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Good morning ladies and gentlemen.
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You're watching the final time out military broadcast radio.
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I'm your host HG back for another week, Week one of the
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NFL pre season in the books. We got the MLB wild card and
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WNBA playoff races are both heating up.
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College football is almost back. Stay tuned.
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I'm going to do some power rankings for the conferences.
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Later in the show, we got the first look at the AP Top 25
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pool. We'll take a look at that.
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I've got more mock drafts coming your way and time permitting, we
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may even take another stab at that 82 and no challenge.
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So jam packed show today and let's just jump right into it.
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Though, Yeah, and, and we're doing pretty good.
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We didn't even do sound check. Yeah.
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I I was doing the sound check while having a conversation with
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you. So all right, the NFL preseason
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we got position battles and practice fights.
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We had our first full week in the NFL pre season football,
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giving us our first look at some of the rookie exciting rookies,
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new additions and players fighting for roster spot.
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My Broncos actually opened with a pretty impressive 27 to 7
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victory over the Atlanta Falcons for a good I mean, we had a good
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chunk of our starters playing except Bo.
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Yeah, Bo Jalen Waddle, who's dealing with an injury, JK
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Dobbins. I mean, it was basically the
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starting offense, but like, with minus a few guys.
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Jared Stidham looked pretty impressive.
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He threw for 131. Cortland Sutton had 60 receiving
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yards and an absolutely insane, sick one handed catch.
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I'm surprised that there was no flag thrown.
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Oh. Shit.
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Oh shit. Oh hey everybody, welcome to the
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stage. Caveman has entered the
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building. Whoa.
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If there's yeah, Cortland sun, like I was saying, sick one
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handed catch. If you haven't seen it, go look
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it up. It's all over social media.
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Yeah, the Broncos with their starting unit and a lot of their
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second team really just controlled the game.
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You know, look, nobody's don't crown anybody's super champ,
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Super Bowl champions because of our pre season.
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Yeah, don't start polishing that Lombardi yet.
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But that was just, it was really refreshing to see.
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I got against like a team that should in theory be inferior
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competition for the Broncos, for you to really be in control with
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your starting unit out there. Good thing to see.
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And you saw a lot. We saw a lot of great things for
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the coaches, evaluating execution players.
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The players know their assignments, protect the
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football, communicate and contribute on special teams.
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That was the important stuff that we were looking for.
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AJ, how strong is our, how strong is our schedule this year
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because I know last year it was somewhat kind of a week, right?
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It wasn't the weakest schedule. I mean we were still playing.
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AI was a third place schedule that I think because they come
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in 3rd, but we're definitely we have a tougher schedule this
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year. It's a first place schedule.
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Oh. Yeah, because we almost made it
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to the Super Bowl. Yeah, our first eight weeks, I
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think we play six playoff teams here.
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I got it right here. So the Chiefs, obviously they're
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not. We're on the playoff team last
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year. But you imagine Mahomes will be
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healthy? That game is going to be in
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Arrowhead. That's always a tough one.
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Then we have the Jaguars, Rams, 49ers, Chargers, Seahawks, get a
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bit of a break. And then I mean, even the
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Panthers were a playoff team. But our first six weeks of the
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season are incredibly difficult. It does ease up in the middle
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and then it's actually a pretty difficult finish to the year.
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We have Rd. game against the Raiders.
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Those division games can always be sketchy.
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Who knows, You know, like the Raiders could be fine in their
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stride late in the season too, so they could be tough.
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Then we've got the Bills on Christmas, we got to go to
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Foxborough to play the Patriots and we will end it off at home
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against the Chargers. But it's a pretty, the start of
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our year is a pretty brutal stretch and then the last 3-4
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games are pretty tough. But I I'll say the middle of the
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season, they're all very winnable games where we could
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pick up some steam and maybe put a little win streak together
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before we go into our the tough to offer part of our schedule.
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So see you some other news that we got going on.
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We had I mean we've got some altercations going on in these
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training camps. I don't know what's been going
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on at cheese camp, but they're they're just fighting each other
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and you're seeing guys like just lay out their teammates and
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practice. It's so I'm, I'm not sure what's
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going on in Kansas City. Maybe there's something on the
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wall there. But the Chiefs have been going
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hard. Dallas and New Orleans had
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multiple altercations yesterday, including a huge brawl that
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really derailed practice. You had Cleveland had to end the
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practice early because of excessive fighting.
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So football's an emotional, physical sport, but you know,
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you got to have toughness, but toughness also really, you know,
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is remaining disciplined when you're provoked.
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All right, then a little question for the viewers.
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How seriously should fans be taking pre season results?
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And then should the NFL punish serious practice fights like
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regular season fights? My 2 cents on that pre season
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results for do they do matter in the sense that you can kind of
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get a good gauge on, you know, how the offensive line look, you
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know how the coaching and play calling was?
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Because even when you get to like the the third and fourth
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string guys, you know, there's still play calling and coaching
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can still be a big factor. And then yeah, I mean, you see
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the guys that really that that stand out and really put out
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some good film. Those are guys that you want to,
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but I think you should just keep an eye on and keep keep in the
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back of your mind when you're when evaluating talent who might
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be a factor for your team, the practice fights.
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I think that I don't know if the NFL needs to necessarily get
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involved with that. That should be at the discretion
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of the teams because those joint practices are optional, but they
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do. That's just something that they
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do a lot and they they happen all the time.
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But that's not like they're derailing a gamer game or
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anything. So our takeaways, though, from
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the the preseason, not about undefeated records, about
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identifying which players coaches can be trusted when,
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when injuries occur, when things aren't going your way and just
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how how teams look in cohesively as a unit and body language on
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the sidelines. Another important thing, you
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know, even when got starters aren't playing, how are they
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responding to the backups performing out there?
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I think of a real good sign of a healthy team that has a good
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locker room and a lot of chemistry is when you see a lot
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of excitement from the first string guys watching players
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stand out, you know, watching these backups stand out and make
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some good big plays to to potentially secure their spot.
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And the fun in the preseason games is, you know, you have a
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lot of guys they're are they going to become a millionaire or
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are they going to be updating their LinkedIn?
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That's what a lot of these guys are fighting for and these these
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first few weeks. All right, I'll jump through
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some pre season scores too and give you guys some takeaways
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from some of those games. We had Lions and the Bengals in
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a 16 to 14 kind of stalemate. My big take away from that, the
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offensive line for the Bengals didn't look too great still.
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So we'll see about Joe Burrows. Health is a big concern for me.
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We have the Steelers kind of dominated the Packers.
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Interesting quarterback battle between all three guys cuz I
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mean, you have Drew Aller, Mason Rudolph and Will Howard all
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played really well. I mean, they help between the
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three of them, they only had six incompletions.
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They all three threw for combined 313 yards, 3 total
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touchdowns. Aller picked one up on the
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ground. So I mean, it'll be interesting
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cuz I like Rodgers is still going to be the starting
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quarterback. Seems like that's the strategy.
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It's like what, which one of these guys is not going to be on
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the roster Because I just doubt that you keep all three of them.
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That'll be very interesting take away there.
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Some of the Friday games, Anthony Richardson got off to a
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rough start, but he actually put together a pretty nice game when
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11/14 1:45 and a touchdown in the 13.
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The 13 draw with the Patriots. Cardinals picked up a 27 to 14
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win over the Raiders. A lot of takeaways from this
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game. No Carson back dealing with a
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rib injury, but Gardner Minshew looked really good too.
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So Jacoby Versette we came in was 5 for five in his limited
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reps Kirk Cousins was 5 to 6. Each of those guys threw for a
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touchdown with a an opening Dr. touchdown.
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Fernando Mendoza, he looked pretty sharp in this 10 to 1697
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and a touchdown I really love. He was just threading the
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needle, finding some tight windows there. 2 rookie running
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backs Jeremiah Love and Mike Washington both looked really
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impressive and some limited touches.
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And this one, Chargers got a pretty emphatic 27 to seven win
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over the Texans. Yeah, Davis Mills not looking
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too sharp that was and then Graham Mertz ended up getting
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injured in this one. We saw our first look at that DJ
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Ugly Ungolai in the NFL wasn't bad.
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Wasn't wasn't bad. I'll say that then Titans 49ers
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on another game on Friday. Dejean Stribling thought he was
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a big reach of the draft, but I could I might I'm I think I
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might be wrong about that. He looked, he looked really
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good. One of the best rookie wide
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receiver performances of the weekend.
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Some of our Friday action Quarterback Jalen, Yeah, you
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heard that right, Jalen, not Jaden.
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Jalen Daniels of the Buccaneers looked very sharp, 10 to 15111
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yards. He might be making the roster
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spot. I expect Braylon Allen, I've you
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know, he have 4 carries, 44 yards of a touchdown in this
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one. Expect him to be a health in a
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healthy part of this Jets offense this year.
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Bills played their first game in the new stadium.
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Josh Allen with pretty shot doing some vintage Josh Allen
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things. DJ Moore looked good in the
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Bills uniform. Highmark Stadium apparently is
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constricting or obscuring some views for people, so that'll be
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an interesting thing to keep an eye on throughout the season.
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The Browns have a three-way quarterback battle of absolute
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booty going on and they're and they're building.
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No, no one looked all too impressive out of Shadour,
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Deshaun Watson, and Dylan Gabriel.
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Everyone turned the ball over. Fumble from Deshaun,
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interceptions from Shadour and Gabriel.
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Nothing, nothing too good out of that quarterback room.
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No touchdowns from any of them. Casey Conception, though, didn't
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do a whole lot in the the passing game.
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HE3 catches 27 yards. He looked quick though.
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How have a rushing touchdown got involved a little bit in the
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return game and he looked pretty impressive there.
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Might have housed one if he didn't trip over his own feet.
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So that guy's going to be that guy's going to be pretty fun to
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to watch. I think he's also we'll, we'll
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talk about this when we get the mock drafts, but fantasy wise,
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the price tag that you can get them for cuz he's going super
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late is a pretty good price tag. And then Case Keenan didn't even
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know this guy was still in the league, but.
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He was. I know, I saw that.
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Playing for the Bears, look sharp tossing 2 tuds out there
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for them. Yeah, Jackson Dart on the
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Vikings game went to the blue medical tent, so that's got to
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be a little bit of A cause for concern for Giants fans.
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He got absolutely lit up, but Scathaboo back in action looked
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pretty good. We had Ty, Joe, Montana, Simpson
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get his first debut for the Rams.
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I know I might be overreacting a little bit, but man, he was
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sharp in this one. He.
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Had was being called the biggest reach of the draft.
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And yeah, it's one preseason game.
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We won't we won't say anything. But I, I liked what I saw.
