February 16, 2022 • 36 mins
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Dan Beyer and Mike Harmon react to the Super Bowl, and Mike brings in his firsthand account of the sights and sounds of the Rams victory at SoFi Stadium. The guys look ahead to what storylines will dominate the offseason. Dan, Mike, and Executive Producer Ryan Burschinger finish off their first look at the 2022 fantasy football season with a PPR mock draft of the sixth round. Plus, Dan opens up a pack of football cards from 1989 and bites into 32-year old gum!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ladies, you want experience during your football season, well, buckle up,
sweet cheeks. We've got all the experience in the world.
This is I Want Your Flex with Dan Buyer and
Mike Harmon. Mike and Dan breakdown everything you need to
set your line ups from position rankings, two starts, and sits.
(00:24):
The guys help you make those hard decisions. And now
let's get your flex on. Here's Dan Buyer and Mike
Harman here. It is our final episode of season two
of the I Want Your Flex Podcast by Mike Harmon
on Twitter at Swollen Dome. You can find me on
Twitter at Dan Buyer on Fox. We will wrap up
(00:45):
our Fantasy draft, but before we get to you a
look ahead at what is going to transpire in your
fantasy draft this summer, or what's even gonna transpire this
offseason in the NFL. We have to take a little
look back at you were both fifty six. Mike Harmon,
you were at Sulpi Stadium taking in the Rams Bengals game.
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Now that we are a few days away from that contest,
give us the experience the field, your major takeaways from
that Rams victory over Cincinnati. First off, I'm now going
into my my sadness phase. So I gotta find something.
I gotta do my one night lose my ass for
all the games against the spread I got wrong. I'll
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chronicle it on Twitter at swollen m It'll make more
sense there. But you know, being there and watching the
Bengals fans show up in mass where I was in
the stadium just surrounded, you know, a couple of Rams
fans sprinkled in. I ranked them actually put it up
on Twitter in terms of jerseys. It was Bengals Rams
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and then Bears, random Bears fans walking around, and then
you had had a few forty Niners folks that were
there just to cheer against the Rams. It was really
kind of funny. But we were talking to a lot
of these folks that had come from a guy that
we're sitting next to us came from Quebec, you know,
other guy from Manitoba. I'm like, all right, let's explain this,
(02:10):
come on, why the why the Bengals, Like I don't know,
I like them as a kid, I like the uniforms
and I and I stayed with it, and it was
really cool because you know, French Canadian too, and they're
like incologize like, I got nothing. I took Spanish, so
I'm not gonna be able to do the bridge that
but we can talk it through with football. So that
was really cool. And just being there. I mean, you've
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you've been to these before, Dan and and the atmosphere
and and the Goose Bumbs. You know, my brother came
out from Chicago. Was the first one he'd been to. Obviously,
we were still waiting on another appearance by eber fleus
Uh and this new regime. But it's just one of
those as you get ramped up and and all of
the songs and in the build up and then the
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rock comes out and people are going, why is he here?
And I'm like, okay, okay, calm down, harmon, let it,
let it breathe for a second. He does his thing,
and then people are like, okay, again, explained to me
why he's here. It's like, all right, go go just
get the w W E network for a bit, go
watch some of the old bits. You'll understand exactly what
this was. I did expect him to be wearing a
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shirt that said watching Young Rock on NBC, but I
didn't get that. But it was, I don't know, just
an energy that that was flowing in the excitement, and
obviously Matthew Stafford, Sean McVeigh those storylines, Joe Burrow who
and and the Bengals that navigated, you know, a schedule,
they had a last place schedule. They lost to the
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Jets and Bears. Yet still here they are. Still everything
broke right, and we talked about it, uh in a
previous episode and certainly when pre paired together on Fox
Sports Radio that you know, it was the the unbelievable
rise and everything finding it and then to my disappointment,
Dan to get to the end of the game. None
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of the Bengals fans seemed upset about officiating, about anything like, Okay,
sure it may be well, I think you shouldn't be
mad about too much officiating on the t Higgins play.
Maybe that's what evened out the the false start on
the Rams. Maybe they maybe they understood that. But it
is also difficult at times to to kind of take
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all of that in when you're at the game and
you know, and I don't know much they've been following
on Twitter. I will say this though, about the atmosphere
and about the rock scenario, and I also believe this
about about the halftime show, which was was great, but
it just seemed that they, whether it be the NFL,
whether a b NBC, whether it be whoever, tried to
jam everything into this game, like like of of there's
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this announcement, there's that announcement, there's this, there's that you know,
we have six performers at Super Bowl halftime, when honestly,
any one of those six could have just headlined the
event themselves. Like that is like, I know, it's neat
to bring somebody else on. And we knew that there
were gonna be We knew that they're gonna be five.
We knew the five. Yeah, the rumor around town the
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forty eight hours prior was that we were going to
get Hologram Tupac. I thought maybe we're gonna get real Tupac.
That would have been quite a story that you want
to talk about breaking records. But I mean, ice Cube
was part of a big package that they did before
the game. So it's like, all right, check that off
your loser if you you bet that one in your
prop bets. But you know, the thing with halle Berry
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was basically a giant Southern California infomercial, which is fine.
It's halle Berry. Who's complaining. But there's Clayton Kershaw, there's
you know, George Lopez and Danny Trejo and everybody getting celebrated.
I dig it. I'm all four right, it is pageantry,
but I get your point. And here are the Hall
of Famers for this year, and here's the and true
Andrew with Worry winning the Peyton Award, and here's this
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and it just seemed like a cavalcade of stars, which
again you expect in Los Angeles, but I could see that.
I was just I was distracted enough that there's just
so much energy and at ativity around a lot of
people screaming who day uh and getting these giants sing
alongs going when everything else is going on. So you know,
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for me, it all kind of blended a bit. But yeah,
the halftime show, uh, that that was that was an
energy and like a community building thing because think about
who's spending money for Super Bowl tickets. Dan, it's all folks. Uh,
well my age, I got a couple on you. Uh.
And that was there. That was their summer music, right
that that bridge and especially for me being a white
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Sox fan, where they got over after they switched to
the silver and black and white. Uh, and all of
a sudden and all the videos that's what snoop and
and Cuba wearing. Well, the the fact of the halftime
show it was great, So I don't want to take
that away from it. That is the thing. And I'm
still having the songs in my head to three days afterwards,
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so that tells me that it worked out. But it
was it was an interesting game. I thought the game
just ended. It was it was a weird build up.
I I I don't know if we were expecting more
from Cincinnati on that last possession if I don't know
if we just assumed that they were going to get
the first down on third and short and then unable
to do it and then Zach Taylor. Not that it
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would have mattered, but Cincinnati did have one time out
left and they didn't use it on the Neil down.
They're just like, all right, let's just end the game
and then it was over like it was because so
that was that was kind of that was kind of
weird to me. I think it was a little indicative
of how the week went about the game. And it's
not meant to be a knock on the rams, not
meant to be a knock on the Bengals. There's just
other storylines that end up popping up throughout the week
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and sometimes the over the shadow of the game a little.
But we got a competitive game. I don't know if
it was a good game, but it was competitive. It
was close at the end, and I think that's that's
all we can ask for. And we can talk about
our generations when you look at and I know here
Bears had one of those blowout wins and my Seahawks
had a blowout win in Super Bowl forty eight. But
when we were growing up, whether it was the Niners
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taking you know, the Bronco those huh it's a task
in Super Bowl twenty four, or Washington's going five touchdowns
against Denver in the second quarter of Super Bowl twenty two,
it was just blowout after blowout after blowout. And that
was that was always just Super Bowl stunk when we
were kids. And at least this was competitive. No, that's it.
