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Set 2: Drafting Daejon Love (w/ Field Yates) · Stugotz and Company

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  Speaker 1: The football season is upon us. The fantasy football season
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  Speaker 1: is upon us. And our buddy Field Yates joins us.
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  Speaker 1: He was a basketball correspondent for a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: back when the Knicks were making a championship run. He's
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  Speaker 1: a big-time Celtics fan. How do you feel about the
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  Speaker 1: Celtics offseason so far, Field?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so honestly, when I'm debating between B.
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  Speaker 3: John Robinson and Jameer Gibbs for the first pick over
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  Speaker 3: all this year in fantasy drafts, I lean ever so
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  Speaker 3: slightly towards B.
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  Speaker 2: John Robinson. I'm sorry, what was the question you asked?
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel about the Celtics putting Jalen Brown
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  Speaker 1: on the Sixers and making that team so attractive that
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  Speaker 1: LeBron James decided, hey, you know what?
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  Speaker 4: I want to go to Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 3: So can I tell you why I might have had
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  Speaker 3: the most– Placid reaction of any Celtics fan to the
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  Speaker 3: Jalen Brown trade.
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  Speaker 2: There's one specific reason.
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  Speaker 3: Why? The Jalen Brown trade took place as my wife
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  Speaker 3: was going into labor with our third child.
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  Speaker 4: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: So our third.
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  Speaker 3: Child is born the day that the Jalen Brown trade
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  Speaker 3: takes place. I mean, just all kinds of stuff happening
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  Speaker 3: on that day, obviously. And I think my brain would
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  Speaker 3: have processed the trade probably much more angrily under different circumstances.
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  Speaker 3: I'm still disappointed and frustrated to this point. But I
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  Speaker 3: have decided that... I don't get to be a fan
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  Speaker 3: in football, right? You don't get that opportunity now when
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  Speaker 3: you work in it. So for the Celtics, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to put blind faith and optimism into this team and
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  Speaker 3: hope for the best and hope that my reaction, my
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  Speaker 3: gut reaction, my second reaction, my third reaction, my 10th
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  Speaker 3: reaction to the Jalen Brown.
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  Speaker 2: Trade was just totally wrong.
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  Speaker 5: And how is little Paul George Yates doing?
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  Speaker 3: The irony is that our third daughter is named Tatum.
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  Speaker 3: Not related to Jason Tatum, but a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: made the joke after she was born, like, were you
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  Speaker 3: preparing to name her Jalen until several.
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  Speaker 2: Hours before she was born? And then you pivoted. Jalen
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  Speaker 2: was on the long list. I will be honest on
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  Speaker 2: that part.
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  Speaker 1: Field, it is so funny with fantasy football season coming
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  Speaker 1: up here. I have the second pick of the draft,
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  Speaker 1: and I know you just addressed it, but that is
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  Speaker 1: the big question. Gibbs or Robinson? Robinson or Gibbs? Mikey
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  Speaker 1: is shaking his head saying it's not a big question.
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  Speaker 1: There's a clear-cut number one.
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  Speaker 6: Who is it?
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  Speaker 7: No, I was just going to say it's easy for
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  Speaker 7: you because you don't have to make the decision.
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  Speaker 5: It's going to be made for you.
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  Speaker 3: Right, right.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say the big takeaway is that
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  Speaker 3: the best place to pick this year is number two overall, right?
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  Speaker 3: Because Jameer Gibbs and B. John Robinson is a good argument.
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  Speaker 3: You could argue for either of them as the lawyer
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  Speaker 3: in court. Probably too much lawyer talk in sports recently
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  Speaker 3: with this Clippers draft. situation but i have no issue
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  Speaker 3: with so i i personally have bijan ranked one spot
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  Speaker 3: ahead of jameer gibbs one and two but i had
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  Speaker 3: a draft a couple of days ago where i got
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  Speaker 3: the number one pick and i wound up taking jameer
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  Speaker 3: gibbs the rationale for that just as a heads up
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  Speaker 3: there were two things one i haven't had the chance
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  Speaker 3: to draft jameer gibbs in any other league so far
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  Speaker 3: i wanted to have some jameer gibbs in my portfolio
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  Speaker 3: uh two i It's what we call a knockout league,
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  Speaker 3: which is new at ESPN.
