Anthony Gargano previews the NFL season, fantasy football drafts and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Don't listening to Fox Sports. Well, good morning, good morning,
good morning, happy happy Fox Sports Saturday to all across
the nation. Yeah, maybe this is it. Oh you hear
to my voice every week, and every week is like

(00:23):
a countdown. I gave you the start to show, but
I cannot help it. Today marks our last Saturday morning
without football. Oh my blessings and salutations. Are you kidding me?
This is the last Saturday without a football game now

(00:49):
week zero and it's we know what it is. It's
the it's the uh you know, gabage games. But who cares? Like,
you know, the beauty of week zero is you just
want to see it. It's like preseason, you know, preseason.
You get bored with the preseason in five minutes, Like

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I watched the Whole of Fame game. You watched week one, right,
we're in the week two. I watched Thursday night, right,
and you go, all right, you know, still preseason. And
then when he starts for real, it's got that. You
start to get the tangles. And that's where we're at
heading into Uh, this is it, Like this is our

(01:31):
last Saturday. And I was thinking about this the other
day because I was talking about on my local show
what I missed, and I'm curious, and we're gonna get
into a lot of life as a football fan, including
fantasy football, your own rituals, and all of you know,
all of your team, your history of your teams. So
we're gonna kind of mess around with that today. But

(01:54):
I was talking about this earlier. What I truly love
as a sports fan is I love when all the
games are starting to go right. So we're gonna at
baseball starts to heighten in September, and then obviously we
got college football, the NFL, and then the NBA schedule

(02:14):
just came out. So like when it's all that going on,
that's when I'm at my happiest as a sports fan.
Like when I wh I just every day you have
a game to look forward to. Every day you have
something look forward to, and that's what the This is
the beauty of the fall, Like this is the beauty

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beginning in September when we all have the confluence in
you know, football and baseball, and then Hoop start hockey
and you know you're dabbling Premier League this year, world cop.
I mean, it's all going on, and that's where my
happy place. So I gotta see what my fellas are.

(02:58):
They're happy places before we get into the whole launched
the whole deal TI, because I want to get into
the your life as a football fan. Good morning, Figgy. Hey,
what's going on? Brother? What's having brothers? You mentioned it's
that time of year, but I was talking about you
were talking about, like the the overload of sports that
we usually get when the fall starts, you know, the

(03:21):
start of football, baseball postseason, the NBA is starting up,
Hockey is getting going. It is a fun time of year,
but it can be a bit overwhelming at times too,
when there's a lot happening all at once. And we
talked about the NBA and how we probably should start
around Christmas. I think the NBA, honestly, more than any
other sport cause is hurt based on the time that
it starts because it's so far, so far on the

(03:43):
back burner. We're inundated with the NFL, with MLB playoffs,
with college football getting started, and it's like, oh, yes,
the NBA's here, cool, I think later, I don't understand
why they do. I don't I don't get it. I
don't understand why do that. It's like, what you. I mean,
I guess you talked about having an eighty two games

(04:04):
season and not wanting to stretch it too far into
the summer. But in the grand scheme, I don't think
it really matters that much if you're start in December,
you know, maybe you you end in early July as
opposed to mid June. All right, how much is that
with you? I'm completely with you. I want to talk
to uh the commissioner about this because I I thought
they had it fixed by using with with all the

(04:25):
COVID stuff, they were actually in the right spot. I mean,
people loved having the NBA in the summer or something
other than baseball. You're a sports fan, you know baseball
is great, but when it's just baseball, it gets a
little bored. Yeah, and it's dog day baseball too. Would
be one thing if it was if the baseball playoffs

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we were in July August. But they're right, it's literally
like the back end of the season. The teams are
kind of separating themselves. If you had really important, impactful
NBA finals conference finals happening around the same time that
you have Major League Baseball hal and it's just more
variety and something that you can that can garner most
of your attention along with something that garners a little
bit of your attention as opposed to a lot of

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times Major League Baseball at that time a year gets
none depending on what part of the country you're in.
So so that's one thing I know you've had a
lot of, uh some would say crazy, I won't go
that far ideas about sports schedules and how things should change.
But one thing I've been in lockstep with you from
day one is about the NBA and when they start
and when they finish should definitely be changed, and it
can only help them. I know, I can't. I don't

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even understand it because you even nailed it. Nowadays, right,
they are completely overshadowed Christmas absolutely, yeah, I mean, you know,
and they're talking about doing even more. They're talking about
doing and playing every Christmas. They're talking about that in

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Tuesday night games, adding Friday night games you watch. I mean,
the NFL will even expand further. Yeah, And there used
to be like a level of like unspoken or maybe
it was spoken, like respect with Major League or with
Major League sports, so like Baseball would have during the
World Series. I don't know, if you remember, even as
recently as ten twelve years ago, Sunday Night Football or

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Monday Night Football just wouldn't have a game. They would
stick to the side because the World Series was going on.
The NFL would not step on the NBA's toes. Maybe
they'd have a game on Christmas if a fill on
the weekend, but they usually you know, push aside at
the rest of their schedule to another day. Now, the
end of the money is just so big, the NFL
just doesn't care, nor should they. By the way, it's
not up to them for the NFL to look out

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for the NBA or Major League Baseball or vice versa.
But yeah, the the NBA has a bit of a
problem on its hands. If the NFL is starting to
moot to push in on their territory, they had to
be able to carve out their own spots somewhere, and
by beginning the first third of your season smack dive
dab in the middle of football is just not a
smart proposition. No, it's like a soft opening. Yeah, I don't,

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I don't. I don't know why they were such a
hurry to go back to that whole system, Like the
schedule came out and it's fun. Like you know, I
don't know about you guys, but here when the schedule
came out, it was it was a semi big deal,
like we talked about. It wasn't the NFL schedule deletes
and stuff like that. But we got a couple of
things like, oh, listen to six, is gonna open the

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season against Boston on a Tuesday night on T and
T like that made that That made local news and
that was a that was a talking point on my
show as we're getting ready for the game. But honestly,
there's no need to play. To play, it's gonna get lost,
like you said, it's gonna get lost in the whole

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football shuffle. I mean, college football is huge, man, and
we love it on this show. We talked about all
the time. I don't even understand because I could see
college football doing the same thing. We already have Thursday
and Friday night games. We have Max and Tuesday nights.
I mean, you know, at some point you gotta go, hey,
the n b A, just use your own spring and

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summer is a great time. Yeah, I don't understand why
they why they don't do that if it's sticking to
long hail traditions, but they can't say that. Maybe because
the commissioner wants to do this kakamamie mid season tournament,
that doesn't mean anything for for no reason whatsoever. Like, so,
if you're gonna do that, if you that that, you

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you know you service the system right there, that's you're
you're by the way. But if you're doing that, you're
probably extending the season anyway. Because you're pausing in the
middle of the regular season for a tournament. That just
makes it go even longer. So if you're willing to
do that, why wouldn't you be willing to start later
when you have better TV positioning, better, more eyeballs, and
less of a fractured fan base because they're not watching
other things. Yeah and yeah, and to your point, I mean,

(08:45):
maybe you decide to I know, nobody wants to shorten
the season because you're losing inventory, but you gotta figure
out a way. And I agree with you. The tournament
is not in. You gotta figure out a way to
make the regular season matter or you just do I
don't know how you do that. But when you have
sixteen teams to make the playoffs, it's hard for for

(09:08):
the regular season to really matter because it feels like
one giant tournament. Yeah, and what it hurts that too,
as you and you'll never put the toothpaste back in
the tube now is the load management stuff, you know?
But I mean back in the day, you know, the
m m J and the Bulls can be you know,
forty games over and there's five games left in the
regular season and the starters are still playing thirty five minutes.

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It's just a different game. Remember us looking at the
box scores. Yeah, we did this pout a month ago, right, Yeah,
I mean it's uncanny how that stuff happens. Just the
mentality is different. It is. It is, and I might
saying it's wrong, but it hurts the product bad. And
and I'm I'm with you. I think the same thing.
As much as I get excited for all the all

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sports to be playing. The other thing to your point
is sports has to feel special, right, So football organically
feel special because your team plays once a week, whether
it's college in the NFL, and it's it's such a
short quick season. Every day is an event. Yeah, it
feels great. So in the end, with the NBA, the

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fact that you're starting in October by the time when
people really looking forward to something in you know, March
April May, it's already lost. It's luster, especially if you're
a team that you know, maybe didn't have the highest hopes,
but you were a hopeful coming into the season. If
you're someone who's dialed into football, I don't know if
you if you grow up, like if you're like in

(10:36):
the Charlotte area or something, you're not really a paying
close attention to the Hornets because you're watching you know,
South Carolina or something. Then all of a sudden football
season wraps up and you flip on the Hornets to say, oh, snap,
there twelve games under five hundred. I guess I don't
have to care about them. That's kind of like one
of those that's what it is. That's exactly right. Christmas
Day is interesting because that always felt like the right

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time to start it. You know, I'll tell you an
even better time, but it's a little later. But you
could go m l K Day and started m l
K Day, Like how cool would that be to start
all the Monday m l K Day. Now you're gonna
go into August and and if you could do from

(11:18):
m l K Day, which would be January through, if
you can be done by Labor Day and make it
the finals Labor Day, which is I don't know what
can see the difference between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
If you could do the if the finals in Labor Day,
I don't know. I think you have more of a
captive audience, yeah, because you'd have more more viewers, especially

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in those summer months. Now, I guess an issue you'd
run into, and this is only an issue every four years,
I guess, is the Olympic cycle, and especially if you're
can't worry about that if you're in the postseason and
some of your best players can't compete in the Olympics.
So that might be and I think there's a there's
an avenue to starting in January and potentially Indian early August,
you know, I mean, you could certainly do that too.
That that that kind of fits that same the same

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amount of time, and you can still get all eighty
two games in at that point, you still have some
other summer left with August. Although kids are going back
earlier and earlier now, which makes no sense to me.
That's that's terrible. It's a tragic. When I heard the
kids started school at some places already. My kids don't
come back until the Tuesday, at the labor day. That's

(12:23):
how it's supposed to be, right, That's exactly how it's
supposed to be. There are kids out here out in
Los Angeles who went back to school as early as
like August ten, Like they've been in the school for
ten days already. Ridiculous. It's tragic. First of all, who
should Most schools don't have air conditioning units. All right, Well,
you're not supposed to go to school when it's hot.

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That's the whole point of keeping kids focused on school work.
I mean by running around outside, you know, having fun,
you know, right, getting the chicken summers. Stop trying to
take away summer for them. Yeah, it's all terrible, Psycho Chris,
What are you doing, buddy? Uh huh, I'm just sitting

(13:06):
here trying to talk about summer. I'm just trying to
stay cool. Well, are you get a heat wave out
there a little bit? I live in the West Valley,
and uh, I'm not the one who used to stay cool.
I don't have a code of fur my my my
big guy does though, my big cat. Alright, alright, I
gotta worry more about him some days than I gotta
worry about me. All right, all right, well we got

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a lot of get to today, all right, we gotta
I want to get into our life as a football fan.
We'll continue. We always getting his conversations where we meanineder
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(15:19):
so fake because there this week with the Lebron contract
and did that ease anything with the Lakers is curious? Well,
I guess it depends on what your outlook is. I mean,
there's a sect of people who would rather just be
out of the Lebron James business completely, and then there
are others who say, like, well, you know what, if
nothing else, you're not gonna be distracted. He's not gonna

(15:42):
be asked about it at training Camper Media Day. At
the very least, he's gonna be in Los Angeles for
an additional year, and it kind of hastens the front
office to you know, maybe not be sitting in the
middle and determining what our future is gonna look like.
They know at the very least for the next year
and potentially too if he ops in. They have Lebron
at the home with Anthony Davis, so they can move

(16:02):
forward and operating as if they can trade whatever assets
to they have, whether that's the nine draft picks to
try to get Kyrie Irving or whoever else may be
out there to help salvage what they have left and
try to get see if they can make a run
at a championship the next couple of years. I'm not
very confident in it, to be honest with you, Anthony,
but that's the hope. So if you have Lebron James

(16:23):
in the fold, they conceivably you are one of the
favorites to go to the championship on a year in,
year out basis if everything else goes your way, and
for the Lakers, that means keeping Anthony Davis healthy above
anything else. I mean, you gotta get I mean, there
was a report this week that look, the Lakers had

(16:44):
previously offered reportedly there twenty seven and twenty nine picks,
and the nets bulked at it so, And I don't
know how Kevin Durant's trade demand and you know, with
the demanding of getting Shawn Marks and Steve Nash aust
it how that whole thing is gonna work out. If
Kevin Durant ends up staying that, I think that probably
increases the chances of Kyrie Irving Stain. Yeah, so I

(17:07):
don't think he's I think Kads want to move. I
mean everything I hear and I think that stopped real.
I think the Boston Sixers thing is real. I mean
I keep hearing a lot of Sixer he feels like
he's on the move. It definitely, though, does not feel
like he's on the move to Los Angeles though. No,

(17:31):
Yah would stay. We need to go to Boston in
Philadelphia because they apparently they have the best packages offer
right now, and Kyrie would go to the Lakers, which
you know all along it. I mean, it just feels
like that made the most sense with Kyrie and Los
Angeles kind of. I kind of get it from the

(17:51):
Net side too, because as much as I think we're
all just kind of sitting around waiting for the Nets
to just you know, sell off what they have, take
what they can get and then just go back to
the hard reset button. It doesn't feel like they are
willing to close their window completely just yet, like they want.
I think it's gonna be hard if Kevin Durant leaves

(18:12):
to keep Kyrie irving around, But it feels like they
want to try to like convince whoever they can of
that cord to run it back one more time. Yeah,
I I don't think like they probably know they'll fall short,
but they's like they're trying to keep the family together. Yeah,
but I'm telling you, I don't think it's going to happen.
I first of all, I don't think those two want

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to want to be there, and I don't think they're
good enough. I think they're good enough when they're healthy.
They just never are. That's the problem. Well, no, no,
I'm saying that two with the two of them, I
don't think the two of them could come out of
the East as good as Kyrie and k D are
even healthy. I just don't think they have enough around them. Oh.
I mean, it's it's the great question because again we've

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never we got so precious few times to see them
play together. We have no idea. Harden was the other piece,
Yeah unless the other part two? Yeah, like it hard
and still there. I mean, you know, i'd say, all right,
well the chances are they could, they'll run it back,
but without hard and I still don't think. Listen this
Ben Simmons. He's a disaster. He's a complete disaster. Did

(19:19):
you see him at the mall the other day? Fake? See?
I did not? What did he? What did he? What
did he do? Now? I missed this one. Uh So
there's a dude who's great, you know on the Instagram comedians,
who's who's who's just hysteric. I'll send it to you.
But he uh he there's the mall? What's the mall

(19:39):
to Panga? Yes? All right? So so Ben is in
the candy store with his like around here more you
had the mall over there? I live I live right
up near that, okay, so you know he's got a
place in the hills. So whatever he's he's in the

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mall and he's got a security team and he's in
a candy store. And his name is Gerald Houston, the comedian.
All right, So he he comes walking and he's like
Russell Westbrook. Wasn't Russell Westbrook? What's so? What's the Russell Redbrook.

