For The Fan EP 165: 2025 NFL Prediction Show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, gentlemen, we made it thirty two teams and seven weeks.
Well eight weeks if you want to consider a double
episode on the same week, but we made it. We're
here a little over what twenty eight hours until kickoff
of the new season. No, twenty seven hours, that's my bad.
Twenty seven hours until the Eagles defend their Super Bowl

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title against the Dallas Cowboys at link In Financial Field.
But before then, we have a lot of picks to make.
I am Will, that's Domin, that's Jake, and we are
for the fan. Gentlemen, Hello, suh?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Does any is anyone gonna tell Nick Sierganni there's a
banner raising going on? I think he said.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
I think he said he doesn't even want to do.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
He's like, know that's happening at all, that's amazing.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
He was really expecting his firing and then he's just like, oh,
we're gonna raise a banner. What ah? Man. It brings
us back to those Nashville Predator days where they just
hang a banner all the time, make fun of it.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Tell you what, this is one of my favorite episodes
the year that we do.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
We make the picks. We have seven NFC teams, seven
AFC teams. We have what seven awards MVP Offensive, Defensive, Offensive, Rookie, Defensive, Rookie,
comeback head coach. We got seven awards, So that's twenty
one things to pick. And then on top of that,
we have sixteen picks to make out of the first

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two seventy two of the year.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yes, sir, time to start a new and not have
to dig myself out of a hole from some other times.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
The football weather's here. It's the nice seventies over here,
it's sunny, it's nice, it's beautiful, gets down to the fifties.
So we are living our best life with football weather.
And let's just jump right into it. Gentlemen and everyone
listening around the world. You are listening to for the fan.

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You are listening to for the fan. And here we are.
We have so many picks to make. I didn't even

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make any banners or anything to string along the bottom here.
I can make one up really quick. Here, which one
do we want to eliminate? Not that one. We don't
want to show that we want to eliminate this one. Gentlemen,
where do we want to start here? Do we want
to start with playoff teams? Or we want to start
out with awards.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
We can start with awards, because all you bums copy
my pick.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
I didn't copy Jack Squat, so I am not hearing
any of this. Okay. I saw your picks and I said, okay,
I'm gonna start changing them. And I'm like, this one's
a little difficult. It's all pick yours, alrighty, gentlemen, we
have seven awards to pick out today. Let's get the
Google Chrome up here. There we go, and yeah, we're

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gonna start out on the bottom here this. We're gonna
start out a Coach of the Year.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Jake.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
We're gonna go uh, we're gonna clock right clockwise around
something like that. We're gonna go differently with everything. But Jake,
you'll have the floor here with picking your coach of
the year.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
I think this is the obvious choice, right, Like, if
the Patriots are even halfway decent or stiffing, a playoff
team like Rabel's gonna win it in a walk, right,
anybody anybody to eject?

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Now?

Speaker 2 (03:29):
I feel like, well, Will's is a good, good candidate.
We'll get to that, But like, I feel like the
obvious choice is Rabel.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, I mean that's that's my pick, is Rabel. I
looked up you know what, I was very curious, why
don't you pull.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Up the odds for all of these and then we
can see how we went.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
If I could find them, I was gonna pull up
the NFL like networks picks by their people or whatever.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
We won't just pull draftings and just through.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
I could do that, but I was looking, and they
had some weird ones too, and like I didn't like
a bunch of the ones that they that people were paying,
like NFL media people were picking.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
But like, just like I use I use theirs as
like inspiration. I'm like, okay, that's kind of like.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
The names, Like give me the list of the names
so I can, you know.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
I want to know that I'm not a complete and
utter dumb ass.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
When that's how I use it. Let's see.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
Betting odds for a coach of the year. Oh, here
we go. This is Vegas odds right here, Ben Johnson.
That's right, Ben Johnson is the favored, which I just
don't see happening. I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
I like, are you sure? I think we all fell
into the bear's trap for like the their consecutive year
in a row. I gotta say, we might be falling
into it.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Who's falling into it?

Speaker 3 (05:06):
What do you mean by that?

Speaker 4 (05:07):
Because I've I'm hyping up the playoff picks. Geez, can
I not make like a little hype up of something
that's gonna happen and like, I don't know, thirty minutes.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Me say a good word, O the bears.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Bears. So that's a good word.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Oh, that's what it was. The NFL people were picking
Sean Payton as there's like, like heavily favored, and I
just didn't see how that worked because I feel like
it would be greatly improved from last year. And I
just don't see.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
They win the division. Obviously I can.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, happened.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
I got draft over here if you want me to.
So their favorite is Ben Johnson and then Liam Cohen, Yeah,
then Jonathan Gannon.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
For some reason, listen, Mr murr is, Yeah, I had
a fire in his gut. Still he has that fire
in his gut.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
He took the bus to work.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Who took the bus? All right? Shall I say mine?

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Or yes?

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, we don't have Colton here right now. Maybe he'll
be joining us shortly. He also picked Mike Rabel for
his Coach of the Year, Kennedacy, I am going with
Sean Payton. I think Sean Payton can have it all
and he could do it all correct. I mean, look
at what he did with the Broncos with a bunch
of dead money last year. Somehow brought them to the playoffs.
The playoff appearance was nothing to you know, boast home about.

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They scored the first touchdown, but then after that they
put forty five points put up on him. So I
think it's gonna be a much different year this year.
I think Sean Payton's gonna be the coach of the year.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Honestly respectable because he got the It doesn't seem to
happen the first year anymore.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Nah, unless you're Brian Dayball. You go seven to two
and then just like for some reason, you know, you
go nine to seven and one and they're just like
here you go.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
You're so shocked the Giants were relevant. It's like, oh
my god, tell you what.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
I found a website that is MGM BET three sixty
five fanatics, DraftKings, Fandel and Caesar's.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, I think that's the site that screwed me on
my one that you're gonna eat yep.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
For Oh well, they had Rabel as the favorite until
mid August and then Rabel tanked to the fourth favorite. Yeah, okay, no,
and currently they have it as.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
I think that's Ben Johnson. Look at the bottom, that's
Liam Cohen. Actually, all right, stop.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Chris, thank you for the follow We got some fantasy
questions going on here. You guys were talking about n GM,
so I'm like, okay, let's just get Chris's question out
of the way here, Hey soon do it? Yes, Yes,
Alvin Kamara trustable RB one. I take him yet again
another year as a proud of Camara fantasy owner.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
I think they got to lean on him.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
So I feel like, hey, last year, last year with
Spencer Rattler, He's still played really well with him at quarterback.
So that was before the groin injury took him out
for the rest of the year.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
I wait, wait, okay, here's a question, genuinely, so if
Sean Payton is so favored, at least I see that
Sean Payton just feel he's not on this. That's crazy.
At least I see a bunch of people picking Sean
Payton to be the coach of the Year. What about
Jim Harbaugh, same division. I think the Chargers are more
likely to perform better than the Broncos.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
I think it's because the roster is just like all
like their offense is just all there and compared to
like the Broncos where it's kind of like they're figuring
stuff out still but like it's there. I mean, I
get what you're saying, but it's like they.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Finished around the same last year. No, So like, what's
the difference.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Having a good team definitely dings you, because yeah, Sirianni
a couple of years ago what he should have won.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Oh, definitely dings you. I agree with that. But but
the Broncos made the playoffs last year, So how do
you go up from there? That's what I don't get,
is like I feel like they would have to be fantastic.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
But I have a bunch of fantasy questions coming in.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Right now tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah all right, okay, shit, uh let's see this guy says,
trade London and Tracy for DK and Chase Brown half
PPR and he has Nico, Jerry, Judy, Mike Evans and Marv.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
My brain is not calibrated the fantasy I would.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
I would do that trade if you're getting DK and
Chase Brown. I absolutely would, and then you could probably
trade mar for some other pieces. And I got Nirvana
here and he says, should I keep Shakiro drop him?
He has a golden A Duneza, Oh, no, he has here?
Or should I drop him for golden a dounesay or
a lave?

Speaker 3 (10:04):
I mean, for those guys, you should drop them for
probably golden or a lave.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
I would say I would, yeah, golden, absolutely, am I
now I'm confusing a donsay for the other person that
the Bears have Luther Burden. He changes the number like
nineteen times before his first game.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Love it?

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (10:29):
We have so many any thoughts of DK Metcalf this year?
Week one, I have no faith in DK Metcalf, But
after that, I think there is a lot of faith.
And I'm going forward with mister Aaron Rodgers. Yes, we say, yeah,
take golden for sure? All right? Dom, do you want
on that cheer.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Pick for a Coach of the Year, I said, Rabel's
my pick as well. I mean, being a Patriots fan,
I feel like I kinda also have to pick that,
but like I you know, if the Patriots make playoff,
so I feel like it has to be Vrabel because
that goes from what a three or four win team
to a playoff team and basically a coaching higher. I mean,

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how do you not if Drake Man has a great
season and the defense plays well, and I feel like
you have to you know, I don't know that's the
biggest turnaround. I think that's potentially possible this year in
the NFL.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
So eight wins and I think he gets it, to
be honest, yeah, I mean you have to make the
playoffs in order to get that.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
I don't think they'll just give it to like, but.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
I don't know who would make it over him at
that point if those are the if that's the criteria,
you know, Like I said, I feel like if Sean
Payton was going to win or if I mean Leam Cohen,
I guess maybe, but like Seunt and Payton made the
playoffs last year, so it would need to be a
pretty big increase or Jim Harbaugh pretty big increase then

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of wins and like domination and then making the playoffs.
I don't know, it's tough.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Thank you TJ for the TikTok logo. And let's get
to these two questions here TJ asked Ferguson or Henry
at tight end. I would have to say, well, yeah,
Hunter Henry yards towards not a fan of the linebackers
this year for Vegas having the cover.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, and Hunter Henry was heavily relied on last year,
and you gotta think it's just gonna be some or
more of the same this year. So I think that's
an easy one.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
And then we got one more about and it's what
about DeAndre Swift? What are your guys' thoughts on Swift
entering this fantasy season?

Speaker 2 (12:36):
He's always good for like a thousand yards?

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Like it's true, who's their back of Broshawn Johnson? I
feel like he might steal something.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Well more passing downs.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
But we got one more from Eduardoh, it's just who
to start a flex? Jalen Warren, Shakir or Bateman. I
would say Bateman, Let's have a fun. Let's have a
fun play here with the Rashod Bateman at the flex
and here we go. We're gonna go comeback player of
the year, dom I will have you go first on

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a comeback player.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
For this is such an up in the air thing
right now because this has.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Been a debate in our group chat for another award.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
What just checked what they took his eyes off for?

Speaker 3 (13:22):
No way?

