FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Hot Takes | BOLD Expert Predictions For The 2025 NFL Season (Ep. 1636) - The Herd with Colin Cowherd

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome into Fantasy pros the Fantasy football podcast Hot Takes.
I'm Chris Welsh, and you guys are in for a
treat because we always bring you hot takes, whether in written,
podcast or video form, so much so we did a
version of this. There was one thing missing in Hot
Takes one point zero. It was the actual hot sauce

(00:23):
and the wings. We have rectified that today because we
are getting down with the sickness. We have Hot Takes
two point zero, the hottest of takes with the hottest
of sauces. Yes, myself, Andrew Erickson and Scott Bogman are
about to endeavor into the chaos of not just giving

(00:47):
a physical hot take, but eating the hot take as
we go. That's what we have in store for you today.
Ten hot takes, five sauces, and a couple that might
push some boundaries. So get ready for some hopefully great
fantasy football advice and some potentially struggling hurting fantasy football analysts.

(01:10):
Thank you guys so much for hanging out. Andrew Rickson,
what will be hotter your takes or the sauces you're
about to consume?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
The sauces, The sauces one hundred percent for sure, are
going to be hotter than the hottest takes that I
can give my brain. I can only expand and galaxy
brains so much compared.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
To the g you're about to expand your mind.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
This is going to be more eye opening than Aaron
Rodgers field trip.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
So here here's a slight little caveat to this episode
as well. None of us know the takes. I the host,
do not know the takes. Both of these fine gentlemen
do not know each other's takes. So there is a
true chaos that is going to be in here. Now, Bogman,
I heard through a grapevine that your hottest of hot
take is a doozy. So what do you think is

(01:57):
going to be more punishing your take that the listeners
are going to be consuming, or the wing with a
potentially scorpion based two million scoville sauce.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Listen.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
I don't think there's anything someone can say to me
to hurt me as bad as these sauces can.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
So uh, I think and listen to me. This has
come up.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
And when I worked at a grocery store, I used
to pay you know, the baggers five bucks seat to Hobanaro.
So I deserve this. It's it's it's about time. This
is this is cosmic karma for me. And by the way,
I got signed up for this show and they're like
you can do this, right, I was like, I think
I should be able.

Speaker 5 (02:33):
We're looking for volunteers for this.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
And then everybody else, everyone who's supposed to do their
show with me canceled, like three or four people, and
then Ericson stepped up like a man to do it.
So thank you Erickson for being here. We people should
we know.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
People should know percent people should know. People have bailed
on this show. That's how scared people are. So strap in.
I got no promises for you. We've got great fantasy
football information with hot Bold, we.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Have fantasy information. These are hot takes, guys.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
But we're also going to be trying to give you
these hot takes while we are pushing down the hot sauces.
I think you guys know the drill. That is what
we have in store for you as we are about
to set up here. Do you want to remind you guys, first,
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(03:25):
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(03:46):
but go and check it out today fantasypros dot Com
slash Kit because yes, first we do fantasy gentlemen. We
are about to We're about to jump into this bad boy.
But I want to see your weaponry. As already shown.
We've got, you know, some of the sauces. We have
a ghost pepper sauce at the almost tippy top. We've
got a very very hot Trinidad scorpion sauce. Those are

(04:08):
the top two ones. I will announce them as we go.
But let's see what wings you guys are working with. Yeah,
you got some other ancillary things. We've got some bread,
We've got some milk to help us out. But yeah, Bogman,
let's start with you. You have got a plate of
wings and fries together.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
A nice combo from wing stop. Thank you very much, spots.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Okay, no free sponsors, no free sponsorships, but yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
From a from a wing place.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Excuse me bleep that out, thank you production. This is
full of milk. This is all milk right here.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Horribly disgusting.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
Okay, water I got and water is a trap. But
I need I need to know.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Out.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
Okay, some really disgusting choices. Andrew Rickson, can we please
see what you will be working with today?

Speaker 5 (04:53):
Yeah, I found this on the street, so I decided
to pick it up.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, that's status looking wings I've seen in a while.
But uh they were frozen now they're not. Got some
uh some cottage cheese. Here is my my dairy sauce.
Gotta get the protein in. Got some bread, well bread,
and some some OJ citrus.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Okay, yep, okay, if the if the OJ don't fit,
all right, well I've also got some bread. I've got
milksh shown. And what I will be working today with
are animal nugs, just like you should do on this.
We're gonna rock some animal nuggies here. We've got a bear,
we got a rhino, and we've even got a dolphin.

(05:40):
So I'm representing the nug crew here and we are
gonna be saucing.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Kids without I knew I could have brought nugs, I
would have brought instead.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Well, I'm the host, I could do what I want.
I'm gonna suffer through this, and by the way, I'm
gonna be doing more than you guys. So today we
are rocking the animal nugs. So we've got a great
representation of what the sauces will be doing. I know
you guys are like, let's get into it, so we're
not going to make you wait any longer. Andrew ericson
Scott Bogman myself. It is time for the hottest of takes.

(06:16):
Let's start the hot takes off with mister Scott Bogman.
We have got an Amarillo sauce which is a thirty
to fifty thousand Scoville. So Bogman, let's dip our wings
or nugs. Bring it on camera, please, right, Like just
a little drip, Yeah, just a little drippy drip so
you guys can see I rocked that there. It's a

(06:37):
pretty good one. I'm ready way too much. Wait perfect
all right, so let's jump into it.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Bogs I got it on my computer already.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
It's all good, having the nug eating.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
Very good.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
That's kind of sweet, very good to hear people eating.
Who are you doing a podcast or video? Not bad
at all, Actually, so Bog's extremely this take. This take, like,
this sauce is mild, but will it be sweet? I
kind of thought this was a little bit of a
sweet sauce. There was no burn, no hurt there. So

(07:15):
does your hot take represent this sauce in our first
mild hot take?

Speaker 3 (07:19):
I would say yes.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
My first hot take is that Cam Scataboo leads the
New York Giants in touches this season kind of you know,
as in truck. This is kind of a mild take,
and that's kind of where we're at with this one.
Last season, Tyrone Tracy and Devin Singletary combined for three
hundred and sixty four combined touches with the New York Giants.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
A little hot on the back end, by the way,
I got a little bit of it.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Oh gotta just a touch.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Not anything bad at all.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, his skin's not turning red at all.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
Keep going, But Cam Scataboo three hundred and thirty eight
touches at Arizona State last season, so almost as many
touches as both these guys combined. I think he's already
the better lead back. He's definitely the better in between
the tackles back for the Giants, and he's making some
buzz in camp right now.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
So I do think Cam Skataboo leads the New York.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Giants in touches in twenty twenty four as a rookie Erickson.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Camscataboo's is getting a lot of run right now, specifically
in camp where he was running with ones and they
kind of paired back on it, making great catches, making
great plays. It really seems like he's one of those
guys that is just not going to really be held back.
I don't think there's anything scary you saw in the
sauces when we get to yours. But is there anything
scary in any Bold takes on Camp Scataboo this year.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
I mean I have him ranked clearly ahead of Tyrone Tracy,
and even if it's a committee to kind of start
the season, I think that it's Skataboo's job to lose
in the end. I just think that he profiles as
that three down workhorse that we've seen Brian Dable kind
of lean on at times.