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  Speaker 2: People may be familiar with this format.
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  Speaker 3: The lowest scoring team each week gets eliminated from the league.
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  Speaker 3: Their players go back into a free agency pool. Everybody
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  Speaker 3: has $ 1, 000 of a free agent acquisition budget, and then
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  Speaker 3: we do a blind bidding process each week for those players.
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  Speaker 3: So if somebody has... Derrick Henry in week one, their
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  Speaker 3: team puts up an absolute stinker. Derrick Henry and everybody
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  Speaker 3: else is available. Jameer Gibbs has an easier early season
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  Speaker 3: schedule than over B.
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  Speaker 2: John Robinson.
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  Speaker 3: So that was how I leaned towards Gibbs in this
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  Speaker 3: knockout league. But over the past two years, worth noting
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  Speaker 3: that Gibbs has more games with 20-plus fantasy points than Robinson.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 3: Robinson has more 20-plus games over the past two years.
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  Speaker 3: than Jameer Gibbs, and he has fewer under-10-point games. So
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  Speaker 3: he's been a little steadier of a ship over the
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  Speaker 3: past couple of seasons.
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  Speaker 4: Mikey, do you like the knockout league? Do you like
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  Speaker 4: that format?
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  Speaker 1: Because you're excited for fantasy football the entire offseason, and
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  Speaker 1: then you're knocked out after a week, and.
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  Speaker 4: All your players are available to the good teams. I mean.
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  Speaker 5: Is this a safe space?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 5: Can I bare my soul? I'm not only in one.
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  Speaker 5: I'm in one that's 32 teams.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. You're a psycho. So that's a double knockout each week,
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming, right? Four.
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  Speaker 5: Four teams get knocked out in the first few weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So I would say that the only thing that
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  Speaker 3: I would say about the knockout leagues, I really enjoy them.
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  Speaker 3: It's a different way to play. It's a different strategy, obviously.
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  Speaker 3: I joke that in knockout leagues, if you're not last,
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  Speaker 3: you're first, right? The inverse Ricky Bobby because– No matter
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  Speaker 3: whether you finish 10 out of 12, as long as
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  Speaker 3: you're not 12 out of 12, survive and advance. The
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  Speaker 3: only way in which I do think it impacts my
• 5:08
  Speaker 3: brain is people ask me all the time, how many
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  Speaker 3: leagues are you playing in this season? And that number
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  Speaker 3: could begin at, you know, 20, 25. And then by
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  Speaker 3: the halfway point of the season, if seven of those
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  Speaker 3: are knockout leagues, it could be reduced dramatically. So from
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  Speaker 3: an accounting standpoint, I can't decide how many I should
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  Speaker 3: admit playing in at the beginning of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Field, what are the two or three questions you are
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  Speaker 1: getting most headed into this fantasy football season?
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  Speaker 3: The first question is, who am I taking number one overall?
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  Speaker 3: I said my piece there. The second question is some
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  Speaker 3: form of sleeper or bust, which I think it sort
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  Speaker 3: of depends on who your audience is when you answer
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  Speaker 3: that question. I used to say that, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe a decade or so ago, You could throw the
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  Speaker 3: third receiver for the Ravens out there as a sleeper
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  Speaker 3: and people would be like, oh, wow, man, like never
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  Speaker 3: heard of that guy. Now you draw like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the third running back for the Cardinals and people are like,
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  Speaker 3: he went in the eighth round of my keeper league
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  Speaker 3: last week. So you got to dig a little bit
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  Speaker 3: deeper than that, which is a byproduct of how popular
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  Speaker 3: fantasy football is in just the NFL. So sleepers and
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  Speaker 3: busts are always a very popular question. But the one
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  Speaker 3: this year, the player this year that seems to be
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  Speaker 3: generating the most heat is Christian McCaffrey. Are you in
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  Speaker 3: or are you out on CMC? Who last year, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're talking about Jameer Gibbs and B. John Robinson as
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  Speaker 3: the clear-cut.
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  Speaker 2: One and two. CMC was 50 points better than those
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  Speaker 2: guys last year.
