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Chuck in the Morning 9/8 H1: Fantasy woes and Gameday Eve! ABCs of the Mariners and other stuff. · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: game on. Well, hello. Great morning to you all. Happy Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: other things as well. And so we get things started
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  Speaker 1: here on this day. And I will just say that
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  Speaker 1: last night we had our fantasy football draft, the KJR
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  Speaker 1: fantasy football draft. How can I sum this up? It
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  Speaker 1: did not go well.
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  Speaker 2: It was, oh, for you, it did go well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it did not go well for me.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to say, it didn't go well for
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people who kept coming into the draft,
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  Speaker 4: leaving the draft, coming into the draft, leaving the draft,
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  Speaker 4: or just not coming to the draft at all.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what even that was. I just blocked
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  Speaker 1: it out. I mean, whoever, whatever your method is, that's
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  Speaker 1: your method. But no, it went well. Everybody, you know, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: you know, did a nice job and Appreciate them showing
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  Speaker 1: up last night for our fantasy football draft. That said, though, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it went... It was kind of crazy. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: did a few practice rounds to kind of prepare for it,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know what happened, but... I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if this happened at other people's draft, but I got
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  Speaker 1: to round eight, and I'm like, I don't want anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, we did the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, I was sitting there, and I was chatting with
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  Speaker 4: Five Iron while I was doing it because I made
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  Speaker 4: him every time it was... You know, since I had
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  Speaker 4: a late pick, I had a long gap in between
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  Speaker 4: each time. So we'd watch a show while it was
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  Speaker 4: taking forever in between.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And we were chatting and I was like, oh, he's like, what?
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, look at who's there. He's like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: this is my least favorite time of a draft.
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  Speaker 1: See, it's my favorite. That's that's it's my favorite time
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  Speaker 1: of the draft. I just had this conversation yesterday in
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  Speaker 1: the sports pit with you and Anders like. To me,
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  Speaker 1: like rounds 5 through 10, that's where you do your magic.
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  Speaker 1: Because that's the thing about fantasy football. Everybody's going to
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  Speaker 1: have an all-star team coming out with your first five picks.
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  Speaker 1: And then everybody's going to have injuries during the course
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  Speaker 1: of the year. So where you make hay, where you
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  Speaker 1: make magic, are rounds 5 through 10 so that you
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  Speaker 1: end up with good players in those rounds. For the
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  Speaker 1: inevitability of having to replace one of the top five
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  Speaker 1: guys that you drafted or two of the top five
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  Speaker 1: guys that you drafted at some point. So it's usually
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  Speaker 1: where I really get excited about the draft. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: every year, I end up with guys five to ten
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  Speaker 1: that I'm like, yes, yes, yes. This year, we got
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  Speaker 1: to round eight, and I'm not kidding you. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want anybody on the board right now. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want anybody. I'm even the jerk in our draft
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  Speaker 1: that took Josh Jacobs. I'm that guy.
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  Speaker 4: Boo.
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  Speaker 1: Morally bankrupt host.
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  Speaker 2: I thought about it.
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  Speaker 1: I took Josh Jacobs in the seventh round. And then,
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  Speaker 1: of course, some turd in our sales crew who we
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  Speaker 1: should have never invited to the draft. I didn't. Decided
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  Speaker 1: to take Marshawn Lloyd, the backup. And he just did
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  Speaker 1: it out of spite because he was being encouraged to
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  Speaker 1: do it by the other jerks in the league. because
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't planning on doing that. I know that. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to punch him in the face today. Oh, wow. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I ended up taking Josh Jacobs in the seventh. And
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  Speaker 1: that was supposed to be my flyer pick. I've got
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  Speaker 1: my good six. I really like my first six picks.
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  Speaker 1: So here in the seventh round, here's my flyer pick.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I might end up with a second round,
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  Speaker 1: first round value pick here in the seventh, depending on
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  Speaker 1: what the court system rules later this week. whatever Roger
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  Speaker 1: Goodell decides. So I even did that. And then I
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  Speaker 1: got to the eighth round. I'm like, I don't want anybody.
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  Speaker 1: And I was fully anticipating waiting on quarterback. The whole
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  Speaker 1: plan the entire time was to get Matthew Stafford late.
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  Speaker 1: And then when I got Matthew Stafford, because I was
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  Speaker 1: at 11, I was going to get pretty close proximity picks.
