679 --> 01:00:04.440
Rivers at quarterback under that. Speaking of his counterparts tonight,
1052
01:00:04.519 --> 01:00:08.639
brock Party, I'm already lamenting that I benched Purdy for
1053
01:00:08.840 --> 01:00:12.159
Lamar Jackson. In a couple of my leagues yesterday. How
1054
01:00:12.239 --> 01:00:16.760
elite do you think Perty is against this Colts defense tonight, Bradley.
1055
01:00:17.079 --> 01:00:20.000
You know, the expert consensus ranking has a Brock Purty
1056
01:00:20.119 --> 01:00:25.280
as quarterback five on the week. So I mean the
1057
01:00:25.559 --> 01:00:31.119
all of the experts have him at five. He had
1058
01:00:31.159 --> 01:00:35.639
all his weapons. I get it. There's a lot of excitement.
1059
01:00:35.960 --> 01:00:40.039
Ye you got Christian McCaffrey, you have George Kittle, you
1060
01:00:40.079 --> 01:00:44.639
have all these these pieces that are present we're looking at.
1061
01:00:44.920 --> 01:00:47.960
Look at what Brock Purdy has done. I mean, he
1062
01:00:48.039 --> 01:00:52.599
was quarterback for against Tennessee last week though against Cleveland,
1063
01:00:52.639 --> 01:00:55.840
which is always tough against Perdy, Yeah, Disco, they always
1064
01:00:55.880 --> 01:00:58.599
tend to play San Francisco very tough. It was quarterback
1065
01:00:58.639 --> 01:01:03.320
sixteen against Carolina, his quarterback twenty a week eleven, he
1066
01:01:03.400 --> 01:01:09.239
was quarterback six against Arizona. You know the I'm not
1067
01:01:09.840 --> 01:01:12.840
I think Brock Perty will give us a solid performances
1068
01:01:12.880 --> 01:01:18.360
still top ten. I think, you know, that's That's where
1069
01:01:18.360 --> 01:01:21.440
I'm looking at for him. But I'm not going as
1070
01:01:21.519 --> 01:01:26.480
berserk as the rest of the fantasy community over Rock Purty.
1071
01:01:26.559 --> 01:01:28.360
I think that this will be a game that has
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01:01:28.400 --> 01:01:33.239
slowed down. Indianapolis clearly wants to control the ball. We'll
1073
01:01:33.280 --> 01:01:35.559
get into Philip Rivers in the second. But I don't
1074
01:01:35.559 --> 01:01:38.880
think the game plan for Indy is to get into
1075
01:01:38.880 --> 01:01:42.599
a shootout with San Francisco. They want to control the ball.
1076
01:01:42.880 --> 01:01:45.440
They have Jonathan Taylor, who is one of the best
1077
01:01:45.519 --> 01:01:48.039
running backs in the NFL, and you have forty four
1078
01:01:48.079 --> 01:01:50.519
year old Philip Rivers throwing the ball and he can't
1079
01:01:50.559 --> 01:01:52.920
throw it more than twenty yards down the field. So
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01:01:53.920 --> 01:01:56.239
if I'm Indy, that's my game plan, and I don't
1081
01:01:56.239 --> 01:02:00.000
think it'll be necessarily Jackson Dart level of like Hamstrong
1082
01:02:00.039 --> 01:02:05.519
ringing of Philip Rivers against San Francisco. But we could
1083
01:02:05.559 --> 01:02:10.360
look at a situation where both teams score twenty one
1084
01:02:10.480 --> 01:02:13.800
or fewer points. Yeah, what's the over under for this game?
1085
01:02:14.280 --> 01:02:16.039
That's a great question, Bradley. I don't want to bring
1086
01:02:16.079 --> 01:02:17.920
that up right now. If we look at the total
1087
01:02:17.960 --> 01:02:22.960
for tonight's game in Indianapolis between the Indianapolis Colts and
1088
01:02:23.039 --> 01:02:25.880
the San Francisco forty nine ers, I can tell you
1089
01:02:25.960 --> 01:02:29.480
that the total is sitting at forty six and a half.
1090
01:02:29.800 --> 01:02:31.880
See, I would take the under on that. I don't
1091
01:02:31.880 --> 01:02:33.679
think it's going to get to that type of shootout.
1092
01:02:34.719 --> 01:02:36.719
I think you're right, and it doesn't even really have
1093
01:02:36.840 --> 01:02:39.199
to develop into a shootout for it to you know.
1094
01:02:40.760 --> 01:02:42.559
It could be twenty four to twenty one.
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01:02:42.639 --> 01:02:45.400
And you win, and you win on the under absolutely.
1096
01:02:46.760 --> 01:02:49.480
Let me ask you something about the Championship Sprint in
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01:02:49.599 --> 01:02:53.760
the FFPC Main Event FFPC Big Grilla. I think, and
1098
01:02:54.119 --> 01:02:56.400
maybe I'm wrong on this, but I have heard that
1099
01:02:56.679 --> 01:03:00.360
there are three schools of thought on this. The most
1100
01:03:00.440 --> 01:03:04.119
dangerous running back in the sprint is fill in the blank,
1101
01:03:04.239 --> 01:03:08.599
Christian McCaffrey, Jamior Gibbs, Jonathan Taylor, or somebody else.
1102
01:03:08.679 --> 01:03:13.320
Bradley, you know McCaffrey. I think McCaffrey is the most dangerous.
1103
01:03:14.159 --> 01:03:16.880
He's still his opportunity. We talked about opportunity to share
1104
01:03:17.400 --> 01:03:23.920
for ashon genty, right, and genty was at like eighty
1105
01:03:24.000 --> 01:03:28.199
something percent, eighty two percent. I'm pulling up McCaffrey's right now.
1106
01:03:28.239 --> 01:03:31.679
His is at eighty point one. But his weighted opportunities
1107
01:03:31.800 --> 01:03:36.079
is number one among all running backs. He is just
1108
01:03:36.199 --> 01:03:40.119
getting involved one hundred and eight targets entering week sixteen.
1109
01:03:40.559 --> 01:03:44.159
Jesus right, that's what I mean. And so in full
1110
01:03:44.199 --> 01:03:51.480
PPR leagues like this is an absolute cheat code. Christian
1111
01:03:51.519 --> 01:03:55.880
McCaffrey has finished outside the top fourteen of running back
1112
01:03:56.360 --> 01:04:01.480
on a week once this season. Once.
1113
01:04:03.000 --> 01:04:06.559
It's mind boggling and considering you know how we were
1114
01:04:06.559 --> 01:04:09.760
handling McCaffrey and drafts this past year, where a lot
1115
01:04:09.840 --> 01:04:12.480
of people just assumed, well, he's gonna get hurt, he's
1116
01:04:12.480 --> 01:04:15.719
not gonna stay healthy all season. I have to ask you,
1117
01:04:16.039 --> 01:04:18.119
as we move forward to twenty twenty six, and this
1118
01:04:18.159 --> 01:04:23.079
is something I've wrestled with, there's no real reason as
1119
01:04:23.119 --> 01:04:26.719
far as performance goes in twenty twenty five to downgrade
1120
01:04:26.800 --> 01:04:29.679
McCaffrey and drafts next year. Now. You want to downgrade
1121
01:04:29.719 --> 01:04:31.719
them because of the team he's on. You want to
1122
01:04:31.760 --> 01:04:33.960
downgrade him because of his age, You want to downgrade
1123
01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:36.880
him because of his injury history. Okay, but these are
1124
01:04:36.920 --> 01:04:40.199
all kind of things floating out in space. They're not
1125
01:04:40.480 --> 01:04:43.679
real until they become real. In the twenty twenty sixth season,
1126
01:04:44.599 --> 01:04:47.840
I saw McCaffrey drafted a lot at the back end
1127
01:04:47.880 --> 01:04:51.239
of the first and in the second round. Bradley, what
1128
01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:54.400
are we supposed to do with McCaffrey Assuming he makes
1129
01:04:54.440 --> 01:04:58.000
it through this season unscathed and he's entering the twenty
1130
01:04:58.079 --> 01:05:00.760
twenty six offseason healthy. He is going to be a
1131
01:05:00.760 --> 01:05:02.000
fascinating player to watch.
1132
01:05:02.000 --> 01:05:05.960
My friend, my concerns with McCaffrey are the concerns that
1133
01:05:06.000 --> 01:05:08.320
I had for sake, on Barkley entering twenty twenty five,
1134
01:05:08.960 --> 01:05:12.159
and that was just the massive, massive volume we saw
1135
01:05:13.280 --> 01:05:18.360
Barkley just crater in terms of efficiency, even when Philly
1136
01:05:18.400 --> 01:05:21.400
has been playing pretty well on offense. Yes, you've had
1137
01:05:21.400 --> 01:05:24.559
your your bombs, you're ups and downs, but McCaffrey has
1138
01:05:24.639 --> 01:05:32.760
already shown signs of this this efficiency decline, significant efficiency decline.
1139
01:05:34.440 --> 01:05:40.159
This is okay for like twenty twenty seven, I could
1140
01:05:40.199 --> 01:05:45.480
see McCaffrey turn into twenty twenty five. Alvin Kamara, Oh wow,
1141
01:05:45.480 --> 01:05:51.559
so you have probably one more year of good McCaffrey
1142
01:05:51.599 --> 01:05:55.440
in twenty twenty six. You may see some fall off
1143
01:05:55.480 --> 01:05:57.639
a little bit here and there, maybe there is a
1144
01:05:57.800 --> 01:06:03.320
small injury here. But like, if I'm on a dynasty
1145
01:06:03.400 --> 01:06:07.199
league and I've got Christian McCaffrey and I'm competing, yeah,
1146
01:06:06.800 --> 01:06:09.079
I want to keep him on for one more year.
1147
01:06:09.079 --> 01:06:11.519
I think that there is still one more good season
1148
01:06:11.559 --> 01:06:14.760
in the tank. At the same time, you're gonna see
1149
01:06:14.760 --> 01:06:18.559
an efficiency drop. So Barkley is disappointing this year. But
1150
01:06:18.639 --> 01:06:23.079
he's not like a zero no, right, So, and you're
1151
01:06:23.159 --> 01:06:27.280
you're putting in Barkley every week regardless. And I think
1152
01:06:27.320 --> 01:06:30.119
that's what you're going to see in twenty twenty six
1153
01:06:30.159 --> 01:06:32.280
with McCaffrey. You're gonna be putting him in your lineup.
1154
01:06:33.079 --> 01:06:36.440
He's gonna do pretty well from time to time. The
1155
01:06:37.000 --> 01:06:40.000
offense may look a little bit differently because, as we
1156
01:06:40.039 --> 01:06:43.639
all know, San Francisco went through all these different injuries,
1157
01:06:43.719 --> 01:06:49.480
whether it was you know, Kittle getting hurt. Ayuk has
1158
01:06:49.480 --> 01:06:54.760
been out the whole season, you have Juwan Jennings dealing
1159
01:06:54.840 --> 01:06:59.159
with injuries. Kendrick Bourne was a thing for San Francisco.
1160
01:06:59.400 --> 01:07:01.880
That's how desperate San Francisco was for a while.
1161
01:07:02.159 --> 01:07:04.400
That seems like last year by the way at this point,
1162
01:07:04.480 --> 01:07:05.239
which is crazy.
1163
01:07:05.840 --> 01:07:09.719
So that's my take on christ McCaffrey. Ultimately, I think
1164
01:07:09.760 --> 01:07:13.079
that Drafters are going to draft him very high. I
1165
01:07:13.079 --> 01:07:15.559
don't want zero McCaffrey, but I want to be underweight
1166
01:07:15.599 --> 01:07:16.320
on McCaffrey.
1167
01:07:16.519 --> 01:07:18.840
Yeah, I think I'm with you on that. Bill Hollywood
1168
01:07:18.920 --> 01:07:22.079
chiming and is having a fantastic season in the taking
1169
01:07:22.079 --> 01:07:24.199
that McCaffrey is going to go top six next year,
1170
01:07:24.519 --> 01:07:27.400
And I don't fault him. I think that's accurate. You know,
1171
01:07:27.719 --> 01:07:30.880
it only takes one team right to draft McCaffrey, and
1172
01:07:30.920 --> 01:07:33.400
I think that's where it's gonna come. Getting back said
1173
01:07:33.400 --> 01:07:36.639
this year, Juwan Jennings. We have no Ricky piersall tonight.
1174
01:07:36.679 --> 01:07:39.239
We know he's out. We know Juwan Jennings has been
1175
01:07:39.280 --> 01:07:43.239
putting up pretty solid numbers in pearsall Stead when he's
1176
01:07:43.239 --> 01:07:46.119
missed time this season. What do you think Juwan Jennings
1177
01:07:46.119 --> 01:07:48.239
does tonight, Bradley against the Colts.
