For The Fan EP 169: NFL Week 5

Dillon Gabriel TO START Power Rankings through the first quarter of the season Fantasy questions & More!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls, Welcome back to another installment
A for the Fan, episode number one sixty nine. As always,
I am Will and we got Domin, got Jake here, gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hello, good afternoon.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
I have to say one thing that really irks me
is this like countdown music that before we go live,
and it's just like Rainforest Cafe esque.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah it is, it is. It's not what he used
to be. It wasn't what it was last year. Unfortunately.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
The other stuff was hype in the playoffs or one
of our last episodes that.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Seems they changed it, which was very disappointing.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
We started it up and I'm like, well this my
vibe just went.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Like it's so loud. It just like bombarbed you and
you're just like what the fuck, Like what's going on here?
But yes, we have a lot of stuff on tap here,
you know, big headlines from all around the league. We
got some individual power rankings. We're gonna be going over
I don't know, fantasy questions five point thirty half past
the hour, and uh yeah, our usual a shtick on

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this show, gentlemen, Do you want me just kick up
this intro and just go right in balls deep bra
Dog Sure sure, alrighty, yeah already, no four play included.
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Cleveland here after another rough going for the the Browns here,
they ended up having one win in their first four weeks,
and they you know, they take out Joe Flacco, they
put in Dylan Gabriel and lo, behold, he is the

(02:02):
starter for week number five when the Cleveland Browns are
playing the Minnesota Vikings in London aka Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium. Gentlemen,
what are we feeling about this with uh Shadoor Sanders?
Why isn't he playing? Why? Why isn't the fifth round
they're playing? You know, and he's just like mouthing words
to reporters. He's not even saying words, He's just mouthing,

(02:23):
you know, just opening his mouth and saying stuff.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Why isn't the fifth round or playing over the third
rounder or also the backup who took a knee in
the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
I don't even know if he's like healthy right now.
He's not listed on there.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
No, I'm just making a joke.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Is he not on the shirt? Oh no, Flacco's probably
just moved down to second on hit.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
I don't really get why they had to have black
obe the starter. But I guess the camp battle said,
can't Pickett's that bad or if he just hurt?

Speaker 1 (02:56):
I didn't.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
I didn't really pay attention to the browns QB controversy.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Yeah, Also, like what is their season Like, It's not like,
you know, it's not like they have this super up
team for a new quarterback to succeed in well, you know.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
It's like literally the worst quarterback this season has been Flaco.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Oh yeah, I mean there's also that it's not close either.
You know what, it's also the hype and it probably
sold tickets because of he was comeback player last time
and it was like a big deal and everyone was
like super psyched about it and blah blah blah. So like,
you know, there's probably an amount of fan service somewhere
in there as well.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Like he's got six six picks and two lost fumbles
and only like two touchdowns all.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Behind that banged up offensive line receiving corps just you know,
all down, Isaiah Bond looked good. I mean, they got
a lot of rookies now in this team that are
uh showing up and showing out.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
I like Bond, but like the receivering were fine last season,
Like they weren't like amazing or anything, but like they
are definitely serviceable. Uh yeah, I really just I don't
think Dylan Grabriel is any better than should Do or
or should Door is any better than Gabriel's. Just who's
gonna be the better backup career quarterback.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
They also got this sixty million dollar guy who's coming
off in achilles injury that you know, fully guaranteed should you.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Know, be forgot he's even on the team.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
God, God, in my brain I saw the the his
injury happen in the off season, I'm like, oh, they're
gonna be able to boid the contract. It's over and
so in my brain it's avoided.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, I don't. I didn't even.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Is it, like, are there any intentions at all in
Cleveland for him to step on a field.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
I think the intention is for him to get released
in the off season because they've reworked the contract to
where it could be like less money next year if
despite it still being like fully guaranteed, very strange, very
strange team.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Again, he's done.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Well if the brand's of anything going from They do
have a really good rookie class with Judkins and Mason Graham.
They got a lot of good pieces all around that
you know are producing. Unfortunately, it's still the Browns, So
it's like, what are you gonna do about it?

Speaker 4 (05:21):
Is there any space left on that guy's jersey?

Speaker 1 (05:24):
I really want to know. Oh no, he ran out
of space. There is officially no more space.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Dude, he needs a second one of two point zero,
which jun QB's two point zero.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Do you what was it like?

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Forty starters forty one starters at quarterbacks since nineteen ninety nine?

Speaker 2 (05:43):
I mean, think about that. I mean, it's just that's insane.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
I want to know what the list of quarterbacks are
that started a full entire season beginning to end are
for the brand. I mean, there's got to be what Baker.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
No, because didn't he get well maybe the one.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Year maybe the one year, right, Baker's got to be.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Warning they screwed up his shoulder injury. That was the
whole thing there.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
That's forty one in twenty five seasons or twenty six seasons.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
I think I think Tim Couch was definitely the starter
for the whole year. Okay, Colt McCoy definitely.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
That's that everything you need to know.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Dom's favorite person. I think Derek Anderson started the entire
two thousand and seven season.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
That's crazy. What about what about the Sean Kaiser, Did
he start the entire season?

Speaker 5 (06:36):
No?

Speaker 1 (06:36):
No, no, no, because I think it was like RG
three and like Cody Kessler and like Hogan.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
It's so crazy the list of their and it's not
even like we juggled good quarterbacks. It's just that is
just the pit of misery for quarterbacks, like the fact
that we have a quarterback controversy of whatever this quarterback
thing is on that team and there's four of them,

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and then on after the four is the guy that's
getting paid way too much money as well. So it's
like there's that. It's just so weird, dude, It's just
the Browns. The brown only exists in Cleveland for this
hole whatever that is.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Bran Weeding got close. Fad Lewis started a game.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Oh that was the guy. Jason Campbell started like a
handful of games.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
Baker Baker twice, you know what, Tom Deshaun Kyes are
fifteen games?

Speaker 3 (07:40):
Oh so close, dude.

Speaker 6 (07:41):
I just remember him.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
He was the he was like the worst quarterback the
whole year.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah, but he was just like their answer for some reason,
for like a whole season, and it was like, oh okay, sure, yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
And then Tim Couch in two thousand and one that fit.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Ye.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
It's so funny.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Donian Peterson was there.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
Yeah, I know, Doud Peterson's on the jersey.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's just so funny. Man Like just tough, tough, tough, tough.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Place to be a fan.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
I guess I don't even know. It's just weird.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Some other news from around the league, uh Shaquille Leonard
retired after a I want to say at least ten
years in the NFL. He hasn't been he hasn't been
playing since I think the Eagle Super Bowl in twenty
twenty two, so he's not been around there since.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
He was the collapse year. He wasn't the super Bowl year.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
No, it wasn't. Okay, but yeah, you know, back injury
kind of riddled his career, kind of like, you know,
very late linebacker to unfortunate, you know, injury that ended
in him his career prematurely, very unfortunate, but happy trails
to Shaquille Leonard and uh yeah, we'll figure out who

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the next quarterback is moving forward, well linebacker, I should say, Oh,
let's go for the injury round up. The forty nine
ers already have ruled out Rock Purty, Wrecky Piersaw, and
Juwan Jennings all for Thursday night football against the Los
Angeles Rams. Lions placed DJ Reid on injured reserve for

(09:13):
a minimum of four games after being caught off the
field against the Cleveland Browns. On Sunday, Denico Audrey and
Jalen Reed returned to the practice for the Houston Texans.
Lamar Jackson is not practicing among the eight players that
the Ravens are not practicing, so he's definitely in doubt
come Sunday. Who's his backup now, Cooper Rush?