Speaker 5 (08:45):
And the fact that Tyrone.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Tracy got replaced last year at times for Devin Singletary
because of the fumbling issue.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
That's a big concern. And skataboo.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
If he had just been drafted a couple picks earlier,
if he had came to the table with round three
draft capital, I think that he would just be looked
at in a completely different lens.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
But and he should have because this class was so deep.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
Exactly and it was really he was three picks away
from the end of the Round three versus oh now
he's a Day three pick, and he gets bucking into
that conversation. But I think that the skill set is
there and and honestly, Bogs, I don't think this is
spicy enough for a mile take.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, I don't think. I don't think this was a
mild take. It's pretty mild.

Speaker 5 (09:24):
It's pretty mild.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
I tell you what.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
That sauce milder than my take. I could drink this stuff.
It's not bad at all.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Well ericson what perfect timing. Then let's see what type
of connection we're going to have here. Let's bring it up,
I'm joining you. That's the scary thing about this episode
as well. I'm going on both on each one of these.
I don't know if I'm gonna last till the end.
We'll see you guys can make some bets in the comments.
Will Welsh last all the way to the fifth take?
But bring your wing up. I quite enjoyed this. I

(09:52):
am going to give that. Do it on screen ericson, Sorry,
what are you doing?

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Well, it's just messy because that's I tried to do.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
It on screen. Here we go, let's go. I didn't
get any of that kickback. Why do you eat wings
like that?

Speaker 3 (10:10):
That's how yan?

Speaker 1 (10:12):
So you had some lips going with those points. You
had some lips. Brother, all right, can your take be
hotter than this sauce or Scott Bogman?

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yes, it can be hotter than this sauce? Very mild
so far. Yeah, I'm ready? Am I ready to drop
my tip? My my uh, let's hear it takes so
I'm coming out the gates much hotter than this sauce.
So I'm going with Drake London finishes as the wide
receiver one overall, that is my mile take. So I'm
sitting a stick that's your for the show for a

(10:47):
lot of hot takes, just starting out the gates with
I think it's a banger with Drake won it. But
so he's still a consensus top ten wide receiver, so
I don't think that him finishing as a top five
receiver is too outlandish to project, but just looking at
what I expect from him based on the red zone
targets that he's seen historically, So red zone targets are

(11:09):
kind of the shortcut to that wide receiver one overall
finish in fantasy. I was talking about that last year
when I was projecting, Hey, Jamar Chase could be the
wide receiver one overall. So the last six wide receiver
one overall finishers have all led the NFL in red
zone targets that same season that they were the wide
receiver one overall. Last year, Drake London typer third in

(11:29):
the NFL and red zone targets. He was top ten
in total end zone targets. He's leads all wide receivers
in target rate in the red zone, so I think
that he has a chance to flirt with double digit
touchdown just based on the red zone usage. He's the
clearcut Alpha in this passing game for the Atlanta Falcons
attached to a promising second year quarterback named Michael Pennix,

(11:53):
who's scout the full install as the starter this offseason.
And don't forget. Michael Pennix to me is a wide
receiver booster. He elevates the wide receiver plays around him.
Just look at last year, all those receivers that got
drafted from Washington. How did they do their rookie year
in their first season without Michael Pennix. It wasn't that
impressive from a duneesay from Polk. Yes, McMillan ran hot

(12:15):
with touchdowns, but from an efficiency standpoint, none of these
guys stood out as rookies. So I'm looking at okay, well,
what was the common denominator between these guys. It was
Michael Penix maybe playing him as their quarterback in college.
So I like the quarterback upgrade going from Pennix or
going from Kirk Cousins to Michael Pennix. And then the
last thing is slot usage. Right, it's kind of sometimes

(12:37):
a cheat code for fantasy football purposes. You look at
Drake London, he was using the slot more than he
had last year than he had been the two previous
years combined, and we're looking at how effective he was.
He was PFF's third highest graded wide receiver from the slot,
behind Allly, Nico Collins and Pukin Nakua. Other guys who

(12:57):
are kind of in that wide receiver one overall can
to see so Zach Robinson, the OC for the Falcons
comes over from the Rams. We've obviously seen the Rams
put up a lot of high end wide receiver one seasons,
whether it's Cooper Cup, Puka Niku over the last couple
of seasons. So I think it's London's turned to really
ball out in Atlanta entering year four. He's really a
young guy, not even turned twenty four years old yet.

(13:18):
So he had Drake London for me wide receiver.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
One second, dab is milling around a little bit, just
letting you know you get two in there, like that
was a very good suck. It's milling around in there.
This take is not milling around. This is a hot take.
Erickson has absolutely set the stage. Bogs, what does it
take for Drake London to be bigger than Justin Jefferson
and Jamar Chase in your mind? Because this feels like

(13:43):
a million Scoville type of take in here. What do
you think it takes for him to be the number
one overall over specifically those two guys.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
Yeah, I mean it's gonna have to be a great
performance from Michael Pennix because last season he had one
hundred catches, he had twelve hundred yards, he had nine touchdowns,
so that was a great year. But to beat Jamar,
to beat Jefferson, to beat Chase, you gotta be up
near fifteen hundred yards and more than ten touchdowns, So
it shouldn't take a lot. He's on the cusp right there,

(14:12):
and you'd think with a better with better play quarterback,
it's definitely doable. So, yes, this is a hot take,
but it is definitely doable for Drake London, which keeps
it down here in this category.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
All right, first all in, I love the eating between
the takes too, So Hunger Boys, we got Herrickson's just
like I just eating.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
It's good.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
Well, this man, that first one was good, no problem
at all. I have a feeling I'm going to be
crying at the end, but that one was pretty good.

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Speaker 1 (16:15):
We are moving up the hot take meter with a
serrano chili sauce. We are gonna be rocking this one.
Actually funny enough. This one looks like it's even a
milder one. It's lower Scoville, but it moves up the
hot meter a tiny bit. So let's check out our
I guess this would be the spicy take. So we're
going spicy take here, spicy chili, Serrano and ericson. We

(16:39):
are gonna start with actually ericson up first here, so
dab that bad boy up. I'm gonna dab this up
even more than usual, so you can see I got
half the nug there's Erickson's lips again. Here we go.
All right, Our one's got a little bit on the
top more. There's a little bit punch on the tongue here, Eric, Yeah,

(17:00):
I'm filling that it's hanging around the tongue.

Speaker 5 (17:03):
Your lip's toughly hotter than the first one.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, it's less Scoville. That's weird. This is less Coville.
This one burns a little bit more so. All right, Erickson,
you don't get much of a break between your takes here.
I'm going to get a little drink here. But let's
hear take number two. You drop Drake London. How much
spicier is this take like the sauce?

