🏈 TIght End & Quarterback Fantasy Football Rankings for 2024! 🏈 08.28.24

e e e to do they still got to do quarterbacks and tight ends we do all right we got that we got roster cuts that were made yesterday some more pup announcements I guess and Jeremy's really burning over over over what what was what was the overused or over covered stories today's daily draft we're going to talk about the things that you're just tired of hearing about cuz we had to put one topic on conversation probation yesterday yeah until uh He Who Shall Not Be Named wins a game against I don't know any team that actually plays FBS football I'm good I'm good I don't talk about G right um but I you know I did what I do this morning got up listening to to the old Sports Talk the the different shows that are on the national Airwaves and I kept hearing the same things over and over and over and over and we want to ask you who is the most oversaturated entity in sports now I want to I want to give this a caveat it if it's topical it's not oversaturated so I would argue Dak Prescott is not oversaturated he's a lame duck quarterback going into the final year with an interesting team and the fact that you're tired of hearing his name shouldn't factor into this is It's not that it shouldn't factor in it just doesn't mean it just it does He's not oversaturated cuz damn I can I can go I can go uh Jerry Jones Dallas Cowboys uh Aaron roders New York Jets ah um Florida State seminal there we go we can uh it's all over over talked about things not just in this building not just in this room but over all of the of the uh the the the pantheon of sports well captain iin my Jets I can agree with you on that uhhuh uh I don't necessarily agree with you on a few of the others uhhuh but I heard all these things it got me burning on that it also me burning on something else what is that what do we oversaturate that's not in sports and I tied this into the last 24 hours of my life so I'm going tell you a story my wife is going to the beach this weekend we're going to Atlanta I'll be gone doing fantasy football stuff all weekend long she took the opportunity she's got a friend hadn't been the beach in a while she's got a kid she donees have kid this weekend they're going to the beach so I have been left basically to my own devices foodwise this week because when my wife does this she starts drinking protein shakes because she doesn't somehow understand she's the hottest woman on the planet uh so she starts doing that thing so last night I ordered Little Caesar's pizza because it is just the ultimate pizza for your dining tailgating and just overall happiness Pleasures Little Caesars this is day 348 of me calling out where you at on them sponsorship dollars bro I'll sponsor you cuz I mean it uh-huh well I ordered two of the deep dish because that's the best that that's the Cadillac of of the pizza they sent me a free most bestest thin crust and I had two pieces of it and I'm telling you right now had I been blind or blindfolded I could not have told you what that was it didn't taste like pizza because it's not pizza it's like a cracker with cheese on it it's that's not no that is not pizza just because you put pizza sauce and cheese on it's fine I'm sure people like it and that thin crust is way better than anybody else's thin crust cause a little ciz is awesome but I don't understand what it is that you and by you this time I do mean you see in thin crust pizza I like thin crust pizza I like the good stuff I like I like the toppings you get you get the same amount of toppings less bread Stone Sports podcast said it's a shoe box with sauce bingo I held up a napkin earlier but you were in the same ballpark and so I ask what are the things in life that you think are Overexposed and what in sports is the thin crust pizza of sports it just doesn't make sense as to why you like this so much and I nominate the thin crust pizza uhhuh Taylor Swift oh that's a good one and that show the bear these are three things that all of you seem to love and don't know why it's a great but the bear is a great show I I will say I've never watched it with the sound up watched it late at night and tank told me they're screaming all the time well I don't know their voices so I'm reading the Clos captioning maybe I'm not getting the full gist of the show you're definitely not doing you're you're watching a television show in 2024 on silent like of course you're not doing it justice well I actually have headphones too I have Death guy headphones okay that nobody else in the house can hear the television but I can so I'm not I me that would help but if you come at me and say oh the bear is awesome I'm not going to do the same thing I did to you crazy people with the wire all right you remember the wire and everybody that watched the wire was like they were a member of the Heaven's Gate cult they were trying to recruit you into something oh yeah I'm not coming at you like that oh the wire is the greatest show that's ever been written and the government's trying to infiltrate our thoughts with the birds what was that second thing you just said Matt Hudson said this is how we feel about Creed Creed is not a Creed is a club of likeminded individuals that like to come together every 20 years and rock and and rock now just substitute the word Rock for get on our spaceship and go on a trip it's very similar very similar descriptions between a cult and the the fan club you actually like a band with the word cult in it I do Blue Oyster Cult you're awesome best thing they ever did was Christopher walking playing greatest record producer of all it's great great great music the only c yeah yeah uh we have a super chat first one of the day coming from