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I mean, he was just in rhythm the whole game, 21 to 25, 192
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touchdowns. I mean, if the Rams keep their
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offensive line pretty consistent when he's there, that he was
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good at Alabama when the pockets were relatively clean and
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everything was on schedule. But he doesn't do great against
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unrelenting pressure. So that'll be something we will
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see from him as if he can develop and and just be better
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about processing the defense with pressure in his face.
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The man, I don't know if came in, you might have seen this the
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the Jags and Saints game, some really tough.
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It was a tough game for the production team.
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The first quarter, maybe in the first half, the white balance
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was just all out of whack. That was on the Saints
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broadcast. I mean, it was like the Jazz
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were wearing white uniforms just singe in your eyelids.
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And then you had on the flip side on the Jags broadcast,
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there was the white balance was like too Gray.
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So like everything was all dull and the colors were all all
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stunted. We got AI mean quarterback
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battle going on in New Orleans, not for the starting job, but
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for the backup. And I got to say Zach Wilson, he
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might be taking that from Spencer Rattler.
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He looked really good in this one we saw.
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I liked what I saw out of Audrick Estimate as well.
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Good, Some good things from both teams really.
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Joey Aguilar, Joey Jaguar. Prudential nickname there.
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I doubt we'll see he'll see the field too much.
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But threw a 43 yard pass. Then the Jags were really
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feeding this. Jamari Taylor.
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He had 22 carriers in this one. I mean well, I'm taken away from
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this game. Liam Cohen wants to run the
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football a lot 36 rush attempts and this one he was really
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seeing what he had out of a lot of his running backs.
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Then just some final notes. Guy I honestly never heard of
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for the Ravens Joe for now for new 22 of 28224 touchdown did
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throw in the reception as well, but looking like he might be the
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the third guy. We'll see if the Tyler Hunley
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Pro Bowl quarterback very well established, but for no might
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have threw got himself onto an NFL roster.
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And then Cole Payton, you know, not the most impressive passing
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numbers, but the dual threat ability.
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He's man, he's such a he's still just such a fascinating project
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to me because he had 45 rushing yards on three carries.
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So I don't know. We'll be interested to see what
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Sean with the new Eagles offensive coordinator Sean
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something blanket on his last name does with him.
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But he's just got such great rushing ability.
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He's very versatile. Yeah.
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I mean, he could be kind of like a Tasem Hill type for them if
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they get creative with them. So.
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So something to keep an eye on there.
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Hi, let's going to do it for our NFL pre season recap.
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We're going to move the baseball after the break where we have a
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spectacular Tuesday produced some spectacular defense and
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historic offense and a 19 run blowout.
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So stay tuned for that. All that more coming up on the
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final TIME out here in the military broadcast.
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The station Welcome back ladies and
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gentlemen to the final time out, the military broadcast radio.
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Just going over some of rock action for pre season.
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Now we're going to get into some baseball.
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Wild card races are heating up. We had an action-packed night.
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Last night's really good game. It's almost that time time of
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the year still, still a good chunk of the regular season
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left. We got a round out August and
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then we we go through a good chunk of September too.
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But it's, it's starting to get down to it.
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You know, we're starting to see who's pulling away and who's
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who's teetering off. So what what do we have
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happening? Last night we had T this Tatis
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take over. The Cubs got a walk off and
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Milwaukee scored nineteen runs, 22 actually.
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So we'll start with Fernando Tatis because he had one of the
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best all around performances this season.
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Robbed the Mets of a Grand Slam and hit two home runs as Padres
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won five to two. So, you know, preventing four
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runs while adding two more with his bat.
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That's just, I mean, insane value from him right there.
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And what do you guys think? What was more valuable was
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robbing the Grand Slam or hitting the two home runs?
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I mean, hitting the two home runs, it's hard to get one home
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run in the game, so I'm hitting two.
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Incredibly impressive, but I think the overall more impactful
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thing was preventing 4 homers from or four runs from coming
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in. Let me know what you guys think.
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Home runs or the robbing the Grand Slam.
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What's more impressive, Cubs earning another walk off victory
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over the White Sox. Pete Crow Armstrong hit his 31st
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home run and then Alex Bergman delivered the walk off.
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And then not too long ago, PCA also had a a walk off home run.
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I think it was two nights ago or might have been last night.
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So they've been they've been kind of living on those late
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game heroics the the Cubs have. I think in fact, there was
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actually just the might have also been against the White Sox.
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Yeah, yeah, it was the and the 10th inning.
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He got his first career walking off PCA didn't.
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Then literally the next night they get another walk off to
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take down the White Sox. Man, really.
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Cubs have been one of the hotter teams in baseball, though didn't
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come out of a sort of disappointing series against the
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Cardinals, But they're they're they're really right on
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Milwaukee's tail in terms of the the division race.
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They're not just four games back.
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So the Brewers cannot afford to to let off the gas and not let
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off the gas they did. Milwaukee just embarrassed the
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Mariners 22 to nothing. And what's crazy about this game
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is it was it was close for a for a little bit.
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I mean, it was a 1 nothing ball game heading into the bottom of
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the fifth inning. And then Milwaukee added five
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home runs. And then in the sixth they added
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five home runs. Then they added two more in the
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seventh and then nine in the eighth.
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And we didn't even get to the bottom of the ninth because
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Seattle didn't score 22 runs and they didn't score any runs.
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This is a, yeah, complete, complete meltdown out of the
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mayor. And there's, I mean, really the
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cherry on top of the night was Julio Rodriguez catching a pop
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fly, losing track of the outs and just throwing the ball into
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the stands. Thinking about that.
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He caught the final out and letting, yeah, you got one guy
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the the batter out, but the guys on base all came home and they
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gave. They can see the two runs that
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way. So if you're the Brewers, you
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love to see that out of your bats.
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I mean, they had a you forced the team that wanted to conserve
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their bullpen. So they have a position player
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come in and pitch and pitch in the ninth with a pitch in the
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eighth. I was was Rivas.
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And yeah, unsurprisingly, he did not do too hot with a 7 ERA,
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nine hits, nine runs, one one bother walks, no strikeouts,
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gave up a home run. So, I mean, I'll say to the
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Mariners, Bolt pitcher pitcher's credits.
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They only gave up four home runs.
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So, you know, and the game where you give up 22, it's not like
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all on the pitching. I mean, it's just some yeah, the
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infield outfit or the defense wasn't the wasn't the best on
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both the infield and the outfield.
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So dominant victory there. Yeah.
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You had Kristen Yulich head in the three run Homer.
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David Hamilton homered Jake Bowers out of the two run shot
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and just got too much to be for the for the Mariners.
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So it's one of those games that makes you think like, does
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baseball need a mercy rule? Well, I say Nah, maybe you could
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ask like, OK, you hit like 12, nothing, 15, nothing.
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Should you maybe the winning team stop playing aggressive.
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But it's a professional sport. You, these guys are getting
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paid. Everyone's getting paid.
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So you don't want them to score more runs.
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You got to stop them. Now we're entering the the
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stretch run stop. I mean, we're going to really
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see the teams that have bullpen depth, they're playing good
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defense and the players health is looking good.
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Those are our teams that we, you know, if you're better, you want
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to be putting your money on as we head to the words of playoffs
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and who's going to go on the potential deep run.
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Yeah, stars create the highlights, but the the post
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season races are often decided by middle relievers, defensive
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replacements and the hitting near the bottom of the lineup.
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Speaking of the wild card and division races, let's take a
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look at where we stand on some of those.
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The Red Sox cooled off a little bit.
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They're four and six in their last 10 after that huge winning
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streak that they went on. In terms of the wild card,
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though, they're still firmly in it.
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I mean, they're only two games behind the Yankees, the Rays
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with A5 game lead for the first place in their division.
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So I would still I'm I'm leaning towards Tampa Bay taking the
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East. I do think we're probably going
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to see probably both the Yankees and the Red Sox take two of
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those wild card spots and then it'll be between, you know, it's
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going to be between teams like the Twins, the the Guardians,
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the Rangers, Seattle's got an outside shot.
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I would probably say the Twins get that final wild card spot.
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I mean, the White Sox only have a three-game lead, 4 game lead
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over them. So maybe Minnesota gets hot and
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Chicago kind of hits a wall and they they drop into the wild
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card there. I didn't think the White Sox
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close it out and the absolute putrid AL West.
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And right now you have the yeah, they don't have a single team
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over 500. I'm not even like whoever wins
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this, I think it'll be it'll be one of their Texas teams.
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I mean, I give me the the Astros.
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I think they just are have a little more depth pitching wise
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some and some stronger, just stronger bats overall.
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But I don't you know, anything can happen in the the Pennant
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chase, but I just don't think we're seeing a team from the AL
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West go very deep. Maybe they win like they're they
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beat their wild card. But give me the Astros come out
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of the AL West at this moment, division winners, Astros, White
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Sox, Rays, we're going to have probably the the Yankees.
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Oh yeah, give me the Red Sox. Give me the Red Sox is your
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first wild card Yankees. And then the Twins.
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Give me the Twins. That'll be as of this way.
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That's rather the AL, the AL wild card or playoff predictions
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going over to the National League to see who we get.
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Look at first at the East. Atlanta holding the Braves off
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for now. Philly only 5 1/2 games back.
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Atlanta's been not as dominant as they were to start the year.
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Their outfield defenses looked very shaky at times.
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Just our defence, general overall, I will say those to
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their credit, when their bats are flying, they are one.
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I'm hitting up there, you know, full power.
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They are one of the toughest teams to beat.
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They do still have a really good bullpen.
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Chris Sale is still one of the best in the business.
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They made some of the trades to dress those outfield deeds.
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So I do think that they'll be able to close it out and win the
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East. Looking at the the Central in
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both the Cubs and Brewers pretty good in their last 10 games.
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They're both six and four. They're they're both looking
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really strong here. I think Milwaukee's just got a
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little more depth to close it out and win this.
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It's going to be really close. It is going to be this, I think
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will be the closest division race of the entire final stretch
34:22
here. So keep this is the long keeping
34:24
the closest eye on. It wouldn't entirely shock me
34:29
with all the momentum Chicago's got if they were able to take
34:33
out for Milwaukee, but it's been more of a late surge from them.
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So I just wonder, will it will they cool off?
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Will you know, that'll be kind of kind of keep this going.
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I I like Milwaukee. I think it's just a deeper team.
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It was why they're they've been able to stay and be so good for
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all all season. This is going to be a really
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close race. I think Saint Louis at 65 and
34:59
62, they're they're out of probably winning the division.
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So they're they're looking at a wild card spot here, their best
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chance. I mean, they need either the
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Padres to really drop a lot of games.
