EP 431: Dale's Early Rankings & Therapy Session

Dale is solo this episode talking top 10 position rankings and of course our export of audio isn't the quality you'd expect from us. Sorry about that! We'll make sure it doesn't happen again!

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Episode Transcript

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enthusiasts. I know you plan tobe joining my son, Eat Sleep Fantasy
Jack, Eat Sleep fantas See EatSleep Fantasy. Hello everybody, and welcome
to another episode of the Eat SleepFantasy Football Podcast. My name is Dale.
Thanks for joining us. This isyour first time listening to n I

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appreciate it. Le. There's twopeople but myself and Clay hosting this pump
this podcast. It's just me,so you gotta bear with me for the
next couple of minutes. This isn'tgonna be a long episode. We're just
kind of kind of dive into myearly rankings. I know it's the beginning
of July, but it is timeto start thinking about drafting, and we
will be drafting, we will beseeing, we will be mocking a couple
months of your draft, so makesure you for that. But for today,

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we just want to um really Ijust wanted to kind of go through,
kind of go through mafia, seewhat you think, and some fun.
Usually, you know, there's alittle banter. It's hard to do
that. I don't do very manysolo podcasts, so please bear with me.
But it was fourth of July andthat is the official Easily Fantasy holiday.
So I appreciate sending me pictures ofthe hot dog posting pictures of hot

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dogs. If you're new to tothe podcast and you're really confused, I
might go ahead and that I mightpost a link or a little sound bite
of why hot dogs are so polarin the Eat Nation panet group as well
as on Twitter emailing me my number. They're texting in me. My wife
thinks I'm crazy that some of thelisteners that you know you got dm me

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personally on my Facebook account. Idon't know. She thinks it's weird that
you guys can see into my life. But why not? Who cares?
Right? Anyways, Today we areguard going to go through my rankings.
Like I said, ten or fifteen, I want you guys to tell me
where I'm right and wrong. Makesure you comment, you know, send
me emails, comment on Twitter ateat Sleep f F on the eat Nation

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private group. You guys can commenton that. Tell me how wrong I
am. I got a couple ofUm, I got a cool of surprises
here, I think for you andI expect I expect a lot of hate
me for it, but we'll see. And I think that's about it.
Really. Make sure, um,make sure you check us out again.
We're gonna again. We're gonna bedoing mock drafts and prove my top like
I said, top ten or fifteenof each position, quarterbacks, running backs,

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tight ends, wide receivers, andthen maybe I'll get into some overall
stuff if you guys want not.If you guys want, I'm gonna do
one. I'm gonna do it anyways. I'm not get back where this isn't
live. By the way, wehave an app on the app dooor pretty
Weird. I forgot about it.If you want to making any money off
of it, so it really doesn'tmatter if you download it or not,

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but you can't comment and stuff onindividual episodes if you want to do that.
I don't. Honestly, I don'tremember making it so avid. I
appreciate it because it's still it sayslike we get a couple downloads. We
get a few downloads a month onthe app. I don't know who does.
Maybe people think it's like a sleepingapp because it is easleep fantasy,

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or maybe like a dust leaping meditationapp. I don't know, but we'll
get the downloads wherever week we canget him. I appreciate you listening.
By the way, awesome last coupleepisodes. For some reason reason your sound,
so we appreciate it again. Ifyou're new, welcome, Welcome to
the ship show. All right,let's get right into it. I'm gonna
go through some through some of myrunning backs or again, this is really
early early. Guys, don't beatme up much, but this is just

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what I'm okay. I'm throwing thiseveryone, this out intire so I hope
that you guys can tell tell mewhere I'm writing long If Clayton was here,
he telling me I'm wrong every singletime. But here we go my
top five in this order. You'reready. Christian mccalfe. I think that's
pretty pretty common. Number one overallfor running backs, I have Christian McCaffrey,

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Austckler, Taylor Be, Jean Robinson, and Nick Chubb. I did
not choose Saquon Barkley. I justlike Nick Chubb better. I like Jonathan
Taylor and Nick Chubb. Nick Chubbbetter than Saquon Barkley. So call me
crazy then that I do have Barkley, Romandre Stevenson, Derrick Henry, Tony