Speaker 2 (17:24):
So we're sticking with the Drake theme here with my
hot takes going to the quarterback position. Drake May is
going to finish as a top five Fantasy quarterack in
twenty twenty five. So I'm making this bet based on
this Bowl take, based on the rushing upside that Drake
May can offer last year as a rookie average over
thirty rushing yards per game. If you look at these

(17:45):
seven quarterbacks that hit that mark, five of them finished
as top six scorers in terms of fantasy points per dropback.
So the fact that he has that rushing puts him
into a certain threshold of Okay, this guy can finish
as five fantasy quarterback if he can get a little
boost in the passing game. And that's what we're expecting

(18:05):
from all the improvements that the Patriots have made during
the offseason, adding juice to the draft with guys like
Trevan Henderson, with a player like a Kyle Williams at
the wide receiver position, getting Stefan Diggs again, he's a
guy coming off a torny ACL thirty one years old,
but he's still arguably better than anyone they had last
year on the roster. So even as bad as it
was last year, Drake may still threw a touchdown in

(18:26):
every single game that he played fully in those ten
full starts, and he was averaging eighteen point one fantasy
points per game in those ten starts where he played
the entire game. That was QB fifteen on the year,
So that's where you're drafting him I just think that
he has immense upside and if the passing does come together,
the delfensive line is just average. I think Drake May

(18:47):
with this rushing can be a top five fantasy quarterback.
Josh McDaniels stepping in as the new OC he's had success. Again,
it's mostly been Tom Brady, but Mac Jones did have
a pretty good rookie year with Josh McDaniels before things
got off the rails and Cam Newton again, it's going
to be a bar trivia. It's gonna be like who
had the most rushing touchdowns for a Patriots quarterback in

(19:07):
Patriot's history?

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Oh yeah, it was Cam Newton, right, guy that you
don't ever remember being on the Patriots, but he was
and he had some success under Josh McDaniel.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
So Drake May for me, top five Ennis quarterback.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
I think he's going to come out of the gates
hot like this hot Dake because first two weeks of
the season Raiders Dolphins good matchup for Drake May.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
Ericson how are you holding up on the sauce? By
the way, I mean, I could give us a little break.
I had a realization. I had a realization because I've
never done this before, but I had a realization while
you were talking, going, oh no, I'm going to have
a hard time focusing with the focus level when we
moved through this episode. This is not a high Scoville.

(19:46):
If this is getting me, the focus is going to
really be a little bit difficult. So it's biting the
tongue a little bit. So, Bogs, what do you think
about Drake May? Drake May is interesting. There's a bo
Nicks quality to it when you think about the rushing episode.
You've added a couple playmakers in to New England, but
I think a lot is built off of Drake May
taking that next big step. And some might even argue

(20:08):
that bow Knicks and Drake May's ADP should potentially be
flipped in some regards. So what do you think? Do
you think this is a spicy enough take? Do you
think this sauce or Drake May on Irikson's take is
going to be spicier.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
I think Drake May finishing where do you say top
five is? I think I think that is definitely because
he has to push somebody out. He has to push
one of those big three out at the top or
Burrow or Hurts so that would be huge. I think
putting him at six would be more reasonable. But Drake
May has a runway to start seventeen games, right, He's

(20:43):
going to start all the games. He's going to run
a lot. I think your bow Knicks comparison is perfect, Welsh.
I think that is exactly what he could be. So
he doesn't have to finish top five for you to
get value on him, because he's going as QB sixteen
right now in terms of BCR. I have met fifteen,
so I'm ahead. I was on this bandwagon. I like
that ericson, but you don't have to take him there,

(21:05):
So yeah, get him late. And this is why you
wait on quarterbacks. There's a lot of good ones down there.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Well, Box, I'm going to tell you to fire up.
I'm going to fire at my nug. If anyone was
worrying by the way, or wondering, we are on dolphin
right now. Apparently I saved all bears for the end.
We ate the rhino in the first one. We are
going dolphin. So bring this up here so we can
green sauce all over it. All right, I'm gonna dab
this up here because I'm going to go for two,
and you guys are going without me? There we'll go

(21:32):
arm spicy number two, Ammarillo, saush lower Scoville, hold your
tongue a tiny bit more. Maybe like the thought of
drafting Drake may As your QB one that might weary
you a tiny bit. I don't know if this sauce
worries you, bogs, But where are you going? Hot take
number two? Your spicy take? We are you got a

(21:53):
lot to live up to. Moving off of what is
probably the mildest of takes, what do you got for
your spicy take?

Speaker 4 (21:58):
Trey McBride leads tight ends in touchdowns this season. In
twenty twenty five, how about that one?

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Okay, regret, mister positive regression, let's hear it.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
He was number three and end zone targets among tight ends,
he was number five and snaps at tight end. He
was number one in first reads among tight ends. He
gets looks, and that was, you know, his second season
with Kyler Murray. Now they're going with their third Marvin
Harrison should be better, maybe opening up some stuff underneath
as well. I just think that when you look at

(22:29):
a guy of this caliber, when he's getting so many
targets every single year, and this is what he is
going to be. He's going to be in upper echelon.
One hundred and forty seven targets. Dude one hundred and
fifty three for Bowers after that, Kelsey had one hundred
and thirty three in Joku or excuse me, John who
had one hundred and eleven. Nobody else is getting one
hundred targets. So you pick one of these guys to

(22:51):
lead in touchdowns, it's not I don't think it's even
that hot to take. That's why I put it in
number two. Guy had one hundred eleven catches eleven hundred.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
And forty six yards. Only who scores.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
I just I don't think that this is a well
this guy has a problem in contested catches or anything.
He doesn't he's a good tight end. It was a
weird happening that happened last year. So trade McBride scoring
the most touchdowns among tight ends would be the second
least surprising thing out of all these takes that I have,

(23:21):
after Cam Scatabooy. So I warmed it up a little
bit after Tam Scataboy.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Leader like that sauce, you would say that one had
a little bit of a bike, right, bog perfect.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
I love this sauce.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
I would agree. I think this is actually this is
a phenomenal sauce. If you want a little bit, if
you want to feel someone while you're doing it, you
want a little bit of a kick. By the way,
watch your hands. Erickson's like wiping his face when we
get the ghost pepper. I don't what to do in that.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
So seriously, don't touch your eyeballs.

