20-Time FFPC League Champion Ray Seggern

Your hosts Eric Balkman and the Kentucky Fantasy Football State Championship (KFFSC)'s Ferrell Elliott speak with 20-time FFPC league-winner Ray Seggern as they look ahead to the 2025 NFL Season Week 2. Seggern shares how his teams are doing in the 2025 FFPC Big Gorilla Tournament, the 2025 FFPC Main Event and the 2025 FFPC Best Ball Tournament and 2025 FFPC Superflex Best Ball Tournament, too.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Do the Patriots have a new number one wide receiver,
What can Hollywood Brown do for you with Xavier Worthy
out potentially? And who are the two undrafted Steelers that
you need to be aware of for Week two in
the f f PC Plus the twenty time FFPC League
Champion Ray Seger is here to discuss Jordan Love, Javonte Williams,

(00:29):
and so much more. We've got a great show for you.
Farrell Elliott is here stick around. Your high Stakes Fantasy
Football Hour starts now.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
It's damn the pressure I've seen.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Broadcast live and horror rau the world.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
You are now watching the most entertaining hour of radio
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Eric Boltman and Farrel Elliott. High Stakes Fantasy Football Hour
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Speaker 1 (01:06):
Because no one else was available.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Here are Eric Boltman and Pharaoh Elliott.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Thank you, Rob Greenings and salutations to all of you,
b alcoholics and Farrelli X. Welcome to the latest episode
of the high Stakes Fantasy Football Hour presented by my
f FPC dot com. I'm your slightly above average host
Eric Balkman, My co host is the definitive Commissioner of
Fantasy Football, mister Farrell Elliott. Coming up on tonight show,
we're going to talk about the Giants ground game after

(01:43):
week one, which bears receivers you want to deploy in
your lineups this week, and more before the twenty time
f FPC League champion Race Segger hops a board to
break down the Seahawks backfield, how to handle brock Foers
on Monday Night, and so much more. If you want
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(02:05):
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Thanks to our audio engineer and my best friend Bryce,
and of course our producer and mutual friend Rob Well.

(02:29):
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(02:51):
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Just because the season started doesn't mean we're not offering
anything new. We do have the Weekly Challenge back again
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nights right here on the FFPC YouTube channel. Want to
bring in the man, the myth, the legend right now,
the co host with the most and of course the

(03:56):
birthday boy at Jfarrell Elliott on AX, the Kentucky Fantasy
Football State Championship Commissioner, Pharaoh Elliott. Happy birthday, my friend.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Oh Balky, I'm so honored. What a wonderful, wonderful introduction
that was.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Thank you everyone that's reached out with my birthday. To
day has been has been quite a day.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
The chat room is buzzing. You got some happy birthday
wishes from Dom Jazzetti, from James Hicks obviously in there
as well, and then Tom's asking me to bust out
the Raiders chain early tonight. Well I was gonna wait,
but in your honor, don it right now. We'll get
the raiders chain on for it.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
No one in all writers.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
There you go by the way. I have to just
bear with me one second. I have to show you
what John Terry got me in Las Vegas. John Terry
obviously one of our favorites. Of course he uh, because
we're at Paris this year in Las Vegas, and I
meant to get a photo with him with this on,
and I didn't get a chance to. But he got

(04:56):
me a beret pharaoh a just like you would see
a national lampoons European vacation with my name on it.
How about that right there?

Speaker 2 (05:08):
I don't see anything humorous about that. I see that balky.
You know, the fringe foreign legion in the recruiting process could.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Not have arrived with a better match for you.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
I think this is this is fantastic. I'm trying to
fix it right now. But but yeah, he had it
and uh and gave it to me, and I meant
to get a photo with him with it on, but
I didn't get a chance to. So John, I'll have
to wear it next year and we'll get a photo
in front of that.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
That's wonderful. Obviously he didn't get me one because of
the length of my hair. He knew that they did
not have one big enough to handle that.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
The thing is, with hair like that, Pharaoh, you don't
want to cover that up anyway with So so we
have week one behind us, we are, we have week
two in front of us. Doc says, I think it's
perfect on you, Balky, he needs I couldn't even get
it on straight, but yeah it does. It's very reminiscent
of the National Lampoon's European vacation berets. So thank you, John,

(06:08):
Kudos to you, and kudos again. Okay, let's get into
it here tonight. Dallas Goddard officially ruled out by the Eagles.
He will not play in that big tilt against Kansas
City Chiefs. The guys taking over for him are Grant
Calcatara and Kylon Grantson neither one of these guys, I
would I would encourage you to start. Even in an
FFPC league. There are no teams on buy this week.

(06:31):
Even if you got hit with a kittle injury. I
think you can do better. Maybe you can't. Maybe they're
desperation plays. The reason I bring this up, Parrell is
is we are going to learn a lot about DeVonta
Smith and AJ Brown this week. We saw all throughout
the twenty twenty four season that there is this big
emphasis on Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley running the ball.
Quite frankly, they didn't have to throw the ball, and
Week one against the Dallas Cowboys, they didn't really throw

(06:53):
the ball then to AJ Brown or DeVonta Smith, you
know who. They threw it to Dallas Goddard. So if
Brown and Smith can't come through for you this week,
remember Brown was dealing with that hamstring injury throughout the preseason,
I'm gonna have serious questions about these guys going forward
because this is set up for them to have a
big week, and if they don't, I don't know, man,
I don't know what's going on in Philadelphia.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Oh, Bulky, you've opened up a can of worms that
could occupy the home show and we have an engaging
guest to come on with the show up. Okay, first
of all, about the tight end position here. If we
go back to pros versus shows, you will remember that
I took a lot of heat when I told everyone
to try to stay away from Goddard got it was
not a top tight end choice. Now that Goddard has

(07:37):
proven that his biggest disability is his lack of availability,
we now go to the backup tight end, a tight
end that has been there. Grant cal Kata has been
there now three years. So if we roll back ao'
clock to twenty twenty two, notwithstanding Smith and not with

(07:58):
standing Brown, because we know exactly what those guys are
going to do and they're going to be great given
their opportunities, Well we rolle back to clock. What kind
of tight end is this? This is a guy that
when he was coming out, as I recall, they talked
all about zach Ertz. This is the next coming of
zach Ertz. He is two forty so he's two forty
five coming out of school, so he lacked the strength

(08:21):
to handle the inline tight end position. And that's what
Granson will do here. But this is a player that
put together a five catch game last year for sixty
plush yards in another four catch game when he was
filling in for Goddard, and I think if you look
past this player, you're looking past the guy with probably
exceptional speed. At the tight end position a four to six.

(08:44):
He stands six foot four, but his wingspan's like six
to eight. He's like a Michael Jordan wings poster. The
problem was he was a bit of a body catcher
at SMU and held him back in the draft.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
But they've now worked with him.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
They taught him how to use his hands catch the
ball in the you know, with the coverag's pretty lank
bulke when we get down to tight ends. I sold
Juwan Johnson going for bids around two hundred dollars in
free agency this.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Weekend, higher than that, higher than that.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Kittle Goddard bowers some confusion about Ingram, although now I
think he's going to play. All I'm saying is that
I don't want our drafters to overlook cal Katara, who
they can probably get at a bargain price. And then
he goes out and gets five catches on a score,

(09:35):
and all of a sudden, it's a two to three
hundred dollars bid selection. So I like this player, and okay,
they're going to split time at tight ends. Well, when
the Calcatara is on the field, it's more of a
passing down the snaps that will go to Granson will
be more of the inline blocking down.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
So that's my spot on that tight end.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
I will say, and you bring up Howers and we'll
talk about him later. We'll say that Calcata is owned
in less than one percent of Big Gorilla and FFPC
main event teams leagues. How do I know that? Fantasymojo
dot Com at Fantasy Mojo and ex Darren Armani, the
godfather of the Prosers, is Joe's challenge. He also runs
Fantasy Mojo dot Com. Anytime we cite tournament ownership on

(10:18):
this show, it's through Fantasy Mojo, Bucky.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
If you like availability there, you go.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yes, exactly. Yeah, let's see what we got here from
the chat we had. We got Tom Smiths and go
get Michael Mayer. That'd be excellent for you Bowers players
out there. I put fifty bids in on Juwan Johnson
got two shares. That's our buddy Fantasy Sopranos, Steve g
chiming in on that.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
And that's from a guy that loves to spend money.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
That's true. Yes, it's a guy you.