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Pollard, and Josh Jacobs. Whatdo you think Josh Jakes before for after
Tone Allard? He doesn't have toomuch competition right now that Dallas should still
move. So is Dallas? IsTony Pollard to top ten? I honestly,
I haven't been listening to a lotof podcasts. If you guys have
you guys have been? I wonderif Texas let me know. I'm knowing

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that I might not be crazy.I might be right on the head.
Bruce Hall's really close to that.Bruce Hall, Travis Etien, Jamar Gibbs,
and Aaron Jones would be the nexton the list, probably in that
order. For now. That's mythat's my running back rankings here as far
as verse, because that's the nextmost most fun thing. And I will

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be publishing these. I'm on aClayton and I are both on Fantasy Pros,
the ows, the experts, sowe will be publishing. Those will
be on the website and a linkto Fantasy prose whatever for wide Justin Jefferson,
Jason, Jamar Chase, Jamar ChaseJerson, they're gonna be one in
two. There's an argument they're evenone or one in two overall. Before
any of those backs, we're seeinga shift right a couple of years ago,

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five, ten years ago. Everybodywho's loading up on running backs as
squee as they can, that's notthe case any Jefferson, Jamar Chase with
the way you know, definitely becomemore passing league and more touchdowns and more
yardage yardage the air than on theground. So either way you go,
I'm not going to rank them oneor two. I'll let you guys do
that. I'm okay either way.Justin Jefferson, jam Or Chase or more

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Chase, Justin Jefferson. After that, I have Stefan Diggs at three,
Tyreek Hill at four, and CooperCup at five. Then I have Garrett
Wilson at six. That's where Ithink I'm gonna lose a lot of you
guys. If you're still listening,I don't haven't. I don't have a
written argument. You know, ifyou're listening, isn't this podcast for?
We're not going to write a tenpages on why I think Garrett Wilson is

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his number six and a number eightor number ten whatever. You guys know
that I'm not going to do that, so but I will tell you Garret
Wilson is in and you're much improvedoffense, which pretty well last year.
Already way a better quarterbacker back situation, right. Garrett Wilson is kind of
my surprise surprise Gante Williams, JanelenWaddle Waddle should I throw in? I'm

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on Saint Brown right after Jalen Waddleof course is stuck in there too.
So what I just gave you,like twelve players, I just want got
stuck on Gret without you guys weregonna yell at me. I thought you
were gonna hang up. Don't hangup yet anyways, let me know what
you guys think about Garrett Wilson thathigh. I like them a lot.
I'm like brave blazing through this.I'm like almost couldn't even talk because I'm

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so excited. But that was wheremy wide receiver. I think I will
have time to go through some overalloverall stuff. So stick around and really,
I'm look, I'm doing this kindof therapy, the therapy session for
myself itself. I think this episodeis going to be called um therapy with
Dale. What do you think?Um? I just I need somebody.
I need somebody to talk to andI know I can I can talk to.

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to their platform to check it out. So the quarterbacks I have are Josh
Allen, Patrick Mahomes. I thinkeasy one to do to one whatever we
put it, I'm okay, that'sanother hard one, just like the wide

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receivers. But Josh Allen's clear cutone and two for me at least at
least after that. Lamar Jackson,Jalen Hurts, then Joe Burrow, j
Lamar j Lamar Jackson before Jay Lenhurst. Um. I know is like some
of you guys are yelling at meabout that. Go ahead, let it
out. If you're in your carrolled down the one and scream at it's
okay, Joe Burrow. Then Ihave Justin Herbert Trevor Lawrence, and then

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Justin Fields. Is Justin Fields rankedtoo high or too low for you guys,
I don't know. I'm a littleI'm a little scared. I know.
Look, we all know his abillies. Trust Trevor Lawrence and Herbert More
is what I'm This is what I'msaying. Tuah is next, then dak

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Than DeShawn Watson, Tuah than dakThan Deshaun like it, I like it,
and then Aaron Rodgers. I'm probablynot drafting Anthony Ridge unless I'm as
I'm in a really league. Um, if I'm waiting quarterback and I'll wait
too long, I don't think I'mgonna take Anthony Richardson as my top as