Soaring Eagle he says there's overrated entities and then there's Mario cristall with his head up his keer well he he sent me a story that Miami's brought in a time management guy that's not that unored a lot of coaches do that and I'll tell you why and I noticed it in the Florida State game and I that's actually the second school that I've seen this week that brought somebody into do it it's because the headsets they don't know how to call plays Mike Norville had no clue and that's something starting tomorrow with the Thursday games I will be really interested to see have we been been working on that over the course of the last couple days Norville had no clue he us to somebody else calling it he calls the play down the line and then they had the the the sign boards he had no clue what he was doing and it was obvious because DJ was sitting there going what yeah and he would just has this perplexed look on his face in the two-minute drill that's not as I mean it sounds bad that you had to bring in somebody to actually run the clock for you it's actually becoming more popular you remember when Brent venal had the get back guy the guy that basically just followed him around and went come back it's the same premise it's not necessarily that I need you but I'd rather have you and not need you need you and not have you right like I mean if I need that extra help then I guess that's the thing I'm glad he's getting it right I'm I'm glad he's not sitting out here just you know being Mike McCarthy and not learning anything yes about clock management and going ah well we'll just do it if I've got a propensity at the end of the game to get so wrapped up into it that I forget about the clock and it's my job I I want I want the guy behind me to go hey you got to call timeout and after the Georgia Tech game last year I understand why somebody would see that and make jokes I I totally get oh yeah to me that's actually knowing your own deficiencies I mean look if you don't know how to manage the clock okay there have been good coaches over the years that they don't do that so well knowing your deficiencies is a step in the right direction I will say and that's basically what soring Eagles said yes is you lost the game to Georgia take that makes absolutely no sense and it's a bad look I totally get it I'm look as somebody who bleeds Garnet in Gold it is hard for me to defend anything with that stupid hand signal um but I will say I get it I I I know why you did that especially now that there's basically no limit on the number of gas and things like that that you can have on the staff to help in in operation I'm a little confused that you use one of your spots for game day operation for that but I'm not going to jump up and down about it right I would like to because I can't stay in Miami but we do have first actual week of college football this weekend that means two things one bangers are just a day away bangers tomorrow we will have full Jeremy green bangers from the road well I will be here oh you'll be here yeah our schedule changed we we had a I had a couple things that were supposed to either be taken care of today or in the morning they got pushed off to Friday so I mean and look this is going to happen we we're audible in these things to get you onsite access of the biggest gameson Clemson Florida State we've already pulled that off the schedule okay so shoot no no Coastal Carolina Jacksonville State tomorrow but we will still be in Atlanta on Saturday yes for the Clemson Georgia game uh oh does that mean you're going to the TV station with me on Friday yes all right awesome awesome that was one of three things that that was supposed to happen today you know TV schedules God bless those guys because I don't know I don't know how you keep up with well they decided I need to go here now ah that gives me angel to think about yeah uh Chris W's doing the one thing that we told him not to do which is actually putting us on camera for a little bit so we're gonna we're we're going to go overdo that on Friday awesome because I was just talking to him before the show and I was like well it's just going to be me because Jeremy's gonna be gone but cool Jeremy's gonna be here now all right so uh anyway we'll have live in studio bangers tomorrow for the opening kickoff of uh college football for most of the teams NC State tomorrow night on 570 we've got the Tar Heels right here on W W bins right here on ESPN Asheville and then also tomorrow on ESPN Asheville 1:00 we will still have our first Tar Hill Time of the Season with Jones Angel the voice of the North Carolina Tar Hills he'll give us the uh the full preview of the upcoming season for the heels and we'll touch base with him every Thursday at 1:00 like we do uh every football season all right where uh where do we need to start here with uh cleaning up fantasy is that where uh well I mean I feel like we should talk about dvin cook I mean he's joining the Dallas Cowboys practice squad is that is that really a formality okay so be careful of reading the headline and not reading below the fold okay so what's below the fold the goal is to get him on the roster by September 8th for the Cleveland Browns so they just cut all these guys yesterday signing Dalvin cook he was a guy that they could directly to the practice squad and then make a switch if you got a guy that's hurt somebody that goes on whatever the case may be I don't have to make that decision right now he's going to be on the active roster I have zero doubt of that all right they only carried four running backs it was Rico D de vaugh and lopkey Hunter lepy the the fullback I have no doubt dvin Cook's gonna be on the roster I don't really know how that backfield is going