Speaker 4 (09:37):
Yeah, he was in the game.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Trey Benson, who banged his knee very late into the
game against the Seahawks last Thursday, is now out for
four to six weeks due to a arthroscopic surgery on
his meniscus.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
So it's your boy, Michael Carter territory.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Hey, Michael Carter's there. That he got picked up. All
the Cardinals aren all picked up in Fantasy right now,
So that's that's that. Jane and Daniels medically cleared by
doctors to return to practice. So obviously that is a
good thing for the Commanders who are flying all the
way out to Sofi Stadium on Sunday to play the Chargers.
Lions officially activated the practice window for Alee McNeil, and

(10:20):
then the Commanders opened up the practice window for Sam Cosmi,
who tore his ACL in January in Detroit. So that
is a very big help for the Commanders and the
Detroit Lions obviously too. Tyreek Hill with one of the
grossest knee injuries that we have seen, very similar to
the Tank Dell injury. Immediately, you know, brought out of

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the game hospital the whole ten yards. He got everything
fixed up. Apparently, twenty twenty six is a very big
goal for Tyreek Hill.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
According to Drew Rosenhaus, what did they say, Well, he
clearly dislocated his knee.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
He dislocated the knee, tore the ACL and other ligaments.
That they couldn't figure out until they like went in there.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
I didn't I didn't see the like the MRI results
of it.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
I don't think they released those. I don't think they
like released it, but they did go from the a
cl was torn. That's what the MRI would.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Be knowing Tyreek, he'll probably release the actual imaging. He
tell you what, The Dolphins are just weird, man, because
everything that could be weird with the Dolphins.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Is just weird with the Dolphins.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Because then you have like, now there's controversy, like, oh,
what was he He was all smiling and clapping getting
card got off the field and stuff, but like and
then what Tuas said was kind of whack, which now
I guess that's a week to week thing. And then
like and then there was a footage of Tyreek in
the ambulance on the way to the hospital from that

(11:53):
car and you could see him like on FaceTime or.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Whatever, smiling and laughing while in the bed. In the
fact that amber.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Adrenaline's a hell of a drug.

Speaker 6 (12:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
I mean that's the other thing too, is you gotta realize, like,
all right, listen, dude, like that, and as someone who
has torn their nee apart. Your body just goes into
just like whatever mode, Like you you feel like the
trauma of the ligament tear for like a split second,
and then now you're in adrenaline mode.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Like it's a whole thing.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
So whatever, it's I don't think there's any actual controversy there,
like of him being like haha, I don't have to
play now kind of thing, or like I don't whatever.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
I think that's stupid.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
But yeah, I stucked up, Like I got up to
do something for like five minutes. I come back and
he's on the cart and I'm like, what the hell happened?

Speaker 2 (12:43):
And it was bad?

Speaker 4 (12:44):
And I go google it and instantly regret it.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, that's one of those things. But no, whatever, it's
just so funny. Not none of that's funny. The Dolphins
thing is funny to me because it's just like whatever
could be weird is weird.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
It's they're so cooked.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Uh. Bucky Irving is feared to be missing Sunday's game
against the Seahawks. Spotted in crutch with crutches and a
walking boot around the team facility today, so obviously his
status is very much in doubt.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
Is that, like, did that come out of absolutely nowhere, or.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
He did it against the in the game against the
Eagles apparently game.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yeah, I feel like someone said I saw someone say
that I saw him leaving in a boot, but I don't.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
Sunday, I didn't see anything.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Or whatever that like.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
But he played like everything else.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, right, so it didn't. It wasn't like, oh injury here.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Like, hey, adrenal, adrenaline man, hell of the drug. Or
you know, playing in ninety five degree weather is also
a hell of a drug too.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Both.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Uh. The Eagles open up their practice window for Nikobe Dean,
so that's a good sign for the Eagles lineback and Cores.
And then the Panthers placed right guard Chandler Zavella and
wide receiver David More uninjured reserve. And I think that
is all I got. That's all I got here, alrighty,
So how we want to go about these power rankings here?

(14:11):
Because I know the rankings aren't like official official here
that we got.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
How about this.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Let's start with our bottom three each. Let's let's take
our bottom three, so we start with the worst. Yeah,
let's start with the worst.

Speaker 6 (14:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
By bottom three, I mean like I mean like thirty
two thirty one thirty All.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Right, I got this here. Tennessee Saints, Jets, easy peasy.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
Jets, Miami, New Orleans.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Wow, all of ours are different. I have Tennessee, Miami,
New Orleans. I had a hard time with the Jets
because I feel like, I feel like I Jets highlights
though I can't.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
I feel like I don't.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
I don't see any highlights from Miami. I don't see
any highlights from New Orleans. And all the highlights I
see from Tennessee are well. My first camboard saying their ass.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
My first reaction was put Miami last. And then they're like, well,
I can't put the Jets above them.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
They just yeah, that's always.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
The tricky part about high rankings.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
And that's how I felt about the Pittsburgh game too,
is like I don't want to put Pittsburgh above Minnesota,
I guess, or maybe I do, Like.

Speaker 6 (15:22):
Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
I never know what to do when you're like because
there's always the argument of well that team beat that
to you, so it's like, okay, well shit, I don't
know what to do.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
There There's been four weeks, so.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
I don't know. I mean, that's a good argument. The
Miami did just beat the Jets.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
I don't necessarily care. It's just like if it's like
I'm literally the same spot and I kind of want
to put them both.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
Also, like there's the R one four teams, the three
O four teams that we have, and then Miami, who's
just so cooked.

Speaker 4 (15:56):
Oh yeah, vibes are dead as vibes, and like how
and expectations are absolutely play big in my It's like, yeah,
see your last four weeks, last five games, because we
do every couple of weeks. So the in between plus
vibes and what your expectations work is how I do this.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
I definitely look well because to make some of my decisions,
and I've said this to previous seasons, to make some
of my decisions, I look at net points, especially because
I feel like that can be telling. Like when I
got to make a decision between one team and another team,
if it's like this team has only seventeen net points
another team has forty nine net points, I'm like, I'm

(16:42):
going to that. That helps me rule out what team
over what teams sometimes, but.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yes, i'd usually use like strength schedule.

Speaker 6 (16:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
The one and fourth thing right now is just like
you got to be at the bottom.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
It's who you be. Do you want to go to
like bottom five? Because I know our bottom five fives. Yeah,
So so twenty eight I put Miami and then twenty nine.
I ended up putting Las Vegas.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
So to keep working back up twenty ninth, I have Tennessee.
Twenty eighth, I had Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
I had to put Tennessee last for me. I also,
I just feel like they're not in NFL team.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
It doesn't really matter. But I did this like maybe
half an hour before they benched Flacko.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
I mean that's fair.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
I put Cleveland also at twenty eight, and then I
put I did stick the Jets bottom floor.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
I put them.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
I put the Jets at twenty twenty nine because I
was just like, well, all right, Tennessee. I haven't seen
a single highlight from other than what Jeffrey Simmons getting
through the line whatever. That was weird on the block
of Houston, Okay, and he's talented whatever, cool.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
I don't whatever.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
New Orleans. I literally haven't seen a highlight from this season.
Like I haven't seen an offensive highlight from New Orleans
once on social media this season.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
I had I saw one on Sunday when Chris Olave
threw an interception to uh Cole Bishop.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
That's like, that's not an offensive highlight.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
That it is highlight.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
It showed, It showed the offense. And why would they
run the Philly Special when you know obviously they can't
run it?

