January 25, 2022 • 38 mins
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Dan Beyer and Mike Harmon give their reactions to the best weekend of football in NFL history. The guys give their thoughts on the NFL's overtime rules. Dan, Mike, and Executive Producer Ryan Burschinger continue their first look at the 2022 fantasy football season with a mock draft of picks 25-36! How should you approach tight end in next year's draft? How far have Ezekiel Elliott and Aaron Jones fallen? Is there a cliff you need to watch out for at wide receiver?
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your flex on. Here's Dan Buyer and Mike Carman. It
is another episode of I Want Your Flax, and we've
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never had an episode like this coming off the heels
of what we saw this past weekend. And I know
we're a little separated from it, Mike, but the whole
feelings of what happened on Saturday then leading into Sunday
end up still kind of resonating, even though we're we're
trying to look ahead of the championship week. Just an
amazing weekend of football that we saw in those four
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divisional games. Well, the crazy thing right as you and
I sit down to record this, we're in the middle
of a Monday, and the Saturday games, as you said,
seemed like a lifetime ago, and Cincinnati Tennessee seems so boring,
right what it's what it's all said and down it's like, Wow,
what a great game. Mcpheerson is a hero and at
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Borrow got like bludgeoned and left all over pits, piece
of him all over that turf. It didn't matter. They
still win. And that's by far the lowest ranking of
the four games. When it comes to consequence. Just think
about that, You're watching Saturday and you just see the
Bengals win on the last second kick off of a
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turnover with twenty seconds left, and you say, this is
gonna be the worst game are gonna have this weekend? Like,
think about like how stoked you would have had to
have been. And that is if you're not a Packers
or Bills fan or a Buccaneers fan. Get my gun
Twitter at Swollen Dumb. You can find me on Twitter
at Dan Buyer on Fox. Let's just dive into the
topic everybody's talking about. By the way, we will get
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to our draft. We are in round number three. We
will be doing today for our look ahead to the
two fantasy draft. Ryan Burrshinger, our executive producer, will join
us as well as Ryan, Mike and myself will end
up just doing a draft, no lineup set, but just
who we think is best available fantasy players looking ahead
the next season. We are through two rounds, so we
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will get rum three done. But we will do that
after we talk about overtime gates. Overtime drama with what
unfolded in Kansas City, Chiefs end up rallying with thirteen
seconds left to get the game tying field goal. Then
they get the coin toss and go down and score
against Buffalo when forty two to thirty six, So the
Bills are sent home. Kansas City moves on with an
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overtime rule that many are not happy with. Well, Saltiness City,
you had to come away with the weekend unsatisfied and
angry about something, didn't you. I mean, there's too much
of everybody joining hand across this globe and going what
glorious football? And then you know you can't have everybody
happy going into a new work week. No, we were cheated.
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We were a good winked, bamboozled. How about you play
some defense. Okay, maybe I'm trying to speak something in
new existence that nobody wants to hear. You had two
chances to stop him regulation and then in overtime, and
Leslie Fraser may get a head coaching job. He may
be a fine head coach. But if you're gonna tell
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me all this time his credentials and and what he's
done with this top ranked defense to warrant getting a
look at a top job, well, then play defense and
go make a stop. And then you get to stop
Patrick Mahomes and spike the ball. Are aren't they independent
of each other? Like like I get it, Like I
understand like Buffalo had an opportunity if they could just
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stop Kansas City with thirteen seconds left, I I understand
that their defense didn't didn't win the game for them. However,
the Kansas City's defense was never put in a situation
where it needed to get a stop when they couldn't
get a stop either in the most important time of
the game, which ended up being in overtime, and that
that's that's where like I I understand, the defenses aren't
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stopping anybody, But to me, it's it's independent of of
one another. Just because the Bills didn't stop anybody doesn't
mean that they should also then should have stopped someone
in overtime, and it's their fault that they lost because
Kansas City's defense. If it would have been the if
it would have been the opposite scenario, I think we
would have been saying the same thing if if Josh
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Allen and the Bills won the toss and went down
and scored, and we just saw Patrick Mahomes get his
team and field goal position in thirteen seconds and then
for Kansas City would say, man, this is the second
time in four years they've been screwed with the overtime
coin toss. I almost think that the outrage would have
been worse if it would have happened on the flip side,
which kind of tells me that the rule does need
to be changed, and it can be changed, Mike, It
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can be changed at least in playoffs scenarios if you
move forward like this. But that's just it was tough
for me to see how great of a game it
ended up being, and then you just ended up losing
on the heads or tails. Well, and the score shouldn't
accounted because Tyreek Kale should have been called for taunting
based on twenty Yeah, yes that's true, or any number
of his teammates doing you know, snow angels holding up
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there there the touchdown symbol and whatever else is it?
Like he was the reason for the rule, right, like
like it's the Tyreek Hill rule, yes, giving the peace
sign and doing backflips. And then you know, Antoine Winfield
did it to him in the Super Bowl, like the
reverse thing. So they're like, okay, we gotta put a
stop to but it's his freaking rule and they didn't
even call it. Yeah, after a day where we'd or
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two days where we've seen a lot of those, right,
and you had Tom Brady get bloodied and hit in
the face and nobody cared because it was Hockeyley Top
five penalty, Top five penalty crew of the Year Dan.
So we knew that going in that you'd have a
couple and amazingly only eight for the game, but three
on Sportsman lights on uh Tampa in that first half
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of that game. But yeah, look, I've always just been
an advocate of whatever. Whether it's fifteen minutes or ten minutes,
it's another quarter, right, it's the playoffs. Playoffs are different. Yeah,
people saying, hey, let's do the college thing. Man, I
hate the college over time as it stands right now,
that is not my my favorite. I like timed uh
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sequences in sports. I think that when you look at
when we look back at history and we look at
what transpired in Kansas City, we can take other instances
and I wouldn't say go from college football, but you
know Chargers Dolphins, was that legendary game or Kevin Winslow
had to be carried off? I know it's way back
in the way back in the early eighties. But if
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if you have a marathon game, it's okay. It's happened before.
And I guess, Mike my solution, because that's actually all
that I really want from people. If people want to
complain about it, that's one thing, but come up with
a solution, at least your idea with what would work better.
I'm all for it. The NFL in the regular season,
you know how much I hate it. Ten minute session
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is absurd, but I understand why they do it. I
don't think it's fair. They just want the game to
get over with and not interrupt sixty minutes or interrupt
the late window. How care you? How dare you making
about television? It's about player safety, tire that extra five
minutes that they would have to play. But that's that's
the reason why they have a ten minute overtime. But
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for people, that didn't make me realize what they were
watching on the clock. And you mentioned it earlier, guess what.
The overtime session in the playoffs is a fifteen minute quarter,
So you are doing a different because the game wouldn't
end in a tie, and obviously we have to decide
a winner. But there was a change just with the
timing of overtime that was that was different, And I'm
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sad that that wouldn't make a difference if you had
a forty Niners team that went in overtime and took
eight minutes off of the clock on a drive, if
it was a ten minute session and you had to
restart it over, then you know that would factor in.
But the NFL says we are going to take a
fifteen minute quarter now for the playoffs because it's the playoffs.
To me, they could also say, all right, we will
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ensure that at least each team gets a one possession
to be well to uh to at least try to
do something in that overtime, and after that point then
you can be sudden death. But they've made changes from
the regular season overtime rule, uh, from the regular season
to the playoffs, and I think that they could do
that again this time. Yeah, I think you know again,
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you know, we always talk about complaints and it's always
the fire this guy or whatever. All right, give me
a solution that that's going to make the team better. Right, Oh,
this quarterback stinks, all right, find me a guy who's
available who's gonna make it better. And obviously as we
get into the carousel, both finishing the coaches side and
and quarterbacks and movement this offseason, that's gonna be a
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very difficult task because many more spots that have than
than than players that seemed worthy of filling them in
some cases. But for the overtime rule, you know, it
is one of the more asinine things. I get it,
and the numbers bear it out right when the coin
tossed and down you go. Uh. And that's certainly vexing
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frustrated as a guy who's you know, been one of
the leaders of the Josh Allen Van wagon. Yeah, I
wanted to see him again. Shot, but he called tales
and he was wrong. Dan, Yes, it was supposed to.