Speaker 1 (23:45):
Bro Erickson, what do you think about I know you're
a big Trade McBride guy. There's a discussion really on
where like the top three guys are. I think a
big argument. It's kind of clearly in our face with
the amount of volume that a guy that Trade McBride's
going to get, you've got to see some positive regression
from the touchdowns. But do you think it could be
at the level where he leads all tight ends because
I would say this, and it's pretty easy to say,

(24:05):
if he leads all tight ends and touchdowns, he's the
number one tight end in fantasy. I'm not really sure
there's an argument there, don't you think.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
I love this take from Boggs about Trey McBride with
the touchdowns because it's it's like a joke, right when
you look at he never scores touchdowns, and it's been
not just last year, but the year before that. You
go back to college, he doesn't exactly pop off in
the touchdown column, so you're thinking, man, this guy's just
allergic to the end zone. And then you look back
and see a player like a James Cook right where

(24:33):
he doesn't score touchdowns. And then you look up when
year on he scores nineteen touchdowns. Because that's how touchdown
regression works, right, it works in mysterious ways, and sometimes
it hits all at once in one season where ty
McBride scores sixteen touchdowns and then goes back to four
for the rest of his career, like Terry McLaurin last year, right,
look at his every year it's four, six, five, and
then he scores nineteen touchdowns. So I think that going

(24:57):
with Trey McBride here is a hot take. It feels
weird though, because he's the ECR tight end two and
to think that a top three consensus tight end saying
that they catch they leave the NFL in touchdowns is
a hot take is weird, But it still works because
of training.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
You know, what it's kind of like this sauce. I
think this is a very good representation of this sauce
like it's kind of weird. The low Scoville would also
make us think it should not be too crazy, but
it is a little bit high. It's a little bit
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being lulled a little bit for the hottest of takes,
but that is going to take us to our third level.
We are moving up the hot meter, my friends with
what is this a Scotch If you say bonet, is
it a Scotch bonnet sauce? It is your muted bogs.
It is described as kind of like used for jerk chicken.
I would say, there's also not really any information, so

(27:04):
it's a Caribbean type of sauce. So we're going to
go into this a little bit unknown and Bogman, we
are going to jump right back to you. So that's
part of the trick of this game. So what I
would do is ask you to I will load up
my teddy bear, you load up your your dude. You
know what I'm also say, I say we should go higher.
Let's let's go more than you would normally put so,

(27:26):
really dab that sucker on. Okay, let's let's really push
the limits. Are you ready to push the limits?

Speaker 5 (27:32):
Push the limit? Here we go.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
There's let's hear some flavors.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
Box sweet at the front.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
M it is uh, it's biting in the back. That
one got That one got you know what, they had
me at the beginning. They got me on the back end.
That one is attack goal on the five yard line.
That one hit me a little bit. Bogs No, no,
let me okay, let me do one more. Yeah, we'll
do one more. This is how it starts.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
Third one ericson, don't even worry about it.

Speaker 5 (28:11):
Let's also see that I feel like the uh, I
feel like the.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Green one's worse.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Okay, well you got fue with that. Let's see if
your take is anything like this. Are we going to
be feeling Bogman's take? Bogman, Uh, you've got the third
down of the sauces. How does your taste and your take?
How does your take goes? Yeah, now it's I'm starting
to start feeling it.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
How does your take measure up to this sauce?

Speaker 3 (28:37):
This one's for you well she Okay, Ricky Piersaw leads
the forty nine ers in receiving yards. Okay, love it.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
FB projections have him at seven hundred ninety fifty catches,
seven hundred and ninety yards.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (28:50):
The big obstacle here is clearing kittle seventy six catches
for one thousand and thirty seven yards right around that
range there, Oh, mount is watering a little bit here. Look,
if he averages thirteen point six yards per reception like
the FI projections have, he would need seventy seven total catches,
or a little over one more per game than he

(29:13):
has on our projections. And our projections have him at
about four and a half catches per game when he
was a starter. He averaged six catches per game last season.
This is not I don't know that this is that hard.
That's why this is my third take. A lot like
trade McBride, Like the trade McBride win, seems like hot take.

(29:34):
This one's starting to bother me a little bit here.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, I'm struggling a little bit focusing and might could
get a little bit red right now.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
Yeah, yeah, starting to feel a little sweaty, but uh,
sweating a little bit. But this one like so Auk
coming off of major injury. Right, George Kittle missed a
couple games last season, so it would be crazy at
his age to project him.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
I'm gonna have a little milk. It's like that in
the middle of the just one sit there. Uh, let's
see you guys know O.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Keep going pretty red.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
But Juwan Jennings nine hundred and twenty six yards, that's
what he's projected for. I mean, look, I am coming
off an injury, Kittle's old, and Jennings isn't a guy
that's gonna eclipse, you know, way past a thousand yards.
I think Ricky Pearsol has more upside than anybody on
this team, including Christian McCaffrey. And I don't know if
he'll get there right I don't know if he's gonna
get this volume. I don't know if he's gonna get

(30:31):
to six sketches per game. I think four and a half.
I think our projections are very reasonable for Ricky Pearsol,
whoever I'm talking about right now. And I just I
think this one. I think this one is third. It
can feel strong, it can feel weak, but it's pretty
good at the end.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
So kind of like this sauce.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
You know, I actually not even temp to like try
to correlate everything to the sauce. This sauce, it's gonna build.
So you're getting a little pre warning, Erickson, it's gonna build.
And that's it's similar to that carab crap that no, no,
I'm gonna do it with you. We're gonna do that again.
But kind of like in how Ricky Pearsol could amount
to this take, it might be a little bit of
a build because you do have Juwan Jennings, IU presents

(31:15):
kind of a question mark in it. McCaffrey's healthy, There's
a lot of things that could slow the process. But
do you think we can build to a space where
Ricky piarrisol is the number one receiving option in San Francisco?
Do you think this is a hot take?

Speaker 2 (31:29):
I think that it's a little bit more than mild.
I don't know how hot it is, just based on
the fact that is he the healthiest guy in the
room right now. Just Juwan Jennings is dealing with this
calf injury. Ricky Peers or excuse me, Branda Yuk is
coming off he tore an eco from last year. We're
not sure when he's going to return, So it seems
like with the forty nine Ers, it's a matter of, well,
who's out there that's gonna be the guy that ends

(31:52):
up leading this.

Speaker 5 (31:52):
Team in receiving yards.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
And yes, dethroning Kittle will definitely be the toughest thing
for any of these receivers to do, just because Kittle
is so efficient in the forty nine ers offense.

Speaker 5 (32:01):
But I mean, he's gotten banged up at times.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
He's also thirty one years old, so and how does
his body necessarily react to more volume, because he's been
a guy that really has gotten there because of big plays, yardage,
monster touchdown performances, not necessarily a guy that, oh he's
vacuuming up ten plus targets every single week. That's not
really been his game and how he's been using Shanahan's offense.
But Ricky Piersall, I think betting on a guy entering
his second season, look last year, it's really hard to

(32:26):
have like these grandioso takeaways because he got shot in
the offseason and then he missed so much time. So yes,
there were downs, Like there was a couple of games
where he was basically not being targeted at all by
Rock Purdy, but then at the end of the season
you saw him kind of pop off a little bit
with more opportunities. I think that the simple bet is
it's a talented former first round pick who's going to

(32:48):
have opportunities in this offense that produces a lot of
fantasy success. So I'm definitely in on Pearsall, especially with
this Juwan Jennings calf injury. You know now it's happening again, right,
this was bothering him OTAs now it's brobatherly even a
training camp. That's say a red flag that we should
be paying attention to.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Well, Andrew Erickson, I would like you to, uh please
lift your street wings and your sauce is and I
want you to really dab. I'm going to go in
for a second one. I feel very confident where we are.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
Heading two of this one. I'm good on two of
this one.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
I actually do believe that Erickson has it might be
the toughest going from this to what we're going next.
So I want you to give a really strong dab.
I'm gonna dab it again on the rest of my
Teddy Bear. If it'll come out. It doesn't want to
come out for me, so you dive into it. Apparently
this one doesn't want me to go. Is it a
sign from the heavens?