1178
01:07:49.239 --> 01:07:54.239
Yeah, my projection for Jennings is five catches on seven
1179
01:07:54.320 --> 01:07:56.639
targets and you get sixty yards. So are you happy
1180
01:07:56.679 --> 01:07:59.639
with thirteen fantasy points and the chance for a touchdown
1181
01:07:59.679 --> 01:08:03.920
because Juwan Jennings has four shutdowns in last three games.
1182
01:08:04.280 --> 01:08:09.519
Just I'm sorry for interrupting thirteen. For some people watching this,
1183
01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:12.199
thirteen might be fine. They might be good with that.
1184
01:08:12.679 --> 01:08:15.880
But if you are looking at moving up the main
1185
01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:18.720
event leaderboard or the big Guirilla leaderboard, you want to
1186
01:08:18.720 --> 01:08:22.840
go for upside. How much upside is there tonight? And
1187
01:08:23.199 --> 01:08:25.840
these people have probably already made their decisions, which is fine,
1188
01:08:26.000 --> 01:08:28.680
But Bradley, how much upside is there for Jennings yes,
1189
01:08:28.720 --> 01:08:30.439
he could put up thirteen, and I think you're right.
1190
01:08:30.479 --> 01:08:32.760
I think he puts up at least thirteen. But does
1191
01:08:32.800 --> 01:08:35.840
he have a spike week in him against Indy tonight.
1192
01:08:36.520 --> 01:08:39.800
Yeah, again, I'm taking the under on the game total
1193
01:08:39.800 --> 01:08:41.880
of forty six and a half. We talked about the
1194
01:08:41.920 --> 01:08:44.920
game script, we talked about the other factors at play here.
1195
01:08:46.680 --> 01:08:48.560
The Colts do not want to get into a shootout.
1196
01:08:48.600 --> 01:08:53.079
They want to control the ball, and so yeah, you're
1197
01:08:53.119 --> 01:08:56.279
gonna see Juwan Jennings. I'm not sure if he gets
1198
01:08:56.319 --> 01:08:59.920
the touchdown, but he's had five of his last six
1199
01:09:00.159 --> 01:09:05.760
games he scored a touchdown. So you know the argument is, well,
1200
01:09:05.760 --> 01:09:08.720
he's on a streak or he's due to not score
1201
01:09:08.720 --> 01:09:11.800
a touchdown. Right, Those are the those the two lines
1202
01:09:11.840 --> 01:09:14.920
of thought that you have to entertain as you're going through.
1203
01:09:15.079 --> 01:09:17.920
And so like the floor is thirteen, the ceiling is
1204
01:09:17.960 --> 01:09:22.479
probably the ceiling's twenty. The ceiling's twenty fantasy putts. So
1205
01:09:22.560 --> 01:09:24.479
are we are we happy with twenty fantasy points with
1206
01:09:24.560 --> 01:09:25.479
Jorane Jennings? I think so.
1207
01:09:27.199 --> 01:09:31.399
I do want to touch on the Philip Rivers aspect
1208
01:09:31.439 --> 01:09:33.840
of this tonight because there's a couple of schools A
1209
01:09:33.880 --> 01:09:37.399
thought on this Bradley number one, I don't know. I
1210
01:09:37.439 --> 01:09:39.960
have literally no idea what you thought Rivers was going
1211
01:09:40.039 --> 01:09:42.920
to do last week in his debut after you know,
1212
01:09:43.039 --> 01:09:45.079
essentially five years of not being in the league at
1213
01:09:45.119 --> 01:09:49.479
forty four years old and our grandfather, Is he gonna
1214
01:09:49.520 --> 01:09:51.479
surprise us two weeks in a row, because he definitely
1215
01:09:51.479 --> 01:09:54.640
surprised me last week. John Dago from Established a Run
1216
01:09:54.760 --> 01:09:57.239
was on this show a couple of weeks ago and
1217
01:09:57.279 --> 01:10:01.399
he mentioned death as a possibility for Philip Rivers on
1218
01:10:01.439 --> 01:10:03.560
the field, which blew me away. I didn't want to
1219
01:10:03.600 --> 01:10:07.680
think about that. But Rivers tonight against the Niners defense.
1220
01:10:08.039 --> 01:10:11.359
Your thoughts on his output and how good of a
1221
01:10:11.399 --> 01:10:14.800
start is the Niners defense tonight against the forty four
1222
01:10:14.880 --> 01:10:16.079
year old grandpa?
1223
01:10:17.000 --> 01:10:20.119
I mean, you gotta play the forty nine Ers defense.
1224
01:10:20.760 --> 01:10:23.960
The counter argument to the game script that I mentioned
1225
01:10:23.960 --> 01:10:27.039
earlier is that San Francisco just gets out ahead by
1226
01:10:27.479 --> 01:10:30.520
you know, let's say they're up twenty four to ten.
1227
01:10:31.520 --> 01:10:34.199
What is River's gonna have to do. He's gonna have
1228
01:10:34.239 --> 01:10:36.279
to throw. He's gonna have to throw down the field.
1229
01:10:36.760 --> 01:10:39.760
So that requires offensive line to hold up for a
1230
01:10:39.800 --> 01:10:43.520
long time for the play to develop. It also requires
1231
01:10:43.880 --> 01:10:46.000
him to throw the ball down the field where we
1232
01:10:46.039 --> 01:10:49.520
are not comfortable with his average depth of target. Right,
1233
01:10:50.640 --> 01:10:53.479
his noodle arm strength did not improve in four years.
1234
01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:58.840
So look, I am rooting heavily from the personal side
1235
01:10:58.840 --> 01:11:01.680
for Philip Rivers. I think this is great story. I
1236
01:11:01.760 --> 01:11:04.239
love Philip Rivers, I love his family, I love everything
1237
01:11:04.239 --> 01:11:08.800
that he stands for. I'm here behind Philip Rivers' success story.
1238
01:11:09.079 --> 01:11:12.079
Like the postgame presser, He's like, look, if anyone was
1239
01:11:12.119 --> 01:11:15.159
inspired to do difficult things and like achieve their dreams
1240
01:11:15.159 --> 01:11:17.479
because of what I did and stepped out and took
1241
01:11:17.479 --> 01:11:20.960
the chance on, then awesome, fantastic. Like we want to
1242
01:11:21.039 --> 01:11:24.479
root for NFL stories. So from the NFL story side,
1243
01:11:24.760 --> 01:11:27.479
I'm here for all the Philip Rivers. I can also
1244
01:11:27.520 --> 01:11:31.239
see the pathway where it becomes like Philip Rivers is
1245
01:11:31.319 --> 01:11:35.920
sacked five times and he throws two or three interceptions
1246
01:11:36.319 --> 01:11:38.399
because he's trying to force it into windows that his
1247
01:11:38.560 --> 01:11:40.960
arm just can't do anymore. And that's what we saw
1248
01:11:40.960 --> 01:11:44.439
at the end of the game last week when the
1249
01:11:44.439 --> 01:11:47.920
Colts had a chance to get a game winning a
1250
01:11:48.000 --> 01:11:51.000
game winning drive together, and he tried to force the
1251
01:11:51.000 --> 01:11:54.079
ball down the field and got picked. So that is
1252
01:11:54.279 --> 01:11:56.119
very much within the range of outcomes, and that's why
1253
01:11:56.159 --> 01:11:58.399
you do want to be playing the San Francisco forty
1254
01:11:58.479 --> 01:11:59.239
nine ers defense.
1255
01:12:01.000 --> 01:12:05.840
And by the way, we have this is interesting. Uh
1256
01:12:06.079 --> 01:12:08.920
so we have the national anthem going on right now,
1257
01:12:09.399 --> 01:12:12.199
and the national anthem is being sung by Trevor Jackson,
1258
01:12:12.680 --> 01:12:15.880
who is a musician and he is also an actor
1259
01:12:16.319 --> 01:12:20.680
who I did not realize was a series regular on
1260
01:12:20.760 --> 01:12:24.359
the ABC show Gray's Anatomy. Bradley, are you a Gray's
1261
01:12:24.399 --> 01:12:25.319
Anatomy watcher?
1262
01:12:26.880 --> 01:12:30.960
Real talk? I watched probably the first four seasons, and
1263
01:12:31.000 --> 01:12:33.560
then I got wow. I got like, well, you know,
1264
01:12:33.720 --> 01:12:36.239
this is like they're like season sixteen right now, whatever
1265
01:12:36.279 --> 01:12:36.520
it is.
1266
01:12:36.560 --> 01:12:38.800
Oh no, they're way beyond that. We're in season twenty two.
1267
01:12:39.000 --> 01:12:42.840
Oh even worse. That's how far behind I am. You know.
1268
01:12:43.239 --> 01:12:46.600
I think it was just a very cyclical like storyline
1269
01:12:46.600 --> 01:12:49.239
that I got bored with. So, like, that's four seasons.
1270
01:12:49.359 --> 01:12:51.760
It's almost a serial, right where it's just it's just like.
1271
01:12:53.840 --> 01:12:56.319
A soap almost, yes, and it's like.
1272
01:12:56.279 --> 01:13:00.800
Two or three six surgeries and that they need to
1273
01:13:00.800 --> 01:13:04.560
perform every episode, and some people live, some people die,
1274
01:13:04.640 --> 01:13:07.279
and then we have this relationship stuff going on in
1275
01:13:07.399 --> 01:13:08.439
the background.
1276
01:13:08.119 --> 01:13:11.960
And the occasionally there's a bomb in the hospital, you know, yes.
1277
01:13:11.960 --> 01:13:15.680
Just like any hospital. Right, So so I'll say this,
1278
01:13:16.600 --> 01:13:19.880
I am not into it at all. But they have
1279
01:13:20.079 --> 01:13:25.159
Trevor Jackson singing the national anthem tonight wearing an Indianapolis
1280
01:13:25.199 --> 01:13:32.000
Colts Anthony Richardson jersey. This is not foreboding for a
1281
01:13:32.079 --> 01:13:35.000
good night from Philip Rivers. I could be wrong, but
1282
01:13:35.560 --> 01:13:37.560
if you want to get deep into the in the
1283
01:13:37.600 --> 01:13:39.720
minutia here, this is not.
1284
01:13:39.720 --> 01:13:43.960
Good even see out of his eye, yes, I.
1285
01:13:43.920 --> 01:13:47.319
Would assume he can, right, And and the thing is,
1286
01:13:47.359 --> 01:13:49.560
I hope he's not a subject on next week's Gray's
1287
01:13:49.560 --> 01:13:52.520
Anatomy after this game, Like I want him to make
1288
01:13:52.560 --> 01:13:55.680
it through healthy tonight. This could be really bad anyway,
1289
01:13:57.239 --> 01:14:00.199
Jonathan Taylor, we have a one week sample size of
1290
01:14:00.239 --> 01:14:02.319
what he was able to do with Philip Rivers under
1291
01:14:02.359 --> 01:14:05.800
center Bradley. You have to play him, and I think
1292
01:14:05.800 --> 01:14:09.760
people are playing him tonight, no question against the Niners,
1293
01:14:10.199 --> 01:14:14.760
but how much do they need to curtail expectations for
1294
01:14:14.920 --> 01:14:19.079
Taylor with the pop gun throwing arm of Philip Rivers
1295
01:14:19.399 --> 01:14:25.000
not being able to stretch, stretch defenses and threaten people
1296
01:14:25.039 --> 01:14:25.720
down the field.
1297
01:14:27.119 --> 01:14:33.439
So I do want to provide a small correction for
1298
01:14:33.520 --> 01:14:36.079
you there, Bulkey, go ahead. Does we do have a
1299
01:14:36.239 --> 01:14:40.680
larger sample of Jonathan Taylor with Philip Rivers and that
1300
01:14:40.840 --> 01:14:45.560
is back in twenty twenty the last four games of
1301
01:14:45.600 --> 01:14:50.239
the season when Jonathan Taylor well plus the playoffs, last
1302
01:14:50.279 --> 01:14:53.279
four games of the season in twenty twenty when Jonathan
1303
01:14:53.319 --> 01:14:56.159
Taylor like finally took over as the bell cow back
1304
01:14:57.520 --> 01:15:00.960
twenty one two touchdowns sixteen for eight three in a touchdown,
1305
01:15:01.039 --> 01:15:03.800
eighteen for seventy four and two touchdowns thirty for two
1306
01:15:03.920 --> 01:15:07.000
fifty three and two touchdowns twenty one for seventy eight
1307
01:15:07.039 --> 01:15:10.279
and a touchdown. That is the five game sample back
1308
01:15:10.319 --> 01:15:15.119
in twenty twenty with Jonathan Taylor and Philip Rivers full on. Now,
1309
01:15:15.439 --> 01:15:18.119
last last week, he just didn't, you know, fall in
1310
01:15:18.119 --> 01:15:20.079
the end zone, didn't get the fantay see points that
1311
01:15:20.119 --> 01:15:24.720
we were hoping for. It's fine, it's fine, it's fine.
