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and vocal minority, And welcome to another edition of the
Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Sports Grid Network, episode
number four hundred and thirty three, the four hundred and
thirty third convening of the Stats Overbeat Cipher where we
help you win your leagues and win that cash. Got
a good show for you as usual episode four thirty three.
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We got a lot of stuff to talk about. I mean,
we got a college football championship game that's about to
kick off in an hour or so. We are down
to the final four in the NFL, so we'll give
you our takeaways from divisional weekend, and of course, Danny,
we gotta update Speeds versus the kids. It's a little
bit different then last week. I will say, my members
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of the stats over beat Cipher know that to be true.
We got a poll question that I think is very
very interesting as well. My pole question is this, if
you have to start a franchise right now in the NFL,
and you gotta start, you know, and grab one quarterback,
think about young quarterbacks with for the next like ten years,
what would you take? Because you know, my thesis right
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all year has been that they're the three men in
the a f C. Lamar Jackson, Patty Mahomes and Deshaun Watson.
Only one of them is left standing. Patty Mahomes after
a ridiculous comeback in Arrowhead yesterday. We'll get into that.
A lot of people are hitting me up right now.
I had those three and then other ironically Other is
not in last place alright. A lot of people with
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some love for Josh Allen up there in Buffalo. I
seem to also believe that Russell Wilson could get some
love because even in the next ten years, if Russell
and is nerties for you know, eight of them, right.
So I think it's an interesting question because we did
see some of that on display this weekend. But I
do want to also note, and we're gonna get into football.
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For sure. Football is gonna be what we talked about,
you know, most of the time here, and that's what
the status of Beat Cipher knows. But there's a huge
story breaking in baseball today, all right. The it sounds
like a Major League Baseball is coming down on the
Houston Astros. First we heard word that Astro's manager A J.
Hinge and the GM Jeff Lanout, we're suspended for a year. Okay.
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We're also hearing the Astros will forfeit their first and
second round draft picks for the next couple of years.
I think this is legit. I think this is a deterrent.
I think it hurts them. And then we hear more
that the Houston Nationals have turned around and were like,
you know what, forget this, and they turned around and
fired Hinch and the GM. And then we hear more
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that they are still ready to drop in this being
Major League Baseball, still ready to drop the hammer on
Joey Cora and potentially the Boston Red Sox because they
are involved. Remember Corus sort of like the mastermind behind
all this. And we're not done, and there's still talk
about what this means for Carlos Beltrand now, um because
he was there, now the manager of the meth Now.
A lot of people are saying and it seems like
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the report is indicating that no players will be um
uh uh punished, right, And I wonder what you think
about that, because they were all complicit in this, they
all knew this. What if you're armand Judge, who finishes
second to Jose Altuve in the two sev A L
m v P. What if you're the New York Yankees.
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What if you're the Los Angeles Dodgers who went to
the World Series, you know, back to back years and
we're facing this nonsense, all right? I think this is
very interesting. People are not likening this all the way,
like to the Black Sox scandal, that it's worse than steroids,
worse than Pete Rose between sounds, banging lights in the
mound and all this stuff. And it's not done yet,
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So keep an eye out on this. I do think
it is a deterrent. I do think the Astros are
gonna fall by the wayside a little bit on this. Um. Yeah,
I know they have great talent still, but you know,
when they don't know what's coming. We'll see if that
holds true. Uh, free agents aren't gonna want to sign there.
They have to now hire a new manager in GM.
I do think this hits and where it hurts. Would
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you trade it in for a title if you knew
that this was gonna And I don't even think it
guarantees you a title? Right, you still have to hit
the ball, But if you knew this would get you
a title? Is it worth the is it worth the crime?
Is it worth it to you? That's what I want
to know. Hit me up in the chat room about that.
Hit me up if you would take Lamar Jackson, Patty Mahomes,
Deshaun Watson, or someone else like a Josh Allen, like Kyler,
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Murray Baker, Mayfiel, Sam Donald, Daniel Jones, or one of
these guys playing tonight, perhaps Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence Right
or an old guard. Maybe you want to hang onto
a guy like Russell Wilson. But in any event, we
have to look. Now there are four teams left, and
that's what we're gonna get into. Okay, we're gonna talk
about on the other side of the break, which is
coming in a few minutes. We will talk about what
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speed's got right, what Speeds got wrong. We will break
down the takeaways, the diamonds, the fool gazes from all
four games and what I call the best weekend of football. Okay,
there were a number of themes, and I gotta tell
you the truth. If you're real deal, Stats over Beat
Cipher and some of you guys out there certainly are
Ben out there, Tommy Gunns out there already. Okay, if
you um, you know, Ben is already talking about unpredictability
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of football. I don't know, man, I had them against
the kids. I told you the Titans would be the
one outright dog that I thought goodwin. So yes, but
if you rewind the tape, we were kind of on
that with the Stats over Beat Cipher. But it is
absolutely crazy, you know, the fact that these kids can
kind of pick game just as good as some of us.
It's interesting. So we will update the standings of that.
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I'll give you the takeaways, right, and then we'll also
spin it forward to the National Championship game. And Danny,
there's another thing going on this weekend that's not my
bachelor party. I know the Stats over Beat Cipher already
knows about that going down this weekend in Miami, I'll
be down that with Joe Marnary. But Danny, there's another
event in your neck of the woods, in your industry,
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the place that you love so much, that we may
have to talk about as well. Danny, you know what
I'm talking about? Brother men? Uh no, No, what if
I tell you some guy that walks with a billionaire
strut is fighting a cowboy this weekend? Uh? Yeah? Now know? Yeah?
So maybe we'll talk about that as well, because I
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have a key question for you, Danny, and that is
do rich do rich people like getting hit in the face?
Because I don't know Connors rich now cowboys not cowboys old.
But if you get rich like generational wealth like Connor
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has now, are you still training the same way you
were when you were a janitor in Ireland? I don't know.
I want to get your thoughts on that as well.
We'll look over the injuries, will look over the games.
You know what's interesting, A lot of these teams came
out not that banged up, like I can't find really
a big injury. For the Tennessee Titans. For green Bay,
there was that illness that went through Bologa came out
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of the concussion protocol he's eyed. Alan Lizard went to
the Blue Tent. We'll check in on that and Casey.
I know Kelsey and Hill got banged up, but they
were back out there. Chris Jones is a big one.
We'll track him, but otherwise these teams could be healthy.
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here on the Sports Grid Network. We're getting it in um. Yeah.
Ben is asking some questions some of you guys, Tommy
gunns q q Q Wilson Ben, you guys are in
the chat still talking about this Astros thing. I think
it's really interesting. Listen. I I do think it's a
deterrent okay, because here's the thing. They gotta hire a
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new manager now, all right, So that's one. Okay. To
the draft picks. I think are real their first and
their second round picks for the next two years. Remember
this is how this team stocked up in the beginning.
They drafted Korea Bregman. All these gets Springer right. And
the other thing for me is, you know they're pretty
much mud for the next few years. Right. If you're
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a free agent, are you gonna sign in Houston now?
Or is that kind of stench still there? I think
you're not gonna sign. I think it's a determined free
agent signing as well. And listen, the idea, um, is
it possible the Mets fire beltrend It is possible. Is
it possible the Red Sox fire Cora. I actually think
they will. I think they will in the next thirty
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six hours, because look, Houston turnaround and fired their guys
right away. Do they want this stench on them? I
don't know. I think we haven't heard the last of this.
I think this thing is actually sprawling if you want
to know the truth. So we'll see sign where the
best pictures are. Yeah, but is that really is that
really Houston anymore? I mean there's Verlander there, there's Grenky there.
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Verlander was in on all this cold out that not
there anymore. You're right, that's the thing, you k Q Wilson.
And that's the thing that he says. The World series
of Champs Ring are still on their finger. That's the thing.
You're absolutely right. They still had a parade, And as
a Yankees fan, I was still piste off and had
the heart ripped out of me. If I was a
Dodgers fan, I'd feel the same way. You could give
Aaron Judge the two seventeen m v P. I don't
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get a parade. I don't get to as a grown
man hug my best friends. I don't cry watching a
TV screen. If they just stripped the Astros, that's what
it's about for me. You know, you could stripped, they
stripped like Reggie Bush of the Heisman. I don't know.
You know, it doesn't matter, right, those fans still got
to celebrate, and that's what it's really about, all right.
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So we'll keep talking about this. Um well, so keep
talking about this as we go along with checking in
the chat room and also on Touchable, Jay is talking
about us the um the fancy who got hired by
the Cleveland Browns and let's go there, the Browns doing fire.
UM hire him. He used to be the Vikings offensive coordinator,
was in for De Filippo when he was the offensive coordinator.
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This is a guy who was with this organization for
fourteen years, kind of moving all the way up, so
I get it. Listen, he could be a great excess
and those guy My question is this and a guy
taking his first head coaching job. The problem with Cleveland
to me is the idea of they needed an adult
in the room, They needed a respected voice in the room.
I'm not usually one for retreads, right, but I wonder
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if this guy getting his first ever crack at the
big chair is gonna be able to deal with the drama,
the pr the personalities that are there. You needed a
kind of unifying presence and a voice that everyone had
to be behind. And I just don't know if Stefanski
is that the Broncos have hired Pat Shermer to be
their new offensive coordinator. I wonder what what the Broncos
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was gonna come down to is are they all in
on Drew Lock or not? And we'll see that in
free agency. I plan after the Super Bowl as we
get into free agency to do a big thing about
like all the quarterback merry go around, where they go,
where they might not go, and a big question of
that is are the Denver Broncos all in on Drew Lock.
We'll see what Pat Shermer thinks. Apparently he scouted him
and liked them in the draft as well, because I
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remember they were looking a get Daniel Jones um. And
you know what some interesting news of the weird. Did
you see you over the weekend? Julian Edelman jumping on
the hood of a car in California? What is this?
