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EP 26: NFL 2025 SEASON AWARD WINNER PREDICTIONS / THE QUEST FOR A NEW NFL TEAM BEGINS · 3 Guys, 6 Balls NFL Podcast

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3 lifelong friends, 6 trusty balls and endless NFL ticks.
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Welcome to Three guys 6 Balls NFL Podcast.
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Welcome to episode 26 of Three guys 6 Balls NFL Podcast.
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The NFL season kicks off this week and so that means we are
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going to go over our predictions for the NFL season award
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winners. We were going to have a return
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guest on our show for the first time.
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We were going to have our friend and Chiefs expert Lincoln Cook
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on the show with us today, but he had to take care of his kids
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and it wasn't able to make it. So shout out to Lincoln.
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He did send me his list of players that he picked for these
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awards though, so as we go through them, I'll just read off
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who his picks were, but we're just going to jump right in and
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get started. So what we're going to do is
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we're going to go around and each going to take turns and
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we'll start with Avery. So Avery, just pick whichever of
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the 8 categories that you would like to start with and then give
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us the first person you picked and the reason as to why.
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OK, I'm going to start with Defensive Player of the Year.
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Oh, how was that? I have Miles Garrett.
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That dude is a man among boys in the NFL.
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You see him and it's like, oh, you were all children.
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Compared to this man, this man looks like an action figure.
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He is starting to get a little older, but I think this, I think
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he'll have another really good year.
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Do you think the Browns make the playoffs or do you think that
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the Browns have to make the playoffs in order for him to win
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it? The numbers first hand of the
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day. I believe so.
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Let's see. Let's look it up real quick.
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I don't want NBAI want NFL. While you're while you're
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looking this up, I do want to say I'm I'm I learn more on the
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side of like what is your individual contribution rather
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than is your team doing well? I think for Heisman, you should
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have a a winning team, but for this especially defensive player
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of the year. Now my heart might have been
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softened on this from playing road to glory as a defensive
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player where I will lose games because I didn't get a stop
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every single drive because they're off.
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They're like our defense just never or our offense never
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scored. So I can like feel for that.
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So I just think if you're the best defensive player, like
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reward that man. Plus plus I think it helps the
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league because it would, I guess, maybe not dissuade
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players from, I guess dissuade players from leaving thinking
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that they can still reach, I don't know, individual accolades
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on a subpar team. I just don't like that kind of
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allure to like, well, if I'm a serious player, I need to be on
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a good team. Therefore, the small market
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teams always suffer. Yeah, but he did actually make
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the Browns did make the playoffs when he won Defensive Player of
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the Year. Yes, I did.
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All right. Will your next two do you have
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is your Defensive Player of the Year this year?
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I have the Raider himself, Max Crosby.
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That's a good thing. I think that the Raiders offense
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is going to put the Raiders in a very good position, especially
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near the end of games where teams are going to have to be
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throwing to either seal the victory and like make sure they
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get all the the first downs, everything they need or to come
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back against the Raiders predicting him to win a decent
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amount of games and to where he's just going to be able to
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let loose and get a bunch of sacks, a bunch of tackles for
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loss. And like Max Crosby this year,
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like what the Raiders are doing this year.
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I think the Raiders are going to be a good enough offensive team
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to allow Max Crosby to eat defensively.
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And I do think I do think there's a bit of it where you
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have to have both your defense. I mean, obviously the JJ Watt
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years of him in Houston, those were not All Star Houston teams.
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They weren't bad, but you can go through the entire list of of
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defensive player of the years. Not all of them are on good
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offensive teams where their defense had to be good to hold
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him. I, I mean, I'm sure the Bengals,
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who would have loved for a defensive player of the year on
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their team last year, that defense was terrible and.
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Hendrickson could have been, honestly.
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Could have been, you're right, but there that team was bad and
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bad teams don't win awards. That's just unfortunately the
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way it kind of is. So I like match five this year
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because I like what the Raiders are doing offensively.
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Not to take anything away from him.
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I think he's going to benefit heavily from it.
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Cool. Yeah, I like that pick.
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I think that's a good pick. We all went with defensive ends
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for our picks, but I went with Lions defensive end Aiden
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Hutchinson for Defensive Player of the Year this year.
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And the reason why I went with him for Defensive Player of the
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year is because last year he only played in five games
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because he and then he broke his leg.
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But in those five games he had 7 1/2 sacks.
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This dude was wrecking people before he got hurt last year.
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It's just absolutely wrecking people.
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He was an absolute monster. And you know, you look at his
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game by game stats, he had 4 1/2 sacks in one game.
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So you know, it kind of, I don't know if that that kind of makes
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it seem like it's not as good because 4 1/2 of them are in one
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game. But if you look at his average,
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if he averaged 1 1/2 sacks per game last year in the five games
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that he played, if you multiply that by 17, that comes out to 25
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1/2 sacks. Now, obviously we don't know.
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Yeah, obviously we don't know if that's going to if that would
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have continued throughout the whole season because it's a it's
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a long season and he only played five games.
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He still would have had to play 12 more.
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But in the five games that he played, he was just absolutely
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wrecking people. Now this, this is the real
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reason why I decided to pick him for Defensive Player of the Year
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is because in the five games that he played, he also had 27
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pressures in addition to those 7 1/2 sacks.
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If you take that average, which is 5.4 pressures per game, and
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you multiply it by 17, it comes out to 92.
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The leader in pressures last year was Trey Hendrickson, who
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played all 17 games and he had 54 pressures.
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Geez. He would have had 38 more
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pressures than Trey Hendrickson if he would have played all 17
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games. Aiden Hutchinson was just
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destroying people last year before he got hurt.
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And I think if he stays healthy this year that he's going to do
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the same thing. And so I that's why I picked him
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for a defensive player. And then just so you guys know
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who Lincoln picked, he picked Fred Warner from the San
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Francisco 49ers. Bad pick, but he's not here to
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defend himself, so we'll. Yeah, Lincoln sucks.
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Whatever. All right, Willie, so you're
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next. So which category would you like
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to pick Will and tell us who your guy is and what the reason
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why? What's really up to here?
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Let's go with offensive player of the year.
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I like Derrick Henry. Oh.
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Yeah, I, I've talked about this a couple Times Now.
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I think the Ravens are are seeing the window is closing.
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I think Derrick Henry is seeing that his career is not over.
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I'm not, I'm not calling Derrick Henry dead here.
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I think that we're going to see a a high-powered Ravens offense
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all around and I think it's going to flow, not fully because
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they're still at Lamar Jackson, but I think a lot of it's going
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to flow through Derrick Henry. I think he's going to end up
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winning offensive player of the year.
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That's interesting because I feel like, you know, a lot of
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people thought Lamar Jackson would win MVP last year.