to unfold and I'm not sure that I care no all right riddle me this if I told you that you were going to get an 8020 split out of any running back on this team would you care an 8020 split what do you mean somebody gets 80% of the tote oh would I care for Fantasy Football would you because that's all this really matters absolutely not that's all this really matters no because I'm not taking Ezekiel Elliott and I mean I I I like Rico as the local kid and the local story but I'm just not sure I didn't I really invest in that I was in a draft the other day and he went I think it was like the ninth round and I was thinking that's way too much for me too rich for my blood I mean know what you think ninth round in a fantasy draft for Rico D seems much seems a little much for a team that should be the ball is in Dak Prescott and CD Lamb's hands as much as possible I I mean I get it we're not I know why it happened right they oh I get why they did it I just went that will never be me so last year Dalvin cook finished at 3.2 yards a carry playing for the Jets and the Ravens M Ezekiel Elliott finished at 3.5 playing for the New England Patriots how many running backs with over a hundred carries finished that bad or Worse last year six read you the list Josh Jacobs AJ Dylan miles Sanders Kareem hunt Jamal Williams Damen Pierce end of list wow and all of those guys were absolutely terrible y I don't really feel like this is a better situation but it is at least worth to me adding dvin cook makes me just hate all three of them mhm from a fantasy standpoint right if somebody were to get cut or somebody were to go on IR or get abducted by space aliens maybe we could talk M but for me it's just a hands off I I I don't care I don't think you're good enough you couldn't run last year with Rico and with Tony Pard and I think Tony Pard is markedly better than any running back on this roster dvin cook looked shot I also love the the beat writers that have to say oh it looked like he was in good shape when was the last time just I want you to Rack your mind brain on this when was the last time a guy came in for a trout and they went he was fat as hell uh I I honestly he had a Little Caesar's Pizza in his mouth as he walked in the front door it's funny you ask because it's actually the same team it was Ezekiel Elliott when he went to the Bahamas although I mean he was under contract so he was signing no but I mean like that's when that's the time of year where everybody goes oh they're in the best shape of their lives I just want somebody hopefully he has been training I just want somebody to be honest like he walked in and the only thing I immediately thought was diabetes and hypertensive uh want to see that in a news story one day that's hard hitting journalism right there let's go Dalvin cook has uh developed hypertension is that what you're talking about no they always say a guy's in great shape right they're not always in great shape no dvin cook looks really slow last year mhm whether it was with the Jets or with the Ravens the Jets finally just gave up like I'm because you threw him out there and it he got a yard on most carries you said he averaged 3.6 yards per carry 3.5 excuse me 3.5 yards per carry last year I would not be shocked if that was uh two 30 yard runs and the rest of them were all one or negative and somehow that math would math I'm not you I don't I don't know I can't see his it just never felt like he was ever a thing and I get the offensive line was bad but but look what the other running backs did Bree Bree Hall was just fine behind that swiss cheese offensive line dvin Cook's longest Rush last year four yards really that's it he must have had a handful of those to bring that average up like that not really 67 carries 214 yards I mean I guess three yards is just you know it's a little more than you just falling forward so well if you hold your hands up that's three I was to say you get that's that's a two step two yards your body is two yards if you just hold the ball over your head get to the line of scrimmage and fall down that's about 3.2 okay all right I guess that math maths you're in the sports occra and this is ESPN Asheville 92.9 FM 880 a.m. and 14400 for decades the mafia had New York City in a strangle hold but the murder of Cara galante marked the beginning of the end it sent the message that we can prosecute these people from the minds behind the acclaimed television series listen to Law and Order Criminal Justice System 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gmail.com the sports AA SE that is some good clean family fun there hey C we are back in the Engle Studio this is ESP and Asheville at the sport ocracy on all of the social medias uh you want to be sure to uh be in tune with the social media feeds and such as we get ready to hit the road for the living the dream tour Saturday we will be on the road down in Atlanta for the big opening kickoff game Georgia Bulldogs number one team in the country taking on the Clemson Tigers also a top 25 team doesn't feel that way but well well well you know I mean it's because it's a disappointment it's a disappointment to see Clemson at 16 in the rankings I think 14 in the coaches poll that's not where we're you know for the last several years that's not where we're used to seeing them and so it's going to make it sound worse than it actually is because you go Clemson they should be in the top five preseason at least no and no they're not anymore that's not the program that they are right now I don't think that at all uh you also want to stay in tuned to our social medias because tonight I will be on live stream with uh the sports uracy the Great formerly known as the Ojo with our buddies