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It was an aesthetically pleasing no. I mean Burrow was
rough early and he was rough late, and you know
a number of the sacks and and a lot of
it in the post script is look at the offensive
line failed him. Again it's like, well, yes and no.
There were a couple where it's like, either throw the
ball away or like he'd been doing all year, throw
it up and let one of your guys make a play, right,
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especially down towards the end, you know, taking sacks on
big spots, the the p Ryan play and just the
you know, country strong play of Aaron Donald there to
to make that play. But you know, there were just
a number of them where you're just scratching your head,
going all right, how does how does this? Why? Why?
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Philosophically right? And then that final um, the big drive
by the Rams. I mean that's where Matthew Stafford. You know,
stuff like that makes legends, whether you want to buy
it or not. And we still have some folks in
in our in our midst that are gonna find every
other reason, just like well other legendary performances to just
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throw them away. And you know, excuse make away. You
know you got Stafford on one side, bangles d all right,
here we go, and it seemed like everybody decided this
is the uh all in hand in a poker game,
right in a Wild West scenario, it's gonna come down
to this. We're not gonna play aggressively defensively, and for
the Rams, they were gonna just nickel and dime and
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take what the Bengals were gonna give them, right, not
taking big shots and lo and behold that becomes your
game winner. So even with fuel position and what looked
like was going to be an easy path towards at
least along McPherson attempt who was bombing him in from
sixty plus in the pregame. I guess he stayed out
to watch the halftime show, so he would have been
(10:06):
inspired there too. But the the idea that we didn't
at least get uh, the the last second, alright, can
he bomb one in to take this thing overtime and
make all the overbetters mad because well they were gonna lose. Uh.
But in the end, Stafford with with the drive to eight, three,
three and two on the day one off the hands.
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The other was a deep ball that well just fell
a little short there in the end zone. But all
in all, look, it's a celebration of the game and
whether you like it or not, aesthetically maybe it didn't
pass the the eye test, but we got a three
point game and legends are being made off it. The
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Super Bowl fifty six is now in our rear view mirror,
but before it's too far away, I do want to
say it our special DraftKings prop bet Joe mixing on
the old were of rushing yards hit. I watched that
one and I wasn't. Yeah, I was, I hit on
the under missed on the rams. Thought that they would
cover they did not, and uh but uh but that
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is a special episode and if you want to go
and see how we faired in our prop bets, you
can always go and download that previous episode. Yeah, we
got some love for the I mean Tee Higgins. We
we we talked about him a bunch and then obviously, um,
you know you got all those Gatorade things and whatever,
which gets a Yeah, I think I hit blue, didn't
I Blue is not a flavor that was in the
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office and they're cleaning out Michael's car. What flavor is it? Blue?
Blue is not a flavor blue. But but everybody that's
ever tasted it, because yeah, I know exactly what that is.
Oh man, ye blue blasts run though, I mean we
we had. That was a great episode, just kind of
going crazy a little bit with some of the fun
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and trying to create the narratives and back it down. Yeah.
I made a tweet about it. It was liked by
no one and retweeted by no one, so no one
apparently got it. But that's that's okay. The it hit
the under. No matter what the line would have been
on retweets or likes, it was. It was an absolutely
hit the under. And it was a gift of Michael
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and Ryan cleaning out his car and then Ryan talking
about how many filet of fish boxes he has in
his car. That's the one good thing about one of those.
Oh yeah, yeah, I liked the fourth Yes, but no cheese,
no tartar sauce. Just give me the butt of the fish. Yeah,
that's how my daughter takes her hamburgers. There, yep, me too,
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playe hammerger but and meat only see there we go.
Yeah again, I have a diet of a twelve year old.
That's you know what, there's nothing wrong with that. Nothing
wrong with that, uh I got I got no issues
with that. You know, you like what you like, and
I'm trying to explain that to people about everything in existence. Right.
You may not like it, you may not be are you,
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but you know respect it's that that whole just you know,
accept people who they are, what they like, and it
comes even down to the land errand sea, and which
portions of that don't put down their gulling. I had
a dinner earlier this week that I did not like
the appetizer that they brought out. So I just took
the fork and I mushed it all up so it
looked like I ate it. And then just like turn
(13:21):
the fork over when they came by, like if you
were to piece it together, one percent of it's still available,
still available. So tell your daughter that one. Yeah, that's
good when you go to a wedding, when you when
everybody at the table is eating the delicious first salad
or whatever they bring out and you don't want to
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touch it, just move it around a bunch with your
fork and yeah. Then and by the way, it just
doesn't hurt people's feelings. There's your well that's saying you're
you're always look, you're a man of the people, all right.
Before we look ahead to the two season, Mike Harmon
was kind of a to give me as a nice gift,
a little something for the baby, some trading cards and
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and when you gave me packs of trading cards. I
meant to do this at Radio Row, but we never
got to it. You included various packs of cards. I
am going to open a pack of nineteen nine NFL
Tops trading cards. All right, all right here it is okay, Mike,
So it's a wax pack, and this will include this
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will include a thousand yard rusher. And this will also
include me chewing the gum. I will we hear Dan's
teeth break in the podcast. We'll have to go find
one of the official sponsors and partners of the NFL.
Here's here's quickly the pack of cards. Albert Lewis cornerback,
Kansas City Chiefs, oh Neil Lomax, Phoenix Cardinals, Good News Mike,
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ninth year card for Neil Lomax, Dino Hackett, linebacker, Kansas
City Chiefs, Arnist Biner running back, Cleveland Browns. Again opening
up a pack of eighty nine tops. Remember those team
cards that they had, Los Angeles Raiders team card telling
through the line. That's what that's the and then it
(15:20):
has the schedule the eight team results of the Los
Angeles Raiders, who were lead in rushing by Marcus Allen
with eight hundred and thirty one yards. By the way,
it should be noted the Seahawks beat the Raiders in
week sixteen, forty three to thirty seven. Mike ko for
oh Harmon, Oh you got Dave Craig. So reason why
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I am a Seahawks fan. I have a Dave Craig
eighty nine tops in this pack, and right behind it
thousand yard rusher Eric Dickerson Indianapolis Colts YEP, Eric Dickerson
thousand yard Club. Then we have Eric Martin of the
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Saints ruland Jones of the Buccaneers. Eugene Marv or excuse
me of the Broncos, Eugene Marvel of the Buccaneers. Oh,
Mike Quick six Philadelphia Eagles, Mark Carrier, the wide receiver
from the Buccaneers, a forty Niners team card, which oddly
enough is Montana on the Run, Dexter Manley and Scott Studwell,
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there it is. We have it. We have a Dave Craig.
And now let me chew on this gum that now
we're gonna make that up. You gotta bring you in
some can you hear Can you stop talking for a second,
Can you hear this gum that I'm trying to chew.
Can you hear this? This is just the gum, and
(16:51):
I actually have a cracked tooth on my right side,
just to let you know, Mike, it's not forming together
like gum usually does. Oh no, I just have like
eight hundred pieces of gum no in my mouth, none
of which jelling together. The former piece of gum. You
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have to figure out what the science of that is.
I gotta spit this out. I heard the first crap
before I said a word. I went, wow, Okay, that
that's something Dan, because I mean, that is, uh what,
thirty two years old? Okay, we can't get gum and
current packs, but maybe we could find something. I don't
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recommend eating gum from the nine tops. Yeah, I mean
you had to try and see. Now you can put
that on the list of something you did and that
you will never ever ever do again. I probably a
plan to have like a napkin or something, you know,
a little close by. But oh my goodness, that tasted
like eighteen year old pepto bismol, not thirty two year
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old chewing gum. But I got a Dave Craig card.