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So at first when he comes up to him, and
you can see Simmons like, you know, staying at all,
like he's got a fan. And then he starts to
Russell Westbrook stuff and he starts to jump bad at
him and he's doing can't you bro? Can't you bro?
And uh, and it was hysterical because you know, Ben

(20:45):
Ben started jumping bench churity guy comes walking over. So
it was it was one of those viral Instagram posts
that was and that we loved in Philadelphia. I love
that so much. Had the guy on yesterday? Did you
really a comedian? It's funny. I will say, Look, I
wouldn't pick the Nets to come out of the East,
but I certainly if if I'm just looking at their

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roster as constructed, and I'm assuming, and this is probably
not safe to assume that Ben Simmons is healthy and
straight and all that playing the role that he would
need to play on that team as a defender and
facilitator while letting Kyrie and Kad score. I don't think
they have a terrible roster. And I think with those
two guys, as you're as the head of the snake,
if they're playing and healthy. You have a decent shot

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of making a run in the Eastern Conference. I don't
think that it's all dooming gloom if those guys were
to keep the crew together. Yeah, I don't. I hear you.
I hear what you're trying to say. I just for
everything I hear, I just don't see it happening. Yeah. Well,
the funny thing is that we're talking about the trade
with Katie. You know, is it gonna happen? Especially if
the nets are gonna be bullish on this is the
package we're looking for, and if we don't get it,

(21:50):
it ain't happening, then that puts the onus on whatever
Miami's package is, for them to up it or Boston's
package is to up And I know Marcus Smart, I
guess reportedly was a sticking point and the negotiations previously
if you're a Boston would you move off of him?
And if you're Boston, what they're what they're asking for,
your essentially gutting the roster or you're gonna end up
having is Jayson Tatum and Kevin Durant and as good

(22:12):
of a one too combo as that is, you have
nothing else left. That's not gonna do a whole lot
for you either, exactly. K D was talking about how
he like he wanted to make sure Marcus smart state
if he was gonna go up there, which made a
lot of sense. Six big bankers can't be choosers either. Yeah,
I want to be traded here, but I gotta make
sure this guy is like if I'm the net time,
Like you know what, No, not happening. We either get

(22:35):
the deal that we want, or your report to camp
or you'll stay at home and we'll find you. Now,
I can see the sixes. I can see that thing happening.
So what does the their framework of the sixer deal?
So it's Tyrese Maxie, who I love. I think he's
a descending star, Tobias Harris, Matisse, Stable and the Picks. Okay,

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I like it, don't love it funny Maxie, but I
don't know how much to listen he like, obviously I
watched some really really close like this kid's is starred,
Like no, you know, you know it's so funny, you'll
be shocked at this. But the almost fifty fifty sixer

(23:28):
fans did not want to do that deal because, oh,
because they love MAXI so much. I remember he broke
out h he had a really a great stretch right
after the trade deadline last year. Yeah, he's a hell
of a player, like and he and he if you
don't remember he because he was picked in the in
the middle of the draft. You know, remember it was

(23:48):
a COVID draft and Kentucky theedre was no there was
no tournament and you know, so he played one year
at Kentucky. The kid is a ball there like he
like everybody. He's I'm not saying he's a I, but
he reminds you he's got AI tendencies. So that's kind
of so that's why people don't want to do it.

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And I'm like, listen, if you have a chance to
have k D. Harden, who has got his head on
straight and and I hear in great shape and then
bed together, I mean you gotta do it. Yeah, you
would think. My only issue with Kevin durant is is
just a great unknown. You just don't know what you're
dealing with from a from a mental standpoint or headspace

(24:31):
standpoint on a day in, day out basis. And so
when you're when you're talking about trading for someone like
him or Kyrie Irving to be honest, both of them.
It's a risk reward. You know what the potential reward is,
you can win, but the risk is, you know, he
can fly off the deep end and start doing the
exact same things he's doing now two months from now,
and now you're screwed. Yeah. No, that's listen, that's legitimate.

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That's a legitimate concern because you know, you never know
what when it comes to him. When it comes to
you'd almost wanted to bring him into a locker room
where there is discipline, structure, someone that he'll come in
and automatically respect and listen to. I think Joel is
like that, I would hope. So I'm a big you know,

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I don't know if KD holds Joel and that acclaim
is the problem the man he because he says he
is his junior m B to Kevin Durant. You know, uh,
maybe Doc Garners that maybe you know, uh, but I
don't know. I don't know if there's this. I think
this is when someone you're in rarefied here and when

(25:34):
you're dealing with somebody like Kevin Durant. So there's very
few people that he would be reverential too, And I
don't know if there's anybody in the six er situation
right now well that would that would fill that role
does know him and hard and have been hanging out
like they were in London and then they would Barcelona.
So that's kind of like I think those two are

(25:55):
are They're back to being good friends. Well, I guess
that certainly helps. And I saw the photos of James
Harden and the gym doing his thing. I've seen it before,
by the way, something like you talked talk to me
on October thirty one, November one, or whenever the season starts.
I'll tell you with some trending brother. All right, we'll

(26:16):
start with some Major League baseball from Friday. The Dodgers
seven innings of one run ball from starter Tyler Anderson,
who was fourteen and two on the season. Didn't get
the decision, but Dodgers did get the victory two to
one over the Marlins, Washington defeating San Diego six to three,
Juan Soto going hitless against his former squad, Paul Goatsman
getting a home run against his former team thirty of

(26:38):
the season for going to the Pods though, jeez, yeah,
what happened to the Pods. Well, I think they took
a bit of a shot with the Tatis news from
last week. And then Josh Hayter, he just he hasn't
been the same since his last couple of outis when
he was with Milwaukee. It's almost like the Brewers saw
something coming. I was like, hey, man, let's trick with
the iron is hot, because he has not been good,

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to say the least, didn't even cording out on Friday night.
I mean, that's how believable really is. It's about the
the mighty falling man. Uh mentioned Goldschmith homewart number thirty
for the car and those. They defeat his former team
Arizona five to one, five straight wins for the red Birds,
Unio Suarez two home runs for Seattle. They beat Oakland
ten to two for their fourth straight win. Home run

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number thirty for Peter Alonzo as the Mets beat the Phillies.
Tristan Mackenzie's truck out fourteen as Cleveland beat the White
Sox five to two, twins, a two to one victory
over the Rangers. Minnesota one game behind the Guardians in
the Ale Central Braves Orioles and Rockies with wins. Toronto
shut out the Yankees for nothing. New York has now
lost fourteen games because collapse. What Bronx Bombers aren't aren't

(27:44):
hit any body, They're just there. I can't believe it.
It's ridiculous. Yeah, it's it's pretty incredible. Twenty four of
their last thirty six games. That's hard to conceive. And
the crazy parties you look at that, and they're still
running away with the A at least for them for
them to be that, I know, but I know I

(28:07):
have to start like questioning what they're gonna do in
the postseason at this point. Yeah, man, get some some health,
some healthy bats back will definitely help, get standing back
in the lineup. It will certainly help. But uh, I
think they might even need a little bit more than that.
I don't know where you can look at this point
in times. They called up one rookie, a shortstop prospect
and put them in right field last night. I think

(28:29):
they're just kind of searching for rances wherever they can
find them right now. Thankfully for them, they're still a
little bit of time to get this thing turned around.
Before the right starts right and you're eight games like
you said, you're eight games over Toronto, nine games over
the Raise. But man, I feel like that a l
is I'll been in the astros, Yeah, i'd see why
it open. Yeah, it's pretty pretty darn wide open. So

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that's what's Uh, that's what's going on right now. If
you want some preseason some love, how about this Jordan's
Love twelve and thirteen yards and a touchdown the most
importantly because no turnovers this weekend, like he had three
interceptions last week, Packers beating the Saints twenty to ten. Yeah,
they say he is, he looks great. He camp that

(29:14):
he looks George Love looks like with the legit real deal,
I wonder what happens. It's this like one is this
a one year Rogers and then he's either off something
somewhere else if I remember correctly, like the contract that
he signed with his extensions. Ye, yeah, he had. There's
an out for him to be traded and it doesn't

(29:34):
cost much on the cap if they were to do that.
So I don't know. I think it honestly just depends
on how this season ends, Like if it ends the
way last season ended, I think it's probably best if
they probably just move on and they have to figure
out what they want to do with Jordan's love too.
I mean, like you've already this is what you're three
with him at the Helm. So now you're coming up
on going into next year depending on deciding whether or

(29:54):
not you want to sign him to that pick up
his fifth year option. You got to get him on
the field and see what he can do. I think
I think they pick up the fifth year option regardless
at this point. But yeah, I think I think you're
right about that, Chris. But if you're if you're like
one of these teams that he's a quarterback away, don't
you try to sell out for Rogers. And he's gonna

(30:15):
be forty in December, So if he wants to play,
like if his heads like, I'm I'm still I'm in
Brady Moode, I don't want to play. You know, he's
got a love of three years in him. Oh yeah.
I mean, look, if he's gonna make himself available, then yeah,
anybody that's quarterback starved, you're gonna look for even a
many upgrade, you would do it. You know, it's just
the term it's been just based on the fact of

(30:36):
how things end up in Green Bayle Maybe look, maybe
they make a deep run, you know, and they decide, hey,
we're not that far away, stay for another season. But
it just backs things up even more for them when
it comes to Jordan's Love, which honestly, I don't think
they care as much about if they know they're still
competing for championships. Is almost if you'll take the sunk
cost of taking a quarterback in the first round, they
may have ended up being a bust if it means

(30:58):
let's say, you got yourself another champ and ship in
the twilight of Aaron Rodgers career. I think that one.
Isn't that funny? Isn't that funny that Aaron Rodgers career
and Jordan's Love were suddenly echoing basically what it was
with Aaron Rodgers and Brett Farve at the start of
Aaron Rodgers career, where Jordan Love is here and the
Packers think they might have something in him, but like

(31:19):
he's gonna be keep sitting on that bench while they've
still got the current guy here trying to figure out
how much longer he wants to keep playing. Yeah, it is,
it's amazing, right, I mean it truly is that that
franchise could go that long with those two quarters Dicks
to go from Far to Rogers and obviously we'll see
about Love, but they have those two quarterbacks for a

(31:42):
twenty some odd year span. I mean, it's based what
the Colts did, except without the Act three. And I
think that's that's what's gonna make Jordan's Love very fascinating
going into the future because Andrew Luck. I loved Andrew Luck.
Andrew Luck turned out to be unfortunately disappointment. Ultimately, well,
he was would rate quarterback. He just didn't want to
keep doing it for a long time and for as
many times as he was hurt. Absolutely, just that's the point.

(32:06):
And he never reached like he never reached what I
thought he was gonna be coming out at Stanford. I
think he when when we got to see him play
and we got to see him play healthy, I think
he fulfilled everything you wanted to see out of him. Now.
I don't think the Colts made as deep a playoff
run with him as they would have hoped so, but
I remember that was that a Kansas City game they

(32:28):
had in the playoffs where they came back from down
They were down way bad, and the Colts came back
and won that game, like title game one year. Like
about talent, I'm just talking about ultimate, his ultimate, you know, career. Yeah,
I just expected more. I mean, he lived up to
the hype at least. I mean for me to be
honest when it like and again we put the caveat

(32:50):
of when he was healthy. Maybe he turned the ball
over a little bit more than you would like, But
I mean forty touchdown season, thirty five touchdown season touchdowns
for the final year before he retired, I mean he was,
he was. He was in the upper echelon for me.
You look at this Olds team now too, and you
could see what they were definitely building to with the
assumption that they were going to have Andrew Luck for

(33:10):
a long time too. Now that obviously hasn't come to pass,
and they've just been scrambling around to find something. But
my point, my point is to you guys, he had
because of the injuries. It's you know, it's nothing on
the other than that. His ability was elite and coming
out of Stanford, his ability was elite. But like you
just said, I mean, thirty one touchdown pass is like

(33:33):
I'm not throwing a parade for Yeah, at forty, which
was his high, and then he had thirty nine his
last year. Like you said, the year before that, he
had thirty one. You also realized that what was general
manager was maybe one of the worst Gennal managers in
the history of sports. Bad offensive line. I think he
had to battle through a lot just to do what

(33:54):
he did. Without a doubt. I'm not like, I think
you're taking it wrong. I'm not blaming him, I'm not
putting on him. I'm saying, ultimately, it's his career is
a disappointment. Now it's not his fault, but he only
plays because of the injuries. Five full seasons, six years total,

(34:16):
and it just it turns out to be a disappointment.
It's a shame. Uh yeah, it's I'd say it's a
shame because wow, that I was so excting I'm seeing
Peyton two point oh yeah. Well yeah, I mean, and
that that's obviously the one of the toughest acts to
follow in all of sports, and I think when he
was in there, I think he followed it somewhat adequately.

(34:37):
But Peyton also had an embarrassment of riches to help him,
especially offensively when he was there. I just don't know.
Andrew Luck had to help, and I think a lot
of the injuries, the injuries are because, as you mentioned Chris,
he was getting beat up and running for his life
the entire time. Yeah, I don't disagree. My only point is,
looking back on it, forget about what transpired. It just

(34:58):
sucks because you thought you were getting the next manning
because he had to he had the ability to become
the next match. What it express expresses, you know, to
you more than anything, is how circumstantial of a sport.
Football is the situation that you're and dictates how well
it does you succeed or not it does. I were
gonna take quick TiO will come back, Fellas hanging on

(35:19):
a Saturday morning, August right here on Fox Sports Radio. Alright, Fellas, alright, boys,
we're gonna go through some of the questions here around
the ads camp. So what do you guys make of
the Brady situation? Uh? Well, I don't know if the

(35:45):
rumors are true that he's off recording what was his name?
What's the name of the show, the dancing pass singer. Um. Now,
there's also an argument to be made. I mean, if
he's Tom Brady, has he earned the right to be
able to do that. I would probably are you not
you're in training camp with your teammates. I realize you're

(36:05):
you might be the greatest quarterback of all time, or
at least one of them, however you want to view it.
But I don't think you should get special, especially during camp.
It's not it's one thing. If you missed it, I
don't have a camp. Yeah, that's I consider that a
complete violation. Like this is this is this is the
time where everyone is supposed to be a team and

(36:26):
yes exactly, and leaders have to lead by example. And
you're not there. You're not checked in on what might
be one of your last years and for Tampa probably
one of their last shots to keep making to try
to make it back to the super Bowl. Like it's
got they sink, so they don't have as good of
a year as many people. I got a weird I

(36:46):
just gotta feeling. I feel like they have Carolina best
odds of making it out of the NFC, even above
the either they and the Packers and the Rams are
kind of bunched up there at the top. From odd standpoint,
I mean that Ram team. I just keep I get
mesmerized by that depth chart. Yeah, every time I look
at the rams, I go amount of people who are
still throw in shade at Matthew Stafford now even with

(37:10):
the Super Bowl ring, even with the run and everything,
still still amazing. Even know what they say this, why
don't it's it's it's old demons man, It's it's bizarre.
Like Stafford is an older style quarterback, so any kind
of interception or hiccup he has is just a sin.
But it's like the guy lad that offense, he has

(37:30):
amazing weapons. I don't you're right, Yeah, I don't know
how you can approach it his way. I really don't.
But my god, I think Allen Robinson had some monster year. Yeah,
production he's had what the quarterbacks he's happened to play
with nothing, he's a terrific receiver and he said nothing
and he's not even gonna And he's not even the

(37:53):
guy Cooper. It's Cooper Cup. It's Cooper Cup and Allen Robinson.
That's a beast together. And by the way, you might
have Odell Beckham Waite in the wings to join you
in October or November. Yeah, and I and I like,
you know, listen, I mean, I'm a Van Jefferson man.
Oh yeah, Van Jefferson ball that offenses a hydra. I know,
I just go and even talk about the tight ends,

(38:14):
right right, I just I just love me somehow Robins.
I think Robinson's just gonna be terrific all your fantasy
make sure you chuck a look at him. All right, Well,
I want to get into the fancy thing to all
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(38:35):
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(38:56):
my guys, Figgy and Psycho Chris hang it out here.
Brand into doing a great job. I gotta tell you,
one of the things that that I love love is
that when we get involved in all of the fantasy
aspect of it, right, Like I gotta I'm still as

(39:17):
a kid when it comes to fantasy football. I know
it's a geek loser thing, and I still don't care that.
I still love fantasy football and I can't get enough
of it. Then I'm an adult that still loves it,
and I and I'm like, I love the football aspect

(39:38):
of look the pure exit notes and sometimes I think,
you know, like the fantasy and things, the fantasy regual
stats everything else, but I do. I I love it.
I have to admit It's like one of my guilty
pleasures is fantasy football, daily fantasy, fantasy leagues. I have

(39:59):
to admit it. I think I come clean to you.
It's I can't even be a snob football snob because
I do love fantasy football. Well, it's becoming part of
the norm at this point too. It's it's no longer
on the you know, the nether reaches, you know, and
they're the nerds and the pocket protectors and all that
stuff and in boardrooms doing it like everybody and their
mom is doing it, you know what I mean. There's

(40:23):
a backlash against fantasy. Yeah, people are too cool like
now to do fantasy. I've seen it from some football
people to who just they're they're they're just incense that
kind of like with gambling, that there's this other element
of football in here that takes away from what they
consider just you know, enjoying football itself, and they find
it annoying. I think the only thing that's annoying about

(40:44):
it is that you find someone who's caught up talking
about their fantasy football team. But after that, it's just no,
it's it's it's fine, it's fun, it's enjoying, but you know,
it's not tired of. At the NFL, how much more
sponsoring and all this stuff they've doubled down on the
last couple of years, especially now they're gambling is legalized
in many places. I've had this conversation with a few
friends of mine the last couple of weeks to where
they asked me, you know, we're we're looking at the

(41:07):
future where Sunday Ticket might be going away from Direct TV,
and some of my friends who are Detroit sports fans
are like, I'd really like a a lay a level
of Sunday Ticket where I can just watch my I
can pay a little less and watch just my team.
And tell them that that's never going to happen because
the NFL wants you to watch every team and a
lot of that. Well, they also want you to pay