Speaker 3 (33:40):
Yes? I think it is.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Oh here we go?

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Oh God, okay, well that's what happens.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
I shouldn't have done that. So well, I now I
know this is a problem. Ericson, explain, bro explain how
you're feeling right now with the sash. Is it hitting you?

Speaker 5 (33:56):
Not yet? But it did the same exact sense I'm
waiting with.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Yeah, don't don't go in for seconds. So let you
know what, let him marinate.

Speaker 5 (34:04):
Can I start perfect, I start my take in I meantime?

Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yeah, no, I was, as I say, let's see if
it hits while you're going this. We are in our
third range here, this is the bold take. We went
from mild to spicy to bold. Let's see if it
hits you while you're going and what is spicy or
what you just ate or what you're about to drop?
And I think I know the answer.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
Tucker Craft's going to finish as a top four Fantasy
tight end in twenty twenty five, and I'm looking at
one of these trends I found so twenty twenty three.
The tight end leaders in yards after the catch per
reception Jonas Smith George Kittle ranked first and second, respectively.
Both guys the following season finished as top four tight

(34:43):
ends at the position twenty twenty four. Now, George Kittle,
I don't think that was really too big of a surprise,
but he wasn't being ranked or drafted as a top
four tight end before last year. Jhona Smith, he was
way off the radar. He was a sleeper darling that
hit in a major way. And I I think he's
kind of being drafted somewhere to where Tucker Craft is
being ranked and drafted outside the top twelve, usually outside

(35:06):
the top one hundred overall picks. And if I miss
out on the Trey mcbrides, brock Bauers, the George Kittles,
Tucker Craft is someone that I'm really interested in because
this Packers passing game, it has a lot of receivers
that we like, But is there a true alpha among
this sea of beta fish?

Speaker 5 (35:23):
It seems like is Green Bay with their receivers.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
You know, Flor always talks about how he vomits at
the idea of having a wide receiver one on his team,
So maybe he's more likely to embrace the idea of,
oh maybe our tight end can be the leader of
our passing game. He's already referenced Craft in light of
players like George Kittle, like Travis Kelcey, players that have
been the number one targets on their teams been really.

Speaker 5 (35:46):
Efficient with big plays.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
And even if he doesn't lead the team in targets,
I think that he's a strong bet to lead a
team in red zone targets because that's what he was
last year when Jordan Love was healthy. He's a big
body receiver. He can make plays after the caps. Like
I said, he's just a really good football player. And
I want to bet on those guys taking the leap.
The Green Bay Packers know they have to get in
the ball. If Jordan Love is throwing more like he
did in twenty twenty three when he threw for over

(36:08):
forty two hundred yards thirty two passing touchdowns, I think
Tucker Craft's going to have a monster season.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
How are you holding up?

Speaker 5 (36:15):
Pretty good? Pretty good?

Speaker 1 (36:17):
This is nothing. I mean, you got some hot takes here,
but you seem to be holding the best here, Bogs.
It's a pretty big bold take. Top four I mean,
if you believe this, Tucker Craft has to be on
every single one of your teams. I mean he would
be from every format to Best Ball to Titan Premium
to some of the big high stakes ones, whatever it is.

(36:39):
This is a bold take. But in that type of
offense where they rotate all their receivers, they added more
passing options, Like do you really think that Tucker Craft
can even be a top five tight end?

Speaker 3 (36:48):
Absolutely?

Speaker 4 (36:48):
And Ericson came on ITL a couple weeks ago and
we were pumping up Tucker. Kraft made me re evaluate
him and take a look. And I have a quote
from Andrew Erickson broke out in twenty twenty four league
all tight ends in yards after catch per reception. Then
I popping fifteen miss tackles, forced the Packers tight end,
ran away with the starting job over Musgrave and never

(37:10):
looked back, finishing his tight end eight overall and ten
tenth in points per game. He ran a route on
seventy three percent of drop back. So that's from Ericson.
I knew our boy Tucker Craft was going to be
in here somewhere, but I think you look at this,
you have the top three, right, you have Bowers, McBride,
and Kittle.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
We know those are the three. I think number four
is pretty open.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
It could be Laporta, it could be Howkinson, could be
Kelsey Andrew's, especially if likely he's going to miss an
extended period of time, which looks more and more likely
right now. I think Tucker Craft is in that group.
So I think this is a good take.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
Erickson's having the best time of his life. No one's
having a better time than Erickson, just between takes, just
eating and going and what we're interrupting his lunch with.
I now, all right, well, I think things are going
to pick up just a tiny bit. We're about to
jump into overdrive. At first, make sure, my friends, that
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(38:08):
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(38:28):
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tv Slash Fantasy Pros. Everybody take a breath, because I
could be wrong about this. We are about, I feel

(38:51):
to take a step up. We just had three sauces
that didn't have a whole lot to them. We are
going to now move into I guess in totality the
top four biggest hot takes. But we are also moving
into number four category hot, except it is rated the
hottest of the sauces we have, but less Scoville, Ladies

(39:14):
and gentlemen. This is the Ghost Pepper sauce that we have,
which has one million, one million Scoville with a third
with a thirteen to fifteen hot rating, which is hotter
than the next one. But I said the Scoville's coming up,
so ericson, I do believe you might have it the
most difficult, as do I that you have to go.

(39:36):
I think take a jump to jump. So here's what
I'm going to ask. Wing in hand, Teddy bear in hand.
Give it a strong dab. I think you should strong
if we want to not strong dab the last one.
Put it up to the camera. That's fine, but let's
strong dab the ghost pepper. Oh is that too much?
That seems like a lot that I just put on?

Speaker 2 (39:56):
There?

Speaker 1 (39:57):
Are you ready? Ericson, you gotta be up at the camera. Now,
get up and eat it at the camera.

Speaker 5 (40:01):
What are you doing?

Speaker 4 (40:02):
Will you make fun of him every time he eats
it in the camera once he's no, he was just
lipping it, all right, Sally guy eats Come on, it's
gonna be bad.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
Oh shoot, all right, all right, I gotta host this show.
So Eric, this is the fourth This is your second
biggest hot take this sauce. This one is hurting me bad.
Is this one gonna hurt you?

Speaker 3 (40:36):
Here? You're like not reacting at all.