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And so I feel like most of the credit goes to Lamar Jackson and
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not Derrick Henry. But I Derrick Henry is my
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favorite player. So I feel like it should be the
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other way around because if you look at Lamar Jackson's stats,
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he's, you know, he, he was way better than he's been the
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previous few years prior to getting Derrick Henry.
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And so I think Derrick Henry is the reason that he was
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significantly better than he had been.
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So for my offensive player of the year, I went with Jamar
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Chase and the reason I went with him is because I just feel like
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he was overshadowed by what Saquon Barkley did last year and
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you know, rushing for 2000 yards.
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I think it overshadowed what Jamar Chase did and he was
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phenomenal last season. And I think he's going to be the
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same this year because I think the defense is still going to be
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really bad and they're going to have to throw the ball a lot.
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But I think he's going to have similar, if not better stats to
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what he had last year. And I don't think we're going to
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see a 2000 yard rusher this year.
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So I don't think he'll be as overshadowed as he was.
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And I think that, you know, if if he does what he did again in
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two straight seasons, I feel like you got to give him
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offensive player because he did it for two years in a row.
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I. Actually strongly considered
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both of those guys. What turned me off from Chase is
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I just I feel like it's going to be hard to have another season
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like that and I think that Burroughs going to end up
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spreading it around a little bit more.
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That's just a hunch though. I just, I can't imagine many
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defenses just letting Chase just continue season after season
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doing that. Not like they ever planned to
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though, that's how. These well, they did it, they
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did it game after game last year.
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So yeah, he he think they were figured it out, you know?
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Well, I mean you. Guys.
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Like you about guys like Calvin Johnson.
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It's not that the teams will let them do it.
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Some receivers are just they're just better.
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And Jamar Chase seems to be a guy who's just better.
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So they just, they just do it. I mean even.
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They just do. It even like Andre Johnson,
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right? Larry Fitzgerald, these guys
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were not they were not on the best teams and Larry Fitzgerald
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wasn't even the best receiver in the league at any point in his
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career. He was never the number one guy
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that you would call out, but consistently year after year,
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they were just having just all Pro type seasons.
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But I think that's that's kind of my point is I think Larry
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Fitzgerald was the best receiver in the league for multiple
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seasons. I think the reason that he
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wasn't, I mean, not like he wasn't giving his flowers or
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anything, but just production wise, I think it's because he
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played for Arizona and it was easy enough to put two DVS on
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him. I mean, like most of his his
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highlights are him just jumping over people or like breaking
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through double team. So like, it's one of those
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things where kind of like with a cornerback, you know, Pat
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certain, like, you know, if he doesn't get any interceptions
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next year, that's not indicative of him being a bad cornerback.
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That could just mean they're like, don't throw it to that
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side of the field. Anyway, having said all that,
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I've got Lamar Jackson. I think that if I had to,
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because I was thinking it was either him or Henry, and I
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would, I think there's less risk in choosing Lamar just because I
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feel like because of Henry's age and size, which is also kind of
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is a pro for him. I think that he's either they're
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going to get stopped or hurt or something's going to happen that
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would prevent him. And then Lamar Jackson will have
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to hop into OverDrive and pick up that production and then stat
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pad and win. If we had Derrick Henry on our
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fantasy team, I would be really mad that you said he's going to
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get hurt. But we don't.
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So I'm. I'm not.
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I'm not. I'm allowed to.
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Yeah. Alright.
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So I had. OK.
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I'm sorry, did you know the last time a quarterback won Offensive
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Player of the Year? Mahomes, probably.
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It was Mahomes in the same year he won MVP. 2018 MVP and
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offensive player here, same year.
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It's a douche move by yourself. Yeah, that is kind of a douche
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move by the NFL to do that. It is I would rather than not
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do. And they, they honestly should
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rename MVP and they should rename offensive player of the
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year because there's no way your quarterback isn't your offensive
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player of the year. He's the one doing all the work.
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Unless you're the, I don't know, well, the, the Panthers at any
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point in history and you're Christian McCaffrey, the
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quarterback. Andy Dalton was not holding that
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team up. Christian McCaffrey was holding
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that team up at that point. Your player of the year is not
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your quarterback. But most of these teams
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nowadays, your offensive player of the year is your quarterback.
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And I don't know, it's just it's just a way for more people to
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get more money and more contract lane to be written.
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Or if you win this award, you get an extra bonus if you win
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that award. If that's the case, I'm, I'm,
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I'm for it then if that's if, if it's to help the players get
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paid a little bit more. Usually it is.
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It's incentives and stuff like that.
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Yeah. All right.
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All right, But yeah, Lincoln had Justin Jefferson as his
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Offensive Player of the Year. Yeah, OK, OK.
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AJ McCarthy is going to be MVP and Justin Jefferson is
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offensive player. All right, so I'm going to go
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ahead and pick the Protector of the Year award.
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Now, just a couple things before we start talking about who we
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have for this award. So this is the first year that
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the NFL is doing this award. Some some things to know here is
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this is going to be voted on by six former offensive lineman and
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they are La Charles Bentley, Jason Kelsey, Sean O'Hara,
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Orlando Pace, Will Shields and Andrew Whitworth.
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And then they're judging this based off of five specific
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criteria. So the first one is skill
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metrics, which is like pass block or run block win rate,
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impact on the team's offensive success, leadership, durability
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and success against top defenders.
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So just so you guys know, that's what they're basing it off of.
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And for my Protector of the Year award, I'm going with Bucs
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offensive tackle Tristan Werfs and.
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The reason? Oh.
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Cool, cool. Yeah.
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I mean, so kind of I kind of thought about not picking him
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because durability is one of the categories and he is hurt right
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now. He's probably not going to play
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for the first two to three games.
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But I think if he plays at least 14 games, I think he sells a
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shot to win this award because he's just that good.
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So last year he played over 1000 snaps and he did not allow one
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single sack and he only allowed one quarterback hit.
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So there's a lot of reasons why Baker Mayfield was very good
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last year. But Tristan Werfs was one of the
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biggest reasons that he had the success he did last season
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because he didn't have to worry about anybody touching him.
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He only got hit one time because of Tristan Werfs and not one
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single sack was allowed. And so, you know, I think that
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when he comes back, he's going to pick up right where he left
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off. And Baker Mayfield's going to
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have another really good season because he doesn't have to worry
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about anybody touching him from that side of the field.
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And so, you know, again, he is injured right now.
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I I think that as long as he plays 14 games, I think he's
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still going to have a chance to win that award because it does
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hurt him in the durability section.
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But in every other category, he's, you know, you're not going
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to get much better than that. Now Will, since you have the
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same guy, do you have anything else to add with with Tristan
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Worfs? I don't, but I will give an
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alternate opinion here. I did pick Tristan Worfs here,
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but my secondary choice was penny a school and it's just a
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like there's First off, he's from he can't right.