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, so they first of all figured it out. It's
no longer you can't, so I have to change mind.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
The fact that sportsbooks were in a freaking not about
this is saying something because that's wild to me. But
we were all in our group chat was like, what
about j J McCarthy Rookie of the Year. And then
it's like, could he even win the Rookie of the
Year because he was contracted last year, Like he was

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under contract last year, but he was injured in play,
so like, what's the eligibility blah blah blah. I guess
it's official, and sportsbooks had his odds. I guess it's
official that he cannot be Rookie of the Year. So
for me, I feel like, if I can't make them
Rookie of the Year, I'm gonna make them comeback Player
of the Year. I think there's a lot of choices
for a comeback Player of the Year this year. I

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think you have you have Aiden Hutchinson.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
A lot of guys, yeah, you.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Have Aiden Hutchinson. You have This is the.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Most open this award has been probably in a little
bit hands down, which is unfortunate because we don't like injuries.
But like in this it's like there's so many people
to choose from.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
What if Nick Chubb has a great year for Houston,
is that eligible Maybe yep. So it's like there's so many, dude,
there's so many for I'm.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Still mad Sam Darnold couldn't get Comeback Player of the
Year because they removed it after Joe Flacco got it.
So I'm just like, that's kind of funny. You should
have you should have won it, but no. Joe Burrow
came back last year and I think he won that award.
All Right, I'll go next year. Uh, this is the
low hanging fruit. In my opinion, I'm picking gonna pick
Christian McCaffrey, who was dealing with that weird calf achilles

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injury for the first seven weeks. He comes back, he
looks kind of like him. Then he hurts his knee,
I believe in that Buffalo game, and he was just
out the rest of the year with along like every
other forty nine Ers player. So I say, Christian McCaffrey
returns to the form that we saw the year of
the Super Bowl, just that all around gadget guy, two
thousand yards all around. So yeah, I'm gonna go Christian
McCaffrey on this, all right.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
I mean, I don't know. He is up there. He's
in the both of the so far, everyone's been in
the top five odds just with production. Aiden Hutchinson's gotta
be up there.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Ben Hutchinson, I think is kind of like the most favored.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
He is tied. We'll get to the odds and once
we're done.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
But Dak yeah, which is kind of nuts.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
Well quarterback, yeah, but like a guy that could also
win another award in I mean, Hutchinson is one of
the best players in the league period. So if he
has a normal year, him wearing winning comeback is pretty
set in stone or could be.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
That's pretty valid because Ward doesn't make.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Any sense anymore.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Do you guys think if the Lions were to make
it to the Super Bowl that he would have played
in that game because he was he was doing everything
he can.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Absolutely, it was it was like both like between the
Lions and Eagle with the NSC possible NFC championship game
that never happened. It was like, is Brandon Graham or
Hutchinson even gonna play in that game, and then they're
definitely gonna play.

Speaker 3 (16:26):
In the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
All that we have to show with the Lions and
the Eagles is that Week one of twenty twenty two,
which was just a very drunken game that was just
stupidly high scoring for zero reason.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Two new schemes man to come to breakout teams. No
one knows what's happening.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
I want to thank everyone on TikTok here giving us
the files. We got okay, friends, Nirvana, and then uh,
I'm gonna butcher your name, so Bo horribly right now,
Demoy's gaming.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Hey listen, I can't wait for the fancy conversations. Yeah,
can't wait a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
And we got Rob Dylan, who says, R J. Harvey,
if you can find the running lane, I think Archie
Harvey could be a pretty good piece of fantasy. That
first game against the Niners in the preseason scared me
a little bit. Trying to make his own lanes. It's
like a Trent Richardson type player. Straight ahead. All you

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have is delighted and he's like, oh hey, my left
guard looks scrumptious over here. Let me just run right
into all Harris. No, I'm talking about raiders Trent Richardson.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Like between a couple of years ago with Harris and
Jalen Warren Haris, which is runs straight into his line
and not the whole that's right to his right.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
As far as well, did you say yours?

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yes, I went second after you. Uh, let's see, we
got so many people here. Uh, Hilan erupts him. In
the twelve mainly two quarter x two running backs, three
wide receivers, and the receivers are justin Jefferson, Elik, Neighbors
and Tyreek Kill. You should win, RBS are Bucky and
r J.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
I say, we do some fancy questions right after we're
doing with the awards, and then we'll go right into
the divisions. We'll just tell you that any segment.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
Let me get JJ's question out of here. He says,
who should he take at number three? I think it's
either Jamiir Gibbs or b John Robinson. One of them
has to be available at three.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, definitely, Yeah, for sure, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
So what are the odds that you have discovered.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
So aiden Hutchinson's one? I have a bunch here.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
I just got draftings one because then people can just
go ahead and do it, because that's I think it's
that's an aggregation of a mole.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yeah, it's kind of taking different ones.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
So I'll just go draftings so people can if they're
because that's what the most used pretty much.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
That fandel Actually it's pretty they all line up pretty well.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
We'll all do draftings and you do fans because some
people can actually bet it if they want. Okay, DraftKings
has Prescott and Hutchinson both two fifty five tied, and
then it's CMC three hundred, Trevor Lawrence five hundred, and
JJ McCarthy nine fifty is the top five.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Then I don't want to sound like an asshole, but
it's kind of like you think of it and it's like,
what's JJ McCarthy coming back from since he never played
an NFL snap if you think of it like that.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
I had to look this up actually because when I
was choosing come back earlier, I was like, would he
have played? Would he have to have played? First?

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Listen, this award makes no sense anymore because Joe Flacco
won off his couch.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
I agree, and then Geno Smith won just being bad.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yeah, the one I'm not taking this Sland I'm not
I'm not.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Listening, you know, is by far the one that screwed
it up, because we went from like, hey, this has
to be a real injury, and then you come back
and play, and then one year we were like, so
Gino just wasn't good enough, and then what.

Speaker 2 (19:59):
I meant bad and now he's decent.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
And then that decided it and I was like, all right, dude, whatever.
But either way, yeah, I mean they line up the
same name as I do see on this list, not
that far off as like Daniel Jones, which I think
is kind of weird.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
Okay, wait a minute. FanDuel is a big gap between
draftings on Nick Chubb. Oh yeah, two thousand.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Well that big gap that it drops for the rest
of them, Like that's it.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
But look at it. Look at his twelve He's twelve
hundred on Draftings and two thousand on FanDuel.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yeah, gigantic gap. So if you want to bet Nick
Chubb Vandles your place, because that's extra money.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
But I would just throw it. I might throw like
a couple bucks on that anyway.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
I know, right, Max Crosby's on here for also two
thousand two, Uh is not gonna win. No, I don't
think so, but that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Stefon tigs Yeah to it didn't win because Damar Hamblin
is kind of nuts that one year.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Also true. Yeah, so I you know, that's kind of
just where we're at with that.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
I still think it's good.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
Like who did Colton pick?

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Uh? Colton went with go blue and pointed an arrow
next to Jake's.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Column, which was hatches. Okay, as I noticed almost all
of my picks. Originally we're all big ten and then
like a.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
Couple, let's do the deroy here because it's a clean
sweep here. So we're all taking a dual Carter as
the defensive Rookie of the Year, and I don't think
we have to say anything else. Surprisingly, out of all
these years, it's the one only this year is the
one award that we've all just decided at the same
time as just consistent.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Well, because that d line is gonna cook this year,
like that's gonna be the one real bright spot of
the Giants is they're gonna get after people. So you
could wreck up some numbers.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Tell you what those odds drop off. It is straight
up just Carter and then Travis Hunts five thousand. Well, no,
it's like plus like one thousand plus twelve plus twelve
hundred plus fourteen.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
I'm as Hunter is the backup cornerback on the depth
chart right now.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
So I think they said they wanted more as receiver
than you want they want.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, they want a receiver first, and then they could say, okay,
we could play a defensive back.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
I think it's coolly backwards what they should be doing.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
But uh, tell me what, you're just a couple of
these questions you go first on before we answer some
of these.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
They just have Abdell Carter as like plus two twenty
five plus two hundred plus twenty eighty five, and then
the rest of the field is all kind of around
the same because they just have no clue who even
second would be. It's all just like all overund.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
I think it's just a unanimous award and you just
gotta go from there.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Listen, not to be a homer, but if you want
to just sprinkle some money and some high odds. Jahad
Campbell is gonna get some sacks this season. So not
saying he's gonna.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Is he a middle linebacker?

Speaker 2 (22:48):
He is those like, no, he's off ball. Okay, he's playing.
He's gonna play the like original couple of years of
Parsons position. Oh Realy the off ball linebacker. That's kind
of a d end.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
But he could drop in the coverage and yeah, that's
what he's mostly been playing. So we got I just
want to answer some of these questions here. So we
have Kyle who says, Matthew Golden, Garrett Wilson are Sutton
to start in the flex? I feel I feel like
I could do Sutton against the Titans.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah. I like Golden, but I don't know if I
like him right off the rip of the season.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
I think he has like an insane game or just
had like three catches.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Cam Snander says, Golden are worthy. I would say let's
go Worthy week one because the Chiefs won't probably want
to get like done out like pretty quickly.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
It was like rushing yards of the jet sweeps with him.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
And then I got James who asked, what third party
are you guys using the stream on TikTok. We are
using tech Talk Studio through stream yard.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
So he got third party I guess would be stream yard.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah. Yeah, And then I got this guy was up
and he says, start three Jonathan Taylor, Kiraen Williams, Kenneth Walker,
James Cook, Johnny John. I would say Jonathan Taylor, Kenneth Walker,
and James Cooke. I would not start Kyron Williams until
you figure out what's going on with the Rams backfield,
because they're like, we're gonna just split carries everywhere, and
it's like.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
You're the two kyn Williams like.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
No, that's dumb. That is no dom treding them away
in our franchise at Madden Today. Okay, he says, I
like Blake Corum so much better because he knows how
fast twelve seconds goes by, which is about thirty and.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
A half, and Madden Kiren was just like not that good.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
I don't know why.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Blake Koram made me a lot of money and when
he was in college, I mean.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
I did trade for Judkins, so like that was kind
of sick.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Gay ast Ford or Mooney. He dropped Mooney for Ford.
I would say you start Ford week one because he
is going to be the starting back until whatever happens
with Judkins. Kyle. I would wait from the develop into
his role and then b pieces picked to Davanta Smith, JK. Dobbins, Jerry,
Judy or Diggs. I would say, I have to start

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Smith and Judy.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Yeah, DeVante usually gets more work when it's a zone
based team, which the Cowboys are okay to just take
that for what it's worth.

Speaker 3 (25:14):
Very good to know.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
And now let's move up one level here, guys, we're
gonna go offensive Rookie of the Year. All right, all right,
I will I.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
Will go first.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Since we're going into this love triangle here, I am
going to I am picking Tyler Warren out of the
Penn State University. If Daniel Jones is starting all seventeen games,
then oh my god, Tyler Warren might be the greatest
product in the history of anything, anything, life, anything. It

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will be geez. I don't even know. I don't know
what else. I think Tyler Warren is a shoe in
for off Rookie of the Year. I am so upset
because I literally said I have to take Warren and
it was like four titans back in fantasy. I'm like,
I could wait a couple rounds and I completely forgot
about it and I missed them on the back end
of the other round. Oh so pissed.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
If he wins. You're gonna make some money. I just
say that.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Tell you what, I'm just gonna steal the floor here.
I'm gonna go with Hunter Bennett in the chat and
my pick was uh egg bukaa.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
So that name five times fast.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
It's because it's so hard to read his name because
there's so many ease and they both just start with ease,
So when I have to read both his first and
last name together, it's just like, So, I genuinely think
that the Bucks play really well this year. I'm here
for that. I have Baker in some fantasy him.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Going there is he's gonna be a good option for
a lot of things.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
They're not going to rush win back either, so it's
like he's gonna get everything. And McMillan's out for at
least like three week nine with the neck injury, so
it's like you're thin at wide receiver. Sterling Chappard, man,
I don't know, comeback player of the Year.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
What's he come back from?

Speaker 2 (27:05):
The Geno model?

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yea, the depth chart. I'm coming back from that depth chart. Dude.
All right, Jake, where are we going here with your
offensive Rookie of the Year.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
I can't take McCarthy because as of when I when
I wrote these in here, you could still bet on him. Yeah,
so I had to do a quick pivot without really
not a lot of thought. But I'm thinking more of
the same model of what happened with the Heisman, so
with Travis Hunter and everyone falling in love with the
split thing that Charlis were Sanderson Sanders. Yeah, so I

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think if he does if he does well at both,
it doesn't even matter. I don't think it matters if
he's like all star either, because that's what it was
in college. He was just good.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
I think the fact people were will freak out because
he's playing both sides of the ball, and I think
I think that's a good option. Is going Travis Hunter.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
I think the odds have the odds have it genty
uh cam Ward, which I think I feel like Kim
Woard would really have to play out for Camore to
get it.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
No one picked the other one.