I mean that's what we were all taught. So we
it's like telling me, sorry, kids, that there's no Santa Claus.
I mean, come on that, well, there is a Santa
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Claus at least. But in this case, Tales never fails
is not legit. That is a that is a lie.
No more truisms there. And let me tell you if
this this scenario, this, this will be my final point.
And again I think that the NFL can just say
each team gets a possession in the playoffs. If you
don't want to do it for the regular season, that's fine.
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It's the regular season. Whatever. You've got different rules. You
have seventeen games to figure out, you know, if you
lose one there as long as you don't keep finding
yourself in overtime or close games. That's also the other
thing for Buffalo. Stop playing close games. You're not good
at them. That's that's fair, very fair point. The other
point that I make is I think that this is unique, Mike,
because the maybe the most notable game outside of the
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a f C Championship game where we had the overtime
was Super Bowl fifty one, when New England came back
from twenty to three against Atlanta that we all know about,
and when the Patriots ended up winning the toss, you
just kind of felt that the game was over, and
it ended up being over because they went and drove
down and scored right away. I would say, what would
happen on the flip side of things? And in that scenario,
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the reason why I don't think it's as big it
was made as big of a deal, Mike, was because
there was no guarantee the Falcons were gonna we're gonna
score because they didn't score after they went up three,
then score any more points in that game, and and
so there would have been the question, Okay, maybe you
could stop Atlanta. And that's what made Sunday Night's game
so crazy was we're seeing team score in a minute,
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under a minute, in thirteen seconds, and that's why it
was so magnified. Like there have been other games where
this has happened before. But to see the pinball game
that you had in the final, you know, five minutes
of regulation, these teams just going up and down the field,
to then have that come to a sudden halt and
change in overtime, that that's was the difference to me.
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Because Super Bowl fifty one, you could have made an argument,
but there wasn't an argument because there was really no
guarantee that the Falcons were going to score. And I
think that's what made it different from Sunday. Yeah, it
was just interesting, right because in the early game, the
idea that perhaps you were going to get to overtime
as Tampa has the furious come back, and I know
for Matthew Stafford detractors, they're really mad that none of
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the errors all the turnovers were on on him. Yeah,
George and I were doing the live show and I'm
just saying, there's no way you can pin this, no
way that you can pin this on Matthew Stafford. Everybody
on the Rams is messing up except Matthew Stafford, and
that's how it played out when he ends up making
the play at the end. But I mean, just amazing
right now, Sarrians in the post, you know, saying, hey,
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we had the right call, just not the execution. Maybe
maybe not somehow you keep losing Cooper Cup, which is
always bad for this, but think about that game suddenly
going to overtime. Would you have trusted the Rams to
win the game in overtime? Um? No. So it's one
of those kinds of situation, same thing I mean, and
obviously shock and awe that they were able to move
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into position to kick that winning field goal in the
final half minute, which is just amazing. Theater which which
the entire weekend was again not to detigrate the world
of the Bengals and Titans, but uh, no rule changes
are coming out of that, except for maybe you know,
you have to look a little better at your draft
board in your NFL War rooms to decide whether it
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warrants grabbing a guy in the fifth round. Maybe maybe
there's a change, and we we remember and we pushed
aside the memory of Aguayo. Ah, yes, Roberto Aguayo. Uh.
I heard of Bill Grammatica reference recently and uh and
that's way back in the way back. But I think
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it was a celebration. I kicker made celebration and celebration
and then get hurt. Listen, I'll say that. You know,
like sometimes sometimes kickers, they may have a rough go
of it at first. You know, look at Daniel Carlson
with the with the Raiders and time he had with
the Vikings. Uh the uh. You know, sometimes you gotta
stick with these kickers and they can they can pay
off well you mean like the Bears should have actually
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paid Robbie Gold. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what's funny,
my brother sent me the the greatest meme after the
game winner went through the forty Niners packers was a
shot a slow motion of Ryan Pace leaving Soldier field.
It's like he had one hit left. Planted this seed
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by cutting Gold years ago to rip Aaron oh Man.
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All right, now, let's bring in our executive producer, Ryan
Burr Singer as we look ahead to the two Fantasy
season again. Ryan, Mike and I have been doing a
draft with no lineups. The PPR League scoring format is
how we've addressed this, and we just want to get
your prepped and what we think and how we think
the orders should go and drafting the best available players
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that we think will be available in the two draft.
So as we bring Ryan Burshinger in and you can
get on Twitter at Ryan Burr Shinger, my carm and
get him on Twitter at swollend Home and find me
on Twitter at Dan Buyer on Fox. How did these
second round go Bursch. I know that you've got a
copy in front of you. I do as well. But
how did we how did we run down the second
round that started? I know I was a little frustrated
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because I wasn't sure of my Tyreek Hill on the
back end of the first round was gonna allow me
to get the guy that I wanted at the start
of the second. It did happen. But how did our
second round go? So? Yes, starting at thirteen was Joe
mix In fourteen, Stefon Diggs fifteen, Jamaar Chase sixteen, Nick
Chubb seventeen, Deebo Samuel eighteen, Javonte Williams nineteen, Travis Kelsey twenty,
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Cam Acres twenty one, DK Metcalf, twenty two, Keenan Allen,
twenty three Darren Waller, and twenty four Antonio Gibson. Okay,
that's how the second round played out. So, Mike, as
we are just on the verge of starting our third round,
there are some interesting names out there. Anything stand out
to you as we enter the third round and what
we could see in our next twelve picks that we
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make in our two fantasy draft, Well, one thing it
shows the three of us have decided we're not jump
being on quarterbacks immediately, right, which has been been a
trend in the last couple of years. Go up and
get your guy, even though you know that muddled mess
behind and what five through twelve don't have much variance
to them at all, So that that's certainly in is
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the case. We've got two tight ends that have already
come off the board. I would suspect they'll be joined again.
Top heavy kind of list there, But you know, patients
when it comes to guys in the in the unknowns, right,
Christian McCaffrey goes ten. I see in a number of
industry things, uh popping off for the next year. He's
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still a top four or five guy on most sites.
And all right, not only are you worried about his injuries,
but who the hell slinging the rock there? And what
does it look like? And if they're bringing in dudes
that ran the giants offense, like if mcado shows up there,
really suddenly that's going to be the thing that catapults
them to greatness. Come on, it's either going to all
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works in a space tacular fashion or fail miserably. And
I I just I am on the side of not
trusting Christian McCaffrey. Plus, I just think there are a
lot of other names that are more reliable that you
can get ahead of him. You mentioned injuries. That's what
I think this third round is going to be about,
because now you're starting to see guys, some that may
have missed a good part of the season or all
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of the season that could be in the conversation and
in coming back from injuries. There are certain names who
had cam akers Is Ryan mentioned did go in the
second round twenty overall in our draft, but there are
other names that pop up. I also think that there
are injury prone players that are in this third round.
So let's, uh, let's see what we have to offer, Ryan,
Burr Stringer, you are on the clock, it goes Ryan,
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Mike and then myself and then we just continue in
that order, all right, Versus you look at these players
that are ahead of you, with twenty four players in
the rear view mirror, what are you focusing on and
pick number twenty five? Well, as Mike mentioned, tight end
is is super top heavy, and I think over the
last few years especially, I've started to more subscribe to
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the strategy of getting a very strong tight end to
not have a hole in your roster. It's very easily,
very easy to get stuck with a hole at tight end.