1312
01:15:24.760 --> 01:15:26.239
He may fall in the end zone. He may not
1313
01:15:26.279 --> 01:15:28.439
fall in the end zone. You're playing Jonathan Taylor. You're
1314
01:15:28.439 --> 01:15:29.680
not getting cute.
1315
01:15:30.520 --> 01:15:34.039
The wide receivers you can get cute with in Indianapolis.
1316
01:15:34.399 --> 01:15:36.880
Do you have any thoughts on what wide receivers. You
1317
01:15:36.920 --> 01:15:40.520
should be deploying tonight with one Philip Rivers throwing to
1318
01:15:40.560 --> 01:15:44.039
him between Pittman, Pierce Josh downs at all.
1319
01:15:44.760 --> 01:15:49.800
Yeah, not Alec Peerce. Ty Warren's probably the best receiving
1320
01:15:49.880 --> 01:15:53.399
option that you can throw in. Maybe some Josh downs
1321
01:15:53.439 --> 01:15:56.960
if he gets more snaps, but it's really hit or
1322
01:15:57.079 --> 01:16:03.199
miss for these receiving options. Pittman could be a thing, definitely,
1323
01:16:03.199 --> 01:16:06.680
not Piers, like he's the downfield threat and if we're
1324
01:16:06.720 --> 01:16:11.399
already knocking Rivers like that game, the game logic of
1325
01:16:11.439 --> 01:16:14.680
how this goes fits with fading Peers into oblivion. So
1326
01:16:14.720 --> 01:16:19.159
you can try your Pittmans, you can try your ty Warrens.
1327
01:16:20.039 --> 01:16:22.920
But I mean, look, how many pass attempts is Philip
1328
01:16:23.000 --> 01:16:25.239
River is going to going to have in this game?
1329
01:16:26.840 --> 01:16:29.479
May it may not be many. To your point, we're
1330
01:16:29.520 --> 01:16:31.359
about to get underway here. The last thing I'm gonna
1331
01:16:31.359 --> 01:16:35.079
ask you Tyler Warren obviously FFPC tight end premium leagues,
1332
01:16:35.079 --> 01:16:37.560
you want to be playing him or do you What
1333
01:16:37.600 --> 01:16:40.399
do you feel about Tyler Warren with Philip Rivers this week?
1334
01:16:40.439 --> 01:16:43.920
Bradley, I mean, yeah, probably if you have ty Warren,
1335
01:16:44.319 --> 01:16:49.720
you're probably rolling them out there anyways, Like, and that's
1336
01:16:49.760 --> 01:16:52.880
the right call if you're if you're at that spot. Like,
1337
01:16:52.960 --> 01:16:55.359
we look at what happened last week for Ty Warren
1338
01:16:56.159 --> 01:16:58.479
one hundred percent of snaps. He didn't leave the field
1339
01:16:59.079 --> 01:17:02.520
six targets, three receptions, but only forty three air yards.
1340
01:17:02.880 --> 01:17:04.840
So if he gets the end zone, he pays off.
1341
01:17:04.960 --> 01:17:08.279
If he doesn't, he doesn't, like, he becomes this touchdown
1342
01:17:08.279 --> 01:17:13.399
dependent tight end. That's what we're looking at. Unfortunately, he's
1343
01:17:13.399 --> 01:17:15.319
probably gonna get a twenty five percent target chair and
1344
01:17:15.359 --> 01:17:18.039
it not really matter which sucks.
1345
01:17:18.079 --> 01:17:20.359
I mean, think about that twenty five percent target chair
1346
01:17:20.359 --> 01:17:23.159
and it doesn't even matter. But it's the world we're
1347
01:17:23.199 --> 01:17:27.039
living in right now. We are underway now in tonight's game,
1348
01:17:27.880 --> 01:17:30.960
the Niners have kicked off. It is a return for
1349
01:17:31.079 --> 01:17:34.840
the Colts up to their own twenty eight yard line
1350
01:17:34.960 --> 01:17:37.720
for twenty six yards, and on the first down, Philip
1351
01:17:37.800 --> 01:17:40.840
Rivers throws it deep to Michael Pittman, who looked like
1352
01:17:41.800 --> 01:17:43.560
I don't say he had a step on the defender,
1353
01:17:43.600 --> 01:17:46.039
but he had safety help there and it was broken
1354
01:17:46.119 --> 01:17:50.159
up here. So at second attempt, Tanner Bordolini commits a
1355
01:17:50.199 --> 01:17:54.600
false start. Now it is fast second and fifteen for
1356
01:17:54.720 --> 01:17:57.399
the colts from their own twenty three yard line. We'll
1357
01:17:57.399 --> 01:18:00.279
give you updates on that going forward. Okay, getting back
1358
01:18:00.319 --> 01:18:05.159
to stuff that happened in weeks. Uh, Week fifteen, beg
1359
01:18:05.159 --> 01:18:07.800
you no, Week sixteen? God, what week are we in?
1360
01:18:07.880 --> 01:18:10.319
We're in this is the last game of week sixteen.
1361
01:18:10.399 --> 01:18:15.239
Once we get into like Christmas week, bulky, it all
1362
01:18:15.439 --> 01:18:17.680
everything blurs together. I didn't even know what day it
1363
01:18:17.800 --> 01:18:21.079
was today, Like, oh, it's Monday, because for those who
1364
01:18:21.119 --> 01:18:24.119
don't know, like my day job is as a principal,
1365
01:18:24.199 --> 01:18:26.760
Like I'm a principal of a school, and so like
1366
01:18:27.600 --> 01:18:31.640
now we're on Christmas break and I slept in today,
1367
01:18:31.960 --> 01:18:35.560
and like what obligations did I have? Or I had
1368
01:18:35.560 --> 01:18:38.319
a phone call here? Or oh we went to see
1369
01:18:38.319 --> 01:18:41.720
a movie with the kids like that, Everything blurs together.
1370
01:18:41.760 --> 01:18:45.119
There's no real agenda for the day until we get
1371
01:18:45.159 --> 01:18:47.479
to is it Christmas? Is it New Year's like those
1372
01:18:47.520 --> 01:18:48.159
types of things.
1373
01:18:48.159 --> 01:18:51.399
So, yeah, Bradley, they say that one of the most
1374
01:18:51.479 --> 01:18:54.279
rewarding jobs you can have in the United States of
1375
01:18:54.359 --> 01:18:57.640
America is being a school principal. Do you subscribe to that?
1376
01:18:58.119 --> 01:19:02.399
Yeah, this is absolutely a job. You know, working with
1377
01:19:02.479 --> 01:19:06.039
teachers and students is really really, what a privilege it is.
1378
01:19:06.119 --> 01:19:10.880
And I'm in a small school, so there's a lot
1379
01:19:10.920 --> 01:19:13.720
of history. Next year will be celebrating seventy five years
1380
01:19:14.199 --> 01:19:18.680
in existence. So it's a mostly rural school and it's
1381
01:19:18.680 --> 01:19:23.039
a really, really great place. So at the same time,
1382
01:19:23.319 --> 01:19:27.520
everyone deserves a break, including the beloved principle, So everyone
1383
01:19:27.600 --> 01:19:29.159
is enjoying this two week break.
1384
01:19:29.840 --> 01:19:34.600
Jonathan Taylor Rush is up the middle for seven yards.
1385
01:19:34.760 --> 01:19:37.520
It is now third and eight from the Colts thirty
1386
01:19:37.600 --> 01:19:39.880
as they look to make a move here fourteen thirty
1387
01:19:39.880 --> 01:19:42.600
four to go in the first quarter. Rubio chiming in
1388
01:19:42.680 --> 01:19:46.319
on YouTube right now stating that Bradley I was just
1389
01:19:46.479 --> 01:19:48.960
fixing to say, you must be in a small town
1390
01:19:49.159 --> 01:19:52.439
slash school. Is this in the Midwest? Is this Michigan?
1391
01:19:52.479 --> 01:19:56.079
Where Michigan? This is like two miles from the Detroit
1392
01:19:56.119 --> 01:20:01.680
Metro Airport, So it's yeah, it's a good spot. This
1393
01:20:01.720 --> 01:20:05.039
is year two of being a principal there, and what
1394
01:20:05.159 --> 01:20:07.079
a blessing, what a privilege it is.
1395
01:20:08.800 --> 01:20:11.319
It's awesome. It's the privilege is all mine talking with
1396
01:20:11.359 --> 01:20:14.319
you on the show tonight, and the privilege is all
1397
01:20:14.399 --> 01:20:18.399
Fantasy owners who picked up or drafted and kept Michael
1398
01:20:18.439 --> 01:20:23.800
Wilson on their team only gets three targets this past week, Bradley,
1399
01:20:24.079 --> 01:20:27.239
but he catches two of them, turns it into fifty
1400
01:20:27.239 --> 01:20:30.479
two yards and he gets a touchdown in the loss
1401
01:20:30.520 --> 01:20:34.079
to the Falcons. I'm curious and we can get into
1402
01:20:34.119 --> 01:20:37.600
Marvin Harrison a little bit on this as well. Dude
1403
01:20:37.680 --> 01:20:40.600
dropped a touchdown he should have caught, Like I know,
1404
01:20:40.680 --> 01:20:43.399
it was not an easy catch, but number four overall
1405
01:20:43.439 --> 01:20:45.720
pick in the draft, pedigree guy, he's got to make
1406
01:20:45.760 --> 01:20:50.399
that play. Your thoughts on Wilson versus Harrison, not only
1407
01:20:50.399 --> 01:20:52.880
for the remainder of this season, but as we enter
1408
01:20:53.359 --> 01:20:56.000
the off season where I believe both these guys are
1409
01:20:56.079 --> 01:20:59.680
under contract for Arizona come twenty twenty six. This is
1410
01:20:59.680 --> 01:21:04.159
going to change the way we draft h Cardinals wide
1411
01:21:04.199 --> 01:21:07.640
receivers and quite frankly, until we know who the quarterback is.
1412
01:21:07.720 --> 01:21:12.039
This is gonna represent a potential buying opportunity in draft. Bradley.
1413
01:21:12.640 --> 01:21:15.359
Absolutely, I want to be buying in on Marvin Harrison.
1414
01:21:15.399 --> 01:21:18.520
Tun The talent is absolutely there. We know he's been
1415
01:21:18.560 --> 01:21:21.760
dealing with injuries ever since you know Week eleven when
1416
01:21:21.760 --> 01:21:26.399
he missed, so you he's only he only played fifty
1417
01:21:26.439 --> 01:21:30.600
one percent of snaps. In Week sixteen against Atlanta, Michael
1418
01:21:30.600 --> 01:21:34.239
Wilson played all the snaps but only earned three targets.
1419
01:21:34.640 --> 01:21:36.800
Trey McBride should have had more, but it seemed like
1420
01:21:36.840 --> 01:21:39.800
the game plan was to target the tight ends McBride
1421
01:21:39.800 --> 01:21:42.560
and then Elijah Higgins as well. So if you're in
1422
01:21:42.760 --> 01:21:46.239
FFPC drafts next year and you're looking for a late
1423
01:21:46.359 --> 01:21:50.560
round tight end, smash them Elijah Higgins. He has a
1424
01:21:50.640 --> 01:21:54.159
lot of athleticism. He's a player that has popped in
1425
01:21:54.279 --> 01:21:58.880
times when McBride has has been out, and you know,
1426
01:21:58.880 --> 01:22:03.359
he's oftentimes forgot great athleticism. Ninety six percentile four yard dash,
1427
01:22:03.640 --> 01:22:06.960
eighty ten percentile speed score, eighty three percentile first score.
1428
01:22:08.119 --> 01:22:11.239
This is a player that went six in the sixth
1429
01:22:11.319 --> 01:22:14.880
round and is only twenty five years old. So you know,
1430
01:22:15.079 --> 01:22:18.479
if you want a late round tight end for next
1431
01:22:18.560 --> 01:22:22.600
year and a handcuff tight end, yeah, give me some
1432
01:22:22.760 --> 01:22:28.119
Elijah Higgins. Seven for ninety one on eight targets in
1433
01:22:28.159 --> 01:22:29.439
Week sixteen.