David Smith and dubs from ston Sports podcast and uh you do you have your button pulled up uh during this this here program every time somebody signs up for battle of the belt here comes the money here we go money talk here the we will play that little Sounder to give you your love for entering the battle for the belt we're going to trade it like the Royal Rumble uh Patrick Hol Justin Parton Eric Miller there were a handful of more I'll have to check in the in the break uh but every time somebody signs up for it I will get an alert and you will get your proper acknowledgement here comes the Mone yeah uh basically I'm creating the contest today so the more of you that sign up today the less of you I have to add one by one so that's really just my fate a compete of if you can get in early please do and you're not supposed to tell them that well I'm just being honest oh well never lie to the audience because it's I mean it's we love you all and we understand we we we get all of the things but anything that can make this just slightly easier uh I I'm a big fan of yes uh havoc in our YouTube chat asked for our thoughts on the Ernest Jones trade we talked about that yesterday as it happened I think it's an absolute highway robbery by the Tennessee Titans I agree but I understand why it happened I mean this is why I always tell you that trades for players you're not going to get what you think because now teams are looking around going there's a lot of dudes there are a lot of dudes and I mean the New York Jets kept three undrafted free agent linemen yesterday yeah think about you want to hear the craziest stat I heard all day the Jets have seven former first round draft picks on their line and three undrafted fre agents there's one guy that got drafted outside of the first round and it's Michael Clemens wow that's pretty incredible that's that's one of the craziest anomaly stats I've ever seen yeah I the nnest Jones trade to me I agree with Jeremy it was an absolute win for the Tennessee Titans that defense is uh not going to be something that many teams or any teams really want to face this season and I I I mean it made all the sense in the world if if you've got the money to spend I don't again I don't we don't know what the money is we don't know how much Tennessee is going to pay him in the extension that he wants 15 was universally what I heard was 15 okay first I can't believe that La didn't come off of that for him because I think he's that I think he's that important to their team you got to realize how topheavy that roster is yeah and then second off $15 million for a player like that for Tennessee and what they're trying to build there is I why not I you know I could pay double that not really but but you get what I'm saying like it's that important of a move I think he is going to be a Cornerstone of a defense that will be terrifying if they add to it correctly which they've only been doing for the last oh since the GM got there uh Steven to had a really good question that I'd like to touch on he said if it was such robbery why did nobody offer more well I'm glad you asked that because it took a specific combination of things I feel like Buffalo would have been absolutely happy to have offered you a fourth round pick MH for a six the problem is that they have absolutely no ability to pay him his problem was that the contract wasn't moving down the line so a lot of teams right now are really nervous about getting involved in something like the jets are in right now where you traded for Hassan reic you gave up the draft capital and he knows I've got you over a barrel I can sit for five five weeks with really nominal punishment yeah I'll give up money but it's just it's not that big a deal and a lot of teams just I don't have the financial wherewithal I don't want to give up the draft picks I've already kind of set my plan for the year it the market would not have been all that deep because you don't need a a team with money little extra draft capital and willing to take the risk most of the highest end competitors weren't going to do that I can't take that risk which reminds me I have a rant for the end of the show that we ran out of time for yesterday and I'm actually glad we did because an hour after that rant the examples I used would not have made a whole lot of sense uh but now I know who the cuts are help yes uh the cuts were made yesterday all 32 teams down to 53 man active rosters I I mean names off the top of your head that were there any that like surprised you or went huh I'm kind of shocked that New York didn't keep that guy or surprised me not not really uh Denver's tearing it down to the studs uh if you're a veteran on that team and you're still there I I highly advise you put your house on the market really soon because that's I feel like the Walton family has given Shawn pyton a I don't want to say vote a confidence because that comes with a negative connotation I feel like they told him you you still have two more years yeah you you just in you we trust because samj perun Tim Patrick you just see a lot of players that you're like that was one of the 53 best players on this team yeah so you're you're tearing that down to the studs Matt hudon and our YouTube comments said anything odd about the fact that the Browns only kept two running backs or they only have two running backs until chub comes back anytime you see an anomaly like that I saw that one with the Browns uh I know the Dolphins have a Long Snapper there's a plan there they will add somebody else it's just a question of getting somebody to the practice squad you want to see who got through waivers and you do have to remember this so Carolina just claimed two guys Jamie Sheriff