Speaker 4 (10:46):
Can always count on to pick up the check. Right there.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Permar is back and he has a question, would you
start Brenton Strange over Mark Andrews this week, Pharaoh. Mark
Andrews is at home against the Browns. Brenton Strange is
at Cincinna. I don't think I would. I get it
if you want to. I don't think it's a bad play,
But if it comes down to it, I'm still gonna
play Andrews over Strange. I don't think likely he's playing

(11:09):
this week, so I'm gonna go with him.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Whoever you take, PERMR. I'm just glad to see you
back in the check. Yes, you've been wondering about you.
It's hard to put a player like Andrews on your bench,
but I'm going to possibly lean towards youth. Yeah, we've
we've seen, you know the Ravens, and both the Ravens

(11:34):
and Eagles are going to have to do differing things
to win than they both did in the first first game.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
So I want to get to another guy that was
going hot and heavy off the waiver wire this week, Pharaoh.
Patriots wide receiver Kasehawan Booty removed from the injury report
with a shoulder issue, and he is going to play
Week two against the Miami Dolphins. He was limited on Wednesday,
practiced in full on Thursday, practiced in full again today.
This is a third third year wide receiver who finished

(12:01):
among the top twenty five receivers in Week one this year,
carrying over kind of like a good ending to the
twenty twenty four season. Now, whether he's going to do
this on a weekly basis, I don't know, but that's
why I put in bids on him and I tried
to get him this week. This is a good week
to do it. Week two he gets the Miami Dolphins,
whose defense is awful, and quite frankly, the worst part

(12:24):
of that awful defense might be the secondary. So this
is a prime spot for Kayshawn Booty here. I think
if you look at what you want to do with
him this week as far as starting him or not,
hopefully you don't have to, but I think in a pinch,
this guy could end up putting up good numbers. Again.
I know the jury's kind of still out on I
was listening to the Draft Sharks podcast today and I

(12:46):
think it was Jared Smola and Shane. He's referencing Shane Haller,
Matt schoff Wassent referencing Shane Hallum and they were not
impressed with Booty in week one, but the numbers were
pretty good, Pharah. If you look at the raw numbers,
he put up good ones in week one and certainly
week two. It could continue and maybe past week two
as well.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
I wonder what they saw that didn't impress them. I
saw the player making contested catches on the sidelines. I
saw a very very physical player. I saw a player
getting off with the release and getting open very quickly
at a quarterback that seems to have a vibe and
a relationship with him.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
So there's nothing about Bote that I really don't like.
And everyone that.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Waukee how many minutes we've been in the show, thirteen minutes.
Pittman scored twenty two points this week or twenty points
this week. I just wanted to get that in there.
But if you have Pittman who has a matchup situation
this weekend in his game, you don't want to automatically
look at your frontline players and say that you might
not be able to improve your lineup. And if you

(13:54):
have a player like Butte going against what Walke just
said about the Miami defense, because everything he said is true, Uh,
there's a player and that that you should probably consider
getting in.

Speaker 4 (14:06):
Your line up. In other words, I might start him
over pit.

Speaker 5 (14:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
And Pittman's gonna get uh Patrick Sartan from from Denver
this week, so that's probably not ideal. Uh And and
that would make some sense that you would want to
get booty booty and excuse me, but now it's booty
according to John Hanson, going to ask them himself and
he's like, no, no, it's booty. Speaking of the New

(14:33):
England Patriots, Mike Reese, who has covered the Patriots for
ever for ESPN dot Com, believes that the snap distribution
could be changing this upcoming week. It's it's it's something
that you know, these beat writers can never come right
out and say. They have to imply it. They have
to kind of like dance around it a little bit.

(14:53):
But you would assume he means that Travon Henderson is
probably gonna be getting more snaps this week. Does that
mean more touches? I would think so. Patriots rushed for
only sixty yards in week one, and Mike Vrabel was
quoted in his presser this week, we have to evaluate
everything to make sure we're getting it right based on volume.
Who's playing who's getting the ball, who's trying to get
the ball, and obviously Henderson going up against that juicy

(15:16):
Miami Dolphin's defense. It was awful in week one. Ferrell,
I think based on how Henderson was moving up the
draft boards in KFFSC moving up the draft boards at
the FFPC, I don't think we need to tell people
this because if you have Henderson on your team, you
pretty much already gave yourself the green light to start him.
But now he's like coming up on like must start territory,

(15:38):
and this could be a massive Henderson week. Maybe could
me in the end of Ramandre Stevenson as the one
year one b He might turn into a handcuff after
week two. I don't like to be hyperbolic, but there's
an on zero chance of that happening.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Sixty Splint will continue with snaps boots, but Anderson is
going to get first and second down. Steve's going to
get the passing downs, but that doesn't mean Henderson can't
catch the ball. I like where this player's career is going,
and I like where this team is going, despite the

(16:12):
fact they lost to Hubalky in Week one.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
The Patriots, Yeah, the Las Vegas Raiders.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Thank you, sir. They did lose to the Raiders. Just
wanted everybody to know that otherwise.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
So, by the way, sixteen minutes into the show, we
have a Michael Pittman week one stat report and a
Raiders reference that they.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, you know, and we got a handsome guy wearing
a chain, wearing a beret and a chain.

Speaker 5 (16:35):
You know.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
It's it's fantastic. This is always that team. You can tell.
We've been off for two weeks. We're coming back strong.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Yes, well we're coming We're coming back slowly.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
But strong's coming back strong.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Okay, all right, fair enough, I'm with you.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
You're doing a great job.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Thank you so much. We have one other point I
want to get to before the twenty time FFPC League
champ Ray Sagan comes on. Andy Reid said that eat
you're worthy with the shoulder injury. Has a quote, has
a quote slim odds of playing against the Eagles on Sunday.
Nate Taylor had this report for ESPN dot com. Probably

(17:10):
and did he get listed as doubtful today? I think
he did. Reid says that Worthy's doing very well. He
did a little bit of teamwork today on Friday after
he got in a limited practice the day before. There's
a possibility that he could play Faraoh. This is goes
back to the whole thing. I'm rooting for him to
be inactive because I don't want to feel forced to

(17:32):
start him in what could be limited STAPs or maybe
a decoy role. I don't know. I'd rather have the
option of starting Hollywood Brown in my flex spot this week.
A guy who got sixteen counting sixteen targets last week
turn it into ninety nine receiving yards, ten catches. I'm
more rooting for Worthy to be inactive so I can

(17:53):
play Hollywood Brown. Problem is that's a four to twenty
five start. Try to help make us sense of this.
Make us make sense of this right now? Now, what
are we supposed to do? Are we playing the waiting
game with Worthy? Or are we just putting Hollywood Brown
in there and letting, you know, throwing caution into the win.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
You're putting Hollywood Brown and other players who are active
because you're not in BI weeks and you've got a
twenty man roster, and you've got good players.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
On your roster.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
So so you are saying that you are playing Brown here?

Speaker 4 (18:22):
Oh easy?

Speaker 1 (18:22):
Yeah, Well, I guess you know. The other thing too,
is it might be dependent upon what else you have
on your roster, Like if you can afford to wait
until four twenty five, if Worthy is active and you
could sub in somebody else instead of Brown, then then
for sure, going you think.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
Long, you think wrong, Bucky, Just go ahead.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
So there you go. That's the long and the short
of it. Pharaoh thinking short. I'm thinking long. But as
Pharrell said, paralysis by analysis, think long, think wrong. A
guy who never thinks wrong. Is this guy that we're
going to bring in right now, Ladies and gentlemen, winner
of twenty count them two zero f FPC League championships
over the course of his high stakes career. He's here
tonight to discuss his start in week one from the

(19:04):
f f PC main Event, the Big Grilla, and of
course the k f f f C Main Event as well.
You can connect with him on x at Ray Segrin.
Please welcome onto the program, mister Ray Sagrin. Ray, Welcome
in man. How are you YEA good to see.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
You guys man. How's it going.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
It's it's going good. It was great seeing you in Louisville.
Had had a blast drafting it well. I didn't have
a blast drafting against you there because he took some
of my players. But that's okay. It's it's always fun
sitting with you.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
But but we're wearing the best in fantasy that ladies
and gentlemen. There's a fair chance.