And you look at last year at tight end, like
Dawson Knox was tight end four on the season and
and in terms of total points, sure, yeah, he he
ended up there, but he had weeks where he was
downright terrible, including a zero in week seventeen. So I
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want to get a steady tight end, and you have
a guy available right now who was tight end one
on the season. So I'm going to take Mark Andrews
here at So Burst does not subscribe to the I'll
just take Evan Ingram late in the in the draft
and watch him surprise everyone, like everybody has wished for
the last five years. So Mark Andrews tight end number
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three now off the board. After Waller and Kelsey went
Mike Harmon, you're up at number twenty six back in Well,
I mean, look, if we're gonna do, why don't we
do a veritable tight end? Run then and give me
my my Iowa boy. All right, no fans, No, I'm
just kidding. A fan probably is a top six guy.
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When it's all said, no, yeah, again Marv Cook, who
always made it into those graphics. We're at like seven
guys just like that. That is that is good. I
would tight end knowledge. That's what they would do. They
didn't even get a Hawkinson. They they had this great
run with Fans Hackinson, Kittle and then Dallas Clark obviously,
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but to like fill out the graphic, they would throw
Marv Cook in there from the Eatings and nineties and
the New England Patriots back when we didn't mind the Patriots.
George Kittle goes number twenty six overall in tight end
number four. Kittle is off the board. That brings me
up to the plate. And I had actually been debating
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this and I'm not going to I I I think
that there will be a bounce back and know that
there could be a ch change. I don't know if
there will be a change though, after what we saw
a little over a week and a half ago. The
first Dallas Cowboy off the board will be Ceedee Lamb.
I am going to take Ceedee Lamb at number twenty seven.
I know that there there are other Dallas Cowboys that
could be available, including Ezekiel Elliott, but I trust Ceedee
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Lamb more of the breakout uh year that we expected
his sophomore season to maybe come next season. Give me
Ceedee Lamb at number twenty seven. I like that not
to be labor the Dallas point. We have plenty of
off season to bandy this about. But how different does
that squad look? Right? Are they able to get someone
to take Elliott's contract? Is Amari Cooper back? Because obviously
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Jerry Jones hates him right, and he was bad at
him because he was unvaccinated, not available to them first stretch,
and then the disappearing act at times, and then well
you finished terribly. Uh So someone's got to go, especially
after you've said all the right things and brought them
in and paid them a lot of money. And we
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know that Jerry Jones doesn't want to be hanging with
Mr Gooper. We'll see if that happens in two. Alright,
Ryan Burr shing Er, you are back up at pick
number twenty eight. Overall, Yeah, this is an interesting spot
because I'm looking at guys who have kind of battled
with injuries. As you mentioned, Dan, We're gonna be seeing
a lot of that in this round here. I'm going
to go ahead and take a J. Brown, and I'm
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going to bet on his ceiling, bet on his talent.
We saw what he could do in uh In in
weeks sixteen, closing out the season there had a huge
game when he came back after being injured for a
few weeks. The talent is there. He's just got to
stay healthy. So I'm gonna take J. Brown here. Let's
also be real, if A J. Brown doesn't have the
game that he has on Saturday, maybe we are moving
him down a little bit in the rankings to see
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where the Titan wide receiver goes. But in looking at
the other names out there, I think that yeah, A J.
Brown is definitely worthy of a pick at this point.
But I do think that this past weekend helped his
helped his draft spot top of mind, no question about it.
I had him as a WR five for this past year,
so clearly I liked him. I want to like him
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even three awesome games and then the rest and well
not four with the loss to to cincident in the playoffs,
but that's what you got from them. But even looking
at Ryan Tannehill, there were a number of balls that
Heat threw, including the touchdown to to Brown, where you're like,
see this guy can sling it, and then he does
things like after now we're going back to the playoffs stuff,
how do you have Dante form and give you a
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forty five yard run? Uh? Then throw that interception? And
how does Foreman only have four carries in the game,
Dan Fire, I was surprised about that. I I thought
it would be more of a split workload than it
was actually And uh, yeah, they just they gave Henry
Henry every not that it was the difference, but to
your point of yeah, if you're gonna do that, and
that's what got you to the playoffs, why would you change. Yeah,
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he was able to carry it for half a year
to the number one seat as part of your offense.
But what do I know. I'm just a dope on
the radio. All right, let's get back into it. So Edwards, Kittle,
Lamb Brown and gone thus far? Uh, this seems like
a spot to try to figure out and read the
tea leaves of a guy with a big workload left
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at the running back position. Uh. And while I will
be called a homer, I'll take David Montgomery. Hey, Matt
Naggie's not there to screw it up anymore. It's true
that I I was curious because I think that there
is another name out there on if you were to
go this name or go David Montgomery. I will be honest.
When I took Antonio Gibson number twenty four, I had
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considered David Montgomery in that spot, which then just completely
doesn't explain why it took Ceedee lamb At. But I
ended up taking Cede la and and and pick number thirty.
Since you took Montgomery, who was going to be my
pick if you didn't take him. I know this is
a bit of a reach, but I still think that
you talk about workload, it will be there if he
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is healthy, and I will take se Kwon Barkley at
number thirty with having no idea what's going to happen
with the Giants coaching situation. He is still sae Kwon Barkley.
And if you can straighten some stuff up in the
off season. When we did our pot a few weeks
ago and we're talking about coaching changes, I think with
his contract, you're gonna want to figure out and the uh,
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the future of se Kwon Barkley in New York. This
is the time to find out. This is what you
want to find out what you've got, so put him
to work. So I'm gonna take se Kwon Barkley at
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one with Ryan bur Singer, I like that se Kwon pick.
Actually I was about to do that, so I I
endorse it, and I think that the the other running
backs available right now. It's weird because you have steady
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guys and strong offenses. You have guys who were first
round picks this last season and might be having too
much of a workload at the moment um or not
enough of a workload at the moment. I'm going to
take Deonte Johnson here because I think his his his
workload is very high. He gets targeted like crazy, and
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you know, they've they've got to have a better quarterback,
maybe than than than than no arm he I already
had my analysis written for this one personal following me,
someone will be able to get the ball five yards
beyond the line of scrimmage, it opens up. I I
appreciate Ryan Berghinger having a pick ready after I took Barkley,
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because if it was like a guy in our league,
he would jump right back into his magazine because he
only had Plan A, like there was no Plan B.
And once Plan A went off the board, he started
from scratch and started back at zero and started over again.
So I appreciate you having a backup plan with that.
Always have a backup alright, Deonte Johnson is a wide
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receiver to well, Mike Harmon up with five more picks
in our third round of our fantasy draft. Well, i'll
assume he's back and healthy, um, and I'm going back
through the board making sure he hasn't been picked. But
give me DeAndre Hopkins. Yes, he is available. One of
the names as well. When we talk about injury wise
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on where you want to take a guy that he was,
he was he was foremost on my mind. Him and
another guy that hasn't been picked yet were actually the
two names that really popped out. And see Kwon Barkley.
When we talked about guys who were injured or deal
with injuries. DeAndre Hopkins was one of those guys. I
have one more guy, and maybe we're kindred spirits and
thinking the same way. Uh. One thing I would want
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to know, I mean, Kingsbury, show me your plan for
playing in the second half of the season. I'll sit
back and wait, so will I so will uh so
will Steve Kim But that's a whole other thing. All right,
This there I called for a job. All right. There
are a lot of good names on the board. And
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this is a decision that I actually have to face
in one of my leagues when it comes to two keepers,
I have to do it either or, and it usually
isn't wise. And Ryan bur Singer started out as we
started this draft kind of talking about this. I'm gonna
take the first quarterback off the board, and it maybe
recency buyas, But Josh Allen goes off the board at
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number thirty three. When you just saw what he did
in the these two playoff games that they had, it
makes you think like, oh, my goodness, could you imagine
having that for sixteen or seventeen weeks of a fantasy season.