1434
01:22:29.359 --> 01:22:33.399
Certainly killed Trey McBride owners this past week, But yeah,
1435
01:22:33.439 --> 01:22:37.159
for people looking for next year, Higgins is a guy
1436
01:22:37.479 --> 01:22:39.960
that we have to keep at the forefront while we've
1437
01:22:39.960 --> 01:22:43.479
been talking about the Cardinals tight ends. The Colts quarterback
1438
01:22:43.520 --> 01:22:47.039
has been moving Indianapolis down the field. On third and eight,
1439
01:22:47.199 --> 01:22:50.600
Philip Rivers hits Jonathan Taylor for a nineteen yard catch,
1440
01:22:50.880 --> 01:22:54.039
and then on first and ten he hits Josh Downs
1441
01:22:54.079 --> 01:22:57.079
for a seventeen yard catch. It is now first and
1442
01:22:57.159 --> 01:23:00.840
ten for the Colts. From there, from the Nowers thirty four,
1443
01:23:00.920 --> 01:23:04.399
we have a Jonathan Taylor rush for three yards up
1444
01:23:04.439 --> 01:23:06.479
the middle. Now twelve to fifty five to go in
1445
01:23:06.479 --> 01:23:09.159
the first second and seven from the Niners thirty one
1446
01:23:09.520 --> 01:23:14.680
for the Colts. Sad news yesterday for fantasy football players,
1447
01:23:14.800 --> 01:23:19.760
especially dynasty fantasy football players. And maybe it's maybe it's
1448
01:23:19.840 --> 01:23:23.520
not as bad as I thought, but On Judkins is
1449
01:23:23.600 --> 01:23:26.800
expected to be out four to five months with a
1450
01:23:26.920 --> 01:23:30.159
leg slash ankle injury. We heard he did damage to both,
1451
01:23:31.159 --> 01:23:34.680
breaking his leg as well as a dislocated ankle. I
1452
01:23:34.720 --> 01:23:36.760
believe the Browns are calling it a knee injury, so
1453
01:23:37.039 --> 01:23:39.640
I guess we have to be wary of that. That's
1454
01:23:39.640 --> 01:23:42.520
what Mary Cake Cabot had from the Cleveland Plaine Dealer.
1455
01:23:42.840 --> 01:23:45.399
Your thoughts and quinch on Judkins on what we should
1456
01:23:45.439 --> 01:23:49.279
be doing, not only in dynasty here, But as we
1457
01:23:49.520 --> 01:23:53.640
get underway for redraft leagues, sounds like Judkins is going
1458
01:23:53.680 --> 01:23:55.399
to be a go for the start of the season.
1459
01:23:55.760 --> 01:23:58.199
Does that mean we don't downgrade him too much in
1460
01:23:58.279 --> 01:23:59.920
twenty twenty six ranks next year?
1461
01:24:00.640 --> 01:24:00.800
Oh?
1462
01:24:00.880 --> 01:24:05.199
I want Judkins. I want him. This Brown's offense was
1463
01:24:05.199 --> 01:24:08.840
atrocious this year and it can't get much worse. Like
1464
01:24:09.479 --> 01:24:12.880
when you had Joe Flacco Gabriel and then you also
1465
01:24:13.000 --> 01:24:17.199
have Should Sanders. Should Sanders has been fine in terms
1466
01:24:17.239 --> 01:24:19.680
of pushing the ball down the field. There's a lot
1467
01:24:19.680 --> 01:24:22.000
of decisions that are going to be made over the
1468
01:24:22.039 --> 01:24:25.000
next two months or so, maybe in the next couple
1469
01:24:24.960 --> 01:24:28.920
of weeks. With regard to the Cleveland Browns, there are
1470
01:24:28.960 --> 01:24:32.239
reports out that Andrew Berry is expected to stay, but
1471
01:24:32.319 --> 01:24:35.720
Kevin Stefanski is on his way out. And I think
1472
01:24:35.760 --> 01:24:37.079
that that is a mistake.
1473
01:24:37.399 --> 01:24:39.199
Yeah, I was just gonna ask you because I don't
1474
01:24:39.199 --> 01:24:40.760
think that's the right move. But keep going.
1475
01:24:41.039 --> 01:24:43.600
I think it's a mistake. You have a former two
1476
01:24:43.760 --> 01:24:47.520
time Coach of the Year. Who are you going to
1477
01:24:47.600 --> 01:24:52.960
replace Kevin Stefanski with the reason why this is happening
1478
01:24:53.399 --> 01:24:55.800
is it is owner driven. Yet again, this is why
1479
01:24:55.800 --> 01:25:01.159
the Browns stay bad is because the owner and the
1480
01:25:01.239 --> 01:25:04.920
coach do not agree and align. The reason why Andrew
1481
01:25:04.960 --> 01:25:07.159
Berry is keeping his job is because he's going to
1482
01:25:07.199 --> 01:25:11.520
do the beckoning of the Haslams in Cleveland. That's why
1483
01:25:11.600 --> 01:25:14.319
he's keeping his job. Because he ended up drafting Schdor
1484
01:25:14.359 --> 01:25:17.119
Sanders when Haslam said you need to draft Scheddor Sanders.
1485
01:25:18.119 --> 01:25:22.840
That's that's the reality. And when Stefanski was not going
1486
01:25:22.920 --> 01:25:27.760
to play Shador Sanders until it became so abundantly obvious
1487
01:25:27.800 --> 01:25:31.720
that Dylan Gabriel had no business being on an NFL field,
1488
01:25:31.960 --> 01:25:35.000
Like good guy Gabe Love, Dylan Gabriel as a person
1489
01:25:35.199 --> 01:25:37.479
thing is a great locker room presence. He should not
1490
01:25:37.520 --> 01:25:41.199
be throwing the ball in an NFL stadium outside of
1491
01:25:41.239 --> 01:25:48.359
practice reps. So you have Shadur Sanders as the possible
1492
01:25:48.439 --> 01:25:51.359
quarterback one. I'm not sure whether I think it's fifty
1493
01:25:51.399 --> 01:25:53.359
to fifty right now, which is a testament to what
1494
01:25:53.359 --> 01:25:56.000
Shador has done over the last couple of weeks. He's
1495
01:25:56.039 --> 01:25:59.119
had some blow up games, he's had some dud games,
1496
01:25:59.520 --> 01:26:01.319
But you have to wonder if it had to do
1497
01:26:01.439 --> 01:26:03.239
with some of the supporting cast, if it had to
1498
01:26:03.239 --> 01:26:06.439
do with a lot of different things. For Cleveland, but
1499
01:26:06.479 --> 01:26:09.600
I think the Browns stay bad. I still want quinnshot
1500
01:26:09.680 --> 01:26:15.920
Judkins though, because he has four top twelve finishes, and
1501
01:26:16.039 --> 01:26:17.600
where else are you going to get a running back
1502
01:26:17.640 --> 01:26:20.479
who had twenty one, twenty three, twenty five, twenty two,
1503
01:26:20.640 --> 01:26:26.159
twenty three carries and that was with Dylan Sampson and
1504
01:26:26.279 --> 01:26:28.239
Jerome Ford healthy for most of the season.
1505
01:26:29.399 --> 01:26:31.560
The one thing I'll bring up here.
1506
01:26:31.399 --> 01:26:36.039
Well, I just got busted there there. They're bulky. We
1507
01:26:36.119 --> 01:26:38.920
got an Al Pierce touchdown catch, So what do I know?
1508
01:26:39.199 --> 01:26:42.720
All right? Here we go, Yeah, once again for the
1509
01:26:42.800 --> 01:26:45.640
umpteeth week in a row. My co host is well
1510
01:26:45.680 --> 01:26:48.680
ahead of me on the game that we're covering here tonight.
1511
01:26:48.760 --> 01:26:51.439
So basically, here's what we happen, or here here's what
1512
01:26:51.479 --> 01:26:57.079
we had happened. Excuse me. So we had the Josh
1513
01:26:57.159 --> 01:27:00.159
Dollens catch Jonathan Taylor up the middle for two yards
1514
01:27:00.199 --> 01:27:04.479
and incomplete pass deep to Tyler Warren. Michael Pittman gets
1515
01:27:04.479 --> 01:27:07.359
a fourteen yard catch. However, there is an illegal formation
1516
01:27:07.880 --> 01:27:10.199
so there is no play. It was a Colts penalty.
1517
01:27:10.600 --> 01:27:13.760
Philip Rivers then hits Josh Downs for thirteen yards. He
1518
01:27:13.800 --> 01:27:16.920
then hits Tyler Warren for three yards and then a
1519
01:27:17.119 --> 01:27:21.960
deep middle pass, as Bradley announced to Alec Pierce over
1520
01:27:22.000 --> 01:27:24.199
the middle. Philip Rivers.
1521
01:27:26.239 --> 01:27:29.880
Defying the laws of physics and age getting the Colts
1522
01:27:30.000 --> 01:27:34.279
up seven to nothing tonight after the extra point is
1523
01:27:34.319 --> 01:27:36.680
good from Blake.
1524
01:27:36.720 --> 01:27:39.600
Groupie. You are looking at ten thirty one to go
1525
01:27:39.680 --> 01:27:42.640
in the first quarter at Lucas Oil. God bless Philip
1526
01:27:42.720 --> 01:27:47.239
Rivers seven nothing. Insane stuff. I love to see it
1527
01:27:48.560 --> 01:27:52.640
all right. On the flip side of the age spectrum,
1528
01:27:52.800 --> 01:27:56.039
Let's go to Cleveland to talk about Harold Fannin. I
1529
01:27:56.159 --> 01:28:02.079
believe is old enough to be Philip river great great grandson,
1530
01:28:02.560 --> 01:28:06.359
which is insane to think about. But he catches four
1531
01:28:06.439 --> 01:28:10.039
balls on six targets for thirty four yards this past
1532
01:28:10.039 --> 01:28:12.560
week in their loss to the Bills. He gets in
1533
01:28:12.680 --> 01:28:17.720
the end zone. He also had a carry for one
1534
01:28:17.800 --> 01:28:20.960
yard and a touchdown in this game as well. Bradley,
1535
01:28:21.279 --> 01:28:25.560
the ceiling knows no bounds for Harold Fannin now, which
1536
01:28:25.600 --> 01:28:28.720
is crazy to think about when you consider the offense,
1537
01:28:28.880 --> 01:28:32.479
the team, and the quarterback for Cleveland. Fannin is defying
1538
01:28:32.560 --> 01:28:35.720
all that. When you think about drafts next year, this
1539
01:28:35.800 --> 01:28:38.840
guy top five tight end. He's a top three tight end.
1540
01:28:39.159 --> 01:28:41.720
How high would you take him? Would you consider him
1541
01:28:41.760 --> 01:28:45.760
over McBride or Bowers or is his ceiling tight end? Three?
1542
01:28:46.439 --> 01:28:48.159
Harold fannon is the guy that we're gonna have to
1543
01:28:48.319 --> 01:28:51.960
make our decisions about here and start planning flags in January.
1544
01:28:52.199 --> 01:28:54.680
Where do you stand on Harold Fannin for twenty twenty six?
1545
01:28:55.000 --> 01:28:58.279
Yeah, once in Djoku leaves Cleveland, the hype is just
1546
01:28:58.319 --> 01:29:01.399
going to get to be ridiculous. Or Harold Fannin, he's
1547
01:29:01.439 --> 01:29:05.680
already in most dynasty leagues the tight end six. So
1548
01:29:06.560 --> 01:29:09.479
for him to get top five, top four, I mean, yeah,
1549
01:29:09.600 --> 01:29:14.399
you you have McBride and Bowers and then then who else,
1550
01:29:15.239 --> 01:29:20.840
like think of think about it, like Tywarren Tuckercraft. Give
1551
01:29:20.840 --> 01:29:23.159
me Harold Fannin over those two.
1552
01:29:26.560 --> 01:29:33.239
Okay. So so so here's the thing regarding Fannin. I
1553
01:29:33.239 --> 01:29:37.079
I think it's gonna be very compelling to see next
1554
01:29:37.159 --> 01:29:41.079
year where his tight ends may are. His tight ends,
1555
01:29:41.199 --> 01:29:47.159
his touchdowns may not be congruent with where McBride's. His
1556
01:29:47.279 --> 01:29:52.840
touchdowns may not be reticent of where bowers touchdowns are,
1557
01:29:52.960 --> 01:29:55.680
assuming Bowers gets a better quarterback, or maybe he doesn't
1558
01:29:55.720 --> 01:29:58.439
have to. Maybe Gino Smith just says that asked to
1559
01:29:58.439 --> 01:30:01.079
stay healthy. But it's one of those those things, dude,
1560
01:30:01.079 --> 01:30:03.520
tight end premium. He's the type of guy that could
1561
01:30:03.920 --> 01:30:07.520
do like four or five touchdowns next year, Bradley and
1562
01:30:07.640 --> 01:30:10.760
still be at least in the conversation for tight End
1563
01:30:10.800 --> 01:30:14.720
one given the target share, which is just an insane
1564
01:30:15.000 --> 01:30:15.520
for him.