Speaker 5 (19:37):
That the the time fabric continuum, the matrix is going
to fold over in itself because we have had a
lot of bulky and feral nowt on here.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
Even we got double it's like the double twins now.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Shout out Fantasy Sopranos for those T shirts, which were
a huge hit in Las Vegas as well. The f
FPC players definitely scooping those up as well as.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
They wear any type of clothing and pull it off.
That's what makes you the verse. I look at that.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
Thank you, buddy, thank you, Thank you guys for having
me on. You know, it's great to be a season.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yes, it's it's so good to have you on. Obviously,
Ray and and anybody who knows you, anybody who knows
your past, you have led a very interesting life. Whatever
you want to share, please do whatever you don't want
to share, that's cool too. But for for the only
non fantasy football portion of the interview. Interview will lead
off with what you're doing for a living when you're

(20:35):
not crushing all these ff.

Speaker 4 (20:36):
Well, thank you for the crushing.

Speaker 5 (20:38):
Yeah, we're manifesting that for the season ahead.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
I appreciate that, bulky thank you.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
So Austin, Texas graduated University of Texas with a Radio
TV Film degree. I had a nice career in radio
through the nineties and uh and a little bit.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
Into the aughts. Uh, And then.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
I realized mostly allredive rock, did a little news talk
as well.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
Realized that we're kind of saw where radio was headed.

Speaker 5 (21:06):
So I got it on the side with the money,
So I started an advertising agency and I've been doing
that Wizard of Ads group we got we got ninety
people around the world now, so don't pretty good with that.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
And but my real passion is for filmmaking.

Speaker 5 (21:18):
So we had a we had a film world premiere
at Tribeca this year.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
We got another one launching in Nashville in a couple
of weeks. So enjoying the heck out of that. In
this season of.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
My life, what are you making films about? Ray?

Speaker 4 (21:33):
So all kinds to what you got?

Speaker 1 (21:36):
So you are documentaries. Okay, we do.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
We do documentaries and features.

Speaker 5 (21:41):
So the film at Tribeca was independent comedy called Leads,
and the documentary that we're world premiering in Nashville is
about an organization called Creative Vets, which is an organization
of creative types that help veterans process their trauma through arts.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
Okay, very cool.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
Very cool.

Speaker 5 (22:03):
Richard the founder that has a great story. He was
in Fallujah is his best friend got killed, so and
he was brain damaged. So he came home and he
actually became an artist and that's that helped him process
his trauma.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
So it's just amazing work. Creative Vets will take Creative
Vets of.

Speaker 5 (22:19):
E T veterans, make it one word dot org and
go give them some money because it's a great organization.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
Thank you for that, right, It's a glorious career. Bulky,
the whole show. This, this could be the whole show.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
That's not funny.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
You're outstanding in fantasy football. I want to thank you
for returning to the k f f C this year.
I also want to thank you for helping us facilitate
a few leagues when you were not on schedule to play,
and you know, our boy.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
Uh uh, Well, I backed into that hot backed into
the big payback auction.

Speaker 4 (22:52):
Man, there's some killers in that one. Well, you know
they'll take your skin and sell it back to you.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Man, it's right, but you know, yeah, you've got as
a legitimate shot as anyone to come in and take that.
And by the way, Colin Hoffman just checked in a
apple Tonian their bulky with you, and Colin is our
week one main.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
Event leader in Kentucky. Right.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Well, Aaron Rodgers went out through for four touchdowns this weekend.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
I don't think anyone saw it come in. I never
saw old Aaron Rodgers drafted in any of our drafts.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
But let's don't focus on the rest of the roster
there in Pittsburgh. The beneficiary of his large s was
one Calvin Austin. What got you in business with Calvin Austin?
And did you see a natural connection between the aged
quarterback and the youthful receiver?

Speaker 4 (23:48):
So a little of both.

Speaker 5 (23:49):
But I got into Calvin Austin business back in my
dynasty leagues when I saw how good the Steelers scouts
were at getting those The tenth or eighteenth receiver in
the draft, a Deontay Johnson and of course Pickings, you know,
so gobbled up some shares early on, and obviously he

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was injured his rookie year, and then you know when
I didn't think Rogers was going to blow up this quick.
But you know, when he came in, the narrative I
heard was DK was going to be the DeVante Adams
and that may still shake out to be the case.
But as a guy who already had a little bit
of emotional rooting interest for Calvin Austen, I could see

(24:33):
him this is before the season, kind of having a
Randall Cobb kind of season potentially, So you know, maybe
that's his ceiling, which would be a hell of a ceiling.
You know, ninety grabs, maybe twelve hundred yards, double digit touchdowns,
that's what I've I got as many shares as I've got,
That's what I'm rooting for, you know. But maybe the floor,
I think everybody, I think all the projectors had him

(24:55):
way too low. I'm looking at thirty five catches for
five hundred yards on and I mean he's to this start,
I think we're looking like the minimum. I think the
floor would be like a Mooney type season from last year.
Seventy catches, sixty seventy catches nine hundred yards and.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Sixty seventy catches where you took him. That'll win some games,
isn't that right?

Speaker 1 (25:14):
Bote? Yeah, I would say so and so, and like listen,
we don't want to overrate it. It was it was
one game. Obviously, Rogers was on fire this past week.
But I will say that in this game where the
Steelers ended up notching thirty four points, again what I
what I thought was gonna be a pretty stout Jets defense.

(25:35):
You had Pat Fryar move held under thirty receiving yards,
John hu Smith held under twenty receiving yards. I was
of the opinion that those were the two guys that
were going to be sharing and along with Jalen Warren
sharing the number two pass catcher role for Pittsburgh this year.
I didn't think Calvin Austin was gonna get that involved.
And yet what does he do in one week seventy
yards and he gets into the end zone. And if

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that he doesn't have to do that every week to
hit what you're talking about with the Mooney season, if
he continues down this road, at least, you know, maybe
meandering off the road just a little bit here and there.
I think that that is well within the cards this
season for Calvin.

Speaker 5 (26:09):
Yeah, and if you're you're rocking him as a flex
hopefully hopefully you're not counting on it be your one
or through two, you know, but for depth and come
the bye.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
Weeks, you know he can win you some games.

Speaker 5 (26:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
And the other guy that I thought was surprising in
this game too with how much he was involved. Eleven
carries for Jalen Warren, one carry for Caleb Johnson for
negative two yards, and then Ainwell got seven carries. Now
granted he only got nineteen yards out of it, he
did see four targets. He catches three of them as well.
This is not a massive stat line by any stretch

(26:41):
of the imagination, but it's a running back and we're
always running at hungary and high stakes chances. Ray, is
that sort of your reasoning on why you want to
make sure Emil got on your squad.

Speaker 5 (26:51):
So it starts for me with that Arthur Smith offense,
and it's gonna be a little bit unpredictable, My beloved
Bjeon Robson. You know that one year, you know, al
Jier had to vulture, a lot of the carries and
all that. So coming in this year, there's always a
little bit of an X factor.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
I think.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
I think that there's a lot of that going around
the league, where three or four weeks from now, I
think a lot of we'll settle in and will have
a better sense of of what.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
Is reliable on some of this. But at the.