So Josh Allen is going to be QB one off
of our board, number thirty three overall. So it took
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thirty two picks until a thirty three picks until the
quarterback was finally taken. Alright, final three picks of our
third round of our fantasy draft. Make these counts, because
this is what's gonna You're gonna be kicking yourself for
over the next week until we get to round number four.
Make these picks count Ryan Burr Shinger eure up at
number thirty four. Um, I'm gonna go in and take
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Mike Evans here because if Chris Godwin doesn't come back,
he's then the clear number one in this offense. And
you know, Tom Brady, I don't know, he may retire,
he probably won't. I still think that they're going to
find a way to get Mike Evans the ball a
ton in that offense. So I'll take Evans here. I
have no idea how Tom Brady would walk away from
this after the season he just had. I didn't. Yeah,
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you know, I was gonna say that story like it's
just it's it's so NFL incenters do this because they
wanted for that Sunday that wasn't like a story Mike
that popped up at ten o'clock Saturday night and then
was need needed to be broken at that point or
early the next morning. You know, this has been sitting there,
and it just tells me then it's not really a story.
Like if you're waiting to unveil that, you know, six
(29:58):
hours before kickoff of you know, the Tampa game, to
make it a conversation for your pregame show, that to
me just then tells me maybe it's not as much
of a story as we thought it was. No, I
just kind of shrugged. It's like I looked at doing
the Morning Show with Bucky Brooks. We've gone through a
ton of stuff, right, obviously a lot of breakdown, a
lot of Rogers podcast up, I Heart Radio app and
(30:22):
anywhere you get your podcast, go grab it, give it
five stars, will love you forever, and evangelize your friends.
Uh Like, look, I took Roger's apart, uh nine thousand
different ways. But at some point I looked at Bucky
and a break, I go, do you care to talk
about this the left? Because it's a big deal now.
So I think we made a similar joke on there
(30:43):
and just went in to analyze the game. It's like, really,
let's start talking about the history of Kyle Trask everybody.
It's like, no, alright, Mike Evans though, um yeah, wing
it up and Brady still had the arm strength to
get it to him downfield as Jail and Jalen Ramsey
kind of disappeared on that converage now, didn't he But
(31:04):
we moved forward. Now there's a number of guys that
I like in the next spot, but they don't really
just spread apart. I wanted Josh Allen, but you stole
them from me. Uh and uh, you may steal a
guy from me because I have someone targeted at thirty six.
So I'm gonna take a wide receiver that we haven't
seen in a very very long time, Okay, and I
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am going to roll the dice that this works. Now
there's another guy I like, and I'm curious to see
what the quarterback position is and what the new regime is. Uh,
lots of money to spend, you know, all that fun stuff.
But I'm gonna go out and roll the dice that
Calvin Ridley finds himself. Oh wow, Calvin Ridley off the board.
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I've heard some New England connections with Calvin Ridley. We
don't think he's gonna be back in Atlanta. The curiosity.
You know, there's a bunch of guys that are kind
of the same, and I'm looking at all, right, where's
my upside, where's my potential push at this point in
the draft? And so there I'll roll the dice there.
Why because it's spicy and Bursch can put it in there,
(32:13):
going what do you think of this? Ah? This is
by the way, I think that we like with with Ridley.
There is a line at the wide receiver position, and
I think that we have now crossed it there there,
there's there's a name that I think, you know what,
(32:34):
I'm not going to pick him here. I will tell
you who it is in the fourth round, but I
think that we've crossed that line of being now we're
into the next group of wide receivers. Like I think
that that is that is where we are in this draft.
So I am avoiding the wide receiver position. If he
stays healthy, I would be very very happy to have
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Elijah Mitchell at number thirty six. So I'm gonna go
the forty Niners running back and I think he keeps
the job no matter what they've they've done. Considering the
way that he runs and how he has run this
season and how much San Francisco likes to run, I
would take Elijah Mitchell thirty six. There there there was
a wide receiver that I really liked, and I'll write
it down and then we'll talk about it in the
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fourth round. But I think when once Ridley went off
the board, now you just kind of started not to
see just guys, not jags as we like to say,
but they're just there wasn't as much separation as I
thought with the with the other guys that were taken. Yeah,
I mean I like the Mitchell pick wide receiver position. Right,
They're all kind of the same, and it's trying to
figure out where where's the upside ye again one guy
(33:38):
on my brain where I'm like, all right, we saw
some good but there's potential for this to be unlocked
if everything breaks right. But it's a question of well
does it But well, I'm sure tackle that in the
next twelve picks. Uh, no question. But Elijah Mitchell. I mean, look,
the forty niners are still playing and a lot of
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it is his emerge and right when most went down
and it was gonna be a committee situation, and it
is to a degree because right Deebo Samuels RB wanted times.
I mean, but you look at mitchell tough yardage and
trust well that that staff has in him. I think
there's also there could also be the counter answer, if
Trey Lance ends up getting the job, how much does
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Elijah Mitchell's maybe go line work be effected or just
even running the football. I don't think it would change
that much, but something to look at in the off season.
So for the Elijah Mitchell detractors, that would be something
that they would point to. All Right, that wraps up
our third round. So we are halfway through. It means
we have three more podcasts left in the season. They
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will come out every Tuesday's. We're now doing them weekly.
Big thanks to Ryan Burr Singer UH and my Carmen.
I'm Dan Buyer. This has been a lot of fun.
Any final thoughts burst from what you saw in the draft,
I'll let you go get him on Twitter at Ryan
Bursinger at these twelve picks. Any final thoughts. Yeah, As
Harmon mentioned, I think Elijah Mitchell, I think that's a
great spot for him, and I could see that stock
rising even higher as we get closer to the season
(35:02):
where there's more certainty in terms of his role. As
you were talking about with receivers, Dan, there's a couple
of receivers that I wasn't crazy about taking in the
third round, but I would absolutely love as fourth round picks.
And Uh, I think it's one more thing. It's interesting
the kind of elephants in the room at the moment.
You've got Ezekiel Elliott and Aaron Jones, guys who were
(35:22):
taking in the first round of this last season, and
you watch their their stock continue to kind of fall
as you saw, there are other counterparts and running back,
uh excel in the way the guys in the tandem
outplayed them. Yeah, it's so it's it's so interesting where
the name feels like you should be taking him around
(35:43):
this time, but you look at it logically and you're like, no,
I just it doesn't feel right. So be interesting to
see where those guys end up. Harmon, I'll let you
have the last word. And all of this is we
are thirty six picks in well him, Ryan mentioned Jones
like Elliott, I wouldn't touch I don't think right whether
he's in Dalla Polerge going to have a big say.
But because of his salary, I guess Zeke would still
(36:04):
be getting his his turn now if he moved someplace else. Yeah,
maybe maybe there's more value with Jones so long as
he's in Green Bay with A J. Dillon who had
that broken rib. I mean, obviously that's part of the
forty Niners Packers game that nobody's talking about. Hey, A J.
Dillon wasn't there, although they weren't using it much anyway,
because Roger went to the two man game. Hey, there
(36:26):
was one guy talking about it, and it was me
because I was totally critical of myself yesterday on Sunday
Show in saying I think A. J. Dillon's injury played
a big part of this while everybody was talking about
Rodgers and the special teams. By the way, that will
not make the the hot take theater that that is
usually out there, Mike, that you love so much that
you have phrased. But I do think I agree with you.
(36:47):
I think that A J. Dillon's injury did play a
role in that game. Just maybe he would have trusted him,
because he sure as hell didn't trust anybody else. It
was Aaron Jones or I'm gonna fire hit through three
guys to get to Davante at no matter whether Lazard
was running free or not. Uh, and beat it from there.
Wide receivers all look the same. Uh, the quarterback position
(37:09):
you got Alan off the board. And now the curiosity
whether we have I mean, I guess it would be
a two man run, whether Bursh and I fight over
who's next, But certainly, uh, you know it's a position
that is is fluid because you do have those top performers.