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my top quarterback, even Thoughson couldperform better than somebody like Daniel be like
Daniel Jones. I think I'd rathertake the safety. If you have Daniel
Jones, if that's only quarterback.Now, if you if you did say
Josh Allen and Cherson is there takea flyer, maybe expect two quarterback leads
a no brainer. I would takeAnthony Richardson as my second quarterback without any
out, any issue at all.But if you're looking at if you waited

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way too long for acts like Ido, sometimes Richerson is there and so
is Daniel Jones. I think I'mtaking Daniel Jones first. I don't know
any Richerson. You could light itup in Indianapolis, indian to Indianapolis,
Indianapolis. Anyways. Um, again, I have nobody here to correct me,
but here I am. Uh yeah, so those are my quarter quarterbacks.

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What do you about that? It'snot it's not so early in the
season. Really, really, Ijust wanted to football with you guys.
Get this stuff off my chest.I hope that somebody replies to me and
tells me what I did right orwrong. Here. Um, it's a
lot of names being names being thrownout. It's hard, but you get
you get what I'm doing. Whenyou hear tight ends, did you say
yes? Okay? Obviously te Traviscut is by far away you know the

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number one tight end. Uh,he's gonna go number you know, in
the in the first round of manymany many draining drafts, So Delsie's a
no brainer. After that, MarkAndrews, I think kind of another kind
of another no brainer. Um,this is where it gets a little tricky.
Do you take Kyle Pitts, thenGeorge Kittle, then T J.
Hawkinson with the Vikings, Dallas Goddard, did it go durt Sorry, Evan

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Ingram, Darren Waller, David Najukuand Pat Pat Fiarmouth has to us to
be has to be mentioned, right, So those are my what is that?
One? Two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight nine, ten, ten,ten, ten ten. There's one guy
what's his name? Uh? Youknow what? I'm looking at his name.

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I'm I'm gonna try to pronounce it, and uh, being a fantacy
football podcast caster, I should probablyknow. You know, there's a lot
of nerds there out there that areyou gonna yell at me for not knowing
this name? Name? Uh oknonokonk on kong koku man. His first
name is even worse than the lastname. I can't I'm not eve gonna

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try. There's the z in chigozumChigozium. It's actually pretty close. I'm
pretty sure it is. Sure itis shy Gauzium. I wonder he's from
we can I click his name hereKean and Toory's from Damn No, I
can't. No, Well it's aweird name, weird name. I don't

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drive people with weird names, weirnames. Sorry anyways, guys, uh
I mumbled on for fifty then you'restill listening to me. I um,
I appreciate everybody listening and hanging outagain. Thanks for all the dog picks.
I hope you guys had a safefief in day with maybe your family

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or friends or whoever, maybe byyourself. You just watch some TV and
watch Jerry Joey Chestnutt Check had onsome dogs. I think I can look
untimed hot dog eating contest. I'mpretty sure I can win. I'm pretty
sure I can almost be moles speedanybody. I'm not look I'm a little
overweight. I still, I stillthink I can can put down when they're

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on the grill and and you knowthe fucking around. I take a hot
dog, eat it. Then I'mdoing something in the yard and I come
back, I eat another. Idon't get full of full of hot dogs.
I don't know where they I don'tknow I don't know, especially if
I don't really like if I don'teat the bread. The bread, I
think it fills you up. Thehot dogs themselves, they don't do anything.
I don't do anything to me.Um, but I did have to

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take a make of mad poop latelate at night, so I don't know.
Maybe maybe maybe I shouldn't have eatenfour hot five hot dogs. Maybe
no, I didn't eat five,I could have dem t I could eat.
I got dogs in one sitting,but like not not a big problem
to me. Anyways, I havemy video poo video pulled up by myself

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talking and you guys aren't gonna seethe video. So anyways, again,
I appreciate you guys listening and hangingout with me, hanging out with eating
out with eastleet Fantasy. The yearsthis is this is year We're started sixteen,
so we're a year seven. We'vebeen podcasting for seven years and it's
still still going strong. Don't beseeing the numbers. I appreciate it,

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eybody tuning in, listening and watchingall that good stuff. So if you
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It's fun. It's fun. Alot of hot dog memes. Um,

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but anyways, guys, take care. I appreciate y'all. Yeah, Eat
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