from Seattle and Shamar Bartholomew who was cut by the Jets okay those two guys have to go on the 53 man roster you cannot put them on the practice squad which means you got to two more guys then they go through waivers and you hope they come back it's not as simple as just well player X is better that was cut by the Browns is better than player y that plays for us there's more that goes into it than that so a lot of teams are looking at okay who can we get to the practice squad maybe could we sneak a guy on IR that's not necessarily hurt but he's got a oh he hurts designated to return yep it's roster manipulation one that kind of came out of nowhere yesterday was not a not a cut but it was placing on the IR without a designation to return Elijah Mitchell for the San Francisco 49ers apparently on Monday he came up lame again on the hamstring that he had reinjured like or that he had injured like three weeks ago and they just season's done well I mean and sometimes you run into that sometimes you run into a spot where you just go you know what the Math's not going to math and if I'm going to have to deal with if I'm going to have to deal with the the fact that you're going to have a hammy that's bothering you all year I'd rather just shut you down now I think that's what the Green Bay Packers did with AJ Dylan yep of no we've already got another running back and we would have to cut a guy we like to keep you on the roster and then put you on ir and no I'm not going to do that I'm just going to put you on season long I only get two cracks at the designated to return thing I'm just gonna shut you down now yeah so if I had AJ Dylan can I can I still go get like Isaac gindo maybe he's a maybe he maybe he's an option now with no Elijah Mitchell and now he'll be what third string rendo yeah they kept him I know but but what I'm saying is like in your fantasy team oh if you had AJ Dylan would you go get like gindo if he was out there or is that going too deep no I mean that's that's how running back goes cuz he's got who Mason in front of him and then of course CMC is not going to lose a whole lot of tote to either of those Jordan Mason is you always have to play the game of what would happen What would have to happen for him to have fantasy relevance and how do I think it would go because what I believe would happen if something happened to Christian mcaffry and he decided to he wanted to W wax surfboards I think Isaac gindo would actually take over as the starter and Jordan Mason's role would stay the same all right there you go so that might be a name that you should be looking for with the injury to uh Elijah Mitchell you also have to be able to keep them on your roster and just know you could be setting a spot on fire because if nothing happens to Christian mcaffrey then he's useless pretty much yeah that's why I always try to stay high in the waiver I don't just make waiver claims willy-nilly and when waivers runs every week probably eight out of 10 weeks you won't see my name on that kicker don't ever use waiver priority on a damn kicker or a defense I don't know how many times how many years in a row I have to say that before people go oh that's never changing he's going to say that every single year because I still get questions about that every single week right if you're asking a question about a kicker I want you to do me a favor look at what day of the week it is if it's not Sunday then you should put that question in your pocket and hold it until Sunday cuz that's the only day kickers matter the only one I cut my Kicker every single week H I never draft one so what do I care it's not like I got Justin Tucker right I wound up with Greg zerline a lot last year and that went just fine hopefully this uh football season your picks all go fine hopefully they will go fine for Jeremy green as he prepares for bangers tomorrow so all the picks coming your way right here on ESPN Asheville in the sports Ury each and every week and we had the appetizer last week and 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athlete I was I tried to be an athlete as a a younger man and being a part of a team you know engaging in a sport some physical activity it can do a lot of things for you it can you know teach you how to work with others and it can help you get healthier and all of the things and sometimes it can be a great escape if other things are on your mind you know you just pour yourself into the game and you can stop thinking about you know the things that maybe you're not supposed to think about in Hong Kong the officials there have an idea of how to curb teenagers urges there is a 70-page document apparently that they are they they have send they are sending out to Children first off let me Hong Kong officials are sending a 70 page document to Children make that a Tik Tok they might watch it BR between the ages of 12 and 14 again 70 Pages you think they're going to even look at that for a second and it's all about about being more productive and um promoting quote correct societal values and in order to do that we have to teach all of the 12 to 14 year olds in Hong Kong how to quote Master their sexual desires well tank did a great job of mastering his from the ages of about 12 to 16 nobody was better at it than him I was going to say it was completely involuntary but I mean it's an assumption I wasn't there for it but so here's the idea obviously this is uh in the outside story so they say sports is the way but one sport in particular one section tells a boy and and a girl who are studying together that if they start to you know feel attracted to one another and that it could lead to other things instead of engaging and and indulging in that Primal urge should