How one of them still alive in the playoffs and
his kicker bailed about over and Joe Chill over there,
(37:31):
but you know, went wondering how quickly the rest of
these guys come off the board. And it's all that
sense and sensibility and changing face of the game between
reality and fantasy. And that's why I love doing these
months in advance, because we know the chess pieces are
gonna be moving all over the board. Yeah, this is
I think these next three rounds will be very very interesting,
especially to see where a guy like zek Elliott could fall.
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never had an episode like this coming off the heels
of what we saw this past weekend. And I know
we're a little separated from it, Mike, but the whole
feelings of what happened on Saturday then leading into Sunday
end up still kind of resonating, even though we're we're
trying to look ahead of the championship week. Just an
amazing weekend of football that we saw in those four
(01:46):
divisional games. Well, the crazy thing right as you and
I sit down to record this, we're in the middle
of a Monday, and the Saturday games, as you said,
seemed like a lifetime ago, and Cincinnati Tennessee seems so boring,
right what it's what it's all said and down it's like, Wow,
what a great game. Mcpheerson is a hero and at
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Borrow got like bludgeoned and left all over pits, piece
of him all over that turf. It didn't matter. They
still win. And that's by far the lowest ranking of
the four games. When it comes to consequence. Just think
about that, You're watching Saturday and you just see the
Bengals win on the last second kick off of a
(02:27):
turnover with twenty seconds left, and you say, this is
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(02:47):
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(03:08):
will get rum three done. But we will do that
after we talk about overtime gates. Overtime drama with what
unfolded in Kansas City, Chiefs end up rallying with thirteen
seconds left to get the game tying field goal. Then
they get the coin toss and go down and score
against Buffalo when forty two to thirty six, So the
Bills are sent home. Kansas City moves on with an
(03:30):
overtime rule that many are not happy with. Well, Saltiness City,
you had to come away with the weekend unsatisfied and
angry about something, didn't you. I mean, there's too much
of everybody joining hand across this globe and going what
glorious football? And then you know you can't have everybody
happy going into a new work week. No, we were cheated.
(03:53):
We were a good winked, bamboozled. How about you play
some defense. Okay, maybe I'm trying to speak something in
new existence that nobody wants to hear. You had two
chances to stop him regulation and then in overtime, and
Leslie Fraser may get a head coaching job. He may
be a fine head coach. But if you're gonna tell
(04:15):
me all this time his credentials and and what he's
done with this top ranked defense to warrant getting a
look at a top job, well, then play defense and
go make a stop. And then you get to stop
Patrick Mahomes and spike the ball. Are aren't they independent
of each other? Like like I get it, Like I
understand like Buffalo had an opportunity if they could just
(04:35):
stop Kansas City with thirteen seconds left, I I understand
that their defense didn't didn't win the game for them. However,
the Kansas City's defense was never put in a situation
where it needed to get a stop when they couldn't
get a stop either in the most important time of
the game, which ended up being in overtime, and that
that's that's where like I I understand, the defenses aren't
(04:57):
stopping anybody, But to me, it's it's independent of of
one another. Just because the Bills didn't stop anybody doesn't
mean that they should also then should have stopped someone
in overtime, and it's their fault that they lost because
Kansas City's defense. If it would have been the if
it would have been the opposite scenario, I think we
would have been saying the same thing if if Josh
(05:18):
Allen and the Bills won the toss and went down
and scored, and we just saw Patrick Mahomes get his
team and field goal position in thirteen seconds and then
for Kansas City would say, man, this is the second
time in four years they've been screwed with the overtime
coin toss. I almost think that the outrage would have
been worse if it would have happened on the flip side,
which kind of tells me that the rule does need
to be changed, and it can be changed, Mike, It
(05:40):
can be changed at least in playoffs scenarios if you
move forward like this. But that's just it was tough
for me to see how great of a game it
ended up being, and then you just ended up losing
on the heads or tails. Well, and the score shouldn't
accounted because Tyreek Kale should have been called for taunting
based on twenty Yeah, yes that's true, or any number
of his teammates doing you know, snow angels holding up
(06:01):
there there the touchdown symbol and whatever else is it?
Like he was the reason for the rule, right, like
like it's the Tyreek Hill rule, yes, giving the peace
sign and doing backflips. And then you know, Antoine Winfield
did it to him in the Super Bowl, like the
reverse thing. So they're like, okay, we gotta put a
stop to but it's his freaking rule and they didn't
even call it. Yeah, after a day where we'd or
(06:23):
two days where we've seen a lot of those, right,
and you had Tom Brady get bloodied and hit in
the face and nobody cared because it was Hockeyley Top
five penalty, Top five penalty crew of the Year Dan.
So we knew that going in that you'd have a
couple and amazingly only eight for the game, but three
on Sportsman lights on uh Tampa in that first half
(06:45):
of that game. But yeah, look, I've always just been
an advocate of whatever. Whether it's fifteen minutes or ten minutes,
it's another quarter, right, it's the playoffs. Playoffs are different. Yeah,
people saying, hey, let's do the college thing. Man, I
hate the college over time as it stands right now,
that is not my my favorite. I like timed uh
(07:07):
sequences in sports. I think that when you look at
when we look back at history and we look at
what transpired in Kansas City, we can take other instances
and I wouldn't say go from college football, but you
know Chargers Dolphins, was that legendary game or Kevin Winslow
had to be carried off? I know it's way back
in the way back in the early eighties. But if
(07:29):
if you have a marathon game, it's okay. It's happened before.
And I guess, Mike my solution, because that's actually all
that I really want from people. If people want to
complain about it, that's one thing, but come up with
a solution, at least your idea with what would work better.
I'm all for it. The NFL in the regular season,
you know how much I hate it. Ten minute session
(07:51):
is absurd, but I understand why they do it. I
don't think it's fair. They just want the game to
get over with and not interrupt sixty minutes or interrupt
the late window. How care you? How dare you making
about television? It's about player safety, tire that extra five
minutes that they would have to play. But that's that's
the reason why they have a ten minute overtime. But
(08:13):
for people, that didn't make me realize what they were
watching on the clock. And you mentioned it earlier, guess what.
The overtime session in the playoffs is a fifteen minute quarter,
So you are doing a different because the game wouldn't
end in a tie, and obviously we have to decide
a winner. But there was a change just with the
timing of overtime that was that was different, And I'm
(08:33):
sad that that wouldn't make a difference if you had
a forty Niners team that went in overtime and took
eight minutes off of the clock on a drive, if
it was a ten minute session and you had to
restart it over, then you know that would factor in.
But the NFL says we are going to take a
fifteen minute quarter now for the playoffs because it's the playoffs.
To me, they could also say, all right, we will
(08:55):
ensure that at least each team gets a one possession
to be well to uh to at least try to
do something in that overtime, and after that point then
you can be sudden death. But they've made changes from
the regular season overtime rule, uh, from the regular season
to the playoffs, and I think that they could do
that again this time. Yeah, I think you know again,
(09:15):
you know, we always talk about complaints and it's always
the fire this guy or whatever. All right, give me
a solution that that's going to make the team better. Right, Oh,
this quarterback stinks, all right, find me a guy who's
available who's gonna make it better. And obviously as we
get into the carousel, both finishing the coaches side and
and quarterbacks and movement this offseason, that's gonna be a
(09:37):
very difficult task because many more spots that have than
than than players that seemed worthy of filling them in
some cases. But for the overtime rule, you know, it
is one of the more asinine things. I get it,
and the numbers bear it out right when the coin
tossed and down you go. Uh. And that's certainly vexing
(10:00):
frustrated as a guy who's you know, been one of
the leaders of the Josh Allen Van wagon. Yeah, I
wanted to see him again. Shot, but he called tales
and he was wrong. Dan, Yes, it was supposed to.
I mean that's what we were all taught. So we
it's like telling me, sorry, kids, that there's no Santa Claus.
I mean, come on that, well, there is a Santa
(10:22):
Claus at least. But in this case, Tales never fails
is not legit. That is a that is a lie.