Speaker 5 (40:38):
I'm trying to remain level headed as I try to do.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
But I am like Scholville h speaking of skull. My
fourth pick here my bolt prediction. Jordan Mason, new running
back for the Minnesota skull Vikings. I think he's gonna
lead the NFL in Russian touchdowns this year. Last year,
my car for this was Roshawn Johnson. I'm in serious
pain right now.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
I'm so much picking.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Was brought in for the Minnesota Vikings to be the
goal line back. Aaron Jones was not efficient at the
goal line last year. He was dead last bucks, you
got to take over.

Speaker 3 (41:17):
Okay, he was.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
Yeah, I'm not sure why we pick Jordan Mason here,
but look, Aaron Jones had his best season. It was
his most used season last year with the Vikings with
a pass first team. Because they didn't have another running back.
They they traded for Jordan Mason. He's obviously going to

(41:39):
have a pretty big role in this offense. And we
know the type of points that the Minnesota Vikings put
up here. So listen, like Erickson just said, if we
get to look at his face, if ericson, you know,
we was just talking about touchdown regression, right, and we
saw that from guys last year, and that would be

(42:01):
what's happening. It'd be Jordan Mason a specific role, the
team getting down to the one a lot, and Jordan
Mason punching it in almost all a tush push just
the same obviously not the toush push, but the same
level of like it's getting out of the one.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
We know what's happening here? Did I did I get
you there?

Speaker 5 (42:17):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (42:17):
Yeah, I mean that was your tike, Erickson Quido anything
to add on to your type.

Speaker 5 (42:22):
Appreciate you tagging in for me.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
I got you, brother, because you're about to have to
do it for me.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
I am crying. If anyone's listening, and I I just
want to point out I instantly went to my eyes
with my hands. Don't do both. To not do that,
I'm well aware I did it. I am crying. Ericson,
can you pick this up, you know, stop for a second.
Explain what's going on in your Explain in your mouth first?

Speaker 4 (42:46):
What is that? So?

Speaker 2 (42:48):
Imagine like needles, right, you know, just like piercing the
top the bottom sides of your mouth.

Speaker 5 (42:54):
That's kind of how it feels like.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Luckily, having example of these ice inhibitors or suppressors is
actually helping a lot of having bread, some orange juice,
some of the scottage cheese is actually helpful. So I
think I can finish up the rest of the take
from the rest of the notes that I had. But Bogman, again,
you are the best.

Speaker 5 (43:11):
I really appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
And I and just let you know, brother, you asked
for a life preserved brother, I threw it.

Speaker 5 (43:17):
I tag me in, Bro tag me in.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
So that was like wrestling.

Speaker 4 (43:22):
You're struggling, you're struggling, and then you tag me and
Astart beating everybody up.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
That's exactly what it was.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
So the Vikings specifically the last two seasons have been
really bad in terms of scoring rushing touchdowns. So last
year they were thirtieth and carries per touchdown. And I
point this out because this is something that regresses from
year to year.

Speaker 5 (43:40):
Last year, who ranked which team ranked the last in
this category?

Speaker 2 (43:43):
That was agree May Packers. What did Josh Jacobs do
last season? He was fourth in the NFL rushing touchdowns.
He scored fifteen rushing touchdowns. So again it could still
be Aaron Jones. I will admit that both running backs
were bad at the goal line last year. Now that's
why the Vikings went out revamped the interior offensive. Why
and adding guys in free agency, adding players up in

(44:04):
the draft, because I think that they want to put
less pressure on Jiji McCarthy to have to make all
the plays in the red zone. Give it to your
talented running backs. Let them score some of these touchdowns
inside the red zone. And one of the trends I
found that was kind of cool. Since twenty twenty one,
we've seen a running back on a new team hit
touchdown totals of fifteen, thirteen, sixteen, fifteen, and thirteen. So

(44:25):
I think Jordan Mason, at worst, I think he's still
gonna be able to get in that double digit touchdown
territory and be a great, great late round pick in
fantas football. In a if he hits this, it's plus
seventy five hundred. Follow me on betting, bros. George Mason
Lee the NFL was What was the take again, jord
Mason Lee the NFL in touchdowns rushing touchdowns?

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Okay, that's what it was. I knew Jordan Mason was involved.
Everything went dark, everything went black. I want to raise,
I want to run away after this.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
Wells was just shoveling bread into his mouth.

Speaker 5 (44:55):
I'm doing I'm not.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
I'm still hurt. Well you've rebox back.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
You don't want to do another one?

Speaker 1 (45:01):
Well, I can't do this one again.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
With you.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
I'm gonna cry. I can maybe do the tiniest of dabs.
I want you to kill it though, kill it. No,
let's see it on screen. Nobody, nobody flies alone. Let's
go all right, hold on, I'll do a tiny little dab,
like tiny little.

Speaker 4 (45:15):
Bitout it all over here, So okay, so hold on
this swing all right, I got a little baby dab here.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
Ready we're going together? Three two one. I actually wish
I didn't do that. All right, bagman is a great
radio here we've all got I cannot believe actually went
back in here.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
This is brutal.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
I was crying. It hurts, and the needle analogy is
one of the best things I've ever heard for this.
This is a brutal, brutal take, brutal hot sauce for
let's see. If it's a brutal take. Jordan Mason leading
the league in touchdowns is a wildly big take. How
what are you going through? And is your take going
to be hotter than this sauce?

Speaker 5 (45:56):
God, you got to start to take at least and
then I can I can tellue it.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
Yeah, okay, all right, Matthew Golden, Oh my god, Yeah,
this is fire hurt finishes as a low end wide receiver.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
Two in fantasy.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
It may not sound way bold, but no one has
ranked him higher than thirty six, So he's a low
end wide receiver.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Three to everybody, there's a drinking for a drink. That's
your that's your big milk cup right.

Speaker 5 (46:27):
Right now.

Speaker 4 (46:29):
Is CCR is wide receiver fifty one, one hundred and
twenty nine. Overall, his ADP is forty six.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
Good god, it doesn't get any better. It it hurts.
It's going through the nose Baguan's going to French fries.

Speaker 4 (46:43):
In twenty twenty four is eight flowers one hundred and
seventy two and a half points. Is wide receiver twenty
four Jacoby Myers one hundred and eighty three point one
and twenty three. Cooper cup On hundred and sixty three
point nine and twenty two, making a three year average
seventeen one hundred.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
And seventy three point two. That's a wide receiver. Low
end wide receiver twenty four here.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
Not great to cover your mouth on a podcast, but yep, oh,
I see your eyes are starting to go ah anyway.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
Three average points here's hundred seventy three point two points
twenty four point three point difference from projections. That's only
one point four to three points per game. That's a
five yard one five yard catch in half one ten
yard catch in half point PPR. If I could do
my math right right now every single week, that's all
you gotta add for Matthew goldenner projections to become whide

(47:35):
is she we twenty four and a low end whidees
number two. So it doesn't feel bold like this goddamn
sauce here, but it does. Uh, it does work out.
It can happen, So this feels like a workout. But
I'm gonna go to your milk ericson. You are a trooper,
you went.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
Back in for more. I will tell you my the
small dab did not hit It just kind of reactivated
a tiny bit. It did not hit me remote close.
So it was the bigger dab that got us here.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
Yeah, but what do you know your senses with the
first one?