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So like there's some bias there. Let's be honest about it.
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But he just he like everything about Miles here is oftentimes a
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men among boys out there and he is doing the work and doing
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doing it all rights. He's definitely part of the
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success of the Lions and that whole entire offensive line they
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have. And so I wanted to make sure he
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got an honorable mention and sorry, favorite that's your guy,
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but I wanted to stay. Oh yeah, so cool.
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I'm just stealing spotlight here.
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I have nothing additional to say like Chris Morris.
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I'm going to stop there. Yeah, I got Benicio, Oregon.
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That's probably the main reason, but I know he's a beast.
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I remember him in Oregon. I've seen him in the NFLI, think
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he's a monster, Will said. The rest?
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All right. And then Lincoln picked Lane
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Johnson for Protector of the Year.
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All right, so we're back to Avery.
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Pick us another category and tell us who you have.
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Let's do Offensive Rookie of the Year.
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Do you have for Offensive Rookie of the Year?
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I got Gente. I just think he's going to get
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the most production. I think just, I mean, I'm, I'm
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looking at the award here, not who I think is going to be the
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best in five years or so. I think he's just set up to have
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a very productive year. I was looking at Hampton, but I
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think I like Genti over Hampton to win the award.
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Lincoln picked Hampton, just so you know.
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Oh, really? He probably did that just for
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you, Avery. So.
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Oh well, I appreciate that. I don't think he would have
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picked another player within the division if it wasn't for you.
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Fair enough. So Will who do you have?
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I mean, it's a, it's. Isn't that like a friendly fire?
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It's like your favorite. You're alluding to the Broncos,
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right? No.
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Hampton. No, he didn't want to pick
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Gentie because of the Raiders, but he picked Hampton because
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he's in the Chargers. He's all AFC West stuff, that's
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all AFC win and he's a Chiefs fan, right?
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But the only reason he picked him?
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Yeah, I was going to say I was like, oh, he picked him over
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Gentie and like, they play in the same division.
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OK, never mind. Right, because he's a Chiefs
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fan. Yeah.
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All right, well, who do you have for Offensive Rookie of the
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Year? I also have Genti.
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I was trying to think of anybody else for any other reason.
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Who am I going to pick? Cam Ward?
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No, Tett. No.
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I mean, like he said, he has the highest probability for
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production throughout the entire year.
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He was drafted and everyone knew.
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Oh, OK, they're just going to hand down the ball every time
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they say he is. He is the offensive Raider,
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right? You've got Max Crosby and now
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you got Ashton Genti. You got a Raider on each side of
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the ball, so I there's, I would love to see somebody else
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challenge him for it, but I don't even think there's going
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to be anybody that's going to be coming close.
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Well, unlike you will, I did pick somebody else for any other
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reason. Can you guys?
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Get who it is. Chador is it?
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Yeah, it should. No, it's not Chador I.
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Can't be shy. Right now, is it?
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No. He owes me enough money.
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Can we let you play with that? You owe us money.
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You were so bad. You know OSI have no idea no
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idea why he got fined. I have not worked into it at
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all. I don't really care but it.
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Was just a punch on the field. Yeah, he just got he got
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frustrated at the receiver and just just slapped his helmet.
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I actually didn't know that. Yeah.
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Do you get a Ted? No.
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I do have a wide receiver though.
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Oh, emeko egg buco. Yeah.
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Oh. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, for offensive, I said.
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It so will didn't have to say it.
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Appreciate that. Bless you.
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Truly, truly bless you. Yeah, I think you.
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Do that. That's what it really was.
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For Offensive Rookie of the Year, I went with Bucks wide
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receiver at Mechagbuca at the Bucks threw the ball a lot last
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year and I think they're going to do the same again this year.
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You know, they have injuries to Chris Godwin and Jalen McMillan
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right now. Chris Godwin's probably going to
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miss the first month of the season.
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Jalen McMillan could miss anywhere from a month to half
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the year. And so that moves and Mechagbuca
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up and gives him more opportunity than he originally
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would have had with those guys in.
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And so First off, he has the opportunity.
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And so you know, what I really like about him is at Ohio State,
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in my opinion, he was the biggest threat on the field
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without being the center of attention.
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And you know, it's that's exactly what I think he's going
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to do in the NFL. He's going to be the biggest
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threat on that field on offense without being the center of
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attention because people are going to be focusing on Mike
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Evans. And then when Chris Godwin comes
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back, they're going to focus on him as well.
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And a Mechagbuka, when he's not the center of attention, he's
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going to be the best threat on that offense because nobody's
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going to be double teaming him. They're going to be double
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teaming either Mike Evans or Chris Godwin.
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And so at Mechagbuka is going to be highly productive, just like
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he was at Ohio State where he's not the wide receiver one, but
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he's the biggest threat on that field.
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And so I just think that he's got an incredible opportunity,
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especially to start out with these injuries to the other wide
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receivers in that room. And, you know, people are saying
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really good things about him. I know we talked about, you
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know, it's practice and, you know, you got to actually do it
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on the field in the regular season first.
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But Baker Mayfield says that he reminds him of Aman Ross St.
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Brown. And, you know, that doesn't
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really mean anything, but Baker Mayfield likes him.
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And I like Baker Mayfield. And so I like Emeka Ibuka.
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That kind of worries me a little bit for Tez because he's someone
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that's even further down that roster that I want to start.
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Well, well, same thing with Tez. He's going to have a lot more
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opportunity now because Godwin and Jalen McMillan are going to
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be out for a while. So he's he's going to be playing
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while those guys are out. Sure, true.
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All right, Avery. Oh, wait, we're just, we just
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started with Avery, right? Yep.
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OK. Will, who's picked your next
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category? Let's go with Comeback Player of
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the Year. OK, I got to say, I got to say
20:52
Lincoln's first. Oh, yeah.
20:53
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So Lincoln, for comeback player
20:56
of the year, he picked Kim Kardashian.
21:02
Get the joke, Get it Parks and Rec.
21:04
The Parks and Rec blueprint. Yeah, I got it.
21:06
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we actually, he actually
21:10
picked Aden Hutchinson. Do do we hear Lincoln's
21:14
offensive Rook of the year? Offensive rookie.
21:18
He had Hampton. Oh, that's.
21:20
Right. Oh, that's right.
21:20
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We both realize that at the
21:23
same. Time Did we?
21:24
Yeah. Do we hear his protector?
21:28
Wayne Johnson? I'm missing 1 Wayne Johnson.
21:29
Oh, yeah, we've heard all this. This is old news.
21:31
Why are we talking about this? Yes.
21:33
Who? Keeps asking these.