That's all that matters. That's the best man I got
I got probably another fifties sitting here for you. We'll
get you a complete array of da It did not form.
It's just all broken pieces, and then and then those
pieces broken ten more pieces. It was just a litterally
litteral of gum. Alright, disgusting. Let's quick touch before we
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wrap up the the episode in our season with our
our final twelve picks of our fantasy draft. What do
you think the office of the off season for twenty
two entails? Because my hopes aren't high for the fireworks
that we think could happen. Yeah, I think there's gonna
be a lot of smoke here for the next month,
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right before we get into official free agent tray, you know,
signing period and everything else. So we've got the talk
of McVeigh and Aaron Donald. Do they walk away? We've
got once again, all those big quarterbacks. Do they get traded?
I don't think they do. The only guy that's gonna
be on the move is Deshaun Watson if someone can
figure out how all the legal st right, which we
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may get an answer to at least part of it
in the next couple of weeks. But other than that,
the rest of the quarterbacks that will be on the
move sadly, and people can mock me all they want
when when you look to it, you've got Jimmy Garoppolo
probably moves on, and then the next best guy on
that list is Mitchell Trobinsky, and people can laugh all
they want twenty nine and twenty one as a starter.
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Just work with Brian Dable and Josh Allen for a
year and then you've got a bunch of guys. Right.
Is Ryan Fitzpatrick coming back out for being a Bills
fan to be you know, join another team? Probably that
is he a difference maker? No, So you go through
and then the draft hits, and so you know, I
guess a little bit of fireworks when you've got Michael Thomas,
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Davante Adams maybe where there's some movement there, but but
otherwise we've already had Sean Payton step out. Yeah, Jamis
Winston could be a quarterback name uh you know, but
but still it's his health and and where he goes
and and who maybe goes with him there there's I
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just I don't think I think that Tom Brady's retirement
has changed things for the Packers where I know that
they wanted to keep Rogers, But now I think they're
gonna go all out to keep Rogers for the simple
fact of you've got the NFC West, but the other
real threat and Dallas, I guess in the in the
conversation as well, Let's put it this way, You've lost
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the potential super Bowl contender with Tampa. Without Brady, they
may make the playoffs, but when you're a super Bowl
contender like Green Bay is, like some of those teams
in the NFC West, now you've lost one more competitor,
and I think that that is a that is a
reason to try to maybe bend over backwards if you're
green Bay, to appease Aaron Rodgers and want him to day. Yeah.
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I mean it assumes Tom Brady doesn't look at what
they do for two months. If Godwin is somehow still
a member of the Buccaneers or someone one of those
receivers mentioned before comes in to replace them, all of
a sudden, you know, family times great, but I can
do this one more time. That's the thing, right with
the way he would go out, It's not the greatest
way to go out. It's a fantastic season, but since
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we know it's about winning and championships and all just
saying well, I gave it the old college try at
the end. Doesn't seem seems like he'll feel unfulfilled at
some point in terms of stepping away, So you know that.
I guess that's the storyline to watch. Is he really done?
Is it just the TV twelve method from now on? Um? Yeah,
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I think he's done. I think that I know that
sometimes they leave open the door and they try to
be a little dramatic, and who knows, maybe I'll change
my mind, but I think that I think that he
is done. Well, I just need him around. So because
as long as he's playing. I said this to Damien
Woody where we had him as part of our Super
Bowl coverage. Dan, as long as he's around, I feel
a little younger because there's still guys that are almost
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my age that are playing. Because as soon as he goes,
that's a four year jump, right, because I think the
next guys are all in, like the class of two
thousand five. So I mean two thousand five was like, Hey,
when Vince Carter retired, I kind of I felt the same.
I felt the same about I I need I need
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those old guys to hang around at least a little
bit longer, so you know, psychologically, I may have to
have the you know that reckoning again once if a
season starts with him on a sideline. All right, we
are five rounds in and in our final episode of
the season, we have our final round of our two
fantasy draft. Ryan Burshinger, the executive producer, is here. Ryan.
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First of all, great work throughout the season we appreciated
so very much. And uh, your draft picks have even
been better than the work that you've done on this podcast.
You have picked first in each of these rounds, followed
by Mike Carmen and then myself. We could find Ryan Burshinger,
by the way on Twitter at Ryan Burshinger to recap
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who we took in our last draft. For the last round,
Letter four Net went forty nine, then Chris Godwin, Patrick Mahomes,
Hunter Renfell, Brandon Cooks were shod, Penny Clyde, Edwards, Hilair,
Joe Burrow, Tyler Lockett, Justin Herbert, Travis E t N,
and Mike Williams. E. T N was RB twenty six.
Williams was wide receiver twenty five, Herbert was QB four
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and so far, we've only had five tight ends taken.
Kyle Pitts was the last tight end taken. So there's
a bit of your feel of how this draft is gone.
Ryan Burr shing Er, you're on the clock with pick
number sixty one in the sixth round of our two
Fantasy draft. Well, Dan, it was very nice of you
to compliment my picks, because, uh, you might want to
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take it back though, with what I'm about to do,
because I I hate what I'm about to do because
I'm about to break one of my big rules in fantasy,
which is don't draft a New York Jet. But I'm
gonna do it, um because quite frankly, Michael Carter is
a very talented running back and he's going to have
a ton of opportunities, and so I think in this range, Uh,
this is a very solid pick here. Looking at the
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scope of running backs there, there are still a handful
of running backs there are going to have a great
workload and a ton of opportunities. I'm betting on the
talent here, and I'm betting on the fact that the
Jets offense might not be terrible next season. Hey, Harmon
was gonna look at a Jet and I was deciding
to in our last year, Carter was the pick. So
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never in in a million years do you say someone
uh picks a guy from the Jets, you say you
stole my pick. That's what we're doing right here. Michael
Carter is off the board at running back. Mike Harmon,
you are now up. Oh the insanity of it. Oh,
I am gonna go, and I'm miss making sure because
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you know I love this guy. Um, I'm gonna go
to Indianapolis because Carson Wentz won't be there to screw
things up, which means I'm taking Michael Pittman Jr. Okay,
Michael Pittman Jr. Comes off the board and wide receiver
number twenty six. I you talked about picking, uh picking
a Jet and having some getting the other one. No, no,
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I I actually I really really was thinking and you
know who I'm thinking about, and I'm thinking in the
same area. But you know I'm gonna take I'm gonna
take a wide receiver who flashed at the end of
the season. And I know that this team needs to
add players and they plan to Adam at that position.
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But Amanra st Brown is going to go off the
board at number sixty. I'm gonna go a Mantra St
Brown of the Detroit Lions. You can't deny his numbers.
You can deny Jared Goff, but you can't deny his numbers.
So I'm going a Mantra St Brown at number sixty three. Overall,
I like that, I think he's a good player, and
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I like what they're building there all right, first year
up at number sixty four. I don't think there's another
USC receiver for me to take to continue this, uh
this run here, unless we want to go with a
different Mike Williams. I guess, um, let's go with he
always got screwed by the legal system, still got paid
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as a top ten guy by Detroit later. But you know, hey, um,
I'm gonna take a Marii Cooper because uh yeah, he
did have a down season, but the Cowboys offense should
still be throwing a ton. I'm gonna bet on him
bouncing back a bit, and I think at this point,
I think that's a strong bet here. So I will
take a good value, yeah, fair value. They're absolutely good
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value just when we look at that offense, because I'll
assume that Jerry Jones will come to love him again.