You know? Because with the fans key going to Cleveland,
a lot of people are now thinking about, well, that
means Josh McDaniels isn't so, so what is the is
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the band back together in New England? McDaniels, Brady Bill Edelman?
Is this a new Patriot way? Jumping on hoods of
cars getting arrested? But it is nothing compared to what
we saw out of Antonio Brown to day. If you
don't know what I'm talking about, go to my twitter
feed at spitting Speeds, I posted a video. Let's just say,
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antone Yo Brown thought it fit to live stream an
interaction he had with the police with his kids and
his baby mama in the middle of the street. And
let's just say, and I'm not joking that it also
involved a bag of gummy penises. I'm I'm not joking.
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Go to the Twitter feed and check it out. It's ridiculous.
The man is not well. All right, Um, so that's
what we're dealing with, and they'll be all that. Good job,
but let's talk about for real, for real, and you
know what, actually before we do that. One other thing,
I thought it was really nice, uh that over this weekend,
on both Saturday and Sunday, they came on studio and
decided to honor and announced Bill Kawar and Jimmy Johnson's
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uh you know, kind of Hall of Fame entry. I
thought that was a really nice moment. It happened on Saturday,
it happened on Sunday. I thought it was really cool
to see these grown men break down and cry like
little boys and get emotional and think when you see
the payoff of all that hard work and they kind
of get to that life's goal, I thought it was
really cool. I thought it was absolutely cool, and I
hope they do that again whenever fit, when they have
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the opportunity to do that, I thought it was really
really cool. So we tip our cap to the Hall
of Fame. All right, takeaways from these games. Two of
the themes that I have been saying all season long.
One is that teams need balance right in the run game.
I've talked about the commitment to the run game, trying
to prevent you from getting forced out of the game
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script and becoming a volume thrower. It doesn't matter if
you're Kirk Cousins, if you're Matt Ryan, if you Philip Rivers.
I've said it all season, you don't want to become
a volume thrower. Right. And and at the beginning of
the season, we talked about the running back being devalued,
Zeke Elliott, Melvin Gordon right holding out and it wasn't
really worth it. And the distinction I want to make
here is the running back, the single running back is
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being devalued in the NFL. But what the postseason teaches
us and what I've been saying for months, and if
you get the status Beats Cipher, you know that I
don't just give you a fish. I teach you how
to fish. The running back is overrated, but a running
game is underrated. And that was a big theme that
we've been seeing the playoffs and the other one of
these dudes just making plays. I've been saying it about
Russell and about Patty, and about Lamar and about this Sean.
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But what what what struck me this week is that
it wasn't like, yeah, they made incredible plays. I'll throw
Anon Rodgers in there as well, but it's a lot
of like these little small ones that you don't really
talk about as much. I saw, for example, Russell Wilson
should have been sacked on one random play. It was
the second down play, and he should have been sacked
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for like six yards, but he did something ridiculous and
wound up like gaining three. And that's the difference between
third and sixteen and like third and five in this situation.
And if little things like that that, you know, obviously
the announcers will make a point about it, but it's
just so big and these dudes just continue to make
plays rolling out, you know, eight yard passes to Hollister,
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finding Davante Adams. When they're extending plays, you know, hitting
Will Fuller or Duke Johnson out of the backfield, extending
and rolling out and then forcing the defense to make
a decision. Am I gonna run? Where I boom right there?
To Travis Kelsey. All of these dudes can do that,
all right, And that and the balance in the run game,
or really what I'm seeing is running to day in
this two thousand and nineteen NFL. So first of all,
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let's talk about Tennessee in Baltimore, and this is what
it comes down to. What do you respect that's a
defensive coordinator. You have to respect Derrick Henry, right, he
goes off again yards. But with Tannehill, they represent the
potential of the play action game, of the throwing game,
of being able to go over the top. We've seen it.
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It doesn't matter if he he only completed like seven balls,
but it doesn't matter because if they need to, they
can do that. It was so much that Bill Belichick
thought that was the right hand to take away right now.
With the Ravens, of course you respect Lamar, but when
you're down fourteen nothing right. You can start to play
a little bit differently, and even Lamar would admit that
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he has development in terms of throwing outside the numbers.
The Titans had a unique opportunity to force that. I
said early in the season they didn't want Lamar Jackson
becoming a volume thrower. This is not an indictment on Lamor.
I'm not one of those guys being like, oh, the
m v P season was food gaz, It's not. I'm
not gonna here throw all sorts of shade at Lamar.
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He was amazing. Okay. What is important is that they
play from a head, that they get out early. We've
always known that these teams weren't able able to force
them into that. Well, look at what happened. Lamar Jackson
had fifty nine attempts. That's not what the Ravens want.
It is no surprise that in there he turned the
ball over three times. The question is, when you get
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punched in the mouth, do you have something else to
go to? The Titans have demonstrated that they do. They
haven't had to with Derrick Henry running for over a
hundred eighty yards all the time, but they demonstrate that
they have to, so you have to leave a safety back.
When Lamar and the Ravens are running right and they
do play action, there's guys running wide open all over
the field because of the running game. You don't have
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to do that. When you're down by three scores. It's
a different thing. We'll talk about the other three games
will do speeds versus the kids, I hope with the
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four games that happened over the weekend, and honestly, you know,
for me and Lamar, it was like what happens? Like
do you what where do you go to when your
best pitch is gone? What's what's the other? What's the
left hand? Do you know? And listen Ingram was compromised
and users compromised. One of the best lineman, Marcel Yonda,
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was clearly compromised. And I'm not pooh pooing Lamar. I'm
just saying this is the continued development for them, to
be honest, they just got to develop more as a passer,
right and and that's health. What are you gonna do?
You know? Um? In this Houston Kansas City game, Wow,
was that exhausting? Huh? That was like schoolyard football. There
were guys laterally, and there was all sorts of I
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was just crazy, right obviously, And by now we all
know the twenty four nothing lead and then Kansas City
comes all the way back. I gotta tell you something,
and I was when I was talking about this game,
I was really surprised that Houston didn't try to stem
the tide a little bit by running Carlos Hide more.
I told you that in back to back weeks earlier
in the season, and they gonna ask Applis. Colts went
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in there, ran the ball down the cold, down the
chiefs throat and one. Then the Texans went in there,
ran the ball down the chief's throat and one. Carlos
Hide I believe had over a hundred yards on over
twenty five carries and a touchdown in that game. And
then we got news like an hour and a half
before the game that Chris Jones was gonna be inactive.
I really thought they were gonna run the ball more,
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and it couldn't because it devolved into some crazy back
and forth shoot out, but then even at the beginning
of the second half to try to like settle things down.
I was surprised that didn't happen more. And here's what
I also want to say. In this game, you saw
the difference between mental mistakes and physical mistakes. I used
to coach kids in in in football and in baseball,
and I said, I will never get mad at you
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for a physical mistake. Muff punt is a physical mistake, right,
But mental mistakes and coaching mistakes and scheming mistakes, like
why fake punt when you're still up to just to
give it when your own side of the field to
give someone momentum. Why don't end around with Kenny Stills
when you're moving the ball and on schedule. Those kind
of things is what will get you. The physical mistakes, Hey,
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they happen. Block punts happened, you know, Um so I
thought that was different. If I'm Houston now, I think
you gotta still continue to build up the defense. Listen, J. J.
Watt doesn't play full seasons. You had the like bottom
five defense. The offensive sign is fine. You have Deshaun
Watson even with a piss poor offensive. You are seemingly okay,
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you need to build up that defense, all right, UM,
next game, UM. And by the way, listen, UM, I
saw a leadership out of Patty Mahomes when they were
down twenty four nothing. It's Mahomes going up and down
that bench right telling people we're gonna do something special.
Don't worry hanging there. Stick with me. By contrast, and
again I'm not crapping on Lamar. By contrast, Lamar sitting
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there like banging his helmet. You know, I think part
of that is experience part of it. And Lamar Jackson,
it's his second year in the league. He's going to evolve.
They're gonna be healthy. If he had mark Ingram, he's
gonna have that second option. He's gonna get better as
a passer down the field. Outside the numbers. It's okay.
The arrow is pointing up the same way as said.
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It's all good if I'm a Bills fan, right. So,
and then we have yeah, and in that Minnesota San
Fran game, Listen, they have been a great case study.
Let me talk to you to three games from Minnesota.
The first thing exhibit A is when they didn't have
Dalvin Cook and everybody thought Mike Boone was going to
take them to a fantasy championship. And they played a
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Monday night football game against Green Bay and Mike Boone
proved that he couldn't run the ball well. And then
it became you don't have the running game right when
the defense doesn't have to respect that Oh krk Cousins
volume passer, he didn't look good. They lost the NFC
North on Monday Night football to the Green Bay Packers.
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Exhibit B. Last week against New Orleans, all of a sudden,
Dalvin Cook and uh Madison, they're running well. They combined
for over thirty yards. Thirty carries, they combined for over
a hundred yards. Dalvin Cook gets into the end zone twice.
All of a sudden, Kirk Cousins has wide open guys
down the middle of the field. All of a sudden,
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Kirk Cousin gets the monkey off his back. All of
a sudden, the Minnesota Vikings put up points and win.
You don't think these things are related, like I've been
saying all year long, and then I take you to
yesterday or sad to day. Dalvin Cook runs for uh
nine carries for eighteen yards. They stuff it, they get
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behind by multiple scores. No longer have to respect the
run game volume passer, Kirk Cousins, it doesn't look pretty.
It's a formula that we're seeing all across the NFL.
People contrast about what we saw in the San Francisco
run game. Okay, this Minnesota San Francisco game, we didn't
have one of those playmaking quarterbacks. There was no Aaron Rodgers,
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Russ Wilson, Patty Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, DeShawn Watson. They didn't
play in this game. So it's about the run game
in the balance. Look at what San Francisco does, Kevin Coleman.