1565
01:30:15.399 --> 01:30:17.119
This year one hundred percent.
1566
01:30:17.520 --> 01:30:19.680
And and but just real quick before he answered that,
1567
01:30:19.760 --> 01:30:21.760
you mentioned this that's within Djoku.
1568
01:30:22.159 --> 01:30:27.199
Onceoku moves on, my god, yeah, I think we can
1569
01:30:27.279 --> 01:30:30.279
get we can push Harold Fannon up to tight End three.
1570
01:30:31.039 --> 01:30:34.520
The targets are what's really encouraging, and like you're gonna
1571
01:30:34.560 --> 01:30:38.960
get touchdowns there. But they're scheming around the red zone
1572
01:30:38.960 --> 01:30:41.239
and the end zone for him. They they want Fannin
1573
01:30:41.319 --> 01:30:42.960
to be scoring. They want him to be a part
1574
01:30:43.000 --> 01:30:48.159
of this offense. He Harold Fannon pushed aside David and Joku.
1575
01:30:50.960 --> 01:30:52.840
That was not on my Bengo card for twenty.
1576
01:30:53.000 --> 01:30:57.000
Five and especially how early it happened too.
1577
01:30:57.119 --> 01:31:00.840
Like pushed, pushed aside. It wasn't just like, oh he's progressing.
1578
01:31:01.079 --> 01:31:05.880
This wasn't even like the zach Ertz Terrey McBride situation.
1579
01:31:06.840 --> 01:31:10.800
Like very quickly right away, Harold Fannon pushed in Joku
1580
01:31:10.840 --> 01:31:11.359
out of the way.
1581
01:31:12.640 --> 01:31:14.600
Let me ask you this, Bradley, and this comes from
1582
01:31:14.600 --> 01:31:16.800
Bill Hollywood in the YouTube chat. I have a thought
1583
01:31:16.840 --> 01:31:19.039
on this, and I'll reveal my thought as soon as
1584
01:31:19.039 --> 01:31:22.760
you answer this. Bill Hollywood is saying, in regards to Fannin,
1585
01:31:22.880 --> 01:31:26.079
he said he'd take Dalton Kinkaid in twenty twenty six
1586
01:31:26.199 --> 01:31:29.880
drafts over Harold Fannin. Like I said, I'll reveal what
1587
01:31:29.960 --> 01:31:31.359
I think about this in a second.
1588
01:31:31.520 --> 01:31:34.479
Your thoughts on this, Hopiam is a heck of a drug.
1589
01:31:35.159 --> 01:31:38.119
He's not. This is Bill is a is a Detroit
1590
01:31:38.199 --> 01:31:40.920
Lions fan. He has no dog in this fight.
1591
01:31:41.079 --> 01:31:45.119
I'm waiting for the Laporta because Laporta is actually adjacent
1592
01:31:45.199 --> 01:31:50.119
in the dynasty rankings to Harold Fannin. But like, give
1593
01:31:50.159 --> 01:31:54.680
me the argument for for instance, Colston Loveland over Harold Fannin,
1594
01:31:55.039 --> 01:32:00.560
Like Dalton Kikaid isn't even in the same breath. So yeah,
1595
01:32:00.680 --> 01:32:04.199
I Harold Fannon at twenty I was waiting for you
1596
01:32:04.279 --> 01:32:07.199
to say, well, he Harold Fannon could be Philip Rivers
1597
01:32:07.279 --> 01:32:09.560
great great grandchild. I thought you were going to say
1598
01:32:09.680 --> 01:32:13.560
Philip River. Harold Fannon just started to be able to
1599
01:32:13.640 --> 01:32:17.920
legally drink alcohol in the United States of America. That's
1600
01:32:17.920 --> 01:32:19.640
what I where I thought you were going to. He
1601
01:32:19.760 --> 01:32:23.960
is twenty one years old, Bulky twenty one.
1602
01:32:24.000 --> 01:32:29.039
He just turned twenty one in July. So he's been
1603
01:32:29.079 --> 01:32:31.760
able to drink this whole season, and he should be
1604
01:32:32.479 --> 01:32:35.920
with Champagne. How good he has been all season long.
1605
01:32:36.159 --> 01:32:39.479
Here's my thing and Bill, listen. Bill's a better He's
1606
01:32:39.520 --> 01:32:41.520
a better fantasy player than I have. There's no question
1607
01:32:41.600 --> 01:32:44.399
on that. But I will say this, if you have
1608
01:32:44.520 --> 01:32:48.039
the Bills offense this year, where they are starving for
1609
01:32:48.199 --> 01:32:52.560
pass catchers on the perimeter over the middle, Khalil Shaker
1610
01:32:52.600 --> 01:32:55.560
has been okay, but he's been probably the best. Kean
1611
01:32:55.720 --> 01:33:01.079
Coleman a healthy scratch three times this year, gave Davis
1612
01:33:01.119 --> 01:33:05.039
a healthy scratch in Week sixteen. Josh Palmer responds with
1613
01:33:05.079 --> 01:33:07.520
one catch for two yards. They're paying him a boatload.
1614
01:33:08.039 --> 01:33:10.920
If Kincaid can't get it done this year, I just
1615
01:33:10.960 --> 01:33:14.479
don't see it next year. In comparison to Harold fannin
1616
01:33:14.880 --> 01:33:17.720
give me Fan and barring injury, he is one hundred
1617
01:33:17.720 --> 01:33:20.359
percent by play, you could be right about Kincaid. I
1618
01:33:20.439 --> 01:33:21.199
just don't see.
1619
01:33:21.000 --> 01:33:24.039
It to think that Harold Fannon fell to the third
1620
01:33:24.159 --> 01:33:26.560
round when he set so many records.
1621
01:33:27.039 --> 01:33:29.960
I look, I in college last year, best tight end
1622
01:33:30.000 --> 01:33:30.800
in college.
1623
01:33:30.880 --> 01:33:32.920
One of the best tight end performances on all of
1624
01:33:32.960 --> 01:33:36.159
college history. But this is this was a guy at
1625
01:33:36.199 --> 01:33:39.359
Bowling Green Like That's why he was being downgraded. Was
1626
01:33:39.439 --> 01:33:46.000
it was Bowling Green State University. Look when he crushes
1627
01:33:46.039 --> 01:33:49.319
like that, were there were some conversations of oh, Harold Fannin,
1628
01:33:49.920 --> 01:33:53.439
he's gonna need to learn how to block to get snaps.
1629
01:33:53.840 --> 01:33:57.640
The Browns didn't care. The Browns didn't have another receiving option.
1630
01:33:58.359 --> 01:34:03.319
So look, they're employing Fannin as a centerpiece of this
1631
01:34:04.159 --> 01:34:05.760
of this offense. And I think that that's going to
1632
01:34:05.760 --> 01:34:06.920
replicate in tween twenty six.
1633
01:34:07.000 --> 01:34:09.479
Yeah, and I don't see them getting a wide receiver
1634
01:34:09.600 --> 01:34:12.640
or anybody to step in get away from them. Now.
1635
01:34:13.119 --> 01:34:16.239
I do think that the Browns are going to draft
1636
01:34:16.319 --> 01:34:19.359
a wide receiver with that Jacksonville pick that they get.
1637
01:34:19.920 --> 01:34:22.720
That could be. But do you think that that receiver
1638
01:34:22.920 --> 01:34:26.920
comes in and becomes the de facto one A or
1639
01:34:27.000 --> 01:34:30.000
even one for targets on that offense. I think Fannin
1640
01:34:30.119 --> 01:34:32.319
is so and I guess I here's what it comes
1641
01:34:32.359 --> 01:34:36.079
down to and maybe I'm overstepping, but Bradley maybe comes
1642
01:34:36.119 --> 01:34:38.760
down to who the quarterback is next sure, whether it's
1643
01:34:38.800 --> 01:34:41.600
Watson or Sanders or whoever, you know, I think that
1644
01:34:41.640 --> 01:34:46.800
plays a huge role. All right, let's move on. I
1645
01:34:46.840 --> 01:34:48.680
want to tell everybody what's going on in the game
1646
01:34:48.680 --> 01:34:53.840
here tonight. We had after the kickoff, Christian McCaffrey a
1647
01:34:53.880 --> 01:34:58.279
four yard game. George Kittle catches a twenty six yard
1648
01:34:58.279 --> 01:35:01.239
catch over the middle, followed by a Christian McCaffrey six
1649
01:35:01.319 --> 01:35:05.840
yard catch. Then we have a Christian McCaffrey nine yard run,
1650
01:35:05.960 --> 01:35:09.039
a Christian McCaffrey two yard run, and then of course,
1651
01:35:09.119 --> 01:35:13.239
as everybody had it, it was a touchdown from Brock
1652
01:35:13.279 --> 01:35:20.560
Purty to one DeMarcus Robinson, screwing over everybody who had Kittle, McCaffrey,
1653
01:35:20.880 --> 01:35:24.399
Jennings and by the way, helping anybody who is going
1654
01:35:24.439 --> 01:35:28.439
against Kittle and McCaffrey tonight. So that was great. It
1655
01:35:28.479 --> 01:35:31.199
is a touchdown. It is a tie game, seven fourteen
1656
01:35:31.239 --> 01:35:33.800
to go in the first quarter, seven to seven. After
1657
01:35:33.840 --> 01:35:38.000
the touchdown from Purty to DeMarcus Robinson. Good stuff there.
1658
01:35:38.039 --> 01:35:41.199
As we roll on here, they're taking a break on ESPN.
1659
01:35:41.279 --> 01:35:43.079
We are not taking a break here because we have
1660
01:35:43.119 --> 01:35:47.840
to talk about Kyle Pitts. Bradley seven catches for fifty
1661
01:35:47.880 --> 01:35:51.560
seven yards on nine targets one touchdown in the win
1662
01:35:51.680 --> 01:35:54.479
over the Cardinals. I'll be honest with you, I'm not
1663
01:35:54.520 --> 01:35:56.000
going to say anything. I want to hear what you
1664
01:35:56.039 --> 01:35:58.199
think about this. I don't know what to think about
1665
01:35:58.279 --> 01:36:02.600
Kyle Pitts going forward. He is probably going to be
1666
01:36:02.760 --> 01:36:06.640
paid by another team other than Atlanta, and he's probably
1667
01:36:06.640 --> 01:36:09.079
not going to be a Falcon next year, which obviously
1668
01:36:09.119 --> 01:36:12.199
is very exciting for Drake London dynasty owners, but it's
1669
01:36:12.239 --> 01:36:15.079
also a little concerning for Pits owners because we have
1670
01:36:15.199 --> 01:36:18.960
seen players go to new situations in that first year
1671
01:36:19.479 --> 01:36:22.760
and they're not what we expected. They don't continue over
1672
01:36:22.800 --> 01:36:25.520
the success they had the previous year, and quite frankly,
1673
01:36:25.920 --> 01:36:29.680
you have Kyle Pitts in his entire career in Atlanta
1674
01:36:30.079 --> 01:36:33.600
not being very successful. He had a fantastic year one
1675
01:36:34.039 --> 01:36:36.399
and then this past year has been really good, but
1676
01:36:36.439 --> 01:36:39.399
he's had a lot of garbage sandwiched in between. What
1677
01:36:39.439 --> 01:36:42.600
do you make of Kyle Pitts going forward in the NFL?
1678
01:36:43.159 --> 01:36:47.359
Considering that there is a much higher chance than a
1679
01:36:47.439 --> 01:36:50.560
non zero chance he is not back in Atlanta next year,
1680
01:36:50.720 --> 01:36:54.000
and he has to contend with a new OC, a
1681
01:36:54.039 --> 01:36:57.039
new head coach, a new quarterback, a new offense, new everything.
1682
01:37:02.920 --> 01:37:06.319
Yeah, there's a lot to unpack in the Kyle Pitts situation.
1683
01:37:06.720 --> 01:37:09.279
Maybe the best way to phrase this is, when we
1684
01:37:09.359 --> 01:37:11.760
have Best Ball drafts starting up in the next couple
1685
01:37:11.800 --> 01:37:13.960
of weeks, do you take him in the top three?
1686
01:37:14.000 --> 01:37:15.600
Do you take him in the top five, you take
1687
01:37:15.640 --> 01:37:17.399
him in the top ten? Where does he land in?