I know he pushed him off a little bit and
he talked about him out of school. I you know,
whenever Jerry opens his mouth when he's disappointed, someone's got
to pay the piper. And it can't all be the
head coach. I certainly won't be Deck or anybody else. Um,
(26:58):
I am gonna go as I'm looking at this and
again owing to the end of the season and what
this team became. Devin Singletary of your alright Buffalo Bills,
curious to see how Ken Dorsey's offense now looks in
Buffalo with Brian Dable gone. Yeah, maybe the curiosity, but
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Singletary down the stretch suddenly took the realm that you
had some healthy scratches for Zack Moss and other members
of that running back situation. So it looks like it's
his job to try to push going forward. I'm gonna
take Elijah More here. I'll take the jets he had
to come. If you wouldn't getting them here, I was
gonna have to do it. Yeah, and I will take that.
I I'd rather do upside than than to downside of
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the career. So I'm gonna go Elijah More at number
sixty six overall. I know that was a quick pick,
Ryan Burr Singer, but you are back on the clock,
you know that's okay. I was just thinking about how
actually there is a USC receiver here and wouldn't be
a terrible pig um, and I'll be the judge that exactly.
I think there's value in Robert Woods at this point,
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but um, I also don't know if he's even a
better pick than another Ramps receiver. But I'm not gonna
go with either of them here. I'm going to take
a guy who was I believe running back seven or
eight on this past season. It is because he had
a very high touchdown total, but uh, I think that's
still at this point, they're strong value in him, and
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I'm gonna go with James Connor here. Of course, it
does depend on where he ends up. I wouldn't be
surprised if he does come back to Arizona. And like
I said, his his numbers were definitely heavily bullied by
his touchdown total, which is very hard to repeat. But um,
I think he's a strong back and he'll find another
situation where he should get a good amount of opportunities again,
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all right, James Connor is off the board at number
sixty seven RB nine. Back over to Mike Harmon and
you got the word in, so bonus to you. All right,
but back to the tight end. Well, you took one
of the Detroit receivers. Give me the man out of Iowa.
T J. Hawkinson, all right, T E six comes in
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number sixty nine. Is we have four picks left in
our draft. We all have to do the requisite giggle.
That's what you do on podcasts when that note yes,
it's it's true. Now I'm laughing more about the idea
of forcing a laugh for any any sixty nine Jersey
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you see at a game. I just end up rolling
my eyes and saying, I, okay, I'll all right, we
get it, we got it. I I I don't know
what the future necessarily holds, but I just said a
pick a go. I'd rather take a guy with upside
than a guy with downside. I will completely contradict myself
in that fashion. Why not take cor Darrel Patterson? Why
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now I wrote his name off to the side. It
was just like, yeah, just like my buddy when he
told me that A. J. Green is his fifth wide receiver.
You're like I I like that would be me Like
I got Cordarol Patterson in the sixth round. I'm good
with that. I'll take Cordarol Patterson at number sixty nine,
RB thirty or w R thirty. Dong Uh, by the way,
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I should go dune dune done, not Dong dong dong.
That was well, yeah, there it is. There, it is
alright our final three picks. Make them count, guys for
the I Want Your Flex podcast? Um, all right there there, Yeah,
you can't. You can't go back on this. There's not
another podcast to be like, Guys, I made a mistake,
(30:43):
so you are stuck in cement on this one. Uh.
There's a couple of players I like here I will take.
I'm gonna go with who I think should have a
better season this He showed a lot of promise in
the first half of the season and then he really
faded off, but that was, of course because of injuries,
a quarterback and everything. I'll take Marquise Hollywood Brown here
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because I will have been on the Ravens offense to
be better this season with the healthy JK. Dobbins in
the backfield, that that offense should move better than they
did even though Tyler Huntley played well in his uh
in in Lamar Jackson's absence, I still expect that offense too,
uh overall be stronger, and we've seen flashes with Hollywood,
(31:28):
so I will take him here. Hollywood. Brown is off
the board at number seventy. Ryan Burr Singer's final pick,
all right, Mike Carmen Europe at well. There are two
quarterbacks that that I'm looking at. One is in the
news for all sorts of madness. Really just seems more
(31:48):
like a contract play more than anything else. The other
is well the quarterback for the receiver you just picked
Ryan Burr Shinger and you know me, I I believe.
And this is part of the els as we did
right Dan with with the Bangles and their road back.
Is everything broke just right, the Party of the Red
Sea as it were in the a f C. North. Well,
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that will not be the case as Lamar Jackson returns
to form. So give me Lamar Jackson in this spot
to get healthy and for that offense to pop, particularly
if he ends up bringing in Antonio Brown, even if
he only comes in for half a year. The I
was I really honestly, guys and I'll name a pick
here that I really was thinking quarterback, and I'm like,
(32:31):
shout to take Dak. Likes Dak with that offense and
what what Dallas does. And I really was thinking about
taking Dak with the the last pick, but I just
I can't do it. I am going to take where
it could be value. I still think they're gonna be
running the ball and better. I don't believe we've taken
Kareem Hunt little Cleveland Browns, So Kareem Hunt will be
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my final pick, dinged up this past season, so maybe
kind of got lost in the shuffle with some of
this stuff, but I'll take Kareem Hunt with the final
pick as an RB thirty one in our I Want
Your Flex podcast. There it is seventy two picks to
get you set for two. And here's the good news.
Ryan Burshinger is actually gonna take these picks and make
(33:15):
an entirely new podcast out of them. So if you
want to go back and reference them, if you want
to listen to the off season, feel free to check
out this podcast, not only this special podcast, but the
final one that we just did. Now, thank you very much,
Ryan Burshinger for all your help this season. Uh, your
picks have been great, your insight has been great. Uh
job well done. Oh, thank you guys. This is a
(33:36):
ton of fun. I love doing this, so thank you guys.
It's been a lot of fun. But I got a
couple of months to prepare for season three. Yeah, Mike Harmen,
any final thoughts as we wrap up season two of
the I Want Your Flex Podcast. It's hard, hard to
leave it behind, right, all of the the analysis, all
of the grinding of statistics, all of those things. It
does mean I get back into, um, some other portions
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of my life that have been neglected for five months.
So there is a positivity about it, Dan as I
look at piles and piles of trading cards that need
to be processed and perhaps sold or given away, including
stacks of Dave Craig's. But it's really curious, right just
as we ended, you know, super Bowl and getting into
(34:19):
the off season, there's there's so much that could happen
and that we're both looking at it saying we're likely
to be disappointed, kind of like trade deadline stuff, right, Oh,
this could happen this yin and then that's it. That's
the only trade that happened. I fear we're in there
for the same mode. But you know what, we get
to ride the lightning all the way. My my final
(34:39):
thoughts are this to fold number one. Don't chew gum
from late eighties tops football. Bad, bad choice, and I
hope it doesn't have the effects. I can join you
in season three of the I Want Your Flex podcast. Uh,
that that is the case. This has been a crazy year,
and honestly, I think it's been year two of COVID.
I just I hope that we can get to a
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point where everything is back to normal in the National
Football League. I believe that's the case. In two. That
is what I'm most looking forward to. No COVID lest
No he could play tested positive, was he a close contact?