They combined, though, between Coleman, most Art and even Brita,
to run the ball forty two times. We're a hundred
and eighty yards. And let me tell you what else
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in that game shows it for me. Jimmy G through
a pick deep his own territory. But San Francisco had
about a one score lead at that point. It was
second quarter. They took the ball out of Jimmy G's
hands after that interception. Jimmy G had six more attempts
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the rest of the game. Okay, because they didn't need
him to be a volume passer, because that's when mistakes happened.
All right, Kirk Cousins had to be a volume passer.
Didn't work. San Francis hosting the NFC Championship game. In
the last game that we got to talk about, the
last game of the weekend. Oh, by the way from Minnesota.
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Build up your offensive line. That's what it's going down
to your defense. We like that her Cousin's fine game manager,
don't like him as a volume thrower. You got weapons.
You gotta build up that offensive line, all right. You
gotta hope Dalvin Cook isn't truly injury prone. The team
went ten and six. Dalvin Cook missed some games. This
team goes eleven and five, wins one or two more games.
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They got games at home where they're much better. That
defense is much better. These vikings are not far away.
In the last game. Here's what was proven to me.
Even Russell Wilson needs a run game for a balance.
Besides his own rushing. Besides his own seven carries for
sixty four yards, Lynch and Homer combined fifteen touches carries
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twenty nine yards. That's less than two a pop. You
don't need to worry about it. So what can you do?
Things like, you know, contain Russell Wilson with your rush,
pin your ears back and go after him. They sacked
them five times. Remember how last week I told you
they're not brothers like the Watts or the Bosas. But
Preston and za Darius Smith were named. You're gonna hear
they each got two sacks. Okay, And then on the
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other side, listen, Davante Adams beasted eight for one sixty.
My boy Frank Standfill put up some stats on him
since his return from injury. It's been ridiculous. I think
he's like wide out too. And my boy Frank asked
the question, like, how many white outs are you taking
ahead of Davante Adams next year in fantasy? It's a
valid question. And I remind you this year, Jilly Dilley
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has the notes. My top three wide receivers going into
this year where DeAndre Hopkins, Davante Adams, and Michael Thomas.
If you go back and run the tape, I faded
Julio Jones, I faded Juju Smith Schuster, I faded Odell Beckham.
And going into next year, my top three wide receivers
will be probably the exact same in no particular order
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just yet, Michael Thomas, Davante Adams, DeAndre Hopkins, maybe Tyreek
Hill in there as well. All right, but look at
these offenses, all right, and Davantae Adams had a huge game.
But here's the other thing. There was one play in there,
Aaron Rodgers flick of the wrist on a dime to
Jimmy Graham. And I remind you, Aaron Rodgers is one
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of these guys as well, one of these guys that
make plays, extend the plays off script, off schedule while
rolling out. Okay, you either have one of these quarterbacks
that just makes ridiculous plays and raises all boats, like
the three guys in my poll, like a Russell Wilson
like and Aaron Rodgers, I'll give you, like a Josh Allen,
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although he needs to learn a little bit more. Maybe
there'll be others coming up. Kyler Murray comes to mind.
Or you need to have that balance because otherwise, if
you're not making plays and I'm asking people to guard
for five six seconds because you can extend to play,
you need something else. You need the thread of the
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run game. You need play action, right, and that's what
it comes down to when Aaron Rodgers made it throw
in that game last night. Well, I was like, oh
my god, that's so beautiful. And my fiance said to me,
it kind of looked like Patrick Mahomes and that brought
it full circle for me. You know, we talked about
Lamar and Patty and Watson and all this, but Aaron
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Rodgers really kind of I and I know Joe Ronario
say it goes all the way back to Steve Young,
and he's true, he's right, But like Aaron Rodgers and
this new guard has really provided this dual threat and
that was another big time takeaway from me for Seattle. Listen,
it's again the defense like Houston, and you need a
running game. Listen, Carson is serviceable. Fantasy people know him.
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But what if they went out and spent money on
like a Melvin Gordon. What if they went out and
traded for lev Bell. What if they took Deatrick Henry
away from the Titans. Wouldn't that be the cherry on
top for that offense with Russell still and his prime
I digress on the other side of the break, when
we come back, we look at speeds versus the kids.
We bring in Danny Otto here from the pit of misery,
(30:34):
and Danny and I are back in it all right,
so we will see what we gotta do. The child
psychology is amazing, and then we'll put the fund and
functional sports content. We got a question of should I
hedge or not? And uh, we got some things going
on this weekend to talk about it as well. Come
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episode four thirty three. At a Fantasy Freestyle, you got
two boy speeds and spitting statistician holding you down with
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the stats overbeat cipher. Yo. The chat room is wild,
all right. I gotta love you, Um, Andrew G. Slowdown though,
area man, that's my homegirl, all right, but I do
love Andrew G. Jeremy McMahon, Lance Davis, Stat's overbeat cipher representing,
and I gotta tell you I love the train of
thought outside of that other comment um in the chat room.
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First of all, Andrew G, You're right, Lamar did look
stunned a little bit right. Meanwhile, Patty Mahomes got up,
went up and down that bench, rallying everybody, saying let's
do something special. Lamar looked a little bit stunned, and
we really did. I ain't but listen, first time out there,
I got it. It's all good, still very bright for Lamar, okay,
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But there was a difference in the way you saw
Lamar respond and the way you saw Patty Mahomes respond. Also,
Jeremy Man and Lands Davids talking about Bubba Sparks that
you should be my man back in the day. First
of all, spark one, Jeremy, you know what it is,
yah do sab our. Of course, Stat's over beat cipher
right there, Jeremy McMahon represent and he brings up Bubba
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Sparks your booda booda boo boo boot everywhere. Also my
jam from Bubba, you remember that jam. It was like
some kind of swallow southern joint. Was like I've been
traveling for some time with my fishing pole and my
bottle is shine. That's that good stuff right there. That Oh,
Bubba Sparks joined, I am at at you, Jeremy Man
and Lance Spark one up. And then y'all also talking
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about Trick Daddy. Trick Daddy, and first of all, and
this brings it all full circle, Trick loves the kids, no, no,
not speeds loves the kids. And we'll get into speeds
versus the kids in a hot second. And then you're
talking about though I'm worried about this because you're talking
about Trick Daddy getting arrested in Miami high and doing
blow right before I go to Miami for my bachelor
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party this weekend. Yeah, were talking about receding hairline. I
thought you were talking about speeds instead of Trick Daddy,
because it's like Trick Daddy, trick load of kids, Speeds
loves the kids, you know. So I don't want to
get confused with Trick. I should not be behind the
wheel on Saturday. Uh, but I digress. The other thing
y'all are talking about is uh Speeds loves the kids.
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So let's get into it, Danny. And first of all, uh, yeah,
thanks Lance, Yeah, thank you, Ben. I've been traveling for
some time. Yeah. I guess I'm going to hide away
a way because I gotta found my way. But in
any event, all right, um so, Danny, we got Speeds
versus the kids. We didn't do too good. Wild card weekend, Danny,
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we got squaw do should we defecated the mattress. But
we came back with a three in one weekend, right,
So that's good. Put up the graphic right now. Because
these kids, they didn't do it all right. Coral only
got one win to get to four. Zoe, Michaela and
Casper they got like squaw douche. All they could get
up to was three. Oscar and Jasmine have two. And
then here's the thing, Danny, I told you this was
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gonna happen. I told you parents were gonna mess up kids.
So Audrey, my lovely step my lovely god daughter, and Tito,
Arianna and Andy, their parents didn't get it in. They
didn't get the picks in in time. Or at all,
so they fall by the wayside. All right, So Danny,
what we have is Cora, will you know, is the
daughter of the undisclosed location, Danny Lee. Remember she's rotting
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with the Titans, picking the Titans at her at her
mother and her father's disbelief. But we are now tied
for second, Danny, alright, so you can take that down.
So here's what I'm thinking, Danny, Cora is the only
person who's one game up on us. Right. So but
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if you remember, Danny, I think it's a lock that
Cora is gonna pick the Tennessee Titans. I really do.
She picked them in wild card, as we remember, Remember
her mother's reaction to when she picked them on wild
card weekend over the Patriots. Remember that, Danny. I mean,
So she's been like day one with the Titans, right,
and then last weekend she goes back to the Titans
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against the Kansas City Chiefs, And this time Danny Lee
was like, are you sure? Really? You know what I mean?
So Cora has been on the Titans from the beginning
of the playoffs. Her parents have thought it was silly,
and what do you know, now she's in first place, Danny,
I mean she's sticking to her guns. I mean that
that's you know. So here's the thing. I think she's
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going to stay with the tendency Titans and picked them
to win the n f C Championship. What do you think,
I mean at this point you might as well. So
I think she's gonna pick Tennessee. So I've been saying
on this air for the better part of the last
two months that I'm on the Kansas City Chiefs bandwagon. Right.
I said, Patty Mahomes was getting more healthy. I said
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this Kansas City Chiefs defense was improving before anyone else
did run the tape. I've been on the Chiefs defense
because I said even early in the season that it
takes a while to learn Spagnolo zone defenses, the coverages,
the responsibilities. I said earlier in the season that that
Spags defense would get better. Add Interrell Suggs adding the
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huddy badger who don't give a what, And that's what
you have it. Okay. By the way, Tom Pierce, thank
you for the shout out. And my man absolutely always
gets it done. Okay, I got love for the man.
Toni Sincot, thanks Tim Pierce for the kind words. Okay,
So back to where we were going. I think she's
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gonna pick Tennessee, So I'm picking Kansas City, Danny. I
think that's how we make the game up on Cora.
What do you say? You you already know that I agree.