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Same with either the Phillies. But I think it's the them and
35:18
the Diamondbacks are going to be really competing heavy for that
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last spot, which kind of brings me down to the AL West here.
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The Dodgers have 8 game lead. I just don't think anybody's
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good enough to catch them. They'll probably, they're going
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to win the West. I would imagine Padres will and
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Phillies, I think will really be battling for.
35:47
I mean, we'll probably be that second wild card spot.
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Whoever doesn't make it out of the Central is going to is going
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to probably have that first wild card spot.
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They're going to have the best record there.
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The drop National League predictions I'll take.
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I'll take the Braves out of the East.
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Proceeding, we'll go Brewers one, Dodgers 2, Braves three.
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Cubs are going to be 4, giving the Phillies as the five and
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Padres probably the Padres as the six.
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Actually, I don't know if they have Diamondbacks or Cardinals
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can make it. That'll be close.
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That's going to be really close between all three of those
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teams. Let me know what you guys think.
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Who's who's going to come out of these, these wild card and
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division races. What you're sitting on the the
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post season's going to look like we're going to go ahead and hit
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our next break coming up after that, we've got the WNBA playoff
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field taking shape. I'm Kelsey Mitchell just
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delivered another dominant performance and we've just seen
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we're seeing some real hooping going on here.
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So stay tuned. We got all that more coming up
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MV Radio dot US. We're back at it the final time
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out on military broadcast radio. It's a good time today, folks,
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having a good time enjoying the show.
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Hope everyone's enjoying the show.
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Just going to jump into it, get right into a WNBA playoff race.
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Minnesota, Las Vegas and now Golden State have officially
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secured playoff berths. Minnesota's just been the
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league's most consistent team with a breakout rookie star in
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Olivia Miles Las Vegas. They possess that championship
41:38
experience and they have the best player in the world and
41:43
Asia Wilson and Golden State reaching the playoffs in just
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their second season. It's a young, hungry roster.
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They play absolutely smothering defense.
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They've been hands down the best defensive unit in the team.
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They live by the mantra no easy buckets.
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We have Indiana last night defeated Toronto one O 2 the 95
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and approve the 12 and 4. They're close to securing a
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playoff spot as well. Kelsey Mitchell scored 16 points
42:17
in the first quarter and finished with 29 despite sitting
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out the entire 4th. Mitchell and Caitlin Clark
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really have become one of the most exciting backcourt duos to
42:29
watch in the whole WNBA. They kind of been a closer
42:34
record setting backcourt combination.
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They just create a very difficult choice for opposing
42:40
defenses. Caitlin just with her elite
42:45
shooting abilities and it's so lethal out from three and I mean
42:50
Kelsey Mitchell can also knock down threes and then she is just
42:53
such, she's so good at scoring under the rim, though to just
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have to leave one guard one-on-one because the other
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receives space or if you send additional house to one guard,
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the other receives space. I mean, they just a lot of a lot
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of conundrums there. Question for everyone in the
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calendar while we go over a couple more things on the WNBA
43:18
side. Which team is you trust most
43:21
most in a playoff series? You've got Minnesota's
43:23
consistency. Las Vegas is experience
43:28
Indiana's explosive back court. And I've talking about explosive
43:32
back court. Do is throw it and let the
43:33
landed dream in there as well. Or Golden State's fearless young
43:39
roster and smothering defense. Now Speaking of the Dream and an
43:46
exciting back court duos. This was a fantastic game that I
43:49
wanted to flashback to you. One that went to overtime
43:53
between the Dream and the Fever. And it was just, you know, great
43:59
guard play all on display whether you had the other.
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Caitlin had scored 26 points with 9 cysts.
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One thing she's got to work, she's got to get them turnover
44:13
numbers down. That will be, that's my biggest
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concern with the Fever is Caitlin is a phenomenal
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playmaker. She's a phenomenal playmaker,
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but the turnovers have really been a problem this season.
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That's something that can really kill your momentum in the
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postseason. But it's 26 points, 9 assists,
44:37
really good. You had Kelsey Mitchell, she
44:39
scored 20 in this one. This game though, we're talking
44:43
about the explosive backwards, but you can't forget about the
44:46
woman that carried the Fever to the semi finals last year
44:51
despite all their injuries. Aaliyah Boston, just showing why
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she was the number one pick all those years ago.
44:57
She had 18 points, 14 rebounds, 4 assists, but it was her
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defensive impact, 5 steals and three blocked shots.
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I mean, that is 8 possessions that she stopped on her own.
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That's in I mean, insane defensive impact and most of her
45:20
rebounds were defensive rebounds as well.
45:22
So just cannot be understated that defensive impact there.
45:28
But I talked about the the explosive front court or
45:32
backward duel of the fever toward Canada was actually sick
45:37
did not play in this game. And Despite that, you know,
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that's why you have a Ryan Howard on roster.
45:43
Usually the runs the offense off the bench.
45:46
But she came in here delivered 17 points and 43 minutes had
45:51
five assists as well stealing the block.
45:54
Alicia Gray, the other part of that really explosive backcourt
45:59
duo of the Dream dropped 32 points was with 7 rebounds and
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five assists as well 32, seven and five game.
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Not too shabby. And I, we know, I know a lot of
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people like to come out here and she's not the best shooter.
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But Angel Reese, her impact for this team that really struggled
46:26
just having a presence in the post last year and getting
46:30
second chance points. Her rebounding ability has been
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huge for this team and there's a big reason why they will likely
46:40
be top. They could have a chance of
46:42
being a top four seed come playoff time.
46:46
But yeah, this is a fantastic back and forth game.
46:51
Just saw really great defense from Indiana, which is in the
46:55
late stages, which was a good sign if you're a Fever fan, that
46:58
that clutch defense was pretty good.
47:01
I held a held the Dream to 9 points and 10 points in the
47:06
fourth quarter and then overtime.
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So really impressive. Like to see that.
47:13
Taking a look at the standings, how the playoff race is shaping
47:17
up. The Fever did actually jump the
47:21
Aces and the standings just because they have one less loss,
47:25
but they have the wins are the same.
47:29
So I think Indiana will probably be the next team we see clinch a
47:34
playoff berth. See the next game coming up here
47:38
is going to be tomorrow night against the wings.
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That'll be the two former number one overall picks going up
47:47
against each other. Pagebackers who and year 2 has
47:52
really helped propel this Dallas wings team into a potential
47:57
playoff team here. It's, you know, starting
48:02
starting to pull away the the teams that aren't in the race
48:05
right now are really going to need to go and get hot and hope
48:09
that somebody hits losing streak.
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Currently the next closest team to the 8 spots of Portland Fire.
48:16
They're about five games out of the playoff contention.
48:19
Dallas and Washington both with twenty wins on the season.
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I wouldn't be too shocked if what we have right now, the one
48:30
through 8 holds up with maybe just some leapfrogging here or
48:33
there. I do think Vegas will probably
48:36
jump back up into the the three, potentially the two spot got to
48:40
get. I mean the warriors, the
48:42
Valkyries rather got to give them major credit with 25 and 9.
48:48
What they've done in this in year 2.
48:50
They're they've been really good.
48:53
It's I mean, they just give up. They're they're just so tough on
48:59
the defense. They just give up nothing easy.
49:02
It's not like an an overly explosive team.
49:04
I mean they're leading scorer per game is is Gabby Williams
49:08
with her 415 game. They just take their they take
49:14
their shots when they're there and they use their defense to
49:20
create offense and a lot of wins and they're lot, I mean, they've
49:25
only they've only really lost two games this month.
49:34
So they're going to be a problem.
49:37
I mean, they've got I think they just my only concern for them
49:41
is, you know, who's going to be the the primary ball handler and
49:46
who's going to who's going to run the offense and how their
49:51
how their half court offense is going to look in the playoffs.
49:53
But the way they play defense, it's a recipe to go deep.
50:00
I'll just see that the inexperience and sometimes the
50:07
the slowness and difficulties they have in the half court
50:10
might come back to bite them. But I could, you know, we'll see
50:13
if they get they get that locked in and and ironed out in the
50:19
coming coming weeks here. So yeah, who do we think is
50:25
going to surprise us and make the next clinch the next spot
50:29
and let me know, you know, who are we liking for NVPI?
50:34
Mean and Rookie of the year, Defensive Player of the year.
50:39
I think NVP is going to be, I think Asia's securing her 5th.
50:43
It's just Kelsey Mitchell's the only player I can see maybe with
50:49
a shot to to catch her, but she's not.
50:53
I don't think she really does enough in terms of of rebounding
50:58
and then the defensive impact that Asia also has witnessing.
51:05
I mean, probably maybe. I don't think we can make a case
51:08
she's the greatest player to to play the game.
51:10
I mean, she's looking at MVP #5 could potentially win DPO line
51:14
#4 potential for another championship.
51:18
This would be her 5th, 4th, 5th, Can't remember that she has
51:25
another season. I mean, at 30 years old, she
51:29
hasn't lost that step at all. She's averaging 2610 and three,
51:37
pulling in about, you know, 1 1/2 steals per game and blocking
51:43
about two shots per game. Just like, yeah, I don't know,
51:51
there's just really no one else that really has the overall
51:54
around impact that she does. And then Olivia Miles should
51:57
take one away with Rookie of the Year.
52:01
I mean, she has just immediately slid into that starting point
52:06
guard role for the links and they've been so much more
52:13
dominant for that because they just I mean, that was a lot of
52:16
pressure to put on her and like as a rookie to be the primary
52:20
ball handler to run the half court offense.
52:22
And she hasn't shield away at that at all.
52:25
She's very creative score. Some of their their bigs, you
52:31
know, Collier McBride, they just run that pick and roll with her
52:38
so well, not not McBride, but you know, they just run the pick
52:43
and roll with her so well. It's been that's why they've
52:47
been the best team and the West and why they'll probably be the
52:51
first team to hit thirty wins. They're nine and one in their
52:55
last 10 games, 19 and two in in conference, surprisingly even
53:02
better on the road, the best offense in the league, second
53:10
best behind the fever. But the fever have, you know,
53:12
like two of the most explosive scores and the NBA WNBA, they
53:17
have two of the top five scores per game.
53:23
So all right, going to do a little bit of a shorter coverage
53:28
there. Go ahead and hit our next break
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because when we come back, I've got slideshow for everybody
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after we're going to go over some upcoming college football
53:46
season. So stay with us.
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gentlemen. They didn't give me my theme
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A good show today and I got a little treat for everyone.
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I made a little slideshow just to help visualize this.
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We're doing some conference power rankings just to see what
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we've got coming up for this upcoming college football
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season. Let me adjust this just a little
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bit better so we can get everything all nice and in there
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perfect. All right, here we go.
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So some conference power rankings.