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  Speaker 4: I know I had him. He won me a title.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, how about that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he was the best player in fantasy
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  Speaker 3: football last year. He's been the best player in fantasy
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  Speaker 3: football many times in his career. The question is, Can
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  Speaker 3: you trust him to stay healthy for the second straight season?
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  Speaker 3: He had 400 plus touches last year. He's 30 years old,
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  Speaker 3: which for a running back is on the older side,
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  Speaker 3: of course. And I, you know, I tend to think
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  Speaker 3: that all players are injury risks.
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  Speaker 2: It's football.
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  Speaker 3: I understand that CMC has had a longer injury history
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  Speaker 3: than guys like Bijan or Jameer Gibbs.
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  Speaker 2: Where I land on it is this.
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  Speaker 3: It depends on, like, how emotional you are of a
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  Speaker 3: fantasy football player.
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  Speaker 2: Because if you're the kind of person.
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  Speaker 3: So let's just say, and I don't want to wish
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  Speaker 3: this upon anybody, but if Christian McCaffrey gets hurt in
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  Speaker 3: the fourth week of the season, people that drafted him
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  Speaker 3: in the first round are going to say, God damn it,
• 7:23
  Speaker 3: I did it again.
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  Speaker 2: I should have known better, right? Whereas, inversely... If Amon
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  Speaker 2: Ross St.
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  Speaker 3: Brown gets hurt in the third week of the season
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  Speaker 3: or the fourth week of the season and has to
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  Speaker 3: miss some period of time, four to six games, you're
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  Speaker 3: going to say, I got unlucky, right? Amon Ross rarely,
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  Speaker 3: if ever hurts, he's been so incredibly consistent in his
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  Speaker 3: five years. So it just depends on how you sort
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  Speaker 3: of view the world of fantasy football. If you could
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  Speaker 3: be a little bit more, more robotic and just say
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  Speaker 3: a better player is worth the higher pick and take CMC.
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  Speaker 3: If you're going to kick yourself because you're emotional, and
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  Speaker 3: I'll be the first to admit, sometimes I am emotional
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  Speaker 3: in fantasy football.
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  Speaker 2: I'm often very emotional.
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  Speaker 3: Then you can hedge against how pissed off you'd be
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  Speaker 3: if CMC gets hurt by taking Jonathan Taylor or Amon
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  Speaker 3: Ross St.
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  Speaker 2: Brown or James Cook somewhere in that same range.
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  Speaker 6: Field, where do you have A.J. Brown ranked among fantasy receivers?
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  Speaker 6: Because the pairing with Drake May feels like a match
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  Speaker 6: made in heaven.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's wide receiver 10 for me.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, none of the surprises inside those first
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  Speaker 3: 10 picks of wide receiver. He's kind of going in
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  Speaker 3: the same territory as Rashi Rice, Drake London, Malik Neighbors,
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  Speaker 3: George Pickens, Chris Olave. Those are kind of the receivers
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  Speaker 3: surrounding A.J. Brown in rankings and where they're being drafted
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  Speaker 3: right now. A.J. Brown feels like one of a handful
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  Speaker 3: of guys that is playing with the proverbial chip on
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  Speaker 3: his shoulder more so than most guys. This year, I
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  Speaker 3: think Lamar Jackson might be in that category as well.
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  Speaker 3: You could make an argument that after the playoffs, Josh
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  Speaker 3: Allen could be in that category. But with A.J., he's
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  Speaker 3: still amongst, if not the best, deep receivers in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: Crazy that over the past four years, A.J. Brown's average
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  Speaker 3: receiving touchdowns was 24.6 yards. Like the guy is a
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  Speaker 3: big play threat waiting to happen. You go back to
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  Speaker 3: last year and tell you, you know, this from his
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  Speaker 3: college days as well. Drake may is about as good
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  Speaker 3: of a deep ball thrower as we have in the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: He's incredibly, incredibly gifted on throws down the field. He
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  Speaker 3: had a passer rating of one 31 last year. That
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  Speaker 3: was easily best in the NFL. And it wasn't like
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: Drake through, you know, he wasn't in the bottom five
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  Speaker 3: of the attempts where good fortune could explain how, how
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  Speaker 3: statistically prolific he was. He was way out there. He's
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  Speaker 3: seventh and past attempts. on throws 20 plus air yards
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  Speaker 3: down the field so really talented deep ball thrower with
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  Speaker 3: arguably the best deep ball receiver in the nfl once
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  Speaker 3: you get past week one against seattle i think things
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  Speaker 3: look really really promising for aj brown.