We were talking about this before the show. I'm definitely
going with Casey, right, okay, So we're going Casey. And
by the way, I'm doing some of this because if
you haven't heard, and they've been giving it to me
all week on this network, there will be no Fantasy
(37:26):
Freestyle this Thursday, all right. There will also be no
Fantasy Freestyle next Monday on Martin Luther King Day, all right, because,
as many people know, I am getting married next month.
I have my bachelor party is this weekend down in Miami.
That's why I brought up the Trig Daddy reference, because
you know, I may be in a similar spot. But
we'll get into that later, all right. So, um, I
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gotta make some picks now. We gotta talk about this
speeds versus the kids. So here's the thing, though, Danny,
let's say this happens the way I think and Chiefs
whin the ANFC Championship. We're even up with Cora. What
do we do? Do we go opposite Cora on purpose
to try to get ahead of her, or do we
just mimic whatever Cora says, Like I'm gonna be I'm
gonna worry about how to play this against Cora? Okay?
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And if do I just mimic whatever she says this way,
if the Chiefs w in the a f C will
be tied no matter what going into the super Bowl,
or do I just say, hell, throw caution to the
wind and just pick who I think regardless, even if
it puts me at a disadvantage and I might not
be able to catch up with her. What do you say, Danny?
I mean, there's the there's the safe play, there's the
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How do you feel about the Chiefs? You feel like
pretty confident? I mean they are seven point favorites after
the last game. I'm I'm pretty damn confident with Alright, alright,
fair enough. So listen, as we saw on the graphic,
Cora is leading, but I have a feeling she's picking
the Titans. I'm gonna go opa with her there and
take the Chiefs, and I'm leaning San Francisco. Here's the thing, though, Danny,
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Here's my problem in this other game, I can't tell
you much about it. Put up the other graphic, Danny.
This is why it's hard for me, Okay, Danny. In
the beginning, at the end of May, small play futures bet,
I bet the Green Bay Packers to win the NFC,
all right, and that would turn fifteen dollars into one fifty.
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All right, you can take that off. That was my
bet on fandom. Remember I've been saying I was on
the Packers as a team early on. Most people weren't,
so my fifteen dollar bet would become a hundred and
fifty dollars there. So the question is do I hedge
and on hedging For those of you who don't know,
let me give you a little quick gambling you right,
(39:35):
what happens is if they win, I got a hundred
fifty dollars. But if they lose, I can make now
bets that are with odds for this week, but like
San Francisco, and then if that one wins, I still
make a profit because I'm only out fifteen bucks off
green Bay loses. I can make a bet on the
San Francisco side, where what I'm in essence, because remember
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I've outlaid fifteen bucks. There if I outlay, I can
do something where I outlay I say another twenty five
or combined forty dollars let's say, depending on the money.
It doesn't whatever your units are. And make it so
that if San Francisco wins, I win more than my
total outlay, and if Green Bay wins, I win more
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than my total outlay. Scott Wetzel knows this. He's coming
in on In Game Live. Scott, I got a problem here.
I am holding Green Yeah, well, we're talking about the
Bachelor party that is happening this weekend, but we're not
talking about that. Yes, I'm going to Miami this weekend. Absolutely,
there will be no freestyle this Thursday. There will be
(40:38):
no freestyle this Monday. Jared is covering me on Make
It Rain and p FT. But I digress. So I
am holding Green Bay Packers to win the NFC. They
just put it up. I bet it in May, bet
it in May. I was like they got a defense
this year. So but I digress. Right, I'm trying to
teach him about hedging because San Frans like minus three hundred,
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so for me, I would have to invest enough to
have it the return be more than the combined outlay
and kind of sit that middle because, to be quite honest,
I think San frans gonna win the game. I think
San Franz gonna win the game. So what do I do.
I'm not comfortable Scott with like minus three eighty or
whatever it is. It makes it almost it makes it
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almost like not even fun to hedge and like, okay,
so I'll win like twenty bucks one way or the other,
you know. So what I think I'm doing If San
Francisco wins, I think their defense is going to once
again like they did earlier in the season, dump truck
Aaron Rodgers, stop the running game, force him into a
volume thrower. Have it be five yards to target, even
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like it wasn't that last time. Davante Adams had seven
catches yesterday for like a hundred eighty yards against San
Franci had seven catches for forty six yards. Okay, that's
a little bit of a different way of approaching how
you gonna play it. But I saw up if I
parlay San fran money line, and the under in the
game that par lay in itself is plus one fifty,
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and I'm calling I'm holding I'm holding ten to one
on green Beto in the NFC. So if I lose
in San Francisco loses, I've hit ten to one for
green Beto in the NFC. Oh, happy day. Another round
of drinks at whatever random bar I'm at in Miami
for everybody. But if they don't win and I hit
this par lay at plus, it ain't that bad. Maybe
(42:38):
it's just a round of shots for myself. Then what
do you think, Scott? Do I hedge? What do I do?
Talk to me? Right? Right? Oh, that's interesting, but I
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don't And you're like double hedging sequence the hedge interesting, right?
But I can't do that because I will be in
the state of Florida, right and I don't want to
hit up wind the will I don't know. I don't
even know if I'll be in the right frame of
mind to do that. Right. The other thing I can do,
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and here's where it comes full circle, is I could
just let it ride. But I got burned on this
once before, and let me tell you what it was, Scott.
As by the way, the chat room is going crazy.
Can I get a live stream from my bachelor party?
I don't know. I don't know. I may call in
or something like that. Patreon subscribers, you may get some stuff.
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So I saw a certain man play quarterback as a freshman,
and I was like, yo, that guy is the truth.
And when he came back his sophomore year, his school
was thirty five to one to win the national championship.
That man was Deshaun Watson. That school was Clemson. They're
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in the National Championship game, and I'll ruin the punch line.
This is the first time when they lost to Alabama
and I was holding them thirty five to one, and
I was like, you know what, effort, let it ride,
and I got banged out. I did it again in
the World Cup. In the World Cup, the teams I
was riding with were Croatia and Belgium. That worked well,
(44:23):
and then I hedged and then I took France and
I made some money off of it. Right. Do I
do it again tonight? I don't know. I only got
like a little while to figure it out, because you know,
I won't be in the state of New Jersey much.
I'll be down south. But we'll figure it out on
this game. On this game, I'm taking Clemson plus two points.
I think defense beats offense. This defense is real. Dabyl
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Sweeney has been there before. Um Trevor Lawrence has been
there before. I think Joe Burrow and l s U
I love him at all, but I think it is
publicly inflated like whoa. And I think Clemson is the
best team in the country, and I think they're the
best defense in the country. Give me the points, give
me the Tigers. But if you want to lock just
about the Tigers tonight, you'll be all right. We got
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Scott Watson coming in, we got Jared I believe, we
got Gabe and Cam Holk crew. We're crowding a champion tonight.
I won't see you for a while. I hope I
get back in time safety five. I know got through, Sabby.
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miss Freestyle. There's a huge story breaking in baseball, all right.
The it sounds like a Major League Baseball is coming
(46:11):
down on the Houston Nashtros. First we heard word that
Astros manager A J. Hinge and the GM Jeff Lanot,
we're suspended for a year. Okay. We're also hearing the
Astros will forfeit their first and second round draft picks
for the next couple of years. I think this is legit.
I think this is a deterrent. I think it hurts him.
And then we hear more that the Houston Astros have
(46:32):
turned around and were like, you know what, forget this,
and they turned around and fired Hinch and the GM,
and then we hear more that they are still ready
to drop in this being Major League Baseball, still ready
to drop the hammer on Joey Cora and potentially the
Boston Red Sox because they are involved. Remember Corus sort
of like the mastermind behind all this, And we're not done,
(46:52):
and there's still talk about what this means for Carlos
Beltrand now um because he was there now the manager
of the meth Now A lot of people are saying
and it seems like the report is indicating that no
players will be um uh uh punished, right, And I
wonder what you think about that, because they were all
complicit in this, they all knew this. What if your
(47:12):
arm and judge, who finishes second to Jose Altuve in
the two A L M v P. What if you're
the New York Yankees. What if you're the Los Angeles
Dodgers who went to the World Series, you know, back
to back years and we're facing this nonsense, all right?
I think this is very interesting. People are not likening
this all the way like to the Black Sox scandal,
that it's worse than steroids, worse than Pete rolls between sounds,
(47:34):
banging lights in the mound and all this stuff. And
it's not done yet, So keep an eye out on this.
I do think it is a deterrent. I do think
the Astros are gonna fall by the wayside a little
bit on this. Um. Yeah, I know they have great
talent still, but you know, when they don't know what's coming.
We'll see if that holds true. Uh, free agents aren't
gonna want to sign there. They have to now hire
a new manager in GM. I do think this hits
(47:57):
and where it hurts. Would you trade it in for
a title if you knew that this was gonna be
And I don't even think it guarantees you a title, right,
you still have to hit the ball. But if you
knew this would get you a title? Is it worth it?
Is it worth the crime? Is it worth it to you?
That's what I want to know. Hit me up in
the chat room about that. Hit me up if you
would take Lamar Jackson, Patty Mahomes, Deshaun Watson, or someone
else like a Josh Allen, like Kyler Murray Baker Mayfield,
(48:20):
Sam Donald, Daniel Jones, or one of these guys playing tonight,
perhaps Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence Right or an old guard.
Maybe you want to hang on to a guy like
Russell Wilson. But in any event, we have to look.
Now there are four teams left, and that's what we're
gonna get into. Okay, we're gonna talk about on the
other side of the break, which is coming in a
few minutes. We will talk about what speeds got right,
what speeds got wrong. We will break down the takeaways,
(48:42):
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Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Sports Grid Network, episode
number four hundred and thirty three, the four hundred and
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a good show for you as usual episode four thirty three.