(41:27):
for it. But the reason why they want to make
sure you pay for all because they want to have
your interest in all thirty two teams, and a lot
of that is fantasy football in gambling, because yes, that'll
keep you up watching the games that won't just involve
your team. You're gonna be watching the teams that have
your players that you have in fantasy on them. Like
I have no other reason to watch the Jacksonville Jaguars

(41:48):
if I pick up Trevor Lawrence and my fans in
one of my two fantasy drafts coming up, yeah, I'll
watch the Jaguars, I you know, does we We've had
this conversation before about fandom years ago when I used
to work with a guy, real bright guy who was
way more area dyke than sports guy. Like I'm kind

(42:11):
of I'm just your kind of average sports guy, and
this guy was a brilliant dude. And he's like all
the stuff that you care about, like the fandom aspect
of it, because I always make a big deal about
you know, rooting for your team and your home team
and you know the relationship of of what it needs
with family and friends, Like I think there's a deeper

(42:31):
element to fandom, and he's like all the stuff you
love though you love fantasy football and you love that
someday ticket and you watch all the games, and you
know there's the I'm not the biggest red zone guy,
but then people love red zone and then you get
betting on games and all kind of stuff. It all
erohodes fandom, and I don't know. I guess I guess

(42:55):
it does. I guess, like you know what Chris is
saying that you know if you're watching your players, you're
watching your players, and that somehow Willie road your fandom.
I think, like to me, I believe that give people
to benefit of the doubt fig where you can hold
two thoughts in in the palm of your hand, right,

(43:16):
Like you could say I'm a Raiders fan, but you
could still have a fantasy football league and know that
you're gonna root for the Raiders, but yeah, you still
want your team to do well. No, you're right, and
I think there's many fans that can do that. But
also there's a larger sect of people who are drawn
to the sports simply for the fantasy aspect of it too,
and with no desire to even want to latch that

(43:38):
latch themselves onto a particular franchise or team. They just
want to be able to follow their favorite players. I
think we've seen this just in sports in general. It's
just a generational thing over the last decade or two.
People are fans of players, not teams, and I think
it permeates its way to a certain degree when it
comes to fantasy football too. I think there's three levels

(43:59):
to it. It's like are you can be a fan
of a player, you can be a fan of the team,
and you can be a fan of the sport. And
I don't think those things overlap too much. Sometimes they
do overlap, sometimes they work within themselves, but I just
I kind of think those layers all interact very well. Again,
like I I covered Detroit Lions. I know plenty of
people who are fans of the player Matthew Stafford, and

(44:21):
still when they they were when he was with the Rams,
they were rooting for Stafford with the Rams because they
wanted to see Stafford win a Super Bowl ring Partly
that's because of their time with him being a fan
of the Detroit Lions, but also I think the layer
of being a fan of the sport is very important itself.
I was a big I'm a big lover of college

(44:44):
football and I know a lot of people from my
life loving college football, who would stay up and just
watch every college football game they could. It didn't matter
what the teams were, didn't matter if they had a
dog in the fight or not. They just wanted to
watch college football. Those people were fans of the sport,
and I think as I've gotten older, I've become more
selective about what I've watched in college football, and I

(45:05):
think that's something the NFL fights against, and that's something
that fantasy football and gambling can help with. Like, sometimes
as much as I'd love to sit there and watch
every NFL game because I am a fan of football,
I don't have the time for it, and I can
end up being selective about it. And I think when
you have those things that bring in those personal connections,

(45:27):
it makes you more of a fan of the sport itself.
Like the n c A tournament for basketball is a
great example of that. A lot of people are fans
of the sport, but a lot of what helps them
make them fans of the sport to watch all of
the sport during the tournament is their bracket. I don't
think there's anything wrong with having that element of connect
of personal connection to make you the fan of the sport.

(45:52):
I agree. I so, I like, I love everyone to
be pure and be like, yeah, I want to watch
every NFL game because I love the NFL that much.
But I think their aids are fine. Aids are totally fine. Yeah,
I mean, listen, you know there's there's degrees of watching.
I think you guys would agree, right, Like there is

(46:13):
like if you have something you know, don't know, if
you better game, or if you have uh players, multiple
players in the fantasy league in the game or whatever,
it is, like you're watching not it's not your team,
your team, you're watching intently, like you're you're focused on
every play, or if you have fantasy or like bad
on the game, you're watching intently. Now, I could sit

(46:36):
there on a Thursday night and watch the game, but
also have like you know, I'm doing work, right, Like
I always got work to do, so I could have
it on and watch it. But but if there's an
Eagles game, I'm watching the Eagles game. I'm I got
a notebook and I'm I'm completely focused. Or if there's
a great game, a Sunday night game, that's a great game,

(46:57):
I'm just focused on the game now there's the agrees
at doing that, right, Yeah, I think it's and again,
like I think a lot of it just comes to
it's what I like to call the one pm window problem.
It's like, what are you watching on one pm Easter?
If it's if it's your team playing, you're obviously probably
gonna be watching your team. But if your team's off,

(47:18):
see on a bye week, what are you watching the
one pm Eastern window? Like, assuming, of course, you have
your option of a game you can pick and it's
not there's not a clear marquee game and you're not
going multiple box, and you don't have the option of
Sunday ticket like you you have to kind of be
selective about what you're picking and choosing. So you're going

(47:39):
to look for whatever it has the most personal draw
to you. And that might be you have players in fantasy,
that might be you have a bet on it, or
it might just be that you just really like some
of the individual players that are playing on or you
want to see a certain morning. Yes, I I don't
know about you guys, Like you think I'm enamored by quarterbacks,

(47:59):
it is day like to me, I could watch any
game with a good quarterback, like I could sit down
and watch it and and just enjoy the heck of
it without fantasy my team, whatever, it is, just to
watch quarterback play, like I could watch Justin Herbert all
day long. Man. I there's there's like ten quarterbacks that
I'm really looking forward to watching this year. There's a

(48:22):
bunch of offenses that I think are gonna be really
really interesting. Are you like that? Yeah, I'm with you.
But I think that goes to, you know, Chris's point
as far as we watch football for the sport itself
and for the competition aspect of it. As a look,
it's not like we don't watch for the other stuff,
the fantasy. We all have fantasy teams, we have for
our favorite teams that we watch. But I mean you

(48:43):
mentioned Justin Herbert. All right, the Chiefs and Chargers played
start off Week two on Thursday night. We're all watching that, right,
regardless if we have any stake in the game, if
if it's our favorite team or a fantasy player. Because
it's two of the best quarterbacks and then two of
the best teams in the entire league squaring off, that's
motor vasion enough without any external factors. But if you

(49:03):
look at there's a friend of mine, perfect example, she
only watches football when she has a fantasy team. This
past year she didn't have one, so she really didn't
care that much starting up the league. And this year
she's gonna be in it, and now she'll be willing
to sit there and watch and and hang out with
our group and be able to watch and pay attention
because she needs that external motivation to be able to watch.
Absolutely that she has no interest whatsoever. So I think

(49:25):
we're kind of like the old school, the old guard
We watched just to watch because we love the sport
and we love the matchups. And uh, to Chris's point,
you you cast a wider net when you can have
all these other people be able to tune in for
whatever reason they decided to tune in. And I think
that's a smart aspect of what the NFL has done
by embracing the gambling and embracing the fantasy football aspect

(49:47):
of I mean, there's a lot of reasons to like.
It's availability to like again, when I was in my
earlier twenties and I could just sit at home on
Saturday and just watch every college football game I did.
Now I can't really do that anymore. I would love
to do that, so I have to be a little
more selective about that. So I imagine it might be
the same for someone for the NFL. Maybe one spon time,

(50:09):
you could watch four games on a you know, picture
and picture and picture or split screen or something. But heaven, yeah,
now I don't some some people just can't do that.
They might have to tell you. I know, I think
God forgive me, all right, so I'm gonna I'm gonna
bitch and moti for one second, and please don't judge me.

(50:32):
But the only bad thing about the fall, right is
moss ball. It's full baseball. And he's in these tournaments, right,
And if you're learning, you're learning very quickly. What can
what can make you selective about what you can watch?

(50:52):
My God, now I will tell you that. Like, so
Anthony has football, right, so it's it's awesome. But there's
a couple of games and he has on a Sunday.
I'm like, no, why Sunday? Don't schedule football games on
the sunset? You have to draw a petition to the league,

(51:13):
if there's a little if there's a commissioner or something like, hey, man,
this isn't gonna fly. So, I mean, it's one thing
I don't understand the parents that are doing like there's
they were once upon a time they were doing flag
football and they were playing games at one o'clock on
a Sunday. I'm going with you and I go the

(51:34):
same thing. I go, you do. So the minute they
were like they weren't feeling it. It was interesting they
did not take to it. This is when they were
This is a few years ago, so they were younger
and they didn't dig it. They didn't like the flag
aspect of it or whatever. This is the parents we're
talking about, notice the kid themselves. So they were like
they were to join it. So I'm like, listen, if

(51:55):
you guys aren't to join it, then I might blow
on a Sunday afternoon when I should be white work
and watching the Eagles and everybody else where you play,
you're playing flag. So I said, forget it. You can,
you don't have to go. And I went against my
normal Finnish the season out of selfishness. But then Anthony

(52:16):
I got him into playing, you know, acts, real football,
and this is the second year in fact, I say
your video, um, he's he's playing center and defensive tackle.
So I kind of hell of a reach, I'll say that,
ridiculous kind of I'm excited cause he's he's he played

(52:36):
seventh and eighth grade. He's in seventh grade, he's going
into seventh grade, and so he's a pretty big boy.
And uh so I like, I like lovely in his
first scrimmage, Like I love it, right, I freaking love it.
But between that and and the full baseball he Monsey
plays full travel baseball, I'm like, how am I gonna

(52:58):
do football baseball? And then you quench my thirst of
college football in the NFL, it's gonna be a lot
of finding the right app and the right streaming service
on your phone. The kids have a time out on
the sideline or something for of that, and I do
I have like a lot of jobs during football season,

(53:20):
like I like, as you know, like there's oh, I
do all kinds of things. So it's like, all right,
the beauty of football is the greatest. But man, it's
gonna be a it's gonna be a rough fall, buddy.
That's tough. It's good for you, And it sounds weird
to say because you're supporting your children, but they also sports,

(53:41):
I do. I love it, and I'm I made a
promise to myself if I ever had kids, right, you know,
I'd be there. I'd be there every which way when
it comes to sports. So I'm the one pushing all
this stuff, right, So whatever, I can't complain, Well, I know,
I know, and it's I know you're just sort of
toik in cheek the fact that you're gonna miss But dude,

(54:02):
don't spice schedule games and it's something you have to do. Man,
play with the morning by the morning. Yeah, why couldn't
they do it at in the morning? Exactly? Exactly? Oh
oh man. Anyway, I want to dive into the fantasy
aspect of it a little bit, all right, So I
want to I want you to take a look at
I have a I think a very good fantasy pick

(54:25):
and I want to run by you guys al right
at quarterback. M hmm, okay, all right, And I don't know.
If I don't know, here's the hint, Psycho Chris not
gonna like it, oh all right, And I gotta, I gotta.
I also need a little bit of raider offense because

(54:46):
I think that offense could be sick. You don't get
a lot of it this year. I think it's going
to at least I'm going out on a limb saying that,
Oh figgy, I need a little something something. All right. Uh,
we're the Fellas. As you can tell, we could get
giddy this time of the year right here on Fox
Sports Radio. All right, welcome back, fairless on a fine

(55:10):
fine Saturday morning. By the way, to see Texas has
a new quarterback, the big time transfer from Ohio States.
I kind of like it. Man. Well we'll see, you know,
Sark with another year under his belt, We'll see what happens.

(55:32):
They got an arch weight in the wings. Did you
see the top? I did any major surprises there for you,
by the way, none for me, to be honest, No,
I listen, I thought it was. I thought it was
you know, perfect um. The only thing that's interesting to
me is what I look at it. So you got

(55:55):
Obama as we thought, Ohio State, Uh, Georgia, Clemson, Notre Dame,
A and m Utah. I like that Utah team. Yeah,
they are a good that's a great program. You know.
Oh wedding. Hamm has been phenomenal his entire he really is.

(56:15):
And there are rumors that he might retire after last season.
He did decided not to do that. They have a
vetan veteran laden team coming back, so they I think
they are a dark horse for the playoff. I don't
think they'll make it, but I think they're a dark horse.
It's one of those that kind of they have to
kind of start good to start the year two, like Utah,
at least from what I remember of them. Every year
it's usually like there's always a bump for Utah. It's

(56:36):
usually around mid to late season. They usually get off
to a pretty good start, uh, and then it's it's
open down October ish November ish where they get a
hiccup that costs them. They are opening with a pretty
impressive game. They've been playing at Florida to open the season,
so I like that. And then Michigan number eight, I mean,

(56:56):
I don't know, I maybe have them up a little higher.
It's it's gonna be an interesting because, like I feel like,
like Georgia, Michigan's had a lot of their guys graduate,
so it's yeah, the difference with Georgia is they kind
of had that sustained level over the last year. They've
got they've got the Michigan similar to Michigan State to
a degree, people feel may have kind of caught lightning

(57:17):
in a bottle last year and things all just kind
of came together at the right time. So I don't
think Hardball is kind of he's earned a quote unquote
for his entire resume, but if for his Michigan resume,
I don't know if he's earned the right to be
placed in the top five based on how they finished
last season, because last season wasn't an anomaly considering how
things have gone in his Michigan tenure, you know, it

(57:38):
is a bit of anomaly. I still expected to come
down to the Big Ten, to come down to the
Ohio State Michigan game near the end of the year,
unless unless Michigan State is way ahead of schedule, which
I don't think they I think I honestly, I think
if we're talking about the two Michigan schools, I think
Michigan State was probably a little bit more of a
flash in the pan than Michigan was. To be honest
that I completely agree with that. Just Utah, real quick,

(58:01):
Utah schedule. Yeah you met you, Chris. That's gonna be
a great game. Saturday, September the third at Florida. Is
it just a great game? I think it's a late game,
but we'll be coming off that. Georgia at Oregon game
eleven pm Eastern is gonna be a tough swallow for
our friends not on the West coast here. But wait, wait, now,

(58:25):
what are you talking about? What Florida game three seven?
That's a seven eastern? Isn't it kick off seven? Excuse me,
I'm looking at I'm looking at AP news and it
says at Florida nine three, eleven pm e d T.
So I have no clue what that is. That it
will not be table we know for sure. Yeah. No,
it's seven o'clock on ESPN. That's that's right. But you

(58:49):
get to see uh, Anthony Richardson against the Utah defense,
which is always good. I like that kid man. Oh,
I mean people are thinking potentially top overall pick in
a year, in a year or two. Yeah, I think
he's uh, he's aefinitely keeping my eye on him among
other quarterbacks is here. We're we're gonna go through the quarterbacks.
Everyone do the Quarterback Watch every week on the program.

(59:11):
I'm hoping we're gonna be doing we're gonna be changing
up the format a lot, right, We're gonna do quarterback watch.
We got we gott you know, all of our breakdowns.
Like it's gonna be a whirlwind four hours, no meandering.
I'm not gonna bring up movies or or violations. I
got another violation, but real quickly, let me get him, alright, promise.

(59:33):
Uh Florida. Uh. Then they got Southern Utah, San Diego State,
Arizona State, Oregon State, so they could pretend that I
don't know if Florida is a tough game. It is.
That's not gonna on the road at Florida, that's all right.
Then they got four winners right there with with Southern Utah,

(59:54):
San Diego State, Arizona State. In argas, I would say,
don't sleep on San Diego State, but they definitely have
it in their favor that it's gonna be at home
and not in San Diego. But San Diego State is
not an easy out. And then they got back to
back at U c l A and then home at Sea. Yeah.
U c l A is gonna be a funny team

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to figure out this year. So a lot of people
are are decently high on them. They returned a lot
of people to UH and so I can see them
as a team that can get to come up and
maybe bite somebody. You know, that USC game is gonna
be fascinating because I don't know who's going to really
fear that game more because USC is coming to the
year at fourteen, and obviously with Lincoln Riley and everything like,

(01:00:35):
it's it's a lot of expectations for USC right out
of the gate, But at that point in the year,
like Utah, it might have the same expectations, if not higher. Yeah. Yeah,
then then they're at Watchington State, Arizona home, Stanford home,
and then November nine at Oregon. Where are you thinking

(01:00:56):
of Oregon? Oregon is up there too. They're they're excellent,
you know, even though they have lost a few players too.
But you get the new coach in there, you get
a new head coach from Georgia, you know, Like, I mean,
I like what Oregan has from a talent standpoint, They
certainly have a talent at roster. So I mean, look,
it would not surprise me if Utah and Oregon faced
each other in November nineteenth and then faced each other again,

(01:01:17):
because now you know, it's not a it's not a
conference for versus conference or division versus division. In the
PAC twelve, you know, whoever has the best with two
records are gonna face each other in the title game.
So I can see them potentially facing each other a
few weeks down the road too. I can see that happening. Uh.
Then you got Oregon is eleven, Oaky States, twelve. Carolina

(01:01:40):
is North Carolina State. Everybody's in love when ed see State.
They're gonna be an interesting team guys. Um, yeah, they
they A lot of people are are bullish on them
this year. I don't know if I am as much,
but that's another team that returns a lot of starters.
So I think that's that's the big reason why people
think that they can have a pretty big year this year.