21:35
Questions keep asking about it. He's leaving the years.
21:37
Stop talking about him. OK, who do you have for comeback
21:41
player of the? Year comeback player.
21:42
I also have Aiden Hutchinson, right?
21:44
I mean, he's the most dominant person that didn't play last
21:47
year. What else do?
21:48
What else needs to be said? You get him winning two awards,
21:50
Joel. I do because if if he's
21:53
defensive player of. The year, that's how hard he's
21:55
coming back. Yeah, if, if he picks up where
21:58
he left off before he got hurt last year, you got to give him
22:01
Comeback Player of the year. If he wins Defensive Player of
22:04
the year, there's nobody better who was injured last year than
22:08
him, unless, unless you got like Dak Prescott, who wins MVP, then
22:11
you might give it to Dak Prescott.
22:13
But if if Aiden Hutchinson comes back and wins Defensive Player
22:16
of the Year, there's nobody better than him to win comeback
22:19
Player of the Year. I got Christian McCaffrey.
22:22
I was 75% certain you were going to say JJ McCarthy.
22:26
I was so certain I was. Did you see me looking for it?
22:30
I was ready for it. I was like, come on, come on.
22:33
Do it, I bet. Do it.
22:34
Do it, Do it, Do it. OK, So Avery?
22:40
From nothing. And he's marginally better.
22:43
Avery, do you do you think that Christian McCaffrey plays in all
22:46
17 games this year? No.
22:54
If I said yes, I would be lying like I hope.
23:01
I wish I wouldn't say I have faith in it, but I would.
23:07
I would like it. He would.
23:09
His family would like he would stay healthy and finish out a
23:13
season, help his team, put the team on his back.
23:18
OK, so how many games do you think he does play if he's going
23:20
to win comeback player of the year?
23:22
How many games does he play dude?
23:23
I think playing eight would make him, well, maybe not of the
23:28
year, but I mean, it's better than what it was.
23:34
No, I think. I think if he plays like 1415
23:37
games, I mean, I I'm not worried as much about the games.
23:41
I mean, if if he puts up 2000 yards in eight games, yeah, he's
23:44
the comeback player of the year. I would hope.
23:47
So the season that he played that point, he'd be, I can't
23:52
even imagine what kind of production that would look like.
23:55
But yeah, OK, cool. Before we move on, I would like
24:01
to give an, an actual, an actual honorable mention to JJ
24:05
McCarthy. He has the team I I know, I
24:09
know, I know, I know, I know, I know.
24:10
What is this? Is this AI?
24:12
He has. Someone they couldn't say this.
24:18
He does. They can't even they're still.
24:21
He does have a team. He has the team built in his
24:26
favor. He has he has every piece of
24:29
infrastructure there to do very well to where he just has to
24:35
kind of be there. He has to have a Rex Grossman
24:37
type season again. I keep bringing that guy up and
24:40
we'll do the Super Bowl. His have a him type season where
24:43
you get to throw for like 2500 yards and just not turn the ball
24:46
over that much. And and if the if the Vikings
24:51
get carried by somebody else, I don't even know who Aaron Jones,
24:57
I guess that defends Harrison Smith is back there for his
25:00
nineteen season or some shit. How about Justin Jefferson?
25:03
Yeah, but see, that requires JJ McCarthy to get him the ball.
25:07
I thought about dressing Jefferson, unless they're going
25:10
to put him in the D boy Samuel from like 3 years ago where
25:12
they're going to hand him the ball.
25:15
I, I just, or, or he's going to get like 3500 yards, but he's
25:20
going to have like and, and like what, 200 completions on the
25:24
season and his air time for the ball is going to be like 400
25:28
yards. He's going to throw 2 yards
25:29
slant routes the entire season and dressing Jefferson and
25:33
Jordan Addison eventually will just make the play happen.
25:36
And so I I can see that. And then and then the world
25:39
would just be lit. Oh, he's so good.
25:42
Yeah, but he threw the ball nowhere.
25:44
He threw screen passes. He did nothing.
25:47
But he has the entire team to do it.
25:50
So I would like to say he does get an automation, but not
25:53
because he's good, because the team around him is good.
25:56
Would that count is would that count as comeback though?
25:59
I mean, that's kind of like a Blake Griffin situation.
26:01
I mean, like, come back from what?
26:03
You didn't start anywhere. I almost put him down for Rookie
26:07
of the year. I truly did.
26:09
I feel like, I feel like genuinely, he's more eligible
26:13
for that than for the comeback. A missing entire season.
26:16
Yeah. Like I don't think he's eligible
26:19
for rookie of the Year, but I think he's more eligible for
26:22
that then come back. It's like come back from what?
26:24
The whole thing is like a return to something.
26:27
We have come back to where we were.
26:29
You were nowhere. Not even in Michigan dude.
26:32
You didn't even pass for over 3000 yards in at Michigan.
26:36
Come back from what dude? He played a.
26:38
Preseason, I'm aware of all this stuff, but there, there is
26:42
grounds for it. That's all I'm saying.
26:47
All right, all right. So I'm going to go ahead and
26:50
pick Coach of the Year and I'm going to pick Bears head coach
26:55
Ben Johnson. I knew it.
26:57
Now, now here's the thing. Here's the thing with this pick
27:00
is I feel like Ben Johnson is going to win this award because
27:04
everybody already has him. Winning the award, that's fair.
27:08
OK, so let me ask you guys this. So you've got 2 new head coaches
27:13
and one of them is not a brand new head coach because he's been
27:15
a head coach somewhere else. But if you take the Patriots and
27:17
the Bears, if they both go 9:00 and 8:00, so if Ben Johnson is
27:22
9:00 and 8:00 with the Bears and Mike Vrabel is 9:00 and 8:00
27:24
with the Patriots, and they both make the playoffs, who's going
27:27
to win Coach of the year? I guarantee you it will be Ben
27:31
Johnson. It will not be Mike Vrabel, even
27:34
though they do the exact same thing.
27:36
It will not be Mike Vrabel. He will not even be in
27:38
consideration for the award because everybody is already
27:41
penciling in Ben Johnson as coach of the year.
27:44
Ben Johnson probably doesn't even have to make the playoffs
27:46
if he just has a winning record. He will probably still win coach
27:49
of the year just because everybody is already penciling
27:51
him in for this award and they're not even considering
27:56
anybody else for this award at this point in time.
27:58
And it's not to say that Ben Johnson is not a good coach.
28:00
I think he's going to be great. I think he's going to be a great
28:03
coach. But I just think that everybody
28:05
is saying Ben Johnson's the coach of the year.
28:08
Doesn't even matter what he does.
28:10
He's coach of the year. And so that's why I picked Ben
28:13
Johnson. I've got a hot take on this.