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We got a lot of stuff to talk about. I mean,
we got a college football championship game that's about to
kick off in an hour or so. We are down
to the final four in the NFL, so we'll give
you our takeaways from divisional weekend, and of course, Danny,
we gotta update Speeds versus the kids. It's a little
bit different then last week. I will say, my members
(01:24):
of the stats over beat Cipher know that to be true.
We got a poll question that I think is very
very interesting as well. My pole question is this, if
you have to start a franchise right now in the NFL,
and you gotta start, you know, and grab one quarterback,
think about young quarterbacks with for the next like ten years,
what would you take? Because you know, my thesis right
(01:47):
all year has been that they're the three men in
the a f C. Lamar Jackson, Patty Mahomes and Deshaun Watson.
Only one of them is left standing. Patty Mahomes after
a ridiculous comeback in Arrowhead yesterday. We'll get into that.
A lot of people are hitting me up right now.
I had those three and then other ironically Other is
not in last place alright. A lot of people with
(02:07):
some love for Josh Allen up there in Buffalo. I
seem to also believe that Russell Wilson could get some
love because even in the next ten years, if Russell
and is nerties for you know, eight of them, right.
So I think it's an interesting question because we did
see some of that on display this weekend. But I
do want to also note, and we're gonna get into football.
(02:28):
For sure. Football is gonna be what we talked about,
you know, most of the time here, and that's what
the status of Beat Cipher knows. But there's a huge
story breaking in baseball today, all right. The it sounds
like a Major League Baseball is coming down on the
Houston Astros. First we heard word that Astro's manager A J.
Hinge and the GM Jeff Lanout, we're suspended for a year. Okay.
(02:50):
We're also hearing the Astros will forfeit their first and
second round draft picks for the next couple of years.
I think this is legit. I think this is a deterrent.
I think it hurts them. And then we hear more
that the Houston Nationals have turned around and were like,
you know what, forget this, and they turned around and
fired Hinch and the GM. And then we hear more
(03:11):
that they are still ready to drop in this being
Major League Baseball, still ready to drop the hammer on
Joey Cora and potentially the Boston Red Sox because they
are involved. Remember Corus sort of like the mastermind behind
all this. And we're not done, and there's still talk
about what this means for Carlos Beltrand now, um because
he was there, now the manager of the meth Now.
A lot of people are saying and it seems like
(03:32):
the report is indicating that no players will be um
uh uh punished, right, And I wonder what you think
about that, because they were all complicit in this, they
all knew this. What if you're armand Judge, who finishes
second to Jose Altuve in the two sev A L
m v P. What if you're the New York Yankees.
(03:53):
What if you're the Los Angeles Dodgers who went to
the World Series, you know, back to back years and
we're facing this nonsense, all right? I think this is
very interesting. People are not likening this all the way,
like to the Black Sox scandal, that it's worse than steroids,
worse than Pete Rose between sounds, banging lights in the
mound and all this stuff. And it's not done yet,
(04:14):
So keep an eye out on this. I do think
it is a deterrent. I do think the Astros are
gonna fall by the wayside a little bit on this. Um. Yeah,
I know they have great talent still, but you know,
when they don't know what's coming. We'll see if that
holds true. Uh, free agents aren't gonna want to sign there.
They have to now hire a new manager in GM.
I do think this hits and where it hurts. Would
(04:35):
you trade it in for a title if you knew
that this was gonna And I don't even think it
guarantees you a title? Right, you still have to hit
the ball, But if you knew this would get you
a title? Is it worth the is it worth the crime?
Is it worth it to you? That's what I want
to know. Hit me up in the chat room about that.
Hit me up if you would take Lamar Jackson, Patty Mahomes,
Deshaun Watson, or someone else like a Josh Allen, like Kyler,
(04:59):
Murray Baker, Mayfiel, Sam Donald, Daniel Jones, or one of
these guys playing tonight, perhaps Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence Right
or an old guard. Maybe you want to hang onto
a guy like Russell Wilson. But in any event, we
have to look. Now there are four teams left, and
that's what we're gonna get into. Okay, we're gonna talk
about on the other side of the break, which is
coming in a few minutes. We will talk about what
(05:19):
speed's got right, what Speeds got wrong. We will break
down the takeaways, the diamonds, the fool gazes from all
four games and what I call the best weekend of football. Okay,
there were a number of themes, and I gotta tell
you the truth. If you're real deal, Stats over Beat
Cipher and some of you guys out there certainly are
Ben out there, Tommy Gunns out there already. Okay, if
you um, you know, Ben is already talking about unpredictability
(05:43):
of football. I don't know, man, I had them against
the kids. I told you the Titans would be the
one outright dog that I thought goodwin. So yes, but
if you rewind the tape, we were kind of on
that with the Stats over Beat Cipher. But it is
absolutely crazy, you know, the fact that these kids can
kind of pick game just as good as some of us.
It's interesting. So we will update the standings of that.
(06:04):
I'll give you the takeaways, right, and then we'll also
spin it forward to the National Championship game. And Danny,
there's another thing going on this weekend that's not my
bachelor party. I know the Stats over Beat Cipher already
knows about that going down this weekend in Miami, I'll
be down that with Joe Marnary. But Danny, there's another
event in your neck of the woods, in your industry,
(06:27):
the place that you love so much, that we may
have to talk about as well. Danny, you know what
I'm talking about? Brother men? Uh no, No, what if
I tell you some guy that walks with a billionaire
strut is fighting a cowboy this weekend? Uh? Yeah? Now know? Yeah?
So maybe we'll talk about that as well, because I
(06:48):
have a key question for you, Danny, and that is
do rich do rich people like getting hit in the face?
Because I don't know Connors rich now cowboys not cowboys old.
But if you get rich like generational wealth like Connor
(07:09):
has now, are you still training the same way you
were when you were a janitor in Ireland? I don't know.
I want to get your thoughts on that as well.
We'll look over the injuries, will look over the games.
You know what's interesting, A lot of these teams came
out not that banged up, like I can't find really
a big injury. For the Tennessee Titans. For green Bay,
there was that illness that went through Bologa came out
(07:31):
of the concussion protocol he's eyed. Alan Lizard went to
the Blue Tent. We'll check in on that and Casey.
I know Kelsey and Hill got banged up, but they
were back out there. Chris Jones is a big one.
We'll track him, but otherwise these teams could be healthy.
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here on the Sports Grid Network. We're getting it in um. Yeah.
Ben is asking some questions some of you guys, Tommy
gunns q q Q Wilson Ben, you guys are in
the chat still talking about this Astros thing. I think
it's really interesting. Listen. I I do think it's a
deterrent okay, because here's the thing. They gotta hire a
(09:01):
new manager now, all right, So that's one. Okay. To
the draft picks. I think are real their first and
their second round picks for the next two years. Remember
this is how this team stocked up in the beginning.
They drafted Korea Bregman. All these gets Springer right. And
the other thing for me is, you know they're pretty
much mud for the next few years. Right. If you're
(09:22):
a free agent, are you gonna sign in Houston now?
Or is that kind of stench still there? I think
you're not gonna sign. I think it's a determined free
agent signing as well. And listen, the idea, um, is
it possible the Mets fire beltrend It is possible. Is
it possible the Red Sox fire Cora. I actually think
they will. I think they will in the next thirty
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six hours, because look, Houston turnaround and fired their guys
right away. Do they want this stench on them? I
don't know. I think we haven't heard the last of this.
I think this thing is actually sprawling if you want
to know the truth. So we'll see sign where the
best pictures are. Yeah, but is that really is that
really Houston anymore? I mean there's Verlander there, there's Grenky there.
(10:06):
Verlander was in on all this cold out that not
there anymore. You're right, that's the thing, you k Q Wilson.
And that's the thing that he says. The World series
of Champs Ring are still on their finger. That's the thing.
You're absolutely right. They still had a parade, And as
a Yankees fan, I was still piste off and had
the heart ripped out of me. If I was a
Dodgers fan, I'd feel the same way. You could give
Aaron Judge the two seventeen m v P. I don't
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get a parade. I don't get to as a grown
man hug my best friends. I don't cry watching a
TV screen. If they just stripped the Astros, that's what
it's about for me. You know, you could stripped, they
stripped like Reggie Bush of the Heisman. I don't know.
You know, it doesn't matter, right, those fans still got
to celebrate, and that's what it's really about, all right.
(10:51):
So we'll keep talking about this. Um well, so keep
talking about this as we go along with checking in
the chat room and also on Touchable, Jay is talking
about us the um the fancy who got hired by
the Cleveland Browns and let's go there, the Browns doing fire.
UM hire him. He used to be the Vikings offensive coordinator,
was in for De Filippo when he was the offensive coordinator.
(11:13):
This is a guy who was with this organization for
fourteen years, kind of moving all the way up, so
I get it. Listen, he could be a great excess
and those guy My question is this and a guy
taking his first head coaching job. The problem with Cleveland
to me is the idea of they needed an adult
in the room, They needed a respected voice in the room.
I'm not usually one for retreads, right, but I wonder
(11:35):
if this guy getting his first ever crack at the
big chair is gonna be able to deal with the drama,
the pr the personalities that are there. You needed a
kind of unifying presence and a voice that everyone had
to be behind. And I just don't know if Stefanski
is that the Broncos have hired Pat Shermer to be
their new offensive coordinator. I wonder what what the Broncos
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was gonna come down to is are they all in
on Drew Lock or not? And we'll see that in
free agency. I plan after the Super Bowl as we
get into free agency to do a big thing about
like all the quarterback merry go around, where they go,
where they might not go, and a big question of
that is are the Denver Broncos all in on Drew Lock.
We'll see what Pat Shermer thinks. Apparently he scouted him
and liked them in the draft as well, because I
(12:17):
remember they were looking a get Daniel Jones um. And
you know what some interesting news of the weird. Did
you see you over the weekend? Julian Edelman jumping on
the hood of a car in California? What is this?