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  Speaker 7: I'm gonna be a little selfish here because as i
• 9:55
  Speaker 7: do all my research i tend to develop man crushes
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  Speaker 7: right uh on on guys later in drafts especially and
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  Speaker 7: i've got my guy this year and i might be
• 10:05
  Speaker 7: a little too enthusiastic about him so i'm hoping you're
• 10:08
  Speaker 7: either gonna a confirm it or or or talk me down.
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  Speaker 5: Or lie yeah Jadarian Price. I'm all over Jadarian Price.
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  Speaker 7: I like him too.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Am I kidding myself? Am I looking at the logic?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: That's, I mean, one of the things I try to
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: remind people that play fantasy football that aren't novices, like
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: if you have a minimum sort of baseline of football knowledge,
• 10:32
  Speaker 3: you're going to be okay. And it's your team. Like
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: you should follow your logic and your process. No team, zero,
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: zero teams last year gave the football to, to the
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: running backs more often as runners.
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: Than the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 3: They were tied with Atlanta for the most running back
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  Speaker 3: rushing attempts in the NFL. And while it's a new
• 10:51
  Speaker 3: offensive coordinator and play caller with Clint Kubiak in Las Vegas,
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  Speaker 3: like I don't think Mike McDonald was going to hire
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  Speaker 3: an OC after winning the Superbowl to totally reshape the offense.
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  Speaker 3: The approach should be the same for him. And while
• 11:04
  Speaker 3: Zach Charbonnet could fill, uh, get back into this backfield
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  Speaker 3: at some point, Charbonnet coming off of an ACL tear
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  Speaker 3: late last season, like our, We'll see when that happens, A,
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  Speaker 3: but B, like the other running backs that are currently
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  Speaker 3: competing with Jadarian Price for carries, George Holani and Emmanuel Wilson,
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  Speaker 3: who they signed from the Packers this offseason. So this
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: is not George– excuse me, Jadarian Price competing with– Not
• 11:32
  Speaker 3: that I'm anti-Jeremiah Love, but Jeremiah Love, the Cardinals gave
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  Speaker 3: Tyler Algier a real contract this offseason before they drafted
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  Speaker 3: Jeremiah Love. There might be games where Algier has 15
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  Speaker 3: carries to Love's 13. It's not totally implausible. So Price
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  Speaker 3: finds himself in a really good spot. Two biggest question
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: marks are pretty straightforward for Jadarian Price. One is he
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: had six catches last year. The question is, Did Notre
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  Speaker 3: Dame not throw him the football because he was incapable?
• 12:01
  Speaker 3: Or did Notre Dame not throw him the football because
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  Speaker 3: they had Jeremiah Love? I tend to lean towards that
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  Speaker 3: second argument over the first. The other thing is fumbles
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  Speaker 3: were a problem for Price in college.
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  Speaker 2: And you guys all know this. It's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: NFL coaches cannot tolerate fumbles at all, ever. A guy
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  Speaker 3: can be running for 150 yards and a half, and
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  Speaker 3: then he fumbles the ball in the third quarter, and
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  Speaker 3: you never see him again. So if Price can't keep
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  Speaker 3: his fingers on the football, then he could be a
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  Speaker 3: bit more vulnerable.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a really rosy opportunity right now.
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  Speaker 4: What round do you have Dajon Love going in?
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  Speaker 3: Dejan Love, I had him in the third for a while.
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  Speaker 3: It was tough, though, because, like, have you guys seen
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  Speaker 3: him run routes?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, on the beach with his helmet on.
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, like, I feel like he's a perfect fit for
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: Brock Purdy. Like, I just think he's, like, really crisp
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: in and out of breaks. For the timing and rhythm quarterback,
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: you need a wide receiver that always hits his landmarks. Durable, like,
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  Speaker 3: to my knowledge, he didn't miss a single game last season.
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  Speaker 3: So I had him in the third round, but I've
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  Speaker 3: reached for him in the.