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  Speaker 1: So I was going to get a really good backup
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  Speaker 1: on the hook side of that. That was the plan
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  Speaker 1: the entire time. And suddenly I'm like, why are all
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  Speaker 1: the like solid receivers? And I figured the running backs
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  Speaker 1: were going to be gone, but I thought that was
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  Speaker 1: going to be my chance to like make, Hey, six, seven,
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  Speaker 1: eight rounds with really building up my receiver depth right there.
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  Speaker 1: And they were, I'm telling you, they were all gone. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I picked receivers in round five, six and seven and
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  Speaker 2: my quarterback in round eight.
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  Speaker 1: Who did you get at five, six and seven?
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  Speaker 2: DJ Moore, Luther burden and Michael Pittman.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good. But like I said, round eight, they
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  Speaker 1: were gone. Yeah, then I went back up running backs.
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  Speaker 1: You and many others apparently did that. And I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: paying attention because usually you've just got a good group
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  Speaker 1: of two players. you know, number two, maybe high number
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  Speaker 1: three receivers that are on the board in that area.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, they were all gone. And I
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  Speaker 1: guess everybody just loaded up on receivers while I'm getting
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  Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs and thinking I'm really making some sort of
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  Speaker 1: clever selection here. And then the next thing I know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, all of them are gone. I don't like
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  Speaker 1: any of the receivers. Yeah, no, I get that. Left
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  Speaker 1: on the board. And so I'm sitting here staring at
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  Speaker 1: Drake May, who I did not want. And yet the
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  Speaker 1: screen's telling me this is a fourth round value, fifth
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  Speaker 1: round value pick. And I'm in round eight. So I
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  Speaker 1: end up taking a guy that I'm going to have
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  Speaker 1: to root against tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why he was not on my board because
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I can't even root for him in
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  Speaker 4: week one.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even want to start him. But I ended
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  Speaker 1: up picking Patrick Mahomes as my backup. And he's facing
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  Speaker 1: Denver and is not even 100% sure he's even going
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  Speaker 1: to start. And if I wait until Monday, then if
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't start, which I think he is, if he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't start on Monday, now all of a sudden I
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  Speaker 1: don't have a quarterback for the week. Right. because I
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  Speaker 1: waited you know I'd have to pick up his backup
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  Speaker 1: which means I'd have to drop somebody so anyway it
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  Speaker 1: uh yeah the middle rounds I don't know if anybody
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  Speaker 1: else out there listening struggled with your middle round selection
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  Speaker 1: but it typically is my favorite part of the draft
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  Speaker 1: it's where I feel like you win the draft frankly
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  Speaker 1: um and yet I got to round eight and I'm
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  Speaker 1: like I don't want anybody else there's nobody on the
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  Speaker 1: board that I consider a value pick here at this
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  Speaker 1: point And so I guess I wasn't paying attention while
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  Speaker 1: you and others started just snapping up wide receivers in
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  Speaker 1: rounds six and seven, I guess.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think, too, it is harder, obviously, which is
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  Speaker 4: part of the goal, right, in a 12-person league. The strategy,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I just kind of go with the flow.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm just seeing how it's playing out and
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  Speaker 4: what's happening because you have so long in between your
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  Speaker 4: picks and so many different things. You know, you can't really— playing,
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  Speaker 4: you cue all your people and do all these things.
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  Speaker 2: And then it's just flying off, flying off, flying off,
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  Speaker 2: flying off.
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  Speaker 4: So it just kind of changes as you go, because
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  Speaker 4: the 12-person league, yeah, those players do fly off the shelves.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean, I do those practice things, though,
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  Speaker 1: and in the practice rounds, they were all there. All
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  Speaker 1: the guys I wanted to have were there in 6, 7, 8,
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  Speaker 1: and 9. Every single one of them. And so I
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  Speaker 1: was sort of counting on that happening, but no one
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  Speaker 1: was taking quarterbacks... At that stage. Yeah, you're right. And
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  Speaker 1: no one was taking tight ends once the first four
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  Speaker 1: tight ends gone.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and two of them went to Jessamine.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they started to slip down the board. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there were some people that I'm like, let's
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  Speaker 1: start with Jessamine. And here's the thing. I think Brandon
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  Speaker 1: Funston gave her all the tips that she was telling
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  Speaker 1: me beforehand. Oh, okay. That was the most fascinating, excellent
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  Speaker 1: draft I think I've ever witnessed in my entire life.