Speaker 5 (27:23):
Price, you know, I've got plenty of leagues where I
need that kind of lottery ticket at running back, you know,
and for him, And that was even before you know,
you saw the the touches come down the way they
did in that in that first week.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
I like that assessment. You know.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Last night, Thursday night football rolled around, I was in
heaven the Green Bay Packers and I get a Packer.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
Question because Balky is obviously you know them, but we
know when when we Bulky have to recuse himself from.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
Asking not doing any more of this. You know, he
throws me the Packers question. He wears the Raiders chain.
So here's but Jordan Love, who I aptly started in
a couple of games. But I looked at the boys
in the desert. They had him at two hundred and
forty passing yards two hundred and forty passing yards was

(28:19):
their number. He eclipsed that, and he did it impressively
with some of his receiver corps herting. And we look
back ray often too, the pros versus Joe's and the
guests that are coming in, and they want to plant
their flag on certain players. I'm not necessarily a flag planter,
but there's no player with more flags sticking out of

(28:41):
him than Packers tight end Craft And what a great
contribution he made to the Jordan Love passing game. So,
with all of this talent around Jordan Love and the
fact that so much of it at the wide receiver
position looks to me to be interchangeable, whoever they put
out there seems to be able to deliver. What what's

(29:03):
your thought about Jordan Love scoring big Fantasy points through
the rest of the year.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
Some of my favorite builds are when I waited, like
waited painfully long on quarterback and so I've got a
few builds where I've got some permutation of Love with.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
Herbert and Lawrence and C. J.

Speaker 5 (29:26):
Stroud, who I think is going to have a nice
bounce back here once the once the Texans settle in,
I could be a homer on that it's entirely possible.
But you know, when it comes to Love, I agree
with you on the receiver, boy Don Tavian uh uh
looked like he was going to step up. And again,
you know, as a Longhorn Homer, the golden boy is
going to arrive.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
He's going to get it done. He's going to have
a great season. And I think that that Jaden Reid
being out, although I understand he could come back this year.
You know, if that gives Matthew Golden the chance that
up a little bit. He's definitely got the skills. I
got to witness that first hand here at college. So
I'm very bullish on Jordan Love.

Speaker 5 (30:08):
And I would go so far as I am I
was going to make bold predictions here on a happy hour,
I will make it make a bold prediction that the
FFPC main event winner this year will be a quarterback
by committee involving some of those quarterbacks that I just mentioned.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
I was it's weird ray because I'm normally in that camp.
And I would say within the last couple of years,
I did go after some of the elite guys early.
In fact, this year I think I took Hurts early
in one, in Burrow early in one. But then I
did wait and you use the modifier uncomfortable amount of time,
and it was uncomfortable for me too. But I did

(30:50):
end up drafting a lot of these late guys. You
know you mentioned Trevor Lawrence. I obviously love a party.
I think you can lump in there a little bit
as well. In fact, I have Rock Purty to thank
in a lot of Kentucky leagues this week, guys, because
of his injury, I was forced to play Love on
Thursday night. I'm very thankful for that.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
Okay, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
So sometimes it works out that way. You just you
just never know. Sure, my son is in his second
year of playing fantasy football. He is in a twelve league.
You only have to start two receivers. Otherwise it's a
normal standard starting lineup with flexes and so on and
so forth. We lost George Kittle this week, guys, but
thankfully there are some tight ends out there. You think

(31:29):
about the tight ends that got picked up this week
in the FFPC. You know, Harold Fannin in some leagues,
Juwan Johnson obviously in a bunch, but we are blessed
with Hunter Henry out on the waiver wire here and
Ray mill your brain on this. Should he be in
starting lineups? Most starting lineups in the FFPC this weekend
when they travel down to Miami to take on that Dolphins.

Speaker 5 (31:51):
So you the way he asked the question to say most,
I don't think so, because he's going to be outside
the top twelve. I think I mean for I mean,
I'm a I'm a tight end heavy guy in f
like my best dynasty teams perennially are where I've got
two premium tight ends.

Speaker 4 (32:12):
Right.

Speaker 5 (32:12):
So, so I was picking up a lot of Tyler
Warren in the rookie drafts, right so I own a
lot of Hunter Henry. But I don't think I'm going
to be starting him much this week. There will be
a stray league where he might migrate up to the
second flex, okay, but it won't be many that I'll

(32:35):
be starting. I mean, I love that he seems to
be Made's safety valve. We saw a lot of that
last year. I think that the receiver course is going
to take a minute to to shake itself out. I
think Stefan Diggs still has has is gonna make his
presence known a little bit Kayshawn Boody.

Speaker 4 (32:57):
I don't I don't know. Is that a is that
a fluke? Is that? Was that a matchup thing? Or
is that the Is that the new thing? I don't know.

Speaker 5 (33:05):
God, but as far as probably not most lineups this week,
but uh, but yeah, he's Uh. I'm a truther and
I've got plenty of it for for bye weeks and
injuries for sure.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Deep in the heart of Texas, Ray, you might be
in position to answer this great question. And this is
you know, our producer Bryce Peppers. These things in here
just to confuse me because he's Walky's best friend and
he's always giving me some stuff that will cause me trouble.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
Missing the eyes of Texas right quick or yellow Rose
is my personal favorite. The stars at at night are
big and bright deep in the heart, you.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
Know, is this what they sing at ut games?

Speaker 5 (33:49):
Ray? We know that was that was a little bit.
That was just a goofy, little Peg. It's really the
eyes of Texas.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
We're getting goofy with question number six, which may be
a goofy question. I don't care how fantasy players score points.
It's just one of the score points. Javonte Williams scored
points for me this weekend in several leagues. I believe
he keeps the job. I believe he continues to score points.
And I believe the young player Jaden Blue, when he

(34:18):
both comes available, does make a contribution, but not to
the extent of making Williams a non validated fantasy football player.
Your thoughts on the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Backfield and can you get Dak going?

Speaker 5 (34:36):
For God's sake, that's gonna have a good enough year
just on volume, I think. So.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
It's tough to be a recovering Cowboys fan these days.
It's just tough. It's just tough. But from a purely
objective fantasy standpoint, and also a.

Speaker 5 (34:55):
Guy who you know, got to watch Jay Blue at Texas,
I concur with your assessment that it's really probably more
of a.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
Passing down gadget.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
Maybe he's got a role to play in returns and
when he when he breaks one open, and with the
kickoff rules this year, you know I could see that
happening sooner. I did not understand the healthy scratch. I
didn't didn't get that this week, but there was a
little bit of that going around. And then when uh,

(35:35):
when you saw what shot he said in in the
in the post.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
Game, or I wasn't the postgame press conference.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
It was during the week.

Speaker 4 (35:42):
Uh, he made it. You know, one of those things
where it's like Jayden's still got some work to do. Yeah,
the whole camp.

Speaker 5 (35:50):
Yeah, I'm not entirely bullish on the Cowboys backfield in
any shape, form or fashion. I mean, I mean, it
was nice to see Gavante fall forward into the end
zone a couple of times against an Eagles defense that
was down a very notable man. I don't I don't

(36:12):
think we're on the cusp of a ground and pound
situation in Dallas. So I'm really I like in my
Dynasty leagues, I did a double dip where I would
draft one and then go acquire the other. In some
cases draft both. Don't have much of either one of
them in my in my insane in the main teams

(36:34):
or in the big Gorilla got a.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Couple of questions from YouTube. The number one, I'm gonna
go back up to it and sim and put it
on the screen here. I think it was Rob Phillips
had this. Yeah, he wants to know what do you
guys think about noah fense outlook? He picked him up
in a couple of leagues. Fan was another guy that
ended up getting into the end zone week one with
his new team. By the way, as well, it's tight
end premium race. We sort of have to talk about it,

(36:59):
and I will say that it was kind of a
quiet week for the Bengals overall, like the heavy hitters
and Chases, the Higgins, you know, so on and so forth.
But what do you do with Noah Fan? What did
you do with Noah Fan in your leagues? Did he
make it on any of your rosters?

Speaker 4 (37:11):
No, I don't.

Speaker 5 (37:12):
I don't own very much of him. Like I say,
I put a premium on tight End in Kentucky, but
especially in the FFPC, So.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
I don't own a lot of fans, and.