(01:02:02):
The uh they are, they everybody knows how much hype
surrounds them. I mean it's just the you know, especially
since they won nine game last year. They beat Clemson
for the first time since twleven. You know, I mean,
that's gonna be interesting. I think a lot of that's
coming off that Clemson win. And look there's I mean

(01:02:25):
with Mario Christoval still kind of I know, Miami's ranked
sixteenth year, and pit's gonna see what life after Kenny
Pickett's light. But I NC State has a pretty good
shot to be the next team up in the A
C C. They're gonna have to jump the Clemson Hurtle
at some point, but like they've they'll they'll they'll have

(01:02:45):
plenty of chances to kind of clean up the rest
of that conference. Yeah, you look at him right when
you look at some of these teams, right, you look
at so you got NC State thirteam USC at fourteen,
Michigan State fifteen, the you comes in at sixteen, Like,
what's my ami going to be like? Because they do
have some talent. They do have some talent. It's just

(01:03:05):
it's hard in this new age of n I L
and transfers to figure out just how like when when
Kristal Ball got hired to Miami, it's clearly to get
the program back on track, to get to get everything
that they need. But I guess the question of my
running through my mind is okay, well is it's It's
kind of the same thing with USC. Everyone kind of expects,

(01:03:26):
you know, Lincoln Riley to land in USC and just
from the get from the get go, but you know,
coaches have to implement their systems. They have to get there.
You know, their their staff's ready and everyone on the
same page. And even and in college football it's a
lot of well, they gotta get their guys in there,
They got to get their recruits in there. So I
don't know how quickly it's going to be for USC

(01:03:46):
in Miami. I'm not saying they're cupboards bear, but like
I'll be curious to see what they are coming out
of the gate for both of them, because they're both
USC and Miami are very similar in those regards. Yeah, uh,
and then you got and then you keep going, you
got with you got pit Wisconsin, Arkansas, Kentucky. By the way,

(01:04:10):
did you see did you see the dust ups between
Stoops and uh? It's yeah, I mean Stoops isn't wrong though,
like like is not wrong too in that like, hey,
the football program is getting a lot of resources. We aren't.
But he's he's not wrong in that regard to I
find that fascinating that college basketball, even at a school

(01:04:33):
like Kentucky, which is a basketball school, it's still understood
that the football programs bringing you in a lot of
money and they are going to get a lot of
resources as a result of it. And by the way,
for all the money that Kalipar is making, what are
the results been for him, especially over the last five
six years. I think this is probably not the time
to start popping off as to what you need and

(01:04:53):
what other teams are like, Hey, I need, I need
all of this is like where where was Oh? Right,
it was Anthony Davis. It was the years of Anthony Davis.
I need you to win a tournament game and not
lose to a fifteen seat. How about that coach cow
Remember the year they lost? What did they lose in
the n I T? One year they did? Actually they
have gone to the n I T and lost in
one of the early rounds if I remember correctly. So, no,

(01:05:14):
I hear you. I you're you're You're right about that.
Speaking of the money, and we haven't taught touched about this,
you have talked about this yet, But my lord, how
about the big ten deal? Not bad scratch eight billion
dollars huh and like it stretched across multiple networks is
very smart. Well, I'm not going to enjoy flipping the

(01:05:38):
channels as much. But Fox obviously has invested a lot
in their big noon identity, right, they want that noon slot.
CBS had that three pm that you know, afternoon slot
with the SEC for a long time, and I think
they really enjoyed having that slot. They get it right
back with their part of the deal and NPC and NBC, CBS,

(01:06:01):
because I could a little track for a second, CBS
lost SEC completely. ESPN has essentially exclusive exclusivity for SEC
at this point. CBS lost the contract I think two
years ago. So I think is this year their last
year doing the SEC on CBS. I believe so. I
believe so. But then they'll have the Big Ten races,
the Big Ten starting next season. They had to do

(01:06:21):
it the SEC, so they'll have so ABC will do
the three thirty SEC games. Yeah. And by the way,
NBC like, there's not gonna be a ton of prime
time under the lights Notre Dame games because they try
not to play him too much. They almost never are. Yeah,
so it all works out very well for NBC, which
I mean even want to look towards the future where
if we can maybe nudge Notre Dame towards a conference.

(01:06:44):
NBC is no longer completely beholden to Notre Dame's contract
to keep them in the college football games. So maybe
that puts pressure on Notre Dame down the line to
join the Big ten. I don't know. Yeah, well I
thought so. I had on Kevin the Gandhi from the
A b C and HPN and coverage couge football. He
does the Big Show, and I was talking to Kevin

(01:07:05):
about this, and you know, he thought that Notre Dame,
which is like the prettiest girl in the room and
getting way. He used that analogy of waiting to be
you know, waiting to dance at keeps turn it down, Pete. Yeah,
but Notre Dame, You're gonna be well courted. Will get
Anthony back in the mix here in a second. But

(01:07:25):
I mean, look, there is they're recorded by the a SEC.
They have an unofficial partnership with the a CEC at
this point. Yeah, so, I mean it's if you're a
Notre Dame, there's no rush. You know, we talked about
this a little bit off the year Chris and I
did you know, there's no rush for them to have
to join the conference at this moment in time, until
the absolute last second when it's just untenable and they
have to join a conference. Why wouldn't you feel like
their independence it gives them flexibility on who they can play, it,

(01:07:49):
it plays a lot to their base and their brand,
like Notre Dame's fan base likes that they play independent. Yeah,
and the fact that you can pick and choose every
single soliditary opponent. Because the problem you're gonna run into
what if you're Notre Dame. You're not gonna be able
to maintain all of your traditional arrivals. You're not gonna
be able to play Army or Navy and USC. You
figure some games are always going to be there. USC

(01:08:10):
is probably always going to be on the schedule for them. Stanford,
you would hope, will always be on the schedule. But
you start joining a league like the Big Ten with
all these teams upwards of potentially sixteen teams or whatever,
you're just not gonna have that many open available slots
to be able to face that many, uh, the independent
squads outside of your conference. So so they're in a
very favorable position at this point in time when it

(01:08:31):
comes to the college football expansion, to just kind of
wait in the wings and do their own thing. And
he look, maybe they signed a shorter extension to remain
on NBC independent of the Big ten for a little bit.
I do think ultimately they're going to have to end
up joining a conference. The money is just gonna be
too big, you know. And as for how the how
the rankings are gonna go and how you qualify for
a postseason spot, you know, it's going to be more

(01:08:53):
well defined and they just won't be room for an
independent at that point. So, uh, that's gonna be something
that's in instinct to monitor. Moving forward with Notre Dame
and potentially joining a conference, we've lost a lot of
just room for independence in general. Like just Notre Dame's
kind of the last one standing. And again because the
NBCAL it's NBC deal, it's the only one they've got,

(01:09:14):
you know, So they're the only major independent left. By
the way, So you know b y US is joining
a conference now, going to the Big twelve. So I mean,
you really don't have any major school independence anymore, and
it's just gonna make it much more difficult for you
to be able to make a playoff run if you're
not affiliated with the conference. Well, uh, let's step aside
for a minute. Is the Fellas on Fox Sports Radio.

(01:09:35):
We'll get Anthony Gargano back on the mix. It's Kevin Figures,
Chris Perfett and Anthony Gargano. We're back with us. Coming
up next here on Fox Sports Radio. Fellas back here
on Fox Sports Radio. We'll hook back up with Anthony Gargano. Shortly.
It's Kevin Figures and Chris Perfett with you. We're just
taking gremlins. Man, We're just talking about the about college football.

(01:10:01):
Last segment, uh, and the expansion and the Big ten
TV contract. I mean, I think I read something earlier
this week that this Big ten Q TV contract is
like the fourth biggest, like in the history of TV
contracts when it comes to sporting sporting leagues. I mean, basically,
the Big Ten is just behind the NFL, the NBA
and Major League Baseball. That's not college football as a whole.

(01:10:23):
It is just a Big ten contract and tells you
where we're headed at this point and at the kids
still can't get a piece of it there, Chris, No,
it's uh, well, they're getting a little bit of with
n I L, but it's gonna feel pretty small compared
to what's being penned for a lot of these TV deals.
At the end of the day, and I can guarantee
you that is Like, I'm sure at some point the

(01:10:43):
SEC will come back and they'll get a TV deal
that is going to rival this. Maybe maybe not as
much because I feel like the SEC is pretty much
uniquely courting ABC and ESPN at this point, whereas this
one is inflated because you've got three networks all in
the league. But who knows, maybe at some point down
the line will start getting more of the tech companies involved,

(01:11:04):
like Apple TV and Amazon. We're obviously not part of
this deal, and we've kind of seen from the NFL
they want a piece of the live sporting content as well,
because I think they understand what it brings the streaming platforms. Oh,
they do, And this is kind of like an NFL
style deal that the Big Tin cut. By the way, Yeah, absolutely,
the NFL has it has it's a relationship with all

(01:11:24):
the different networks in the Big ten, I think very
smartly now in one since you can say they're kind
of fracturing, you know, fracturing themselves to a degree. I
have to flip from this channel to go to that channel,
to go to that channel. It's just more coverage. You
get more money out of the networks, which there's ultimately
all you want if you're Kevin Warren in the conference.
So I think it's the smartest move they can make.
And ESPN, by the way, when it's time for the
SEC contract to come up and go back to the

(01:11:46):
negotiating table, who's to say that that the SEC doesn't
say like, hey, Apple wants a piece or you know, Hulu,
I guess who was owned by Disney, so I guess
that would. But you know all these other different streaming sites,
what one a piece of it too? What are you
willing to give us ESPN to up to up the bill?
And I'm curious what's gonna here. Here's the part that's
gonna make me curious, Kevin, what this is gonna do

(01:12:10):
for every other conference that isn't the Big ten and
the sect Sisters of the Poor. Well, something I learned
very fascinating. They were doing the they were doing the
conference call or the meeting UH for the University of
California system in responds to the concerns over you know
u c l A. You know, the u c l

(01:12:30):
A didn't really let the regents know they were going
to be doing this move, and that caused the consternation
and tutting. But one of the things that came out
there that I found really fascinating is USC represented thirty
USC football represented of the worth of the Pack twelve
for any potential TV deals, and U C l A
adding on top of that together. That was so that

(01:12:52):
kind of blow. Well, I don't think the PAC twelve
is dead in the next few years like people like
I've seen some people postulated about, but it it does
speak very very large volumes. To hey, outside of those
two conferences, the value for these other conferences might not
be as high as we think. Maybe the a SEC
still has some value, especially on the basketball side and

(01:13:14):
carrying Clemson in Florida State, however long those two remain
in that conference. But I mean and that a CEC
obviously their contract being carried right now by ESPN. But
I'm gonna be curious as these other conferences start to
line up and look for more and there will always
be room for more college football programming, but I don't
think it's going to get anywhere close to what we're

(01:13:35):
seeing with the Big Ten the SEC, and that's gonna
just complicate matters as those two conferences pull ahead into
a future where they are just dominant both financially and
competitively dominant, more dominant than anyone else of their peers
at the Football Bowl, Subdivision or Division one A, whatever
you want to call it. You're further widening the gap

(01:13:56):
of the haves and the have not when it when
it comes to that, and yes, U c l a thing,
I'm surprised they didn't account for more of the viewership
when it comes to the Pack twelve. It's the biggest
market by far that was in the Pack twelve footprint,
and now that conference is gonna lose it. So yeah,
they're not gonna get anywhere close to what the Big
Tent is getting. I know George Clioff Coff has talked about,
you know, doing multiple platforms and having some streaming deals

(01:14:18):
and potentially TV deals, and Chris brought up a second
ago the fact that those late windows, those eleven fifteen
pm Eastern windows on a Saturday night, you know, when
you know, the four Letter Network and a bunch of
other networks have need to have something to put on.
So the PAC twelve I think will always be viable
from that standpoint, just to fill out time slots that
are undesirable for other major conferences. But the UC region

(01:14:41):
think is just a giant joke. Like someone some of
the that we're being said there, someone has a pipeline
to Gavin Newson, who's the governor of California, who probably
has some friends that work at cal Berkeley. They got
upset that U c l A Is essentially leaving them
and they're gonna be cost First of all, I say,
that's gonna cost them a lot of money. It really,
he isn't. It's not like they were making that much

(01:15:01):
from the Pack twelve TV deal anyway, because it was
so atrocious. They could think thank Larry Scott for that.
And they're upset because U c l A essentially is
leaving them in the lurch and headed to the Big Ten.
It's like, sorry, cal if your sports program was better,
maybe the Big Ten would have considered bringing you along.
And I think in the grand scheme maybe from an
expansion standpoint, they might be willing to take Stanford. They

(01:15:22):
certainly fit the academic pedigree when it comes to comes
to the Big Ten standard. If you're talking about bringing
a Notre Dame, that's a natural rivalry right there. Stanford
and Notre Dame is something that you could potentially do.
So Stanford would have a better chance of expanded to
the Big Ten than cow Wood. And I think colleges, Yeah,
they're just upset that they're being left in the lurch
by u c l A. And so it's like, well,

(01:15:43):
if we can't go, then nobody goes. Well. I think
it's it's a decision a lot of schools are going
to have to make very soon. It's how much do
we really like college football? Because at some point the
value of being this second tier in college football and
and getting the revenue from that is going to outweigh
demands that they have to of what you need to

(01:16:04):
pump into the program. Like, let's not forget u c
l A. Before this deal happened with them, they're going
to the Big Ten. The big story for u c
l A was how much debt they were in because
of their athletics program. Yeah, they were getting ready to
cut Olympic sports, yes, which is what they hang their
head on. And I'm sure that's got to be weighing
upon schools like Cal Berkeley or Utah or any of
these other schools that aren't s C who aren't u

(01:16:27):
c A, Like who aren't getting these massive contracts from CBS, NBC,
from all the three letter networks. Yeah, but that's also
not U c l A's fault, by the way. You know,
that's the thing. So they should they should not have
to feel guilty bausees because Cal Berkeley can't carry their
weight when it comes to that. You know, this is survival.
This is survival of the fittest going on right here.

(01:16:48):
It's college Football's college sports have always operated on that.
That's why I don't really sit around expecting parody at
any point, because this has always been an exercise of
the rich getting richer and eating the poor. It's always
been this way. And you know, certain teams have their
runs for for a couple of five, six years, and
then the cycle continues. Unless you're Nick Saban, you just
have a run of dominance for over a decade, which

(01:17:11):
we haven't really seen in in in a long period
of time. Uh. But yeah, And by the way, I
know the regents talked about them not U c l A.
Not being able to make a unilateral decision and the
board has to approve it. I don't think that that's
really the case, to be honest, LA is gonna make
this move. And if if the regents are saying like, well,
we can't. You guys can't make this movie because it's
gonna affect the student athletes. We're not gonna have student

(01:17:34):
athletes if we don't make this move because we don't
have any money. So you know which way is. You
can't tell me that you have the the the interest
of the athletes at heart when we're telling you that
the actual athletes might not even be available to play
because we can't afford to to do with that program
program with the funds that we have, I'll be curious
how much you see they can stay aflow considering now
they have to now finance a bunch of cross country trips.