just go out and play badminton I like quote go out and play Bad Mitten together in a Sports Hall and that way you won't be no it's not going to work it's not going to work for me Doc I I I appreciate the advice but I don't believe badminton is the answer uh especially if we're playing doubles I've never thrown away half my worldly belongings for a riveted game of bad mitt I'm just throwing that out there and as some as somebody that was an athlete I will say this about every time I scored first thought was man I'd really like to score again you can take that for what you want it to me my story is about the honey Deuce have you have you heard of the honey Deuce no I've heard of the honey badger nope not quite the same thing the honey Deuce is a beverage that they sell at the US Open the the tennis tournament okay which just broke a record with 216,000 people that went to a tennis tournament wow I didn't know that there were 216,000 people on this planet that cared about tennis they're out there you learned something new every day yeah so the honey Deuce is the official alcoholic beverage M you'll see why it's called that in just a second it's the official alcoholic beverage of the tournament it's vodka lemonade shambor that raspberry lur that turns everything red and then it's got three little balls of honeydew in it a it sounds very refreshing honey I get it tennis yeah love just when you first when you said it at first it I'm a child so obviously H yeah that sounds like somebody's new only fan name hey you see the new content from the honey Deuce I felt dirty afterwards but I watched it four times that's what I'm going to start calling when that's what I'm going to start calling it when people call for my wife and she's in the bathroom oh there you go there it is how much do you think a standard 12 O cup of the honey Deuce cost okay now go over the ingredients again it was honeydew there little honeydew balls in it CU they look like tennis balls a little green melon I get it vodka lemonade and Shambo and I think it's greos vodka shambor is that a wine or a champagne I just explained this it's raspberry lur I don't it makes everything turn paint basically and it gets a little sweeter well I'm going to say since it's that it's n it's at the US Open $65 22 that was close how many of them do you think they sold over the course of the tournament with 21,000 people 216 um I don't know 30,000 450,000 of them wow $450,000 these things that adds up to $9.9 million dang at 22 bucks a shot no thank you now I do feel the urge to to go home and make myself one of these cuz it does look rather refreshing I also have another endorsement story and I feel like I need because I I I have a I have a call to action M this story is about Hendrick Motorsports they are owed some Cas MH $1.7 million plus interest that's a lot that is what has not been paid in sponsorship fees from a sponsor interesting you watch racing who would you think this sponsor could be uh I mean I don't want to I don't want to unduly throw shade at any businesses here but I'll take a stab in the dark and say Lowe's home improvement stores I know they do business with Hendrick so uh you're gonna have to go backways MH because this is unpaid monies from 2017 oh it's got to be Dupont Hooters oh Hooters that makesi if there was one business that was going to owe you money of course it was fraking Hooters hey I don't talk bad about your friends you don't talk bad about mine of course it was Hooters all I'm saying is you got out of this deal with Hendrick that's a lot of money you can sponsor this show for very little money and I will probably drink and eat most of our profits you'd have to drive two cities to get to one though there's not one around here is there check the tour dates oh okay I see what you're saying check the tour dates BR we are going through cities that will have okay all right after checking our bookings we have five hotels that you could hit a good driver and hit a hoter beautiful go go make your pitch salesman because that sponsorship sounds like it sells itself Matt hudon said shamb board makes drunk white girl feel fancy I think they should put that on the bottle mhm I've never seen a commercial for Shambo but I think that's as good one as is that the new hypnotic is that no hypnotic wasn't a that blue stuff the blue blue cal is that what it's called hypnotic bad mitton led me to giving up half my worldly bloging twice just couldn't stop bad Ming you drink a half bottle of hypnotic playing bad Mitten with yourself five or six people the neighbor a clown doesn't matter you just can't stop madm yes indeed you're in the sports Ury and this is ESP in Asheville you ever think about some of these segments like if somebody accidentally turned the radio dial to us mhm and they had no clue who they were and they heard that segment and went what exactly did I just listen to what station is this they said ESPN but that didn't feel like sports I mean they said sports but I think they were insinuating something right my radio in my car is showing that this is ESP in Asheville but this is not I mean it sounds like they were talking about an activity where it's not really athletic you might work up a good lather depending on uh exactly mhm um we talked about the earnest Jones trade G text my wife right now and ask her if she give for a good game of badm just knowing perfectly well that she's not listening to the show I want to know what her response is I want to know if my house is going to have the honey Deuce before I get home or after and that is really going to be judging what how whether or not I get stuck in traffic today also great indicator of whether bad Mitten will be happening uh we talked