28:15
I think we should separate these awards for coaches.
28:19
I think there should be a best coach and then underdog coach,
28:24
someone who didn't get a shiny job but did pretty well with the
28:28
pieces that they had. I think that should be a
28:31
separate award because otherwise it's like what did.
28:36
You have a distance of the year as well.
28:39
I don't care about that. Your.
28:41
Your award. Your award?
28:43
Is is a better job after the season that that's your award
28:47
for that, for doing that's Ben Johnson won that last year.
28:50
So I I feel like you should have like the Andy Reid's like it's
28:55
like, yeah, it's like the MVP. It's like, if he's still the
28:58
best coach, give him the trophy, you know?
29:01
But then we have these guys like, yeah.
29:02
These are the guys that. You know, they didn't get the
29:04
good job, but you know, they got this up and coming team and
29:07
look, look, they they barely, you know, etched out, you know,
29:11
just rose above 500 and they barely made the playoffs.
29:13
I mean, they got a limit. They got embarrassed in the
29:15
first round, but you know, like, look how hard they're trying.
29:18
That's that's an award. We need like little little
29:24
brother coach award of the year, just like little brother like
29:29
you're doing like the award where where, when the coach that
29:32
wins against him in those in the 8 losses that that that Ben
29:38
Johnson has, when they go over and be like doing a great job,
29:41
buddy, you're doing a great job. Like I love what you're doing
29:43
out there. That's that award.
29:45
It's the ones that you don't shake their hand because they
29:48
beat you. That's coach of the year.
29:50
That's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. These other coaches hate them
29:53
because of how good he is. I just think there's a massive
29:56
disparity and we need to acknowledge the difference in
29:59
two. Different awards.
30:00
A Most Improved Team Coach of the Year award.
30:04
Your team was really bad and you made them a little less bad.
30:08
The Turd polisher award. Like, look at that, it's still a
30:12
turd, but it smells nicer. Not great, not good, but nicer
30:17
than it did. I mean, coach of the year is
30:20
basically that like you don't see very often where a coach
30:23
who's like an established coach like Andy Reid, which is
30:25
Lincoln's pick for coach of the year, by the way.
30:27
You don't see a coach like Andy Reid win.
30:30
You don't see a coach like Andy Reid win coach of the year very
30:33
often because he's been consistently doing it, which
30:36
doesn't really make sense. But you know, most, most of the
30:40
time the coach of the year is a guy who had a crap team in the
30:43
last year when he wasn't there and then took them to the
30:46
playoffs. That's that first year that he's
30:48
a head coach. And so, you know, it doesn't
30:50
necessarily mean that they're the best head coach that year,
30:52
but because they they had a crap team last year and they they
30:56
weren't crap this year, that's who wins head coach.
30:59
And that's and that and that's what I mean is that it then by
31:03
definition, it's not even about like out of all the coaches,
31:06
it's like, no, out of all the coaches that that like
31:10
qualified, it's like, oh, did your team?
31:12
Was your team already pretty good?
31:13
Were you already good coach? Yeah, you can't win best coach.
31:15
Then it's like, what? What if I'm even better than I
31:18
was before? It's like, sorry.
31:20
That's and I think that just proves the point.
31:22
We need we need a separate award.
31:24
We need the little brother coach award for the the guy who keeps
31:29
chugging like he's trying. He's doing so good out there.
31:31
I think my coach. Oh, no, go ahead.
31:36
Yo, you guys. I think that Mike Vrabel was the
31:39
perfect guy to pick their jewel because the Patriots weren't bad
31:43
last year. They weren't good.
31:45
I mean, they had a top five pick, didn't they?
31:47
Like, they were not good, but nobody expects them to be bad.
31:51
People expect them to win 7 to 10 games this year.
31:55
And so if you win 7 to 10 games from a team that was what, 5 and
32:00
something four and something last year?
32:02
Either 4 is. It Yeah.
32:04
They won four games. But like, you're expected to do
32:07
better than that where no one expects the Bears to do that.
32:11
Well, if we're truly being honest about it, we're expecting
32:14
well, they still care. The Williams, yeah, they've got
32:16
Ben Johnson. We're thinking what, six wins,
32:19
five wins from this team, what a huge improvement.
32:22
And so if he gets anywhere around six to seven wins, look
32:25
what he did. And so it's just going back to
32:28
what you're saying, it's just not fair to to head coaches like
32:31
Mike Rabel, who are probably going to take the Patriots to a
32:33
playoff run, first round loss, but into the playoffs.
32:38
And it's just it's just, well, he's been a head coach before.
32:41
I think. Nevermind, I'm barely here.
32:43
Avery, you go. I got Sean Payton.
32:49
I think this is somewhere in the middle of Little brother award
32:52
and best coach award. He's won it before, so it's but
32:56
I only see him winning it. I only think he really deserves
32:59
it. As if they like make it to the
33:01
NFC Championship. If they don't do that, then you.
33:07
Should get out the awards. Before or after that?
33:10
It's in between championships and Super Bowl.
33:12
They are, yeah, but they are not based off of playoff success.
33:16
They're supposed to be regular season awards.
33:18
Yeah. Well, it's done considering
33:20
that's not the objective of their job.
33:22
But I guess for the sake of timing and making it all fair,
33:26
that's. Also, if it was truly that and
33:29
Joe Burrow should have won the MVP last year, yeah, you know,
33:33
it was a regular season award. That's just act.
33:36
Whatever. That's a different argument.
33:40
Yeah. But yeah.
33:42
Well, who do you have as coach of the Year?
33:45
This was the the model I was going on about Mike Vrabel.
33:49
I actually have Pete Carroll because that Raiders team was
33:52
bad last year and there is no nobody thinks this Raiders game
33:56
is going to be as bad this year. They're expected to get they're
34:00
expected to to challenge for second or third place in the in
34:05
the AFC West. They're expected to possibly
34:08
make the playoffs. This is a this is a possible 7
34:13
to 9 win team year this year or seven to nine.
34:17
Yeah, yeah, Win team. And I just I think it's going to
34:21
get overlooked that Pete Carroll brought his team back together
34:24
with Geno Smith as at the helm and and he's going to take a bag
34:30
of rocks and a rookie and you go, OK, we have a new offense
34:33
now let's do the thing. And so I've I've got Pete
34:36
Carroll. All right, yeah, I like that
34:39
pig. So I can think we're back to
34:42
Avery now and I think we've just got Defensive Rookie of the Year
34:46
and MVP left. Let's do Defensive Player of the
34:51
Year, rookie. Defensive Rookie of the Year.
34:53
Defensive Rookie. Defensive Player of the Rookie
34:56
year. OK.
34:57
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I got Abdul Carter.
35:02
Do we there? You guys have him?