Speaker 2 (18:24):
That was that really athletic pick.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, the linebacker you just like.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Super athletic pick. I mean, it wasn't going to be
a completion period, But.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
This might be my first bottom five. It doesn't have
the Giants in it.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Dude, I was thinking the same thing. I looked at
this and I was like, holy hell, none of us
put the Giants bottom five. And we've had the Giants
bottom five every single Power rankings we've ever done on
this show. So that was pretty That was pretty well.
I mean I am six, but nonetheless, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
What bottom ten, tenth.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
It's Cincinnati was a really tricky one because it's.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Like they're bad.

Speaker 4 (19:06):
Yeah, quarterback's not coming back for the whole regular season basically,
and Jake Brown doesn't even look like in old water,
so you're done.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
I think that that the vibes you are at the
bottom the middle of the road was really tough.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
But I guess do we want to do the top five?

Speaker 3 (19:23):
I guess for top top ten, top five, top top five, top.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Ten because the ten is very interesting, the five not
so interesting, but the top ten is like really good.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
How do we want to cut this?

Speaker 3 (19:36):
I feel like we should do it in portions or
together or whatever.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
Let's go by. Who do we have a ten? Okay,
so at ten, I put Jacksonville. I have Jacksonville.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah, you guys with Jacksonville.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
I had a hard time putting Jacksonville that high, and
I really didn't.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Apparently, well, when we.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
Get to buy so holds, I will explain myself.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
I put I ended up putting Washington that high, and
I was dropping Washington down the list, and I was like, okay,
like I messed up here, on me find this out,
figure this all out. Number nine.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
I put Denver at ten.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
I put they look a lot better from the first week.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Yeah, I agree. I just think their defense is doing
while they're they're doing enough offensively.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
I'm not too down.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
I do not have Denver in my top ten.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
No, you don't. Neither of you do. Actually, you guys
have them both in the same spot. Yeah, let's do
number nine.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
Number nine. I put Indian Jones in the Colts.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah, so did I.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
I have Green Bay there for all the hype and
all the you know, we're going sixteen or seventeen and
oh the drop two games, you know, or you should
have blown out the Cowboys to tie them. He is embarrassing.
And then you know the Browns game. I can't put
you in the those top five teams like that.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
My shoe is with Green Bay is I feel like
they're fence should be doing more.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
That's what I'm saying, Like everything about them should be
better and they're.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
Now Like you didn't have to deal with Ceedee lamb,
so I feel like you shouldn't have to have bela
terrible score forty points.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
I still have an issue with Jordan Love, but that's mine.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Who for all the love about him, like and how
great he ah he said the word, Yeah, for all
the love.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
For Jordan Love, Like what has he actually shown you?
What has he actually done?

Speaker 4 (21:33):
I to me, it's just like he besides the death,
there's like the Dallas game and that's what everyone's crowning
him about.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
But like.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Previous to that, so I actually did this thing.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
I don't I think it was specifically I was talking
well about it. I went through the fantasy. I went
through our fantasy like free agency or just whatever. I
went through the players in fantasy, and I sorted all
the receivers by targets because it was like, who's out
there maybe that I can grab. That's getting a lot

(22:04):
of targets right now. And Dude, the entire receiving corps
of like wide receivers, the entire wide receiver corps of
Green Bay all has the lowest targets in the league.
And I'm like, that says exactly what I've been saying.
And I feel like he just I feel like he
doesn't really find wide receivers on plays. I feel like

(22:26):
he's like, oh, there's Tucker Craft, there's my running back.
There's because Josh Jacobs had had receiving yards or receptions
above double digits, and so did Kraft. Craft had the
most on the team targets. So I'm like, how are
we week three and this is the case they have
talented wide receivers, I think. So I found that to

(22:49):
be odd for Green Bay, but that's my thing.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
He's just like shockingly above. Yeah, number eight. I went
with Green Bay.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Someone with Green Bay after I just said all that.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
Well where they they belong like nine or eight? Like, yeah,
I agree, they know talent wise is what we all
just said, like they should be better.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
But I do think their team puts it together. I
mean that's the other part.

Speaker 5 (23:15):
But yeah, I have Seattle, which is kind of nuts
because as we go here, I mean we'll actually have
Seattle higher.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Well, Seattle, that's a hard team to judge.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
Right now because I don't think it's like it's like
doing It's like the top twenty five rankings for college
where do you put the good teams when they haven't
played good teams yet?

Speaker 2 (23:40):
You know, it's like.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
They're yeah, that's Seattle right now. I guess it's just
I don't know how to.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
Bout the Saints. It seems like everybody blows up the Saints.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Yeah, you beat the Cardinals who were divisional and like,
but they're still not.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
They're so middle of the road. The Cardinals, like.

Speaker 4 (23:59):
Whatever, were like the epitome of middle of the road.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
Yeah, yeah, it is. It's a tough one.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Number seven, Number seven. I went with the Chargers here.
This is where I got tricky with me.

Speaker 4 (24:13):
Yeah, see I saw you write that, because you did
you had yours in first. I saw that on there
and got like physically angry and I wanted to yell
at you today.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
I yeah, that was really show your work, did I
just I put them at I put them at seven.
You know, going across the country, losing to a rookie
quarterback and a team that's looked really bad and you
couldn't really manage enough on offense. There's something that was
really going wrong there obviously, you know, for whatever reason,
starting a rookie quarterbacks just getting you all this uh

(24:43):
all this good juice and all that stuff.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
So they went high up putting the Chargers at seven.
They went half speed because they didn't want to get
met life.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
I mean that is that is a valid point.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
Actually they still did, didn't they.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
They scored eighteen points?

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (24:59):
Actually, uh, I put the Rams at seven, So I
cut the n l A.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
I tell you what, this past week from.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
The Rams is the only reason they might be top
five or top ten for ramsay. So I I Rams
are a tough one for me to judge as well,
because I feel like that can crumble at any point
in time during the season.

Speaker 4 (25:20):
I have Tampa that's it.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
It's solely because they've had to.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
Have these last minute drives, and that's why I couldn't
put them over other teams.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Tell you what that stood out to me.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
Tampa Bay has a net like point between points against
and points scored.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
They are at zero.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
How many I didn't even totally thread the book. How
many home games have they played? Because like, you know,
Tampa in September two two?

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Which ones were they? The Jets and the Eagles?

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yeah, well the.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Jets one makes sense.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
Yeah, like because uh, we have our own the Eagles
have their own issues. But the heat definitely at the
end of the games makes it easier to come back
when you're used to it.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Oh for sure. Yeah, hands down.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
Uh number six, I went with the Seahawks.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
I also this is where I put the Seahawks as well.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
This is where I put the Rams.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
And if a healthy Stafford is the only reason why
they are still here.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah, facts a healthy mean you.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Mean a clone? He even came out and said it's
a clone.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
He did. Was good play into it?

Speaker 6 (26:32):
Dude?