You know? Because with the fans key going to Cleveland,
a lot of people are now thinking about, well, that
means Josh McDaniels isn't so, so what is the is
(12:39):
the band back together in New England? McDaniels, Brady Bill Edelman?
Is this a new Patriot way? Jumping on hoods of
cars getting arrested? But it is nothing compared to what
we saw out of Antonio Brown to day. If you
don't know what I'm talking about, go to my twitter
feed at spitting Speeds, I posted a video. Let's just say,
(12:59):
antone Yo Brown thought it fit to live stream an
interaction he had with the police with his kids and
his baby mama in the middle of the street. And
let's just say, and I'm not joking that it also
involved a bag of gummy penises. I'm I'm not joking.
(13:20):
Go to the Twitter feed and check it out. It's ridiculous.
The man is not well. All right, Um, so that's
what we're dealing with, and they'll be all that. Good job,
but let's talk about for real, for real, and you
know what, actually before we do that. One other thing,
I thought it was really nice, uh that over this weekend,
on both Saturday and Sunday, they came on studio and
decided to honor and announced Bill Kawar and Jimmy Johnson's
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uh you know, kind of Hall of Fame entry. I
thought that was a really nice moment. It happened on Saturday,
it happened on Sunday. I thought it was really cool
to see these grown men break down and cry like
little boys and get emotional and think when you see
the payoff of all that hard work and they kind
of get to that life's goal, I thought it was
really cool. I thought it was absolutely cool, and I
hope they do that again whenever fit, when they have
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the opportunity to do that, I thought it was really
really cool. So we tip our cap to the Hall
of Fame. All right, takeaways from these games. Two of
the themes that I have been saying all season long.
One is that teams need balance right in the run game.
I've talked about the commitment to the run game, trying
to prevent you from getting forced out of the game
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script and becoming a volume thrower. It doesn't matter if
you're Kirk Cousins, if you're Matt Ryan, if you Philip Rivers.
I've said it all season, you don't want to become
a volume thrower. Right. And and at the beginning of
the season, we talked about the running back being devalued,
Zeke Elliott, Melvin Gordon right holding out and it wasn't
really worth it. And the distinction I want to make
here is the running back, the single running back is
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being devalued in the NFL. But what the postseason teaches
us and what I've been saying for months, and if
you get the status Beats Cipher, you know that I
don't just give you a fish. I teach you how
to fish. The running back is overrated, but a running
game is underrated. And that was a big theme that
we've been seeing the playoffs and the other one of
these dudes just making plays. I've been saying it about
Russell and about Patty, and about Lamar and about this Sean.
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But what what what struck me this week is that
it wasn't like, yeah, they made incredible plays. I'll throw
Anon Rodgers in there as well, but it's a lot
of like these little small ones that you don't really
talk about as much. I saw, for example, Russell Wilson
should have been sacked on one random play. It was
the second down play, and he should have been sacked
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for like six yards, but he did something ridiculous and
wound up like gaining three. And that's the difference between
third and sixteen and like third and five in this situation.
And if little things like that that, you know, obviously
the announcers will make a point about it, but it's
just so big and these dudes just continue to make
plays rolling out, you know, eight yard passes to Hollister,
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finding Davante Adams. When they're extending plays, you know, hitting
Will Fuller or Duke Johnson out of the backfield, extending
and rolling out and then forcing the defense to make
a decision. Am I gonna run? Where I boom right there?
To Travis Kelsey. All of these dudes can do that,
all right, And that and the balance in the run game,
or really what I'm seeing is running to day in
this two thousand and nineteen NFL. So first of all,
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let's talk about Tennessee in Baltimore, and this is what
it comes down to. What do you respect that's a
defensive coordinator. You have to respect Derrick Henry, right, he
goes off again yards. But with Tannehill, they represent the
potential of the play action game, of the throwing game,
of being able to go over the top. We've seen it.
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It doesn't matter if he he only completed like seven balls,
but it doesn't matter because if they need to, they
can do that. It was so much that Bill Belichick
thought that was the right hand to take away right now.
With the Ravens, of course you respect Lamar, but when
you're down fourteen nothing right. You can start to play
a little bit differently, and even Lamar would admit that
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he has development in terms of throwing outside the numbers.
The Titans had a unique opportunity to force that. I
said early in the season they didn't want Lamar Jackson
becoming a volume thrower. This is not an indictment on Lamor.
I'm not one of those guys being like, oh, the
m v P season was food gaz, It's not. I'm
not gonna here throw all sorts of shade at Lamar.
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He was amazing. Okay. What is important is that they
play from a head, that they get out early. We've
always known that these teams weren't able able to force
them into that. Well, look at what happened. Lamar Jackson
had fifty nine attempts. That's not what the Ravens want.
It is no surprise that in there he turned the
ball over three times. The question is, when you get
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punched in the mouth, do you have something else to
go to? The Titans have demonstrated that they do. They
haven't had to with Derrick Henry running for over a
hundred eighty yards all the time, but they demonstrate that
they have to, so you have to leave a safety back.
When Lamar and the Ravens are running right and they
do play action, there's guys running wide open all over
the field because of the running game. You don't have
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to do that. When you're down by three scores. It's
a different thing. We'll talk about the other three games
will do speeds versus the kids, I hope with the
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four games that happened over the weekend, and honestly, you know,
for me and Lamar, it was like what happens? Like
do you what where do you go to when your
best pitch is gone? What's what's the other? What's the
left hand? Do you know? And listen Ingram was compromised
and users compromised. One of the best lineman, Marcel Yonda,
(20:57):
was clearly compromised. And I'm not pooh pooing Lamar. I'm
just saying this is the continued development for them, to
be honest, they just got to develop more as a passer,
right and and that's health. What are you gonna do?
You know? Um? In this Houston Kansas City game, Wow,
was that exhausting? Huh? That was like schoolyard football. There
were guys laterally, and there was all sorts of I
(21:18):
was just crazy, right obviously, And by now we all
know the twenty four nothing lead and then Kansas City
comes all the way back. I gotta tell you something,
and I was when I was talking about this game,
I was really surprised that Houston didn't try to stem
the tide a little bit by running Carlos Hide more.
I told you that in back to back weeks earlier
in the season, and they gonna ask Applis. Colts went
(21:38):
in there, ran the ball down the cold, down the
chiefs throat and one. Then the Texans went in there,
ran the ball down the chief's throat and one. Carlos
Hide I believe had over a hundred yards on over
twenty five carries and a touchdown in that game. And
then we got news like an hour and a half
before the game that Chris Jones was gonna be inactive.
I really thought they were gonna run the ball more,
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and it couldn't because it devolved into some crazy back
and forth shoot out, but then even at the beginning
of the second half to try to like settle things down.
I was surprised that didn't happen more. And here's what
I also want to say. In this game, you saw
the difference between mental mistakes and physical mistakes. I used
to coach kids in in in football and in baseball,
and I said, I will never get mad at you
(22:20):
for a physical mistake. Muff punt is a physical mistake, right,
But mental mistakes and coaching mistakes and scheming mistakes, like
why fake punt when you're still up to just to
give it when your own side of the field to
give someone momentum. Why don't end around with Kenny Stills
when you're moving the ball and on schedule. Those kind
of things is what will get you. The physical mistakes, Hey,
(22:42):
they happen. Block punts happened, you know, Um so I
thought that was different. If I'm Houston now, I think
you gotta still continue to build up the defense. Listen, J. J.
Watt doesn't play full seasons. You had the like bottom
five defense. The offensive sign is fine. You have Deshaun
Watson even with a piss poor offensive. You are seemingly okay,
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you need to build up that defense, all right, UM,
next game, UM. And by the way, listen, UM, I
saw a leadership out of Patty Mahomes when they were
down twenty four nothing. It's Mahomes going up and down
that bench right telling people we're gonna do something special.
Don't worry hanging there. Stick with me. By contrast, and
again I'm not crapping on Lamar. By contrast, Lamar sitting
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there like banging his helmet. You know, I think part
of that is experience part of it. And Lamar Jackson,
it's his second year in the league. He's going to evolve.
They're gonna be healthy. If he had mark Ingram, he's
gonna have that second option. He's gonna get better as
a passer down the field. Outside the numbers. It's okay.
The arrow is pointing up the same way as said.
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It's all good if I'm a Bills fan, right. So,
and then we have yeah, and in that Minnesota San
Fran game, Listen, they have been a great case study.
Let me talk to you to three games from Minnesota.
The first thing exhibit A is when they didn't have
Dalvin Cook and everybody thought Mike Boone was going to
take them to a fantasy championship. And they played a
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Monday night football game against Green Bay and Mike Boone
proved that he couldn't run the ball well. And then
it became you don't have the running game right when
the defense doesn't have to respect that Oh krk Cousins
volume passer, he didn't look good. They lost the NFC
North on Monday Night football to the Green Bay Packers.
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Exhibit B. Last week against New Orleans, all of a sudden,
Dalvin Cook and uh Madison, they're running well. They combined
for over thirty yards. Thirty carries, they combined for over
a hundred yards. Dalvin Cook gets into the end zone twice.
All of a sudden, Kirk Cousins has wide open guys
down the middle of the field. All of a sudden,
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Kirk Cousin gets the monkey off his back. All of
a sudden, the Minnesota Vikings put up points and win.
You don't think these things are related, like I've been
saying all year long, and then I take you to
yesterday or sad to day. Dalvin Cook runs for uh
nine carries for eighteen yards. They stuff it, they get
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behind by multiple scores. No longer have to respect the
run game volume passer, Kirk Cousins, it doesn't look pretty.
It's a formula that we're seeing all across the NFL.