35:04
That's why I have two. Yeah, same, same I.
35:05
Figured that we don't have it so I.
35:07
Yeah, yeah, OK. There's absolutely no reason why
35:10
he shouldn't have at least 10 sacks.
35:13
Absolutely no reason. Like you've got Brian Burns,
35:15
you've got Kayvon Thibodeau, you've got Dexter Lawrence,
35:18
you've got more guys on that team in that defensive front.
35:21
That defensive front is just stacked.
35:23
And so that's going to open up a lot of stuff for Abdul Carter.
35:26
Because if you're an opposing offense, who do you choose to
35:28
stop? If you choose to stop Brian
35:30
Burns, Abdul Carter is going to come get you.
35:32
If you choose to stop Abdul Carter, Brian Burns is going to
35:35
come get you. So I just, there's going to be a
35:38
lot of opportunity there for Abdul Carter and there's
35:41
absolutely no reason why he shouldn't have tense axis here.
35:44
I think he's going to be filled with rage for the entire season
35:49
because of that one tweet The Jets put out.
35:52
Just order number one pick. You guys see that where he got
35:56
so so you'll have to lift this up, The Jets player tweet in a
36:00
preseason game, he got Abu Carter got chipped by a tight
36:04
end or a wing. I don't know who actually
36:05
chipped him and then the right tackle while he was already off
36:10
balance pulling him in the dirt. It was a good offensive play.
36:14
It it was a good chip. It was a good push down.
36:17
All clean, good offensive line work, truly.
36:22
But then Abdul Carter replied to that tweet with this would be
36:26
the only Jets highlight this season or something along those
36:29
lines. And I just it made me laugh.
36:32
And it's like, you are you are the even though both New York
36:36
teams are bad, The Jets are still the little brother in New
36:40
York. And it's like, dude, what are
36:43
you guys doing? And so he's going to be filled
36:46
with rage. Oh yeah, number one pick, let me
36:49
show you. And he's I just need to go out
36:51
there and earn it. Well, let's see.
36:53
Here's The thing is, even if Abdul Carter is not good at run
36:57
defense, as long as you're getting sacks, nobody cares.
37:00
Just look at Michael Parsons. Michael Parsons is not a good
37:03
run defender, but because he can get sacks, nobody cares.
37:08
If Abdul Carter's getting sacks, he doesn't even have to be good
37:10
at anything else, and he'll win Defensive Rookie of the Year.
37:14
Yeah, that's true. Long ago it was not one of the
37:17
giants. Oh, sorry, Hugo.
37:19
Oh, I was just going to say in my road to glory, I don't.
37:24
I consciously ignore my zone defense and going for the sack
37:30
and I allow so much, but it doesn't penalize me for it.
37:36
And every time I get a sack, it's like, you're doing such a
37:38
good job out there. Anyway, go ahead.
37:45
It wasn't that long ago the New York Giants had their NASCAR
37:48
package of pass rushers. These guys all they did was rush
37:52
the quarterback. They would come out first and
37:54
second down, third down, 3rd and medium, 3rd and long.
37:57
They would put their NASCAR package in and they would just
37:59
get sacks. So we are, I mean, we can be
38:02
looking at the same thing this this Giants defense is going to
38:05
be pretty good this year all. Right.
38:09
So before we move on to the last award for MVPI, have a question
38:13
for you guys and I know who. Did Will who?
38:15
Who did Lincoln have? Oh, he had Abdul Carter too.
38:18
OK. Yeah, Quin Tweep.
38:21
Yeah. Oh OK, so none of us picked this
38:24
player as either offensive or Defensive Rookie of the Year,
38:27
but what are the chances that Travis Hunter wins both
38:30
offensive and Defensive Rookie of the Year?
38:32
Never I've thought about it. Agree.
38:34
Low. Never.
38:36
Ever. I agree.
38:39
Well, why do you guys think it had?
38:40
Crossed my mind. Yeah.
38:42
Is it just because he's not going to play enough on both
38:44
sides of the ball? Bingo.
38:47
Dion wasn't going to do it. He's not going to do it.
38:52
Fair. True.
38:54
It's not going to be like a Heisman situation where he only
38:56
wins it just because he can play both sides.
39:00
Yeah, 'cause he's not going to be able to have the production
39:03
required. I mean, I guess if he's doing
39:06
like if he's putting, if we're talking percentages here and
39:09
he's giving like 70% here, 70% there, which is like, well,
39:13
everyone can give 100, but he's given 140% just because of the
39:17
amount of production. Maybe just the the sheer fact
39:21
that he's putting out so much on both sides, people could be
39:25
like, that's insane. We got to give it to him just
39:29
because, you know, if it's something like that, maybe.
39:32
But other than that, like there's no way, no way.
39:36
I mean, I don't doubt that he can play both sides of the ball
39:38
consistently, but not enough to like be an MVP candidate on both
39:43
sides. Yeah, I agree.
39:47
I I don't think there's any chance that Travis Honda wins
39:49
both or probably not even one, to be honest.
39:54
All right, so the last award here.
39:56
Let's do go through this one real quick and then we have
40:00
something that we want to tell you guys at the end of our
40:03
episode here. So will, I think we're on to you
40:06
for MVP. So Will who do you have winning
40:10
the MVP this season? I foreshrded this a bit earlier
40:14
in the episode. I have LeBron Jackson.
40:17
No LeBron Jackson. Good guess, though.
40:20
I have that Ravens offense doing a lot of work this year.
40:24
I have I, I think that Mark Andrews spends the entire
40:29
offseason learning how to catch a football again.
40:31
I think that they, they Isaiah likely all, the whole all the
40:36
boys out there doing the work. I like his team a lot.
40:40
I, I don't want to put my foot in my mouth.
40:43
I have them almost making the Super Bowl.
40:45
I believe this is how that went. You did not have been making the
40:49
Super Bowl. Correct, but I did have him in
40:51
the number one seed in the AFC playoffs and so I like the
40:55
Ravens a lot this year. I think Omar Jackson wins MVP
40:59
and Derrick Henry wins Offensive Player of the Year.
41:03
OK, cool. For my MVPI went with Joe Burrow
41:08
and you know, I feel like there was two people who who really
41:12
people think should have won MVP aside from Josh Allen, because a
41:15
lot of people don't think Josh Allen should have won.
41:17
And it was Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow.
41:19
And you know, the case was stronger for Lamar Jackson
41:22
because the Ravens actually made the playoffs.
41:24
The Bengals did not make the playoffs.