I hope we could get that all out of the
way and get back to normal lives, not only just
with our own stuff, but when it comes to football
as well. So hopefully that's on the horizon. In two
(35:23):
probably will be a crappy draft, so why not look
at the fantasy draft instead? Uh. The the selection process
in late April may leave a little more to be desired,
but hopefully fantasy football fills the gap. So for Mike Harmon,
where you can find on Twitter at Swollen Doma. I'm
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our Fantasy draft, but before we get to you a
look ahead at what is going to transpire in your
fantasy draft this summer, or what's even gonna transpire this
offseason in the NFL. We have to take a little
look back at you were both fifty six. Mike Harmon,
you were at Sulpi Stadium taking in the Rams Bengals game.
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Now that we are a few days away from that contest,
give us the experience the field, your major takeaways from
that Rams victory over Cincinnati. First off, I'm now going
into my my sadness phase. So I gotta find something.
I gotta do my one night lose my ass for
all the games against the spread I got wrong. I'll
(01:28):
chronicle it on Twitter at swollen m It'll make more
sense there. But you know, being there and watching the
Bengals fans show up in mass where I was in
the stadium just surrounded, you know, a couple of Rams
fans sprinkled in. I ranked them actually put it up
on Twitter in terms of jerseys. It was Bengals Rams
(01:49):
and then Bears, random Bears fans walking around, and then
you had had a few forty Niners folks that were
there just to cheer against the Rams. It was really
kind of funny. But we were talking to a lot
of these folks that had come from a guy that
we're sitting next to us came from Quebec, you know,
other guy from Manitoba. I'm like, all right, let's explain this,
(02:10):
come on, why the why the Bengals, Like I don't know,
I like them as a kid, I like the uniforms
and I and I stayed with it, and it was
really cool because you know, French Canadian too, and they're
like incologize like, I got nothing. I took Spanish, so
I'm not gonna be able to do the bridge that
but we can talk it through with football. So that
was really cool. And just being there. I mean, you've
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you've been to these before, Dan and and the atmosphere
and and the Goose Bumbs. You know, my brother came
out from Chicago. Was the first one he'd been to. Obviously,
we were still waiting on another appearance by eber fleus
Uh and this new regime. But it's just one of
those as you get ramped up and and all of
the songs and in the build up and then the
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rock comes out and people are going, why is he here?
And I'm like, okay, okay, calm down, harmon, let it,
let it breathe for a second. He does his thing,
and then people are like, okay, again, explained to me
why he's here. It's like, all right, go go just
get the w W E network for a bit, go
watch some of the old bits. You'll understand exactly what
this was. I did expect him to be wearing a
(03:14):
shirt that said watching Young Rock on NBC, but I
didn't get that. But it was, I don't know, just
an energy that that was flowing in the excitement, and
obviously Matthew Stafford, Sean McVeigh those storylines, Joe Burrow who
and and the Bengals that navigated, you know, a schedule,
they had a last place schedule. They lost to the
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Jets and Bears. Yet still here they are. Still everything
broke right, and we talked about it, uh in a
previous episode and certainly when pre paired together on Fox
Sports Radio that you know, it was the the unbelievable
rise and everything finding it and then to my disappointment,
Dan to get to the end of the game. None
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of the Bengals fans seemed upset about officiating, about anything like, Okay,
sure it may be well, I think you shouldn't be
mad about too much officiating on the t Higgins play.
Maybe that's what evened out the the false start on
the Rams. Maybe they maybe they understood that. But it
is also difficult at times to to kind of take
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all of that in when you're at the game and
you know, and I don't know much they've been following
on Twitter. I will say this though, about the atmosphere
and about the rock scenario, and I also believe this
about about the halftime show, which was was great, but
it just seemed that they, whether it be the NFL,
whether a b NBC, whether it be whoever, tried to
jam everything into this game, like like of of there's
(04:41):
this announcement, there's that announcement, there's this, there's that you know,
we have six performers at Super Bowl halftime, when honestly,
any one of those six could have just headlined the
event themselves. Like that is like, I know, it's neat
to bring somebody else on. And we knew that there
were gonna be We knew that they're gonna be five.
We knew the five. Yeah, the rumor around town the
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forty eight hours prior was that we were going to
get Hologram Tupac. I thought maybe we're gonna get real Tupac.
That would have been quite a story that you want
to talk about breaking records. But I mean, ice Cube
was part of a big package that they did before
the game. So it's like, all right, check that off
your loser if you you bet that one in your
prop bets. But you know, the thing with halle Berry
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was basically a giant Southern California infomercial, which is fine.
It's halle Berry. Who's complaining. But there's Clayton Kershaw, there's
you know, George Lopez and Danny Trejo and everybody getting celebrated.
I dig it. I'm all four right, it is pageantry,
but I get your point. And here are the Hall
of Famers for this year, and here's the and true
Andrew with Worry winning the Peyton Award, and here's this
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and it just seemed like a cavalcade of stars, which
again you expect in Los Angeles, but I could see that.
I was just I was distracted enough that there's just
so much energy and at ativity around a lot of
people screaming who day uh and getting these giants sing
alongs going when everything else is going on. So you know,
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for me, it all kind of blended a bit. But yeah,
the halftime show, uh, that that was that was an
energy and like a community building thing because think about
who's spending money for Super Bowl tickets. Dan, it's all folks. Uh,
well my age, I got a couple on you. Uh.
And that was there. That was their summer music, right
that that bridge and especially for me being a white
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Sox fan, where they got over after they switched to
the silver and black and white. Uh, and all of
a sudden and all the videos that's what snoop and
and Cuba wearing. Well, the the fact of the halftime
show it was great, So I don't want to take
that away from it. That is the thing. And I'm
still having the songs in my head to three days afterwards,
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so that tells me that it worked out. But it
was it was an interesting game. I thought the game
just ended. It was it was a weird build up.
I I I don't know if we were expecting more
from Cincinnati on that last possession if I don't know
if we just assumed that they were going to get
the first down on third and short and then unable
to do it and then Zach Taylor. Not that it
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would have mattered, but Cincinnati did have one time out
left and they didn't use it on the Neil down.
They're just like, all right, let's just end the game
and then it was over like it was because so
that was that was kind of that was kind of
weird to me. I think it was a little indicative
of how the week went about the game. And it's
not meant to be a knock on the rams, not
meant to be a knock on the Bengals. There's just
other storylines that end up popping up throughout the week
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and sometimes the over the shadow of the game a little.
But we got a competitive game. I don't know if
it was a good game, but it was competitive. It
was close at the end, and I think that's that's
all we can ask for. And we can talk about
our generations when you look at and I know here
Bears had one of those blowout wins and my Seahawks
had a blowout win in Super Bowl forty eight. But
when we were growing up, whether it was the Niners
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taking you know, the Bronco those huh it's a task
in Super Bowl twenty four, or Washington's going five touchdowns
against Denver in the second quarter of Super Bowl twenty two,
it was just blowout after blowout after blowout. And that
was that was always just Super Bowl stunk when we
were kids. And at least this was competitive. No, that's it.
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It was an aesthetically pleasing no. I mean Burrow was
rough early and he was rough late, and you know
a number of the sacks and and a lot of
it in the post script is look at the offensive
line failed him. Again it's like, well, yes and no.
There were a couple where it's like, either throw the
ball away or like he'd been doing all year, throw
it up and let one of your guys make a play, right,
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especially down towards the end, you know, taking sacks on
big spots, the the p Ryan play and just the
you know, country strong play of Aaron Donald there to
to make that play. But you know, there were just
a number of them where you're just scratching your head,
going all right, how does how does this? Why? Why?