People contrast about what we saw in the San Francisco
run game. Okay, this Minnesota San Francisco game, we didn't
have one of those playmaking quarterbacks. There was no Aaron Rodgers,
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Russ Wilson, Patty Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, DeShawn Watson. They didn't
play in this game. So it's about the run game
in the balance. Look at what San Francisco does, Kevin Coleman.
They combined, though, between Coleman, most Art and even Brita,
to run the ball forty two times. We're a hundred
and eighty yards. And let me tell you what else
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in that game shows it for me. Jimmy G through
a pick deep his own territory. But San Francisco had
about a one score lead at that point. It was
second quarter. They took the ball out of Jimmy G's
hands after that interception. Jimmy G had six more attempts
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the rest of the game. Okay, because they didn't need
him to be a volume passer, because that's when mistakes happened.
All right, Kirk Cousins had to be a volume passer.
Didn't work. San Francis hosting the NFC Championship game. In
the last game that we got to talk about, the
last game of the weekend. Oh, by the way from Minnesota.
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Build up your offensive line. That's what it's going down
to your defense. We like that her Cousin's fine game manager,
don't like him as a volume thrower. You got weapons.
You gotta build up that offensive line, all right. You
gotta hope Dalvin Cook isn't truly injury prone. The team
went ten and six. Dalvin Cook missed some games. This
team goes eleven and five, wins one or two more games.
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They got games at home where they're much better. That
defense is much better. These vikings are not far away.
In the last game. Here's what was proven to me.
Even Russell Wilson needs a run game for a balance.
Besides his own rushing. Besides his own seven carries for
sixty four yards, Lynch and Homer combined fifteen touches carries
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twenty nine yards. That's less than two a pop. You
don't need to worry about it. So what can you do?
Things like, you know, contain Russell Wilson with your rush,
pin your ears back and go after him. They sacked
them five times. Remember how last week I told you
they're not brothers like the Watts or the Bosas. But
Preston and za Darius Smith were named. You're gonna hear
they each got two sacks. Okay, And then on the
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other side, listen, Davante Adams beasted eight for one sixty.
My boy Frank Standfill put up some stats on him
since his return from injury. It's been ridiculous. I think
he's like wide out too. And my boy Frank asked
the question, like, how many white outs are you taking
ahead of Davante Adams next year in fantasy? It's a
valid question. And I remind you this year, Jilly Dilley
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has the notes. My top three wide receivers going into
this year where DeAndre Hopkins, Davante Adams, and Michael Thomas.
If you go back and run the tape, I faded
Julio Jones, I faded Juju Smith Schuster, I faded Odell Beckham.
And going into next year, my top three wide receivers
will be probably the exact same in no particular order
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just yet, Michael Thomas, Davante Adams, DeAndre Hopkins, maybe Tyreek
Hill in there as well. All right, but look at
these offenses, all right, and Davantae Adams had a huge game.
But here's the other thing. There was one play in there,
Aaron Rodgers flick of the wrist on a dime to
Jimmy Graham. And I remind you, Aaron Rodgers is one
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of these guys as well, one of these guys that
make plays, extend the plays off script, off schedule while
rolling out. Okay, you either have one of these quarterbacks
that just makes ridiculous plays and raises all boats, like
the three guys in my poll, like a Russell Wilson
like and Aaron Rodgers, I'll give you, like a Josh Allen,
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although he needs to learn a little bit more. Maybe
there'll be others coming up. Kyler Murray comes to mind.
Or you need to have that balance because otherwise, if
you're not making plays and I'm asking people to guard
for five six seconds because you can extend to play,
you need something else. You need the thread of the
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run game. You need play action, right, and that's what
it comes down to when Aaron Rodgers made it throw
in that game last night. Well, I was like, oh
my god, that's so beautiful. And my fiance said to me,
it kind of looked like Patrick Mahomes and that brought
it full circle for me. You know, we talked about
Lamar and Patty and Watson and all this, but Aaron
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Rodgers really kind of I and I know Joe Ronario
say it goes all the way back to Steve Young,
and he's true, he's right, But like Aaron Rodgers and
this new guard has really provided this dual threat and
that was another big time takeaway from me for Seattle. Listen,
it's again the defense like Houston, and you need a
running game. Listen, Carson is serviceable. Fantasy people know him.
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But what if they went out and spent money on
like a Melvin Gordon. What if they went out and
traded for lev Bell. What if they took Deatrick Henry
away from the Titans. Wouldn't that be the cherry on
top for that offense with Russell still and his prime
I digress on the other side of the break, when
we come back, we look at speeds versus the kids.
We bring in Danny Otto here from the pit of misery,
(30:34):
and Danny and I are back in it all right,
so we will see what we gotta do. The child
psychology is amazing, and then we'll put the fund and
functional sports content. We got a question of should I
hedge or not? And uh, we got some things going
on this weekend to talk about it as well. Come
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episode four thirty three. At a Fantasy Freestyle, you got
two boy speeds and spitting statistician holding you down with
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the stats overbeat cipher. Yo. The chat room is wild,
all right. I gotta love you, Um, Andrew G. Slowdown though,
area man, that's my homegirl, all right, but I do
love Andrew G. Jeremy McMahon, Lance Davis, Stat's overbeat cipher representing,
and I gotta tell you I love the train of
thought outside of that other comment um in the chat room.
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First of all, Andrew G, You're right, Lamar did look
stunned a little bit right. Meanwhile, Patty Mahomes got up,
went up and down that bench, rallying everybody, saying let's
do something special. Lamar looked a little bit stunned, and
we really did. I ain't but listen, first time out there,
I got it. It's all good, still very bright for Lamar, okay,
(32:20):
But there was a difference in the way you saw
Lamar respond and the way you saw Patty Mahomes respond. Also,
Jeremy Man and Lands Davids talking about Bubba Sparks that
you should be my man back in the day. First
of all, spark one, Jeremy, you know what it is,
yah do sab our. Of course, Stat's over beat cipher
right there, Jeremy McMahon represent and he brings up Bubba
(32:40):
Sparks your booda booda boo boo boot everywhere. Also my
jam from Bubba, you remember that jam. It was like
some kind of swallow southern joint. Was like I've been
traveling for some time with my fishing pole and my
bottle is shine. That's that good stuff right there. That Oh,
Bubba Sparks joined, I am at at you, Jeremy Man
and Lance Spark one up. And then y'all also talking
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about Trick Daddy. Trick Daddy, and first of all, and
this brings it all full circle, Trick loves the kids, no, no,
not speeds loves the kids. And we'll get into speeds
versus the kids in a hot second. And then you're
talking about though I'm worried about this because you're talking
about Trick Daddy getting arrested in Miami high and doing
blow right before I go to Miami for my bachelor
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party this weekend. Yeah, were talking about receding hairline. I
thought you were talking about speeds instead of Trick Daddy,
because it's like Trick Daddy, trick load of kids, Speeds
loves the kids, you know. So I don't want to
get confused with Trick. I should not be behind the
wheel on Saturday. Uh, but I digress. The other thing
y'all are talking about is uh Speeds loves the kids.
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So let's get into it, Danny. And first of all, uh, yeah,
thanks Lance, Yeah, thank you, Ben. I've been traveling for
some time. Yeah. I guess I'm going to hide away
a way because I gotta found my way. But in
any event, all right, um so, Danny, we got Speeds
versus the kids. We didn't do too good. Wild card weekend, Danny,
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we got squaw do should we defecated the mattress. But
we came back with a three in one weekend, right,
So that's good. Put up the graphic right now. Because
these kids, they didn't do it all right. Coral only
got one win to get to four. Zoe, Michaela and
Casper they got like squaw douche. All they could get
up to was three. Oscar and Jasmine have two. And
then here's the thing, Danny, I told you this was
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gonna happen. I told you parents were gonna mess up kids.
So Audrey, my lovely step my lovely god daughter, and Tito,
Arianna and Andy, their parents didn't get it in. They
didn't get the picks in in time. Or at all,
so they fall by the wayside. All right, So Danny,
what we have is Cora, will you know, is the
daughter of the undisclosed location, Danny Lee. Remember she's rotting
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with the Titans, picking the Titans at her at her
mother and her father's disbelief. But we are now tied
for second, Danny, alright, so you can take that down.
So here's what I'm thinking, Danny, Cora is the only
person who's one game up on us. Right. So but
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if you remember, Danny, I think it's a lock that
Cora is gonna pick the Tennessee Titans. I really do.
She picked them in wild card, as we remember, Remember
her mother's reaction to when she picked them on wild
card weekend over the Patriots. Remember that, Danny. I mean,
So she's been like day one with the Titans, right,
and then last weekend she goes back to the Titans
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against the Kansas City Chiefs, And this time Danny Lee
was like, are you sure? Really? You know what I mean?
So Cora has been on the Titans from the beginning
of the playoffs. Her parents have thought it was silly,
and what do you know, now she's in first place, Danny,
I mean she's sticking to her guns. I mean that
that's you know. So here's the thing. I think she's
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going to stay with the tendency Titans and picked them
to win the n f C Championship. What do you think,
I mean at this point you might as well. So
I think she's gonna pick Tennessee. So I've been saying
on this air for the better part of the last
two months that I'm on the Kansas City Chiefs bandwagon. Right.
I said, Patty Mahomes was getting more healthy. I said
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this Kansas City Chiefs defense was improving before anyone else
did run the tape. I've been on the Chiefs defense
because I said even early in the season that it
takes a while to learn Spagnolo zone defenses, the coverages,
the responsibilities. I said earlier in the season that that
Spags defense would get better. Add Interrell Suggs adding the
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huddy badger who don't give a what, And that's what
you have it. Okay. By the way, Tom Pierce, thank
you for the shout out. And my man absolutely always
gets it done. Okay, I got love for the man.
Toni Sincot, thanks Tim Pierce for the kind words. Okay,
So back to where we were going. I think she's
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gonna pick Tennessee, So I'm picking Kansas City, Danny. I
think that's how we make the game up on Cora.