(01:17:56):
I think they'll have more than enough money with the
TV money they're getting from the Big ten. I think
we have Cuz back because oh man, you want to
talk about frustrating these tech is running around. Man, we'll
keep an eye on yeah. Man, I don't know what.
I don't I hate it. I got I got so
much to say. A second ago, you got gremlins in

(01:18:18):
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(01:19:04):
but someone fed him after midnight. Can't help it. There's
nothing we're frustrating, Like I look forward to this like
these four hours. I enjoy this stuff. Like my my boys.
We get to hang out. So hopefully we're good for
the final half of the show coming up in twenty minutes,

(01:19:24):
we're gonna talk to the Geek. Now, the Geek was
with us last get keV You remember the geek vividly? Yes,
all right, so the Geek is back and he's gonna
help us with a little fantasy football draft because this
is uh, this is always a fun time for the draft.
The draft is oh, to me, the best part of

(01:19:46):
the of the fantasy football season. Don't you like the draft? PI? Yeah,
the draft is fun. Uh. The the amount of research
that some people go into it is just absolutely insane
to me. You know. Uh, people act like they're actually
in school in class. With all the draft guides and
all the magazines and all the it's. It has turned
into humongous billion dollar business over the last decade or so.

(01:20:09):
It really is remarkable. I do enjoy the draft. I
enjoy the strategy of the draft, especially finding guys late.
You know that that's the diamond and the rough that
a lot of people won't know about. We definitely want
to ask the geek about that, for sure. I think
someone that no one's talking about. I think the fun
part of the drafts is one of my one of
my friends was doing this. But some guys really take
their their fancy draft parties very very seriously these days.

(01:20:33):
They are big affairs where you go away from all
the rest of your friends and family for a full day,
a lot of a lot of beverages and uh and
just sit there and just have a long, long draft period. Dude,
it's a black like. Some guys take go all. It's
like a retreat, go like rent out a ballroom at

(01:20:54):
a hotel and do a whole like slide presentation and
all sorts of really next level stuff. Yeah, I hear you,
I hear you. I'm I'm I'm, I'm like I love it.
But you know, these people, I'm I'm in awe sometimes
you know that what these people do, how elaborate they are,

(01:21:15):
you know, like some of these drafts are just incredible.
But I like those drests, like when you're in person
more than just like you're in your kitchen table like Belichick.
I guess it depends. It depends on the group that
I'm with. I'll say it that way too. Sometimes someone's
like just really insufferable and talking trash for no reason
and I just rather not deal with it. And here

(01:21:36):
I'm hoping it's just your friends, you know what i mean. Like,
I mean, that's kind of what that's kind of where
we're at. We're gonna get into, uh, we'll get into
all that stuff coming up with so make sure you guys,
is good fantasy primer for you guys. The geek is
one of these you know, crazy dudes. He is uh,
he was in like thirty five leagues, I want to

(01:21:57):
say something like that in the thirties, and he did
really well. He's a kind of a guru, uh geek
drafter like he does the the Yeah, I don't know
how you keep up with thirty thirty five fantasy team is.
I mean, you pretty much have pretty much every player

(01:22:18):
in the NFL on a roster somewhere on a fantasy team.
So it's almost like you can't even lose. That's just
the typ about paralysis by over analysis. Analysis like the
most that I that I've ever had. I think I
did five fantasy leagues one year, and it was just
way too much because and obviously at that point, you
have this defense playing going up against this quarterback, and

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you don't know which one to root for, which fantasy
league is more important than the other one. You know,
you have a certain amount tied up in this one,
in a certain amount tided up in that one. It
just gets really confusing, and you're just pulling your hair
out because you're pulled in thirteen fourteen, or if you're
if you're the geek thirty five different directions. It's just
really difficult. So I personally have scaled back when it

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comes to this year value of fantasy teams that I've
had over the last few years, I feel like it's
probably just healthy, healthier that way too, because becausein I
talked about it earlier in the show along with Chris.
Different reasons why people decide to watch football or get
into football fantasies. One. Gambling depending on where you are
is another. Love of the your individual team is another,

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and then love of the sport is another reason. And
so I find myself, I don't know if it's a
unique position or not, but wrapped up in in all
of them people that listen to the network, No that
I'm a I'm a big fan of the Raiders and
we'll seek them out whenever they're playing whoever they're playing against.
I also love my fantasy football teams, uh, but I

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also just love the sport of football in general. And look,
a good game, bad game doesn't bother me. We remember those,
you know, terrible Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguar London games or
Thursday night games back when they will put two bad
teams on, We'd still watch. I'd still tune in because
I love the sport regardless of the fact that whether

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or not, I have someone from my fantasy team UH
in that lineup, but it's changed everything, and honestly, I
think for the better. Look anytime you're able to bring
people in who are not usually a fan of a sport.
And Chris brought this up earlier as well, making the
n c Double A tournament connection. There are people who
will not watch a single second of college basketball all

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season long, but they have skin in the game with
the n c Double A Tournament because of their brackets,
and he gets them to watch. And that's something that
fantasy football has been able to do UH in the
NFL for as well. You know I mentioned earlier there
was a friend of mine who is not the biggest
NFL fan. She'll watch, but for the first time in

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a while, she didn't have a fantasy team last year
and she really could care less about what was happening.
Fast forward to this year, we have a fantasy team
that are excuse me, a fantasy league that we're starting backup.
She's gonna be in it, and she's gonna be well
dialed into being able to watch the sport. It's because
it gives her an incentive to stay engaged. UM, but
I'm a treged, you know, by the draft this year.

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For so many years, you know, Christian McCaffrey has always
been at the top of the list. He's someone that
I have taken what would I say, two of the
last three years or three to the last four years,
whatever it's been, if I've had the top three pick,
and for whatever reason, I've always been at the top
of the draft these last couple of years. And I've
taken him and he's bitten me a few times. So
he kind of scares you off. You know. That's some
something that I want to be able to ask the

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geek about Derry Kinry is gonna fall off a cliff
at some point. Nobody knows when. But when you're running
back who carries the ball as often as he does,
you run as physically as he does, there's gonna be
ah precipitous fall. I'm not predicting that it's gonna happen
this year. I don't believe that's gonna happen, but it's
gonna be one of those. He's gonna be the first
or second pick of a draft in a year or

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two or three, and he's not gonna have that same production.
And we've seen a little bit of a shift away
from running backs in certain leagues, and it all depends
on what the the format of your league is at
a at a given time. Uh But look, if you
have a a back that can be a big time receiver,
then obviously he's gonna be print premium. That's gonna be
someone like a Jonathan Taylor from Indianapolis, who I believe

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is the only non quarterback in the top five or
top seven list of m VP candidates coming into this season.
And that's because he's such uh so dynamic as a
dual threat for Indianapolis. But you see some other team
or some other players at the top, Austin Nickeler, I
think he's gotten a lot of juice, especially if you're
playing in the PPR league. UM Joe Mixon obviously for

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the Cincinnati Bengals, who splits carries at times, and he
probably shouldn't probably should be able to be a bell
cow and get the majority of the reps on his own.
Uh So, from a fantasy standpoint, it's gonna be a
very interesting season as it typically is. I do want
to talk on the field a little bit. Um So,
we saw the Patriots against the Panthers on Friday Night,

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Baches pick up a victory. But that's not really the
important part. The important part is Mac Jones and the
controversy going along in camp with the Patriots not having
an offensive coordinator, Joe Judge and Ma Patricia splitting the duties.
Matt Patricia was the only one calling the plays on
Friday Night. UH and Mac Jones had three series had
two three and Ounce had a big past pass plate

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to Nelson Agloor in the final drive that he played
in and they were able to get a touchdown. And like,
we kind of ragged on the Patriots decision making last week,
and why would you annoint Ma Patricia to be the
offensive coordinator and we kind of ran down some of
the reasons as to why that may have been the case.
I do ultimately believe that the Patriots will be able
to figure this out. Bill Belichick is not an idiot,
He's not a moron. And to be an effective coach

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in the NFL, to be a coordinator at the NFL level,
you have to have a basic understanding of all facets
of the game. Ma Patricia was a very successful defensive
coordinator with the Patriots. You tell him you he was
gonna be a successful defensive coordinator without knowing anything about offense. Now. Look,
I don't think it was the greatest decision to necessarily
annoy him as offensive coordinator either, but it's to be

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a bit of a learning curve for him and for
Mac Jones, and I think they can find a way
to put it together. I do think they can have
a competitive, competitive season this year. Now it's gonna be
too hard and hard in the a f C East,
Buffalo is not going anywhere. They're gonna be one of
the best teams in the NFL. And I do expect
a lot from Miami, not because I'm the biggest fan
of TOA, but I'm a big fan of everything they
put around to UH and I think the prospects for

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them are very high. I'm not willing to jump completely
off of the Patriot train. I don't think they're gonna
make a major impact, but I do think they're gonna
be able to compete for a playoff spot. It's just hard.
It's just hard when you hear, like, hey, Mac Jones
is the second year quarterback who I didn't really see
much out of him the first year. Suddenly he's like
most reports out there's like, hey, he doesn't look as

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good as last year. And again, maybe this is the
training camp thing, but you look at the whole roster
and they they've got some good pieces, but there's nothing
in there that really stands out for you, and like,
it doesn't. It just doesn't feel like Patriots of old.
And I know that's hard to hold that on Mac
Jones and everyone else, but you just start it's it's
little things right with the Patriots. Everything just starts to
add up together and together and together, and that's when

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the dark doubt really really sets in. And I just
I don't know, we've already seen the last year Pete
questions come out about Pete Carroll about how he's adapting
with changing times in Seattle, and I've got to look
at Bill Belichick and wonder, like, especially with the offensive
coordinator situation here, it's just maybe he just doesn't want

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to bring in someone new at this point. He he
he has the guys he trusts at this point, but
he doesn't really have anyone to take over the whole
left by Josh McDaniels. It's it's very odd. Yeah, now
we'll say the first time that Josh McDaniels left New
England and took the Denver job. They didn't hire an
offensive coordinator in name, and I don't really know who
called the plays. It was fairly nebulous that year. Some

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say that Bill Belichick was actually calling the plays. Some
are saying that, hey, the quarterbacks coach was kind of
relaying a couple of three or four or five plays
into Tom Brady and he was kind of making his
own decision on the fly. The difference there, and as
Chris brought up, mcjones is in year two, and really
he had some up and down situations last year as
a rookie, as most rookies do. So this is a rookie,
This is a quarterback in year two with a brand

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new play caller. You just don't know what to expect.
Like he has the greatest weapons. I do like Romandre Stevenson.
If we're talking about fantasy. By the way, I think
it'll be a good pick in the backfield for the
Patriots for for them, but I think we have Anthony
Gargano back in the mix. And alright, fingers, all right,
that's corals, our fingers hold this thing together with some
some duct tape. Man. I mean he's in the whole

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role here, Chris working overtime, running around like a psycho. Yes, yes,
you're doing great job, psycho. All right, Um, I heard
you talking about the Patriots. Uh, let me give you
the quarterback that I was talking about. Oh yes, yes,
the quarterback that may surprise us that you like in

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fantasy this year. Yeah, I actually love him this year
and you can get him late later. It's Kirk Cousins.
See I can see that. Yeah. I think the change
coaching change. And you look at those receivers and his
weapons he's gotten. He's core throw all day long. Yes, yeah, absolutely,

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and they're gonna open it up offensively. You got Jefferson
one of the best receivers in the league. Dealing is
not going anywhere. Cook can catch the ball out of
the backfield. By the way, you know, like they're gonna
be one of the best. I still think they're gonna
be one of the better offenses in the NFC. To
kJ Osborne, I mean I like k j Osborne. Yeah so,
and by the way, there there's a bit of a
sea change on the defensive side, obviously with a Zimmer

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out and they have their cycling and some younger players.
They could be one of those teams that gets involved
in a lot of shootouts. And yeah, you're right, good
value for Kirk Cousins. You can definitely get him like
in the double digits, depending on how big your your
league is. And you know, people go Kirk like Kirk
Cousins is like you, which is weird. I feel like
Kirk Cousins is one of those guys have like if

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you put his stats up but no picture. Yeah, this
is a pretty dark good quarterback right right, right right,
He's one of those exactly exactly. It's it's uncanvy because
you go because I was telling somebody I was looking
at them, dude, that's they're going to just throw the
football all day long. They're gonna have to because your
defense isn't that good. And I keep looking at Minnesota

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going with those weapons. I mean, all day long, you're
gonna have Cousins is gonna be slinging it and I
and listen especially, I was gonna say, especially for fantasy,
were you're looking at two things. You're looking at just
how many times they're gonna be completing passes because most
people are going on PPR at this point. But like
you know, completion percentage, and then you're gonna I think

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the one question I'm gonna have for the new offenses
like how many passing touchdowns are we gonna get out
of Kirk Cousins. They're not just gonna try to ram
the ball in with Dalvin Cook. But I think there's
a good chance that their red zone offense will evolve
and that'll keep Kirk Cousins in the play, as you say,
for fantasy, and I'll make him intriguing fantasy pick for
sure if we won't have the ground legs that has

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made guys like Patrick Mahomes really singing past years. But
as long as you have the receiving touchdowns, that's all
that matters. By the way, I've had her Cousins as
my starting quarterback. Now I didn't draft him that way initially,
but I forget exactly who I had. But basically, after
like Week seven, he was my quarterback. The remainder of
the year did pretty darn well. And this was Washington
her Cousins. This wasn't even in Minnesota when you have

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fewer weapons. Cousins is a is a good, not great,
but a very good fantasy quarterback and potential to be
great this year because the guy, as you mentioned, with
all the weapons that he has in the amount of times,
are probably gonna throw exactly exactly, all right, So I
want to go through. Coming up, we're gonna have the
Geek to give us a draft primer. So guys that

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you could target late, how you would set up your
first round so and then feel free, boys like to
to pepper into some questions. We got him for a
good chunk of time. So we're gonna get the Geek
coming up, and they'll forget the big brain on. Brad's
also a betting analyst. He's a fantasy not as well.
So we want to give you a little fantasy problem.

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We know that drafts are coming up and all that stuff,
so we want to give you a little primer with
your fantasy. That's coming up next with the Geek where
the fellas. Hopefully I'm there for the interview right here
on Fox Sports Radio. All right, welcome back, fellas, little
fantasy geek. All right, we're gonna geek out with the man.

(01:34:26):
He's a he's a legend in fantasy circles. Between his
season long endeavors and his daily fantasy He's got like.
He has a thing called the DFS Army. He's got
an app called the sharp app, which is ridiculous with props.

(01:34:47):
He's the guru of gurup. So we needed him for
our draft primer. Welcome back, geek. What's going on? Fellas?
Good to be back this sen happy two man? Are
you out of your mind? What he's studying? Listen? This
is the time of year. It's it's drafting. This is
my favorite time of the year. If you love fantasy football,

(01:35:09):
you know I love drafting my team and that's the
best part, figuring out the strategy. How are we going
to approach the draft this season? What are we doing?
What changed from last year? So this is my favorite
time of year. I love it. I'm in the I'm
in the basement, my advisors on a gottle pencil tucked
behind my ear. You're like Ace Rothstein, all right, I

(01:35:34):
gotta I got a couple of things for you, and
then we're gonna open it up to the to the guys.
But let's get it started with a little bit of
uh some how you would attack the first round, all right,
because before we get in, because everybody wants the sleepers.
Everyone wants to know a bunch of guys that you're
gonna target. But let's go first of all strategy for

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your first round because I think for now wide receivers
are going to be in the mix early. Is that right? Yeah?
I mean it's this is the seed change. For two,
we saw last year that wide receivers were actually more consistent.
Elite wide receivers were more consistent than elite running backs

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for two reasons. One just that the NFL has just
become more of a passing league. The rules have changed.
The defensive backs just can't do what they used to
be able to do in terms of, uh, you know,
getting their hands on wide receivers. So you know, guys
like Cooper Cup and Jefferson and and and Chase. These
guys were remarkably consistent last year relative to running backs,

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and running backs have that injury factor that's so much higher.
So this season, basically, the way the first round is going.
If you've got one of the first two picks, there's
a battle happening, all right, and it is that the
running back position. Because you have two super elite running
backs in Jonathan Taylor and Christian McCaffrey, and the battle
at the top is about do you believe that Christian
McCaffrey can stay healthy. It's that simple, because band alone,

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it's always gonna be. McCaffrey is the best fantasy asset
because he's a running back and a wide receiver all
in one. But can he stay healthy? So there's a
little battle at the top, but those are the top
two guys. As soon as we get past Taylor and McCaffrey,
how would you real quick, how would you look at
how would you can handicap that? Like if if you
got that, who are you taking? Because I'm gonna tell

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you I'm gonna leaving McCaffrey. Man. You know, it's it's
a risk tolerance thing. You know. You take McCaffrey and
he gets hurt again and it's just the stomach. It's
the gut punch. Where Jonathan Taylor he's never even questionable
like he is, he's gonna tank so far. So I
think I think I'm gonna lean personally McCaffrey. But I mean,
I'm sorry, I'm gonna lean Taylor number one, just for

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that safety. But I absolutely believe that on a game
over game basis, McCaffrey will outscore him for games that
he plays in. So you know, it's just a risk
tolerance thing, but it's gonna be Taylor for me, alright,
So how do you then break up the rest of
the first round. So this is where it gets interesting.
Right after those two we get to our super elite
wide wide receivers. And you talked about Cousins, kirk Husins before.