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  Speaker 1: That was so smart and so well done and risky
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  Speaker 1: and everything else.
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  Speaker 4: But she auto-drafted all of it. Because she fell asleep.
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  Speaker 4: She wasn't even there for like the first hour of
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  Speaker 4: the draft put them in yeah well yeah she but
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  Speaker 4: like she cute she put them in her order yeah
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  Speaker 4: but she.
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  Speaker 1: Put them in order because she was going so far
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  Speaker 1: off the board got it that she was able to
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  Speaker 1: do that which i guarantee you funston told her to
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  Speaker 1: do yeah here's your roadmap so she was i did
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  Speaker 1: this two years ago i was picking guys that i
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  Speaker 1: thought were going to go where they were projecting to
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  Speaker 1: go in the fifth, and I'd take them in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth because I just wanted them. So that's what she did.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I'm saying. It was so unusual
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  Speaker 1: what she did, and yet so well done that I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I can't help but be impressed with it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I have never, ever taken a kicker with anything but
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  Speaker 1: my last couple of picks.
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  Speaker 2: That's the only time I ever do it.
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  Speaker 1: And yet, Brandon Aubrey won me the league last year.
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  Speaker 1: And he was clearly the number one kicker. And she
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  Speaker 1: took him like in the 10th round, maybe even higher
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  Speaker 1: than that. I think it was higher than that. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what? I should hate that, but
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  Speaker 1: that is really a good move considering the way that
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  Speaker 1: you're building your team right now. So that's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: He was giving her tips like, don't be worried about
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  Speaker 1: overdrafting people. So she just locked them in, put them
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  Speaker 1: in her queue and knew that they were going to
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  Speaker 1: be there. And she had a firm strategy for how
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  Speaker 1: she was going to draft. And man, uh, I was impressed.
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  Speaker 1: It was great. And the two sales dorks that we
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  Speaker 1: added to the league this year, they were great. You
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  Speaker 1: had a good drive. You stole Travis Etienne from me,
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  Speaker 1: and I kicked the remote. I'm sorry. Yeah, Jackson's always good.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, but I did not do well. I
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  Speaker 1: did not do well. This time when they gave me
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  Speaker 1: my letter grade C, I earned it. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: have to waiver-wire the F out of this season.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's where it gets the hardest, though, is the
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  Speaker 4: waiver-wire with a 12-person league, too.
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  Speaker 2: Because, I mean, there are not a lot of options
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  Speaker 2: out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but the computer did not pick Jessamyn's team. She
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  Speaker 1: was not there for most of it.
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  Speaker 2: No, I know she ranked it, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But she did not pick that. The computer certainly did
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  Speaker 1: not pick that team. And it was interesting and impressive.
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  Speaker 1: She went back-to-back tight end in rounds two and three.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, she did.
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  Speaker 1: With back-to-back picks. Got Bowers and McBride. And I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I kind of love that. All right. Anyway, welcome into
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  Speaker 1: the show here on this Tuesday morning. It is good
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  Speaker 1: to have you with us. I did not mean to
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  Speaker 1: spend that much time on our fantasy league. But I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe it'll help you if you're drafting tonight
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  Speaker 1: not to think that sixth, seventh, and eighth rounds you're
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: going to get your wide receiver bench. because it might
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  Speaker 1: not happen. It didn't last night for me. The Seahawks Patriots,
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  Speaker 1: they are going to play tomorrow. There is big news
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  Speaker 1: from the National Football League, and it does affect this
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  Speaker 1: game to some degree, or at least it affects one
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  Speaker 1: of the teams playing in this game. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how much it affects the game. Even though I heard
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  Speaker 1: just this morning Adam Schefter say that if Christian Gonzalez
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  Speaker 1: did not agree to that deal last night, he might
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  Speaker 1: not have played tomorrow. So that was just this morning. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: if you're just waking up, maybe you didn't hear this,
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  Speaker 1: but Christian Gonzalez did reach a deal with the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: before the season started their superstar corner. And they're like
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  Speaker 1: two guys. They're like two guys in the NFL that
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  Speaker 1: I know. I mean, there's an argument for others, but
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  Speaker 1: there are only two guys that I do believe are
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  Speaker 1: better than spoon at cornerback. And Gonzalez is one of