Speaker 1 (28:18):
I was thinking about when I had a switch, who's
that Marian Hampton, see my thing with I picked him,
Then I said, you know what, I want to take
a safer pick here, and I switched it out for Warren.
I had that in there, geez, when Don was filling
out his picks that it was in there, I think,
And then I said, I'm going to switch.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Colton can still do it because he has to switch
from JJ, just like I did.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
I think he's just going to be biased with JJ
right now.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
I mean, Matthew Golden is low key, but I think
Amika still but someone text him to see. I think
Amaron Hampton and Trevon Henderson are just tough picks because
they're not the starter week one. I don't know how
long it's going to be until like if they were
to be this arder and then how from there are

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they going to beat out gent for that? You know,
like that's just a tough that's a tough pick. I
feel like. So I feel like, no matter what, gent
Week won start starting job. But then like he's weak
separated from gint already, So it's like, you know.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
I feel like you s have to figure out what
gent can do because he got eaten alive against the
Seahawks and the preseason, then he came alive with some
flashy plays against the Niners and I think the Cardinals,
So you gotta like figure that out.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
It wasn't just because he played in a little conference
that he was good. Like when he played the big teams,
he still was like fighting through six dudes and getting yards.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
I got a couple of fantasy questions before we move
up the defensive player here.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
I would just before I read the odds, before you
read the Yeah, you could do that, uh, gent y.
Then cam Ward is the top a'moron Hampton that he
fifty Travis hundred, one thousand, Traveon Henderson at twelve hundred,
tat McMillan sixteen, and then Tyler Warren all the way

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down below Jackson dark at two at twenty two.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
Hundred is down there.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Well, listen, brock Bauer should have won it. But then
you have Molik neighbors. You had, like every rookie last year,
they just decided, Hey, I'm just gonna ball out.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
It was a great rookie year, or it really was.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
So you got Judd who says Dak or McCarthy. I
would say you start Dak because I think you're gonna
get a lot of garbage time with him. You're gonna
get a lot of garbage time. And I need to
wait at least a week to figure out what McCarthy's
gonna do, especially in a primetime role.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Who is the who the fucking playing one?

Speaker 1 (30:43):
I forget the Bears. That's a rough defense our number
one seeds in the NFC. Mario says deebo or Pickens.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
Debo.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
Feed Bow. Well, he sure likes, uh, we got Jay
who says Abuca or DeVonta Smith. I would say Abuca
against the Falcons?

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yeah, because why not?

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Like he could be your ex if you're worthy, go
flash out for twenty five points and just be like,
oh here I am the unknown thing. That just kind
of pops off right off that and then I got Gage.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Baker passes the ball like they pass a lot.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Who's there because Cohen left? So who's their new?

Speaker 1 (31:29):
I have no idea. They're just digging through the I
don't know, just digging through the coaching staff to find
someone to replace him. I mean that whoever it is,
he's getting a head coaching position next year.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
They're like our offensive coordinator just getting poached all the time.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yeah, take him out, Gage says Bries and Garrett cooked
this year. I don't really know how to feel about that.
As a Jets fan, I am like, oh, I'm like, oh,
I don't know, not really having a good feeling with
Breece Garrett. I think, you know, maybe they'll find something
with them. If just the Fieldrew's in those thousand yard seasons,

(32:05):
I'm gonna be really upset. I got James who came
in and says, are we a part of the Creator Network?
We are not a part of the Creator Network. We
just kind of go on here for shits and giggles
stream you know everywhere else. We've been trying to kick
off our podcast and struggling with it. You know, it's
it's all a process. We still struggle with stuff, and
we've been doing this since twenty eighteen.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
It's also we just kind of do this for fun.
If you were really going for it and like grinding out,
it's easier.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
I would get like that. I would get like the
road caster, like the big like Excel not EXLR board,
the big board where you could just like engauge everything
and have everything inserted on it. But that thing's like
six hundred bucks. I think they just continued that like
years ago. I mean, I just use an XLR microphone
plug into a focus right all that.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
We also went to school for it, so it's like
super easy for us to figure that stuff out.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
So it's where you go to do it just makes
no sense, no sense at all, Tomate.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Yeah, the technical stuff and I've figured out so much
audience done those.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
All the technical stuff I figure out just like creative
dumb ways to find uh.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Creative was a good host. We were good next.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
For sure, and Colton and I just come on here
and talk shit.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
Yeah yeah, well knowed James.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
If I could recommend anything, you just have to figure
out just you have to post like outside of live streaming,
and then the people come in. Like we last year,
we were lucky. We had a post I got two
million views and it had like almost two hundred thousand likes,
so it really kind of brought in a lot of people.
The more you post outside of your live streams, it'll
pop up on the for you page and then people

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will start coming into your live streams.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
The more regular you post, like the clips and the
other content like to where people can just watch it
on its own besides.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Live Yeah, it's I mean there's a there's a level
of grinding it out a little bit where it's just
like you kind of find your niche a little bit
like you're like, oh, you know, recognize win stuff works
when stuff doesn't during the day, like how often like
it just kind of play around with it. I mean,
you can't go wrong necessarily. What you post something that
gets no views, You're like, okay, whatever, maybe even post

(34:15):
it again another time, and like whatever. You know, you
just kind of do your thing and then when it happens,
it happens, and that's it.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Thank you for the rose, James, and we got uh
we got one more question here? Oh my god, he's
just sending us seventeen seventeen roses we got Oh damn,
we are the Bachelor. There we go, got a rose
for everyone.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
We are Penn State.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
And then I got one more. I got Hampton, Genty,
Warren and abugas my fantasy rookies. Do rookies win you championships?
They do?

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Well, that's that.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Fit me well last year rookies.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
I always try to pick up a couple rookie sleepers.
Knowing college helps.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
You can kind of slip them in like in late rounds.
Sometimes people don't overlook it.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
Yeah, I got rookie Jefferson because I one thought he
was just a slot receiver.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
And then you know, the greatest fantasy player in ear
league got Jamar Chase in like round twelve because he says,
I can't look at the football because it doesn't have
like the same texture or whatever as a college ball.
I remember that was a true story. Yeah, that was
a true story. And then all of a sudden, just oh, hey,
he's just going off. All right, here we go. Defensive

(35:26):
player of the year, Jake, you will go first?

Speaker 2 (35:29):
All right, where are we at? Well, first, I'm mad
at you because you didn't put Madden in here before
we did this.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
I said I wanted to save some time here and
just not do Madden because I'm like, you know what
they're gonna put like Trayvon Diggs or something stupid there.
I don't even think they have a roster update out
to have Parsons on the Packers yet. Well, so he'll
probably win it as a.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
Ravens again, because the Ravens and Cowboys always just simulate.
Well so defensive player. All right, So this one I'm
gonna have to long talk a little bit.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
Oh unbiased and unhingees sent us forty roses. We are
we are on the Bachelor. We're glad you're back. Man,
welcome back this one.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
You can you can call me a homer whatever. The
stats haven't.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Been there yet.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
He only had four and a half sacks last season,
but the impact and the other presence that he brings
in Jalen Carter, it's growing. And I think in his
third his first year he tired out. Second year he
was a force. Uh, the stats weren't really there, but

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he's already getting the Aaron Donald treatment where he's getting
doubles and triple teams and that stuff starts to get noticed.
I think if he has double digit sacks, I think
it could be right up there in that top three easy,
and then it's all takes is just some voting.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
There's only been one player, I think. I don't know.
I was watching Good Morning Football and they said Aaron
Donald's the only interior lineman defensive tackle to win Defensive
Player of the Year. He would be joining a lee company.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
We went through it. If you remember, especially the twenty
sack year. He kicked out the defensive end a lot,
especially on third downs, which or doesn't really do. Yeah,
but he is just such a menace.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
And I want to think unbiased. I want to think unbiased.
He sent us boxing gloves as well, so we got
a bunch of gifts already here.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
I don't I don't really, I mean, certain's awesome. I
don't really get how he won last year, but that's
again I probably bias. I like Zach Bonn had all
the stats in the world, like up there with beating
Luke Keigley in almost every category from Luke Eagley's year.
If his name was Fred Warner, he'd win in a walk.
If he wasn't playing teams two years ago, he probably wins.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
And we also got a game controller from mumbaias as well,
so dumb.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
I love when they pop up. My pick was kind
of a little bit different. I picked Trey Hendrickson. He
re signed, got the money, became a captain, So it
feels like there's not any love loss there. It feels
like there's no issues as far as you know what's

(38:28):
going on in that in that locker room and team
and everything. He's posted exactly seventeen and a half sacks
twice in a row now. He was up there in
sacks last year. I was having a great career and
he's not too old yet really, so you know what,
screw I think the Bengals have more success this season

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if they get off to a hot start. He's their
best defensive player. So I put my neck on the
line a little bit here, and I went with Trey Hendrickson.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
I'm gonna quickly pull up last year's because it's funne
oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
So for this year, I was really thinking of, Okay,
I want a guy who's in a contract year, who
really wants to get it, like the whole ten yards.
And then I picked Michael Parsons, who got traded. He's
out of Dallas. He's now probably way happier not being
in Dallas anymore. Now he gets to go to Quiet Town, USA,

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up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, making one hundred and eighty
eight million dollars. And you know, he his back might
be hurting. He has that L four and L five
you know thing. He's getting everything done to, you know,
relieve the pain. But I could guarantee you week four
that pain's just gonna go away. Week four. You know
where he is. Week four, he's going back to Dallas, okay,

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and he's probably gonna break the sack a single game
sack record that game. All right, He's probably gonna eat
Dak Prescott for breakfast, lunch, and dinner that day. So
I'm gonna say Michael Parsons and it helps the Packers
out tremendously on defense. And we got Colton who is
going with mad Max Crosby.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
Where were the picks last year? Do you have them? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (40:12):
I picked Michael last year. I run to pick Micah
this year, but he was still a cowboy when I
did it. Yeah, will pick mad Max last year? And
you had Daniel Hunter.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
Because he went to Houston, so I thought he'd be
sad year. I really wanted to pick a Hutchinson last
year and I didn't, and I really should have because
it looks good.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
But whatever, let's move on. Here are we Eagles fans. No, unfortunately,
Jake is the loan Eagles fan Dom and I are
dedicated to Rams fans. We are the plants in the crowd,
especially of those Niners games. We are the largest plants
in the world.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
We're also Tampa Bay Lightning plans when they come to
New York as well. True story.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
I'm still in my be a dickhead era.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Belts to asses, boots to asses, and here we go.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
We want some odds or.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
Yeah, hey, let's spill it. Let's spill the beans.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
So it is Parsons one at six hundred, then hutch Garrett, TJ,
Max will Anderson.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
Yeah I saw that.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
And then Jalen Carter down twenty two, Trey Henderson tie
twenty two.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
So Jared versus above them.

Speaker 2 (41:41):
So I really don't I don't expect I don't expect
card to really win it, but if he gets double digits,
it really could. He's in the conversation.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
Yeah, I wanted to be a little bit different and
go with Tree Hunderdson. I really almost did go with
Aiden Hutchinson this on pace last year.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
I always feel confident. I usually feel confident about like
I had, like TJ a lot of years when he
was should have won. Yeah, Michael last year. So I'm
just going off the board now.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
Mine are usually pretty off.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
So I feel that, Yeah, this War's Got Award has
gotten weird too.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Let's head to Offensive Player of the Year Dom you
have the floor.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
You know what. I went with Jamier Gibbs. I think
he'll play a bigger role than he did last year.
David Montgomery was great last year, and I just think
I just think jamiir it sounds like they are putting
him into a more of a gadget role, a dynamic role.
I mean that could work out for him. Then I

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just think he plays a bigger role even this year.
He was great last year, and so I'm just going
for that, I don't. I mean, like it's tough because
Offensive Offensive Player might be the toughest one to pick,
because because it's really just kind of like runner up
of the MVP, and there really is different angles to

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it when you have receivers and running backs, because I
mean there's just so many great ones.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
It's one of the most options.

Speaker 3 (43:13):
It is definitely the one with the most options. Yeah,
and it really could just be anyone. Uh So I'm
gonna go with Jamyr. I really am.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
Scaret Jared will be doing some fantasy football questions momentarily.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
They're gonna do a whole we decided we're gonna do
a whole little segment on it after the awards.