No more truisms there. And let me tell you if
this this scenario, this, this will be my final point.
And again I think that the NFL can just say
each team gets a possession in the playoffs. If you
don't want to do it for the regular season, that's fine.
(10:43):
It's the regular season. Whatever. You've got different rules. You
have seventeen games to figure out, you know, if you
lose one there as long as you don't keep finding
yourself in overtime or close games. That's also the other
thing for Buffalo. Stop playing close games. You're not good
at them. That's that's fair, very fair point. The other
point that I make is I think that this is unique, Mike,
because the maybe the most notable game outside of the
(11:06):
a f C Championship game where we had the overtime
was Super Bowl fifty one, when New England came back
from twenty to three against Atlanta that we all know about,
and when the Patriots ended up winning the toss, you
just kind of felt that the game was over, and
it ended up being over because they went and drove
down and scored right away. I would say, what would
happen on the flip side of things? And in that scenario,
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the reason why I don't think it's as big it
was made as big of a deal, Mike, was because
there was no guarantee the Falcons were gonna we're gonna
score because they didn't score after they went up three,
then score any more points in that game, and and
so there would have been the question, Okay, maybe you
could stop Atlanta. And that's what made Sunday Night's game
so crazy was we're seeing team score in a minute,
(11:48):
under a minute, in thirteen seconds, and that's why it
was so magnified. Like there have been other games where
this has happened before. But to see the pinball game
that you had in the final, you know, five minutes
of regulation, these teams just going up and down the field,
to then have that come to a sudden halt and
change in overtime, that that's was the difference to me.
(12:08):
Because Super Bowl fifty one, you could have made an argument,
but there wasn't an argument because there was really no
guarantee that the Falcons were going to score. And I
think that's what made it different from Sunday. Yeah, it
was just interesting, right because in the early game, the
idea that perhaps you were going to get to overtime
as Tampa has the furious come back, and I know
for Matthew Stafford detractors, they're really mad that none of
(12:30):
the errors all the turnovers were on on him. Yeah,
George and I were doing the live show and I'm
just saying, there's no way you can pin this, no
way that you can pin this on Matthew Stafford. Everybody
on the Rams is messing up except Matthew Stafford, and
that's how it played out when he ends up making
the play at the end. But I mean, just amazing
right now, Sarrians in the post, you know, saying, hey,
(12:54):
we had the right call, just not the execution. Maybe
maybe not somehow you keep losing Cooper Cup, which is
always bad for this, but think about that game suddenly
going to overtime. Would you have trusted the Rams to
win the game in overtime? Um? No. So it's one
of those kinds of situation, same thing I mean, and
obviously shock and awe that they were able to move
(13:16):
into position to kick that winning field goal in the
final half minute, which is just amazing. Theater which which
the entire weekend was again not to detigrate the world
of the Bengals and Titans, but uh, no rule changes
are coming out of that, except for maybe you know,
you have to look a little better at your draft
board in your NFL War rooms to decide whether it
(13:37):
warrants grabbing a guy in the fifth round. Maybe maybe
there's a change, and we we remember and we pushed
aside the memory of Aguayo. Ah, yes, Roberto Aguayo. Uh.
I heard of Bill Grammatica reference recently and uh and
that's way back in the way back. But I think
(13:58):
it was a celebration. I kicker made celebration and celebration
and then get hurt. Listen, I'll say that. You know,
like sometimes sometimes kickers, they may have a rough go
of it at first. You know, look at Daniel Carlson
with the with the Raiders and time he had with
the Vikings. Uh the uh. You know, sometimes you gotta
stick with these kickers and they can they can pay
off well you mean like the Bears should have actually
(14:20):
paid Robbie Gold. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what's funny,
my brother sent me the the greatest meme after the
game winner went through the forty Niners packers was a
shot a slow motion of Ryan Pace leaving Soldier field.
It's like he had one hit left. Planted this seed
(14:41):
by cutting Gold years ago to rip Aaron oh Man.
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get on Twitter at Ryan Burr Shinger, my carm and
get him on Twitter at swollend Home and find me
on Twitter at Dan Buyer on Fox. How did these
second round go Bursch. I know that you've got a
copy in front of you. I do as well. But
how did we how did we run down the second
round that started? I know I was a little frustrated
(16:09):
because I wasn't sure of my Tyreek Hill on the
back end of the first round was gonna allow me
to get the guy that I wanted at the start
of the second. It did happen. But how did our
second round go? So? Yes, starting at thirteen was Joe
mix In fourteen, Stefon Diggs fifteen, Jamaar Chase sixteen, Nick
Chubb seventeen, Deebo Samuel eighteen, Javonte Williams nineteen, Travis Kelsey twenty,
(16:30):
Cam Acres twenty one, DK Metcalf, twenty two, Keenan Allen,
twenty three Darren Waller, and twenty four Antonio Gibson. Okay,
that's how the second round played out. So, Mike, as
we are just on the verge of starting our third round,
there are some interesting names out there. Anything stand out
to you as we enter the third round and what
we could see in our next twelve picks that we
(16:53):
make in our two fantasy draft, Well, one thing it
shows the three of us have decided we're not jump
being on quarterbacks immediately, right, which has been been a
trend in the last couple of years. Go up and
get your guy, even though you know that muddled mess
behind and what five through twelve don't have much variance
to them at all, So that that's certainly in is
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the case. We've got two tight ends that have already
come off the board. I would suspect they'll be joined again.
Top heavy kind of list there, But you know, patients
when it comes to guys in the in the unknowns, right,
Christian McCaffrey goes ten. I see in a number of
industry things, uh popping off for the next year. He's
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still a top four or five guy on most sites.
And all right, not only are you worried about his injuries,
but who the hell slinging the rock there? And what
does it look like? And if they're bringing in dudes
that ran the giants offense, like if mcado shows up there,
really suddenly that's going to be the thing that catapults
them to greatness. Come on, it's either going to all
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works in a space tacular fashion or fail miserably. And
I I just I am on the side of not
trusting Christian McCaffrey. Plus, I just think there are a
lot of other names that are more reliable that you
can get ahead of him. You mentioned injuries. That's what
I think this third round is going to be about,
because now you're starting to see guys, some that may
have missed a good part of the season or all
(18:20):
of the season that could be in the conversation and
in coming back from injuries. There are certain names who
had cam akers Is Ryan mentioned did go in the
second round twenty overall in our draft, but there are
other names that pop up. I also think that there
are injury prone players that are in this third round.
So let's, uh, let's see what we have to offer, Ryan,
Burr Stringer, you are on the clock, it goes Ryan,
(18:42):
Mike and then myself and then we just continue in
that order, all right, Versus you look at these players
that are ahead of you, with twenty four players in
the rear view mirror, what are you focusing on and
pick number twenty five? Well, as Mike mentioned, tight end
is is super top heavy, and I think over the
last few years especially, I've started to more subscribe to
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the strategy of getting a very strong tight end to
not have a hole in your roster. It's very easily,
very easy to get stuck with a hole at tight end.
And you look at last year at tight end, like
Dawson Knox was tight end four on the season and
and in terms of total points, sure, yeah, he he
ended up there, but he had weeks where he was
downright terrible, including a zero in week seventeen. So I
(19:26):
want to get a steady tight end, and you have
a guy available right now who was tight end one
on the season. So I'm going to take Mark Andrews
here at So Burst does not subscribe to the I'll
just take Evan Ingram late in the in the draft
and watch him surprise everyone, like everybody has wished for
the last five years. So Mark Andrews tight end number
(19:47):
three now off the board. After Waller and Kelsey went
Mike Harmon, you're up at number twenty six back in Well,
I mean, look, if we're gonna do, why don't we
do a veritable tight end? Run then and give me
my my Iowa boy. All right, no fans, No, I'm
just kidding. A fan probably is a top six guy.