about the Ernest Jones the fourth trade from the Los Angeles Rams to the Tennessee Titans um coming up after the top of the hour we will get into the uh fantasy quarterbacks and the the full rankings for this season but while we've got this little moment here this was a weird statement I felt like coming out of yesterday from the same team that just got rid of their signal caller on the defensive side of the ball Shawn McVey says Kiren Williams who had 228 touches last year is now going to be returning punts and that is just strange to me because we don't see starting running backs put in this position very often it's not as strange as you think it's not as strange as you think really how many starters do you or or ballpark how many starters in the NFL returned punts last year I didn't say they did okay you're looking at this the wrong way okay last year I'm trying to find it Kiren Williams returned three punts last year okay how many Fair catches did he have none five okay fair catch doesn't count as a return ah okay the actual returner for the LA Rams last year was Austin traml he had 25 returns he averaged seven yards per return had 19 Fair catches all this really means is that Shawn McVey believes in Kiren Williams ability to field punts because the punt game didn't change MH he did this last year not much but he did it right it just means he's looking around going I don't have anybody else that can do this so I mean I'll be honest with you when I read it I went hey Scott Fishbowl does double points on return yards there you go and I have Karen Williams well that is a big bonus if you are in one of those types of leagues I just felt it was really odd because when I saw the headline at first or when I saw whatever tipped me off to the story it said in the kicking game and I went well that makes perfect sense put him back there on the kickoff returns we're we're working short yardage anyway that quick decision find the whole running back vision would pay off greatly to have him back there no doubt and I'll be honest with you I won't be shocked I I don't know if it will be la I will not be shocked if you get more guys that actually return kicks like kyen Williams M just throwing this out there how many kickoffs did the LA Rams return all of last year um I'll say it was wait kickoffs not tell punts how many kickoffs did they return last year gosh is it is it in the 30s 40s you're too high too high 20 too high really just uh nine n nine hence why we changed the rule G exactly exactly that was the point I was trying to get there I I did I guess I didn't realize that it had become that obsolete but of course it hadn't for every team right so by comparison I will use my team solely because I have a little check mark for the Jets returned 24 okay the Rams returned nine that's that should tell you a lot about how Shawn McVey view special teams of I'm really just putting a guy back there to feel the kick that means nothing people are going to freak out about that and make it oh but but means they believe in rivers and Blake har and no it means they don't have anybody else can catch a punt yeah uh I didn't go that far I knew people would make that leap which I don't think it was anything about workload I saw one theory that was oh well this is this is making up for the fact that he's going to lose half his carries to Blake Corum they're just gonna get him on the field more like not lose no sir that is not how that is going to go at all you're in the sports occr and this is 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comes to quarterbacks in 20 24 the top of the list is Patrick Mahomes and then what Patrick Mahomes is not the top of the list for me he's not the top of the list not for not for Fantasy Football all right who's going to do better than him well who's going to score more points for me I don't draft non-running quarterbacks anymore never never okay you have to at the very least have the ability to do it mhm and if you you look at all right last year how many of the top five you think you can get top five fantasy football scoring quarterbacks last year who were they uh Josh Allen he was one uh Lamar he was four Patrick wasn't on that list he was seven eight eight eight oh wow okay um I don't know who else is at the top Jaylen Herz yeah he was two okay Dak Prescott Lamar who you said at four and Jordan love at five really Pat Mahomes is he does run he doesn't tend to run into the end zone very much so for me I look at quarterbacks and I mean I can go back a couple years and keep doing that yes Pat Mahomes was won the year before they couldn't run a greasy Peg of a cat's keester he was an absurd amount of their touchdown scoring I don't think he has to do that anymore I really don't I look at Isaiah Pacho who I like a lot I had him in my top 10 Chris wilmack was in with me that day um I I don't think Pat Mahomes has to do that anymore the one I keep coming back to it's Josh Allen why do we not like Josh Allen as much as a an NFL quarterback going into this year because he doesn't have Stefon Diggs anymore so he doesn't have Stefon Diggs and you're 100% right he doesn't he also doesn't really have a running back that I feel great about between the tackles which means it's probably G to be himh for Fantasy I like him more now than I ever have before I think they're going to be down a lot I don't think the defense is very good and a lot of this is going to be on his shoulders so therefore he will run the ball more he will run the ball more he will score more mhm I mean if you look at what he did last year just the straight stat line you tell me what's non-replicable he threw for 4,300 yards could he do that again in 2024 Factor fix could he yes I think