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 3 (26:33):
But I yeah, I'm glad at least for the most part,
we're picking from the same pool of teams, so there
is definitely some consistency.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
The Rams would like this. This block was the hardest
for Mesily. It was five to seven. Yeah, because like
it's all teams that have done nothing but show you
good things but also have not played anybody. Yeah, like
green Bay had the the like.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
Well, green Bay is green Bays played a couple teams,
but like, also, you let Dallas score forty on you,
but then you also played really well against the.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Trap Alabama last season. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:12):
Yeah, you played Georgia. I think they beat Georgia last season,
but then lose to Vanderbilt. That's basically what the Packers are.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
So I mean it's it's kind of all these teams.
I'm disemple size is small. That's the best part about
Power Rankings Week four.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
And the great thing about rankings. If you just kind
of skate the middle of the road beating the teams
you should, you raise high. Until you play a team
you should, you should lose.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Oh let's see, let's go number five. I went with
the Bucks.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
I died. This is where I put the Bucks to.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
I have Indianapolis because they have shown you zero reason
to be any low. Yeah, that's kind of true, and
they should have beat the Rams, you know.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
I think it's tough for some of these teams, like Indianapolis,
like Jacksonville, maybe even Seattle. I think it's tough to
like admit to yourself that these teams are genuinely pretty
freaking good right now. Like Indianapolis, I have a hard
time saying, like, I'm not in my mind like this
is a top five team, you know, or like like

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Seattle High or Jacksonville to me, I mean, I didn't
even put them that high, but you guys did.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
But I don't think that's wrong. But I have a
hard time being like, yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
Jacksonville's top ten in this league right now. I don't know,
it's tough. I feel like there's a certain factor of
like because it's still again only week four, there's a
factor of like you need to get over this hump
of placing, like pre placing teams in mental space, you know,
in like bad mental space for yourself. And I think

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for Indianapolis that's definitely I'm adjusting.

Speaker 4 (28:58):
When you look at like a college, they're the team
that has just beaten their schedule, Yeah, just played their
schedule and how it has supposed.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
To go, and has gone Yeah, and that's fair.

Speaker 4 (29:10):
Can't really probably above expectations. Can't penalize them for playing
well against the teams they should play well against.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Yeah, and I think that's what Seattle is as well.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Number four. I went with the Rams up here. I
feel like this could have been a reach, but I'm
really liking the Rams this season a lot, like a lot,
a lot.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
This is just funny because me and We'll put the
LA teams in the same rankings but switched them.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
Yeah, this is the one that made me mad. I
was gonna call you out for being a closet Rams fan.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Listen, listen. I'm a big fan of Pooka. Man, he's
gonna break that receiving record. But it's that one hundred
and seventy eight catches he's on pace four twenty one
hundred yards and a whole four touchdowns. I'm excited for that.
That makes me smile ear to ear is just the
four touchdown part.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
It's the Julio Jones stat line right there. I'm gonna
I put the Chargers at number four only because of
that loss.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
Dude, I have the bills it for because they are
the definition of just handling business as you should like,
I am not giving them credit for beating the Ravens
zero zero credit for beating the Ravens, because the Ravens
do this themselves every time they play a team like that.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Number three, I went with Detroit, kind of the obvious pick.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
I went with the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Number two I went with the Bills.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
I went with the Bills.

Speaker 4 (30:42):
I went to Detroit, went Detroit, and then number one,
I went with the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
I love that they're all different here. I went with
the one.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah, I mean, I went with Detroit.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
I have the Chargers of one.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
That's probably where I would have had the Chargers if
they didn't lose.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
The Giants came, to be honest.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
If not for Buffalo's schedule. I think you're looking at
one seed Chargers.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
It's fair.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
It's the way that they have handled business against their
division already, They've already put in so much travel and
then coming back to the East Coast. I like, I'm
not gonna crucify them to the savior jobs gained by
the Giants.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
Hey, you what in the top eight will Well?

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Actually is this all of us? Almost all of us.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
In the top eight me and will only have two
AFC teams.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Jake has three AFC teams and that's it.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
In the top eight known AFC fan. Yeah, that's kind
of cool, the two guys who have the AFC teams.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
The hardest one for me was the Steelers because I
don't know what to make of these Steelers. I always
put my rule is the first power ranking. No matter
what they do, they go sixteen, and then I add
a third I add a thirty third column and you know,
I put Jeff Fisher, you know, right where like the
nine and seven, seven and nine record would be.

Speaker 4 (32:13):
Yeah, Like that's just how I start the season with
them every year. I don't care.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Oh my god, there he is. Get him in here.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
There he is. Look at him, all handsome and all
his glory. Look at that screen. There's nothing there. You
guys want to go to some fantasy questions, We do
have a lot of them in this Uh, go forth, dude,
we do. There's been a lot, benass. So I'm gonna
start out with Chris down here, who says he just

(32:43):
traded Gibbs Kittle and the Leak Washington for Pear Saw,
Josh Allen and Kenneth Walker. Chris, if you're on the
side with pear saw Allan a walker. I'm not the
biggest fan of it.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
Colton.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
There he is the man. I'm still on, man suck.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
How the heck are we good?

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Exhausted? At least the weather's nice. That's a positive, beautiful day.

Speaker 6 (33:09):
Yeah, man, Summers, Summers is not going down without a fight.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
It's gonna go back up to like seventy five over
the weekend. Not prepared for that.

Speaker 6 (33:19):
I would say the next few days are going to
be cold. I think tomorrow is the coldest of like
the next week. So uh, and then it slowly starts
creeping back up. We love that, and just like we
love the weather, we love football. So I don't want
to interrupt where you're at. Continue on with the fans.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Real fast, Colton.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
If you had to give us a top five in
the league right now, one through five.

Speaker 6 (33:41):
Yeah, sorry, I did not fill out my power rankings.
My fault, So for me, I think it's pretty easy.
I think it goes Philadelphia, Buffalo, Detroit. I would have
said Green Bay, but they've messed around the last two
weeks for no for like reasons. I don't know. Gosh,

(34:01):
did Jacksonville get in the top five, right? Does Jacksonville
sneak in this disgusting conversation. The Rams absolutely in this
top five. The Rams are very very good as long
as Stafford states upright. Wills, Yeah, Will and Don's La
Rams get in the mixed here, So I think that's easily.

(34:22):
I think the top three born five, Oh Seattle definitely
gets in this. Will's other team I think definitely gets
in this. Who's guy Sam Darnold definitely gets in this
mix at least this is off the top of the dome. Yeah,
and fifth, who is the fifteen in this list?

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Where do you put the Chargers?

Speaker 6 (34:47):
Well, the fact that they fungled my bet, two bets
that I had easily cash this past weekend, I'm not
quite happy with them. I think they bounced back this week.
A little prediction there on my picks the game, So
you know what screwed? I think. I do think the
Chargers are a good team. I'll put the Chargers in there.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
What about Tampa Bay? Do you think Tampa Bay is
right outside?

Speaker 6 (35:10):
I like Tampa Bay. The Problems are getting really banged
up at the moment. Mike Evans hurt, Bucky Irving hurt,
Baker Mayfield's banged up I do like the Bucks though
big Bucks guy, but not big enough. I don't think
at the moment to put them in my top five.
I would probably put the Chargers in over them, even
though the Chargers had a very disappointing game, but the
same token. I was the first time we've seen Jackson Dart.

(35:33):
There's just a lot of excitement in that game. And
I also don't think the Giants defense gets enough credit.
I know that Giants defense got lit up like the
fourth of July by Dallas. I think the Giants front
is very disgusting. Abdul Carter, Brian Burns, Kevon Thibodeau and
Sexy Dexy. I think that's probably one of the best
fronts in football if they're all on the field the

(35:53):
same token, which the Giants have no issue doing that
because they'll put Burns up front in the middle of
that defense kind of like a Miles Garrett and they'll
I have Abdul Carter and kive On Thibodeau on the edge.
So I think I just think it was kind of
a lot, especially coming from LA to a one o'clock
window and a first start for Jackson Dart. Being at

(36:13):
the game, I don't think there was a buzz in
that stadium for at least on the Giant side of things.
I think the Jets kind of had that buzz Aaron
Rodgers' first start as a Jet. I know it only
lasted four snatch, but that place was buzzing. I don't
think there has been like a buzz like that around
the Giants in a long time. I get one start
for Jackson Dart, but man, that first drive when they
went right down the field, there was a special buzz

(36:36):
in that stadium. So I think that kind of got
the Chargers thrown off a little bit, and especially at
one o'clock start for them coming to the East coast
and not ideal. It's fair. I didn't look, did Jake
have his Eagles at one? He's always the hardest, See
why I don't. I don't get it.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
I put them at one.