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Justin Jefferson, Cooper Cup, and Jamaar Chase are your trio, right,
and there's another battle going on, and actually the high
stakes players are now favoring Justin Jefferson ever so slightly
above Cooper Cup. I'm not sure I agree with that
um favoritism. I personally favorite Cooper Cup. Still, I think

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people think that might take a miniscule step back with
the emergence of Allen Robinson for the Rams. But you know,
it's all splitting hairs. The important thing is, don't be
scared to take one of these three super elite wide
receivers if McCaffrey and Taylor are off the board, primarily
because there are great running backs available in round two

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round three. I'm gonna give you a name in round
two for example, So let's say your pick to throw
your three four five, and you didn't get your what
we call hero running back in the first round. Instead
you took a super elite wide receiver. Al Camara is
hanging out in round two. He's just sitting there. He's
just sitting there. People forgot that albut Camara is good. Right.

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The word is that he will not be suspended this year.
His legal issue probably gonna be pushed out to next year.
But the field hasn't really caught up with the fact
that this is albu Camara. He should actually be going
in the first round right after Michael Thomas back. Yeah, well,
and I think that helps him. I think all better offense. Yeah,

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it's gonna be a much more the box. You've got
Michael Thomas, you got Jamie's I mean I think that. Yeah,
I think the Saint's offense could be pretty good. Looks
like potentially maybe the best of the rookie wide. I
mean he's up there, so yeah, I mean and and
and uh and Jarvis Landry. I mean, everybody forgot about
Jarvis Landry in the slot. So there's a lot to

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like about Al come here, you get him in the
second round and in the third round. Travis E. T
n is hanging out. There's other names, so you can
really get some incredible running back count in that second
and third round. If you go hero wide receiver in
round one, and that's a that's an approach I'm using uma.

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The doug ep said James Robinson will be the number
one back for the Jaguars. Man, I don't believe it,
he said. He expects it to be ready for week
one in the A t N. The A t N
truthers like yourself are nervous. You know, I don't know

(01:40:41):
if the injuries not matter anymore? How are you guys
are coming back from Achilles? We thought Ken Akers come
back in like three weeks. I don't even understand what's happening.
You know, Chiles was a two year injury when I
when I was a kid, you know, like you loved
maybe we got superheroes. I love it. I don't know
doctor is using uh Jedi to heal people. I don't

(01:41:06):
know what's going on out there, but yeah, I mean,
it's hard to trust that these injured players won't come back.
But it's really hard for me to believe. Each Han
is such an explosive player. I like him. I'm taking
my shots there but yeah, James Robinson, looming does not
make me feel good. No, I don't want sit tight
because my man, the fig has some trending. I know,

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Figure a question or two for you. Take it away, Fig. Alright,
well go jump to Major League Baseball. The Yankees are
really caught in the struggle. They have lost fourteen of
their last eighteen contest free falling Friday night, seven inning,
seven strikeout performance from Kevin Gausman of the Blue Jays
Toronto a four nothing victory over New York and Dodgers,
improving their records and six post All Star Break. They

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would beat the Marlins two to one. The Cardinals beat
Arizona five to one for their fifth consecutive victory, twins
beating Texas two to one for their fourth trade win.
They have a one game that excuse me. They are
one game behind Cleveland in the Ale Central Waste. Cleveland
getting seven innings and fourteen strikeouts from Tristan mackenzie and
a five to two went over the White Sox, Mariners, Braves,
and Mets with victories. Washington rallying for three runs against

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Josh Hayter and the Padres for a six to three victory.
NFL preseason Packers beat the Saints as Jordan Loft would
touchdown pass. Mac Jones won four of eight for sixty
one yards in three series as the Patriots defeated Carolina.
Back to the fellas Ah, that's us and joined by
the Geek, our fantasy football expert. You have a great

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app called the Sharp App, and that helps you not
only with fantasy but also with Betty props and games
and everything else. Yeah, on the Sharp App, we've got
our We've got our projection models for the players tied
into every prop for every every game. So if you
like to bet props, fantasy props especially, you gotta get
on there. You'll see, you know, we've got predictions for

(01:42:56):
yardage touched on everything for every player. It's really really
nice organized and definitely check it out. Um, so I
can't you know, I can't leave it without we we've
got to talk about some of the hype. We've got
hype going on some of these players, and and I
think in standard leagues and leagues against your buddies, they're
not going to know about some of these players, which

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I think can give the audience like a real advantage
in dress. And one guy I want to talk about
in particular that I think you know. It could go
a lot of different ways, but one of the ways
this goes is he wins you your league this season
by far, is Isaiah Pacheco running Chiefs. You know, Rutgers,

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Rutgers right leader, leader amongst men, captain, two year captain
of his team, had an opportunity to go to a
better team, said no, I'm staying with my guys. This
guy had a speed score. Every metric on this kid
is spectacular sevens. I believe he was picked in the
seventh round. No one heard of him. No one knows

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he's already essentially been named the RB two for the
Kansas City Chiefs. Now picture if you will. You know,
no one likes Clyde Edwards Hilaire. This is not a
guy anybody's excited about. He's had a rough start to
his career. If Pacheco can get it, gets elevated to
the RB one spot for the Kansas City Chiefs. You know,

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if we knew that today, we'd be drafting him in
round one. We've been taking him round. This is the
kind of player that you want on your fantasy bench
every year, not just this year. Everywhere. You want one
hit away running backs, especially ones that appear to be
talented that are rising. I remember last year we were
talking a couple of years ago, it was James Robinson

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actually that we were talking about as this undrafted guy
who just looked amazing in camp and he's coming out
of nowhere and he had a spectacular rookie year. Last
year it was Elijah Mitchell. You know, people are talking
to Elijah Mitchell. Who is this guy is supposed to
be Trey Sermon this year it could be Isaiah Pacheco.
So I think he's an easy guy to get very

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late in your draft. Don't wait too long. He's already
in high stakes league. He's shooting up the board. He's
already from ninth round, ten rounds, whole story. But those
are high stakes leagues right where people are hyper aware
of everything that's going on. In your home league. This
guy will be forgotten, no, you know, fourteen round hopefully.

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So that's a guy want everybody to get on their bench.
He's gonna cost you nothing, but he could win you
You're just single handedly. That's a guy that can win
you your league this year. So make sure to get
a piece of Isaiah Pacheco. I like it. I like it, Figgy,
What are you thinking? I'm looking at Green Bay knowing
that Davon Adams is now in Las Vegas. Obviously his

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fantasy numbers speak for themselves. But who are going to
be the top targets for Aaron Rodgers. I know there's
been a lot of hype around this, a Romeo Dobbs
kid from Nevada, thinking that he might be the guy
that emerges as the top target. From a fantasy standpoint,
Who on Green Bay's roster do you think would be
a good pickup because most likely none of these guys
are going to go very high. No, And I think, um,

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I think actually the hype on Alan Lazard is a
little too much at this point. He's already kind of
elevated in a DP a little bit further than where
I'd be comfortable taking him. I loved him in the
off season, you know, an off season bestball where he
was super late. But it's Aaron Jones. Aaron Jones is
the biggest beneficiary of all of this. You know, you know,
I played DFS uh, you know, essentially professionally, That's what

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I do um primarily and one of our automatics was
if if Davante Adams is out, you're playing Aaron Jones
that week. That was just what you did, right. And
Aaron Jones becomes the touchdown machine because the way Aaron
Rodgers plays his style, they don't really run for they
like to throw for touchdowns. But Aaron Jones catches touchdown

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passes right. He is a fact that's heavily used in
the passing game. And again, Aaron Rodgers not a guy.
I know about the doves hype, I'm seeing it, But
if we go back to Aaron Rodgers career, this is
not a quarterback who likes rookie wide receivers. Even Davante
Adams took a couple of years to marinate in that

(01:47:18):
offense before he emerged. He's very much a system guy.
He's very similar to you know, Peyton Manning or Tom
Brady in that way where he needs his guys. He
needs to be in the in the mind meld with
his wide receivers. That just doesn't happen as frequently with rookies.
So for me on that teven, Aaron Jones just just
I would you know Lazard is there and if he's

(01:47:38):
available late, great, but if he's kind of going a
little too high, people a little too excited about him.
I'm not gonna get too hyped on those rookies. I'm
gonna let that Romeo Doves. I'll let somebody else believe
the Romeo Doves type. I'm not ready to anoint him
the next Avante Adams, Chris, where do you got for
the Yeah? Geek may Achilles And every fantasy draft I've

(01:47:59):
ever had seems to be the tight end position. It
seems that it's it's either I. It's either I wait
too late on a tight end and just I I
find myself stuck in a quagmire of just guys who
are just utterly passable, Like I had to rely on
Tyler uh Tyler Higbee last year. It's a good a

(01:48:20):
good tight end, but yeah, no fantasy numbers what to
speak of. Whereas but then I know some other people
who will just go straight and go for the premium.
There's no one like Gronk anymore. But I feel like
outside of like I don't know Kelsey Kittle and like
maybe pits Now and Waller, like I I feel I'm
wondering when the good time is to find a tight end,

(01:48:42):
and if there's any hope of finding someone a little
bit later, that just might be that just might be
go under the radar a bit and isn't just one
of these high premium tight ends where I have to
walk the tight rope of when do I draft him?
You know, I love that you asked this question. Um,
I do so, and you named a couple of good guys.
So one of the things that I talk about when

(01:49:04):
you're when you're drafting is luxury tight end, luxury quarterback.
I'm a firm believer not taking luxury quarterbacks or tight
ends meeting. I don't want to be anywhere near the
top six guys in my draft that are taking either
of those positions. Right So at tight end, there's a
couple of names late that you can get that are

(01:49:26):
actually spectacular. They're going there their target machines and they'll
give you just as much production. Is probably some of
the names that you mentioned, like fits I'm not touching
Pits this year. I don't I don't get it going
too high. George Kittle same thing. I'm not touching team
this year. He's going way too high for a guy
on a team that's not going to throw the football

(01:49:46):
very frequently. You know who I do like? I do
like Mr zach Ertz. Oh yeah, I mean Ken targets
per games, the number one wide receiver for the Arizona
Carr He's the number one wide receiver Christie Volume Galore.
And I'm gonna tell you brosted tips didn't go over

(01:50:07):
well in Philadelphia, but it does go over well in Arizona.
That's where the frosted tips was invented. So you've got
zach ert Now, speaking of Philadelphia, under name that I
love late is Dallas Goddard. This guy so good. He's

(01:50:27):
got a great connection with Jalen Hurts. Jalen Hurts does
not have the greatest of deep ball accuracy, I'm sorry
to say, because not the greatest, but he can hit
the tight and been stride up the middle. So you know,
young quarterbacks they like you know, they like that safety
valveot the Titan. We've been waiting for Dallas Goddard to

(01:50:47):
not have zach Ertz. They're sort of sucking up half
of the targets. You can get him much later in
the draft. He's currently the eighth tight end going off
the board, so you're talking seventh round either one of
those two guys, I think you're gonna be doing really
well after those two go. Dawston Knox is hanging out

(01:51:08):
as well, So there really are some good options. Like
I don't think you need to reach for a tight
end early to see Yeah, I like that a lot.
I'm just I'm just fascinating because like I'm looking at
some of the names again, Like I love Noah Fan,
but where he is in Seattle right now, I guess
that that might put him a little bit later. It's
it's hard. It's just some of the stay away from, Yeah,
stay away from, stay away from all things Sea. I

(01:51:31):
believe Seattle is the actual worst team in the NFL
this year. They may take the title from my beloved
New York Jets as the worst team this year. So
I don't want anything to do with that Seattle offense.
And you know, do you know Vins at the helm,
that's just crazy. Give me, guys, give me, give me geek,
give me this, give me a quarterback for the positions,

(01:51:52):
and we got like two minutes to go through like quarterback, receiver,
running back, tight end that you would definitely be on
your team, like a guy, like you know, you go
like I brought up Kirk Cousins. Obviously you want your
league guys, But Kirk Cousins, I think he's gonna throw
the ball and I think it's gonna give you stats.
So give me guys that you know you can't go

(01:52:12):
wrong with with a quarterback, receiver, and running back, tight end.
We're not going to cheat with this one and go
for the best guy. So I'm gonna give you guys
who I love it their a D p um that
you can get a little bit later. Right, So starting
at the quarterback position, give me Matt Stafford going QB
twelve overall, I'm fine with that. Essentially, he's the last
quarterback you're taking, the last quarterback being taken in your league,

(01:52:34):
so you can wait, really gain an advantage on your
league mates by being the last person to take a
quarter We can wait a couple extra rounds even after
a DP because they've all got their quarterbacks. So give
me Matt Stafford as a must have quarterback this year,
just at his a DP. Right at wide receiver, a
guy who I'm absolutely obsessed with is Michael Pittman. So

(01:52:57):
if I missed the hero wide receiver like early on,
you know if I didn't get my my cup Jefferson.
Of course I want those guys I love see I
like all the elite guys. But if I don't, if
I miss on that, Michael Pittman seems poised to break out,
Matt Ryan is a much better quarterback Carson Wentz or
whatever other garbage they've had. Quick because you're up against it,

(01:53:19):
so give me. Uh so you got give me a
running back? Yeah at the running back position? You know again?
DeAndre Swift is the guy again if I'm if I
can get him. I just love his outlook this season.
I love that he's used extensively in the passing game.
I know Jamal Williams is there, but he really doesn't
come in for the sexy snaps. It's it's gonna be

(01:53:39):
DeAndre Swift. He's super explosive. And of course Alvin Kamara,
who I mentioned earlier, just going way later than he should.
And let's see, Uh what else did we talk about?
You and the tight end? Just hang with Goddard nerds.
I'm sticking with those two. Uh, get him late in
your draft and you're gonna have advantages on your league
mates when you pick these when you're the last taking

(01:54:02):
a position group, but they give you production like one
of the early picks. That's how you when you're leading,
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(01:54:43):
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Where the fell is right here on Fox Sports Radio.
All right, welcome back Fellas on this Saturday morning, who

(01:55:09):
you like fake we're up with some of the players.
There's some of the guys that that you're you're kind
of circling. I think Darren Waller is probably gonna have
a big year one healthy again. Just returned to practice
this week, and they say he looks phenomenal. And by
Davante Adams, you gotta cover him, Hunter Renfro you gotta
cover him. And look, there were times when Waller was

(01:55:32):
healthy when they people couldn't cover him. He was double
cover because he's such a big target. He runs like
a receiver at the tight end position. I mean, I
think he's in line to have a really, really big
year because you just can't defend him. You can't defend
him when there aren't So he's a guy that I
will look out for. I agree. I listen, I think
Waller is a great I think he's because listen, I

(01:55:54):
think he's every bit of good, as good as kiddo,
as as you know, listen else he's Yeah, I think
Kelsey's is a cut above everybody, but I think wall
is right behind him. I I listened. I agree. I
think you're right home, brother, and I think you get
tremendous that like, if you're drafted fantasy wise, I think
you get tremendous value with a guy like Waller just

(01:56:17):
because of what he's gonna do, and that offense has
a chance to be really really o in a in
a in a crazy division where you're gonna need points, yeah,
and they're gonna roll up a lot of them. Even
the running back position is something a monitor too. I
know people have traditionally taken Josh Jacobs fairly high because
he's been the starter and maybe probably will be too here.