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I'm going to go ahead and rank from weakest to strongest
59:09
college football, FBS only college Football Conference.
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And then I'm going to give you not record predictions, but just
59:16
where I think the final standings are going to go.
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How many potential playoff or bowl game teams we've gone each
59:23
conference. So let's just get right into it.
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I'm going to go with the Mac at the bottom.
59:30
Look, don't get me wrong, I love a little bit of action on a
59:36
Tuesday night, Wednesday night, whatever it might be.
59:40
There's a lot of pride in these Mac schools here.
59:44
But overall, I just don't think they're going to impact the
59:49
overall playoff or bowl game landscape too much.
59:52
I expect Western Michigan to be the the best team in that
1:00:01
conference again. I wouldn't be surprised if
1:00:04
Toledo is good. They'll probably hit the bowl
1:00:08
game. Ohio University, they usually
1:00:12
have a solid program there. They had a they had a solid
1:00:19
recruiting class, got some decent transfers in there as
1:00:23
well. No one just really had that.
1:00:26
Like an incredibly explosive or ground breaking recruiting or
1:00:33
transfer class this year. So overall, I don't think we're
1:00:40
going to see too it's going to be it's going to be too
1:00:42
impactful. Some other teams.
1:00:46
You know, I I could wouldn't be surprised if Akron maybe sneaks
1:00:49
in. There is like a bowl game Subak,
1:00:51
like Miami of Ohio in there. Bowling Green is a team that I
1:00:57
wouldn't be surprised if they do better than I'm I'm projecting
1:01:01
them. I mean, 7th in the conference
1:01:03
isn't terrible, but they did have a really strong recruiting
1:01:07
class. They just didn't do a whole lot
1:01:08
with the transfer portal. One of the bottom teams in their
1:01:13
conference in terms of full transfer portal things don't
1:01:19
have a ton of faith in UMass. I I mean, you might be able to
1:01:21
flip flip them in Kent State. I feel like you should Michigan,
1:01:25
it's going to be down here. We've got Ball and SAC State,
1:01:31
newcomer to the FBS, SAC State, I think they'll do, they'll do
1:01:35
all right. But all of the new new coming
1:01:40
teams to the FBSI don't think they're going to their
1:01:43
transitions going to go as well. And we got Buffalo Bowling Green
1:01:49
in there. The Mac.
1:01:52
It's always fun to watch. You get some random Mac game on
1:01:56
the on like a Tuesday, Wednesday night, like it it.
1:02:00
There's some chaos, there's some drama there.
1:02:04
They're all the action's always a good time.
1:02:06
But I don't think we'll be seeing too many teams going
1:02:09
bowling this year. From there.
1:02:12
The next conference I got is the Conference USA.
1:02:20
Again, I don't really see a playoff team coming out of here,
1:02:24
but I wouldn't be surprised if there are a few teams that make
1:02:26
a bowl game. I have some of the kind of like
1:02:28
a fringe bowl game territory as well.
1:02:31
I do you think Jacksonville State's going to probably win
1:02:34
this? Again, Liberty really shot up.
1:02:38
They even received the vote to be in the the top 25, which I
1:02:41
thought was a little much. I mean, they have a very good
1:02:46
transfer portal. They got 29 total commits.
1:02:54
They had some had some SEC guys and like ACCI mean, there's some
1:02:59
power conference guys, you know, come over to them.
1:03:04
Jude Foster, linebacker from, I mean, I'm sorry, interior
1:03:11
lineman from old Miss Brody and Isaiah Guy, who had a good
1:03:16
season in the secondary at South Florida.
1:03:21
Deshawn Purdy from Wake Forest, stole Georgia's long snapper,
1:03:29
got a couple of three star, got a three star lineman from North
1:03:35
Carolina State. Jalen Henderson from West
1:03:38
Virginia, the quarterback from West Virginia transferred over
1:03:41
here. So I expect them to probably be
1:03:45
the best team here, one of the best teams.
1:03:48
I I'm leaning more towards a Jacksonville State finishing it
1:03:51
off, but Liberty could definitely surprise you and and
1:03:54
win that I might they might be flip a flip there.
1:03:58
I think whoever wins this, it's very on the fringe of a playoff
1:04:02
team. We do have two group of six
1:04:04
teams that can that will make the playoffs.
1:04:08
They are guaranteed a spot there.
1:04:11
I expect Kennesaw State again, they should be pretty good this
1:04:14
year. Delaware, I expect that they
1:04:19
were, you know, one of their first seasons of the FBS, they
1:04:21
were pretty good, seven and six. I expect them to maybe win one
1:04:26
to two more games, make a bowl game as well.
1:04:29
Western Kentucky had a very good recruiting class.
1:04:34
They were actually second in the conference.
1:04:37
Jacksonville State, though, 30 total commits, all three stars
1:04:41
as well. And the recruiting, So that's
1:04:44
why I got them up there, that Western Kentucky should make a
1:04:47
bowl game as well. And then, yeah, I've got
1:04:52
Missouri State, Sam Houston kind of on the fringes of potentially
1:04:57
making a bowl game there. I I think they'll be right
1:05:04
around that like five to seven wins zone.
1:05:09
And we'll see if they make it FIU in New Mexico State, Middle
1:05:13
Tennessee, kind of expect those that they'll all be in that like
1:05:18
three the five win range. So not again, just kind of an
1:05:26
over underwhelming conference in terms of the overall impact on
1:05:29
the the postseason landscape. All right, the Mountain West,
1:05:35
they're up here because they they do have one potential
1:05:40
playoff team. But I think as a conference, the
1:05:44
Mountain West got a whole lot weaker.
1:05:46
They lost arguably their best two teams, two of their most
1:05:53
dominant teams that just have a really good, that were really
1:05:58
good for them last year and that really wouldn't if they were
1:06:01
still in the conference, bump them up in terms of the power
1:06:05
rankings. I've got UNLV.
1:06:07
They had, you know, the best transfer portal and the best
1:06:12
recruiting class in the entire Mountain West brought in.
1:06:18
I mean, like some of the names on the transfer portal that
1:06:20
might jump out. They brought in that Mark I
1:06:23
anchor. If I'm saying that, right,
1:06:25
Jackson Arnold departed from Auburn to come play quarterback
1:06:29
here. Avery Helen left TCU, you got
1:06:34
defensive lineman and Herb Gray from the Tennessee.
1:06:38
Troy Stello left Kentucky to come play here.
1:06:41
They brought in. They still got it from Middle
1:06:43
Tennessee as well. Taz Riddicks left Oregon State
1:06:47
to come here. So I mean they brought in a
1:06:50
number of good three star transfers.
1:06:55
They have a very strong recruiting class, 28 commits
1:06:58
overall. So again, they've got the depth.
1:07:01
They were one of the competing for the Mountain West title last
1:07:06
year as well. I do think they will win this
1:07:12
and their potential playoff hopeful if they put together a
1:07:16
good season. But I like I'm talking about
1:07:18
like they've got to be like maybe one loss and to have the
1:07:25
other group of two team and maybe what's considered a
1:07:30
stronger conference have two losses.
1:07:32
I think so, like if UNLV, which I think it's possible they could
1:07:38
go like 11 and one in the regular season, but we'll take a
1:07:44
look at there their schedule. Let's see.
1:07:49
But if they do that, I do think they can they can go and become
1:07:55
the one of those group of two teams, group of six teams.
1:07:59
That makes it one of the two group of six teams.
1:08:02
A little bit of a tough stretch to open the year.
1:08:05
I mean, they've got what should be a good Memphis team.
1:08:08
They've got to go on the road to play Hawaii and at North Texas,
1:08:15
Akron. So they have three Rd. games to
1:08:17
start the year. Then they're they got a bit of a
1:08:19
home stretch against California and North Dakota State, newcomer
1:08:22
to the FBS. They have to go at Air Force who
1:08:25
should be a lot better this year.
1:08:28
Then the final stretch of the season though against Northern
1:08:32
Illinois, Wyoming, New Mexico State, San Jose State, Nevada.
1:08:36
Not impossible for them to come out of that and only lose like
1:08:39
one year. I think Hawaii will be the
1:08:41
toughest one. I mean, you see, I've got them,
1:08:43
the Rainbow Warriors as the second place team.
1:08:45
I think they did a lot of good stuff to retain some of their
1:08:49
talents. They had a top five in
1:08:53
conference transfer portal class brought in, didn't do a whole
1:08:59
lot in the recruit, but they didn't have a ton of players
1:09:01
leaving so they didn't need to do a ton of recruiting.
1:09:07
Brought in a three star quarterback from he didn't
1:09:10
really see the field book Bjorn Jorgensen from Virginia, running
1:09:15
back Devin Rice from K State, some exciting prospects there.
1:09:19
So I think Hawaii could have if they they'd have to do pretty
1:09:26
much the same thing as what UNLV did and only lose 1 game, which
1:09:29
will be tough. But I I expect them to be
1:09:32
competing for the Mountain West. And now I got North Dakota
1:09:35
State's team that I think could really be, it was was FBS ready
1:09:38
a while ago. I think, I mean, this is a bit
1:09:41
of a, a weaker Mountain West than in years past.
1:09:45
So I think they're primed to be one of the top dogs in here.
1:09:48
Well, we, hey, we got a, we got a text from 6207.
1:09:54
Tyson expects in those two months when Kamara gets hurt
1:09:58
again. Oh, you're talking about the
1:10:01
Jordan Tyson. Yeah, I guess so.
1:10:04
Yeah, Saints have had some unfortunate injury luck.
1:10:08
I mean, luckily for New Orleans, you have Travis HN there who can
1:10:13
undoubtedly fill in as the RV one.
1:10:16
It'll be unfortunate they're going to be missing Tyson,
1:10:19
though. That's going to be tough to to
1:10:24
get the get them integrated into the offense in the midway point
1:10:27
of the season. But and then to get Camaro back
1:10:32
in there, been unfortunate with the injury bug.
1:10:36
OK, All those are the Mountain West rankings.
1:10:40
Like I said, couple teams I could see making a bowl game.
1:10:43
Actually a little on the fence about Wyoming.
1:10:45
I might say that they're a fringe bowl team.
1:10:47
Air Force should be good again. I don't expect them to be
1:10:51
struggle as much as they did. So that's where we got the
1:10:54
Mountain Rest W rankings. Our next conference, the Sunbelt
1:11:00
here. It's kind of small, but I see
1:11:05
there's three potential playoff teams if one of them has a
1:11:08
dominant enough season in the conference again, it's they
1:11:11
gotta have like one loss is probably the cut off where they
1:11:16
go like undefeated. JMU made the playoff last year
1:11:20
actually was fairly competitive with Oregon.