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  Speaker 2: Second round on occasion.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Especially since he cleared all three parts of that waiver.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: Field, Carnell Tate finished preseason, zero receptions on six targets.
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  Speaker 6: How concerned are you for Carnell Tate entering the season?
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  Speaker 3: If I were to make a list of players whose
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  Speaker 3: stock has dropped the most for me in the preseason,
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  Speaker 3: and this is all relative, right?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not talking.
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  Speaker 3: I had him as, I think, wide receiver 23. He's
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: not wide receiver 53 now, right? But I am going
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: to flip-flop my Titans wide receivers that I want most
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: going into the season. I think Carlton's going to be
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: an absolute stud in the NFL. I thought he was
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: very pro-ready. I just think this offense is going to
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: take some time. And Wondell Robinson is going to be
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: awesome for the Titans again.
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  Speaker 2: He kind of graduated, I think.
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  Speaker 3: Wondell Robinson, for a while, was viewed as this gadget,
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  Speaker 3: slot-only receiver. Right.
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  Speaker 2: You saw him last year. He was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Super productive for the Giants, stepping into a bigger role
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  Speaker 3: with Malik Nabors out.
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  Speaker 2: He knows the offense, obviously, already. There's no concerns about.
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  Speaker 3: You know, kind of being, excuse me, fully caught up
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  Speaker 3: to speed. So I'm going to flip-flop him and Carnell Tate.
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  Speaker 3: I've drafted a lot of Wanda Robinson so far this year.
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  Speaker 3: Tate is going to be really good. Not concerned about
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: the player long-term at all. I just think this is
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: going to be a slower roll into the NFL than
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: I had previously forecasted.
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  Speaker 1: Field how do you feel about this mikey a his
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: son was doing.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: A draft he asked dad for help uh.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Dad was supposed to be a sounding board he didn't
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: want to get too involved in the second round his
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: kid took garrett wilson and mikey a ripped the computer
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: from his hands and took over the draft how do
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: you feel about mikey a doing that huh.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: Oh man well mikey is a great himself he's a
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: great father he's a great father he is you know
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: so i know that he you know he's doing it
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: from a place of of good spirits right yes um
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: that's a tough one. Like you got to teach your son.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Now you have to like kind of show them the way.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: Because I think you have to decide at this moment
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: and probably before the draft, but it's a sunk cost.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: We're going to move forward.
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: It's like until the jets turn things around, Do you
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: tell your son, just no more? Because I can't let
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: you be hurt twice. If the Jets don't win and
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Garrett Wilson has three catches for 30 yards, you're going
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: to be so frigging.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Ripped the next day. You're going to be so pissed
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: about that.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: In some ways, you actually just draft whoever his least
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: favorite team is, probably the Patriots.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Tell them to draft Drake May and A.J.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Brown. Because if those guys go off, his fantasy team
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: is probably doing great. If those guys stink, the Patriots
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: are coming back down to earth. So draft, you can
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: take this a step further. Josh Allen, Devon Achan, A.J. Brown,
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: whoever you think is the best AFC East tight end,
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: just keep nailing all the AFC East players. And if
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: your team wins, or they win, I should say, they perform,
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: your team's going to do great in fantasy. If they don't, then,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: you know, the Jets might be friskier.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: In real life.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Right. It's a win-win. You're right. Yes.
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: Between my fantasy leagues, the Jets, and my betting, I
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: try and finish 500 by Tuesday morning. And I'm usually
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: about 500 because I'm a pretty good fantasy player and
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: I root for the Jets.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, I bet you're not even as well.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, it is strategic. I tell you, it really is.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Like I kind of go through over each year, I
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: kind of adopt like a different strategy to account for
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: all that stuff. Like there have been years where I
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: have tallied in like a spreadsheet, which I'm not exactly
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: the most proficient spreadsheeter, but I found out a way
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: to like calculate my record week by week and over
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: the course of the season and all my fantasy teams.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: And the reality of what I do, and I think
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: people don't necessarily understand this when I get invited to
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: play in.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: A league is that like, yeah, you know, this is
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: my job.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: It doesn't mean that I'm going to win every league
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: that I play in. I'm still, you know, I'm still
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: beholden to the fortune of what happens a week in
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: and week out injuries, uh, all the things that go
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: into fantasy success. But you sort of realize you're like, man,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: like just a couple of bad teams can like really
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: tank your overall record. So this year, I think I'm
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: just letting it go. And I'll certainly know generally how
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: each team is doing. I don't think I'll be counting
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: it meticulously as I have in years past.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: Field, last time we had you on, we pitched you
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: on the idea of bank the tank as our NBA correspondent. Yesterday,
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: we came up with the idea of, Instead of the
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: Clippers just vacating the pick, we want that now to
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: be a part of the in-season tournament, and Steve Ballmer
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: has to present that pick to whoever wins the in-season tournament.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: You're out on that.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Year by year. So whoever wins the in-season tournament gets
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: the Clippers pick, yes.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: By the way, I would tell you this.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Maybe this is probably not top of mind for the NBA,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: but that pick should exist somewhere, right?