(01:56:39):
But you know, it wouldn't surprise but they drafted a
mere White out of Georgia and apparently they like him
a lot, so much so that Kenyan Drake could actually
be on the chopping block, could be traded or cut
at the end of camp. Would not surprise me that
if at some point this season as a mere White
ends up supplanting Josh Jacobs as the starter and gets
the bulk of the carry, so he might be a
guy to keep an eye on in your late late,

(01:56:59):
late late rounds. I like it. I like it, Chris
Geek said, Swift, that's in your territory. Yeah, it's it's funny.
I know, you know one of the big stories from
Hard Knocks how much Deuce Staley is pushing him. I think,
given given the way he plays, like the main format
for everyone in fantasy is now PBR and Swift is

(01:57:20):
absolutely a PPR monster in that regard because he's gonna
be catching and he's gonna be you know, rushing it in.
We've seen from the early preseason like they definitely he
is the main back of that that offense. They want
to use him. They want to use him as a
red zone threat. So I keep an eye on him,
and then I I'm I'm keep looking at aman Ross
st Brown. I know he had an obscene number of

(01:57:41):
catches last year, and even with an expanded, you know,
wide receiver room, I don't expect that to fall off.
He is clearly Jared Goff's favorite weapon to go to
just over the middle like that. So but I think
between Swift and st Brown that's where the Lions will
lean for fantasy. You know, It's funny. I got a
conversation with the Big Brain and he's gonna join us

(01:58:01):
coming up this hour about the lines. He's very bullish
on the Lions to go over their window. It's it's
a trendy gambling pick for sure. Yeah, that's gonna be interesting. Also,
next time we need to give us a little Hard
Knocks update. Well, uh, we've got lots to do, including
the Big Brain coming up next where the fella is

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That's right, that's us as we hang out on a
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this is our last college football Free Saturday, week zero,

(01:59:11):
one week from today at all commences. Cannot wait for that,
and we're getting you. Today's a foe to fantasy football.
We know that a lot of your fantasy football drafts
are this weekend right, are coming up over the next week.
Labor Day is a big that's next week, and then
we got the next two weeks is big draft time,

(01:59:31):
so we're giving you some primer. We had the Geek
on talking fantasy, and we'll have the big Brain a
little bit later on. He's another one of these fantasy
betting experts. Uh, and he's got some good stuff for
you as well. We'll give you our picks. So we're
having some fun with all that stuff. It is. Uh,

(01:59:53):
there's nothing better than the than the fantasy football season,
the draft and everything else. It's just a blast. It
absolutely so much fun. Uh. Did you guys? I'm just curious.
So Amazon debuted their new football song. Did I didn't
hear it? I'm diving here? Did you guys hear it?

(02:00:14):
I have heard it? Yes? What do you think? Uh,
it's okay, it's all It's not something that I it's
a loser. I'm like, like I dying to hear it. Yeah,
I am not really doesn't really. I used to love
like the themes, especially like the sports thing that the
SEC on CBS was always a favorite of mine, or
the round the roundball rock from n NBA on NBC,

(02:00:35):
which now FS one uses for its college basketball coverage
these days. Doesn't really register with me as much. I
don't know, I uh well, first off, I've got it
right here, and then I have my own thoughts on it.
But yeah, no, Brandon just rolled this in while we
were waiting here, So let me all right, let me
hear this the Amazon Okay, alright, alright, did the Amazon

(02:00:58):
New NFL beam for the Amazon games? They don't forget
that's al Michael's and who's a y Joe? Yeah, they
want some Monday night football. I'm so confused going into
this year. That's a lot of shuffling. It's crazy to
me because I'm such a big brocast. I love Herbie.

(02:01:20):
I'm a huge Herb Street fan. So al and Herbie
on Amazon. Take a listen to the theme. Wow, I

(02:02:11):
like it. I like it hasn't got a little Western
like I was gonna say. It sounds a lot like
you know, the Sam Spence you know, Autumn Thunder NFL
Films album, Like a lot of those old NFL films
themes like round Up and and uh and a new
a New game like all the It kind of fits

(02:02:31):
in that canon, that kind of that that seem kind
of orchestra variation. But it's also a little more fast
paced than that at the same time, which is that part.
I'm not vibing as much on it's it's a little
more frenetic than those, especially in the background with the
with the drums. Sounds like a little bit of a
remixed version of the NFL network theme if you ask me.

(02:02:53):
Oh yeah, just kind of sped up and souped up
a little bit. Yeah, it's definitely again that the FELM network. Yeah,
they're they're no for the bells. Yeah, they have the
bells in the background, which this doesn't. But the base
in the background of this one sounds like basically the
NFL network theme, but just sped up a little bit. Again,
I'm assuming that they're taking that from the NFL films

(02:03:15):
as well there too. It's versus something like Fox, where
I like the story on the Fox theme just because
it's it invokes Danny Elfman's Batman theme, which is one
of my favorites from from movies. Huh, which I was
not aware of, by the way. And yeah, there was
a great it was like way back, it was like
five years ago. Dead Spin did a great like article

(02:03:36):
on how that the the NFL and Fox came to be.
It was basically some Fox executive I just watched Batman,
Tim Burton's Batman from was like, I want to I
want a theme like that. I want a theme that
makes me feel like Batman for football. Huh all right,
so you guys you give it on a on a

(02:03:56):
football scale. I remember these themes like I still you know,
I'm still moved by these themes, these steves one to ten.
I mean, I liked it. I've given a solid seven. Hey,
what about what figure? You sound like more of a five? Six?
I'll give it a six seven. It's fine, it's six.

(02:04:16):
It's it's not it's not offensive, but it's not memorable either,
jumping out of my sea like, oh yeah, I'm feeling this.
I'm gonna go tackle somebody. Yeah. For for me. For me,
the top ones still NFL and Fox and I. It's
the memories of the uh college No, it's the college
football on on CBS that really gets me because I
used to go back to the archives when like we
had Brett on there and like him doing the intros

(02:04:40):
with the teams, or just hearing Verne lund quiz voice
over and just something about that really cheesy eighties style
music endears the college football on CBS to me. But yeah, agree, yeah,
I'm I love that one. That I mean the alternate
was the Monday Night one. I mean that was I
mean that was that was just like Conic. Yeah, I

(02:05:02):
like the I like the Fox. I like the CBS,
you know, like c It's growing on me. I didn't
like it initially. Uh they had the older the Older
theme for so long, but yeah, I like it. NBC
Sunday Night Football the theme is definitely in that same
vein as the Fox one, just very orchestral, very very dramatic. Yeah.

(02:05:27):
I like the orchestral sound with when it comes to football. Now,
this one sounds a lot more like it sounded like
a it would be the soundtrack of of like a
big Western movie. It definitely has like a theatrical field
to it, I'll say that, especially like the way a

(02:05:48):
little bit. I don't know if you can bring it
up low again there, Chris, but like he played it
for maybe about thirteen fourteen seconds and Nick Rscendo is
up and takes it up to a notch kind of
cute up in the middle of you want I could
go from the start, I guess, yeah, exactly what you
could do it like a brain like you're looking like
exactly exactly ex Lambo Fields. I'm trying to find it out.

(02:06:17):
You're looking right here at Lambo Field Packers rams. I
could see. I don't get me excited. Chiefs and writers
like I haven't get you. That's there. There is nothing

(02:06:38):
better then when you got a full day of of
NFL games. It's still a great. Okay, this is what
I was looking for. So like just just comparing what
we just heard to like something like this, Like that's
one of those like classic NFL films music that they use.
You know, you get the old clips of like Joe

(02:06:58):
Montana or whatever, and it's definitely going for that same vibe. Now,
I like it, say Western them. Yeah, yeah, actually, you're right.
I feel like that's what they're going for there. Actually,
I think that's spot all brother. I'm sorry I was
contuning you guys out. I was just hearing the voice

(02:07:19):
of Jona Facinda. You know, Dan Marino marching down the
bart Star sneaks in behind is a pirate that is
the greatest the Autumn winds of Pirates. Oh my god,
Steve says. The beginning part of that Amazon sounds like

(02:07:41):
Jurassic Park. M let's see that play that beginning again.
You can just keep that beginning up. Yeah, it's a
good here by Steve here it comes. Yeah, I'm like

(02:08:04):
a little super up. Yeah, like it ramps up to it. Yeah.
I just I think the temper is just what's gonna
throw a little too fast. I kind of yeah, maybe
I think the Sunday Night theme is somewhat fast. Yeah,
the NFL and fast. Correct, Yeah, the NFL, the NFL one,

(02:08:28):
it's it's yes, CBS one is definitely fast. I do
like if you guys brought it up earlier, the CBS
college football, you know the Verne Lonk it's very Mannheim steamroll. Hello,
good morning afternoon, dude. Did it's funny? Is like we're
you want to talk about Pavlov's dog, right, that's us,

(02:08:52):
Like we hear these themes and in our ears and
well you know what time it is, baby, that's right.
Football a Hard Knocks is here. It features the Lions,
Lions degenerate fans. Psycho Chris. Are you enjoying it? I'm

(02:09:13):
enjoying it. I thought this one, this one was was
pretty fun. It's been it's been fascinating to watch they
continue are keeping on with the uh theme of focusing
on the coach is usually like around this, you know,
hard knocks, you'll get a lot of guys who are
close to being cut or whatever they're they've really focused
on the coaching staff and and some young guys. I

(02:09:33):
think my favorite part was they have this h six
rounder U linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez, who they've kind of honed
in on. He's getting the nickname of Rodrigo. But there
was a really uncomfortable scene where Kelvin Shephard, the linebackers coach,
is like telling the whole linebackers room is like, I've
got coaches here who've been here five years saying this
this he's never seen another linebacker making these plays before.

(02:09:56):
And he's basically chewing out all the veteran linebackers who
are who is just like you know this, He's like this,
this guy is a six rounder. No offense to you, Rodrigo,
but like this guy is going for a starting job
right now. And I found that was was very cool.
But I think I think the funniest part had to
be like they the showcase. I mentioned his name earlier,
Ahmad ras st Brown, who emerged as just this insane

(02:10:20):
weapon for the Lions last year who by the way,
during during this name's all sixteen receivers who went before
him in one draft and their schools from memory on
hard knocks, it's, uh, it's not a chip on the
shoulder because it's a mountain. But that's incredible. But the
thing is also his father's John Brown, who's a two
time Mr Universe, you know, professional Bodybuillard and everything. John

(02:10:43):
Brown takes an there's a clip I wish I had
it here, but John Brown takes a random shot at
Kevin Durant during the during hard well because he's he's
he's being old head. He's being very like, you know,
you need a hydrate? Why why is everyone need to hydrate?
What happened to spit? And just But then he's talking
about why guys get hurt a lot. He's like, I

(02:11:05):
see all these guys you know, hurting injuring their achilles,
you know, and I want to tell him it's like
and they suddenly he's like, I want to ask a
guy like Kevin Duran's like, Kevin Durant, when's the last
time you did a calf raise? And it's just like wow, Okay,
here's this guy with the with the body what's I
forget what it's called. It's like that leather belt around
there he's got he's got a weightlifting belt on and everything,

(02:11:29):
old leather Brown weightlifting belt. And he just yelled like
Kevin Durant eate and doing no calf raises. But I
did see Kevin Durant, in characteristic of k D did
reply to him, replied to that on Twitter to the videos,
asking him when was the last time he did a
calf raise? And Katie said today I need to reply

(02:11:49):
as himself for one of his himself, not him there,
But I just I just found that very very fascinating.
John Brown is absolutely a bit of a character and
he should be. That is a very big football family
like Equinomicus st. Brown is now is you know, play
with the Packers now he's with the Bears, aman Ras

(02:12:10):
with the Lions and Osiris st Brown. I'm pretty sure
this is last year at Stanford can say it really is.
That's good stuff. We're gonna take Quicktio will come back,
the big brain on Brad give it some. We'll talk
some uh NFL futures with him and will also help
out with your fantasy and trends to look at early

(02:12:33):
in the NFL. So everybody's got like totals and a
lot of stuff. They're gonna look at this stuff early
in the NFL games where trends are gonna be a
big piece of it. The big brains got that, so
keep taking notes, gonna help you for your draft and
everything else. It's the Fellas every week right here on
Fox Sports Radio. Fellas ah Man, We're how did a blast?

(02:13:00):
Is always every Saturday morning hang out with us. Joining
us right now is the big brain Brad Feinberg. And
Brad is terrific as you know as a as a
betting guru, but he's also a fantasy insane crazed man
who plays in some high stakes fantasy leagues and he's

(02:13:23):
got great tips for everybody out there. Good morning, Bradley,
Good morning. See how brother? Give us the uh what's
the highest fantasy league that you play in? What's the
cost of it? I do two leagues, Grahams, So those
would be tied ten thousand dollar entry fees. Yes, I

(02:13:49):
think two of them. That so, um, what is? What?
What is? Until until the day happens where I stopped
doing well? Keep taking my chance? This that is awesome
what's the what's the payout for that league? Um, I
think the winner and that one and the boats and
my pink, the winner gets a little bit different. One

(02:14:11):
has payoffs and for the postseason one. I think it's
sixty for the winner and the other one. I think
they split it equal fifty between who has the point
championship and who has like the the quant unquote super
Bowl Championship. They but if you win both, I think
you can win like uh like seventy or something like that. So, um,

(02:14:33):
if you come first, but not easy to come in first,
as you know. Yeah, Figgy, that's about with the rate
you play, right, Oh yeah, absolutely right up there with me,
that is unbelievable. I think that awesome. Yeah, that's right
to Bratt. Listen, my man is all it does it
for a living. So he's he's on a he's so

(02:14:54):
tied in. All right. Uh, let's dive right in, brother,
So let's look at the some of your guys that
you like to keep an eye add on, because I know, listen,
you've got a lot of good sleepers and a lot
you've studied this thing big time, So why do you
give us some of some of your guys I'll give

(02:15:14):
you a couple of guys. Look, I don't you don't
need me to tell you that Christian mc character if
he plays as a good player. I'm sure Iver Win
missing that already knows that. I'll give you some guys
that I kind of just think are a little underrated
compared to what the market is saying. Um, running back
a guy, and I again, his last six games a
year anything last year, if he averaged nineteen carries a

(02:15:36):
game and carry a game, I think about twenty four
carries a game and a harder yards a game. Is
Elijah Mitchell. Now he just had a little bit of
a soft tissue injury and he's out, which is actually
depressed his draft for a draft stock even more, which
I like he's now going in sixth round. Um, I
don't understand that he was very very good for this team.

(02:15:57):
I knew they drafted Price from l Shoe in the
third round, But to me, Mitchell is like, I mean,
you know Shannahan wrote him last year in terms of
he gave him the ball quite a bit. Um, late
sixth round pick. I think that's a lot of value.
I think Mitchell is a guy that has a chance
to get on a team with Trey Lands, it's gonna
be that much easier to run the ball, right, I
mean doesn't it's when you've let read options that's easier

(02:16:21):
to run. Again, I'm like Sermon that I was wondering
if you would sneak in there. Well, here's the thing.
If you draft Elijah Mite, you can draft or trace
someone doesn't have done. These haven't been drafting in leagues.
I'm in the backup is I think it's supposed to
the me the guy price from LSU. But like to me,

(02:16:42):
Anthony again, I just think you look, if you could
you could buy Mitchell in the six or sixth round,
you can get Price and like the fifteenth rounding theoretically,
or if you think it's gonna be Sermon theoretically, have
a spot. I mean, that's a great spot of George Tipos.
The team is gonna be good offensively and with Trey Lands.
In my opinion, I just think that's a good spot
in my opinion. Another guyline is being underrated based on

(02:17:04):
what he did the last six games last year as
Devin Singletary. Um Cemetery is a guy that average on
eighteen carries and eight yards over the last six or
seven games last year. Again, Look, I understand they drafted
uh Cook in the second round, but he's more of
the I think a third down back potentially, and I
from what I understand, I think Singletary is going again,

(02:17:26):
he's not a high draft pick. Again, giving you guys
right now that aren't drafted that high that I think
should be draft a little bit higher than they're going.
Um and then Rashad Kenny Again, I know Kenneth White
is a guy that you know they invested the second
round pick in. I get it. White all the ways
hurt right now. In addition to that, Penny led the
NFL and rushing his last six games the year. Last year,

(02:17:48):
he averaged over a hundred twenty five yards a game.
He's going to like the eighth round and needs draft
I just think that's a little bit too late. So
those are three a couple of steepers I like for
running back. In terms of receivers with me, Mark Keith Brown,
love his situation now. DeAndre Hopkins and DeAndre Hopkins the
first six games of the year going to his full

(02:18:09):
college quarterback right in, Kyler Murray good season. He even
with Lamar last year but he had uh he caught
one passes last year. I expect him again. I think
he's gonna have a really big season. Um, and I
think he's being under drafted, going like the sixth round
drafts right now. I have him ready quite a bit higher.