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Philosophically right? And then that final um, the big drive
by the Rams. I mean that's where Matthew Stafford. You know,
stuff like that makes legends, whether you want to buy
it or not. And we still have some folks in
in our in our midst that are gonna find every
other reason, just like well other legendary performances to just
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throw them away. And you know, excuse make away. You
know you got Stafford on one side, bangles d all right,
here we go, and it seemed like everybody decided this
is the uh all in hand in a poker game,
right in a Wild West scenario, it's gonna come down
to this. We're not gonna play aggressively defensively, and for
the Rams, they were gonna just nickel and dime and
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take what the Bengals were gonna give them, right, not
taking big shots and lo and behold that becomes your
game winner. So even with fuel position and what looked
like was going to be an easy path towards at
least along McPherson attempt who was bombing him in from
sixty plus in the pregame. I guess he stayed out
to watch the halftime show, so he would have been
(10:06):
inspired there too. But the the idea that we didn't
at least get uh, the the last second, alright, can
he bomb one in to take this thing overtime and
make all the overbetters mad because well they were gonna lose. Uh.
But in the end, Stafford with with the drive to eight, three,
three and two on the day one off the hands.
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The other was a deep ball that well just fell
a little short there in the end zone. But all
in all, look, it's a celebration of the game and
whether you like it or not, aesthetically maybe it didn't
pass the the eye test, but we got a three
point game and legends are being made off it. The
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Super Bowl fifty six is now in our rear view mirror,
but before it's too far away, I do want to
say it our special DraftKings prop bet Joe mixing on
the old were of rushing yards hit. I watched that
one and I wasn't. Yeah, I was, I hit on
the under missed on the rams. Thought that they would
cover they did not, and uh but uh but that
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is a special episode and if you want to go
and see how we faired in our prop bets, you
can always go and download that previous episode. Yeah, we
got some love for the I mean Tee Higgins. We
we we talked about him a bunch and then obviously, um,
you know you got all those Gatorade things and whatever,
which gets a Yeah, I think I hit blue, didn't
I Blue is not a flavor that was in the
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office and they're cleaning out Michael's car. What flavor is it? Blue?
Blue is not a flavor blue. But but everybody that's
ever tasted it, because yeah, I know exactly what that is.
Oh man, ye blue blasts run though, I mean we
we had. That was a great episode, just kind of
going crazy a little bit with some of the fun
(11:57):
and trying to create the narratives and back it down. Yeah.
I made a tweet about it. It was liked by
no one and retweeted by no one, so no one
apparently got it. But that's that's okay. The it hit
the under. No matter what the line would have been
on retweets or likes, it was. It was an absolutely
hit the under. And it was a gift of Michael
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and Ryan cleaning out his car and then Ryan talking
about how many filet of fish boxes he has in
his car. That's the one good thing about one of those.
Oh yeah, yeah, I liked the fourth Yes, but no cheese,
no tartar sauce. Just give me the butt of the fish. Yeah,
that's how my daughter takes her hamburgers. There, yep, me too,
(12:39):
playe hammerger but and meat only see there we go.
Yeah again, I have a diet of a twelve year old.
That's you know what, there's nothing wrong with that. Nothing
wrong with that, uh I got I got no issues
with that. You know, you like what you like, and
I'm trying to explain that to people about everything in existence. Right.
You may not like it, you may not be are you,
(13:00):
but you know respect it's that that whole just you know,
accept people who they are, what they like, and it
comes even down to the land errand sea, and which
portions of that don't put down their gulling. I had
a dinner earlier this week that I did not like
the appetizer that they brought out. So I just took
the fork and I mushed it all up so it
looked like I ate it. And then just like turn
(13:21):
the fork over when they came by, like if you
were to piece it together, one percent of it's still available,
still available. So tell your daughter that one. Yeah, that's
good when you go to a wedding, when you when
everybody at the table is eating the delicious first salad
or whatever they bring out and you don't want to
(13:42):
touch it, just move it around a bunch with your
fork and yeah. Then and by the way, it just
doesn't hurt people's feelings. There's your well that's saying you're
you're always look, you're a man of the people, all right.
Before we look ahead to the two season, Mike Harmon
was kind of a to give me as a nice gift,
a little something for the baby, some trading cards and
(14:07):
and when you gave me packs of trading cards. I
meant to do this at Radio Row, but we never
got to it. You included various packs of cards. I
am going to open a pack of nineteen nine NFL
Tops trading cards. All right, all right here it is okay, Mike,
So it's a wax pack, and this will include this
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will include a thousand yard rusher. And this will also
include me chewing the gum. I will we hear Dan's
teeth break in the podcast. We'll have to go find
one of the official sponsors and partners of the NFL.
Here's here's quickly the pack of cards. Albert Lewis cornerback,
Kansas City Chiefs, oh Neil Lomax, Phoenix Cardinals, Good News Mike,
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ninth year card for Neil Lomax, Dino Hackett, linebacker, Kansas
City Chiefs, Arnist Biner running back, Cleveland Browns. Again opening
up a pack of eighty nine tops. Remember those team
cards that they had, Los Angeles Raiders team card telling
through the line. That's what that's the and then it
(15:20):
has the schedule the eight team results of the Los
Angeles Raiders, who were lead in rushing by Marcus Allen
with eight hundred and thirty one yards. By the way,
it should be noted the Seahawks beat the Raiders in
week sixteen, forty three to thirty seven. Mike ko for
oh Harmon, Oh you got Dave Craig. So reason why
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I am a Seahawks fan. I have a Dave Craig
eighty nine tops in this pack, and right behind it
thousand yard rusher Eric Dickerson Indianapolis Colts YEP, Eric Dickerson
thousand yard Club. Then we have Eric Martin of the
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Saints ruland Jones of the Buccaneers. Eugene Marv or excuse
me of the Broncos, Eugene Marvel of the Buccaneers. Oh,
Mike Quick six Philadelphia Eagles, Mark Carrier, the wide receiver
from the Buccaneers, a forty Niners team card, which oddly
enough is Montana on the Run, Dexter Manley and Scott Studwell,
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there it is. We have it. We have a Dave Craig.
And now let me chew on this gum that now
we're gonna make that up. You gotta bring you in
some can you hear Can you stop talking for a second,
Can you hear this gum that I'm trying to chew.
Can you hear this? This is just the gum, and
(16:51):
I actually have a cracked tooth on my right side,
just to let you know, Mike, it's not forming together
like gum usually does. Oh no, I just have like
eight hundred pieces of gum no in my mouth, none
of which jelling together. The former piece of gum. You
(17:12):
have to figure out what the science of that is.
I gotta spit this out. I heard the first crap
before I said a word. I went, wow, Okay, that
that's something Dan, because I mean, that is, uh what,
thirty two years old? Okay, we can't get gum and
current packs, but maybe we could find something. I don't
(17:33):
recommend eating gum from the nine tops. Yeah, I mean
you had to try and see. Now you can put
that on the list of something you did and that
you will never ever ever do again. I probably a
plan to have like a napkin or something, you know,
a little close by. But oh my goodness, that tasted
like eighteen year old pepto bismol, not thirty two year
(17:54):
old chewing gum. But I got a Dave Craig card.
That's all that matters. That's the best man I got
I got probably another fifties sitting here for you. We'll
get you a complete array of da It did not form.
It's just all broken pieces, and then and then those
pieces broken ten more pieces. It was just a litterally
litteral of gum. Alright, disgusting. Let's quick touch before we
(18:18):
wrap up the the episode in our season with our
our final twelve picks of our fantasy draft. What do
you think the office of the off season for twenty
two entails? Because my hopes aren't high for the fireworks
that we think could happen. Yeah, I think there's gonna
be a lot of smoke here for the next month,
(18:39):
right before we get into official free agent tray, you know,
signing period and everything else. So we've got the talk
of McVeigh and Aaron Donald. Do they walk away? We've
got once again, all those big quarterbacks. Do they get traded?