Speaker 6 (36:59):
They are one.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
But then after I did it, I didn't feel like
redoing it all, and I was like, oh, they're like
I don't know, the Eagles are like twentieth in offense
and like twenty fourth defense.

Speaker 6 (37:08):
Like first, they're winning games though, the fact that they're
winning games and they're like not playing great that's what
we said in twenty twenty three.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
Look how that ended.

Speaker 6 (37:19):
I'm just saying I think they're one. Man. I think
Buffalo's too, absolutely, but like it kind of proved that
Buffalo hung around with the Saints this weekend a lot
closer than that game needed to be. To be honest, I.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Put Detroit at one. I think Detroit's commanding still. I mean,
I think we saw the fifty two points they put
up that week, we saw them play like. I still
think they have a very commanding team, at least offensively.
I mean, at any given time that anyone can score
on that offense.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
And I think they're so efficient, the best team in
the NFL.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
So, the Ravens official practice report came out, okay, Nate
Wiggins did not participate, Devantes Walker did not participate. Van
Noyt was limited, Brent Urban was limited, Ronnie Stanley DNP,
Roquwand Smith DMP, Patrick McCard DMP, Tyler Lindenbaum limited, Travis
Jones limited, Emery Jones limited, Lamar didn't practice, Marlin Humphreys

(38:17):
didn't practice, Chodobi Aboozier did not practice. Kyle Hamilton was limited.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
This isn't good n Well, I was gonna say my
picke is dependent on the more, but I think I'm
gonna switch it anyway.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
Tell you what they might be just be crumbling man,
that might be. That might be them in Cincinnati might
just completely fall short this season.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Ope, there goes our VP predictions within the first four weeks.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
Well, mine was done the moment Joe Burrow's toe Blue Park.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
I mean, that's just a hey man, Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh might
just freaking.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
Just when the healthiest quarterbacks a forty one year old
man who's just all on yahuasca. I wonder if he
got that through customs.

Speaker 3 (39:04):
They might trot right in in the division winner spot
at freaking nine wins or something.

Speaker 6 (39:12):
Do you think they have to take care of their
two games coming off to buy They have to beat
the Bengals and they have to beat the Browns, So
they better have their crap together for those games because
they have to win it because then they play Indie.
I think Detroit's in that mix. They have a few
tough games like after that, like little kind of cake
walk part, so they have to make sure they have

(39:32):
their shit together, which I don't trust them too. I
could definitely see them losing to either both the Ohio
teams or or splitting, which shouldn't even happen. But I
wouldn't be surprised this.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
I don't know if you looked at the power rankings
document at all, Colond, but I had them all the
way down below the Giants.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
Who the Ravens.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
Wow, I'm down twenty three.

Speaker 3 (39:58):
I mean they strictly haven't taken of business this year,
like straight up even.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
They've been nothing but stumbles.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Yeah, the games they need to win, they just haven't.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
I think I think we already got to eliminate them
from the playoffs. That's like how bad it is.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
Well, I'm a limiting in the super Bowl because they
can't beat They're not gonna beat Casey. They're not going
to beat Buffalo, They're not going to beat the Chargers.
They're not going to beat they might not even beat
Houston this weekend.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
It's tough. It's a tough look, man.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
The NFC North is kind of in shambles, except the
least shambells team is is the Steelers, which I think.

Speaker 6 (40:36):
We're still a show on our own right jaal Rams,
Yet you're faking a faking the hampshireing injury to go
into the gritty to end up with the hamshring later
on in the game. So fitting it is what it is, man,
So whatever, this might be the division where health these
teams survived. So so far, we've had a lot of injuries.
High Smith, Joey Porter Junior hasn't play since week one,

(40:57):
Shawn Elliot missed a few games, heard Big miss game one.
Like there. They haven't even had a full compliment on
defense yet once this season. So we'll see if they
can just somehow not avoid avoid any major disasters. As
far as injuries, we'll see.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Let's answer a couple of them. So I know we
kind of extended our time with other stuff, but let's see.
Warren shen Sten said pick two Monty K nine White
in Marx for running backs this week. I would say White,
and I would honestly have to say Dave Montgomery. It's
his home coming to UH Cincinnati. He's never played in Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
So here's a question. Do I drop mixing? I have
CD and need the IR spot. Honestly, I do. I
think you dropped mixing. It came out yesterday. I was
walking in my house and I saw my phone and
it said boom mixed. The mixing thing is like just
not happening this season. Like he is confirmed now, this

(42:02):
is the first time actually confirmed. He's well behind schedule
as far as his injury goes. So I think that
that's just for anyone actually having him in fantasy.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
I think it's over aside from like the start of
the year, Jamiko Ryan's talking about him in past tense.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
Yeah, I think the I think Joe Mixon is genuinely
just not not worth keeping at the moment.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Star Hunter Hunter Henry or Darren Waller what a question
to ask in twenty twenty five, I would say Waller,
I mean, come on, why not right the hot hand
at tight end.

Speaker 4 (42:35):
He's the only option there now, basically crazy.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
He Moss Sauce Gardner on Monday Night, so he's got
to start the hot hand.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
We have our YouTube question, thank you Randy Marks for AJB?

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Who's AJB?

Speaker 2 (42:51):
Why am I not?

Speaker 1 (42:53):
I traded Dj Moore for aj Brown this week?

Speaker 2 (42:55):
So the Woody Marks thing is kind of wild, dude,
I mean, that's got.

Speaker 6 (43:01):
To be Probably shouldn't say this on the podcast. I
have zero idea. Who the hell out someone knows who
this guy.

Speaker 1 (43:12):
He's the rookie running back on the Houston Texans. I mean.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
You have no idea that he had like a twenty
seven point week in Fantasy this week.

Speaker 6 (43:23):
Yeah, better than Canon game, shoutout game.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
But yeah, like what's his face? The guy on the
Texans who was there freaking like two years ago?

Speaker 2 (43:33):
He was like the Damian Pierce man.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
Yeah, like wors Like, are you telling me like him?

Speaker 4 (43:39):
His a cl explode and he was never never came back.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
They just buried him in mechi so hard.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
Well, he's on the Eagles. I don't know if you're
still on the Eagles, but it's so crazy.

Speaker 6 (43:50):
Yeah, I kind of bad on me not knowing who
marks the same oven. I could really care less about
the Texans because how bad CG. Shroud has been, Like
my relevance toward the Texans has really plummeted, especially knowing
what division that is. I could give a flying a
doodle about the AFC South if I'm being frank with
you here, So oh I knows, Ryan R. I certainly

(44:13):
hope your question is not you trading for a guy
with no quarterback at the moment and a guy that
has oh wait, another no quarterback next to you and
hu Bill Hubbard. No way, Jose Am I trading like
the number one fantasy tight end.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
Also, Dallas offense is rolling.

Speaker 6 (44:33):
I mean, Ferguson's getting like twelve thirteen targets like it
is disgusting numbers at a tight end spot Like, no way,
I'm not trading.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
Back to Randy Miller with AJ Brown. If you can
get AJ Brown, I would say, go for it. If
that's your trade, You're getting a J Brown. Absolutely. I
know the whole thing of him having like no actual
productions so far this year or whatever, but I mean
he's been targeted ten times and nine times in the
past few weeks, and I think eight times the week
before that. Like, once they figure it out, get it together,

(45:05):
he'll be a top guy again. I'm not really.