1:11:24
I mean, they didn't score 34. They just couldn't stop.
1:11:28
Couldn't, you know, stop anything, Couldn't stop.
1:11:30
They're just wet tissue paper on defense.
1:11:32
But it did did look serviceable in the postseason.
1:11:39
So I think they're potential playoff hopeful.
1:11:43
I know you see App stayed on there and you might think, OK,
1:11:46
has he lost his mind? But App State had the best
1:11:50
recruiting class in the the conference, the best scored
1:11:54
recruiting class and they were near the top.
1:11:59
They were second best in terms of transfer portal.
1:12:01
So I just think they have a strong portal and a strong
1:12:06
recruiting season. They poached the QB from
1:12:11
Kennesaw State, brought in the defensive lineman from what was
1:12:14
a very defense dominant defensive front and Oklahoma and
1:12:20
Ricky Lojo. A lot of, you know, just some
1:12:25
exciting three star prospects, but that they had a very strong
1:12:31
recruiting and transfer portal. So I expect them to be very a
1:12:35
lot better. JMU is still the top dog.
1:12:39
I mean, they absolutely killed it in terms of the transfer
1:12:42
portal. They just didn't have the
1:12:44
strongest recruiting class compared to some of the other
1:12:47
teams in their conference. So give me Apps State to
1:12:53
potentially take all take down JMU.
1:12:58
Arkansas State's going to be one of those fringe maybe playoff
1:13:02
teams that they put it all together again.
1:13:03
They had a very strong recruiting and transfer portal
1:13:07
class as well. I think they just did a good job
1:13:09
of bringing the new talent overall as well.
1:13:14
Old Dominion didn't lose too much talent wise, so they didn't
1:13:21
need to do too much in terms of recruiting and transferring.
1:13:23
So I expect them to still be fairly good in here.
1:13:26
Coastal Carolina, Troy, all teams I think could be bowl game
1:13:30
hopeful. And then South Alabama is kind
1:13:32
of where I I draw it. This will be this will be an
1:13:37
interesting conference. I do kind of expect like 2, two
1:13:45
to three teams to really jump out and be dominant.
1:13:49
A lot of these other teams I'm I'm putting in like a four to
1:13:52
eight win window here, you know, like the teams like 8 and down
1:13:57
there like a four to six win window, 7 through 4:00.
1:14:04
I've got those those could be potential seven to nine win
1:14:08
teams is where I I'm seeing all of their their kind of totals
1:14:12
and then three up 910, maybe 11 games.
1:14:17
I don't think anybody goes undefeated, but I wouldn't be
1:14:20
surprised if one of these teams just really dominates through
1:14:23
that the post season. All right now we're coming to
1:14:26
the new PAC 12 and I've got 2 potential playoff teams in here.
1:14:35
So Boise State, San Diego State I both think are absolutely
1:14:42
playoff hopefuls. San Diego State had a really
1:14:47
dominant defense last year. Fairly good recruiting class as
1:14:52
well. Boise was just one of the, you
1:14:58
know, they they won the Mountain West last year.
1:15:01
I think they'll be the top. I mean, they just have a very
1:15:05
healthy program there. Didn't lose a ton of their, I
1:15:09
think they got a good amount of returning players.
1:15:12
Should be the same quarterback there as well, if I'm not
1:15:17
mistaken. So yeah, Boise is going to be
1:15:21
bringing back a lot of their talents.
1:15:28
They got I I think they'll win this.
1:15:31
It's going to be tough between them and San Diego State.
1:15:33
They're those teams are really got a lot of I've got high hopes
1:15:38
for Washington State though, too.
1:15:39
I think they got a lot better brought in the new head coach.
1:15:47
They had a fairly good transfer portal as well.
1:15:54
Brought in some really exciting talents.
1:15:58
I really love they brought in on the offensive line.
1:16:02
Got a probably going to butcher this, but Callalo Tiaga from
1:16:06
Utah. A big fan of that signing Daniel
1:16:13
blood sick name dope name out of Missouri to add some speed to
1:16:22
the to the wide receiver room. Kaden Pinnock who came from I
1:16:30
think that's Alcorn State. So FCS but three star prospect
1:16:36
he's got some experience at that level.
1:16:42
So he's bringing some bringing some experience to the room.
1:16:47
DJ Warner, SMU could be very disruptive for them off the
1:16:51
edge. So we'll have to be hopeful
1:16:53
there for for Washington State, for the Cougars.
1:16:58
I've got Fresno. I've been going back and forth
1:17:03
on where I want to put Fresno. They may honestly slide back to
1:17:08
six. And then I'd move Oregon State
1:17:11
and CSU up if I could. Again, CSU had a really strong
1:17:16
recruiting and transfer portal. They were the top.
1:17:19
They had the most commits through the transfer portal and
1:17:24
the entire PAC 12. So they built up, built a strong
1:17:28
program in there. Darrell Robinson from from
1:17:36
Auburn, They got a lot of Huskies, a lot.
1:17:39
The Huskies were good. Kaesong Ferrar, quarterback, the
1:17:44
Deer Teerridge, tight end and Diego Robinson, offensive
1:17:47
tackle, as well as Oliver Lundenberg, Terence Smith.
1:17:53
I think they actually hired Blake on his name, but they did
1:17:57
hire, what's his name, the Uconn's head head coach.
1:18:06
So I think that's a lot of his players followed him over there.
1:18:15
Which is a good thing for the for the Rams.
1:18:17
I mean, I'm just not super. I don't want to get my hopes up
1:18:22
with them too much. They haven't been the Yeah,
1:18:29
yeah. So it was Jim Moore that was his
1:18:31
name came over from UConn and brought a lot of his guys with
1:18:36
him. I mean, Jackson, Harper, Tory on
1:18:39
Johnson. So I'll, I want to, I want to
1:18:46
see it first, but I think we'd I'd move CSU up to 5, Oregon
1:18:49
State up to 4, flip, flip Fresno back to six.
1:18:53
All those teams still bowl game hopefuls, Utah State and Texas
1:18:57
I'd leave out of it. But new PAC 12.
1:19:00
Let me know what your thoughts are on that.
1:19:02
That's it's going to be a lot of fun.
1:19:03
I'm excited and looking forward to seeing what the new PAC 12
1:19:06
looks like. All right.
1:19:08
And then the American is our top Group of 6 conference.
1:19:13
There's going to be a, there's definitely going to be at least
1:19:17
one playoff team out of here. The American, I'm very confident
1:19:23
we're going to see one playoff team.
1:19:27
I'm going to all but guarantee it.
1:19:29
I think it's going to be South Florida.
1:19:32
They have a like 44 players transferred into their school.
1:19:39
So they brought in a lot of talent.
1:19:41
Some of the guys that jump out, they got a guy from the Navy,
1:19:45
Jalen Isaviato, offensive lineman.
1:19:49
They brought in corner from BYU and Tavion Beasley.
1:19:58
This is where I think they'll be exciting.
1:20:00
Michael Van Buren, junior, transferred from LSU, didn't
1:20:05
want to weigh the year behind Sam Levitt.
1:20:08
So he he comes here, he wants a chance to play.
1:20:11
Showed some good things when Garrett Nussmeyer was hurt.
1:20:13
I mean, it was just kind of like a tough situation when they
1:20:15
coming in late in the year against, you know, some SEC
1:20:20
teams fighting for a playoff position and everything like
1:20:22
that. Sonny Redwood, Harrison saga.
1:20:28
I mean, they just, they pulled in a ton of talent off the
1:20:33
transfer portal. Bryson Rogers out of Ohio State.
1:20:40
I mean, they're they were stagging.
1:20:42
I mean, they they're stagging guys from Division Three guys
1:20:46
are they're tired of trying to wait, wait behind on the depth
1:20:49
chart. They only get give themselves a
1:20:50
chance to play. So yeah, a really strong
1:20:56
transfer portal. I mean, 44 commits is huge.
1:20:59
But the team I got behind them, Memphis, another playoff
1:21:03
hopeful, they had 52 commits as well.
1:21:12
Looking at Alonte Brown, an exciting prospect from Michigan
1:21:19
State, you've got that. Manny Covey came over from
1:21:23
Tennessee. Another another exciting
1:21:31
receiver in Tai Chong, Chapman safety Amir Foster.
1:21:39
Yeah. I mean, 52 commits is insane.
1:21:42
I think it's going to absolutely be between one of those two to
1:21:46
win the American. They're just both really good.
1:21:50
Memphis had a very strong recruiting class as well.
1:21:54
Tulane, though, who's my number three team, The best recruiting
1:21:58
class in the American 20 commits, the highest overall
1:22:02
scored class based on just the ratings and everything.
1:22:09
You know what, maybe I'm biased because I work here at military
1:22:12
broadcast radio, but I'm going to give Navy the nod as a
1:22:18
playoff hopeful. They just do.
1:22:20
I mean, they do such a good. Obviously they don't really have
1:22:25
the transfer things there, but they just are really well
1:22:29
coached, very disciplined team. I think they could be again, A12
1:22:35
win team. So maybe they potentially are in
1:22:39
play for the American Conference fringe playoff.
1:22:42
Hope for fringe though. I'll I'll keep my expectations
1:22:45
tampered, but they're AB Army and Navy.
1:22:47
I think they're both absolutely making a bowl game.
1:22:49
I know they have an army. Had a number of players leave my
1:22:53
shot. Chicken Little, former
1:22:55
infantryman did the show with me for a while to tell me they have
1:22:59
21 players leave. But they extended their head
1:23:01
coach Jeff Munkin, so the system works.
1:23:06
I think they'll be just as an imposing.
1:23:10
They should be pretty good. North Texas lost a lot of
1:23:14
talent, lost their head coach. He's off to Oklahoma State, you
1:23:20
know, lost what's his face, Drew Messmaker.
1:23:27
Yeah. We're going to move on, though,
1:23:29
to our next one, the Independence here.
1:23:33
I'm not like they're kind of just an honorable mention before
1:23:36
we get into the power conferences because Notre Dame
1:23:42
will go to a bowl game if they don't opt out of it.
1:23:48
Sorry, let me, I'm jumping the gun here.
1:23:50
We'll go to the bowl game if they don't opt out of it.
1:23:52
They're also probably going to be a playoff team because they
1:23:54
threw a fit. If they win enough games,
1:23:57
they're going to be in the playoffs.
1:23:59
We will mean well know what your guys think because I'm going to
1:24:04
let me tell you what Notre Dame schedule is.
1:24:08
Is it difficult enough for the for them to deserve to be in the
1:24:11
bowl game? Because I mean, they really
1:24:13
didn't throw too many tough games on here.
1:24:17
Wisconsin I think will be good. You got right.