I don't think they do. The only guy that's gonna
be on the move is Deshaun Watson if someone can
figure out how all the legal st right, which we
(19:01):
may get an answer to at least part of it
in the next couple of weeks. But other than that,
the rest of the quarterbacks that will be on the
move sadly, and people can mock me all they want
when when you look to it, you've got Jimmy Garoppolo
probably moves on, and then the next best guy on
that list is Mitchell Trobinsky, and people can laugh all
they want twenty nine and twenty one as a starter.
(19:22):
Just work with Brian Dable and Josh Allen for a
year and then you've got a bunch of guys. Right.
Is Ryan Fitzpatrick coming back out for being a Bills
fan to be you know, join another team? Probably that
is he a difference maker? No, So you go through
and then the draft hits, and so you know, I
guess a little bit of fireworks when you've got Michael Thomas,
(19:43):
Davante Adams maybe where there's some movement there, but but
otherwise we've already had Sean Payton step out. Yeah, Jamis
Winston could be a quarterback name uh you know, but
but still it's his health and and where he goes
and and who maybe goes with him there there's I
(20:04):
just I don't think I think that Tom Brady's retirement
has changed things for the Packers where I know that
they wanted to keep Rogers, But now I think they're
gonna go all out to keep Rogers for the simple
fact of you've got the NFC West, but the other
real threat and Dallas, I guess in the in the
conversation as well, Let's put it this way, You've lost
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the potential super Bowl contender with Tampa. Without Brady, they
may make the playoffs, but when you're a super Bowl
contender like Green Bay is, like some of those teams
in the NFC West, now you've lost one more competitor,
and I think that that is a that is a
reason to try to maybe bend over backwards if you're
green Bay, to appease Aaron Rodgers and want him to day. Yeah.
(20:44):
I mean it assumes Tom Brady doesn't look at what
they do for two months. If Godwin is somehow still
a member of the Buccaneers or someone one of those
receivers mentioned before comes in to replace them, all of
a sudden, you know, family times great, but I can
do this one more time. That's the thing, right with
the way he would go out, It's not the greatest
way to go out. It's a fantastic season, but since
(21:07):
we know it's about winning and championships and all just
saying well, I gave it the old college try at
the end. Doesn't seem seems like he'll feel unfulfilled at
some point in terms of stepping away, So you know that.
I guess that's the storyline to watch. Is he really done?
Is it just the TV twelve method from now on? Um? Yeah,
(21:28):
I think he's done. I think that I know that
sometimes they leave open the door and they try to
be a little dramatic, and who knows, maybe I'll change
my mind, but I think that I think that he
is done. Well, I just need him around. So because
as long as he's playing. I said this to Damien
Woody where we had him as part of our Super
Bowl coverage. Dan, as long as he's around, I feel
a little younger because there's still guys that are almost
(21:51):
my age that are playing. Because as soon as he goes,
that's a four year jump, right, because I think the
next guys are all in, like the class of two
thousand five. So I mean two thousand five was like, Hey,
when Vince Carter retired, I kind of I felt the same.
I felt the same about I I need I need
(22:12):
those old guys to hang around at least a little
bit longer, so you know, psychologically, I may have to
have the you know that reckoning again once if a
season starts with him on a sideline. All right, we
are five rounds in and in our final episode of
the season, we have our final round of our two
fantasy draft. Ryan Burshinger, the executive producer, is here. Ryan.
(22:36):
First of all, great work throughout the season we appreciated
so very much. And uh, your draft picks have even
been better than the work that you've done on this podcast.
You have picked first in each of these rounds, followed
by Mike Carmen and then myself. We could find Ryan Burshinger,
by the way on Twitter at Ryan Burshinger to recap
(22:56):
who we took in our last draft. For the last round,
Letter four Net went forty nine, then Chris Godwin, Patrick Mahomes,
Hunter Renfell, Brandon Cooks were shod, Penny Clyde, Edwards, Hilair,
Joe Burrow, Tyler Lockett, Justin Herbert, Travis E t N,
and Mike Williams. E. T N was RB twenty six.
Williams was wide receiver twenty five, Herbert was QB four
(23:17):
and so far, we've only had five tight ends taken.
Kyle Pitts was the last tight end taken. So there's
a bit of your feel of how this draft is gone.
Ryan Burr shing Er, you're on the clock with pick
number sixty one in the sixth round of our two
Fantasy draft. Well, Dan, it was very nice of you
to compliment my picks, because, uh, you might want to
(23:38):
take it back though, with what I'm about to do,
because I I hate what I'm about to do because
I'm about to break one of my big rules in fantasy,
which is don't draft a New York Jet. But I'm
gonna do it, um because quite frankly, Michael Carter is
a very talented running back and he's going to have
a ton of opportunities, and so I think in this range, Uh,
this is a very solid pick here. Looking at the
(24:01):
scope of running backs there, there are still a handful
of running backs there are going to have a great
workload and a ton of opportunities. I'm betting on the
talent here, and I'm betting on the fact that the
Jets offense might not be terrible next season. Hey, Harmon
was gonna look at a Jet and I was deciding
to in our last year, Carter was the pick. So
(24:24):
never in in a million years do you say someone
uh picks a guy from the Jets, you say you
stole my pick. That's what we're doing right here. Michael
Carter is off the board at running back. Mike Harmon,
you are now up. Oh the insanity of it. Oh,
I am gonna go, and I'm miss making sure because
(24:45):
you know I love this guy. Um, I'm gonna go
to Indianapolis because Carson Wentz won't be there to screw
things up, which means I'm taking Michael Pittman Jr. Okay,
Michael Pittman Jr. Comes off the board and wide receiver
number twenty six. I you talked about picking, uh picking
a Jet and having some getting the other one. No, no,
(25:11):
I I actually I really really was thinking and you
know who I'm thinking about, and I'm thinking in the
same area. But you know I'm gonna take I'm gonna
take a wide receiver who flashed at the end of
the season. And I know that this team needs to
add players and they plan to Adam at that position.
(25:33):
But Amanra st Brown is going to go off the
board at number sixty. I'm gonna go a Mantra St
Brown of the Detroit Lions. You can't deny his numbers.
You can deny Jared Goff, but you can't deny his numbers.
So I'm going a Mantra St Brown at number sixty three. Overall,
I like that, I think he's a good player, and
(25:54):
I like what they're building there all right, first year
up at number sixty four. I don't think there's another
USC receiver for me to take to continue this, uh
this run here, unless we want to go with a
different Mike Williams. I guess, um, let's go with he
always got screwed by the legal system, still got paid
(26:15):
as a top ten guy by Detroit later. But you know, hey, um,
I'm gonna take a Marii Cooper because uh yeah, he
did have a down season, but the Cowboys offense should
still be throwing a ton. I'm gonna bet on him
bouncing back a bit, and I think at this point,
I think that's a strong bet here. So I will
take a good value, yeah, fair value. They're absolutely good
(26:37):
value just when we look at that offense, because I'll
assume that Jerry Jones will come to love him again.