Speaker 4 (45:08):
It sounds between him and Jalen not a skiing thing.

Speaker 1 (45:15):
I still think I'm gonna go through a lot of
these questions. Baker or Dak this week. I would say
Dak against the.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
Jets the Dak period. That offense is destroying.

Speaker 1 (45:31):
Let's see trade away Josh Allen and Wandale for Bo Nixon,
Davante Adams not a big fan of that. No fields
are may, I would say fields against.

Speaker 4 (45:46):
Heater, no way, no decent numbers.

Speaker 3 (45:51):
Actually, I think.

Speaker 6 (45:52):
This may last three weeks. I know he's played. I
know he played Carolina this past week and put him
up the fourth of July. But he actually played well
against the Steeers and they didn't deserve to lose. If
Datas knew how to hold on the football, they win
against the Steelers. I'm all in on the drink May thing.
And oh he finally realized that Steph Diggs is last week.

(46:12):
Finally maybe getting somewhere might be even more CARDI B
that's cool.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
Yeah, what did what did Stefan Diggs say this week?
I think they asked him how comfortable he is there
and he said five out of ten.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
Yeah, that doesn't help.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
Uh, not that he needs Steffan Diggs. I mean he's
finding guys, so I'm okay with it.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
But like, let me get Goodwin Joey. He's been asking
us some questions. He says, start for Manra, Nico Buka,
Adams Worthy. Out of those four, it's a two part question.
I would say you gotta start a Manra Abuka, I'd
say Worthy, Worthy, I think Worthy's really back.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
What do you doast Week?

Speaker 1 (46:52):
I would say, Nico, I think he got like fourteen points.
He gets like five catches eighty six yards and like
thirty yards of rushing.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
One thing about Kansas City is they will force the
ball to the guys that catch it short and go
for yards. And every time I know he.

Speaker 4 (47:07):
Had like a long jet sweep.

Speaker 6 (47:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
See, then they give them the ball.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
He says, start Dak caliber Jones, you gotta start Dak
fans are butts? Start golfer Hurts. I would say, golf
against the Bengals. Here we go. This is my burner account.
Sam Darnold or Jackson Dart.

Speaker 6 (47:27):
Sam Donald, Yeah, Jackson Dart. Jackson Dart is going to
be without neighbors. This might be he might have a
very very rough go of it.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
If only the Giants had a rapper at tight end
that they could throw the ball to, you know, open
up the offense a little bit.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
Well no, no, no, he just blocks there. So they
didn't want to do that.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Oh Man, wrap some blocks for the Giants. Shelby says,
start Godwin or Kobe. I would say Godwin, Uh, let's
see one. Johnson Derrick Henry Knicks and Hollywood Brown for
Gibbs and Sutton.

Speaker 3 (48:09):
Yeah yeah, Sutton has been great.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
Something has been fantastic.

Speaker 6 (48:18):
That has that has three league written all over that trade.
In no way someone's trading Gibbs and Soton for Hollywood Brown.
Who's gonna be the fourth option on that damn team.
I think Juju gets more action.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
From someone wants to know where opinions on fields and
may Well fields. It also has that rushing ability where
he can, you know, break out a run.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
Go think rushing touchdowns back to back straight. More rushing
touchdowns this year than justin Fields.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
Oh my god, just the fields didn't even play so like,
I don't want to hear it. Here we go, we're
bursting bubbles now.

Speaker 4 (48:57):
Fields has the second most rushing yards of any quarter
this season.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
Okay, well that's your yards.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
That's fair though, but it's fair. That is fair.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
Drake may is the fourth best fantasy quarterback right now
in ESPN. I didn't, Holy hell, I did not know
ball like that.

Speaker 6 (49:12):
You did not know ball, just like I don't know ball.
You don't know this is a podcast. We know no ball.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
I think I think I gotta shift off this. Uh
well yeah, let's answer these YouTube questions really quick. Need
a QB rest of the season bo next to Danny Dimes,
I would say next. I feel a lot more comfortable
with next.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
Now yeah, yeah, they're playing well, dude.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
And then here we go stroudter Tua. I'd say Stroud
against the Ravens might be a better play.

Speaker 4 (49:40):
Stroud against the banged up Ravens.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
Who's too even throwing to.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
Wattle Washington, I mean he still has eight chan, I
mean like he still has a lot of these like.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
Yeah, Waller exactly, I mean Wattle.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
All right, let's go here, let's go game week, gentlemen,
where was your favorite game from this past week's slew
of games?

Speaker 6 (50:08):
Even though I fell asleep during it, I guess would
be the forty forty game. I fell asleep as it's tired.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
But tell you what, they really almost fumbled.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
If you guys did not watch it, I did they
really Green Bay really almost fumbled that overtime and just
straight up lost because for whatever reason they were slow
getting back to the line, like this was with fourteen
seconds left or something. Slow getting back to the line.
They know, huddled slow getting back to the line. Then

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Jordan Love took his time and then took his time
on the play to the point where when he threw
the ball, if the ball didn't balance and hit where
it hit, it would have counted down to zero seconds.
They would have lost the game because they kicked that
field goal with one second left after the incompletion. Dude,
that was rough. Like that was a rough watch watching

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Green Bay manage time in the overtime period. So that
was that was brutal. I mean it was a good game, though,
I mean, forty forty, You're not wrong.

Speaker 4 (51:19):
I would pick the forty forty game as well.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
The Jacksonville sand Fran game was like one of those
like stupid drunk midday games.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
Yeah, I mean, it's true. I mean, honestly, the Thursday
night game was good.

Speaker 3 (51:37):
The Thursday night was.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
A good game.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
At the end, at the end.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
Yeah, that's fair, that's fair.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
All right, let's go into here, let's go buy selling hole, gentlemen,
where are we buying it?

Speaker 3 (51:51):
Are?

Speaker 1 (51:52):
Where are we selling? And holding?

Speaker 4 (51:54):
Oh boy, so I foreshadowed it, But I am buying
into Jacksonville' playoff chances. Fair Like, listen, they are. The
quarterback is playing some of the worst ball he can
and they're still winning games. That defense is real good.
Like I think if they get it together run offense
similar to like in Eagles by like Week five thing

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last season, like they could be scary.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
I mean, who's their obstacle. It's it's not really Houston,
it's Indianapolis. And that's if Indianapolis carries.

Speaker 4 (52:25):
But they're not going all unless unless Indianapolis is absolutely
for real to stick this. Yeah, Like all you have
to do in this that division is go. It's just
over five hundred and you make it true. That's it.
Nine wins.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
That is all you need.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
Is that your only buy?

Speaker 4 (52:41):
Yeah, Okay, I don't like I don't like going the
will status. I said too many thoughts last week.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
I could have bought six teams this week, and I
decided to stay in one conference. I'm gonna buy New
England because I think Drake's actually I think he's he's
playing well enough that I think, Okay, loving what we're
doing right now. I have really all season. To be honest,

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I'm buying into Buffalo just because when Josh Allen's there,
he drags them into wins period.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (53:13):
And I'm gonna buy into Denver. This is like my
actually real buye. I do genuinely like what Denver's doing.
I think they have a good enough defense to keep
it up. I think bo Nix is doing enough, and
I think I think that they're actually pretty solid. They
make a run for this division that's kind of wide

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open at the moment. So those are my buys.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
Uh, Cole, where are you buying me?