(20:09):
When it's all said, no, yeah, again Marv Cook, who
always made it into those graphics. We're at like seven
guys just like that. That is that is good. I
would tight end knowledge. That's what they would do. They
didn't even get a Hawkinson. They they had this great
run with Fans Hackinson, Kittle and then Dallas Clark obviously,
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but to like fill out the graphic, they would throw
Marv Cook in there from the Eatings and nineties and
the New England Patriots back when we didn't mind the Patriots.
George Kittle goes number twenty six overall in tight end
number four. Kittle is off the board. That brings me
up to the plate. And I had actually been debating
(20:54):
this and I'm not going to I I I think
that there will be a bounce back and know that
there could be a ch change. I don't know if
there will be a change though, after what we saw
a little over a week and a half ago. The
first Dallas Cowboy off the board will be Ceedee Lamb.
I am going to take Ceedee Lamb at number twenty seven.
I know that there there are other Dallas Cowboys that
could be available, including Ezekiel Elliott, but I trust Ceedee
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Lamb more of the breakout uh year that we expected
his sophomore season to maybe come next season. Give me
Ceedee Lamb at number twenty seven. I like that not
to be labor the Dallas point. We have plenty of
off season to bandy this about. But how different does
that squad look? Right? Are they able to get someone
to take Elliott's contract? Is Amari Cooper back? Because obviously
(21:37):
Jerry Jones hates him right, and he was bad at
him because he was unvaccinated, not available to them first stretch,
and then the disappearing act at times, and then well
you finished terribly. Uh So someone's got to go, especially
after you've said all the right things and brought them
in and paid them a lot of money. And we
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know that Jerry Jones doesn't want to be hanging with
Mr Gooper. We'll see if that happens in two. Alright,
Ryan Burr shing Er, you are back up at pick
number twenty eight. Overall, Yeah, this is an interesting spot
because I'm looking at guys who have kind of battled
with injuries. As you mentioned, Dan, We're gonna be seeing
a lot of that in this round here. I'm going
to go ahead and take a J. Brown, and I'm
(22:19):
going to bet on his ceiling, bet on his talent.
We saw what he could do in uh In in
weeks sixteen, closing out the season there had a huge
game when he came back after being injured for a
few weeks. The talent is there. He's just got to
stay healthy. So I'm gonna take J. Brown here. Let's
also be real, if A J. Brown doesn't have the
game that he has on Saturday, maybe we are moving
him down a little bit in the rankings to see
(22:41):
where the Titan wide receiver goes. But in looking at
the other names out there, I think that yeah, A J.
Brown is definitely worthy of a pick at this point.
But I do think that this past weekend helped his
helped his draft spot top of mind, no question about it.
I had him as a WR five for this past year,
so clearly I liked him. I want to like him
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even three awesome games and then the rest and well
not four with the loss to to cincident in the playoffs,
but that's what you got from them. But even looking
at Ryan Tannehill, there were a number of balls that
Heat threw, including the touchdown to to Brown, where you're like,
see this guy can sling it, and then he does
things like after now we're going back to the playoffs stuff,
how do you have Dante form and give you a
(23:25):
forty five yard run? Uh? Then throw that interception? And
how does Foreman only have four carries in the game,
Dan Fire, I was surprised about that. I I thought
it would be more of a split workload than it
was actually And uh, yeah, they just they gave Henry
Henry every not that it was the difference, but to
your point of yeah, if you're gonna do that, and
that's what got you to the playoffs, why would you change. Yeah,
(23:48):
he was able to carry it for half a year
to the number one seat as part of your offense.
But what do I know. I'm just a dope on
the radio. All right, let's get back into it. So Edwards, Kittle,
Lamb Brown and gone thus far? Uh, this seems like
a spot to try to figure out and read the
tea leaves of a guy with a big workload left
(24:08):
at the running back position. Uh. And while I will
be called a homer, I'll take David Montgomery. Hey, Matt
Naggie's not there to screw it up anymore. It's true
that I I was curious because I think that there
is another name out there on if you were to
go this name or go David Montgomery. I will be honest.
When I took Antonio Gibson number twenty four, I had
(24:31):
considered David Montgomery in that spot, which then just completely
doesn't explain why it took Ceedee lamb At. But I
ended up taking Cede la and and and pick number thirty.
Since you took Montgomery, who was going to be my
pick if you didn't take him. I know this is
a bit of a reach, but I still think that
you talk about workload, it will be there if he
(24:54):
is healthy, and I will take se Kwon Barkley at
number thirty with having no idea what's going to happen
with the Giants coaching situation. He is still sae Kwon Barkley.
And if you can straighten some stuff up in the
off season. When we did our pot a few weeks
ago and we're talking about coaching changes, I think with
his contract, you're gonna want to figure out and the uh,
(25:15):
the future of se Kwon Barkley in New York. This
is the time to find out. This is what you
want to find out what you've got, so put him
to work. So I'm gonna take se Kwon Barkley at
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in our rankings, as we moved to pick number thirty
one with Ryan bur Singer, I like that se Kwon pick.
Actually I was about to do that, so I I
endorse it, and I think that the the other running
backs available right now. It's weird because you have steady
(25:56):
guys and strong offenses. You have guys who were first
round picks this last season and might be having too
much of a workload at the moment um or not
enough of a workload at the moment. I'm going to
take Deonte Johnson here because I think his his his
workload is very high. He gets targeted like crazy, and
(26:17):
you know, they've they've got to have a better quarterback,
maybe than than than than no arm he I already
had my analysis written for this one personal following me,
someone will be able to get the ball five yards
beyond the line of scrimmage, it opens up. I I
appreciate Ryan Berghinger having a pick ready after I took Barkley,
(26:37):
because if it was like a guy in our league,
he would jump right back into his magazine because he
only had Plan A, like there was no Plan B.
And once Plan A went off the board, he started
from scratch and started back at zero and started over again.
So I appreciate you having a backup plan with that.
Always have a backup alright, Deonte Johnson is a wide
(26:59):
receiver to well, Mike Harmon up with five more picks
in our third round of our fantasy draft. Well, i'll
assume he's back and healthy, um, and I'm going back
through the board making sure he hasn't been picked. But
give me DeAndre Hopkins. Yes, he is available. One of
the names as well. When we talk about injury wise
(27:21):
on where you want to take a guy that he was,
he was he was foremost on my mind. Him and
another guy that hasn't been picked yet were actually the
two names that really popped out. And see Kwon Barkley.
When we talked about guys who were injured or deal
with injuries. DeAndre Hopkins was one of those guys. I
have one more guy, and maybe we're kindred spirits and
thinking the same way. Uh. One thing I would want
(27:44):
to know, I mean, Kingsbury, show me your plan for
playing in the second half of the season. I'll sit
back and wait, so will I so will uh so
will Steve Kim But that's a whole other thing. All right,
This there I called for a job. All right. There
are a lot of good names on the board. And
(28:09):
this is a decision that I actually have to face
in one of my leagues when it comes to two keepers,
I have to do it either or, and it usually
isn't wise. And Ryan bur Singer started out as we
started this draft kind of talking about this. I'm gonna
take the first quarterback off the board, and it maybe
recency buyas, But Josh Allen goes off the board at
(28:29):
number thirty three. When you just saw what he did
in the these two playoff games that they had, it
makes you think like, oh, my goodness, could you imagine
having that for sixteen or seventeen weeks of a fantasy season.
So Josh Allen is going to be QB one off
of our board, number thirty three overall. So it took
(28:50):
thirty two picks until a thirty three picks until the
quarterback was finally taken. Alright, final three picks of our
third round of our fantasy draft. Make these counts, because
this is what's gonna You're gonna be kicking yourself for
over the next week until we get to round number four.