1:24:21
That's their opener. Then they go Rice, Michigan
1:24:23
State, Purdue only going to be some bottom feeders in the
1:24:27
conference. North Carolina, I don't think
1:24:30
it's going to be too difficult. Stanford, I know there's like a
1:24:34
a history there. I don't even play in USC.
1:24:37
They're they're not doing that rivalry game.
1:24:40
BYU, they're going to Provolo. So that that'll be their biggest
1:24:45
test of the season. BYU is going to be a very good
1:24:48
team. Then they play Navy Miami.
1:24:52
So that's going to be their toughest stretch here.
1:24:54
The Miami game, that'll be another, that'll be a very tough
1:24:58
test, but that's going to be at Salt in South Bend.
1:25:01
So that'll be a little more favorable for them.
1:25:03
But Miami will be be a challenge.
1:25:05
You got Boston College, SMU and then Syracuse ended off two.
1:25:14
I mean, so realistically, if they come away 2 losses, because
1:25:19
then maybe they lose the BYU, maybe they lose the Miami, I
1:25:23
think that's all the the grace that we can afford them.
1:25:25
I mean, they better win the rest of those games.
1:25:27
I'll ask some news are going to be a pushover that'll that'll be
1:25:33
somewhat of a challenging game for him.
1:25:37
But the rest of that schedule doesn't it doesn't really move
1:25:40
me, you know. So we'll see.
1:25:42
And then U Conn, I expect to be pretty good as well and make a
1:25:48
bowl game. I could see U Conn again.
1:25:51
Sure they lost their coach, they lost a lot of the players, but
1:25:55
their schedules nothing like they didn't really schedule
1:25:58
anything too daunting. Air Force could could be
1:26:02
challenge for them. They go they got to play
1:26:04
Syracuse. Syracuse would be too crazy.
1:26:07
James Madison might be the most difficult game on the schedule
1:26:10
to be honest. Maybe Maryland throw throw them
1:26:13
in there. That could be a tough one.
1:26:15
So it's not impossible though for them to win like 7 to 9
1:26:19
games. All right now let's get into our
1:26:21
power conferences and we're going to go with the ACC first.
1:26:27
I've got Miami as who I think is going to be the playoff team out
1:26:32
of here has a great recruiting Class 1 five star recruit, 15,
1:26:40
four stars joining the program. Jackson Cantwell five star
1:26:46
offensive lineman likely going to be playing right away making
1:26:50
an immediate impact couple of four-star wide receivers that
1:26:54
will be and me, me on Paris and some more.
1:26:59
I'm on the butcher that name. We can get some more and we can
1:27:01
go four-star edge player in the Ashari Charles.
1:27:08
Yeah, I mean just as a very, very good recruiting class and
1:27:14
then transfer portal. I mean, they won.
1:27:17
They got one of the biggest names in the transfer portal.
1:27:21
Bring it in, Darien Mensa from Duke, one of the most sawed off
1:27:24
quarterbacks as well. Kiana Davis out of Nebraska,
1:27:32
he's joining them. They stole Jamal wary weather
1:27:35
from Georgia jumping over here. And they brought in one of
1:27:39
Mensa's favorite targets and Cooper Bacarte all over from
1:27:45
Duke. Yeah, they they had the top
1:27:49
ranked transfer class and child recruiting class for every team
1:27:55
in the ACC and they were a top five transfer class in the
1:28:02
entire country. The recruiting class I believe
1:28:06
was also top ten. Yeah, top.
1:28:08
They're the 7th best recruiting class.
1:28:10
I mean, that just EU is back. They're going to be good.
1:28:14
I think they'll win the ACC this year.
1:28:17
This was a tough one for me to put.
1:28:19
The ACC was very tough to predict.
1:28:21
Louisville had a really good transfer portal as well.
1:28:24
They brought in 34 commits. Some of the ones that really
1:28:32
jumped out at me stole from a in conference rival LA Juan McCoy
1:28:39
wide receiver there Benjamin Perry, Jacob Smith couple of
1:28:47
defensive players. God that hasn't really seen the
1:28:51
feel of these a four-star quarterback prospect and Lincoln
1:28:54
kind holes didn't want to wait another year as Julian Sam was
1:28:59
going to be playing again at Ellis or Ohio State rather.
1:29:03
So coming over here to potentially take the reins at
1:29:07
Louisville. They I see them being very good
1:29:13
as well. I think Clemson kind of comes
1:29:15
back. They're a fringe playoff team if
1:29:18
they maybe get their hat just because of the history.
1:29:21
I don't think Dabo Dabo Sweeney teams going to miss a bowl game
1:29:25
another year in a row. I think if they make the ACC
1:29:29
championship and there may be a 2 three loss team, they could be
1:29:33
a fringe playoff team playoff hopeful there.
1:29:38
I think Louisville would have to win the ACC to get the the
1:29:45
playoff nod, but I don't I'm not leaving that.
1:29:48
I don't think that's outside the room possibility.
1:29:51
I got the Hokies out here at 4. I'm excited to see what they do
1:29:55
with James Franklin. I think that there's a lot of
1:30:00
energy in that building. They had a solid recruiting
1:30:04
class, decent transfer portal. I mean, they got one of the
1:30:10
better players leaving Duke and Chris, Chris, Shawn Brown, Kenny
1:30:17
Woesley left Penn State. I mean, they, he brought a
1:30:21
number of Penn State guns actually transferred over there.
1:30:25
So they just brought in a ton of Penn State talent.
1:30:27
Yeah. Michael Troutman, he's following
1:30:30
this coach. Let's see, we got him, Michael
1:30:34
or Malachi Williams, Cortez Harris, couple of edge players
1:30:40
mentioned, Lowesley, Matt Henderson, Danielle Jennings are
1:30:44
following him over there. Ethan Grunkmeyer could
1:30:46
potentially. We saw some good things out of
1:30:48
him after Aller got hurt and he came in so potential excited to
1:30:54
see what he can do with a full season under his belt.
1:30:57
But yeah, I mean, he brought a lot of his guys from Penn State
1:31:01
with him there. So I think the Hokies will be
1:31:04
pretty good. Maybe we might see them
1:31:09
competing for for the ACC championship.
1:31:12
The ACC is going to be chaotic. We're going to see a lot of
1:31:15
different teams. I expect for the state to be
1:31:18
pretty good at some. You in the top 25 we had, yeah.
1:31:25
I don't know. Georgia Tech I think could still
1:31:27
make it there. Are those the rankings for that
1:31:30
there? I'm getting a little pressed on
1:31:31
time. So we're going to keep going.
1:31:33
BYU is who I got winning the Big 12.
1:31:38
They're going to be the the playoff team they just had.
1:31:44
They kept their coach. The Mormon church got involved.
1:31:47
They said no, we want you staying here.
1:31:51
The CEO of Crumble Cookie was getting involved.
1:31:54
So kept kept a lot of the talent too.
1:31:59
They didn't have too many guys leave wasn't the most insane
1:32:06
recruiting class. I mean, transfer class.
1:32:10
They have a pretty good recruiting class.
1:32:11
I think they have like the second best in the conference.
1:32:14
Yeah, just behind Texas Tech. So I got them winning it and
1:32:20
then I've got the the Houston Cougars actually, I think will
1:32:23
give them a run for their money. I love what they've done this
1:32:26
season. I I expect them to be very
1:32:28
competitive in the Big 12. Then Oklahoma State bringing in
1:32:36
best maker, they brought in one of his top targets and transfer
1:32:39
portal as well. The new head coach.
1:32:42
I think we'll see a Cowboy resurgence.
1:32:45
Texas Tech is still going to be good, but with all the Brendan
1:32:48
Swordsby drama and now him being banned as well, you know they're
1:32:52
going to be having to move on to a different quarterback.
1:32:55
So I think they're going to it'll be tough for them to be in
1:32:59
contention for the Big 12. Utah I expect to be good again,
1:33:04
not a lot of hope for my my boss.
1:33:07
I think both the Arizona teams bowl game hope potential there.
1:33:11
Iowa, Kansas State, Baylor that says UCT that should be UCF at
1:33:17
the bottom of the conference there.
1:33:19
All right then I've got the SEC at #2 in the power rankings
1:33:24
here. I think Texas is absolutely the
1:33:27
team to beat in this conference. The hot the the hype I think is
1:33:33
warranted this year. They arch Manning is the the
1:33:38
potential number one overall pick, all the talents there for
1:33:44
this team. They're going to be sick on
1:33:46
defense again. And I think we saw down the
1:33:50
stretch of the season they just dropped some dumb games early.
1:33:54
They didn't play as well, looked not as dominant against some
1:33:59
inferior competition, but we saw down the stretch, I mean, the
1:34:03
dual threat ability of Arch Manning, the defense and special
1:34:07
teams were playing on that next level.
1:34:09
The offense was really clicking. I think we saw what Texas could
1:34:14
truly be in there. Look, it looked like a playoff
1:34:18
championship potential team that just missed out because they
1:34:21
didn't have they dropped the dumb game against Florida early
1:34:25
in the year. And quite frankly, I mean, you
1:34:27
should have beat they should have beat that for the team They
1:34:29
didn't. But I think they will be what
1:34:34
they'll be one of the top seeds. They'll be a playoff team for
1:34:37
sure. I think they'll win the SEC
1:34:38
championship. I expect Georgia to be pretty
1:34:42
good, probably make the playoff as well.
1:34:44
I mean, Kirby Smart just always fills in, finds talent, gets the
1:34:49
best out of his players. I don't expect anything
1:34:52
different there. I'm going with LSU as the number
1:34:56
three team. I think they will make the
1:34:58
playoffs. They come in 3rd.
1:35:01
I don't think they're going to quite take down.
1:35:04
It'll be tough. I don't know if they'll take
1:35:06
down the takedown, Georgia or Texas.
1:35:10
But yeah, I like the the Prince will.
1:35:14
I'm not even going to attempt his last name, but he followed
1:35:19
his coach. I'm sure you know what I'm
1:35:21
talking about. Follow his coach over from the
1:35:23
Alice from old miss to LSU. They they were just they won the
1:35:28
the top sought after transfer portal prospect, which was Sam
1:35:34
Levitt. He's going to be playing five
1:35:37
star QB. He's going to be the QB there
1:35:40
for Lane Kiffin kind of playoff for bus for this team.
1:35:45
I mean they really so maybe the pressure will be a little bit
1:35:49
too much for them. But I mean, you know, there
1:35:51
there was all that drama with the departure.
1:35:54
People are impatient death penalty.
1:35:56
They want to see another playoff team.
1:35:58
I got Bama fringe playoff team. We'll see.