I know he pushed him off a little bit and
he talked about him out of school. I you know,
whenever Jerry opens his mouth when he's disappointed, someone's got
to pay the piper. And it can't all be the
head coach. I certainly won't be Deck or anybody else. Um,
(26:58):
I am gonna go as I'm looking at this and
again owing to the end of the season and what
this team became. Devin Singletary of your alright Buffalo Bills,
curious to see how Ken Dorsey's offense now looks in
Buffalo with Brian Dable gone. Yeah, maybe the curiosity, but
(27:20):
Singletary down the stretch suddenly took the realm that you
had some healthy scratches for Zack Moss and other members
of that running back situation. So it looks like it's
his job to try to push going forward. I'm gonna
take Elijah More here. I'll take the jets he had
to come. If you wouldn't getting them here, I was
gonna have to do it. Yeah, and I will take that.
I I'd rather do upside than than to downside of
(27:44):
the career. So I'm gonna go Elijah More at number
sixty six overall. I know that was a quick pick,
Ryan Burr Singer, but you are back on the clock,
you know that's okay. I was just thinking about how
actually there is a USC receiver here and wouldn't be
a terrible pig um, and I'll be the judge that exactly.
I think there's value in Robert Woods at this point,
(28:05):
but um, I also don't know if he's even a
better pick than another Ramps receiver. But I'm not gonna
go with either of them here. I'm going to take
a guy who was I believe running back seven or
eight on this past season. It is because he had
a very high touchdown total, but uh, I think that's
still at this point, they're strong value in him, and
(28:27):
I'm gonna go with James Connor here. Of course, it
does depend on where he ends up. I wouldn't be
surprised if he does come back to Arizona. And like
I said, his his numbers were definitely heavily bullied by
his touchdown total, which is very hard to repeat. But um,
I think he's a strong back and he'll find another
situation where he should get a good amount of opportunities again,
(28:49):
all right, James Connor is off the board at number
sixty seven RB nine. Back over to Mike Harmon and
you got the word in, so bonus to you. All right,
but back to the tight end. Well, you took one
of the Detroit receivers. Give me the man out of Iowa.
T J. Hawkinson, all right, T E six comes in
(29:11):
number sixty nine. Is we have four picks left in
our draft. We all have to do the requisite giggle.
That's what you do on podcasts when that note yes,
it's it's true. Now I'm laughing more about the idea
of forcing a laugh for any any sixty nine Jersey
(29:32):
you see at a game. I just end up rolling
my eyes and saying, I, okay, I'll all right, we
get it, we got it. I I I don't know
what the future necessarily holds, but I just said a
pick a go. I'd rather take a guy with upside
than a guy with downside. I will completely contradict myself
in that fashion. Why not take cor Darrel Patterson? Why
(29:56):
now I wrote his name off to the side. It
was just like, yeah, just like my buddy when he
told me that A. J. Green is his fifth wide receiver.
You're like I I like that would be me Like
I got Cordarol Patterson in the sixth round. I'm good
with that. I'll take Cordarol Patterson at number sixty nine,
RB thirty or w R thirty. Dong Uh, by the way,
(30:22):
I should go dune dune done, not Dong dong dong.
That was well, yeah, there it is. There, it is
alright our final three picks. Make them count, guys for
the I Want Your Flex podcast? Um, all right there there, Yeah,
you can't. You can't go back on this. There's not
another podcast to be like, Guys, I made a mistake,
(30:43):
so you are stuck in cement on this one. Uh.
There's a couple of players I like here I will take.
I'm gonna go with who I think should have a
better season this He showed a lot of promise in
the first half of the season and then he really
faded off, but that was, of course because of injuries,
a quarterback and everything. I'll take Marquise Hollywood Brown here
(31:07):
because I will have been on the Ravens offense to
be better this season with the healthy JK. Dobbins in
the backfield, that that offense should move better than they
did even though Tyler Huntley played well in his uh
in in Lamar Jackson's absence, I still expect that offense too,
uh overall be stronger, and we've seen flashes with Hollywood,
(31:28):
so I will take him here. Hollywood. Brown is off
the board at number seventy. Ryan Burr Singer's final pick,
all right, Mike Carmen Europe at well. There are two
quarterbacks that that I'm looking at. One is in the
news for all sorts of madness. Really just seems more
(31:48):
like a contract play more than anything else. The other
is well the quarterback for the receiver you just picked
Ryan Burr Shinger and you know me, I I believe.
And this is part of the els as we did
right Dan with with the Bangles and their road back.
Is everything broke just right, the Party of the Red
Sea as it were in the a f C. North. Well,
(32:10):
that will not be the case as Lamar Jackson returns
to form. So give me Lamar Jackson in this spot
to get healthy and for that offense to pop, particularly
if he ends up bringing in Antonio Brown, even if
he only comes in for half a year. The I
was I really honestly, guys and I'll name a pick
here that I really was thinking quarterback, and I'm like,
(32:31):
shout to take Dak. Likes Dak with that offense and
what what Dallas does. And I really was thinking about
taking Dak with the the last pick, but I just
I can't do it. I am going to take where
it could be value. I still think they're gonna be
running the ball and better. I don't believe we've taken
Kareem Hunt little Cleveland Browns, So Kareem Hunt will be
(32:53):
my final pick, dinged up this past season, so maybe
kind of got lost in the shuffle with some of
this stuff, but I'll take Kareem Hunt with the final
pick as an RB thirty one in our I Want
Your Flex podcast. There it is seventy two picks to
get you set for two. And here's the good news.
Ryan Burshinger is actually gonna take these picks and make
(33:15):
an entirely new podcast out of them. So if you
want to go back and reference them, if you want
to listen to the off season, feel free to check
out this podcast, not only this special podcast, but the
final one that we just did. Now, thank you very much,
Ryan Burshinger for all your help this season. Uh, your
picks have been great, your insight has been great. Uh
job well done. Oh, thank you guys. This is a
(33:36):
ton of fun. I love doing this, so thank you guys.
It's been a lot of fun. But I got a
couple of months to prepare for season three. Yeah, Mike Harmen,
any final thoughts as we wrap up season two of
the I Want Your Flex Podcast. It's hard, hard to
leave it behind, right, all of the the analysis, all
of the grinding of statistics, all of those things. It
does mean I get back into, um, some other portions
(33:59):
of my life that have been neglected for five months.
So there is a positivity about it, Dan as I
look at piles and piles of trading cards that need
to be processed and perhaps sold or given away, including
stacks of Dave Craig's. But it's really curious, right just
as we ended, you know, super Bowl and getting into
(34:19):
the off season, there's there's so much that could happen
and that we're both looking at it saying we're likely
to be disappointed, kind of like trade deadline stuff, right, Oh,
this could happen this yin and then that's it. That's
the only trade that happened. I fear we're in there
for the same mode. But you know what, we get
to ride the lightning all the way. My my final
(34:39):
thoughts are this to fold number one. Don't chew gum
from late eighties tops football. Bad, bad choice, and I
hope it doesn't have the effects. I can join you
in season three of the I Want Your Flex podcast. Uh,
that that is the case. This has been a crazy year,
and honestly, I think it's been year two of COVID.
I just I hope that we can get to a
(35:01):
point where everything is back to normal in the National
Football League. I believe that's the case. In two. That
is what I'm most looking forward to. No COVID lest
No he could play tested positive, was he a close contact?
I hope we could get that all out of the
way and get back to normal lives, not only just
with our own stuff, but when it comes to football
as well. So hopefully that's on the horizon. In two
(35:23):
probably will be a crappy draft, so why not look
at the fantasy draft instead? Uh. The the selection process
in late April may leave a little more to be desired,
but hopefully fantasy football fills the gap. So for Mike Harmon,
where you can find on Twitter at Swollen Doma. I'm
Dan Buyer. Can't wait to talk to you next season.
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