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  Speaker 1: So they were both free agents in the same, or
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  Speaker 1: not free agents, neither of them were free agents. They
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  Speaker 1: were both going to get deals. They're at the same
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  Speaker 1: spot in their career and they were both going to
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  Speaker 1: get potentially record setting deals. And they both ended up
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  Speaker 1: doing that. It's just that Gonzalez waited longer and he
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  Speaker 1: got the bigger deal, but barely, barely got the bigger deal.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think it was $ 101 million guaranteed and
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  Speaker 1: $ 102 million guaranteed to Gonzalez. And so they just took
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  Speaker 1: the next step up from that, barely. But there were
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people that thought that he was asking
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  Speaker 1: for the moon and the stars. He did not get
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  Speaker 1: the moon and the stars. He got the moon. But
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow with the opener, Adam Schefter this morning saying that
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  Speaker 1: Christian Gonzalez would have been crazy considering how much money
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  Speaker 1: was on the table, to have played a single snap
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  Speaker 1: of regular season football. And so I guess there was
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  Speaker 1: a chance, and I mentioned this yesterday, but I didn't
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  Speaker 1: realize it was this close. There was a really good
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  Speaker 1: chance that Christian Gonzalez was not going to play tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like, if he didn't work out that deal
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  Speaker 1: with the New England Patriots, which is, hey... That would
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: have been a huge score for Mike McDonald and the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks because that guy is outstanding. But they did get
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  Speaker 1: the deal done, so sounds like he's happy. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: move the bar as high as what he was believed
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  Speaker 1: to want to raise it, he and his agent, but
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  Speaker 1: he did become the highest-paid player, cornerback in the National
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  Speaker 1: Football League overnight, and it sounds like he's happy enough
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  Speaker 1: that there's no risk of him not playing tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and that is a bummer for us.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, not that, no, I, not, I would have
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  Speaker 4: wanted to face them complete as a whole team and
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  Speaker 4: everything like that.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. But yeah, he is really good and good
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  Speaker 2: for him. He got his deal. That's not surprising, right?
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  Speaker 4: It was going to be once Witherspoon got his deal,
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  Speaker 4: then Gonzalez was going to be next.
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  Speaker 2: So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Um, so yeah, I mean, it's no surprise that
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  Speaker 1: he becomes the highest guy, but what is surprising, like
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  Speaker 1: jaw on the floor, kind of surprising is was that
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  Speaker 1: there was a chance he wasn't playing tomorrow night. And
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  Speaker 1: so he'll be in the lineup. And obviously the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: have dealt with a lot of drama in their organization
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  Speaker 1: in the last six months. Their head coach being at
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  Speaker 1: the center of the biggest soap opera in the National
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  Speaker 1: Football League, maybe in the last 10 years. And then
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  Speaker 1: you have a cornerback who was within a day of
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  Speaker 1: maybe holding out part of the regular season. So A.J.
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  Speaker 1: Brown's been added to the fold. It's crazy when you
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  Speaker 1: add A.J. Brown to your team and he's the only
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  Speaker 1: person not causing drama.
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  Speaker 2: Now you know there's something off.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, now something's very crazy. But yes, it looks like
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  Speaker 1: they're ready to go, even though I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: start the Patriots quarterback against us tomorrow in my fantasy league.
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  Speaker 2: I know, that is a tough one.
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  Speaker 4: And then especially because you're going to be cheering. You
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  Speaker 4: have to cheer for him for fantasy stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Also, I don't think he's going to do well tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Right, and then there's that because he didn't do well
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: against us in the Super Bowl.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: No, I think he's going to stink tomorrow. I think
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: he's going to be good this year. Very good. But
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I think that tomorrow's going to be a sloppy game
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: and really low scoring. And I came within a whisker.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: And my fact or fiction pick of taking the under.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: So I off the air said, and we'll talk more
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: about this later, 17 to nine. So when you are
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: predicting a team to score nine points and yet you
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: are deliberately starting quarterback on your fantasy team, that's not
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: a good combo.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: No, it's not ideal. That's not ideal.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: All right. Let's find out what's on tap for the
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: rest of the show.