Speaker 3 (43:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
Yeah, the one I've noticed, like I'm going back like
the one I have the most success with or the rookies.
And I guess because I watch a lot of college
but the last few years, I usually have the MVP
who is just the guy who was up there and
didn't win like I had Burrow last year, even though
Saque should have won, but I had Daniel's end verse. Yeah,

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where you want to.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
Go, I'll just take mine. This man helped me win
a Fantasy championship last year, and I'm just gonna run
it back again. I think he's he should win this
award this year. Okay, I'm gonna give Jamar Chase the
Offensive Player of the Year. He was sick last year,
and since the Bengals have absolutely no defense at all,
that means he's gonna get even more targets. I think
it's gonna elevate Burrows game even more.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
So.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
Yeah, I'll be going with uh, mister Jamaar Offensive Player
of the Year.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
You win too. Jamar won me a Fantasy championship as well.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
We head here Jake, sticking with the theme.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
The other LSU guy I got Justin Jefferson. I'm just
I'm a big fan of won him to the I'm
a big believer in the O'Connell system.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
Mhm.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
It's proven. If if Sam Darnold can do that damage
with those weapons and that coach, I think it's gonna
be a good offense regardless, and he's gonna get his
He's gonna get his his yards, his touches and touchdowns, period.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
And then Colton went with Christian McCaffrey CMC for short.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Honestly, I like them With Gibbs, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
I picked Gibbs to win Rookie of the Year two
years ago.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
He didn't really turn out very well for me, but
I think.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
It will see. I mean, they use everyone on that
team so much like I think a mon raw could
just have as worthy of a season as Gibs at
any given time as well. So it's like, it's tough.
It's it's honestly tough because they really spread around the ball.
Jared Goff has got really good in that offense about
about using everyone, so we'll see also different offensive coordinators.

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So like I really it's that's it's a tough, tough judgment.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
And here we go, m VP. I'll take the floor
here with the question mark at the end of the
Star Spangled baron that I read during the national anthem
on Sunday, I decided to keep the tradition with the
question mark, and I said, lamar, yeah, I'm gonna lock
in Lamar Jackson as the MVP. He should have won
it last year. I'm sorry, don't know how. I don't

(46:22):
know how Josh Allen decided to win it. If Josh
Allen deserved to win it, Aaron Rodgers should have won
it because they had the exact same passing stats list.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
So they didn't want to give it to Saquon So
and they couldn't give Lamar back to back or they
didn't want to.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
I guess that was weird, been weird.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Lamar had a better season than his MVP year both
MVP years.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
And either yeah, that was his best season period.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Well it was similar than his other MVP year.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Now, well, he was just a more profound passer last
year than he has been.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
I think that part's.

Speaker 1 (46:50):
True, Jake, where we hadn't here, I am.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
Doubled doubling down in my pick from last season in
Joe Burrow for all the reasons well mentioned, I just
feel like with because to me, he's the best quarterback
in the NFL, and if they make the playoffs such
as the Big IF and the ones is the same
one last season, he should win. He would have won

(47:19):
last season if they made the playoffs. M HM so
it's the same logic.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
I'm just gonna double down like I did with TJ
all those times, double dippin' dumb. Where are you going
here with your pick?

Speaker 3 (47:33):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with Joe Burrow. I think, first
of all, he was the best quarterback in the league
last year. Look at the stats. They exist. Second of all,
I just think there's no way, like, there's no reason
it should go backwards. It's another year the same. I mean,
we all hope that they've figured it out and from

(47:53):
week one they're that good. Which now, I mean, this
is a second full camp of his career, so I think,
you know, here's it's queued up to actually start well.
So one can only hope that's how it goes. And
if it goes that way, I mean, it really shouldn't

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be any issues. If he just replicates his stats last year,
adds three more legitimate weeks, then boom. I mean, like
it's fifty plus touchdowns at that point.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Yeah, don't lose the five touchdown games that he gives you.

Speaker 3 (48:27):
Yeah, So I think it just has to be Burrow.
I really think Cincinnati has such a good season this season,
better than last season. So I'm going with that.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
This just is the best episode. Like, I love the
I love this episode so much.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
Yeah, none of it is actual facts. It's all pure speculations.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
It's all biased. It's all biased, biased opinions just to
get you to like win your opinion over.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
It's educated guesses and.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
With legitimate back up like evidence.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Yeah, it's educated guesses with talking ball with your best friends.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
And nothing's wrong. Nothing's wrong. It's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
We're not wrong yet.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
Yeah, yeah, nothing wrong until eventually everything is wrong.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
That's I didn't pretty well with my preseasons last year,
last season.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
And then you hit on the random ones and it's fun.
Like I hit on the Justin Jefferson Rookie of the Year,
and I was like, bro, like that's so much fun.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
Who won Coach of the Year? Was it was O'Connell
last season? No, o'connle didn't win it last year. I
don't know who won it, but it wasn't O'Connell.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
Probably should I think it was O'Connell.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
It might have been O'Connell didn't either of the times
he made the playoffs. Ocnnell is never one coach of
the year.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
I looked it up too, and I forget who it was.
The odds for MVP is hilarious to me because.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
Let me just announced Colton's pick. Because Colton picked Lamar
because he is a closet Ravens fan. Okay, he has
all that Steelers merch. But I've been inside that basement.
On the other side, it's all Joe Flacco, Super Bowl
MVP stuff. Lamar everything is on the other side of
that basement. Okay.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
That's another thing. When I make my picks. I tried
not to pick the guy who won last season, so
it was O'Connell.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
He did win last year. I don't know. For some reason,
I thought it was Dan quinn that one. Nope, I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
I'm actually kind of surprised it wasn't.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
Because I picked Horrorball and I was mad they didn't.
I think we swept chargeaball, Yeah, we did.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
No, well, No Dom took to me Go and Madden
took the other Horrball.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
Just by a Texan seriesly already, dude.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
Jesus, I went in so hard on the Texans last
year for them to fall on their face all my picks.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
I don't think they fell on their face, dude, They
fell right on their tailbone. They broke their tailbone.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
It was so bad. If Jay can look at all
of it, it's so heavily it sour.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
So what are we looking at here for?

Speaker 3 (50:56):
Odds are so insane because they really refused to put
a positional player on it. I don't know anymore under
JJ McCarthy, under Penix, under Trevor Lawrence, because they're Drake
ma position player anymore.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
Because if CMC and Saquon didn't, nobody is going to.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
But it is funny how the sports books are like
just they get it, like they're just like, no, we're
not falling for that shit.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Everything Saquon did was a saint, was like the same
style as AP when AP won it and didn't win.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
And CMC the year before, dude, that was the Lamar
year where quarterbacks really shouldn't have won, period and same
as last year. Uh so MVP. Uh they have well
DraftKings has Burrow and Jackson tied at plus five point
fifty some drafts, some sports books have Lamarge slightly over Burrow,

(51:49):
then Josh Allen, then Mahomes, then Jaydeen Daniels, then Hurts,
then Herbert, then Love, then Mayfield than Stroud and then
you get into just all the other quarters racks.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
It literally is all the quarterbacks.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
Dude, it's like every starting quarterback. And then Saquon and
Derrick Henry are tied.

Speaker 2 (52:08):
And then if Sam Donald has a high has higher.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
Sam Donald, JJ McCarthy, Pennick Drake, May, Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
They're all just taking the last quarterback I saw before.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
Oh yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy. Matt Stafford, who, like
I think we're all convinced, isn't playing the whole season.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
No, he's dead. He's dead.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
He's not playing for like four weeks.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
No, it's not like he's not playing. He's just dead,
like he's not there.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
Aaron Rodgers is above them, Like, it's just so funny
to me.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
We can get into some fantasy questions.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
If I got a couple in here. I don't have
a whole lot of fantasy questions here, but let me
scroll up. Let's see this real guy says he's paying
five grand, which I just do not believe. Chent says
t mac or digs at the flex. He means Terry
McLaurin there, Yeah, Terry mcclaurin at the flex or Stefan Diggs.

(53:07):
I would man, I would say I might see Diggs.
I don't know. They said here ready he's back before
I ukes a c L tear and I's not going
to be playing until after week sex and they tore
their acls literally at the same time.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
Yeah, they're not all the same.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
We're talking about the opponents being the Giants and the Raiders.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
I like the Giants defense a little too much, so
I'm like, and he also hasn't been practicing, so how
good of shape is he really in.

Speaker 2 (53:40):
I like the Giants defense and just their front line
which oh no, he.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
No, he meant a tet ted McMillan.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
Well, then I think you have to go Digs Diggs.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
I don't know what tet really is yet.

Speaker 3 (53:54):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
Then we got hocketsenter Andrews. I'm sorry I fell into
the Mark Andrews bullshit last year. I'm not doing it.
Hocketson all the way. Yeah, Isaiah, pick up Isaiah likely
when he's when he comes back, he's not playing week one,
but pick him up. I think Mark Andrews might have
a a Vietnam flashback from Buffalo.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
A healthy Hockinson might be kind of sick this year
with JJ McCarthy.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
Yeah, he's going to be twenty months off the ACL
and everything else that he tore against the Lions a
couple of years ago.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
Oh, here's a good one, DK or digs week one
Maybe still digs.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
I would say digs D. I don't know. The Jets
defense is still that good. I just can't really see
anything really going about for DK.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
You also got to think that Sauce is hard locked
on DK though.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
But it's also like to look at the Steelers they
did with the Jets of the last two years. They
don't play their starters, so it's like, what do you
really have here if you're not really having actual in
game action.

Speaker 3 (54:54):
K nine or Crosskey or AJ Brown?

Speaker 1 (54:58):
No, no, it's a trade. Oh shit K nine and
Bill Krosky for AJ Brown Like I'm hell yeah, why
not be down with that? Hey? Crosskey's was getting RB
two reps despite being an RB four in the depth chart.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
Well, okay, I mean, but getting a j Brown in
that is I think the superior one.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
At Jared here that's on the screen. Uh, he has
Jalen Hurts and he's a big Josh Allen fan. What
would he has to give up to get Josh Allen?

Speaker 2 (55:28):
See I say rolls right into this because I you know,
as I did last season, I was got bored right
right before the Super Bowl in the whole build up
and anxiety. I did a database of all the quarterbacks
and their stats and their averages like touchdown for touchdown.
He's Hurts is not that far off from Allen and

(55:50):
averages like thirteen rushing yards rushing touchdowns a year. So
the points wise difference, I mean, I like jay I
like jay On a lot as a fantasy quarterback. They're
gonna be passing more this year. I don't know if
you necessarily have to do that, draad m.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
Hmm, yeah, if you're giving up too much, especially like
you shouldn't have to overpay either, Like you know what
I mean, if you're gonna overpay, I don't think it's
worth And it's.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
Not just gonna an Eagles fan. I've always been critical
of Hurts, like keep them account like I don't just
just pump his tires. They're gonna have there. It's back
to more of a Nick Sirianni offensive. They're gonna be throwing.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
More well, and they're healthy.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
They're well for now.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
AJ has a well they're right now they're healthy, AJLD
Dickerson off the injury report, So that's a big positive
there for the Eagles.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
Well, I mean just even the targets, dude, there wasn't
many times where the targets were all together fully healthy
last year.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
Seventy two dropbacks of the four hundred and forty whatever
it was for and plus. So that's the other part too,
the point differential between rushing yards and rushing touchdowns and
PPR could really just balance it out a little bit.
And he doesn't throw as many picks, well, at least
last year.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
I got Andrew here and he says a J. Brown
and d K for CD, lamb and read the guy
in the Packers and he says he also has Tyreek,
a mecha digs and Shakir.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
I don't know if you do that either.

Speaker 3 (57:27):
I don't know, man.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
I feel like the only thing I would do for
is CD, because I really think the Cowboys are gonna
have a lot of garbage time and they're gonna keep
their starters out there to be like, let's wisen up
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
Well, I think Ceed's gonna have a he's gonna have
a good year.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
Yeah, Read's tough because now they have.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
He's right now. So it's like he's always hurt, he's
always questionable.