Speaker 1 (48:04):
Yeah, the sensors are done, so it'd be really interesting
on the last one. But what do you think about
Matthew Golden pushing wide receiver one territory? That is that
I think is a very hot I think I don't know,
if it's as hot as this slide.

Speaker 5 (48:14):
I think it is a hot take.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
I know personally I like I like Jayden read a
little bit more than Matthew Golden this year. But I
just think that there's a lot of opportunity, and even
with the Tucker Craft hot take, with this Packers offense,
if it just gets back to more what we saw
in twenty twenty three where Jordan Love is throwing for
thirty plus passing touchdowns, someone someone's gonna pop from this
Green Bay Packers receiver room or at the tight end position.

Speaker 5 (48:37):
So Jayden Reid last year.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Again, if you think that Golden does step up like
Bogs says, it's going to be the number one receiver
on this roster, well, Jayden Reid was a top ten
wide receiver before Week fourteen last year. He was producing
in this offense. So if Matthew Golden is I use
this on the Betting Pros podcast, if he is the
prince that was promised as a first round pick for
the Green Bay Packers, then yeah, I think that he

(49:00):
could definitely be a back end fantasy wide receiver too.
If not a fantasy wide receiver one, I mean he
was a first round pick. It's a super talented guy
and he just shows up in big moments like that
was the biggest thing with him at Texas where Isaiah
Bond when that guy did that, When that guy got
all the hype, he was nowhere to be found. Matthew
Golden to the exact opposite.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
So thank do you think?

Speaker 1 (49:21):
Do you think in all that our takes have followed
the wings because the sauce, because we went three levels
which were okay, and I feel like we jumped into
the boldest of bold takes with the sauce. How is
the hold up here?

Speaker 3 (49:35):
Before we get to the the river sticks? This is
what we did here, Mike, Well.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
Bog's Unfortunately, you're gonna have it tough because you're going
to be the You're going to go right into the
next one. But how are you holding up currently?

Speaker 3 (49:45):
Not great? My lips are burning, tongue is burning, mouth
is burning.

Speaker 4 (49:51):
All right.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
Ericson has moved to off screen here, Ericson, how are
you holding up here?

Speaker 5 (49:56):
I think he's eating brown No, I'm eating the spy suppressors,
the bread. Okay, I'm freaking oar juice is good. This
stuff is helping.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
I wish I had done that. All right, gentlemen, we
are going into the final two takes, the nuclear heat
as it's called the Trinidad Scorpion. This is the again
We're gonna find out here in just a second. This
is two million Scoville, but the heat rating is under

(50:28):
the other. But this is seen as the hottest one.
So we are going to double the Schoolville if if
that truly means we're doubling the heat, I don't know
how I'm gonna do it. I don't know if your
takes are going to be able to match up. So
take a deep breath. The hottest of hot takes with
the hottest of hot sauces my final Teddy bear in toe, Bogman,

(50:50):
raise your wing, raise your dad scorpion, and give her
a nice dab, a good one.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
Look black, Oh it is like black?

Speaker 1 (51:00):
All right?

Speaker 4 (51:01):
Uh, that is a lot.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
I think. I think you guys can all see.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
I don't have that much.

Speaker 1 (51:06):
You know, the smell it, Erickson, just smelt it, all right, Bogman,
quick before you do it. I put more on mind
before before we do it. Will this be hotter than
the take you're about to give. Yes, let's go to
the mouth. Get your milk away. Here we go, cray

(51:31):
so far.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
It's disgusting.

Speaker 1 (51:37):
Oh oh, it's awful. It's hot and awful.

Speaker 5 (51:45):
Taste.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
Why did we do this?

Speaker 4 (51:48):
My question?

Speaker 5 (51:49):
Should I just do more of the ghost pepper the
next Yeah?

Speaker 1 (51:51):
Oh no, you gotta try this one now. You you
want to mix it, you can be a champ.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
All right?

Speaker 1 (51:56):
Bogs Uh that one good. It's also bad hot as
you're taking to be all late.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
This sucks.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Yeah, all right, let's hear your final hot take of
the Hot Takes episode.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
Anthony Richardson finishes QB six. We don't even know if
he's gonna start right now. He may not start any
games for the Colts this game, and I'm gonna say
he finishes as QB number six.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
We wanted a crazy one right From weeks.

Speaker 4 (52:25):
Eleven to sixteen, he was QB sixteen, and he had
some good finishes in there. Nah week one, he was
QB four, week eleven, QB four, week thirteen, QB nine
twenty twenty three, only A four starts.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
He finished his QB four week one.

Speaker 5 (52:41):
Eh.

Speaker 4 (52:45):
He finishes QB two and week four. He has some
finishes that are very high. Obviously the rushing total. I'm
saying this take like I'm mad at it.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
Yeah, it's the nose starts to run with this one.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
And uh, what were we talking about, Anthony Richardson, Anthony Ritchinson.

Speaker 4 (53:04):
Yeh right, So Jonathan Taylor being next to him, so
many rushing yards, so many rushing touchdowns.

Speaker 3 (53:11):
This system is built for running quarterback.

Speaker 5 (53:16):
Mm hmm, got out.

Speaker 3 (53:17):
That's what Anthony Richardson is, Riley Leonard, Daniel Jones.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
This is built all the same race, not a marathon.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
So I think Anthony Richardson, if he starts, he's got
great targets, He's got Josh downs. They drafted Tyler warreny
as Michael Pittman, he has Alec Pierce took a big
step up, and at Ni Mitchell.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
There's guys to replace these guys that they go down.
Tog Giddens is behind Taylor.

Speaker 4 (53:38):
Now you're you're like, this an offense and this offense
is Taylor made to make a big time quarterback for fantasy.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
It is a perfect offense to build around a good quarterback.
Why did I get it on my lips?

Speaker 4 (53:54):
Ah sor Anthony Richardson QB six If he finishes, if
he he starts all seventeen games.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
He's a QB one no matter what. All I'm asking
is a little bit more than that.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
So can can the sauces be hotter than the takes?
Can the takes live up to actual heat? We are
experimenting with it. So I'm going to give you the
option ericson. You gotta do this sauce. If you want
to up the anne and be a man of the people,
you can put some Ghost Pepper on it. This one
doesn't it well because he wants to be a rock star.
It's one, but you gotta show the screen if you're

(54:27):
what you're doing.

Speaker 5 (54:28):
Gotta be a rock star.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
Just just do okay, so be a rock star. So
I'm because I have done everything. I don't want this
to be the end. I do not enjoy this sauce.
It is hot and it is lingering. But I'm going
to join you because I'm also a man of the people.
I'm gonna dab a little bit of both of these
on here. Let's get a little bit of Oh god,
all right, we are putting both together. This is ghost

(54:54):
Pepper and the Trinidad Scorpion. I am gonna guess is
the hot, hottest take of the show from Andrew Rickson,
So Ericson, Oh my god, you really dipped that thing.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (55:12):
A lot of top of your head. Oh boy, this
this is a bad idea.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
Why did you do that twice? Welsh?