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• 17:59
  Speaker 1: going to join us today at 7.05. We also have
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: our showdown today, which is the new green jacket. Yes,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: orange is the new black. Showdown is the new green jacket.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: So we're going to have our draft today at 8 o'clock.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: It is our NFL preview. And we used to do
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: the green jacket mostly at 9. It's starting to feel
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: like we're going to be doing the showdown more at
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: 8 o'clock.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: It seems like that's where it's going to work.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Uh-huh. Yeah. So today we preview the National Football League season.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: With our draft, we will choose the over and unders.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: And we're using NFL Vegas Insider for those over-unders. So
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: we'll be doing that today at eight o'clock. I'm excited
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: about that. And I also, right before the show started,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I just wrote down all of the odds so that
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I didn't have to use my phone because it might
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: already be outdated. What you gave us yesterday could potentially
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: be on the website. So what you gave us yesterday,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: that's the only rule. We got to use the same sheet.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: We got to go off the same board. So I
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: just started writing them down by hand and I'm like,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Have they added teams to the National Football League?
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I think it's still the same.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Did I sleep on some expansion? Because my goodness, it
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: feels like I've been writing this. Look how busy that looks.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: But it's 32.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: I counted it again. Yeah, we're good. We're good on
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: that front. All right. So we'll be doing that today
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: at 8 o'clock. Some NFL notes. I didn't mention this yesterday,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: but it is worth noting. Michael Penix Jr. is not 100%
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: healthy to start the season. So to a tongue of Iloa,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: we'll get the start in game number one. for his
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: new team, the Atlanta Falcons. As for Thursday, it looks
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: like both Nick Bosa and George Kittle are trending toward
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: playing for the 49ers in Australia for their opener on Thursday.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Doesn't change my feelings. I mean, yeah, I think that
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: gives them a better chance to keep it close with
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the Rams, but I'll stick with my first Factor Fiction
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: pick of the season, Rams minus two and a half
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: on a neutral field in Australia. We will play Factor
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Fiction again. If you weren't with us yesterday, maybe you
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: missed day number one. It was a holiday after all. Yes,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: it was. But Factor Fiction is back. We started yesterday
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: with our first four picks, one pick per show. Every
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: single day that we do, everybody does a show, which
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: for Ashley and I means every day because we never
• 20:21
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• 20:25
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• 20:32
  Speaker 1: at seven 35 and it will be Ashley's first pick
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: of the brand new football season. College football Huskies will
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: take on Utah state on Saturday. They'll do so. It
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: sounds like without their top two running backs, Quade Carr
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: and Jaden Lamar injured against the Cougs on Sunday. And
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: it looks like they're going to miss significant time. Uh,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about that later on in the show. This week,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, if there was a knock against college football
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: being back, week number one really didn't feature a monster matchup.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: There were a couple good games, Notre Dame-Wisconsin and Ole
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Miss-Louisville both on Sunday, but not some monster welcome to
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: the college football season. Well, we've got a monster this week.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Number one, Ohio State versus number five, Texas in Austin.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Rick Neuheisel will join us to preview that game, many others,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: and give us his initial thoughts of the Apple Cup
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: and what he's expecting out of the Huskies now that
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: he's seen them play a football game. We'll do that
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: today at nine o'clock. Major League Baseball scoreboard. Mariners did
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: not play last night. Neither did the Rangers or the Astros,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: so no change in those gross, disgusting-looking standings. The Mariners
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: will have a chance to flick some damage against one
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: of those teams head-to-head over the next couple days. They
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: will be taking on the Texas Rangers tonight. Cody Bradford,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: of course, a left-hander, will be pitching for the Rangers.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: He's not any good, but he's left-handed.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, there you go.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: And the Mariners, right now, it says undecided. So I
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: don't know what's going on there. It's supposed to be
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Bryce Miller, but we know he's dealing with an injury.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: We know that he was nearly demoted to the bullpen.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't know if Bryce is
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: dealing with something and they can't commit to that, but
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: he is expected to go first pitch tonight at 640.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: We'll talk more about that later on in the show
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: with our Rangers preview at 745. Coming up next, I know,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: we do Mariner's Morning after almost every day at 6.30.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I should do something other than baseball. But you guys
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: never get the ABCs of the M, so you're going
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: to get them today. Sports Radio 93.3, KJRFM. I mean,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: it pretty much is fundamental to reading, I'm pretty sure. Yeah,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: pretty much a backbone of our society here. So, man,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: love the alphabet.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: I am going to disagree. I think the alphabet gets
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: a lot of love. It's got a whole soup. I mean,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: alphabet soup.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: It's got a song. That's true. That's true.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's like one of the first things you learn.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: It doesn't have a holiday. No. Like, why don't we
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: have Alphabet Day?