Speaker 5 (37:26):
I didn't go after a lot of him.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
Just like if you look back last year at Gasiki.

Speaker 5 (37:34):
And when you know gazikis, who's coming to mind for
me with the Bengals, where you know he would have
a couple of those eight for seventy eight and a
touchdown games, but good luck figuring out one in three,
one and four.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
Which ones it's gonna be right? So ideally I'm looking.

Speaker 5 (37:53):
For for tight ends on my bills as much as
possible where there's.

Speaker 4 (37:59):
A little more reliable volume. I guess reliable volume from
rookie Harold fan.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
And there was a commentary earlier about acquiring a Harold
fan and if you drafted with the old Cleveland Browns
fan John Anderson out in Las Vegas or in Kentucky.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
You're not gonna have Fannin on the waiver wire.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
I think he is on every one of John's teams,
and what validet.

Speaker 5 (38:25):
I think he was in my I think he was
in my in my my Bourbon turn yeah, on Sunday morning,
and he.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
Was going yeah, yeah, he was going off about him
and Dela Sampson both.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Yes, he loves I do want to if we can
shift it from Cleveland, I want to go to Philadelphia here.
Jimmy Williams, speaking of Kentucky, posted this he wants to
get our opinions on the Eagles acquiring Taint Bigsby for
two picks, a fifth and a sixth rounder just to
be a special teamer, which was reported in in a
lot of spots, I should say a lot, but several
spots will Shipley the they say he's got I think

(39:01):
it was an oblique or something or like a strained muscle,
but there are a lot of rumors that he's actually
dealing with a fractured rib there as well. Ray, I'll
let you have the floor on this one. I'll just
say I don't think Howie Roseman, as good as he
is at coming out ahead in these trades, he doesn't
strike me as the GM that trades a fifth and
a sixth round pick strictly for special team's depth. I

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think Bigsby they want him to have a role there.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 5 (39:27):
I mean, man, that roster is loaded for sure, and
you know, obviously is there a role with a healthy Saquon.
So if I think for me, I don't think I
have him on any of my Gorilla's or main event teams.

(39:49):
I don't think I do have him on some dynasty teams.
And that's sort of that's sort of how I viewed
that trade was kind of wait and see, I guess,
But as far as I wouldn't act be going to
acquire him at this point unless it's just a league
where I, you know, like I said, I've got some
leagues where I need some lottery tickets.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Are running back.

Speaker 5 (40:09):
So so then if that's what your team calls for, Jimmy,
then go for it.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
Good.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
As a guy who saw aj Dillon up close in
Green Bay for several years, I can't imagine that he
is the He's the plan b If Barkley goes down
like Bigsby behind that offensive line, I think is even
though Bigsby sort of like a between the tackles banger
as well, I think that that he'd be the guy
I'd be looking for. So yeah, maybe injury away type

(40:36):
guy is the role that he's fulfilling in Philly. But
while Barkley's healthy, it's your point, Ray probably not gonna
get on the field a whole lot in a fantasy
meaningful sense, I think.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
I think that's right.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
And the question I would want to ask is why
did the team deal Bigsby?

Speaker 4 (40:51):
Not why did they acquire?

Speaker 1 (40:52):
Why are they deal I'll tell you why. I think
they love the two guys they drafted this year, and
toot and and Allen and Eat the end was the
workhorse in Week one, I think it was Liam Cohen
said like, look, it's going to be difficult for us
to keep more running backs on this team, and it
turned out it was too difficult and that's why they
made the trade before the season started.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
General manager. As the general manager once why did you
trade that guy?

Speaker 4 (41:17):
And he said, Pharaoh, I got tired of looking at it.
And I always thought that let's got under go in
the locker room, I had to look at him. I
just got tired of it.

Speaker 5 (41:29):
I don't think we can underestimate, you know, with what
with what they did going to get Travis Hunter, right
and now we see he's going to be mostly offensive
player for now anyway, right to me, the sort of
the leveling factor they're in that backfield is the familiarity

(41:52):
going back to Clemson, and I think just as long
as uh, you know, he can get it done on
the field, then I think that they'll they'll leave at
t n be the lead dog and let it be
a workhorse.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
I mean, at least for the first half of the season.
I would think that would be the case too. Now
that could change, but I'm with you as of right now. Ray,
speaking of underestimation, did that FPC players underestimate or at
least under rate DeAndre Swift this year? A guy who
was not going in the top twenty running backs, and
yet he is the only Chicago Bears running back in

(42:29):
Week one to get a carry. He also sees five
targets in this game. He ends up getting sixty five
yards total three receptions, Underwhelming stats. Rochewan Johnson, I know
was down and it looks like he might be up
for the Lions game this weekend. And obviously Ben Johnson
said he wants to get Kyle him the nun guy
more involved. Sometimes when coaches say that, it's just something

(42:50):
to say, So I'll bring that up. That could be
like a red herring here as well. But DeAndre swift
Man he got everything he could handle on a Bears
offense that a lot of people were high on.

Speaker 5 (43:00):
Yeah, you know the Ben Johnson effect. You know, I
I drafted a ton of him, uh coming in because
it felt like a deal whether I was uh.

Speaker 4 (43:11):
In a lot of cases, he is my r B
two and uh and I feel real good about that. Uh.

Speaker 5 (43:20):
You know, as we get to talk about every long
horn running back in the league, if we can hit,
if we could somehow get me to Carolina, talk about
Jonathan Brooks before we get out of here, I'll hit
for the cycle. But Roshan Johnson, Okay, lifetime longhorn Roshan Johnson. Uh,
I feel like if he gets back and gets healthy,
they could really replicate. I forget what the cute little

(43:44):
say and they have up in in uh Detroit.

Speaker 4 (43:47):
But he could be the the Montgomery, the David Montgomery role.
He could be the pounder and and Swift could be
uh Swift, the swift they you very much there. He'll
be the lightning in that under the yeah swift light Okay,
I'm not saying that.

Speaker 5 (44:08):
You know, uh, he may or may not be able
to rise that same level.

Speaker 4 (44:12):
But but but I'm out of Georgia. He had had
the gifts and now maybe he's got the system.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
You've got to come with it because it's week two
and we are expecting nothing but running back, expertise and
a crystal ball from you. I mean, once again, once again,
Bryce continued, I mean these these okay, now, Seattle, I
want Walker to be the guy. I want Charonna to

(44:37):
play a support role. Am I gonna get what I want?

Speaker 5 (44:41):
It doesn't look like it does. It looks like it
looks like they flipped rolls. The thing that was the
most surprising there. I mean, so the carries, the touches,
the snaps, the touchdown. The thing that blew my mind
was that Walker was the guy in the passing game.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
Yeah exactly, yes, which we know he can do. But
Sharvion A has demonstrated more of a of a talent
for for for doing more with his catches than Walker.
But to your point, three catches four yards for Kenneth Walker,
he did see that. It was three of his targets.
He caught all of them, and Charboney did not see
a target. He did get twelve carries, so he out

(45:18):
carried him twelve to ten and obviously forty seven yards
on the ground for Sharboney just twenty for Walker.

Speaker 4 (45:23):
Yeah, but they were harder eared yards in the passing game, b.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Parao, they counted they Dom Guzzetti knows there's a music
man on the show.

Speaker 4 (45:31):
He is on fire tonight. Look what Dom's throwing.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
What domones there can coming? Yeah, absolutely no. But I'll
say this and JJ Zecherson was talking about this on
his podcast earlier this week. He's like, uh, he's he's not.
He doesn't believe sharbon A is ahead of Walker right now.
But guys, when when we looked at how how where
these guys started off at f FPC drafts at the

(45:55):
start of drafting season or even in the middle where
Walker was you know, third fourth round and Sharbona wasn't
going to like the ninth or tenth. Ye you look
at it how it ended up towards the end. I'm
bringing it up right now, just so I'm not misquoting myself,
but the last two days of drafting in the FFPC
main event, which was you know, the opening weekend or whatever,
Charbony got up to the seventh round and Kenneth Walker,

(46:15):
Kenneth Walker actually stayed mostly in the third round. He
didn't fall to the fourth and a couple of them,
and that that was only like four rounds of separation
as opposed to like six or seven what it was
a couple of months ago. So people were already getting
on the sharbon A bandwagon and.