41:26
But now everybody knows that the Bengals defense is trash and
41:30
everybody's seen it. Everybody's seen how bad it was
41:32
last year and everybody knows it's going to be just as bad as
41:35
it was this season. So if the Bengals make the
41:38
playoffs, even if it's as the seven seed, I think Joe Burrow
41:41
wins MVP because, you know, he could have worse stats than Josh
41:45
Allen. He could have worse stats than
41:46
Mahomes. He could have worse stats than
41:48
Lamar Jackson. He could have worse stats than
41:50
anybody. But as long as he makes the
41:52
playoffs, I think he should win MVP because everybody knows how
41:56
bad that defense is. The Ravens have a good defense,
41:59
the Chiefs have a good defense. So even if those guys have
42:02
better numbers than Joe Burrow, as long as Joe Burrows in, I
42:05
think he wins MVPI. Want to preface this by saying I
42:09
have. I had Burrow and Lamar as my top
42:12
two guys. I went with Lamar.
42:14
But you made a good point with Burrow.
42:18
But I have a problem with it, like fundamentally, because I do
42:23
agree that, yeah, their defense is bad and his his production
42:27
was incredible. And that, yeah, if they do make
42:30
the playoffs, it would seem it would appear as though he kind
42:33
of willed them to it. But but you and you also said
42:38
like he doesn't even statistically have to have as
42:41
good of a season obviously somewhere near there, you know,
42:43
in order to get that. It just feels like like I agree
42:47
with it. I agree with the logic, but it
42:49
just feels like playing with a handicap and then like winning a
42:54
championship. Like it's like me and we'll go
42:57
golfing and I don't know how handicaps worse works if it's up
43:02
or down, but I'm like 5 strokes worse than him and I barely beat
43:05
him by like 1 stroke really losing by 4:00 and then be like,
43:09
oh, get wrecked. And it's like, I mean, yeah,
43:14
because you told us beforehand that you sucked more than me.
43:17
Like, yeah, you won. But like I did win.
43:21
I don't know. I just off to sort that out in
43:24
my mind later on. I have, I have Lamar Jackson
43:30
just 'cause I had him at the Offensive Player of the Year,
43:33
and to me, Offensive Player of the Year and MVP are the same
43:38
thing. They mean the same thing.
43:41
It's pointless, arbitrary semantics and everything else is
43:45
just money, baby. But I got Lamar Jackson won in
43:48
it. You're not wrong.
43:50
You're not. You're not.
43:53
Unless a defensive player just just like, crashes out in the
43:57
best possible way and then wins it, then I'm like, all right,
43:59
yeah, you were. Yeah, you're also the MVP.
44:04
Well, to everybody's surprise here, Lincoln picked Patrick
44:06
Mahomes, his MVP. Whoa.
44:11
Who would have thought, right? But to make it interesting, he
44:15
did pick a backup choice, which was Dak Prescott.
44:20
Is that a? Is that a snide little remark?
44:23
Is that a? I can't tell if that's some sort
44:26
of little jab. That's who he picked.
44:30
Still can't tell if that's a jab or not.
44:33
That's who he picked. That's all I have to go off of
44:37
is his his text that he sent me with his picks for each award
44:40
and it just said backup choice Dak Prescott.
44:42
That'd be like me saying my backup choice for MVP was Travis
44:47
Kelsey. It's like, I mean, he's a good
44:49
player, but like, I can't tell if that's like, are you taking a
44:51
shot of me anyway, yeah. All right, so for this for this
44:59
last section here of our show, do do either of you guys want to
45:03
want to introduce this to everybody or do you guys want me
45:05
to? I would like to.
45:07
OK, Avery, go for it. For as long as I've known these
45:12
two, they have been Cowboys fans.
45:14
It's for Joel since I would assume 2nd grade or for as long
45:18
as he's known about football because he comes from the land
45:21
down under and Will was born into the fandom.
45:25
His whole family is Cowboys fans and they've been Cowboys fans
45:28
for as long as I've known them or around that.
45:32
Like second grade. I never had a NFL team that I
45:36
was super passionate about or really cared for.
45:40
We all grew up in Oregon. Seahawks were kind of the main
45:42
thing was a bunch of 49ers fans as well.
45:45
But recently, and this has been a long build up, Joel and will
45:53
have become disillusioned with the Cowboys to no one's
45:59
surprise, especially Cowboy other Cowboys fans.
46:02
This is probably a long time overdue.
46:06
But we've discussed this and with my situation and their
46:12
precarious situation, we have decided this season to search
46:18
for new teams. I'll turn it over to Joel.
46:25
Yeah, I, I mean it, it we're, you know, Will and I have been
46:29
Cowboys fans since what, we were seven.
46:33
I mean, Will's longer than me, but since I was 7.
46:36
Then was a Cowboys fan. That's how far my my my fandom
46:42
goes back. Yeah, so, I mean, we've been
46:45
Cowboys fans for what, that 25 plus years now and, you know,
46:49
just, you know, not making the NFC championship game for 30
46:54
years, you know, having the just continuous stupid moves and
46:59
stupid quotes by Jerry Jones. The, you know, this move to
47:03
trade Micah Parsons a, an all pro.
47:07
What's the word? I'm looking for an all pro
47:09
generational talent who's a future Hall of Famer.
47:12
He decides to trade Micah Parsons.
47:15
And Will and I just decided that we're done.
47:19
And you know, we just, we don't, we can't take it anymore.
47:23
We can't take it anymore, Jerry. We're out.
47:26
This was the last straw. Jerry.
47:27
We are out AS2 very recent former Dallas Cowboys fans.
47:33
We are reaching out to all Cowboys fans everywhere.
47:36
Please join us in our quest to find a new NFL team.
47:40
Please join us because we're done.
47:42
And I, we know you guys are too. We know you guys are too.
47:45
Please join us as we search for a new team this year.
47:49
We would love for you guys to join us.
47:50
And you know, Avery mentioned that he has never had a team,
47:53
which is true. He's never had a team as long as
47:55
we've known him. But you know, Avery saw how
47:58
serious that Will and I were about finding a new team.
48:00
And he's, he said if you guys are serious about leaving the
48:03
Cowboys, I'm serious about finding A-Team for the first
48:05
time. And so.
48:08
I do want to say that I did make sure I was clear.
48:10
I said, look, if this is some sort of, you know, side piece
48:16
search to find someone to tide you over until the Cowboys start
48:21
doing bigger things, then I'm I'm not in.
48:25
But if this is a divorce, like you guys are done, You trade in
48:29
your Cowboys gears, You renounce, denounce your fandom
48:34
and announce a new fandom. He's got a cowboy's hat is gone.
48:39
The cowboy's hat is gone. Cowboy's hat is gone.
48:42
I didn't. Notice that?
48:43
I didn't notice that until right now.
48:45
If we're if we're talking about finding new teams, real teams to
48:51
to be like a full on fan of, then I'm in and they agreed so.