Speaker 6 (53:42):
I'm gonna buy into Oh boy, I just had them
just blanked. Oh boy. Oh yeah, the Indianapolis. I'm gonna
buy an Indie. If Mitchell doesn't decide to fumble the
ball out of the end zone a they're getting ready
to score. And I think he had a crucial holding
penalty of Sundlin. On my ride home from the scheme
when I was listening to it on serious NFL Radio,

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it sounded like he had a big holding penalty as
they were driving as well. I think they're a legitimate team.
By the way, the Colts go to La you hang
out the Rams, and I think the Rams are a
very very good team, could be very much undefeated if
they knew how to you know, maybe have field goal protection.
But hey, there, I really like what the Colts are

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doing Daniel Jones, Michael Pittman, Tower Warren shout out to
the Jets for again passing on another damn tight end. Yeah,
I think they're the real deal. So I'm buying into
the Indianapolis Colts.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
Well, what says you, I'm going to complete the trifecta here.
I got the natural hat trick of Amari and Hampton.
I went through the three stages of grief here, selling
and then holding, and now buying. So I've officially completed
my stages of grief here. So Amari and Hampton's now
been bought back at the highest possible value. You can
probably buy a met this season. And let's go to selles, gentlemen,

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where are we selling.

Speaker 6 (55:08):
Ac North? There you go, I'll make a nice and
simple AFC North. The fact that the Steers might limp
themselves and winning this division. Yeah, I'm selling a Christmas
kind of true.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
I mean, I I have Cincinnati and on one of
my cells just because I think it's like, well, wrap
it up, boys, call it a year, because I think
it's done.

Speaker 4 (55:26):
That was not gonna bother Like I'm not even bothering
with them.

Speaker 3 (55:28):
Yeah, I mean, I'm getting out of the way. I
don't have to say it again them in Tennessee. I'm
getting those two done and done and done, and cam
Ward said it best.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
We're ass so, oh.

Speaker 4 (55:40):
Boy, this one's gonna This one might be a little controversial.
I am selling Bryce Young. It's I think it's over
kind of is it's so getting better. It's actually worse
than it was before. He got that little run last season.

Speaker 1 (55:56):
And it was actually fun to watching that run last
season at the JUNI. And now he looks worse than
he did before. It's just the shocking.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
It is disappointing.

Speaker 4 (56:08):
Like at this point, it's like, you know those guys
that are like year three, you're supposed to be like
really figuring this out. We thought we saw it last season.
I just think now if it's not happening now, I
don't think it is, Uh the tail the piggyback off
of you, Jake.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
I am selling the Panthers in general. David Tepper's thirty
seven wins since buying the team what eight years ago, Jesus,
let's kind of figure this out here? And what about holds?
Where are we holding onto.

Speaker 6 (56:40):
Jacksonville? God, if their quarterback was just what he was
supposed to be This team would be like terrifying and
actually a fun watch for the AFC South. Can this
damn bastard figure it out a quarterback? I beg please seriously,
Travis Ohner Brian tom ud T is starting to arn

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how to play football again where there is Trevor Lawns. Oh,
this guy sucks.

Speaker 4 (57:08):
He did a hot take to say they'd be a
clear cut top of the you know conference team with
Daniel Jones quarterback.

Speaker 7 (57:14):
Right now, Honestly, I think yes, I think if you
get Indie, indeed Daniel, they're bad.

Speaker 6 (57:26):
You got Indie Daniel Jones on that team, I think
it's a yes. I think it's yes.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
You know what Colton said? Dude.

Speaker 4 (57:36):
Also, I'm gonna say I'm selling him for being a
fake tough guy.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
Oh yeah, well that right.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
That reminds that that that exactly reminds me of. Do
you remember twenty eleven Mitchell Schwartz and Jim Harbaugh go
like they were like fighting at it or whatever. It
was something about a handshake, and Schwartz got like so
pissed off that he was like going after him, and
this Curity had like separate them, like gave him like
a half assed like handshake and he wasn't appreciative of that.

Speaker 4 (58:05):
Yeah, Like Liam Cohen like has a chance to say anything.
He wants to Salah completely like does one of these
and walks by him. And then when he's behind his
O lineman, then he starts talking trash. That's when he
wants to scream and be a tough guy.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
Come on, where your holds? Dumb?

Speaker 3 (58:30):
I was gonna bring up that DraftKings. Then they sent
you guys earlier today you sent.

Speaker 4 (58:34):
A draft Kings thing.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
Yeah, So while Dumb's pulling that out, I'll just say
my hold.

Speaker 4 (58:40):
My holds are the Ravens and the Steelers.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
So there we go. Would you hold Ravens and Steelers?

Speaker 6 (58:49):
I'm holding by next week?

Speaker 1 (58:53):
Can't buy him if they're on the buy.

Speaker 6 (58:55):
No, no, no, no, I said, you continue? I continuing
that hold in the next week is that you're hold.

Speaker 1 (59:01):
It's a long term hold. I'm in the long term hold.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
I'm still holding from like week one, dude, Uh, I'm
gonna I'm gonna hold on to Atlanta because they got
shut out, so they look terrible. Then they beat Washington
scoring thirty four points. So it's like, where did that
come from?

Speaker 6 (59:24):
Where?

Speaker 2 (59:24):
Was that the week before.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
So I guess I'm just gonna hold on to them
because I don't know what they're doing. I'm gonna this
sounds dumb after what we've said here today, but I'm
gonna hold onto the Rams. I wrote this before the
show just because I feel like it really could. Just

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like they're playing so well, they're doing so incredibly well
their defense, like everything's good.

Speaker 2 (59:51):
But I feel like with them, dude, it's so fragile.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
Where like it's like what, so Stafford goes down, it's
over over Like I mean, there's no or like who knows,
maybe this just goes south so quick, Like I don't
I don't see this being a whole season thing where
the Rams are just really good.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
So I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
I'm gonna hold on to them, and I guess I
guess that's a move.

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
I got one more buy. It's a stupid one, but
I forgot it was a Fat Bear week. I don't know,
it's just you know, entertaining the me. I think it's hysterical.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
Fat Bear Week's a good week. I agree, It's like
Shark week, Bear.

Speaker 1 (01:00:26):
And fat It's the chicken of the land. Apparently, you know,
Chicken of the sea, Chicken of the land.

Speaker 2 (01:00:34):
I don't I don't know what you're saying now.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
Oh man, Okay, here we go, guys, Week number five.
Bye weeks are happening. We got the entire the whole
five iron, all ten yards here. Let's pull up the
records here. So uh yeah, So last week Colton and
Jake tied to win the week at ten and six.
I went nine and seven and Don went seven and nine.

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So he's already choking away his lead that he had
pretty substantially. So Jake overtakes first place, then Don second,
and Coland and I are holding hands crossing this finish
line here after that week. So we're pretty good with this.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Tightened the gap a little bit, and here we go.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
We're gonna go Thursday night football. The forty nine ers
whatever they're running at offense with Mac Jones and Christian
McCaffrey and whoever else might be healthy, are gonna go
to La to play the Rams. We're all clean sweeping
the Rams on this one here in Sofi Stadium. Then
in an early morning in Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Gill Dilly
Gabriel gets his very first start for the Cleveland Browns

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as they take on the Vikings, who lost last week
in Ireland. We are all taking the Vikings for the
second straight week overseas.

Speaker 4 (01:01:48):
Question, did they just stay out there?

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Yeah, they definitely didn't come back. That's like a twelve
hour flight I think from Minneapolis. I'll stay and then
it probably is like a know, like what three hours
you think to like London.

Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
The stay out there thing is kind of wild because
I feel like it's got to be such an advantage.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Now, oh yeah, crazy.