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: You know what? I'll give you that.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Why don't we have a day celebrating, like, reading, literacy,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: things of that nature.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: I'm sure on the National Day calendar there is some, like,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: National Literacy Day.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: And yet we don't know when it is, do we?
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: It's not marked in my calendar like Christmas.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Right. Exactly. So anyway, Alphabet, we celebrate you every day.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: That's right. You too, baseball. You're lumped in there. You
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: little son of a gun, you. Yeah. It's time for
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: the ABCs of the M's. It is a daily segment.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, we do the ABCs of the M's more
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: than we do Mariners Morning After because Mariners Morning After
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: happens after only Mariners games. ABCs of the M's every
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: single show during the baseball season and a little bit
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: beyond the baseball season. And so here we go. We
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: got some ABCs of the M's for you. And we
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: are at the beginning of the alphabet. We get to
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: start anew today. A is for Arroyo. We didn't get
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: a chance to talk about Michael Arroyo late last week.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Didn't know he was getting called up during our show
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: on Friday. But Michael Arroyo made his debut over the weekend.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Only played in one game. Only got three at-bats. But
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: you got to see for the first time. another of
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the Mariners' top prospects. So, I mean, they've gotten to
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the big league club this year. I'll tell you what,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: between Kate Anderson and Michael Arroyo and Laz Montez and
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Colt Emerson, I mean, those are four of the top
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: five prospects in the organization. The only one we haven't
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: seen is Ryan Sloan, and I don't anticipate that we're
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: going to see him, but with Bryce Miller apparently questionable,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: who knows? I think he's the next guy up. So, yeah,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: we've gotten a good idea of some of these names
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: that have been floated around and what might be guys
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: that are going to have to fill holes. Because let's
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: face it, they're never going to spend as much as
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: you want them to. And I don't know what's going
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: to happen with the collective bargaining agreement. But I'll tell
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: you this, it's never going to, even if they get
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: a salary cap, no one's ever going to stop, including
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. looking for pieces that cheaply can fill spots
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: in their everyday lineup. And then that gives you the
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: freedom in free agency to go out there and fill
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: the hole financially that you have left that you weren't
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: able to cover yourself. Well, we are starting to like
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: stockpile infielders on this team. I mean, Cole Young to
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: me feels like the second baseman of the next 10 years.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Colt Emerson feels to me like the shortstop of the
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: next 10 years. Brendan Donovan looks like he's going to
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: be the third baseman, I think, for at least another year.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Ace Reese was drafted this year, and he is tearing
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: up the minors, and that is a college player. That
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: is somebody that might not be that far away, A
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: is for Ace, and is a legit third baseman for
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: a change.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Well, that would be nice.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Somebody they're not going to teach to play third base.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: He already knows kind of how to play.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: They're not like, well, he's played some. Let's see what
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: he can do.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: So I really have never thought Michael Arroyo is going
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: to be a long-term piece for this team. I mean,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: and I think Brock Rodden, Brock Rodden has shown us,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: if nothing else, feisty little son of a gun can
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: probably fill a utility role, at least going forward in
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: his career. And I don't think that's Michael Arroyo's role.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: They've dabbled a little bit with him in left field.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I suppose that's a possibility. Cause I expect a is
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: for a Rose arena to leave in the off season. Uh, but, um,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's an infield, his value is infield. I've
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: always felt he's going to be traded before he really
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: starts to establish his sea legs, uh, in major league baseball.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: And even though we do get it a little bit
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: of a taste of Michael Arroyo, I don't know how
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: much he's going to play the rest of the season. Um,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: I think that is really just kind of a little
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: bit of a showcase because I do expect him to
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: be a piece that gets moved in what might be
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: a wild offseason for the Mariners. Yeah.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: I don't hate an idea of a wild offseason for
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: the Mariners.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Cole Young, by the way, I don't want Michael Arroyo.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, he took some at-bats from him over the weekend.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: He might start today. because you're facing another lefty. But
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I don't want Cole Young another season that would be
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: two in a row where he didn't finish the starting
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: second baseman. Let him finish it out at this stage.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've come this far.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we need Cole Young to be a piece here.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: And I know he struggled in the last month or so,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: but he needs to start feeling what it's like to
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: play 162 games. And I don't want to stop short
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: of that this year. B is for Bradford. Cody Bradford
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: starting for the Texas Rangers tonight. He is left-handed. He