48:58
Couple things here, I'm not looking for a new team just
49:02
because the Cowboys are bad. OK, not making NC championship
49:06
in 30 years, guess what I can put up with that.
49:08
K Browns fans or still Browns fans, but the Browns think that
49:13
they are actively making the right choices to make their
49:16
future better. OK, there is no possible way
49:20
that Jerry and his dementia as senile mind can think that
49:26
trading Dak Prescott for two mid to late first round picks or
49:31
excuse me, Michael Parsons, my bad, my bad for for two mid to
49:34
late first round picks is going to better the team to win a
49:37
championship. Everybody starts the season with
49:39
the same goal. We want to win a Super Bowl.
49:43
You just actively chose to not do that this year.
49:46
Not that they were going to do it this year anyway.
49:48
I'm not I was never an unreasonable Cowboys fan.
49:51
I've been very realistic about that team for my entire life.
49:54
And I think that the the dating all the way back to the
49:58
$90,000,000 Zeke contract, paying him way too much money
50:01
for not enough production and the DAT contract, and then
50:04
actually throwing away good receivers.
50:07
Dez, Amari, Cooper, every other secondary receiver you've had,
50:12
Terrence Williams most recently. Letting all of these players
50:16
just walk away from your team, not signing Derrick Henry when
50:19
the entire world thought you were going to because, oh, he
50:22
would have been a good for for our team anyway.
50:25
Dude, stop or keep going there. I don't care.
50:29
Let me make fun of you. Everybody else in the world.
50:32
I don't have to answer to it anymore.
50:34
There is just so much and this, if you're going through this and
50:38
I'm I'm making not every situation, I'm sorry, but it
50:41
truly feels a bit like spousal abuse because I don't have that
50:45
in my life. I don't know what it's actually
50:47
like. So if you're actually going
50:48
through that and I'm making not every scenario, sorry, but I
50:51
have been fully married. As Avery said, it's got to be a
50:53
divorce. I have been fully married to the
50:56
Dallas Cowboys my entire life, my entire existence.
51:01
I have, I mean, I grew up, grew up watching the Cowboys.
51:05
It was all I love the Cowboys. I hate the rest of the NFC East,
51:09
the Eagles, the Giants at the time, the Redskins, then the
51:12
football team, now the Commanders.
51:13
I hate those guys just because they're in the NFC East now.
51:18
Whatever, let's go team, let's go, let's go NFL.
51:24
So we are taking this year to freelance and we're going to
51:27
pick based off of I think we all have different criteria we're
51:30
going off of. I don't think on purpose at
51:33
least we're all going to end up in the same at the same team.
51:37
This may be at the start of the 2026 season.
51:39
This may be all of us rooting for different teams.
51:43
It may be two of us are on the same team by chance.
51:45
We are obviously when you continue to discuss this week
51:48
after week, I think in the last couple minutes we had, we all
51:53
should say some of the teams we've already eliminated if we
51:55
want to do that or if we want to save that for another week
51:58
because I know we've all already eliminated some teams.
52:01
Yeah, I think, I think just for time restraint, let's just go
52:03
ahead and save it for, for for future episode.
52:07
But throughout the season, we're going to be periodically going
52:10
over this, let you guys know where we're at with our teams
52:14
and, you know, let you know which teams were eliminating as
52:18
our potential new team heading into the 2026 season.
52:21
So we're taking this year to figure out which team we want to
52:25
root for. And then in 2026, that's the
52:28
team that we're going to start rooting for.
52:29
And you know, I already said it once.
52:31
I'm going to say it again, Jerry, we're done.
52:34
You don't trade generational future Hall of Fame pass
52:37
rushers. I don't care how much you have
52:39
to pay the guy. You don't trade generational
52:42
pass rushers for anything. And so this, this was the last
52:47
straw. Jerry, we're done.
52:49
We're finding a new team. And again, to all the Cowboys
52:51
fans out there, please join us on our journey as we try to find
52:55
a new NFL team to root for. That's our final.
53:00
Thing here final thing here when we are in Vegas for the Raiders
53:04
Jaguars game, I will be wearing a excuse me, a Dallas Cowboys
53:10
Amari Cooper jersey, but it's for Amari Cooper, it's not for
53:13
the Cowboys. I just.
53:16
I just put put duct tape over the Cowboys.
53:19
Raiders of it just like just. Just Cooper.
53:22
Just Cooper. Just print out some, print out
53:25
some Raiders logos on printer paper and just tape.
53:27
It I'm not opposed to it. With some with some black duct
53:32
tape or something, you know? Yeah, are.
53:34
We good. Anyway.
53:37
All right, so if any of our listeners have any specific
53:41
reasons as to why we should join your team, we would love to hear
53:44
it. We'll read it on the show.
53:46
So send it to us on Instagram, Facebook X YouTube, whatever
53:51
social media channel you want. We also have an e-mail which is
53:54
3 guys, 6 balls, nflpodcast@gmail.com so you can
53:58
e-mail us and let us know why we should join your team in 2026.
54:06
All right, So, yeah, so that's all we have time for on the show
54:09
today. It's, you know, it's the
54:11
beginning of the season this week.
54:13
So I'm very, I'm looking forward to rooting against the Cowboys
54:17
on Thursday. This would be the first time
54:20
that if we're rooting against the Cowboys.
54:22
And so I am excited for it. Although we do have Dak Prescott
54:25
as our fantasy quarterback, It's like I'm rooting for Dak
54:27
Prescott. I'm not rooting for the Cowboys.
54:29
You, everybody, this is the last thing I'll say.
54:32
Everybody ever. If you want to be successful at
54:36
fantasy football, you have to separate your fandom versus your
54:39
fantasy team, and that is across the board, OK, That that I, as a
54:44
Cowboys fan wanting to get Victor Cruz on my team because
54:48
he scored a lot of touchdowns. I hated the Giants.
54:51
OK, so just because we have that Prescott doesn't mean anything.
54:55
We're separating the fandom from the fantasy team because you
54:58
want to win, although that's not a good matchup.
55:04
All right. So I think next week, it won't
55:06
be the whole show, but I think next week we'll go over the
55:08
teams that we've already eliminated.
55:10
And so we'll kind of we'll start there and then throughout the
55:12
season we'll kind of we'll work our way towards picking that
55:16
team. So next week we'll go over the
55:17
teams that are already out and probably some other topics that
55:21
are undecided yet just based off of what happens in this first
55:24
week of the season. Also, just something to note, we
55:26
are changing our recording day. So the day that our podcast
55:29
episodes release will change just so everybody knows that.
55:33
But yeah, that's all we have time for on today's episode.
55:36
And as always, don't forget to keep your balls played with.
55:39
We'll see you next time. Bye now y'all.
55:42
Also, Mark Davis and Sarah Kyle still sucks.