1688
01:37:18.079 --> 01:37:19.840
I think we could make the argument for a top
1689
01:37:19.880 --> 01:37:27.720
ten Pits. The issue I have is sustainability because we've
1690
01:37:27.760 --> 01:37:31.000
seen just massive, massive games from Kyle Pits here and there.
1691
01:37:32.640 --> 01:37:38.000
But his ramp up and explosion came with Drake London
1692
01:37:38.039 --> 01:37:42.039
out and then finally Drake London comes back Week sixteen,
1693
01:37:42.159 --> 01:37:45.279
but he's not himself. He plays a season low sixty
1694
01:37:45.359 --> 01:37:49.640
nine percent of snaps. He does get eight targets, but
1695
01:37:49.680 --> 01:37:54.880
three for twenty seven, still clearly not himself. Kyle Pitts
1696
01:37:55.159 --> 01:38:00.279
crushes yet again. So I think the other nuanced part
1697
01:38:00.319 --> 01:38:02.960
is Darnel Mooney was not involved at all in this.
1698
01:38:03.199 --> 01:38:09.039
In this game, again, seventy percent snaps, like for a
1699
01:38:09.079 --> 01:38:12.840
player who previously was between seventy five and ninety percent
1700
01:38:12.880 --> 01:38:18.279
of snaps. So Darnel Mooney, I think him being non
1701
01:38:18.279 --> 01:38:24.840
existent negatively or positively impacted Kyle Pitts. You have Drake
1702
01:38:24.920 --> 01:38:28.359
London not one hundred percent, that's positively impacting Kyle Pitts.
1703
01:38:28.920 --> 01:38:31.840
If these guys are back in full health, I think
1704
01:38:31.880 --> 01:38:37.800
you're gonna see back to Kyle Pitts going four for
1705
01:38:37.800 --> 01:38:41.640
forty on six targets and that's fine. Does he get
1706
01:38:41.640 --> 01:38:43.560
the touchdown? Does he not get the touchdown? Once again?
1707
01:38:44.079 --> 01:38:46.840
That's why I'm comfortable with like top ten, but the
1708
01:38:46.960 --> 01:38:50.239
hopium again is just so high for Pits. Like my
1709
01:38:50.479 --> 01:38:54.319
priors are confirmed, he's had his breakout moments. No, it's
1710
01:38:54.319 --> 01:38:57.680
because Drake London is not not there like that. That's
1711
01:38:57.960 --> 01:39:02.319
Ockham's razor. That's what's Kyle Pitts back. Is this alpha
1712
01:39:02.359 --> 01:39:05.560
wide receiver? So is some team going to overpay for
1713
01:39:05.680 --> 01:39:11.640
Kyle Pitts. Most likely He's still a valuable asset. So
1714
01:39:11.760 --> 01:39:15.880
could they could the Falcons franchise tag him?
1715
01:39:16.159 --> 01:39:21.279
They could and they might Let me ask you this
1716
01:39:22.600 --> 01:39:26.239
to wrap up the Pits discussion. Does he fall enough?
1717
01:39:26.720 --> 01:39:26.800
Like?
1718
01:39:26.920 --> 01:39:30.560
Okay, we have seen people saying I'm not drafting tight
1719
01:39:30.640 --> 01:39:33.640
ends early. That's not my bag. It never works out
1720
01:39:33.680 --> 01:39:35.319
for me. I'm gonna wait till ten of them are
1721
01:39:35.319 --> 01:39:37.239
off the board, or eleven of them are off the board,
1722
01:39:37.279 --> 01:39:39.119
and then I'll go bang bang tight end or whatever.
1723
01:39:39.760 --> 01:39:44.119
Do you think Pitts falls enough? I guess we know
1724
01:39:44.279 --> 01:39:46.760
he won't if he's with Atlanta next year, we know
1725
01:39:46.840 --> 01:39:49.399
he won't fall the tight end twelve or thirteen. Do
1726
01:39:49.439 --> 01:39:51.680
you think he has a shot at falling the tight
1727
01:39:51.800 --> 01:39:53.840
end twelve or thirteen if he signs with a new
1728
01:39:53.840 --> 01:39:56.760
team or should we just disavow ourselves with that notion
1729
01:39:56.880 --> 01:39:59.800
right now? That Pitts is right out, you have to
1730
01:39:59.800 --> 01:40:01.479
pay up for him. And if you want to pay
1731
01:40:01.560 --> 01:40:03.359
up for a tight end, Pits won't be one of them.
1732
01:40:03.399 --> 01:40:06.880
Next year, He's gonna be in the top ten conversation,
1733
01:40:07.479 --> 01:40:10.520
and I'm fine taking my shots there regardless of what
1734
01:40:10.600 --> 01:40:14.800
team he's on. At the same time, we like, we
1735
01:40:15.000 --> 01:40:18.039
have to understand the context of why these breakouts are
1736
01:40:18.039 --> 01:40:22.000
happening or we are going to let our biases get
1737
01:40:22.000 --> 01:40:24.319
in the way of Wow, Kyle Pitts helped me out
1738
01:40:24.319 --> 01:40:28.520
with this massive three touchdown game, and he exploded, and
1739
01:40:28.600 --> 01:40:32.239
why why did that happen. Well, he is a talented
1740
01:40:32.239 --> 01:40:38.520
tight end, no doubt, but he's like Evan Ingram, right, yeah, Well,
1741
01:40:38.600 --> 01:40:40.119
he's never going to be the number one guy in
1742
01:40:40.159 --> 01:40:40.640
the offense.
1743
01:40:40.840 --> 01:40:42.680
I will give him a little bit more credit than
1744
01:40:42.720 --> 01:40:46.640
Evan Ingram, but okay, but for the role he plays,
1745
01:40:46.680 --> 01:40:51.800
I get it. I Bradley have to get back to
1746
01:40:51.880 --> 01:40:56.920
this game because we had a turnover. Eddie Panero kicked
1747
01:40:56.920 --> 01:41:00.119
off a Mira Abdullah fumbled and it was recovered by
1748
01:41:00.159 --> 01:41:04.640
everybody's favorite George Kittle replacement Jake Tanjas and the Niners
1749
01:41:04.680 --> 01:41:08.359
have taken over. Here. Perty hits George Kittle for twelve yards,
1750
01:41:08.600 --> 01:41:11.920
McCaffrey goes for five yards and then six yards. It
1751
01:41:12.039 --> 01:41:17.359
is now first and goal from the Indianapolis three, and
1752
01:41:17.399 --> 01:41:20.760
as everybody was hoping for, myself included, it is a
1753
01:41:20.880 --> 01:41:24.840
Brian Robinson carry on first and goal from the three.
1754
01:41:25.239 --> 01:41:28.680
He gets one yard, now second in goal from the two,
1755
01:41:29.159 --> 01:41:31.479
and I believe it is Brian Robin. Well, no, I
1756
01:41:31.479 --> 01:41:33.439
shouldn't say that you're you're ahead of me, so I
1757
01:41:33.479 --> 01:41:34.640
won't say anything here.
1758
01:41:35.760 --> 01:41:38.119
No I'm not. I'm watching along with you. I'm just
1759
01:41:38.680 --> 01:41:41.640
scoffing with you and the rest of the audience that
1760
01:41:41.720 --> 01:41:45.239
Brian Robinson is getting a rush at the three yard line.
1761
01:41:45.960 --> 01:41:51.000
I listen, you gotta sustain. It's the guys at the
1762
01:41:51.000 --> 01:41:53.680
front line that always take the biggest hits, right, and
1763
01:41:53.760 --> 01:41:57.239
they're they're allowing Brian Robinson to take those big hits
1764
01:41:57.279 --> 01:42:02.520
here rather than Christian McCaffrey, who they have very high
1765
01:42:02.520 --> 01:42:05.439
hopes for going forward in the postseason. There is a
1766
01:42:05.520 --> 01:42:09.880
time out now on the field on second down, so
1767
01:42:10.000 --> 01:42:13.159
it will be when we resume. It will be second
1768
01:42:13.760 --> 01:42:16.479
goal from the Indianapolis two with four point thirty seven
1769
01:42:16.520 --> 01:42:18.479
to go in the first quarter. We'll see if it's
1770
01:42:18.479 --> 01:42:22.279
Brian Robinson Christian diccaffrey out there. Speaking of players, we
1771
01:42:22.359 --> 01:42:24.560
did not think we're gonna matter in twenty twenty five.
1772
01:42:25.000 --> 01:42:29.560
Quinton Johnston sees five targets Bradley he catches four of
1773
01:42:29.600 --> 01:42:32.039
them for one hundred and four yards and a touchdown
1774
01:42:32.079 --> 01:42:35.319
in the win over the Dallas Cowboys. Yes, it was
1775
01:42:35.479 --> 01:42:38.680
the Dallas pass defense. But we have seen a resurgence
1776
01:42:39.119 --> 01:42:43.039
from Quinton Johnston so far this season. He has gone
1777
01:42:43.199 --> 01:42:45.720
very hot, then very cold. Now he's starting to warm
1778
01:42:45.800 --> 01:42:49.319
up again. Where do you stand on Quinton Johnston as
1779
01:42:49.359 --> 01:42:53.760
an NFL fantasy football difference maker in dynasty leagues or
1780
01:42:53.800 --> 01:42:56.239
quite frankly, reed draft leagues. Next year.
1781
01:42:57.159 --> 01:43:00.319
Yeah, going into twenty twenty five, Quinton Johnson and was
1782
01:43:00.399 --> 01:43:06.439
just undervalued. He was extremely undervalued because you looked at
1783
01:43:06.439 --> 01:43:09.720
twenty twenty three and I was totally out. After twenty
1784
01:43:09.720 --> 01:43:11.760
twenty three, he was just so terrible, arguably one of
1785
01:43:11.800 --> 01:43:14.039
the worst wide receivers in the NFL. In during his
1786
01:43:14.119 --> 01:43:17.560
rookie season, and then twenty twenty four he had some
1787
01:43:17.680 --> 01:43:23.199
decent games, and I his ADP was like wide receiver
1788
01:43:23.359 --> 01:43:25.960
sixty something and in the best ball streets, and I
1789
01:43:26.000 --> 01:43:31.439
thought to myself self, look, I get that we're all
1790
01:43:31.520 --> 01:43:34.079
high on McConkey and Trey Harris could be a thing,
1791
01:43:34.199 --> 01:43:37.880
But what if Quinton Johnson just holds onto the starting role.
1792
01:43:38.359 --> 01:43:41.199
What if he's just the other starting the wide receiver
1793
01:43:41.279 --> 01:43:43.720
down there and hill of a couple of blow up games.
1794
01:43:44.239 --> 01:43:46.880
So I was actually clicking a lot of Quinton Johnson
1795
01:43:46.880 --> 01:43:50.199
because I felt like he was massively mispriced, not because
1796
01:43:50.239 --> 01:43:52.520
I thought he was very good. But then you look
1797
01:43:52.560 --> 01:43:56.039
at to start the season twenty two, fourteen eleven nineteen
1798
01:43:56.079 --> 01:43:58.720
fantasy points and half points scoring, and then he puts
1799
01:43:58.760 --> 01:44:01.760
up eighteen against Dallas and you know wide receiver seven
1800
01:44:01.800 --> 01:44:05.000
going into Monday Night football. Yeah, and overall, like from
1801
01:44:05.000 --> 01:44:09.239
a macro cosmic perspective, the like macros are very good
1802
01:44:09.279 --> 01:44:14.039
for the Chargers. They are uh they've won seven of
1803
01:44:14.079 --> 01:44:18.640
the last eight and or eleven and four on the season. Yeah,
1804
01:44:18.800 --> 01:44:20.439
they're They're gonna be forced to be reckoned with.
1805
01:44:21.279 --> 01:44:25.960
I think that the Chargers offense in general next year
1806
01:44:26.039 --> 01:44:29.439
is gonna be very compelling to how we draft these players,
1807
01:44:29.520 --> 01:44:33.479
not only Johnston, think out Ronde Gadsten. I don't think
1808
01:44:33.520 --> 01:44:35.960
Keenan Allen will be back, but Omari and Hampton as
1809
01:44:35.960 --> 01:44:39.439
well as his performance this year factors into that as well.
1810
01:44:39.560 --> 01:44:42.039
Speaking of running backs, it is a touchdown, much to
1811
01:44:42.079 --> 01:44:45.640
my chagrin, a two yard pass from brock Perty to
1812
01:44:45.800 --> 01:44:49.560
Christian McCaffrey. The Eddie Panero extra point is good for
1813
01:44:49.920 --> 01:44:52.079
thirty three to go on the first quarter of the Niners.