Speaker 4 (46:28):
Makes a great makes a great commentary, guys.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
Yeah, he's talking about Walker being dinged up in training camp,
thinking that it could be worse than it was actually
led on by Seattle. There's certainly a possibility for that
as well. You know, we've seen guys that were a
little you know, and think about Stefan Diggs and how
fast he started off in training camp. Then he sort
of started tailing off and he didn't do much in

(46:52):
week one. AJ Brown, we already talked about a guy
who was dinged up throughout training camp and he didn't
do much week one. So it's it's one of those things.
If we don't know, all we can do is follow
the trends at this point, and I think the trend
we're seeing right now that this is much closer to
a time share than I think anybody who drafted Kenneth
Walker want wants to admit or believe.

Speaker 5 (47:10):
Sure, and that makes sharbon Ay the great value of
the draft of that backfield because of where you got
him right, so you get comparable production four or five
rounds later. I didn't draft any Kenneth Walker. I have
a fair amount of Sharbonna, So I'm feeling pretty good
about that for sure. And I've got I've got the
handcuff in so many dynasties, which is really frustrating.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
Now.

Speaker 5 (47:33):
Well, in the dynasty, I want I want a pharaoh
once too. I want one of the two of them
to be the.

Speaker 4 (47:39):
Bell cow right, But I don't think we're gonna.

Speaker 1 (47:41):
Get that firm well, unless there's an injury, because if
there's an injury to either one of them, then all
of a sudden, the other ones looking really, really good.
I don't We were talking about this on the Insider
Access show last night with George and I can't remember
his last name, the third or four stringer for Seattle,
and then I brought up Damian Martinez, the sixth round
pick that they had there this year. These guys are

(48:02):
light years as far as talent behind the behind Walker
and Charbonney. So whoever gets hurt the other one is
gonna get all he can handle at the table for sure.
Ray C in the chat right now in YouTube, Whop Sorry,
Dak Prescott or Justin Fields? This week? Do you think
Fields could duplicate last week's performance? Ray, I'll let you
answer this first. I'll just say this, I'm playing Fields

(48:24):
over Prescott. Do I think he could duplicate what he
did last week? Yes, I think it's possible. I don't
think it's likely, given that I believe Fields had his
best game as a pro last week. That's tough to
do that two weeks in a row.

Speaker 5 (48:34):
Ray, Yeah, Dak's against the Giants this week, right, and
I'm going Dak on this one. Yeah, I think we're
gonna We're gonna see the full I think I think
Dak's gonna unleash it.

Speaker 4 (48:49):
I think he could be a three or four touchdown game.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
Prescott at home against the Giants.

Speaker 4 (48:54):
Two.

Speaker 1 (48:54):
As you mentioned, Fields is at home against the Bills. Farrell,
do you have a dog in this fight between Fields
and Prescott?

Speaker 4 (49:00):
Ram playing for Dallas, Yes, I think.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Okay, there you go and there you go. Listen George Hulani,
thank you, Jimmy. Then, yes, that was the other Seattle
running back I couldn't remember. I do remember these emails.
I want to read them to you. Ray, Joe and Carlsbad,
California leads us off. How do I handle brock Bauers
properly on Monday night this week? Thank you so much, Joe.

(49:25):
We appreciate the email. Bowers officially not seen at practice
again today. It is a Monday night game, so technically
today was the Thursday practice and tomorrow will be the
Friday practice as it were. When it comes to Bowers,
I have one dynasty league, and I hope nobody's in
that league is watching this right now. Where Bowers is
my only tight end, and I did put in some

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minor bids for both Tyler Conklin and oh who's the
other guy on Disley from from the Chargers. Remember we
get to Monday night games this week. Kate Atton was
going out there in some of my kay leagues. It's
not a KFF dynasty, so Otton was already taken. But
you have essentially four teams depicted from Michael merrimanbe out

(50:08):
there as well. But Ray, if you have Bowers as
your only tight end, you can't take that zero. What
are you doing? What would you suggest people to do?
Or if you have Bowers on a team as your
only tight end, what are you doing?

Speaker 5 (50:19):
Yes, so you want to go hunting downs because you've
got three other options. You're looking for which of those
other tight ends might be available in your league for starters, right?
And if not, you have the unfortunate task of a
bird in the hand or waiting to see right. That's
always the toughest thing to do, right is potentially take
the goose egg on Monday right. So, as much as

(50:41):
I hate to say, if it's a if it's a
top ten or twelve option, I may actually take the
safety of a healthy starter on Sunday and bench Bowers
is just crazy as that sounds, that's generally what I
will do.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
You teased it beautifully. You said another day of practice,
and that is correct. And if he see the practice
field tomorrow, he'll play. They've talked about him playing all week.
And you know Bowers doesn't need to kind of practice
that the writers of practicing.

Speaker 1 (51:14):
Well, Bowers is also himself is and like I normally
hate taking injury advice from the player itself because they
tend to overestimate.

Speaker 4 (51:20):
Oh sure they are.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
And Bowers himself is saying, yeah, we'll see, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
No, you don't, Calcutaria, go back to fifty minutes ago.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
The other thing, I'll mention to it. And he I
didn't look at ownership. In fact, I'm gonna look at
ownership right now as far as how this guy goes.
But the Buccaneers are playing. They are playing uh the
uh Houston era, Yeah, Houston, Texas on Monday night. So
if you look at and why can I not find
my ownership tab here? Dalton Schultz right now is owned

(51:57):
in about half of the of the Big Gorilla and
Main Event leagues about fifty ownership, so he might be
out there as well. And you could pick him up.
Oton is probably taken in pretty much all those leagues.
But I look at Disney and Conkland too, and then
that gives you the option to still play the Super
and Ova Bowers, whereas if you play you know, Calcat

(52:18):
any of these other guys going on Sunday, you take
that option away from you Monday night. Maybe ends up
being the right decision, but I want to I want
to keep I want to keep that option open as
long as I can if I have Bowers.

Speaker 5 (52:29):
You know, Conklin Conklin is is a is a neat,
sneaky sort of play right there, because he's available last week.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
Yeah, well didn't I thought? Didn't Disleey have a big
play in that game too? Or am I am I
misremembering this?

Speaker 4 (52:44):
Core are a.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
Lot of things you were doing, baky okay? Yeah, yeah,
copy a busy man.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
Conklind two for fifty on two targets. Disney had one
catch on one target for eighteen yards. That was a
good due by the way. Conklind, for what it's worth,
also at a carry for two yards in that game too. Whatever.
One more email here for you, Ray. This is from
Ron and Bladenboro, North Carolina. What's upraided? Does the Jaden
Reid injury make guys like Matthew Golden, Romeo Dobbs, and

(53:13):
Dantavian Wicks more startable? That is Ron and Bladen Barrow,
Bladen Borough, excuse me, North Carolina. This is interesting because
I think I think ray a lot of us stay
away from the packers pass catchers because you just never
know what that box of chocolates it's going to be
on a week to week basis. But now that you
take read out of the equation, are you liking on

(53:33):
of these other packers wide receivers starting they play Cleveland
next week?

Speaker 4 (53:38):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 5 (53:38):
So Dobbs for sure, for sure, Golden, I think I
will be rolling the bones on Golden for sure. And
I already looked and Dantavian Wicks is available everywhere, and
I'm definitely going to babble up some Dantavian Wicks where
I need him on the teams that I need him.
You know, that's always That's always the thing, you know,

(54:02):
some of the other you know, lottery tickets we talked
about earlier. It always comes down to whatever particular bill is.
And to me, that's the fun of having multiple teams,
not only in the tournaments but in Dynasty as well.
Is you know, and playing different formats, whether it's uh,

(54:22):
you know, the the try flex and doing some super flex,
love love doing that auction in Kentucky, and you know,
just just being able to build different teams different ways.