Speaker 3 (57:48):
He's not like two hurt.

Speaker 1 (57:49):
He was out the whole preseason. He was in a
walking boot after the Jets preseason game, so I don't
know what the injury is.

Speaker 3 (57:57):
So it's just, you know, two up in the air
with Golden like knocking on the door for being the
number one receiver immediately.

Speaker 2 (58:05):
It's not gonna be more like the I think the
Christian Watson, Yeah deal, not really. The theyre don't really.
I don't think they really. I don't think they really
take away from each other that much.

Speaker 1 (58:17):
And we got sideline Buzz who says, I'm drafting in
a twelve man tonight, eighth pick, who should I go for?
At the end of ours, it was CD and Malik
Neighbors at.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
The right before I am and raw.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
I would I would definitely. I would definitely say like
CD or Neighbors.

Speaker 3 (58:37):
Probably one of the better receivers because the running backs
at that point are kind of off the board. In
another league, I think I snagged Derrick Henry on the
back end in the second round and I was the
eighth pick. So in a twelve man League and Derek
Henry Fell and I was like, I'm okay with that
it being a second round pick because I got a

(58:57):
good first round receiver, So I think you kind of
have to go for one of the great receivers that
are there.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
I like going running back in the early part of
the first round.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
Yeah, that's what happens. And this this year it's really
been super running back. I mean it's Jamar Chase right away, and.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
Then our home league, it was the most running backs
taken since twenty twenty, where the entire first round was
all running backs.

Speaker 3 (59:23):
Yeah, so so this was this is a running back
heavy in the beginning.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
What he was, he was eighth out of He's the
eighth pick in the twelfth twelve man never mind, I
mean Chase. Who says I have Hampton and Henderson starting?
Should I be worried? I don't think so. I think
Hampton pretty much has that starting role locked. Nase is
going to be on a snap count.

Speaker 3 (59:48):
No, they just it literally came out like while we
were she's going.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
To be on a snapcout. They're not going to try
to rush him rushing back.

Speaker 3 (59:54):
They're gonna no, no, no, It came out that Naji
is like the Start again. It came out while we
were like when we started the show. That nause is like,
thus start against the Chiefs this week.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
I also see that group at least at some point
this season being more like the Gibbs Montgomery tandem roll,
like where Hampton's getting the Gibbs work and then Montgomery
he's not. He's gonna be like almost relegated to go line.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
I think that is true, but you're still gonna get
thirteen points a game from Yeah, that style, which I
mean I took. I took Montgomery again this year. Like, listen,
he's awesome. He wins people. He wins people's championships, not me,
but he wins people championships.

Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
I don't know about Treyvon Henderson though, because he's like
third on the depth chart right now.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
I believe he's gonna he's gonna.

Speaker 3 (01:00:49):
Move up, but I don't know about week one he's.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Gonna He's gonna probably be running back to He's definitely
gonna be there. Yeah, he's gonna beat Gibson for two. Listen,
they're gonna they're gonna try. Vrabel's wants to outperform Pete
Carroll the other former Patriots coach for a little bit.
So he's gonna want to, you know, definitely outperform him.
So he's gonna try pulling out some stunts in the bag.
What can McDaniel's doing his third tenure as Patriots ocih

(01:01:15):
the Carroll coach. I think he coached. No, definitely not no, right,
I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:01:22):
Rabel was like, yeah, yeah, it's like two thousands. So
it was like Belichick's first year. And then we got dps
his flex to Warren Wattle Pickens buka and he's already
starting Mike Evans. I still think I'm you can still
start a buka. Yeah, you know what, start waddle. Let's
see what the Colts really have. This is a make

(01:01:43):
or break here for the Dolphins. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:01:46):
I think Week one Dolphins receivers are the start like
a billion percent.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
If two is healthy, trust everything on that offense.

Speaker 3 (01:01:53):
Yeah, absolutely, they're gonna pass the ball. Wattles should really
get the ball. I think you gotta think he can
bounces back a little bit from last year because last
year wasn't the best. He was average as hell, But
also the Colts defense isn't like spectacular in the secondary.

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
I think it'll be better. I think they will be too.

Speaker 3 (01:02:12):
But I don't know about week one against Tyreek Hill,
and you know there's a lot of focus. You got
too much speed, Yeah, too much speed.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
Dude, Mario says flex should I start Debo Pickens or Golden?
I would say, deebo, I told Pickens until week two.

Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
Golden's tough because now if you said the Jalen read part.

Speaker 1 (01:02:34):
Like these questions, I don't even know if he's been practicing.
I know, and on this stuff. I usually stalk everything
so I can have a better better read on this stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:02:44):
I haven't been fantasy. I could just check what they say.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
Check what Rotal World has to say on them. Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
I felt like an insult.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
It is absolutely an insult.

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
That was so funny.

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
I mean, JP, I mean, and he says Indian beating
Miami in week one, but it's like anything happens a
week one. The Patriots beat the Bengals and that altered
two franchises. Patriots could have the first pick and trade
back and get us a bunch of more picks, and
the Bengals could have been the playoffs. So like anything
happens in week one.

Speaker 3 (01:03:15):
I mean Jalen reve In tends to suit up, but again, does.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
He feel like suiting up?

Speaker 3 (01:03:22):
Oh wait, he returned. He returned to practice like a
couple of days ago. Okay, but he's nursing a Jones fracture.

Speaker 1 (01:03:33):
That's not good.

Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
No, it's not. I mean, but if he's ready, he's ready,
I guess, but I don't know. I also have Golden.
What do they say about him? They have Golden projected
more points, but that's projection without knowing anything.

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
I've got Drew who's also asking Golden or Digs. I
would still say, start Diggs. Let's figure out what Golden
is first, and then we can.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
You know, you know Diggs is going to get that
if he's healthy. Yeah, Diggs is gonna get fed early
because he's the well one. He is who he is. Two.
It's a new offense with his you know, rookie ish,
you know, young quarterback. They're gonna want to start that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
He's got to improve Cardi too, I mean, not improve impressed.
He's got to impress Cardi B so she can write
a song about him. Probably on a boat she.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
Was tworking on camera. I think she won our core
case or whatever against throwing the microphone at that person
that through the water cup at her. Yeah, let's answer
one more. We got Chase, who says start to Kyler
Dak and Marvin Harrison or Pickens Cardinals play someone week one.

(01:04:53):
I don't even know who.

Speaker 2 (01:04:56):
Cardinals are at New Orleans.

Speaker 1 (01:05:01):
Ah Man. I don't want to start Marvin Harrison, especially
after last year I got burned in him by him
in a league and it's just like, yeah, I don't
want anyone to get hurt again too early. But he's
he's so bulked up now backs I'm holding up like
him too, all.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
Right, real fast Wattle or uh at Buka? This week?

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
I think I would say I would say Abuka. I mean, listen,
they go back to that Thursday night. That Thursday night
Week five seemed to the crime place. I think the
Buccaneers want revenge, so they're definitely hungry.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
This year as far as number twos go. I mean,
I really think he kind of seamlessly fits right into
Chris Chris Godwin's production rate. I really do, like absolutely,
And I think Baker's just gonna pass them the ball
whether he catches it or not, so.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
He's probably gonna get like sixty yards a touchdown, maybe
like seven catches. It will be a decent game. It's
not gonna be like flashy, but like PPR, it's good.

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
He could get six or seven targets like straight up
and down week one. And if he's open.

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
Then we talked about Bucky Brooks and you know he's
just gonna be winning him everything. Let's go into the
playoff picks. Okay, so here here's what I got. All right,
I have Colton's first, and then it's gonna go Jake
Dom and then myself, and then we're gonna go back
through that order again. So Colton's picks, Bill's at the one,
Ravens two, Chiefs three, Houston four, Bengals five, Steelers six,

(01:06:32):
and then the Broncos at seven. That's what he's looking
at here, Jake, I am going to unveil your AFC picks,
and Dom, I'm very disappointed that somehow Streamyard does not
have like a drum roll thing. They have everything else
except just a drum ball.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
That's disappointing.

Speaker 3 (01:06:50):
We can import it.

Speaker 1 (01:06:52):
We'll figure it out. We have technology. Speaking of technology,
here you go, Jake, there we go break it down.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
Really need to update that too.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
So My top four is exactly the same. I think
this is the year, at least the regular season Bills
Baltimore is a tougher division, so they're gonna have, you know,
some losses they should probably shouldn't. Bills are just gonna
run away with They don't have any competition really in
the division.

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
Mm hmm. Chiefs I don't know really, like, yes, it's
the it's the chief until it isn't in that division,
but I we've seen it. It's like the beast Bleeds,
so I don't really know what they are.

Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
They didn't really address the old line all that much,
and there might be a little bit of a a
blueprint put out, which I guess Tampa did too. But
Texan's kind of an easy one. I don't really I
hate that division. I think it's trash because it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:59):
Is h.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
I again, I wanted to take the Chargers. I want
to be the trendy pick and take the Chargers. But
it's the Chiefs till it isn't, so they're gonna be
in my mind right there, probably have a better record
than some of the than maybe the Texans, and I
trusted I trust the defense at least of the of
the Broncos.

Speaker 1 (01:08:24):
And this is.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
Again, if the Bengals, I think they sneak in because
that defense is still bad.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
We'll see what the O line is. But they have
just so much talent that they need. They should be
sniffing and they should make the playoffs. Dom do we
want to discuss her? Should I just go right to
your pick, Tom, go right to my prick? All right,

(01:08:56):
here we go. This is I actually take this to
a dumb Yesterday he just felt very patriotic.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
Yeah, I were Ravens because we really lit up the
Ravens And like, there's just here's the thing, like Jake said,
just they might lose some games, especially in division and whatnot,
but like there's really on paper and everything, there's just
no reason, like there's just no reason they should be losing.
There's no reason they shouldn't be the top team in

(01:09:27):
the league this year. Their defense is pretty sick, their
offense is eff a nutts. I mean, you gotta think
Derrick Henry is just gonna be Derrick Henry again and
be insane and just push towards offensive player. Not that
he'll get it, but like you gotta think he pushes that.

(01:09:49):
Lamar Is had his best season passing last season. I
think that Hey could be perfectly fine again. When like
your third receiver in targets is going to Dowondre Hopkins,
I think that's chilling. So I mean, like, there's no
reason they shouldn't be there, that's why they're there. Then
the Bills, great season. Cool, Then the Chiefs whatever, double

(01:10:12):
digit wins, Okay, Then the Texans because we're all putting
the Texans there unless they do fantastic. Cool, but I'm
not doing that thing again. Oh yeah, Then I think
the Bengals have a really great season this season. They
had a good season offensively last season. There's no reason

(01:10:34):
to think that they're gonna take a step off the
gas again. If they actually win some games in the
first quarter of the season, then I think they have
enough wins to put them at basically where Baltimore is,
and that could be as far as mine is concerned. Obviously,
they have Baltimore first, so if the Bengals are up there,
they got to be the first wild card. Then the Chargers,

(01:10:57):
because I really think the Chargers are gonna be great
this season as well. Well, I'm going to see it
go Herbert, and then I just have the Patriots just
kind of sneaking on in there, because this seventh spot
is just a whole bunch of whatever. And if bo
Nicks isn't, like, if he has any kind of sophomore slump,
then I don't think they really make the playoffs like that.

(01:11:17):
So whatever, that's just the seventh spot in the AFC
and probably the NFC two. Well, really, the AFC could
just be like anyone.

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
So going back and forth between the Bengals and the Patriots.

Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
Yeah, and I was I just put the Patriots in
there because I'm like, you know what, I'm not gonna
put any more of my attention into this because I
was going back and forth to I was just like,
I'm just gonna take my team and put them there.

Speaker 2 (01:11:42):
I'll do it. Most of what I was gonna say
after yours, well, because it's still applies.