1814
01:44:52.119 --> 01:44:55.560
Now holding a fourteen to seven lead over the Colts,
1815
01:44:55.640 --> 01:44:57.880
let's step out and take our final break in the evening.
1816
01:44:58.720 --> 01:45:01.000
They have taken a break on fan, trust me, we
1817
01:45:01.079 --> 01:45:03.760
will be back much faster than they will be. We're
1818
01:45:03.760 --> 01:45:06.399
going to take talk about more takeaways, including but not
1819
01:45:06.520 --> 01:45:10.640
limited to the Pittsburgh Steelers running back situation, what we
1820
01:45:10.680 --> 01:45:13.039
saw from Tony Pollard and Baker Mayfield this past week
1821
01:45:13.079 --> 01:45:16.119
as well. He's Bradley Staller from Player Profiler at the
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01:45:16.159 --> 01:45:19.039
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I'm Eric Balkman. This is FFPC Insider Access Show live
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01:45:26.760 --> 01:45:30.640
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All right, we're back and Eric is taking a break.
1853
01:46:57.840 --> 01:47:00.000
But all right, I'm back.
1854
01:47:00.319 --> 01:47:00.840
Good Eric.
1855
01:47:01.159 --> 01:47:04.520
Yeah, No, my kids just got home and I was
1856
01:47:04.640 --> 01:47:06.640
late coming back. But I'm gonna say this right now.
1857
01:47:08.560 --> 01:47:12.159
We are enjoying fourteen seven Monday Night Football nine Ers
1858
01:47:12.199 --> 01:47:15.079
over the Colts. I did not think I'd be saying
1859
01:47:15.079 --> 01:47:19.159
this tonight, Bradley, but the Steelers running back situation this
1860
01:47:19.239 --> 01:47:23.359
year Jalen Warren fourteen carries, one hundred and forty three yards,
1861
01:47:23.359 --> 01:47:26.560
two touchdowns. We know what Kenneth Gainwell has done in
1862
01:47:26.600 --> 01:47:30.840
the passing game the last several weeks. Like I said,
1863
01:47:31.000 --> 01:47:32.439
I can't believe I'm saying this. I have to give
1864
01:47:32.520 --> 01:47:36.319
kudos to Arthur Smith. I'm really impressed with what he
1865
01:47:36.359 --> 01:47:39.039
has been able to get out of both these running backs.
1866
01:47:39.039 --> 01:47:41.920
And I'll take this a step further. I don't think
1867
01:47:41.960 --> 01:47:44.960
Kenneth Gainwell is a Steeler next year. I think he signs.
1868
01:47:46.000 --> 01:47:49.119
I've heard people talking about being the pass catcher in
1869
01:47:49.239 --> 01:47:52.199
Jane Daniel's Commander's offense next year, but I don't think
1870
01:47:52.199 --> 01:47:55.920
he's back in Pittsburgh. And dare I say that Caleb
1871
01:47:56.000 --> 01:48:00.960
Johnson will be underdrafted in twenty twenty six draft because
1872
01:48:01.000 --> 01:48:03.039
everybody has kind of given up on him. It's a
1873
01:48:03.079 --> 01:48:05.640
second year in the league and for him in the league,
1874
01:48:05.840 --> 01:48:09.920
and maybe this is the learning experience he needed. Bradley,
1875
01:48:10.680 --> 01:48:14.760
I'm very bullish, not only on Jalen Warren, for Kayla
1876
01:48:14.840 --> 01:48:18.119
Johnson in twenty twenty six as well. Disagree with you
1877
01:48:18.319 --> 01:48:21.079
if you want, I would encourage that, but that's the
1878
01:48:21.079 --> 01:48:23.039
way I see it as of right now here in
1879
01:48:23.079 --> 01:48:24.520
late December twenty twenty five.
1880
01:48:25.279 --> 01:48:28.000
You know, Arthur Smith is not a good head coach,
1881
01:48:28.119 --> 01:48:32.399
but he is a great offensive coordinator. And we have
1882
01:48:32.439 --> 01:48:36.600
to think back to how he made Corduall Patterson the
1883
01:48:36.640 --> 01:48:40.960
thing right back when Cordal Patterson was thirty something years old,
1884
01:48:41.079 --> 01:48:45.880
had little dust on his helmet and became an top
1885
01:48:45.920 --> 01:48:49.479
twelve running back for Fantasy those wild, wild times. And
1886
01:48:50.239 --> 01:48:53.920
now you have a very smart quarterback who's able to
1887
01:48:54.000 --> 01:48:57.840
read defenses at an elite level and check in or
1888
01:48:57.920 --> 01:49:01.520
out of runs or passes, and in a way that
1889
01:49:01.680 --> 01:49:04.680
Arthur Smith has never experienced before. So you've got an
1890
01:49:04.680 --> 01:49:09.520
elite mind at Aaron Rodgers behind center making these calls.
1891
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And then you have very good running backs Jalen Warren.
1892
01:49:13.960 --> 01:49:15.960
The efficiency metrics have always been there for Warren when
1893
01:49:16.000 --> 01:49:19.000
he's been healthy. Kenneth Gainwell I think was undervalued and
1894
01:49:20.079 --> 01:49:22.680
sad that he was tossed aside by Philly and they
1895
01:49:22.680 --> 01:49:25.279
tried to replace with Will Shipley, which has not turned
1896
01:49:25.279 --> 01:49:30.399
out some sort of way. Gainwell was very lucky in
1897
01:49:30.439 --> 01:49:32.720
the Week sixteen game. I don't know you saw the
1898
01:49:32.800 --> 01:49:36.640
catch Haukey that was unbelievable. It's a thing.
1899
01:49:36.720 --> 01:49:39.960
Here's the thing I am a Packers fan. The very
1900
01:49:39.960 --> 01:49:42.640
frame my mom texted me because she was watching this
1901
01:49:43.039 --> 01:49:45.039
and the very first thing she said, do you remember
1902
01:49:45.079 --> 01:49:48.279
that game on Monday Night Football when Antonio Freeman beat
1903
01:49:48.319 --> 01:49:50.840
I think it was Chris Dishman for the Vikings, and
1904
01:49:50.920 --> 01:49:53.800
it was that he did what play on the Al
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01:49:53.880 --> 01:49:55.640
Michaels call when al Michaels used to be good at
1906
01:49:55.680 --> 01:49:59.479
calling football games on Monday Night Football, and we all
1907
01:49:59.520 --> 01:50:01.359
thought of I thought it was incomplete. I thought it
1908
01:50:01.399 --> 01:50:03.560
was sure, it was incomplete, and it ended up being
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01:50:03.600 --> 01:50:07.359
a touchdown for Freeman. Exact same thing I thought about
1910
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Gainwell on this play. One incredible performance, the mental fortitude
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to say, hey, I know I caught this, to get
1912
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up and run crazy stuff from Gainwell.
1913
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There.
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This guy is running hot right now. It's perfect evidence
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of it right there.
1916
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Yeah, lean into that for the rest of the year.
1917
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I'm very interested in seeing where Kenneth Gainwell will land
1918
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in terms of ADP because I think on other teams
1919
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he may not be as efficient or as good. So
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you mentioned like Washington, Yes, they would be very interested
1921
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in getting like the Austin Eckler replacement because because of
1922
01:50:44.840 --> 01:50:47.279
Eckler's injury history and the wrong side of the aj
1923
01:50:47.479 --> 01:50:51.960
pax and all that, So that is an interesting landing
1924
01:50:51.960 --> 01:50:55.800
spot for Gainwell, I'm just not confident that another team
1925
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will be able to use him to the level of
1926
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efficiency that the Steelers are clearly using. And when you
1927
01:51:00.600 --> 01:51:04.439
talk about Caleb Johnson, I mean looking at where he
1928
01:51:04.560 --> 01:51:09.199
is in in the dynasty streets, like he's like maybe
1929
01:51:09.199 --> 01:51:13.359
a throw in opportunity. Yeah, that's that's where we can
1930
01:51:13.439 --> 01:51:17.039
like take a shot on a year two day two
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01:51:18.199 --> 01:51:22.199
player on an offense that, if he gets majority of
1932
01:51:22.319 --> 01:51:26.119
run like Caleb Johnson could be could still be very interesting.
1933
01:51:26.159 --> 01:51:28.960
He's on most sites outside the top thirty six of
1934
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running back, so there is value to be had in
1935
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trying to get a twenty two year old Caleb Johnson.
1936
01:51:35.960 --> 01:51:38.399
So we'll see what happens. This is a backfield that,
1937
01:51:38.880 --> 01:51:41.000
you know, whoever the running backs are probably going to
1938
01:51:41.000 --> 01:51:43.560
be fantasy relevant in Arthur Smith offense. And we've seen
1939
01:51:44.239 --> 01:51:47.560
multiple running backs be fantasy relevant cor Ol Patterson and
1940
01:51:47.800 --> 01:51:53.119
Tyler Algier. Yeah, Tyler, Tyler Algier, and John Robinson, so
1941
01:51:53.479 --> 01:51:54.600
that certainly exists.
1942
01:51:55.279 --> 01:51:58.720
I think that I would, I would, and I believe
1943
01:51:58.760 --> 01:52:01.880
I'm echoing with Bradley's do not cut Caleb Johnson in
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your dynasty leagues. Make sure you are keeping him around.
1945
01:52:05.279 --> 01:52:09.760
If you want to trade him or whatever, maybe you
1946
01:52:09.760 --> 01:52:12.439
can find a buyer, but I think that buying and large,
1947
01:52:12.439 --> 01:52:14.439
he's gonna be better off on your roster and then
1948
01:52:14.720 --> 01:52:17.520
see what he does in twenty twenty six, because I
1949
01:52:17.560 --> 01:52:20.439
think it's going to be good. Okay, moving forward to
1950
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the game tonight, get you catch up, caught up on everything.
1951
01:52:24.039 --> 01:52:27.039
It is a Josh Downs eight yard catch followed by
1952
01:52:27.079 --> 01:52:30.720
a Jonathan Taylor five yard run incomplete pass the Josh
1953
01:52:30.760 --> 01:52:35.159
Downs before Rivers hits Alec Ogletree for eleven yards, and
1954
01:52:35.199 --> 01:52:39.560
then an incomplete pass to Ogletree. Alec Pierce hits a seven.
1955
01:52:40.399 --> 01:52:45.159
Rivers hits a seventeen yard catch to Alec Pierce, followed
1956
01:52:45.199 --> 01:52:48.640
by a Josh Downs run for three yards, and then
1957
01:52:48.720 --> 01:52:52.479
Josh Downs catches a pass from Philip Rivers for twelve yards.
1958
01:52:52.800 --> 01:52:56.760
It is first in goal now for the Colts, in
1959
01:52:57.000 --> 01:52:59.159
obviously in the red zone, fifty eight seconds to go
1960
01:52:59.239 --> 01:53:01.720
in the first quarter. As the Colts try to tie
1961
01:53:01.720 --> 01:53:04.039
this one up, Bradley, maybe we're looking at it over
1962
01:53:04.119 --> 01:53:06.960
tonight like it's already fourteen seven twenty seconds ago in
1963
01:53:07.000 --> 01:53:09.960
the first quarter. Maybe maybe we see a shootout tonight
1964
01:53:10.199 --> 01:53:13.760
between Purdy and Rivers. Exactly what we thought about.
1965
01:53:13.880 --> 01:53:17.560
Absolutely this season. Everyone to ignore the first hour of
1966
01:53:17.600 --> 01:53:19.600
this podcast, that's what they need to do.
1967
01:53:21.319 --> 01:53:25.800
I want to bring up another quarterback, Baker Mayfield eighteen
1968
01:53:25.840 --> 01:53:28.560
of twenty six this past weekend, one hundred and forty
1969
01:53:28.600 --> 01:53:32.159
five yards, a touchdown and a pick. The Buccaneers lose
1970
01:53:32.399 --> 01:53:35.560
the game to the Panthers. They also lose control of
1971
01:53:35.600 --> 01:53:39.479
the NFC South of Carolina. He also got forty nine
1972
01:53:40.000 --> 01:53:42.680
rushing yards on four carries. What do you think is
1973
01:53:42.680 --> 01:53:45.840
going on with Mayfield? He had Godwin, he had Evans,
1974
01:53:46.119 --> 01:53:49.800
he had McMillan, he had Igbuka, he had at Irvin,
1975
01:53:50.279 --> 01:53:53.119
his full compliments of weapons, and it just seems like
1976
01:53:53.199 --> 01:53:55.279
he has not been able to shake this poor play
1977
01:53:55.560 --> 01:53:59.000
over the last you know, save over the last few months.