1:36:00
I mean, the SEC does kind of get favored when it comes to picking
1:36:04
playoff teams. And I do think they'll
1:36:06
definitely make a bowl game. Ole Miss lost some talent, but I
1:36:09
still expect them to be pretty good.
1:36:12
Maybe them in Oklahoma you could flip.
1:36:14
I don't have a lot of high hopes for Texas Tech.
1:36:16
They really flamed out. They didn't have the toughest
1:36:18
schedule last year, honestly for and I think their schedule this
1:36:22
year is a lot tougher, but they should still be up there.
1:36:26
I might flip them with Missouri. I wouldn't be surprised if
1:36:29
Missouri flips them. They were a pleasant surprise to
1:36:32
see in the top 25. And you've got the Tennessee,
1:36:34
Auburn for the Mississippi State, all teams that could
1:36:37
potentially make a bowl game there.
1:36:39
But my top conference is the Big 10.
1:36:45
Indiana, I think is going to be a playoff team again.
1:36:47
They brought in Josh Hoover and the transfer portal.
1:36:50
Kirk Signetti didn't make a ton of big splashes and the transfer
1:36:55
portal, but that's not really what he does.
1:36:57
It's just it's the culture and the the energy around that
1:37:02
place. He just gets the best out of his
1:37:04
guys. So I trust the system a lot when
1:37:07
it comes to college football. When you've got a good system,
1:37:10
you're going to be a good team. I trust the Signetti system.
1:37:13
It's done nothing but work. So.
1:37:16
And then I got Oregon actually as the runner UPS in the Big 10.
1:37:20
I went back and forth on them in Ohio State.
1:37:24
I wouldn't be all at all surprised if that flips.
1:37:26
Both teams are bringing back their quarterback from last
1:37:29
year. Jeremiah Love, still the best
1:37:31
receiver in college football, will be playing for drafts.
1:37:35
Draft stock Dante Moore, though, I wouldn't be surprised at all
1:37:38
if he plays himself into potential first overall pick
1:37:42
territory. It's going to be between him and
1:37:43
Arch Manning. Those guys are going to be 1 and
1:37:46
2 next year, do a quarterback needy team and I could see
1:37:51
Oregon having the top offense in the country.
1:37:54
That wouldn't surprise me at all.
1:37:56
I think with another year on the Roosevelt, Dante Moore already
1:38:00
one of the better pocket processors out there, can see
1:38:03
them coming up UFC. Then I got UCS man.
1:38:06
They had a phenomenal recruiting class and transfer portal.
1:38:15
USC actually the number one recruiting class in the nation
1:38:21
and they were a bit further down in terms of transfer portal.
1:38:26
But they just brought in so much talent.
1:38:29
I think they'll be, they'll be a dangerous team and all.
1:38:33
I've got Penn State just behind them again.
1:38:37
Wouldn't be totally shocked if those flip flop in the
1:38:41
standings, but I'm pretty confident that's how the big,
1:38:44
the Big 10s going to go. I think the Big 10 will be good
1:38:47
enough to have four playoff teams, but they might, like I
1:38:50
said, they might favor the FCC and give them four more, which
1:38:54
is just an unfortunate thing. Michigan first year with Kyle
1:38:58
Whittington, they're excited to see what they got.
1:39:01
I think Wisconsin's going to be a lot better.
1:39:04
Washington should be a really good team.
1:39:07
They might jump Iowa. I just like I was, I was going
1:39:11
to be very good defensively. A lot of talent in here.
1:39:14
Northwestern's got some high expectations.
1:39:17
I think right now, though, the Big 10s got 5, maybe 6 teams at
1:39:22
all could take take it to the playoffs.
1:39:25
It's going to be the it's the top conference.
1:39:27
They dominated in the bowl games.
1:39:29
They dominated in the playoffs last year.
1:39:32
So that's why they're my #1 conference.
1:39:37
All right, we got about 20 minutes here.
1:39:41
We're going to see if we can speed run a mock draft here,
1:39:45
guys. So we're going to go, this is
1:39:47
going to go a little bit quicker.
1:39:48
We're going to do what we're going to do.
1:39:51
I think we're going the the number one pick approach.
1:39:55
And I'm going to show you how you do the, the, the 2 running
1:40:01
back strategy. It works best if you can get one
1:40:04
of the elite running back. Talents running back talents in
1:40:10
the in the said mock. So we'll go to standard PPR and
1:40:17
everything just to keep it simple but not get too
1:40:22
complicated in this going to start the draft screen share
1:40:28
this here, put it up on here. So we're going, all right, the
1:40:37
strategy here when you're drafting in the top and the the
1:40:43
top rounds, if you can get one of the elite running by talents,
1:40:46
I'm talking Jamir, Gibbs, Bijan, let's see who else it is.
1:40:54
We've got Jonathan Taylor, James Cook, Christian McCaffrey, one
1:41:00
of those guys, Saquon, worse, like maybe Saquon, Derrick
1:41:04
Henry. That's who you're taking in the
1:41:06
first round. You go back-to-back on running
1:41:10
back talent and then you take high upside wide receivers
1:41:14
because there's a significant drop off on running back talent,
1:41:19
whereas receivers got more depth and something you can take more.
1:41:23
So you're looking for first we're going to go Jamir Gibbs.
1:41:27
Let's go one-on-one. That's what who we're going to
1:41:29
take here. Let's see, why is it not?
1:41:39
Why is it not? There we go.
1:41:41
Wow, that was laggy. OK, now we're going to skip to
1:41:45
where we're at. We're going to look at who's
1:41:47
available again at running back. OK, we've got Josh Jacobs is
1:41:53
dealing with some legal stuff, so I'm not super jazzed on him.
1:41:58
I'm actually, I might take him. I don't know how healthy he's
1:42:03
going to be. Javante, not a lot of
1:42:06
competition there. So I'm actually going to go with
1:42:08
Javante because he's just doesn't have a lot of
1:42:10
competition. It's going to get those goal
1:42:11
line touches. So there you go.
1:42:13
You've got two really good running backs now.
1:42:15
Now we're going to go and look at wide receiver upside.
1:42:20
So it's a little laggy here where it's taking its time.
1:42:27
Let's go advance us to the next pick Let's advance us to the
1:42:34
next pick. Come on site.
1:42:35
What's what's the hold up here? All right, I apologize.
1:42:43
This is I'm not sure how do I force this to go forward?
1:42:49
Hello. Hello.
1:42:50
What do? You.
1:42:52
Mean Brown. Oh, that's right.
1:42:53
I'm back-to-back. I'm actually just.
1:42:55
I'm losing my mind. Sorry about that everybody.
1:42:59
Boy, it's my it's technically my Monday.
1:43:03
I go I go to work this. So we're it's a little risky to
1:43:08
take a guy with the same bye week, but I really don't let bye
1:43:11
weeks cause fear in you. We'll go ahead and take George
1:43:14
Pickens. I mean we we saw the production
1:43:17
last year. You just can't argue with that.
1:43:21
All right now we're looking at some wide receiver talent as we
1:43:25
get our back to backs here. Devante is risky to me.
1:43:33
He really lived off of touchdowns, didn't have a ton of
1:43:37
yards, so I don't, but that's not necessarily something that I
1:43:40
feel like in transition. I love Watson's just a ton of
1:43:44
upside. I know he's a bit of an in.
1:43:46
He has a bit of an injury problem.
1:43:48
However he is. I mean, he's the guy like he's
1:43:54
really all they got. He's going to be one of the
1:43:57
primary targets there. Romeo Dobbs is gone.
1:44:01
Jaden Reed is going to be probably more into the slot.
1:44:06
Dontavian Wicks is out of there. Matthew Golden isn't going to
1:44:11
hasn't shown a whole lot. So Watson's going to get a ton
1:44:14
of targets. There's just a lot of targets
1:44:17
have left the team and that that they're all those are his to
1:44:20
take. So we're going to go ahead and
1:44:21
take Watson here. Now we're going to go and look
1:44:25
at quarterbacks that a proven commodity quarterback that is
1:44:31
going to score us a lot of points.
1:44:34
I like a guy that's got rushing upside.
1:44:36
I'm going to take Drake, man here.
1:44:38
He's got new weapons, he's got Dobbs, he's got A.J.
1:44:40
Brown. He has rushing upside.
1:44:42
The schedule's a little tougher, but they made some improvements
1:44:45
on the line. The team's good.
1:44:49
He's a guy that could easily go for 4000 yards.
1:44:52
Bam, there we are. Now as we come in here into the
1:44:54
sixth round, we can go and look for a flex and here's where I'm
1:44:59
going to go and take my third running back.
1:45:01
And I look, look, I love Basil Tooting man.
1:45:06
He's probably going to be splitting carries with Chris
1:45:08
Rodriguez to start the year. But the Rodriguez is not super
1:45:14
explosive, doesn't have a ton of pass catching upside.
1:45:18
We saw Tooting be a great pass catcher.
1:45:22
He was just behind ETH Travis HN for a lot of the year now.
1:45:29
I mean he's gone lean Cohen made Travis ET and Bucky Irfan like
1:45:33
top fantasy players in back-to-back seasons.
1:45:38
So they there we go. We're going to grab him, get our
1:45:41
flex Now we can potentially take a tight end here.
1:45:47
Couple of solid options. Let's also see what we got at
1:45:50
wide receiver here. Let me just to fill out depth we
1:45:54
do need. Here we go.
1:46:01
I'm going to go with Sam Laporta.
1:46:03
I like Sam Laporta. They're a little bit more than
1:46:05
what we've got. The wide receiver options.
1:46:06
I think there's still some guys that we can get late on.
1:46:10
So now here's where we're going. We're going to start filling in
1:46:12
depth at the wide receiver position.
1:46:17
Chris Godwin, I don't hate health concerns, but if he can
1:46:20
stay on the field, he's very good.
1:46:24
However, I am going to lean towards Alec Pierce.
1:46:27
He's the number one guy here. I mean, he's going to be the
1:46:29
deep ball threat. He's a big body that they they
1:46:32
can throw to you in the red zone.
1:46:33
They did bring in Keenan Allen, but they gave him all that
1:46:37
money. Pierce is going to be heavily
1:46:38
involved in this offense, so I'm going to go ahead and take him.
1:46:43
Now we're going to look at the what else we got here.
1:46:46
We could potentially go another wide receiver.
1:46:49
We could take Godwin. I do like just going and getting
1:46:55
one more running back because as you can see, it starts to drop
1:47:00
off here. I don't like any of these.
1:47:06
I don't like these guys a ton. Let's see who else is available
1:47:12
on this side. Yeah, we already got 2 and we
1:47:15
don't need Rodriguez. We, I expect to see him.
1:47:19
So they'll lose out on carries. You don't necessarily need to
1:47:24
draft players that have to play right away.