Speaker 1 (01:11:47):
Okay, and here are my picks. There's any photo that
has to be updated. This was taken in August twenty nineteen,
so this is the photo that needs the most upgrading. Uh. Yeah,
So I put Baltimore one. Listen, they're gonna be good.
I put the Chiefs at two. I said, Okay, the
Chiefs are gonna find ways to win because that's how
the Chiefs are. They always can do that. Then I

(01:12:09):
put the Bills up three. I said they're gonna fall
back a little bit here, but so I think between
one and three it's gonna be like a two win
maybe three win at most difference. And then at four
put the Texans, which are gonna have their Saturday four
thirty pm slot wild Card weekend as they usually do.
Stats back it up, it's all there. I put the

(01:12:32):
Broncos at five. I said they're gonna be on the
heels of the Chiefs this year. I think that uh
Bonnicks a company, Sean Payton. They will be going after
money because they pushed all of Russell Wilson's money hit
to the first year of it to where it lessen
the hit this year, So I said, okay, they're gonna
do a lot more, especially with the guys like Dray

(01:12:52):
Greenlaw and h Hufunga. If they stay healthy. I think
those are two great candidates. They're gonna help put that
defense even more over the top. In the AFC. UH six,
I put the Chargers because I really felt like they
needed it. And then seven, Uh yeah, I just want
Bengals here, I got nothing else to say. This offen

(01:13:12):
is gonna put up like ten thousand yards and the
defense gonna let up ten thousand yards.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
Yeah, it's geez, what are they doing?

Speaker 3 (01:13:20):
Yeah? Literally?

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
Did you should not? It should never be a question
whether you make the playoffs with Joe Burrow.

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
Here's the thing, and it's craziest thing, and the reason
why either why like Joe Burrow could easily win MVP
and why Jamar Chase could easily win Offensive player is wing.
Should they run the ball because they're always gonna behind
like for a majority of the game because they can't,
like they're always going to need to move the ball
fast because this defense sucks.

Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
So they can run the ball, they'll make the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (01:13:51):
Yeah, I think Chase Brown could do that more than certainly.

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
But there's gonna be like no garbage times in half
in most of these games, just because you know, so
it's like there's no there's not gonna be much running
out the clock and and you know, it's just it's
kind of nuts. Broncot. The Bengals are just apparently an
unfixable problem.

Speaker 1 (01:14:13):
Before we get to the NFC getting actual money in there,
that's the fix. Before we get the NFC side, I
just want to answer these four fantasy questions. Billy says, Pickens,
ted or a Buka. I'm going to say Abuka. Uh,
I got one that says Mason Bigsby or John K.
Johnson week one. I got Bresaw RB one. I would

(01:14:36):
say Mason. Possibly. They've they've rebuilt that offensive line of Minnesota. Yeah,
and Drew says, rate my team, Jayden Daniels, Chase Brown,
Brian Thomas Junior, Josh Jacobs. I want to say Connor Ingram, Chuba, Hubbard, Henderson.

Speaker 3 (01:14:53):
It's not bad.

Speaker 1 (01:14:54):
I like the team. And then JA two K says
should I match Tua and Hill? I already have Baker Mayfield.
Let's say quarterback receiver duos. There are always the Uh they're.

Speaker 3 (01:15:04):
Nice, they're nice when they work.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
Oh, Drew says Jamar Chase not Chase Brown. That's my bad. Oh,
it's even better. Uh, Diego says twelve man team Uh,
Kyler Murray, Jamier Gibbs, Bucky Irvin, Marvin Harrison, t Mac,
Bowers and Jmo. Besides Harrison and t Mac, I don't
really know what t mac is going to be providing
and also what's the question with Harrison? But other than that,

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I like the other five pieces.

Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
I thought everyone just is like everyone in the world
is just unanimously decided. Jamison Williams is JMO, like there's
just no he was in college too. Okay, yeah, well
one last thing.

Speaker 1 (01:15:46):
Let's go back.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
Like, I do think the Ravens are and will be
the best team in the ABC, but record wise, the
Bills have so much more easy games in the division.
That's so valid, and I really think, like I think
they're gonna be good enough and then good enough to

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outpace the Chiefs, is really what it is. Like you
both had like Baltimore one and then Buffalo.

Speaker 4 (01:16:17):
But like.

Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
I think that the Chiefs are gonna be in tough
with some of these games, like the Broncos always play them. Well, yeah,
another year of Harball on the Chargers and they always
Harball always takes a nice little jump year two of
the system. Your line, I just I don't see them.
I don't see the Chiefs this year as like they

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very well could lose the division.

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
It is possible, but it is also I will not
pick another team until they don't.

Speaker 3 (01:16:49):
Yeah, even the Raiders play the Chiefs while on Division.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
Yeah, like, well, we're gonna say it again. They got
bailed out of a lot of games they very well
did lose.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
It's true.

Speaker 1 (01:17:02):
Got two more questions here. The beer said, do I start?
I would assume Marvin Mims over RJ. Harvey, absolutely, and
then Max's Piggins or Metcalf to start, I would say, Pickens,
they gotta find something to go there?

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
What is this?

Speaker 1 (01:17:16):
It's like it took us until like week four last
year for a lot of people to find us.

Speaker 3 (01:17:20):
So it's like, no, he's saying, you're saying.

Speaker 2 (01:17:25):
Metcalf DK, Yeah, your whole like DK sucks off the
start of the year this year.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
Oh no, I say week one because they get Sauce Gardner.
And also the Steelers have not practiced as a whole,
so I'm just like they haven't played against real competition.
They just play each other in a college campus.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
I'm also just over Rogers, like yeah, he's so he's cooked.

Speaker 1 (01:17:46):
And then Nirvana says, shul I drop Dobbins for Ford.
I would say, you still have to stash Dobbins until
Harvey is the guy before it also might have a
very short shelf life to the NFC we go, Holton
selected the Eagles as one, followed by the lines to
the Rams at three Buccaneers F four. I think he

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meant to put Falcons, but I couldn't get a hold
of him to get that pick correct there. But number
five was the Commander's number six was the Vikings, and
number seven was the Dallas Cowboys, which threw me through
a loop.

Speaker 2 (01:18:20):
Well, I honestly, there is a good possibility that they
are better with Kenny Clark and not like a person's
because they could not stop the run at all. And
you can't stop the run. You're done, You're just dead.

Speaker 3 (01:18:32):
Yep, tell you what. Look at that number three team
right there.

Speaker 1 (01:18:38):
Hey, I got I got a half for him. It's
the Super Bowl champions.

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Got a feel for my theory?

Speaker 3 (01:18:45):
That's crazy.

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
One final question breaking cute, says A doonese Ridley Dobbins,
the start one. I don't like Ridley because a certain
probably might have to start Dobbins. I think they could
want to run the ball aggressively.

Speaker 3 (01:19:02):
And they'll probably win early and just run. It's Tennessee
and here we.

Speaker 1 (01:19:07):
Go, Jake, Let's go to your NFC selection here.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:19:12):
Damn so.

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
I still think the Lions are the Lions period. Losing
frank right now sucks, but they're gonna, like I think
they have the horses there to move around pieces and
still be really good on the O line. Everything is
still there. They're gonna get healthier and they have Hutchback,
which is gigantic. The Eagles were frankly are a matchup

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nightmare for even the good teams we play, So that's
gonna get us win like wins that people will probably
have us losing. The Niners are should be healthy. They
always do this. They have a crappy year where they're
just everybody's hurt and everyone counts them out until they

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come back and they ripped through the league. I also
love that sala Is back there because he was a
dog when and that defense was awesome when he was there.
The Buccaneers the chalk pick easy pencil him right on
in there. The Packers again, like just like the the

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Charges are, They're gonna have a good record. Probably deserved
that whole realignment thing that they were talking about where
the seeds are different, but that's not how the that's
not the case. The Commanders are interesting because they only
beat one playoff team in the regular season last year
and that was the Kenny Pickott game. And I again

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I'm on record, I really like what that offense in
Minnesota does. The defense is very good, they still have it.
I just yeah, I think that division stays the same
regardless of the fact that the the record, they're the
strength of schedule for both the NFC East and a

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NFC North is what it is. But they're gonna win
a lot of games still, and they're gonna I don't
there aren't many other teams, in my opinion, that really
can challenge the seven. Like again, I could see the
Cowboys maybe, but there's also a greater chance they finished
last in that division. So I mean, if you guys

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want to, is there anybody else that could really be
the seven?

Speaker 3 (01:21:36):
I mean, I think it's up in the air, just
because it's like the Vikings, like what if it's not
going so well whatever, But like the seven, for there's
always a race at the end, and it's just how
it goes.

Speaker 2 (01:21:47):
I think, well, it's like between them and the Falcons
are trash, don't I would.

Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
Say the Rams would only be the other team that
you can like fight in here. But like, what is Stafford,
like even if he died decades ago, even if he
plays like he's a shell of himself. Mm hmm. So
it was like, and I don't I like Arizona. Maybe
like it won't be the Giants, it won't be in

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like and I I don't know, Like the only thing
I would want to maybe change is like Green Bay
and Detroit.

Speaker 2 (01:22:24):
But Detroit is still so good.

Speaker 1 (01:22:31):
Dom do you want to click the air for your pick?
I have an introductory piece for you.

Speaker 3 (01:22:35):
Oh dude, I don't like the sound of this. Okay, thanks, Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
We don't have it, don't have a drum roll, but
we do have an explosion.

Speaker 3 (01:22:46):
So that's not that's a good transition, to be honest,
you know, I will. I'm gonna preface this by saying
I leaned a little bit into schedule and strength of
schedules and stuff. So whether I remember why and what
are where just I'm prefacing it with that because I

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really did. I looked up strength of schedules. I looked
up schedules themselves. I'm like, this is how I got here.
I'm really I really think Tampa Bay is gonna have
a great season this season. I really think they're like
queued up for it. I think Baker's queued up for
a good season Godwin comes back. I mean, that's potentially

(01:23:31):
the best trio receiver group in the league as long
as everything goes as it does. They have a decent
tight end, like they had the starts of like a
really nice running game last season, and for some reason,
they just beat good teams. I don't know why Jay
can say that about the Eagles for no reason. And

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they beat the Lions last year like when no one
else could. So for some reason, Tampa Bay just wins,
like against the teams that they that no one should
win against. So I said, you know what, here we go.
There's no reason they shouldn't be that much better or
they should take any step back. They should be better.

(01:24:15):
So I'm going for I was like, I'm throwing it in.
This is my Texans pick from last year. So yeah,
this could really fall on its face. Did I always
have one every season?

Speaker 1 (01:24:28):
I don't know if it's ever worth I have noers.
That's the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:24:33):
It's just like it's tough everyone for some reason. It's
just like, well, they just beat us, like all the teams,
the teams. It's crazy. So I have the Eagles. Second,
I think they just kind of have a great season again.
The Lions more of the same. There's a little up
in the air whatever. I think they're still the Lions.

(01:24:54):
They're still gonna be good. Jed Golf commands a freaking
hell of an offense and their weapons are their webs.
They're nuts. Then the Niners, just because like it's just
how it goes. They bounce back like they don't. They're
not going to be bum craped twice in a row
like that with the talent that's still there and the

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coaching staff and whatnot. I mean, they and strength to schedule.
You know, it's just how it is, you know whatever.
Then it's Green Bay because I think they're just that's
the next up team there in this you know set
of teams. Then I have Washington. This was tough six

(01:25:39):
and seven for me. I probably changed like ten times
before I I really got it down, dude, because this
is when I was like deep in deep diving into
like schedules into like this, like where we're looking like
what who played what last year? Houses work out? So
I went with Washington just because I mean, like in division,

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the Eagles are really there. They're worried. I don't know
about the Cowboys. I still think their defense is still
their defense. Dan Quinn is facing that team that he
made a good defense and it's shambles now. So I'm
just going Washington there, and then the Falcons because like,
I don't know, they have the weapons, their defense shouldn't

(01:26:25):
be terrible. Their coaches defensive minded, Like if they could
put it together, they can make playoffs. The issue is
it just feels like they don't put it together for
whatever reason, Like there's no reason that Kirk Cousins shouldn't
have just brought them to the playoffs last year, but whatever,
I don't know if they put it together, they put together.