1978
01:53:59.079 --> 01:54:01.560
He has not been Bradley. What do you think is
1979
01:54:01.600 --> 01:54:03.319
wrong with Baker Mayfield right now?
1980
01:54:03.640 --> 01:54:07.319
Oh, he's hurt. Baker Mayfield is injured. He is very,
1981
01:54:07.479 --> 01:54:10.960
very injured. H There was someone who went on Twitter
1982
01:54:11.199 --> 01:54:13.880
and I'm gonna let them remain nameless. But if you
1983
01:54:13.920 --> 01:54:16.399
go to my replies, you can find out who it is.
1984
01:54:17.359 --> 01:54:19.399
They said, are we finally going to just admit that
1985
01:54:20.079 --> 01:54:25.960
Brown's fans are trying to It was essentially like, Baker
1986
01:54:26.000 --> 01:54:28.760
Mayfield is mid and this is finally proving it that.
1987
01:54:28.800 --> 01:54:29.880
The Browns were right to.
1988
01:54:29.960 --> 01:54:32.680
Now the Browns were right to Yeah, yeah, yeah, And
1989
01:54:33.359 --> 01:54:37.119
you know that's really just telling on yourself. You're clearly
1990
01:54:37.279 --> 01:54:39.920
missing the what's staring at you in the face. It's
1991
01:54:39.960 --> 01:54:40.760
Okham's razor.
1992
01:54:41.199 --> 01:54:41.319
You know.
1993
01:54:41.359 --> 01:54:44.199
I mentioned that that earlier. For those not familiar with
1994
01:54:44.239 --> 01:54:48.399
what Okham's razor is, it's the simplest answers, the most likely,
1995
01:54:48.720 --> 01:54:51.439
and that is that Baker Mayfield is hurt. We look
1996
01:54:51.520 --> 01:54:55.039
at Week twelve against the La Rams. He plays fifty
1997
01:54:55.079 --> 01:54:59.319
six percent of snaps. From that point on quarterback eighteen, nineteen,
1998
01:54:59.439 --> 01:55:02.800
fourteen and eight, He's not attempted more than thirty four
1999
01:55:02.840 --> 01:55:07.560
passes in a game. The pass attempts are not there,
2000
01:55:08.039 --> 01:55:10.199
the arm strength is not there. He's thrown for under
2001
01:55:10.239 --> 01:55:14.840
two hundred yards in five of the last six games.
2002
01:55:15.359 --> 01:55:17.760
He cannot get the ball down the field, and it
2003
01:55:17.800 --> 01:55:21.760
is because he's hurt. Like that's it. The Bucks are
2004
01:55:21.800 --> 01:55:25.399
allowing him to play because they don't have any confidence
2005
01:55:25.479 --> 01:55:31.439
in Oh wait, who's their second quarterback? Teddy Bridgewater? Two
2006
01:55:31.520 --> 01:55:35.640
hans to glove Teddy? Right? And who's their third quarterback?
2007
01:55:35.680 --> 01:55:37.960
You can't even name him. I'll give you a twenty
2008
01:55:38.000 --> 01:55:39.840
bucks if you can name the third quarterback on the
2009
01:55:39.840 --> 01:55:40.920
Bucks without looking it up.
2010
01:55:41.680 --> 01:55:44.000
I didn't look it up. I only know. I don't
2011
01:55:44.079 --> 01:55:46.479
know this. This could be. This is probably wrong, but
2012
01:55:46.560 --> 01:55:48.800
I just remember when we were talking about Tom Brady
2013
01:55:48.880 --> 01:55:52.319
was with the Bucks, Kyle Trask was always in the conversation.
2014
01:55:52.439 --> 01:55:53.119
Is that who it is?
2015
01:55:53.239 --> 01:55:57.199
No, it's not who is it? Connor Bezelek, I've never
2016
01:55:57.279 --> 01:55:58.119
heard of this guy?
2017
01:55:58.520 --> 01:56:01.319
What where is Is he a rook? What does he do? Bradley?
2018
01:56:01.359 --> 01:56:02.399
I've never heard of him.
2019
01:56:02.640 --> 01:56:07.479
Look, you're asking me, asking me very good questions. Uh,
2020
01:56:07.920 --> 01:56:10.600
Connor Basilic?
2021
01:56:10.680 --> 01:56:12.640
So this this is the Is he on the active
2022
01:56:12.720 --> 01:56:15.880
roster or is he on is he on.
2023
01:56:15.960 --> 01:56:18.279
The he's the emergency quarterback?
2024
01:56:18.600 --> 01:56:22.720
Oh my god, Okay, I'm I'm looking him up right now.
2025
01:56:22.800 --> 01:56:26.000
Connor Bazelik is God.
2026
01:56:26.159 --> 01:56:28.439
That's that's my point is they're not going to let
2027
01:56:28.479 --> 01:56:32.399
Teddy Bridgewater throw the ball like hurt and Baker Mayfield
2028
01:56:32.439 --> 01:56:35.159
is better than too glove Teddy and you don't even
2029
01:56:35.199 --> 01:56:37.800
know who Bazaelic is. So that's my point.
2030
01:56:38.159 --> 01:56:41.640
I'll tell you this. He was the sec CO Freshman
2031
01:56:41.720 --> 01:56:44.840
of the Year in twenty twenty, so that was a
2032
01:56:44.880 --> 01:56:48.640
while ago. He was third team. He went from sec
2033
01:56:48.680 --> 01:56:51.239
CO Freshman of the Year in twenty twenty to third
2034
01:56:51.279 --> 01:56:55.279
team All Mac in twenty twenty four. He was not
2035
01:56:55.479 --> 01:57:00.199
drafted in twenty twenty five, and he signed uh in
2036
01:57:00.279 --> 01:57:03.359
May this past year with the Buccaneers as an undrafted
2037
01:57:03.399 --> 01:57:06.840
free agent. He was waived resigned to the practice squad.
2038
01:57:07.199 --> 01:57:11.239
He was promoted to the active roster ahead of the
2039
01:57:11.359 --> 01:57:14.239
Week thirteen game against the Cardinals. I would imagine that
2040
01:57:14.319 --> 01:57:16.439
he is back down to the practice squad. Now, yes,
2041
01:57:16.880 --> 01:57:19.560
you want to hear some good Connor, because why else
2042
01:57:19.560 --> 01:57:23.560
would you tune into the show for unless you're wanting
2043
01:57:23.560 --> 01:57:29.079
some Connor Basilik trivia Len Bazelik. Len Bazelik, who is
2044
01:57:29.079 --> 01:57:33.920
his father, holds the Dartmouth College school record for career
2045
01:57:34.039 --> 01:57:39.079
three point percentage for basketball, which is great. Connor Bazelik
2046
01:57:39.159 --> 01:57:44.640
also has two older sisters, Maddie and Libby. Maddie played
2047
01:57:44.760 --> 01:57:49.439
volleyball at Ducane and basketball at Ohio University. I'm gonna
2048
01:57:49.479 --> 01:57:55.920
repeat that. Maddie Bazelik played volleyball at Ducane and basketball
2049
01:57:55.960 --> 01:57:59.920
at Ohio University, so Maddy could play two sports, just
2050
01:58:00.079 --> 01:58:02.520
apparently not at the same school, which is crazy to
2051
01:58:02.560 --> 01:58:06.560
think about, and it's crazy it is. Libby played college
2052
01:58:06.560 --> 01:58:10.159
basketball at Ducane, where she ranked twenty fourth all time
2053
01:58:10.199 --> 01:58:15.039
in program history, hitting the thousand point plateau eleven hundred
2054
01:58:15.079 --> 01:58:19.399
and eleven points. Connor Bazelix seriously from a long line
2055
01:58:19.439 --> 01:58:23.920
of great athletes, and that is why Baker Mayfield is
2056
01:58:23.920 --> 01:58:26.640
still playing right now because they don't trust Connor Bazelik,
2057
01:58:27.000 --> 01:58:30.560
this uber athlete from this family of uber athletes, to
2058
01:58:30.680 --> 01:58:32.720
play well going forward.
2059
01:58:33.520 --> 01:58:36.119
Connor, That's what everyone came to the show for.
2060
01:58:36.439 --> 01:58:40.119
Yeah, exactly. Don't you regret bringing Connor Bazelik up now, Bradley,
2061
01:58:40.760 --> 01:58:41.479
I'm sure you do.
2062
01:58:41.680 --> 01:58:44.399
I do not regret it at all. Disregret Okay, absolutely,
2063
01:58:45.119 --> 01:58:46.840
I'm glad you ran with their.
2064
01:58:46.720 --> 01:58:50.159
Bulky all right. Well, with that, we have more stuff
2065
01:58:50.199 --> 01:58:52.800
to get to, but we're constrained two hours, so we
2066
01:58:52.840 --> 01:58:55.520
will wrap things up right now. Bradley, you have been
2067
01:58:55.640 --> 01:58:59.359
a champ. You have offered a lot of great insights tonight,
2068
01:58:59.720 --> 01:59:02.920
not only are we getting great stuff from you over
2069
01:59:02.960 --> 01:59:07.079
at player Profiler where you are pushing papers and orchestrating
2070
01:59:07.119 --> 01:59:09.720
everything going on there at the news desk. Tell us
2071
01:59:09.760 --> 01:59:12.199
what we can expect for you, not only for the
2072
01:59:12.199 --> 01:59:14.479
remainder of this season, but the off season and going
2073
01:59:14.479 --> 01:59:15.920
into twenty twenty six as well.
2074
01:59:16.119 --> 01:59:19.359
Well. Before we even get into that Bulky, I have
2075
01:59:19.439 --> 01:59:22.880
to say I told everyone that al Pierce would not
2076
01:59:22.920 --> 01:59:25.000
get a touchdown because he would get two.
2077
01:59:26.279 --> 01:59:30.319
He just caught his second one. It is a sixteen
2078
01:59:30.399 --> 01:59:33.560
yard catch from Philip River. This is what Alex. This
2079
01:59:33.600 --> 01:59:38.399
is outstanding. This is fantasy gold, this is content. Oh,
2080
01:59:38.479 --> 01:59:39.880
this is Bulky.
2081
01:59:40.000 --> 01:59:42.319
This is a what a treat? Yeah a treat?
2082
01:59:43.840 --> 01:59:46.840
Oh fantastic. It has been fantastic tonight.
2083
01:59:47.640 --> 01:59:54.199
Well check out yeah uh Stack Hunters player Profiler a
2084
01:59:54.319 --> 01:59:57.479
man versus machine every Wednesday. Check that out as well
2085
01:59:57.640 --> 02:00:02.880
with Wyatt. He's great. Dan Williamson also great. You know,
2086
02:00:02.960 --> 02:00:05.880
and check out all the playerprofile dot com slash news
2087
02:00:05.920 --> 02:00:11.600
things coming out with all free agency and rookies and
2088
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on playerprofile dot com, slash news.
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And for everything that you may miss, follow and connect
2091
02:00:21.319 --> 02:00:25.600
with Bradley on x at ff Stall there the Riz
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God himself. That is where he sets up his home
2093
02:00:29.279 --> 02:00:32.039
on on x at ff Stall there. That is the
2094
02:00:32.119 --> 02:00:34.720
upside down For Bradley Stallder, I really need to pound
2095
02:00:34.720 --> 02:00:36.800
out a few more episodes of Stranger Things because I
2096
02:00:36.840 --> 02:00:39.079
got I got it on my mind right now. Bradley,
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02:00:39.319 --> 02:00:41.960
be good. I want to have you on again sometime soon.
2098
02:00:42.039 --> 02:00:44.680
Thank you so much for hopping aboard a special Monday show.
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02:00:45.680 --> 02:00:48.039
Good luck in all of your leagues and keep up
2100
02:00:48.039 --> 02:00:50.399
all the great work at Player Profiler. We will talk
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02:00:50.439 --> 02:00:51.880
with you again very soon, my friend.
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02:00:52.159 --> 02:00:53.520
Thank you, Balky. Until next time.
2103
02:00:54.520 --> 02:00:56.520
That is going to do it for the show. Check
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out the FFPC Playoff Challenge my ffpc dot com. No draft,
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with just two hundred dollars or thirty five dollars entry fees.
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That's at my ffpc dot com. Thank you to Bradley Sald,
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Thank you to Sean Engel. We will be back another
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02:01:14.680 --> 02:01:18.560
special Monday show next week seven pm Eastern. Rams and
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Falcons and guess Who're watching with one Andrew Cooper from Fantasy.
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He'll join me for two full lowers for Bradley Stalther
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for Shawan Engel. I'm Eric Balkman. This has been f
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FPC insider access on the Better Sports Network. Enjoy the
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rest of the game, everybody. Talk with you next Monday.
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Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy Honakha.