1:47:30
I'm looking at right here, maybe a draft and stash because we've
1:47:34
got, again, we have three like really prolific fantasy running
1:47:39
backs that we're probably not going to be switching them out
1:47:43
on the early part of the season. Jonah Coleman, JK Dobbins has an
1:47:49
injury history. RJ Harvey doesn't provide a lot
1:47:54
of value running in between the tackles.
1:47:56
It's kind of been a struggle for him.
1:47:57
Draft and stash type of guy. Expect Jonah Coleman to be
1:48:01
worked into the Broncos offense and the heavier and heavier
1:48:06
rate. All right now again, we're
1:48:13
looking to just probably add some depth here.
1:48:17
Defense. What round are we in?
1:48:20
It's round 10. It's a little too early to take
1:48:23
a defense for my liking. Probably not going to jump on a
1:48:30
backup quarterback. Just yeah, I've got some good
1:48:33
options, but I think we can wait on here.
1:48:37
We'll get some wide receiver options.
1:48:39
I'll do. I know he's on the bad offense,
1:48:42
but I love KC Conception and getting him in the tenth round
1:48:45
here. There's no like he's going to
1:48:48
get, but he's going to be the number one guy.
1:48:49
He's going to get so many targets.
1:48:51
Like the quarterback situation is terrible, but it's for a
1:48:54
tenth round price tag and the amount of volume that he's going
1:48:57
to see. I got to take him.
1:49:00
I have to now we're looking at some more running backs here.
1:49:05
You can see Rodriguez, Tracy still up here because I don't
1:49:08
see them getting a ton of touches here.
1:49:14
Another guy, he's injured, he's going to miss some time, but
1:49:19
he's a proven commodity. He's going to be involved in the
1:49:21
offense. He's a great pass catcher.
1:49:25
Could go Alvin, come on right here.
1:49:31
Looking at some other wide receiver options.
1:49:34
Wouldn't hate taking Golding. I'm a little, I'm excited about
1:49:39
Stribling, but I don't want to bank too much money on wide
1:49:44
receivers. We're going to go ahead and
1:49:46
we're going to stash Kamira as well.
1:49:49
So we're going to take with this team at this spot.
1:49:55
All right, we're in the round 12 now.
1:50:00
I think if you want, we could go for the streaming of defense
1:50:03
strategy, which is something I might take, or if you want the
1:50:07
defense that you can rely on for most of the season.
1:50:10
We got a couple of good options here.
1:50:11
We got the Broncos, we got the Seahawks.
1:50:13
Eagles wouldn't be terrible. We'll go ahead and we'll get the
1:50:16
Broncos. Then.
1:50:18
I'm the type of guy I like to have a good backup quarterback.
1:50:23
Kyler Murray, potential league winner here, best situation of
1:50:30
his career. Kevin O'Connell gets tons of
1:50:33
value out of them. I mean, this is a steal to get
1:50:35
in here. I think Kyler Murray could be
1:50:36
rushing upside as well. We'll take Kyler Murray there.
1:50:44
I believe we've got this is our our final 2 picks here.
1:50:49
So we got available at the wide receiver position.
1:50:54
Jerry, Judy not probably not going to take that guy.
1:50:57
I'm not going to lie, Trey Tucker, not a ton of competition
1:51:05
in that wide receiver room or in the Raiders wide receiver room
1:51:10
here. I'm going to I'm going to go
1:51:15
with him because again, I'm like in these late round picks.
1:51:17
I'm just trying to think of a guy who is in a a situation
1:51:21
where he doesn't have a ton of competition or is just in a
1:51:23
really good offense. Tucker, not a ton of I mean,
1:51:27
like they did, there's Brock Bowers.
1:51:30
There isn't a whole lot else on the outside in terms of besides
1:51:35
like a a Jack Bash and other young guys there all right, And
1:51:39
then kicker got to get one. I mean, Cam Little's just got an
1:51:43
absolute nuke of a leg. So that's a good one to take
1:51:47
there. All right, so that kind of
1:51:50
rounds off our our quick fantasy draft.
1:51:53
That's the, the 2 running back strategy you're looking for
1:51:57
upside out of your receivers, proven commodities for your and
1:52:03
then proven commodities for your, your running backs.
1:52:08
Gibbs we know is going to be sick.
1:52:10
I, I mean, if you want to go Bijon, you can go Bijon.
1:52:13
Don't have any problem with that.
1:52:14
Javante not a lot of the competition that Dallas
1:52:18
backfield who's going to get the goal line touches.
1:52:20
I mean, like, that was where he he put up a good amount of
1:52:24
yards, but he was like just you got inside the five.
1:52:28
They fed Javante Williams. I don't see any reason why that
1:52:32
doesn't continue. We know Pickens, he feasted last
1:52:38
year. It should be more of the same.
1:52:39
That Dallas offense is going to be great.
1:52:43
Yeah. Watson's going to get tons of
1:52:45
targets. Pierce is going to get tons of
1:52:47
target. Sam Lafortha isn't one of the
1:52:49
best offenses in football. This is one of the best defenses
1:52:52
in football. Cam, little bit one, biggest
1:52:54
legs. Super accurate with a team
1:52:59
that's got a good offense, so they will at the very least be
1:53:02
kicking a lot of extra points. Being in field goal range more
1:53:05
often now, Tooting the pass catching upside for him is huge.
1:53:10
John the Coleman, bit of a draft and stash player.
1:53:13
Again, the volume with conception.
1:53:15
Just something we want to take there.
1:53:17
Kyler Murray's in a fantastic situation, so when Drake doesn't
1:53:22
have a favorable matchup plan against a tougher defense, we
1:53:25
can slide Kyler in. Trey Tucker doesn't have a ton
1:53:28
of competition for targets. Kamara bit of a crowded
1:53:32
backfield, but he's a proven commodity, so we don't mind
1:53:35
that. Then you can see this is how the
1:53:39
drafts will be kind of similar to going.
1:53:42
I don't know if JSN will drop it back that far.
1:53:46
I think you see, you're going to see Bijan Jamir should go off
1:53:49
the board 1st and then in the round one I would be, it would
1:53:54
probably should go some combination of Jamar Puka and
1:53:58
Jameer Gibbs. Then Christian McCaffrey, maybe
1:54:02
Taylor or Almond, Ross, St. Brown.
1:54:04
That should be James Cook. I don't love Genti.
1:54:10
I don't love in the first round. Then it should probably be like
1:54:16
CD Henry. I mean, Genti will probably go
1:54:19
in the first round still, but I'm not, I am not a huge fan of
1:54:24
that, if we're being honest. All right, well, we got, we got
1:54:32
a little bit of time. So you know what?
1:54:34
We'll try like 2 really quick runs on ADT.
1:54:37
One now or or we can ask questions.
1:54:42
Yeah, we can't ask questions. What?
1:54:44
What questions did you want to? Ask OK, the Broncos first home
1:54:51
game. What do you think?
1:54:54
Is it a win or is it a loss? Who was the first home game?
1:55:02
Because there was a now there was a report on Fox 31 that made
1:55:09
it sound like basically that Bo was a toothpick.
1:55:14
And then everybody on like the comments, they're like, oh, we
1:55:18
was there that, you know, the news is making a big deal out of
1:55:21
anything. Do you think the ankle injury is
1:55:25
going to bite us in the asses this year?
1:55:31
No, I don't. OK.
1:55:32
I think we. Should because he had, he had
1:55:35
three surgeries. Yeah, yeah.
1:55:38
But like some of those were just cleanups and they were they were
1:55:43
checking on it. I think like Denver, we're
1:55:46
especially this point, the Nuggets and ABS aren't playing
1:55:51
and we're just kind of waiting for the Broncos to start playing
1:55:53
because the Rockies are hot ass. So when they tell when you come
1:55:57
to Denver sports tie, it's all just about building up hype and
1:56:01
drama for the Broncos. OK, I don't think I'm not too
1:56:06
concerned about the ankle. I think it'll be OK.
1:56:10
OK. What other question do you have?
1:56:13
The other question is right now in the preseason, what are you
1:56:21
seeing that catches your eye? Like like, like off guard
1:56:30
catches my eye. That catches your eye like
1:56:34
you're watching the games and stuff and you're like, oh shit,
1:56:38
kind of like taste Keenum. You're like, holy crap, who's
1:56:41
this guy? Well, I know.
1:56:43
OK, Scheme. Why?
1:56:44
I know, but. Well, I also does John
1:56:48
Stribbling. He really surprised me.
1:56:50
That was probably my biggest surprise.
1:56:55
I Kyle Shanahan's been known for kind of reaching on players and
1:57:01
I, I'm not, yeah, not Kyle Shannon, but John Lynch also has
1:57:05
been known for sort of reaching on players.
1:57:08
And this is what I thought he was going to be another reach,
1:57:12
but he's looked really good. I mean, he's been good in camp
1:57:16
and I think he'll really have a big role on this this team
1:57:23
because you don't you've got an aging Mike Evans and Debo
1:57:26
Samuel, Ricky Pierce all just can't stay healthy.
1:57:29
So there's a lot of opportunity for him to to get in there.
1:57:37
OK. Other things that caught my eye,
1:57:44
I'm going to have to grab his his name real quick, but there
1:57:47
is a guy on the Bears who's been just struggling to make the team
1:57:54
and I get some playing time, but he's really, he really showed
1:57:57
out in the postseason. Jameer Chroma had two sacks, 3
1:58:04
TF LS, 6 total tackles. Recover the fumble as well.
1:58:11
I believe he only didn't get a credit for it, but he also
1:58:13
forced the fumble and recovered it.
1:58:17
So guy that could work his way into the the Chicago pass rush
1:58:23
rotation. OK, like I mentioned it earlier,
1:58:30
but yeah, Ty Simpson, I was impressed with how well he
1:58:35
played. I guess somebody else I didn't
1:58:39
give a shout out to was that Demon Claiborne.
1:58:41
The other rookie running back I thought was didn't get a lot of
1:58:46
good blocking, but I think he's got a potential to like if the
1:58:50
Vikings had more of their starters out there, I think he
1:58:53
would have looked better because when they had Aaron Jones and
1:58:55
Jordan Mason out there and more of a starting offensive unit,
1:58:59
there were big holes opening up at the second unit.
1:59:01
Just didn't look great for for Claiborne.
1:59:04
Well, before we leave, ladies and gentlemen, we want to we
1:59:07
want to shout out some people that have given us gifts.
1:59:11
We got Mary Ann, we've got Cassidy, we've got Penelope,
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we've got crayon and the last but not least, we've got H
1:59:24
train. So thank you so much.
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All right, so you take H all. Right, thank you everyone for
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Be back next week and I'm going to build a tier list of I think
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