What do you say? You you already know that I agree.
We were talking about this before the show. I'm definitely
going with Casey, right, okay, So we're going Casey. And
by the way, I'm doing some of this because if
you haven't heard, and they've been giving it to me
all week on this network, there will be no Fantasy
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Freestyle this Thursday, all right. There will also be no
Fantasy Freestyle next Monday on Martin Luther King Day, all right, because,
as many people know, I am getting married next month.
I have my bachelor party is this weekend down in Miami.
That's why I brought up the Trig Daddy reference, because
you know, I may be in a similar spot. But
we'll get into that later, all right. So, um, I
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gotta make some picks now. We gotta talk about this
speeds versus the kids. So here's the thing, though, Danny,
let's say this happens the way I think and Chiefs
whin the ANFC Championship. We're even up with Cora. What
do we do? Do we go opposite Cora on purpose
to try to get ahead of her, or do we
just mimic whatever Cora says, Like I'm gonna be I'm
gonna worry about how to play this against Cora? Okay?
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And if do I just mimic whatever she says this way,
if the Chiefs w in the a f C will
be tied no matter what going into the super Bowl,
or do I just say, hell, throw caution to the
wind and just pick who I think regardless, even if
it puts me at a disadvantage and I might not
be able to catch up with her. What do you say, Danny?
I mean, there's the there's the safe play, there's the
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How do you feel about the Chiefs? You feel like
pretty confident? I mean they are seven point favorites after
the last game. I'm I'm pretty damn confident with Alright, alright,
fair enough. So listen, as we saw on the graphic,
Cora is leading, but I have a feeling she's picking
the Titans. I'm gonna go opa with her there and
take the Chiefs, and I'm leaning San Francisco. Here's the thing, though, Danny,
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Here's my problem in this other game, I can't tell
you much about it. Put up the other graphic, Danny.
This is why it's hard for me, Okay, Danny. In
the beginning, at the end of May, small play futures bet,
I bet the Green Bay Packers to win the NFC,
all right, and that would turn fifteen dollars into one fifty.
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All right, you can take that off. That was my
bet on fandom. Remember I've been saying I was on
the Packers as a team early on. Most people weren't,
so my fifteen dollar bet would become a hundred and
fifty dollars there. So the question is do I hedge
and on hedging For those of you who don't know,
let me give you a little quick gambling you right,
(39:35):
what happens is if they win, I got a hundred
fifty dollars. But if they lose, I can make now
bets that are with odds for this week, but like
San Francisco, and then if that one wins, I still
make a profit because I'm only out fifteen bucks off
green Bay loses. I can make a bet on the
San Francisco side, where what I'm in essence, because remember
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I've outlaid fifteen bucks. There if I outlay, I can
do something where I outlay I say another twenty five
or combined forty dollars let's say, depending on the money.
It doesn't whatever your units are. And make it so
that if San Francisco wins, I win more than my
total outlay, and if Green Bay wins, I win more
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than my total outlay. Scott Wetzel knows this. He's coming
in on In Game Live. Scott, I got a problem here.
I am holding Green Yeah, well, we're talking about the
Bachelor party that is happening this weekend, but we're not
talking about that. Yes, I'm going to Miami this weekend. Absolutely,
there will be no freestyle this Thursday. There will be
(40:38):
no freestyle this Monday. Jared is covering me on Make
It Rain and p FT. But I digress. So I
am holding Green Bay Packers to win the NFC. They
just put it up. I bet it in May, bet
it in May. I was like they got a defense
this year. So but I digress. Right, I'm trying to
teach him about hedging because San Frans like minus three hundred,
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so for me, I would have to invest enough to
have it the return be more than the combined outlay
and kind of sit that middle because, to be quite honest,
I think San frans gonna win the game. I think
San Franz gonna win the game. So what do I do.
I'm not comfortable Scott with like minus three eighty or
whatever it is. It makes it almost it makes it
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almost like not even fun to hedge and like, okay,
so I'll win like twenty bucks one way or the other,
you know. So what I think I'm doing If San
Francisco wins, I think their defense is going to once
again like they did earlier in the season, dump truck
Aaron Rodgers, stop the running game, force him into a
volume thrower. Have it be five yards to target, even
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like it wasn't that last time. Davante Adams had seven
catches yesterday for like a hundred eighty yards against San
Franci had seven catches for forty six yards. Okay, that's
a little bit of a different way of approaching how
you gonna play it. But I saw up if I
parlay San fran money line, and the under in the
game that par lay in itself is plus one fifty,
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and I'm calling I'm holding I'm holding ten to one
on green Beto in the NFC. So if I lose
in San Francisco loses, I've hit ten to one for
green Beto in the NFC. Oh, happy day. Another round
of drinks at whatever random bar I'm at in Miami
for everybody. But if they don't win and I hit
this par lay at plus, it ain't that bad. Maybe
(42:38):
it's just a round of shots for myself. Then what
do you think, Scott? Do I hedge? What do I do?
Talk to me? Right? Right? Oh, that's interesting, but I
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don't And you're like double hedging sequence the hedge interesting, right?
But I can't do that because I will be in
the state of Florida, right and I don't want to
hit up wind the will I don't know. I don't
even know if I'll be in the right frame of
mind to do that. Right. The other thing I can do,
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and here's where it comes full circle, is I could
just let it ride. But I got burned on this
once before, and let me tell you what it was, Scott.
As by the way, the chat room is going crazy.
Can I get a live stream from my bachelor party?
I don't know. I don't know. I may call in
or something like that. Patreon subscribers, you may get some stuff.
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So I saw a certain man play quarterback as a freshman,
and I was like, yo, that guy is the truth.
And when he came back his sophomore year, his school
was thirty five to one to win the national championship.
That man was Deshaun Watson. That school was Clemson. They're
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in the National Championship game, and I'll ruin the punch line.
This is the first time when they lost to Alabama
and I was holding them thirty five to one, and
I was like, you know what, effort, let it ride,
and I got banged out. I did it again in
the World Cup. In the World Cup, the teams I
was riding with were Croatia and Belgium. That worked well,
(44:23):
and then I hedged and then I took France and
I made some money off of it. Right. Do I
do it again tonight? I don't know. I only got
like a little while to figure it out, because you know,
I won't be in the state of New Jersey much.
I'll be down south. But we'll figure it out on
this game. On this game, I'm taking Clemson plus two points.
I think defense beats offense. This defense is real. Dabyl
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Sweeney has been there before. Um Trevor Lawrence has been
there before. I think Joe Burrow and l s U
I love him at all, but I think it is
publicly inflated like whoa. And I think Clemson is the
best team in the country, and I think they're the
best defense in the country. Give me the points, give
me the Tigers. But if you want to lock just
about the Tigers tonight, you'll be all right. We got
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Scott Watson coming in, we got Jared I believe, we
got Gabe and Cam Holk crew. We're crowding a champion tonight.
I won't see you for a while. I hope I
get back in time safety five. I know got through, Sabby.
I'll see y'all. Fantasy Freestyle we out. The NFL season
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miss Freestyle. There's a huge story breaking in baseball, all right.
The it sounds like a Major League Baseball is coming
(46:11):
down on the Houston Nashtros. First we heard word that
Astros manager A J. Hinge and the GM Jeff Lanot,
we're suspended for a year. Okay. We're also hearing the
Astros will forfeit their first and second round draft picks
for the next couple of years. I think this is legit.
I think this is a deterrent. I think it hurts him.
And then we hear more that the Houston Astros have
(46:32):
turned around and were like, you know what, forget this,
and they turned around and fired Hinch and the GM,
and then we hear more that they are still ready
to drop in this being Major League Baseball, still ready
to drop the hammer on Joey Cora and potentially the
Boston Red Sox because they are involved. Remember Corus sort
of like the mastermind behind all this, And we're not done,
(46:52):
and there's still talk about what this means for Carlos
Beltrand now um because he was there now the manager
of the meth Now A lot of people are saying
and it seems like the report is indicating that no
players will be um uh uh punished, right, And I
wonder what you think about that, because they were all
complicit in this, they all knew this. What if your
(47:12):
arm and judge, who finishes second to Jose Altuve in
the two A L M v P. What if you're
the New York Yankees. What if you're the Los Angeles
Dodgers who went to the World Series, you know, back
to back years and we're facing this nonsense, all right?
I think this is very interesting. People are not likening
this all the way like to the Black Sox scandal,
that it's worse than steroids, worse than Pete rolls between sounds,
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banging lights in the mound and all this stuff. And
it's not done yet, So keep an eye out on this.
I do think it is a deterrent. I do think
the Astros are gonna fall by the wayside a little
bit on this. Um. Yeah, I know they have great
talent still, but you know, when they don't know what's coming.
We'll see if that holds true. Uh, free agents aren't
gonna want to sign there. They have to now hire
a new manager in GM. I do think this hits
(47:57):
and where it hurts. Would you trade it in for
a title if you knew that this was gonna be
And I don't even think it guarantees you a title, right,
you still have to hit the ball. But if you
knew this would get you a title? Is it worth it?
Is it worth the crime? Is it worth it to you?
That's what I want to know. Hit me up in
the chat room about that. Hit me up if you
would take Lamar Jackson, Patty Mahomes, Deshaun Watson, or someone
else like a Josh Allen, like Kyler Murray Baker Mayfield,
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Sam Donald, Daniel Jones, or one of these guys playing tonight,
perhaps Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence Right or an old guard.
Maybe you want to hang on to a guy like
Russell Wilson. But in any event, we have to look.
Now there are four teams left, and that's what we're
gonna get into. Okay, we're gonna talk about on the
other side of the break, which is coming in a
few minutes. We will talk about what speeds got right,
what speeds got wrong. We will break down the takeaways,
(48:42):
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