(01:26:47):
This seventh spot was tough. I couldn't do the Rams
because I just don't know if they have a full
season and have froster at this point with Stafford and
everything else that's there and it's cool, but like mcgay's tire, Yeah,
it's just like none of that feels like a full
season of roster, Like none of it feels like, hey,
this is the roster we're ending the season with. It

(01:27:09):
just doesn't feel that way. I don't even know. So, yeah,
I mean that's where I'm at again, like you picked
the Vikings like I do. I switched back and forth
the Vikings, and I kind of think I still want
to put the Vikings in.

Speaker 4 (01:27:22):
This.

Speaker 3 (01:27:22):
I don't know. This was like the This was like
the Sunday morning tinkering with their fantasy lineup endlessly before
the fantasy before the games start. This is what I
was doing at six and seven.

Speaker 2 (01:27:33):
So honestly, I kind of like, I really also want
to just move the Niners up, I know, in the
uh seating because they're gonna like they're going to shock
people to a double digit win season.

Speaker 3 (01:27:48):
I think so. And they even they have some of
the easiest strength scheduled in the in the league. And
if you think about it, the Rams are worse than
they were last year. The Cardinals I still don't even know,
Like they're not spectacular. Seattle retooled a ton, so it's like,
I don't know how, dude, stuff. I actually almost put
Seattle on the seventh spot because strength to schedule, Like

(01:28:09):
I don't, I have no clue, dude.

Speaker 2 (01:28:14):
I mean, I'm a big fan of Jaden Daniels, but
whatever reason, putting them in does scare me a bit.

Speaker 3 (01:28:21):
This was the Broncos also sophomore something too, like, I
don't I have no clue Austin Ecklers, you're starting running
back in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
I put them in there until I knew that stat
that like I had a like I always knew. I
had a feeling they played bad teams last season, but like,
they had one one win in the regular season against
a team that went to the playoffs, and it was
that game that Jalen went out in a series and
a half.

Speaker 3 (01:28:47):
It's the Miami Dolphins. I like, and I don't know
now I want to change my six and seven. This
is exactly what I was doing in my mind. So
I don't even know how I got to where I got.
I just got there. I was over. I was like,
dare I am. I gotta make a decision, and that's out.

Speaker 1 (01:29:07):
And here we go. I got the Eagles at one.
I think they can repeat as division champs. Has been
done in twenty years. I think the Eagles have more
than enough capability of doing that there, So I put
them at one.

Speaker 3 (01:29:21):
Two.

Speaker 1 (01:29:21):
I put the Packers. I think Parsons really puts them
over over that hump there, like you go back to
farv Farv got up Reggie White and look at it,
they got him over the hump. At the end of
the Farv into Rogers. Charles Woodson came in, like they
have these guys that come in they really help their
quarterbacks that they somehow keep for twenty years for whatever

(01:29:43):
unknown reason. So I put the Packers at two three
rams total biased. Four. I put the Bucks. I think,
you know, I think the Bucks are gonna be the
Bucks this year. Five. I think it's gonna be either
half a game or a game out that the Lions
miss out under the division title there, So I put
Detroit at number five. Number six, I like the style

(01:30:04):
of return, so I, you know, ended up putting the
Niners at six. I think, you know, they'll fight for
the wildcar. They'll fight for a wildcard. In the next year.
They'll be going for the division because they got like
one hundred million dollars in dead cap. And then seven
I put the Commanders because well, I put the Commanders there.
I really wanted to put the Vikings, and I was
thinking of this last week and I said, man, I

(01:30:24):
really want to put the Cowboys in, And that was
before the Parsons trade. So with the Parsons trade. It
made me a little bit more hesitant of putting the
Cowboys there.

Speaker 3 (01:30:35):
I tell you what, looking at our picks and stuff,
at least they reflect the awards and whatnot of what
we put. Like there is consistency throughout. It's not like
someone did like, hey, you know, I don't even know
this person MVP and then not have their teammate player,

(01:30:56):
you know what I mean. Like, at least we were
pretty consistent all the way through all mixed sense, so
that that's kind of like you you're clearly leaning a
little bit towards King Green Bay with Parsons and whatnot.
That's it. I was clearly leaning a little bit with
Tampa Bay and I put them up high. So it's
like you know where yeah Vikings and yeah literally and

(01:31:16):
having that yeah JJ Vikings and Bengals. Yeah. So it's
like it's at least we're consistent this year. It feels
like all the way down. Yeah, that's consistency is good.

Speaker 2 (01:31:26):
The thing that just like also worries me is like
the clear like this is the year of like cycles,
like the whole thing about the Packers quarterback and then
getting defensive guy and winning the Super Bowl the NFC
East never having repeat and then if you look at
the years that teams have won, this is like supposed
to be by the cycle the Commander's turn.

Speaker 1 (01:31:48):
Yeah, and you even have like the hard knocks thing
with the entire NFC East going there like and they
just end up crumbling by the time the playoffs come
around too, So like either one team or pot we
two teams maybe three just start crumbling with that end
season part. But as long as we get Jamis Winston,

(01:32:08):
it would be really good. You can answer that fantasy question.
I'm not answering this garbage.

Speaker 3 (01:32:13):
Dude name Jason says Daniel Jones, and Tommy Devita.

Speaker 1 (01:32:16):
I say, Matthias Man, Matthias is definitely the start.

Speaker 2 (01:32:21):
Is the start?

Speaker 1 (01:32:26):
All right, gentlemen, we gotta do this. I don't want
that up there. I should just stick a face of
Colond up there. Here we go, Let's let's do this.

Speaker 3 (01:32:35):
Yeah, that's a great idea. Actually, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:32:38):
So we get to our favorite part here, which is
our first sixteen. But we have to take oh wait, no,
we forgot our Super Bowl picks. We gotta do this. Okay,
We're gonna go wrap a fire. Jake, what is your
super Bowl pick.

Speaker 2 (01:32:50):
We're getting the big Cam. Huh. All right, So for
everything I said earlier about the Ravens and what I
everything I said about the Chiefs, and I don't think
they're it anymore, to be honest. So I have Baltimore
making the super Bowl against the team going for a

(01:33:14):
repeat that I'm wearing the jersey of. And yes it's
a Homer pick, but we're also really good. But I
think Baltimore takes it in the It's very hard to
go back to back. Chiefs all their flowers for going
to three straight, but I don't think we do the

(01:33:34):
thing they did and Baltimore wins.

Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
Here you go, don all right.

Speaker 3 (01:33:43):
This is I literally just do this. I'm purely based
off of what I want. I'm not what I think,
which I know here we are giving our advice and stuff.
Clearly that's not the right choice, but whatever, I always
choose what I want this segment. And last time I
went so heavy Texans. This year, I was going so

(01:34:06):
heavy Tampa Bay. I decided not to let that whole
thing be, you know, fall on its face. So this
year and I'm low key think no, no, no, never mind,
it's not that way but I did put Detroit in
the Super Bowl this year. I think I did that
last year too against Cincinnati. I did say earlier. I

(01:34:28):
do think Cincinnati is gonna be great this year. I
really expect big things, and I have Cincinnati winning, Joe
Burrow doing the thing that you finally couldn't do. I mean,
this is tough because it's like, how do I say
Cincinnati's defense stops the Lions? I know, but again, this
segment is based off of purely what I want to happen,

(01:34:51):
not what I think statistically, and everything is gonna happen.
So Cincinnati beating the Detroit Lions the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (01:35:03):
I have some breaking news that is also very depressing.
So Stream East has been shut down.

Speaker 1 (01:35:11):
Oh yeah, that's that's big.

Speaker 3 (01:35:13):
Yep, I guess eight hours ago, but gigantic.

Speaker 2 (01:35:16):
That sucks.

Speaker 3 (01:35:19):
Yeah. I mean there's still other ones out there, but like, yeah,
you got.

Speaker 1 (01:35:23):
Like I'm not I'm not even gonna promote them. I'm
not going to announce the other day.

Speaker 3 (01:35:29):
All right, p Yeah, my name is Colton.

Speaker 1 (01:35:33):
I like the Ravens a lot. I'm we're the Steelers.
Tell let me scroll up and what he got?

Speaker 3 (01:35:38):
Who did his impression last year, was it me? And
then he joined like.

Speaker 1 (01:35:42):
It's also a solid impression.

Speaker 3 (01:35:44):
I don't do that again, dude. I was just thinking.
I was like I did that last year, and I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:35:49):
He's got to start like like you throw the arms
a little bit. You're like, I haven't had enough to
have to like I have to like piss you off
and you can really get in the way. That's like
the thing here, colland criicked Coltan picked the Bills and
the Ravens. Is the super Bowl and he picked the
Buffalo Bills first.

Speaker 3 (01:36:08):
On the Ravens. That's the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (01:36:10):
Oh, Ravens, Eagles, same thing, but yeah, this is a
super Bowl thing, and he picked them. Rapifire this right now,
uh mine. I ended up picking the Ravens and the
Green Bay Packers and Micah Parson's gonna get the Packers
over the top. I have the Green Bay Packers winning
Super Bowl sixty in San Francisco.

Speaker 3 (01:36:32):
Man Will's doing my Texans thing. Yeah, well he went
all the way with it.

Speaker 2 (01:36:35):
Are they gonna shut up now and stop being you know,
in our comments freaking out? Yeah, we just said you're
gonna win the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
Now. I jumped the gun. But now we are back
here and it's gonna be perfectly clipped and all that stuff.
We have our favorite time of the year where we
have the first sixteen games of our pick Galower spectacular.
There was Colton. He is here with us in spirit,
shorter than I remember, but he's at least here with us.

(01:37:07):
But let's reflect on last year where Jake stole. I
think I think he stole the picks last year, right
at the end, he somehow was able to jump down
and take the win. I think that's what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:37:19):
First, No, wrong, I think Colton that was Dom's.

Speaker 1 (01:37:23):
Okay, So Colton was definitely up there and he was
trying to hawk Dom. And then no, I declined.

Speaker 2 (01:37:29):
I think I climbed Don was like wire to wire.
Last Yeah, I've.

Speaker 3 (01:37:34):
The last two seasons, I have done nothing but climbed
a ladder that felt impossible.

Speaker 1 (01:37:39):
So I know this year, this year, I need to win.
This year, I need to win. But these are our picks.

Speaker 2 (01:37:43):
Last year, I jumped out and I had a lead
for most of the year. I started to crumble and
Coltan like had some We were what we were back
and forth for a few last weeks and I pulled
away the last three.

Speaker 3 (01:37:55):
And I clawed my way to second again.

Speaker 2 (01:38:03):
Played some defense too, just took picks to match him.

Speaker 1 (01:38:06):
Yeah, but here we go. Game one of two seventy two,
we have the Dallas Cowboys at the Philadelphia Eagles, where
we are all clean sweeping the Philadelphia Eagles as the
winners of week number one.

Speaker 2 (01:38:20):
Just make sure we hold Jerry Jones's eyes open so
we can watch that banner and get lifted.

Speaker 1 (01:38:25):
He could take it on his slip phone as well.
Then we go from the Northern Hemisphere down to the
Southern Hemisphere. If anything proves anything correctly, if you play
in Brazil, you're guaranteed to go to the Super Bowl.
So maybe we all have one of these two teams
down there, the Chiefs and the Chargers. Somehow this game
it's gonna be fireworks all around. We are all sweeping

(01:38:46):
the Kansas City Chiefs to win their first game of
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:38:50):
Didn't want to. Didn't want to and talk about fireworks.

Speaker 1 (01:38:54):
The game that we're starting out with on Sunday one o'clock,
the Miami Dolphins in the Indianapolis Colts Colon is lone
wolfing the Miami Dolphins here. The three of us are
taking the Colts. We have the Daniel Jones here, which
is not the right gaslighting some people.

Speaker 2 (01:39:15):
It's more about the lack of faith in what has
already happened to Miami.