Speaker 4 (54:34):
That's probably my favorite part of really getting the hang
of this high stakes thing.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
The I will say this in regards to the Packers receivers.
Wix did get four for forty four that game, but
like three of them were right away. I think on
that first thy were two or three of them on
that first drive when or when was still out there.
And Matthew Goldland two targets, no catches. I know a
lot of people blame the Jordan Love throw on the
one to the end zone. So there's that. He did

(55:04):
get two carries for fifteen yards and Dobbs three for
twenty eight. He did get in the end zone as well,
But a lot of these pat these catches were early.
So it's like once they once Reid got hurt and
the Packers went up by two touchdowns, you saw a
lot of Josh Jacobs, you saw Savian Williams, Matthew Golden,
each getting multiple carries in this game. I don't know
if we know it's it's it's Ray. It's kind of

(55:24):
like what you said, like you kind of got to
go by instinct on this Dobbs. It makes perfect sense
that Dobbs would be targeted more. It makes perfect sense
that Dontavian, which would be targeted more. Is the Packers'
offense gonna do that? Who the heck knows? Maybe Tucker
Craft and Luke Musgrave combined for like fifteen targets, fifteen targets.
Anything's possible with this offense going on.

Speaker 4 (55:44):
I would love to see that.

Speaker 5 (55:45):
I would love, love, love to see Musk because Musgrave
was was the jam until Tucker came along and blew up.
And uh, you know, if you go back to some
of those Patriots teams that had.

Speaker 4 (55:59):
Had to dropping.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
Yeah, the Packers in the late nineties had Mark Schimura
and Keith Jackson and when they.

Speaker 4 (56:07):
Want to the president president.

Speaker 1 (56:10):
Absolutely there's precedent. There's also precedent for this final question
that Farrell is going to ask you something we ask.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
It is with Ray. I don't know how to ask
this question, but.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
Music, who are you putting on center stage as your
main act for this year's a musician no one may
have heard of, or a guy that that no one
may believe in like you do. And who are you
kicking out of the band? That's how I want to

(56:45):
ask nice.

Speaker 4 (56:46):
Okay, so are you asking me about actual music? This
is a football question.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Musical analogies front center with the microphone in the spotlight
and the guy that you would pull over with on
the bus take a break and the bus would leave
him there.

Speaker 5 (57:04):
Okay, So in in in tight End Premium, I think uh,
for me, uh, Tyler Warren is the guy that was
drafted in such a great position and I think is
going to yield such rewards and be consistent.

Speaker 4 (57:25):
And we're just getting started.

Speaker 5 (57:26):
So that's probably, uh, that's probably my one guy I'm
hottest on. I'm also hot on Travon Henderson, another rookie
that I think is gonna have.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
Some guys are doing so great. You wish you were
still drafting, don't you. I do, I really do.

Speaker 5 (57:46):
I wish we were all still in Kentucky. Actually, I
really think Travion Henderson could could have a Jamier Gibbs
like season if that would be the ceiling. Obviously it
was not much higher than it could be, but I
think that there's a real chance that he becomes the
focal point of that offense.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
To your point, Uh, the Colts were led in targets
last week by Tyler Warren. He gets nine of them,
Pittman gets eight, and nobody else had more than three.
Warren cashed in on seven of those targets for receptions
for seventy six yards, so by looking good and it
was a great.

Speaker 4 (58:26):
Value where you were able to get Pittman. You know, Yeah,
Pittman is the motto of the show.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
And you know, if it wasn't for certain you could
you could play Pittman over with Jamar Chase and those
single digit numbers.

Speaker 4 (58:40):
And I mean, god, funky, can you believe single digit? First?
What is going on?

Speaker 1 (58:46):
I'll say this right now. If it wasn't for Farrell
Elliott on this program, Michael Pittman would have been like
a fourteenth round pick.

Speaker 4 (58:54):
Who's your guy?

Speaker 2 (58:55):
I know you hate going negative, but.

Speaker 4 (59:01):
So the Dolphins are just a hot mess. They're just
a mess, right.

Speaker 5 (59:05):
And so I I have a chan in some dynasties
and I drafted him in a single, big guerrilla draft
and then Tyreek I don't know what's going on there,
So those are those.

Speaker 4 (59:23):
Are second round Tyreek.

Speaker 5 (59:25):
As I towards the as it went on, he was
slipping into the third round as I recall, But yeah,
I'm I'm, I'm I don't want to play any any Dolphins.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
I'm with you, Tyreek Kill never never ever consideration. And
you know, uh, mister Hoyt checks in says Pittman will
go too for twelve. We've already discussed early on before
Scott joined the show, and we would be playing other
players in front of Pitman this weekend because we have
that opportunity.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
The only person that is not as Farrell Elliott, who
is contractually obligated to start Michael Pittman in every league
that he plays in. That's just what it is. Ray.
Final question, I'm just sure the final question. I know
Pharol normally asked it. I want to flip it back
to music. Of all the stars that you have interviewed
over the years, all the bands, do you have a
favorite one? Do you have one that sticks out to

(01:00:14):
you as like Man that was so much fun?

Speaker 5 (01:00:21):
Yeah, well there's a bunch so hmm. So I'll tell
you the big names like Maynard from Tool or James
Hetfield were actually disappointed. It's hard to meet your heroes
when that big. I will tell you that the band
Sublime was recording their much ballyhooed album in Austin, Texas.

(01:00:44):
But Paul Leary from The Butthole Surfers when my music
I was doing a Sunday night radio show where I
could do whatever I want, is kind of a free
form new music show, and my music writ calls said Sublime,
they got that song date Rape, and they're in town
record and they won't come hang out on the radio.

Speaker 4 (01:00:59):
Will you let them come up? And uh, I said yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:01:02):
So they came in and you know, those guys like
to partakes, so the studio got foggy. But the reason
why that one stands out, guys, is because obviously Bradley
died before the album came out, and Sublime became a
whole cultural phenomenon, and.

Speaker 4 (01:01:20):
Not many people got to interview them on the radio.

Speaker 5 (01:01:22):
I mean, the La guys, you know K Rock and
ninety one X in San Diego Live one oh five.
I mean, they were a California phenomenon, but it wasn't
until they came to Austin, to record that album and
then Bradley unfortunately died that the album sold millions and
mimes and they become a whole thing. So so I
got to interview Bradley from Sublime.

Speaker 4 (01:01:41):
A very cool, very cool did you see the studio
got Fozzy? What did you say, Foggy? I had to
do this, really, it's really.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
I will I will say this and we'll leave you
with this. People can connect with you on X at
Race Sager, give the give the website once again for
the veterans.

Speaker 5 (01:02:11):
Oh for creative ets. Yeah, and better to find me
on Instagram or Facebook. To be honest with you, I'm
not on X all that much, but at Race sagern
at on Instagram or or or uh raceagern dot com
if you want to want to hook up or whatever.
But Creative's right there. Yeah and uh yeah, go check
that out. Those guys are doing great work. And uh

(01:02:31):
so with my with my filmmaking stuff, I love to
get involved with stories that are powerful about world changers,
like Richard at Creativets.

Speaker 4 (01:02:40):
But I also like to.

Speaker 5 (01:02:40):
Make horror films and goofy indie comedy. So that's that's
really those are the most fun.

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
Really, it's one of those rare fields too, where you're
you know, kind of creatively fulfilling and satisfying yourself, but
at the same time opening a lot of stuff up
for other people to enjoy too.

Speaker 4 (01:02:55):
That's key. Throw up Joe King's quote just for picture day.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
There you go, Joe, Absolutely Joe for the win. Just
for the audio listeners, he posted that he wore a
butthole surfer shirt where totally this is YouTube is never
gonna know that that's fly. He wore a BH surfer
shirt for picture day at school, but all you saw
was the BH word on his shirt. And he says
he peaked in eighth grade. Quite frankly, if you're that

(01:03:29):
creative in eighth grade, there's no way you peaked eighth.

Speaker 4 (01:03:32):
Day, right you just getting started?