Make these picks count Ryan Burr Shinger eure up at
number thirty four. Um, I'm gonna go in and take
(29:12):
Mike Evans here because if Chris Godwin doesn't come back,
he's then the clear number one in this offense. And
you know, Tom Brady, I don't know, he may retire,
he probably won't. I still think that they're going to
find a way to get Mike Evans the ball a
ton in that offense. So I'll take Evans here. I
have no idea how Tom Brady would walk away from
this after the season he just had. I didn't. Yeah,
(29:35):
you know, I was gonna say that story like it's
just it's it's so NFL incenters do this because they
wanted for that Sunday that wasn't like a story Mike
that popped up at ten o'clock Saturday night and then
was need needed to be broken at that point or
early the next morning. You know, this has been sitting there,
and it just tells me then it's not really a story.
Like if you're waiting to unveil that, you know, six
(29:58):
hours before kickoff of you know, the Tampa game, to
make it a conversation for your pregame show, that to
me just then tells me maybe it's not as much
of a story as we thought it was. No, I
just kind of shrugged. It's like I looked at doing
the Morning Show with Bucky Brooks. We've gone through a
ton of stuff, right, obviously a lot of breakdown, a
lot of Rogers podcast up, I Heart Radio app and
(30:22):
anywhere you get your podcast, go grab it, give it
five stars, will love you forever, and evangelize your friends.
Uh Like, look, I took Roger's apart, uh nine thousand
different ways. But at some point I looked at Bucky
and a break, I go, do you care to talk
about this the left? Because it's a big deal now.
So I think we made a similar joke on there
(30:43):
and just went in to analyze the game. It's like, really,
let's start talking about the history of Kyle Trask everybody.
It's like, no, alright, Mike Evans though, um yeah, wing
it up and Brady still had the arm strength to
get it to him downfield as Jail and Jalen Ramsey
kind of disappeared on that converage now, didn't he But
(31:04):
we moved forward. Now there's a number of guys that
I like in the next spot, but they don't really
just spread apart. I wanted Josh Allen, but you stole
them from me. Uh and uh, you may steal a
guy from me because I have someone targeted at thirty six.
So I'm gonna take a wide receiver that we haven't
seen in a very very long time, Okay, and I
(31:26):
am going to roll the dice that this works. Now
there's another guy I like, and I'm curious to see
what the quarterback position is and what the new regime is. Uh,
lots of money to spend, you know, all that fun stuff.
But I'm gonna go out and roll the dice that
Calvin Ridley finds himself. Oh wow, Calvin Ridley off the board.
(31:50):
I've heard some New England connections with Calvin Ridley. We
don't think he's gonna be back in Atlanta. The curiosity.
You know, there's a bunch of guys that are kind
of the same, and I'm looking at all, right, where's
my upside, where's my potential push at this point in
the draft? And so there I'll roll the dice there.
Why because it's spicy and Bursch can put it in there,
(32:13):
going what do you think of this? Ah? This is
by the way, I think that we like with with Ridley.
There is a line at the wide receiver position, and
I think that we have now crossed it there there,
there's there's a name that I think, you know what,
(32:34):
I'm not going to pick him here. I will tell
you who it is in the fourth round, but I
think that we've crossed that line of being now we're
into the next group of wide receivers. Like I think
that that is that is where we are in this draft.
So I am avoiding the wide receiver position. If he
stays healthy, I would be very very happy to have
(32:54):
Elijah Mitchell at number thirty six. So I'm gonna go
the forty Niners running back and I think he keeps
the job no matter what they've they've done. Considering the
way that he runs and how he has run this
season and how much San Francisco likes to run, I
would take Elijah Mitchell thirty six. There there there was
a wide receiver that I really liked, and I'll write
it down and then we'll talk about it in the
(33:16):
fourth round. But I think when once Ridley went off
the board, now you just kind of started not to
see just guys, not jags as we like to say,
but they're just there wasn't as much separation as I
thought with the with the other guys that were taken. Yeah,
I mean I like the Mitchell pick wide receiver position. Right,
They're all kind of the same, and it's trying to
figure out where where's the upside ye again one guy
(33:38):
on my brain where I'm like, all right, we saw
some good but there's potential for this to be unlocked
if everything breaks right. But it's a question of well
does it But well, I'm sure tackle that in the
next twelve picks. Uh, no question. But Elijah Mitchell. I mean, look,
the forty niners are still playing and a lot of
(33:59):
it is his emerge and right when most went down
and it was gonna be a committee situation, and it
is to a degree because right Deebo Samuels RB wanted times.
I mean, but you look at mitchell tough yardage and
trust well that that staff has in him. I think
there's also there could also be the counter answer, if
Trey Lance ends up getting the job, how much does
(34:20):
Elijah Mitchell's maybe go line work be effected or just
even running the football. I don't think it would change
that much, but something to look at in the off season.
So for the Elijah Mitchell detractors, that would be something
that they would point to. All Right, that wraps up
our third round. So we are halfway through. It means
we have three more podcasts left in the season. They
(34:40):
will come out every Tuesday's. We're now doing them weekly.
Big thanks to Ryan Burr Singer UH and my Carmen.
I'm Dan Buyer. This has been a lot of fun.
Any final thoughts burst from what you saw in the draft,
I'll let you go get him on Twitter at Ryan
Bursinger at these twelve picks. Any final thoughts. Yeah, As
Harmon mentioned, I think Elijah Mitchell, I think that's a
great spot for him, and I could see that stock
rising even higher as we get closer to the season
(35:02):
where there's more certainty in terms of his role. As
you were talking about with receivers, Dan, there's a couple
of receivers that I wasn't crazy about taking in the
third round, but I would absolutely love as fourth round picks.
And Uh, I think it's one more thing. It's interesting
the kind of elephants in the room at the moment.
You've got Ezekiel Elliott and Aaron Jones, guys who were
(35:22):
taking in the first round of this last season, and
you watch their their stock continue to kind of fall
as you saw, there are other counterparts and running back,
uh excel in the way the guys in the tandem
outplayed them. Yeah, it's so it's it's so interesting where
the name feels like you should be taking him around
(35:43):
this time, but you look at it logically and you're like, no,
I just it doesn't feel right. So be interesting to
see where those guys end up. Harmon, I'll let you
have the last word. And all of this is we
are thirty six picks in well him, Ryan mentioned Jones
like Elliott, I wouldn't touch I don't think right whether
he's in Dalla Polerge going to have a big say.
But because of his salary, I guess Zeke would still
(36:04):
be getting his his turn now if he moved someplace else. Yeah,
maybe maybe there's more value with Jones so long as
he's in Green Bay with A J. Dillon who had
that broken rib. I mean, obviously that's part of the
forty Niners Packers game that nobody's talking about. Hey, A J.
Dillon wasn't there, although they weren't using it much anyway,
because Roger went to the two man game. Hey, there
(36:26):
was one guy talking about it, and it was me
because I was totally critical of myself yesterday on Sunday
Show in saying I think A. J. Dillon's injury played
a big part of this while everybody was talking about
Rodgers and the special teams. By the way, that will
not make the the hot take theater that that is
usually out there, Mike, that you love so much that
you have phrased. But I do think I agree with you.
(36:47):
I think that A J. Dillon's injury did play a
role in that game. Just maybe he would have trusted him,
because he sure as hell didn't trust anybody else. It
was Aaron Jones or I'm gonna fire hit through three
guys to get to Davante at no matter whether Lazard
was running free or not. Uh, and beat it from there.
Wide receivers all look the same. Uh, the quarterback position
(37:09):
you got Alan off the board. And now the curiosity
whether we have I mean, I guess it would be
a two man run, whether Bursh and I fight over
who's next, But certainly, uh, you know it's a position
that is is fluid because you do have those top performers.
How one of them still alive in the playoffs and
his kicker bailed about over and Joe Chill over there,
(37:31):
but you know, went wondering how quickly the rest of
these guys come off the board. And it's all that
sense and sensibility and changing face of the game between
reality and fantasy. And that's why I love doing these
months in advance, because we know the chess pieces are
gonna be moving all over the board. Yeah, this is
I think these next three rounds will be very very interesting,
especially to see where a guy like zek Elliott could fall.
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