Speaker 6 (01:02:10):
They're winning, They're not losing both games out there kids
first start gonna get thrown to Brian for his defense.

Speaker 4 (01:02:16):
Yeah, well, good luck. Carson Wentz is still a thing.

Speaker 6 (01:02:21):
I Again, I don't think Wentz played terribly. I think
the Steelers actually played that good honestly, to be honest,
Like they got the run game going, which has kind
of been there.

Speaker 4 (01:02:32):
I think he just ships his pants when there's pressure,
just holds on the ball and takes sex. That's what
he always has done.

Speaker 6 (01:02:38):
Well, almost won an MVP.

Speaker 4 (01:02:42):
Yeah, in my mind, he did win an MVP.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
So someday afternoon football, the Houston Texans travel to Baltimore
the play Cooper Rush and the Baltimore. Ravens, Uh, Jake
and I are taking the Texans while Dom and Coltan
are taking the.

Speaker 6 (01:03:00):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
I'm taking the Texans, I wrote, I.

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
Wrote the Texans first. I had all the faith in
the Texans.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
Well, it's just because the Nolamar no apparently anyone else.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
So I'll rock you.

Speaker 6 (01:03:13):
Ravens are scrappy.

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
They are though, and Derek Henry does still exist.

Speaker 6 (01:03:17):
Stroud is trash, scrappy dot Sometimes the Ravens today with
like a bunch of backups and they're gonna win the Texans.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
Stroud maybe could have had to get right week low
hanging Fruit Tennessee whatever. Stroud had a good game.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
Like maybe they need to want to get back on track,
and these two teams, do you want to get back
on track? Dolphins are going to Carolina. Dolphins won their
first game of the season on Monday night against the Jets.
They're playing the Panthers, who are struggling, to say the least,
and Colton here is lone wolfing the Miami Dolphins tank.

Speaker 6 (01:03:56):
Did you guys, did you not just murder Bryce Young?

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Jake, I'm switching, I'm flipping. I'm all on the Dolphins.

Speaker 4 (01:04:05):
Traina Milami without Tyreek Hill is the worst team in
the league.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
I think they're so cooked.

Speaker 6 (01:04:11):
Yeah, they got their new number one baby, number one
in the freaking Spotify charts and number one on the field.
End wise, give me Barren Wall.

Speaker 3 (01:04:20):
Do you think do you think he's like like his
downloads shot up when he had a good game.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
I bet you they did.

Speaker 1 (01:04:29):
No for the meme.

Speaker 4 (01:04:30):
Yeah, I forget he has a rapid career.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
This is his plan B, his.

Speaker 6 (01:04:35):
Football playing B for freaking Gino Smith. Holy cow, if
this isn't a clean sweep, I don't know what you
guys are doing.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
The Colts are hosting the Raiders, and the Raiders are
just not doing well. Ever since Week one, it has
not been a very good game for them. Uh yeah,
we're all sweeping in the Indianapolis one.

Speaker 6 (01:04:54):
So glad Pete Carroll came back.

Speaker 3 (01:04:59):
Trade they could trade like a fifth for us, just saying,
Pete Carroll, let's do it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
The Giants and Jackson Darker down to uh Nola to
play the Saints here, and we're all taking the Giants.

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
Maybe the first time you've ever said that, Can I
switched to the Saints.

Speaker 1 (01:05:20):
I switched to the Saints.

Speaker 6 (01:05:23):
Yeah, at home, no neighbors. First road start. Not an
easy road start either. I know, it's not like an
exciting Saints team. Saints stuck around with the Bills. I
think the Saints win this game.

Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
The bed. It's in New Orleans, and I think he's
going to absolutely ship back in.

Speaker 4 (01:05:45):
Giants defense just too good for.

Speaker 6 (01:05:46):
Giants defense is very good. That's one of the thing
that's like that made me pick the Giants. But now,
like I'm also committed, I'm not. I'm committed a bit.
I'm not picking the Saints once this year.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
The Giants went nine to seven.

Speaker 1 (01:05:58):
Ever since, ever since that guy told us we don't
know ball. I mean Kellen Moore and Brantala from one
New York team to the other one, but they both
play in New Jersey. The Jets return home after they're
two weeks of Florida. They're playing the Dallas Cowboys. We're
all sweeping the Cowboys on this one. And then I

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ninety five, the Eagles return home. They are hosting the
Denver Broncos, and we're all sweeping the Eagles on this selection.
Then to the four o'clock hour, cam Ward and the
Titans travel all the way to uh Arizona to play
the Cardinals. We're all picking the Cardinals here, good lord,
I don't know if we're picking the Titans ever. Again,
here's my favorite one. It's a throwback matchup. They're wearing

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to throwback uniforms, so we're using their throw back logos.
The Creamsicle Bocks and the Royal Blue. Seattle Seahawks are
gonna be duking it out in Seattle. Whether if it's
a four h five start because the Mariners are playing
in the MOB playoffs. Who knows if that goes, they
might have to delay this game by ninety minutes two hours.

(01:07:04):
We don't know yet, but we'll figure out when. You know,
the wild Cards all settled there for baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
But Baker's playing right.

Speaker 1 (01:07:13):
I have not seen the injury report, but you are
a lone wolfing the Creamsicles here, Dom.

Speaker 4 (01:07:18):
He was questionable last week, so I think it's kind
of like a maintenance thing.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
Yeah, I know he's beating up a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:07:24):
But we only sacked what we sacked him like three times.

Speaker 2 (01:07:27):
Well, he was beating up the week before too so.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
And then back across the country, the Lions and the
Bengals are playing at four to twenty five in the
Bengals stripeout game, We're all taking the Lions here.

Speaker 4 (01:07:41):
They can stripe their way right up the stadium and.

Speaker 1 (01:07:43):
Then back across the country. We go the Commanders in
Jadeen Daniel's return, they are playing in Sofi Stadium against
the Chargers against Justin Herbert, and we're all taking the
Chargers on this. One. Sunday Night Football, the Patriots and
the Buffalo Bills are going to be duking it out
in Orchard Park, and we're all taking the Bills on

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this selection.

Speaker 4 (01:08:05):
Man, do I want New England? Is upsets so bad?

Speaker 6 (01:08:09):
That?

Speaker 1 (01:08:11):
And then Monday Night Football, the Chiefs are going to
be going to Jacksonville to play the Jaguars. The Jaguars
and the Duval Man, we're all taking the Chiefs on this.

Speaker 4 (01:08:23):
Yeah. Again, if they have a half ladies and quarterback,
I might actually take Jacksonville in this game. But defense exists.

Speaker 1 (01:08:32):
In that. Lady's Gentlemen rounds out our show. You can
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Football gentleman, any final thoughts before I end the show.

Speaker 6 (01:08:49):
Fire Aaron Boom.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
It's all because the Jets posted up good luck in
the postseason. That's what. That's what cursed the Yankees able
to hit Crochet once.

Speaker 6 (01:09:03):
You know, my boy, my boy both did. Yeah, I
forgot I have this, damn this this uh this background,
so you have no idea. Probably what was just on
my bad?

Speaker 4 (01:09:18):
I think it might have disappeared. I don't know you.

Speaker 6 (01:09:22):
I love this.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
This is fantastic, Oh deny. But yeah, we're alive every Wednesday.
You can find us TikTok on Thursday nights, you know,
a head of Thursday Night Football. But yeah, that's us, well,
Cole and Jake Dom, the four amigos or you know,
the four idiots as I like to call us, because
you know, we're all special in our own little ways
and we are for the fan. Tune in next week, everyone,
thank you very much for joining us.

Speaker 2 (01:09:44):
We don't know ball