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: It's one fewer player who gets to realize his dream
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: every year in the NBA draft.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Because, you know, there are 59 picks now as opposed
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: to 60 until there's expansion. Just get that pick instituted somewhere,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: whether it goes to your point, whether it goes to
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: the teams. wins the in-season tournament, whether it goes to
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: the team that has the most wins relative to their
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: record the prior season, excluding the Clippers. Find some way
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: to reward somebody with it and make sure that Ballmer
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: is presenting it.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: What a story that was. I've listened to probably.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: I don't know, six hours of Clippers content in the
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: last 24 hours, which is approximately five hours and 55
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: minutes more than all other Clippers content I listened to
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: in the first 39 years of my life prior to yesterday.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: How about this?
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Whoever has the best record against the Clippers, they get
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the pick.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: That's amazing. They get to tiebreaker.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: A big point. They get everyone's best shot.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: How about this? How about this, though?
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Because you've got to make it point differential included, right?
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: The Thunder have Shane Gilgis-Alexander playing 48 minutes in a
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: meaningless otherwise game in, like, early January. And you're like,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: why is Shane there when it's 152-64 in the fourth quarter?
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: This makes no sense.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: It'd be amazing.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Right, but that's a tiebreaker, correct?
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Meaning if two teams are 3-0 against the Clippers, we've
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: got a point differential, right?
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Yep, exactly. Great.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: That's my favorite part of the in-season tournament so far.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: That and the people getting angry at the courts. I
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: don't have as strong of an opinion on the courts
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: as most do, but I see these people getting so
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: frustrated on the internet about the courts. I'm like, I
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: promise you, your tweet is not going to compel the
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: NBA to go to the arena right now and change
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: the floor.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: They're just not going to do that.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: But they think they can make a difference.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: They do.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: They do.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they sure do.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: And you're telling them they're not.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Sorry for crushing hopes and dreams right there.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God. So good. Give me some guys, some
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: sleepers here, Field.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Some guys that maybe people aren't thinking about that you
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: think are going to have big seasons.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mentioned Wanda Robinson as a player that's going
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: later than where... I think he deserves to go. It's
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: going to be steadier than I think he's being given
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: credit for. I've decided that for me, generally speaking, like
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: outside the top 100 on ESPN is a good place
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: to find a guy that you believe is a sleeper.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: If you're going to the 11th round or later, it's sleeper-ish.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Kenneth Gainwell from the Bucs is kind of everybody's favorite
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: sleeper right now. Sneakily was fifth in the NFL in
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: running back catches last year.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Not a bad runner as well, just.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Hasn't been giving a ton of opportunities. Not exactly sure
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: what to make of Bucky Irving there in Tampa Bay
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: right now. He was awesome as a rookie. He was
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: good the first four weeks of last season and then
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: really fell off. He had dealt with this sort of
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: mysterious health situation as well, but just flat out wasn't
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: as good of a player last year as he was uh,
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: in his rookie season, there's all kinds of quarterbacks that
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: could be considered sleepers. I think Jordan loves going to
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: have a big year this year. He's being drafted super late. Uh,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: the Packers off season has been very sort of passing
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: game centric. It did not add any running backs of
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: notes with the prospect of Josh Jacobs, missing time facing
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: them all off season. Um, it got more attention recently
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: and that resulted in him being placed on the commissioner's
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: exempt list. Um, But I don't think like this team
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: is totally surprised by what's taken place.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Jordan Love is one of my favorite guys.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: And then, you know, tight ends, there's a million names
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: and like four of them will end up mattering. But
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: a deep league, deep league sleeper would be Gunnar Helm,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: another Titan hero I just think is going to be
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: good this year.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: He's just a capable player.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: The Titans signed a blocking tight end, Daniel Bellinger, away
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: from the Giants.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Should be Gunnar Helm on passing game opportunities.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Isaiah Likely is now with the Giants, another name that's
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: being drafted lower than I think he deserves to be.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: A lot of reporting this summer that he's kind of
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: been the go-to guy for Jackson Dart as they've been
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: dealing with life without Malik Nabors on a full-time basis.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: So, Isaiah Likely and Gunnar Helm, a couple of names
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: that I like as well.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Field, as a.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: Fantasy football expert and somebody who also plays fantasy football,
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: how do you balance the fact that you're giving all
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: this advice on sleepers, knowing that people in your leagues
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: might be listening to this same advice?