(02:18:30):
And then I'll just say this real quick. Jerry Judy
and Courtland Sutton both look they're now playing with Russell Wilson.
This is a team that is going to pass the
ball successfully. Wilson and Judy are both on a dwarf
last year's numbers, and they've been going more like fifth
round kind of area. I think that's a little bit
too low as well. Now I like it. I like
him a lot, man. I like that sit tight. And

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then I want to get to uh some more, some
some trends that you can see common that we could
capitalize on. But first, as you know, big brain, because
you love you love this man. He's the lord of trending.
He's the one, the only I love, and I love

(02:19:15):
you right back. Good morning, fellas, let's do Hey. We
got preseason, we got preseason NFL, we got Major League Baseball.
We made it. That's that time of year again. I
can't wait the Hug Figgy. I know it's like we

(02:19:38):
made it. We made it. Our long wait is over.
After six months of the will Dress. We will start
with Major League Baseball on Friday, where the Washington Nationals
scored three at the top of the ninth inning, all
off of Padre's closer Josh Hayter, for a six three victory.
At San Diego. The Los Angeles Dodgers came back to
become Miami Marlins two and one. For the Dodgers there

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major league leading thirty fo with com from mind victory
this season. The Cardinals Paul gold Schmidt hit his thirty
home run in a five one win at Arizona. It's
the seventh thirty home run season of gold Schmidt's career.
Nolan Erroonado added three doubles eu henny O Suarez if
the Seattle Mariners two home runs and five RBI and
their tend to win at Oakland. Seattle stays half a

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game up for the top wild card spot in the
American League. The Mariners thirty seven and fifteen over their
last fifty two games. Colorado Rockies rookie at Lowrys Montero
two home runs in five RBI and their seven four
went over the Giants to break a five game losing
streak in the NFL preseason. On Friday Night, Matt Jones
completed four of eight for sixty one yards in three

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series as his New England Patriots defeted the Carolina Panthers
twenty to ten. Jordan Love completed twelve of twenty four
for one thirteen with a touchdown passes. The Green Bay
Packers bested in New Orleans Saints, also by a twenty
to ten score. At the Houston Texans defeated the Los
Angeles Rams twenty four to twenty. Jeff Drift all the game,
won an eight yard touchdown pass to Mason Shrek with

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one oh five to play. By the way, Ram's number
two quarterback John Wolford made his preseason debut. He completed
fourteen of twenty two passes for a hundred and forty
two yards. And even though it's the preseason, it's great
to talk about NFL results again, Anthony, back to you, Yeah, baby,
that's exactly right, brother, There is the great I love.

(02:21:26):
So here's the deal, big brain, let's kind of get
dive into this. So you as you know you you
you talk often about the season long props that you
could bet these season long props for totals for individual players.
And you came across a pretty astounding stat about betting

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the longer props and what you would advise. It's an
incredible sat Anthony. Look, I'm talking about skill players, running backs,
tight ends, quarterbacks, you know, wide receivers. Okay, if you
were to a class year, there was two hundred and
thirty four of these props. Okay, if you would have
bet all two hundred and thirty four of these props
under you would have won sixty six of your wagers.

(02:22:13):
I mean that is a powerful, powerful number. And the
reason for that, Anthony thing is two full of one.
People like the bed overs is inherent bias, maybe a
little bit to the over, but more importantly of that
and it's really the injury factor. Right, We're gonna get
guys in the NFL. Guys get hurt. Uh. And when
they're placing these numbers the sports books, they're more or
less figuring, Okay, you're gonna play seventeen games. Well, would

(02:22:34):
be great if everyone did play seventeen games, but in
reality that's not what happens. Guys get hurt all the time. Therefore,
sixty six on under a side. Say to everyone out there,
if you're gonna be a season long props either betton
under or pass. That is an amazing stat an absolute, amazing,
amazing stat And I can't believe it. I mean, that's wow.

(02:22:57):
But now here's the interesting thing, because you and I
were talking about that us. So what you could do
is take a listen to what we're going to tell
you about god situations that you can capitalize early right
with certain this goes right to the feat, your system,
to your fantasy leagues. So you can bet on all
kinds of props everywhere and you'll get pretty good odds

(02:23:20):
before the odds makers kind of catch up because there's
so many numbers that you have an advantage early on.
Isn't that right? Absolutely? Look, and we didn't talk about
fact Anthony that I do think that the overs are
going to be prevalent, especially to start up the year.
And Marquis Brown thinks number is gonna be too low,
quoteling something Jerry Jude. Again, these guys have average probably
thirty seven yards of game last year. I think they're

(02:23:42):
gonna be closer to double that this year. And I
don't think at the beginning the year, the odds bakers
are gonna be onto that. Um. A couple others I
will give you, Anthony, Uh, let's go see NFC. UM.
I think Miles Sanders potentially to start out the year
is going to be undervalued as long as you halting Anthony,
this is the player that I think is quite good. Uh.
And I think there's been like some buzz at guys

(02:24:02):
like game won and Scott are going to get more
wrong than I personally think they're going to get. I
think his over unders to start out the year gonna
be closer in the forties, and I think he should
be closer to the sixties to start off the season.
Allen Robinson, Anthony Robinson, Well, look who he's played with.
He's played with Blake Bortles, Nick Foles, Mitch Urbiski, Scot

(02:24:23):
a guy who really had a good quarterback now he's
playing one. And again this is a guy I think
it's shown to be a very very good player. I
think he's going to be undervalued to start out the season. Again,
these are situations with me that to start out the year,
these are going to change eventually. Okay. And then also
Aaron Jones and A J. Dillon. Look what happened with
Green May. They lost their wide receiver, Davante Adams. Rogers

(02:24:46):
has said he thinks that both these guys can get
fifty plus catches. So I'm gonna be looking to play
both those guys over and receiving artists to start out
the year because think they may be a little depressed
based on what um I expect them to do. I
was saying it's earlier because you know I brought this
up to you, and I know you agree. And that
is the vikings and the whole deal with how their

(02:25:09):
offense should be very explosive, which means Kirk Cousins is
live early over yardage. Look at Kirk Cousins all day long, Anthony.
And so that is one I am very much looking to.
I like the Minnesota's offensive year. I think Cousins is
going to be a huge beneficiary of you know now
having the Rams offensive coordinator from last year. I expect

(02:25:31):
this Minnesota team to be terrific as a whole. I
think Jefferson is probably the number one overall receiver. I
think Cousins, I think he's going to be closer to
like a guy that could honestly lead the league in
passing yards. That kind of good because I expect they're
gonna use Dalvin Cookie when that much more in the
passing as well. Um, I'll be looking to take Cousins
over to start out this year as well. We think

(02:25:52):
fa I mean when certain things you brought the Raiders
and want you hit Brad with your thoughts about the Raiders.
Why I explained earlier Bred I thought Darren Waller was
in line to have a big year. Because Davante Adams
is going to have so much attention coming his direction,
you still have to cover Hunter Renfro who might be
in line for a big year too. And Waller only
played in a few games I think eleven games last

(02:26:13):
year because he was injured. Seems to be back healthy
now just rejoined practice. I think he's someone who's poised
to have a pretty big year based on the additions
they've made around him. Well, it's interesting on that team.
I'm looking out of those look out of that team,
I think hrter Renfrow me go down with what he
did last year. Waller on kind more like neutral on

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in the sense I know he's a great talent, but
he's a great talent, but let's think about it. Yeah,
I know he's coming back healthy, but again, Davante Adams
was added to that, and I just personally don't think
that's going to mean necessarily more targets for Darren Wawler.
I don't see that as a positive that's that's going
to help him. I think that he's still going to
be a guy that Uh. I would not expect him

(02:26:54):
to go back to what he was two years ago
when he was the number of one or two magnity.
Is there anybody that you think you talk about guys
who are undervalued. Who do you think is being is overvalued?
There may be being overdrafted so far? Okay, Well, one
thing I will will say again and I'm not thinking
he's overdrafted, but I would just still like when there's

(02:27:15):
a choice between Justin Jefferson and Cooper cup I'm personally
um speaking Justin Jefferson just because I consider them about even.
But the Matt Stafford penshow injury um scaring me off
a little bit where I don't need to I don't
need to guess on that or whatnot. Um, I'm a
little surprised that Ezekiel Elliott's going in like the second

(02:27:36):
round in some of these leagues. Um, I get it,
like he he maybe you know he gets that found
in the youth. But I think Tony Poward is such
a much better player, um that I just personally, I
can't get myself there. And again I just don't because
to me, there's so many good quarterbacks and I'm not
drafting Josh Allen in around three or four, Patrick Mahomes

(02:27:56):
around four when I can get Kirk Cousins or Derek
Carr in round twelve, and I don't think there's gonna
be a crazy difference between those spots. What do you
think about Tyreek Hill in Miami and his his numbers
and production this year playing with TWA. I think he's
still gonna be good. But it's interesting, I think, and
this is just my opinion. When you think of Tyree Hill,

(02:28:17):
everyone thinks these long bombs, right. I think they're going
to use them a lot more like they used John
Waddle last year. Because one thing I like about Tyree
Hill I don't think he gets enough credit for he's
a stocky, strong guy obviously forgetting if you know, the fast,
great player that he is but he's he's not like
an easy guy to tackle. I think he's he's strong

(02:28:38):
and tough, like he's like Steve. He's strong and he's
not He's not a wiry guy. He's he's jack and um,
I'm expecting him to use a lot of short patterns
with him where you think. I think he's a lot
more catches than people are expecting. Um, but I think
his yards per catch will be a little more a
little more depressed and not as high. I think he'll
be good because I don't think Toa is going to
be able to do the necessarily a deep throws to

(02:28:59):
him that he had with Mahomes. But I expect them
to sort of have a lot of production. I really do.
I have no problem drafting him in the third round,
which is where he's been going. What a guy like
Hurts who has got incredible weapons right like he's got
DeVante Smith, A J. Brown, Dallas Goddard. I like, I
like Smile Sanders as a late kind of sleeper back. Uh,

(02:29:23):
but what about it guy like Hurts? Where do you
know he's limited down the field, but he's got all
kinds of weapons that he can run. But I think
Hurts maybe the number two overall fantasy quarterback. So I'm
extremely bullish on him. Um Justin Herbert, he usually goes
ahead of him, Um, and a lot of it usually
goes like I mean, Josh Allen always got Josh Allen

(02:29:44):
goes one, Ma Homes goes at In Herbert goes ahead
of him. But I actually personally would rather have Jalen
hurts me that one of those guys for the reasons
she said, Look, fancy football has been coming out with
the running aspects for these quarterbacks. No one really runs more.
Well maybe Lamar, but but um vin Jaalen hurts and
hurts to me, great situation, great offensive line, never really

(02:30:06):
seems to get hurt, which I like as well to
are very rarely seems to get injured. This is a
guy that I am extremely bullish on from the fantasy perspective. Um,
I would again much rather take him in like the
let's say the seventh rounds than take the Homes in
round four. That makes sense good because that that the
Eagles team has a really good offensive line, deep offensive line.

(02:30:27):
They got some playmakers on defense which should give them
some short fields. I kind of can see them score
a lot of points. So like putting up some big
numbers offense and a J. Brown and he's like early
on every practice, he's targeting a J. Brown all day long. Yeah, look,
this is a team sold off. Look again, we talked

(02:30:48):
about it on the show before him. I I don't
understand why they're the underdog in the division. I have
them ranked clearly, at least in my opinion, ahead of Dallas.
But we'll see how that plays out. Christie, I know
you've got some lines issues on issues, Lions issues. Uh well,

(02:31:09):
well I think we'll look what. We'll see what, We'll
see what happen. I bring it up because he's a
generate Lions fan and this is the Lions, right, you
like the lines. The reason I brought up was you
like the Lions over the wind. Yeah, that's there's two
quote unquote I'll use the word for lack of better word,

(02:31:29):
bad teams that I like. Their overs are detroyed over
six and out of the six and a half. I
still like the over and I like Carolina very much
also in there in that same area, like, I think
both these teams have a window to greatly improve. Um
Detroit the off line actually is going from what it's

(02:31:49):
been a funny off bad spots, and now I think
a true strength. I think Swift is one of the
best running backs in the league. And I just think
that they're going to be extremely improved team. And again
I think playing against a Green Bay team that used
to be too automatic Elves, I don't think that this year.

(02:32:10):
I really don't. Chicago I was gonna say, I was
gonna say on their schedule. They pulled the NFC East
this year as well, so there's available very reasonable, very reasonably.
I need Carolina can be getting Baker Mayfield. Not I'm
not over rating Baker Mayfield, not even a little bit.
But Sam Donald to me was the worst quarterback in

(02:32:34):
the NFL S year him Cam Newton, Combo, and I
do think getting just mediocre quarterback play, we'll make that
team a very serviceable team, which they were not last
year because the quarterback didn't give him a chance to
do anything. Of how bad they were, I think those
two teams are boot teams are clearly going to be improved.
All I'm curious because like when we look at that

(02:32:58):
a f C West, how do you handicap even from
a like an early piece of it, Like I look
at Kansas City and knowing that chief said where there
at defensive personnel, I think it's going to take that team.
They're young defensively, so I think you're probably they're probably
want to give up points early before they really can
get Spags's defense. And that division, Like Herbert, it's gonna

(02:33:21):
be sick, right, They're gonna be a tough They're a
beast to deal with. We talked about their Raiders with
Figgy and Denver with Russ that's a whole another animal. Yeah. Look,
I would say the Chargers are my second kick in
the an C behind Buffalo to go to the Super Bowl. Um,
and they would be my pick to win that division.

(02:33:42):
And I agree, I think Denver is gonna be truth
just because of Russell Wilson. I think Jansas City has
a chance to come and last. Quite frankly, um that
they also could come in first. I understand that, but
I think to loose Tyreek Kill, in my opinion, is
a significant loss and that division is crazy improved. Um, Ay,

(02:34:06):
the four teams can win it, but I didn't charges
I love what they've done in the off season. Don't
even is gonna be good now? And we already know
that they're traffic offensively. Yeah, and you also real quick,
last thing, Tampa, you see a slide right, like, because
I can do a Tampa slide, I do again, Like, listen,

(02:34:27):
Tom Brady is now forty five years old. I mean,
this is a guy that to expect him to continue
to play at the level he's slay at he may,
but again it's like I think there against it and
I'm yeah, now listen, we'll do moral next week where

(02:34:49):
I know we're out of time, but great stuff. As always, Brad,
you are terrific. We love your buddy, Thank you for
your time. Today. We'll come back and still one more
segment to hang the Fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio.
All right, welcome back, Fellas, wrapping up a great Saturday August,

(02:35:12):
and the next time we get you, we'll be previewing
week zero. Hey, I gotta give a yo's our man
south Side Chuck Uh reaches out because we had talked about,
you know, all the stuff that went on in Kentucky
and our I don't wanna I don't wanna lose. Make

(02:35:33):
sure you keep our friends and family in Kentucky. Uh,
keep our prayers with them, all right, they're rebuilding their
lodge one day the time, all right, and uh, I
know south Side Chuck is one of them. Uh uh.
He brought up something that I want to discuss next week,
and that is the documentary on Man Tite You boys,

(02:35:56):
have you seen that. I've seen snippets of previews of
I'm not actually checked it actually out yet, but I
mean the memories of that night when that report from
dead Spin came out are still very vivid in my mind,
and everything that followed in the weeks after it was
it was something so I got so my producer watched it.

(02:36:18):
My man that you has watched it. It's a two parter,
all right, I haven't seen. I'm gonna watch it this week.
Maybe you guys have time. You guys can do it too. Uh.
It's a two part two part at peace, and they
have the woman who's in or it wasn't Man, it
was in transition, and the sordid details of how they

(02:36:41):
got Mant, how she got Manti and what happened. It's
just an awful story and it goes back to like
the ultimate question, which was that of relationship. For I
guess it was almost two years never met and the
first question always goes to, like, at a point, there's
gotta be a threshold before you'd want to meet the person, right,

(02:37:04):
I I feel so. But also I've I've had a
lot of friends through online now for a while, and
it's you you. It's on one hand, it's kind of
shameful sometimes, like our culture still kind of makes fun
of he will make a lot of their friends online,
and I can understand why he would, why he would
kind of have lied about some of the things that
he did. But also to that, like, I don't know

(02:37:26):
that these these catfishing things are so so weird and
how they kind of just fall apart or come together.
So it's just it's funny that it got it out
as long as they did. I know, I I it's
it's it's a it's a horrible story. I felt so
bad for a man, Tai fig. I mean, you know it.
Could you imagine accused of him of like that this

(02:37:48):
was a scheme between the two of them, no, like
to get some sort of sympathy from people or for
whatever reason. Yeah, it's one thing too to like have
friends that you up to online because you both love
like you know, halo, So I can say this is
my girlfriend. You know what I mean? That you've never met,
that you face time, did you like you know any

(02:38:09):
of that stuff. That's the weird one. We'll discuss it. Uh,
we're out of time, man, And thank you guys. We'd
love you. We'll see you next Saturday. Sells her out.

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