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: has been ineffective this season. Only six starts this year,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: a 4.45 ERA. But the real stat that jumps out,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Cody Bradford has a 331 opponents batting average against. There
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: are like, I think, three, four hitters in all of
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball hitting over 300 this year. Cody Bradford
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: turns every single hitter he faces into a batting champion.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Well, hopefully he can turn us into one tonight.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Well, we need all the help we can get, especially
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: against the left-hander. So if we can't batter this guy around,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: then I don't know what to tell you. But Cody
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Bradford has not had any success recently. getting hitters out.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, the ERA, he's managed to keep under control.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: He doesn't walk a lot of guys and he doesn't
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: give up a ton of home runs. So I guess
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: that's a couple of feathers in his cap, but we
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: should batter this guy around the ballpark, even though we
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: can't hit left-handers. So we shall see how that goes.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: But a 331 opponents batting average, I know it's a
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: shorter sample size, but it's a big enough sample size
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: that it's pretty clear that people tend to light up
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Cody Bradford. We'll see if we can do it tonight.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: And finally, C is for change. And to Ashley's point, yeah,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I think there's going to be significant change this offseason.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I think that was going to happen even if this
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: team won the World Series, which they're not going to do,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: it looks like. Um, I think, I think that that was,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: it was going to be that type of off season,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: but since it has been the most disappointing season in baseball,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know where that reaches. I said this all
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: while I've been saying this for a while. Um, I
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: think everybody, when you have a disastrous season like this,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's safe. Anybody should feel safe. I
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: don't think Jerry should be safe. Yeah. Bugging rug safe.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I don't think Justin should feel that way. I think
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: they should be, you know, as Todd Laiwiki put it,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: we're going to have a major, you know, investigation into
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: what went wrong. You know, I liked that idea. Now,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: for the Kraken, it turned out to be we're going
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: to make one minor trade.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Apparently that's all that was wrong.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But I do like the idea of, hey, we
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: know something went wrong this year. We're going to turn over.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: And if that's, I think that's Jerry being evaluated. That's
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Justin being evaluated. I think Dan is gone. I think
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of the coaching staff that has been intact
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: for a while could be gone. this offseason. So I
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: think those changes, just that alone, those are going to
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: be major changes. They were never going to re-sign Randy Orozarena,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: so he's not coming back. I've always felt they were
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: going to trade George Kirby, so I think that's going
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: to happen this offseason. There's a chance they might trade
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Gilbert and Kirby this offseason. There's going to be a shakeup.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: And like I said, I think Arroyo, I don't see
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: where the future is for him. Uh, on this team.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: And so there, there's going to be, I think a
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: shakeup in offensive philosophy, which probably means sites are in
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Martinez are gone. Um, I think they're even going to
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: analyze the one thing that they've become famously good for,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: but haven't been that good this year. And that's pitching. Yeah.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I think even that's going to go under the knife
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: a little bit here this offseason. So I don't think
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: anything's sacred right now with the 2026 going into 2027 Mariners.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I'm even reluctant to even start talking about next year
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: because I'm so pissed off about this year. But I
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: was expecting significant change no matter what based off of
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: this season. Absolutely everything is under scrutiny. Absolutely everything. everything's
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: got to improve. Um, and so, yeah, it's going to
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: be a winter of change for the Seattle Mariners. And
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: that doesn't even take into account that the CBA might
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: change salary cap might be instituted. We might not have
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: spring training right away. I mean, it's going to be
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: as memorable and off season as year. You can put
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: your arms around.
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think based on the disappointment of this
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: season coming off the excitement and hope of last season
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: to what we're dealing with now, there's no excuse to
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: do anything.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Other than that. They better be making lots of changes.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: They better be scrutinizing everything.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: They better not just be adding middle infielder Sam Miskevich. Oh, yeah.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, Sammy Sam Miskevich, as I like to call him.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: All right, Greg Bell's going to join us today at 7.05.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: We do have more on the Mariners later with a
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Rangers preview in the show. But coming up next, I
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: made a mistake this morning, and I'd like to confess
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: to all of the YouTubers. Also, a preview of our preview.
• 32:43
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• 32:56
  Speaker 1: So I'm never going to become a barber or a
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  Speaker 1: hairstylist or anything like that, turns out.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: How come?
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't have something called attention to detail. Oh. Yeah,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: I can't really multitask. And everybody knew that. That made
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: that very clear. But not even when I'm singularly tasking
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: something can I multitask.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, really? What are you trying to accomplish?