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
Yeah yeah, Ray, thank you so much for hopping aboard.
This is this is a blast. We'll have to have
you on it at some point. Good luck. Uh he's
not only week two, but in all your k f
f C, all your f f PC leagues the rest
of the way.

Speaker 4 (01:03:45):
Man, appreciate that, fellas. Thanks so much for having me
tonight at the best time.

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
So much fun. That is Ray Sagaran ladies and gentlemen
hopping board, the twenty time f f PC League champion,
obviously a lead champion in the k f f f
C as well, and looking repair himion Dollar Grand Prizes
in the FFPC this year as well. Farrell, we are
over time. I want to get into these start sits.
If you're still cool, we can go rapid fire on this.
You wanna, We'll go rapid fire. Yeah. Pete and Dallas. Hey, guys,

(01:04:14):
torn between Jordan Mason and Tyrone Tracy. Who should I
start this week? If anybody wants to chime in on
the chat, you could definitely do that with with your
analysis as well. Tyrone Tracy in Dallas. Maybe Pete's going
to the game. Tyrone Tracy at Dallas this week. Jordan
Mason at home against the Falcons. I lean towards Tracy
in this game because of the pass catching chops. We

(01:04:35):
saw Aaron Jones getting the lion's share of the pass
catching duties for the Viking, So I lean Tracy.

Speaker 4 (01:04:40):
I lean Jordan Mason. I love the way he runs
the ball.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
Scott Hoyt chiming in with Mason, Permar chiming in with Mason.
Don Gazetti, also chiming in with Mason. I'm on my
own island on this one with Tracy, but they're all saying, Mason,
let's move on to the next one. Who do we
got here? This is Ken in Statesboro, Georgia, Keenan Allen
overw Doonsay on Sunday or vice versa. Thank you, Thank you, Ken.

(01:05:04):
We have and it's always helpful. If you put this
in the email, I'll look it up. If you don't
that that's cool. I just always appreciate it. In there
with who they play Roma Dunza in the Motor City
to take on the Lions, Keenan Allen at your Las
Vegas Raiders.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
Farrell, Yeah, Keenan Allen is the play winning Rome is
skipping for this.

Speaker 1 (01:05:23):
I'm actually gonna lean towards Odoonseay in this over Keenan Allen.
I worry that we saw more of a ceiling type
game for Justin Herbert in that passing game with Hampton
and Harris in that backfield. Scott Hoyt saying, o'doons as well.
I think Allan's fine. I just if I had the
choice with Odoonsay, I would play him there instead. Moving
on to George in Dearborn, Michigan. Would you guys start

(01:05:46):
Dalton Schultz over Cadott and these two guys play each
other on Monday Night football. I don't think I would.
I'm I'm I'm I'm just I got a feeling that
that we saw a big time at GUKA game. We
did not see a whole lot from autumn, and I
think there's a bounce back here for him, even against
that Texans defense. So I would play ot And over Schultz.

Speaker 4 (01:06:05):
He's Kate Rotten on Monday Night. Go with Dalton Shults.

Speaker 1 (01:06:08):
Okay, Ferrell's going with Schultz. I can't believe we've disagreed
on every single one, So every one. Yes, final one,
Jerry and Peoria Illinois. Which underwhelming Week one quarterback? Should
I play this weekend? Bo Nicks or Trevor Lawrence? I
appreciate it, guys, Thank you Jerry, We appreciate you. So
this weekend, if we look at the quarterback situation, bow

(01:06:29):
Nicks is actually going to be in Indianapolis taking on
the Colts, and you have who's the other one that
I just mentioned, Trevor Lawrence. Trevor Lawrence is at Cincinnati
in that going against that awful defense. I play Lawrence here.
I think he's he just shreds the Bengals and it
could be a shootout as well.

Speaker 2 (01:06:48):
You can't go wrong here because you will make a
If you drafted Nicks, you had much much belief in him,
and you probably don't have Lawrence on your roster.

Speaker 4 (01:06:59):
But if you, uh, this is this is.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
Why you drafted Lawrence. Later, go ahead and starting, let's
agree with one book.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
Yeah, Farrell, you and I agree, but literally everybody is
disagreeing with us. Scott Hoyt Dome because that he both said. Next,
per Mar ninety nine said Lawrence never but Jimmy.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Onemar is already talking about baseball, which means he violated
one rule of the show.

Speaker 4 (01:07:20):
He came even post until October.

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
He could he could post. He's always welcome to post.
Weys appreciate his insight. Jimmy Williams is agreeing with us,
he said Trevor Lawrence, and.

Speaker 4 (01:07:31):
Jimmy Williams says Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
There's not a lot of guys that knows much about
fantasy football.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
Well, we appreciate everybody who is chiming in, because if
you are watching this live on YouTube, Facebook x or whatever,
or even if you're streaming it later. You know, ball,
we always appreciate all the facts and opinions that is.

Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
Now permanently bland from the show. He says, baseball is permanently,
permanently banned from the show.

Speaker 1 (01:07:57):
I don't think I I don't think I have it
in me to minutly banned.

Speaker 4 (01:08:01):
His name will never be mentioned again.

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
Yeah, it's uh, Farrell will never speak the name per
mar again. But Permarra, I'm an extraordinarily uh forgiving individual. Uh,
it's the Midwest, nice and me. So you are always
welcome to come aboard Scott boyit. If we are watching,
we have no Friday night life. This is life. This

(01:08:23):
is life hanging out to as good as this is
this listen, you can't go anywhere and find a high
stakes audience like this on a Friday night. This is life.
This is as as uh as Matthew McConaughey's character from
Days to Confused would say, this is living l I
v I N living. There you go, Farrell, always good

(01:08:46):
to talk with you, especially setting aside time on your
birthday today. Many happy returns, A very happy birthday to you,
K F. F s C dot com and uh is
where to check out the Kentucky Fantasy Football State Championship.
We will do this once again one week from today,
my friend, have a great birthday weekend you, sir. Absolutely.
That is Farrell Elliott, the definitive Commissioner of Fantasy Football.

(01:09:09):
I want to thank him. I want to thank Ray
Sager and the FFPC, Rob Bryce, and of course each
and every one of you for streaming, watching, listening, viewing, downloading.
We appreciate it. We'll be back next Friday at ten
pm Eastern time. Double shot is the plan right now,
because stuff got away from me after Vegas this week
and I couldn't make a road of his high stakes
loadown happen, and that goes weekly now until the the

(01:09:35):
divisional playoff weekend for the NFL. So I'm gonna make
it up to you and we'll do a double shot
next week. This is the plan right now. Monday night
at six pm Eastern time, we're gonna go right leading
into so it'll be the pregame show for those two
Monday night games and then Tuesday at our regular time
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In case you miss it, watch this past week's insider

(01:09:58):
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Speaker 3 (01:11:11):
This has been another episode of the Hot Stakes Fatasy
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Thanks for watching, and we'll talk with you again next week.

Speaker 1 (01:11:33):
Yes, just one final reminder everybody. Two Monday night games
this week. Seven o'clock is the Buccaneers and Texans. Ten
o'clock is the Chargers and Raiders for an extraordinarily late
game that night. And brock Bowers officially listed as well.
Not that doesn't have an injury listing yet, but he
has not practiced yet this week, so keep that in

(01:11:55):
mind when you are putting in your waivers for Sunday
for the FFP. Also want to make a note of this.
I sent out a couple of emails to you about this.
If you are missing any teams and your my Team's
page trust me, they're still there. We added some filters
to my team's page for the FFPC so you can
pick and choose to see which teams are displayed. If
you don't want to look at your best ball teams,

(01:12:16):
you just want to look at your managed teams, you
have that option right now. So if you are not
seeing any of those, make sure you click next to
the filters link right next towards the top of my
team's page off to the right, and there you be
able to pick and choose how many or what teams
you want revealed there. Hopefully that clears that up. If
you have now consume this, your weekend starts now and

(01:12:40):
it's gonna be a great weekend of Week two football.
Thanks so much for watching, everybody. We'll talk with you
again next week.