Speaker 3 (01:39:19):
Nothing about taking Daniel Jones for a week when one
feels right at all. This is the most wrong thing
I've ever done in my life. This is sacrilegious to
everything I believe in.

Speaker 2 (01:39:29):
If it was in Miami, I take Miami.

Speaker 1 (01:39:31):
Still.

Speaker 3 (01:39:32):
Yeah, maybe that's what it is. Maybe it's the app part.
I don't even have a logical reason.

Speaker 1 (01:39:40):
And then we have the swapping of Week one quarterbacks
from opposing teams now playing on the current teams, and
they're going to be facing each other. Aaron Rodgers makes
his Steelers debut in MetLife Stadium against Justin Fields and
the New York Jets. I am lone wolfing the Jets,
and it's only because I've taken the Jets every single
year in Week number one.

Speaker 3 (01:39:58):
Good for you.

Speaker 1 (01:39:59):
I think this game eight to four to two field
goals and a safety for the Jets and two safeties
for the Steelers. I think it's gonna be just a
downright bad game. That no one's gonna want to rewatch
ever again.

Speaker 2 (01:40:10):
I am a zero fan of either of these teams.

Speaker 1 (01:40:14):
And then we head on down the Carolina Panthers. Let
me repeat that. The Carolina Panthers open their season against
the Jacksonville Jaguars, Liam Cohen's head coaching debut. Trevor Lawrence
returns to the roster after getting hurt last season. We
have a split here. Domini are taking the Panthers and

(01:40:36):
then Colton and Jake are taking the Jaggies.

Speaker 3 (01:40:39):
Purely based off of I want to see the Carolina
Panthers pick up from where they left off last year.

Speaker 1 (01:40:45):
They almost call him the Carolina Painters. I was gonna
be like, geez, that is their families.

Speaker 3 (01:40:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:40:52):
The d line of Jacksonville still good and they do
have some weapons. As much as I do like what
Carol Line is building, I don't think they get this
one early.

Speaker 3 (01:41:05):
There's more hope than it is accuracy. I feel like
for me.

Speaker 1 (01:41:11):
From Duval County. We head down to Noah where the
Saints host the Arizona Cardinals for Week number one, and
we're all sweeping the Arizona Cardinals.

Speaker 3 (01:41:21):
Here. We're gonna eat.

Speaker 1 (01:41:23):
This is gonna be the worst beat of our lives.

Speaker 3 (01:41:25):
Yeah, we're gonna eat this. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:41:28):
I don't think I'm gonna pick the New Orleans one
time this season.

Speaker 3 (01:41:30):
Yeah, I don't. This is one of those.

Speaker 1 (01:41:32):
I feel obligated him to pick at least every team once.
From Nola to the Nation's Capital, where the Giants go
down a three hour train ride to Washington, d C.
Will landover Maryland a couple minutes outside of DC to
play the Commanders in FedEx Field, Coland is lone wolfing
the New York Giants and the Russell Wilson experience in

(01:41:52):
his first start as a New York Giant.

Speaker 3 (01:41:55):
Tell you what, I kind of wanted to pick the
Giants just because of Russ. Something about this feels like
rust winds this game.

Speaker 2 (01:42:00):
Yeah, it does. The D line is very good. Line
of a line of Washington is a maybe because there's.

Speaker 3 (01:42:07):
No way the running game gets going for Washington. Ever,
in this game, I feel like I really like.

Speaker 1 (01:42:13):
The offensive line, but also they do not have They're
one guy that got hurt in Detroit. I don't think
he's playing yet. I don't know if he's practicing yet.
Haven't heard too much Cosmy. Yes, yeah, if he's playing,
I'll be really surprised. That's gonna be like seven months,
six and a half months since surgery.

Speaker 3 (01:42:33):
Then for him, I have just no faith in Washington's
run game whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (01:42:38):
But let's have faith in this matchup because we're gonna
be talking about are Atlanta Falcons because we're so excited
to talk about him, and they host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
who are nursing some injuries with God, wouldn't trying to
return Worfs who's out the first four weeks of the season. Uh,
where are we here? We are sweeping the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

(01:42:58):
As true Falcons fanatics.

Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
We are, Yeah, Pennix need is gonna need hooked on
phonics thread, the defense getting blitzed all day.

Speaker 1 (01:43:08):
So from Atlanta, we stay in the Eastern time zone.
We go to Cleveland where the Dog Pound host our
first game of the season against the Cincinnati Bengals. That
I am lone wolfing the Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 3 (01:43:20):
Will's on the side of the curse.

Speaker 1 (01:43:22):
Listen, listen, I yeah, I said, I see, I see Bengals.
Week one. I'm like, okay, let me just jump the
other way here.

Speaker 2 (01:43:30):
History should tell you. But I'm really I'm a slow learner.

Speaker 1 (01:43:33):
Yeah, I'm not afraid to get hurt sometimes. So from
Cleveland we go. We go up to Foxborough, where Rabel
makes his Patriots debut and Pete Carroll makes his Raiders
debut as head coach. We are all sweeping the New
England Patriots.

Speaker 3 (01:43:52):
I bet this is actually a really good game.

Speaker 1 (01:43:55):
It's gonna be like a stupidly drunken like twenty seven
to twenty three game.

Speaker 3 (01:43:59):
Oh dude, Gino Smith, I actually think can throw the
like I mean I Christian Gonzalez.

Speaker 1 (01:44:04):
It's not looking too pretty if he's gonna be playing
this week, So down your best defensive player. Is that
a four o'clock This is a the end of the
one o'clock hour.

Speaker 2 (01:44:14):
I think it a fun four o'clock yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:44:17):
But to the four o'clock hour we go. We have
Robert Salad returning as Niners defensive coordinator, and now he
goes to the revamped Seahawks offense, challenging them with Sam
Darnold and Cooper Cup at the helm. Uh, we're all
sweeping the Niners here in week number one. Coming out
for the as my friend Jeff is attending, he says
I will be sure to cheer on Donald as he

(01:44:38):
overthrows everyone. I said, dude, he's throwing eight touchdowns this game.

Speaker 2 (01:44:42):
He's gonna be seeing ghosts again.

Speaker 1 (01:44:45):
I said, don't kiss him. He's gonna have mono. Don't
do it. So from Seattle we go. We go mile high,
so you don't really have to lose too much altitude
on the plate. Ride down the Titans and cam Ward, Uh, yeah,
he's the number one overall pick, and you know everyone does.
Don't mention that because you know Shedor Sanders was drafted
in a round number five. They go and play in Denver. Here,

(01:45:07):
we're all taking Denver here on the sweep.

Speaker 3 (01:45:11):
Yeah, Tennessee is gonna be the team. I don't know
if I ever take this season.

Speaker 1 (01:45:16):
Talk about teams we're not taking. We're gonna take both
these teams. At some point this season. The Lions go
to the lambeau Field and I don't know, Dan Campbell
said something about the eighth day and you know they
give us Lambeowfield or something stumb like that. I don't
know he said that, and I was a pretty good quote.
Green Bay Packers host the Detroit Lions, who are all
taking the Detroit Lions here on the site.

Speaker 2 (01:45:38):
You're not taking the Packers.

Speaker 1 (01:45:41):
No, I took the Lions.

Speaker 3 (01:45:43):
How is this not a night game? This needs to
be a night like every time.

Speaker 1 (01:45:46):
We're gonna get to the night game, and you're gonna
understand why it's the night game. No, but the end
of our late window, the Texans go into LA and
play the Los Angeles Rams and maybe a Stafford or
a stunt double. As the team president says, he loves
the hashtag that Smett Stafford died weeks ago. He thinks
it's hysterical. And he also said, we're not gonna have
Stafford take off his home because we don't want anyone
to know it's clone there. It is, I am lone

(01:46:10):
wolfing the Los Angeles Rams on this one.

Speaker 3 (01:46:13):
They have had robots in LA for a game before, so.

Speaker 2 (01:46:19):
So wait in the is So it's actually a question
if Stafford plays correct.

Speaker 1 (01:46:25):
No, Stafford is playing, yes playing.

Speaker 3 (01:46:28):
Yeah, he is.

Speaker 1 (01:46:29):
Playing against probably the two hardest defensive ends he has
to face, which is Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter.

Speaker 3 (01:46:35):
So this might look like that Rams game after the
Super Bowl two years ago or whatever that they just
look just terrible.

Speaker 1 (01:46:44):
Yeah, and the Sunday night game. The Ravens returned to
Buffalo after a crucial Mark Andrews drops and fumbles to
host the Well to play the Buffalo Bills up in
Orchard Park, the final year of Buffalo's stadium. And we're
all sweet up nowhere. Not Dom is lone wolfing the
Buffalo Bills on this one.

Speaker 3 (01:47:07):
I don't know. Buffalo is one of those teams that
just like always win the night games, and then like,
and it's at Buffalo, and like, I feel like if
it's a night game at Buffalo during the regular season,
it's just like one of those things you always see
them win, just like Kansas City, just like Detroit, just
like so like and Baltimore, I've seen plenty of times
lose night games. So it's like, all right, that's that

(01:47:30):
was purely based off of feeling. That was it. After saying, well,
I said both teams would be great, but I did
say Baltimore be the best team in the league.

Speaker 1 (01:47:40):
And then we conclude our Week one in Chicago, where
JJ McCarthy makes his NFL debut against the Chicago Bears
and Ben Johnson's head coaching debut. We are all sweeping
the Minnesota Vikings on this one. I don't think it's
a surprise.

Speaker 3 (01:47:56):
It might be a fun game.

Speaker 2 (01:47:59):
I am real. I think I took a lot of
road teams. That's gonna be rough.

Speaker 3 (01:48:03):
It is week one though, Well that doesn't help your case.

Speaker 1 (01:48:07):
Good Week one's crazy. You don't know what's gonna happen.
It's just too fresh.

Speaker 3 (01:48:11):
Yeah, travel, travel hasn't fatigued them yet, so it's like.

Speaker 1 (01:48:14):
Most of them haven't played either, so.

Speaker 3 (01:48:15):
It's yeah, yeah, so maybe maybe it's not about.

Speaker 2 (01:48:18):
A lot of mine were based on quarterback coaching. And
then if you have a crap bowl line really.

Speaker 1 (01:48:26):
And that concludes our show. You can follow some of
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and Instagram for the fan football. I have been rambling
on for god knows how long, so I have nothing
else to say. It's all up to you guys. Anything
else to say before we uh hit the piece.

Speaker 2 (01:48:46):
Football's back raising a banner and go birds.

Speaker 4 (01:48:48):
Yeah dude, hell yeah, and little voice football Football excited
for it.

Speaker 3 (01:48:55):
Good luck everyone in fantasy. Hope you start off with
a Week one and I hope you don't score the
lowest points in your league history on Week one like
I did last year.

Speaker 2 (01:49:06):
I only want to hear you say those words.

Speaker 3 (01:49:08):
That's true. It took you leaving the league for me
to just fall flat on my face and have the
worst Week one of all time. I don't even know
if I broke a hundred points. It was so bad. Bro.

Speaker 1 (01:49:17):
You had one hundred and two, which tank Dom's Week
one average by almost eleven points.

Speaker 3 (01:49:24):
That's so awful.

Speaker 2 (01:49:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:49:26):
You went from you and the matchup Week one every year,
highest points and the highest points of the year each team.

Speaker 3 (01:49:34):
To me just throwing my team in the garbage.

Speaker 2 (01:49:38):
You forgot how to do fantasy after I retired.

Speaker 3 (01:49:40):
That's it. I'm washed. I'm a yeah, I'm was.

Speaker 2 (01:49:44):
I your joke? Was I joker to your batman?

Speaker 3 (01:49:46):
Might have been? You left with my talent just gone
out the window.

Speaker 1 (01:49:53):
As always, I am will it's Domin. That's Jacob here
for the fan every Wednesday, live at five pm Eastern.

Speaker 3 (01:49:58):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:49:58):
Yeah, we'll be live and we'll have some fantasy shows
along the way as well. So everyone, thank you all
for tuning in tune in next week. Thank you all
very much.

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