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Well, I grew the beard out, and I went through
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: the mangy two phases, and I'm kind of liking it.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: I was at phase two of the mangy. I think
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: it's come in. I'm not saying I'm a silver fox,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: but I'm silver. And so I kind of liked that
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: I stuck it out, and I went through those two phases,
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  Speaker 1: and then last night was about trimming it up. And
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: making my beard for the first time, my silver beard
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: for the first time, like a true silver beard and
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: really shine. And I did it. Like it was, it
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: looked good. I really liked what I saw in the mirror.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, I didn't even know I could do this. Um,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and so I got it exactly where I want. Well,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: then I had to go clean up other stuff like
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: neckline and stuff like that. And then I come back
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: to like trim the goatee part of this down. Yeah.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, man, that product's really mangy, more than normal.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: And I'm sitting here thinking about my fantasy football roster.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: And I just went, and I just went straight up
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: my cheek. And then I'm like, well, now I got
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: to get.
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  Speaker 2: Rid of it.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: So I got a big chunk, all that work. Because
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: for some reason I'm like, well, that doesn't normally look
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: like that. And I just took all of this off.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: And left a big hole on the right side of
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: my face.
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  Speaker 4: I'm looking at YouTube right now because it's got the
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: right side of your face more, but it looks good.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I had to trim it all down. I
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: had to get rid of it all. I had to
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: get rid of the beard.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, I got rid of the beard and kept this. But, yes,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: the silver beard was, like, fully in. Yeah. I'd finally
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: grown it fully in.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: It was quite lush.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: And then, you know, I... sculpted it nicely. I don't
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: even know how you people that cut hair and do
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: stuff like this have conversations while you're doing it. That's remarkable.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I'm more impressed with you than astronauts. That's fair. The
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: fact that you can have... I was having a conversation
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: with myself and couldn't even keep.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and they do also with scissors and they get
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: everything even.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, and there's something about sitting in that chair. You
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: will unveil secrets. You won't tell your own spouse.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a two-for-one. It's therapy and a haircut.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: And the fact that you can hear everybody's most guarded
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: secrets and then you don't ever get thrown off of
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: your game... Like I said, you guys are surgeons.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I couldn't even go over my fantasy roster in the
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: mirror without losing concentration and zipping off half of my
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: beard last night. And it only takes one little zip,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: and now you're like, oh, now it's over. Now it's ruined.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: No, you could have gotten some paint and painted it in.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: I know people that have done that. I'm not saying
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: it looks good, but I'm saying you could do it.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well. Painting sounds like it takes way too
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: much concentration.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Actually, I was going to say then at the same
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: time you have to do that.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And still be thinking about your fantasy roster. You'd
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: probably end up with a beard up to your eyebrows.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, coming up at eight o'clock today, we've
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: got the showdown. It's the new green jacket. And what
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: we're doing now with the showdown, not only does it
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: have a new name and a new award. that goes
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: to the winner. We have a big trophy. We also
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: are incorporating listeners into our showdown this year as well.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: And so we're going to need one today at 8 o'clock.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Our first two, by the way, not to put any
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: pressure on anyone, fantastic.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were really good.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Jeff and Eric. Eric picked an outstanding college fantasy team.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: He's winning right now, by the way. Yes, he is.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: He had 100 points in week number one, which hardly
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: ever happens. So we've had two outstanding listeners and we're
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: going to have one for every draft that we do
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: for the next calendar year. And if it works out beyond.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: So we're going to need somebody to participate. And today's
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: topic is NFL preview. And the way that we do
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: that is with our over under picks. So we have
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: NFL Vegas insider. We're all going to operate off the
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: same sheet and they've got their over under totals for
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: this year in the national football league. And so you're
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: going to draft with us. your favorite picks. But you
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: need those picks in order to be ready for the draft.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: So we're going to go ahead and 49451 it right
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: now for somebody that wants to draft with us at
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: 8 o'clock today so that Ashley can get you the
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: sheet that we're going to operate off of and so
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: that you are ready to go. In the next hour,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: you can prepare and you can be part of today's
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: NFL preview showdown NFL over-under draft. that we will do
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: at 8 o'clock. Make sense? Did I cover everything?
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: I think you did. Nailed it.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Okay. Also, don't forget, Factor Fiction today at 7.35. Coming
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: up next, though, headlines plus Greg Bell on KJR.