Speaker 1 (55:23):
Oh God, because I did every single one twice. I
couldn't end at the last one.

Speaker 3 (55:32):
You see, Oh it's not.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
Ericson, All right, what's thet what is the tap to take?

Speaker 2 (55:37):
So a Buffalo Bill's wide receiver is going to finish
as a wide receiver one this season. But it's not
gonna be klosha here, It's not gonna be Ke Coleman.
It's not gonna be Joshua Palmer. It's gonna be Elijah Moore.
Elijah Moore is going to finish twenty twenty five as
a Fantasy wide receiver one. That is my whatddest spiciest take. Yes,

(55:59):
I came to the tape with a hot take that
is worthy of being in the Trinidad Scorpion Tier.

Speaker 4 (56:05):
It is of hot takes, and I think your take
is hotter than the sauce. And I hate this sauce
as stupid guts.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
So this is my mindset behind the Elijah Moore play.
So we've seen some fifth year wide receivers or six
year receivers over the last three seasons finished US top
twelve guys for the very first time.

Speaker 5 (56:26):
Those guys have been.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
Christian Kirk, DJ Moore, Jerry Judy, guys that all finished
as wide receiver ones entering their fifth or sixth seasons.
The common theme with all those players they were all
playing for new teams and they had multiple seasons with
at least one hundred targets on their resume. Elijah Moore

(56:47):
has playing on a new team attached with the best
quarterback of his career in Josh Allen. He has back
to back one hundred yard target seasons entering this season.

Speaker 5 (56:56):
He's twenty five years old.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
I already mentioned with the best quarterback of his career
by far, No more Joe Flaccos, Deshaun Watson, Zach Wilson's
when he was with the Jets and Browns. I think
Elijah Moore is a talented guy, and I don't think
he's always been put in the best situations.

Speaker 5 (57:10):
Now is he the favorite to be the best Bills receiver?

Speaker 3 (57:13):
No, of course not.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
I would definitely draft guys like Palmer keon Coleman Shakir
over Elijah Moore. But again, if we're trying to get
hot here with the hottest take, I want to be
bold here by going all the way down the depth
chart to Elijah Moore as this year's fifth year breakout.
And as I was doing research for this show, I
was looking on playerprofiler dot com looking at Elijah Moore,
his profile, and his closest comparable receiver. It's Tyler Lockett.

(57:37):
Tyler Lockett his fifth year finished as the wide receiver thirteen.
That was the highest of his career before we started
to see him break out. So fifth year breakouts happen
more often than you think. And Elijah Moore, if he
gets the opportunity, I think he can deliver with Josh Allen.
So that is my hottest take. And do you guys agree?
Is it hotter than the sauce or no?

Speaker 4 (57:55):
Yes, I think it's hotter than the sauce. And this
saw sucks by the way, the salt worked better than
anything else.

Speaker 1 (58:02):
I wish I would have done that.

Speaker 4 (58:03):
You know.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
The great thing about this episode is too has such
great rewatchability. Because I don't know anything you just said
outside I heard Elijah Moore, So bagman, I hope you
heard stuff. I feel sick. I'm sweating like I would
be if I was depending on Elijah Moore as one
of my top wide receivers. But what do you think
about this? Because you're a key on Coleman guy.

Speaker 3 (58:21):
Yeah, I'm a keyon Coleman guy. And but we know
this is a hot take.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
This is, you know, a guy that might end up
as the fourth wide receiver being a wide receiver one
for this team.

Speaker 3 (58:30):
And I think.

Speaker 4 (58:32):
Eli Moore definitely has the talent to do this right,
Like you said, very similar skill set to Tyler Lockett.
Josh Allen can throw the ball. My thing is this
dude's had so many concussions. I thought he probably should
have retired bean playing again. So one more bad pop
and I think that might be a rap free line more.

(58:52):
But he's a good player, and he was very undersold
going to the Bills. And you know, as far as
bold takes go, this was way bold in the mind.
Anthony Richardson finishes his QB six is uh, you know,
I mean it's bold because he might not start a game,
but Eli Moore might be might not get enough snaps

(59:14):
to be a top three wide receiver on the Bills.
So this is a very spicy take, spicier than the sawce.
So oh man, I didn't think it was ever gonna
calm down. I'm telling you that salt. If it hasn't
come down for you, guys, Assault works the best.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
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I was almost gonna ask for an instant raise for
being able to do that read perfectly on time, but

(01:00:10):
the sauce got me. It's hugged me. Guys, did you
have officially we have all officially completed our hot takes ericson.
You seem to be struggling a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
What do you think it from the back nine, My
lips are on fire, right, dude?

Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
Is the lips It's the worst. That's why I kept grunt.

Speaker 5 (01:00:32):
I was I was doing okay.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
I thought, man, I'm handling this the Scorpion sauce pretty well,
and then it just all of a sudden.

Speaker 4 (01:00:39):
My lips just I think it's because you, like you
already killed fifty percent of the nerves in your mouth
with the ghost stuff, so it took a little bit
longer for the Trinidad stuff to hit.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
But when it did, it was worse. It was worse.

Speaker 4 (01:00:52):
I didn't think it was gonna be worse than the
ghost stuff, but it was. Well, well, let us know
you're the man doing two dads on all of those incredible.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
I'm struggling a lot, and I did feel like I
was gonna throw up about five minutes ago, but luckily,
I think I'm gonna be able to save that for
about five minutes from now to get out of here.
But let us know in the comments, what was your
favorite sauce and your favorite take, your favorite reaction you
got the comments below, because we're always doing great giveaways
when you're subscribed, and your comment, but what was your

(01:01:22):
favorite hot take in this one? And by the way,
that could be the player or that could be the reaction,
because there were quite good moments. Hey Bogman, remember when
you said this was nothing and everything was all fine
about forty five minutes ago.

Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
How do you look?

Speaker 4 (01:01:34):
I would put the yellow sauce is not as spicy
as mustard, all right, I would say, But this stuff
might murder me. This trend tad scorpion stuff. This is
the stuff where, like you're making chili, you put one
drop in it and you're good.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
We put quite a few too many drops, But you
guys completed the hot take challenge. I hope everybody enjoyed it.
We are off the proverbial hot seat. The sweat is
starting to go away, just a tiny bit. The red
is sticking with the color for me, but you know,
that's how it is. It was a tough challenge and
I hope you guys all enjoyed it. Make sure you're
subscribed on the YouTube side for Andrew Ericsson and Scott Bagman.

(01:02:10):
I'm Chris Welsh. We did it. Thank you. Guys for
hanging out with us, and we'll talk to you next
time for more hot takes right here on Fantasy Pros.

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