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't think it matters as much in sort of,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: it matters, but not quite as much in standard redrafts
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: where you're just, it's a snake order and you just
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: make a pick because I can always sort of like
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: jump to the head of the like the front of
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: the line to pick a player if I really want
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: that guy. But I was doing what we call salary
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: cap leagues, also known as auction leagues recently. And I
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: noticed that the guys that I was targeting or I
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: would have targeted, and I never, I shouldn't say never,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: but I rarely nominate a player for auction that I
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: actually want. I'm usually nominating somebody that I want other
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: people to spend money on. But I did notice that
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: a couple of the guys that I went into the
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: draft targeting were going for much higher than I expected
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: because I think I've just talked too much about them
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: during the preseason.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: And some of my buddies in that league caught wind
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Three kids, huh?
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Three kids. Listen, that's why I got to come back
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: on the show. I got bills to pay, you know?
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: At some point, the royalties will hit my mailbox.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: I'm just trying to tell you to slow down. I mean,
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: that's all.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: We're done.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: We're done.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: All right. Would you want to rank the kids?
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: I mean, what criteria are we going with today? You know,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: how much is it like eating habits? Is it sleep habits?
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Is it eating habits?
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: I tell you, anybody with multiple children can attest. As
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: you know, and I will tell you, yes, yes.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: The hour changes by hour, I'm certain. Yes, 100%.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: You work for the Patriots. You work for Belichick. You
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: know Bill very, very well. You know Taylor was a
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: walk-on football player at the University of North Carolina.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: It begs the question, is Bill Belichick back?
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Tell you what, a lot going on with the program
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: right now, obviously.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: That was a nice window over in Dublin. I know
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: that TCU, whatever, maybe TCU is a middle of the
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: pack team in the Big 12, but I felt personally,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: and Taylor may disagree, fully agree, offensive operation looked a
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: whole lot better this year.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: It just felt like a real offense. They're still down players.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: As I look at the guys that are eligible for
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: the upcoming draft right now, there's a guy that's going
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: to go in the first three rounds, maybe some day
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: three picks there. but it looked way better offensively to me.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Defense I wasn't going to be as concerned by because,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: you know, Bill Belichick is playing a large role in it.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: But offensively, I felt like the Bobby Petrino hire from
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: a football standpoint was on the play on Saturday.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Not perfect, but definitely better.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: When you say a lot's going on, you're talking about
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: the throwback uniforms they released yesterday, right?
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Those 1980 uniforms, they look good.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Those do look awesome. I mean, the color scheme and
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: the uniform design the entire uniform set is as good
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: as there is maybe just in sports, like not just
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: college football.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: It's, it's elite elite.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Carolina blue, a top tier color.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: No doubt. Where are we spending the Labor Day weekend here?
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: We go to Nantucket, Cape Cobb. What's going on with
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: the Yateses?
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: I wish, I wish we'll be home.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: We'll be home.
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Some drafts and trying to keep kids, get kids to
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: sleep and, and, and eat and then continuing to rank
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: them throughout the weekend.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: All right, buddy, we appreciate it. As always, we'll talk
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: to you again very, very soon. I can't have you
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: around here enough. The great Field Yates, he's all over
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: your fantasy coverage on ESPN.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Thank you, buddy.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Thank you, guys.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: All right.