that's the floor the bills ran for 2200 yards last year I don't see that happening again okay especially not if he's only accounting for 500 of it he ran for 500 yards is that replicable mhm he threw for 29 touchdowns he ran for 15 he threw 18 interceptions he lost five F he lost three fumbles excuse me tell me what of that is not replicable and tell me what of it that is I don't necessarily think he throw 18 interceptions again he led the NFL M by a lot mhm that comes down to 12 and he duplicates everything else he's one going away yeah question is is that cyclical we always talk about turnovers being cyclical but with Josh Allen they seem to be constant and that's and that's the problem that a lot of people have obviously as a on the- field football player fantasy it doesn't hurt you too much unless you're in like a bonus League or something like that that that do you can be in leagues that penalize you big time for interceptions I think I think the biggest number I've seen on that in a in a league is minus three for an interception but that's very very rare if anything it's going to be minus one for a throwing an inter every League I play in at least two or more really okay I was going to say I've I've never seen higher than three three is about the standard that's about where that's about where it falls in look I just when I'm looking for a quarterback my number one question is how much of your team success are you directly responsible for no player rings that Bell as loud or as often as Josh Allen now there's another quarterback that I say the same thing about but first we have a super chat with a fantasy football question yeah Jason kones I hope I said that correctly please tell me if I did asked would you trade Pat Mahomes and Aaron Jones for Jared gof and Jamir Gibbs yes I believe I would gof is a little bit older than momes I think his ceiling and Mahomes floor are close Aaron Jones has one year left Jamir Gibbs has a lot so it sounds weird to say but I probably would yeah and in a dynasty I'm I I'm in because well now for one year I wouldn't no no no if you're just one year redraft one year then no no but if this is a dynasty draft and you can get your hands on jir Gibbs okay I believe I'm I believe I'm taking that deal because like he said Aaron Jones is a one andone kind of a prospect Patrick Mahomes is great and you don't want to give him up but there again I need that I need that stud running back for down the road so I I feel like I'm in on that deal your number two quarterback behind Josh Allen for this year last year you said uh it was Jaylen Herz finishing in second is he your number two Josh Jaylen Herz is he your number two he's not mine for one very specific reason you've never had to deal with a squin Barkley before squin changes a lot to me because you get down to the two yard line now you don't have Jason Kelce I don't see the touch poo being as bit I just I can't see a path that cam Jurgens who fell in the draft not because he wasn't talented but because he was small I don't see him leading that charge I also could see him getting your quarterback killed I also said this all year last year Jaylen Herz got worse as the season got along went along and I fully believe it was because you kept asking him to do that so I look at I'll ask the same question about Jaylen Herz that I just asked about Josh Allen what of what I'm getting ready to tell you do you find to be replicable Jaylen herdz threw for just under 4,000 yards last year right at 3858 I would say that was surprising to me I'd go over I would say that's probably his ceiling okay in this offense as it is currently constructed and I'll I'll detail why that is in just okay please do he threw 23 touchdowns MH Factor fiction that's going to go up or down up my only argument would be that was the most he's ever had in the season and outside of one year it's not even close he had never had more than 16 before last year 15 interceptions I would say that goes down I would say that goes down now's the part where uh he had 15 rushing touchdowns now you have saquin Barkley there is no shot that stays as high as it was I I don't think so he had 600 rushing yards on 157 attempts I would say attempts goes markedly closer to Allen had a 111 and I would say that's probably your ceiling okay I would say Josh Allen rushes more this year than Jaylen Herz does more touchdowns more attempts more everything because I don't have another solution no they do yeah I don't James Cook is really good but he's really good outside the tackles he's fine between the tackles he's not Elite sequin Barkley is Elite between the tackles yes they brought him in here to take some of that load off of Jaylen herdz because you paid this guy and you do not want to be doing that to him MH Buffalo don't have a choice they have no choice my two is Lamar Jackson okay I don't see how Lamar was the MVP last year he was the MVP from a watching with your eyes it was super obvious that Lamar was the best player on the field every time he touch the field now do you realize that he threw for Less yards than Jaylen herdz he had one more touchdown mhm handful of less interceptions I think he had eight less interceptions y yep he ran for 200 more yards and 10 less touchdowns there's not one number on that screen that I don't see going the good side this year right none of them because he missed a game oh and by the way that defense was really really good that defense is going to be really really good again but you don't have as many weapons now it's Z flowers and it's Mark Andrews and starting out you've only got Derrick Henry I hate to tell you this Gus Edwards had almost 200 carries last year I think that's about where Derrick Henry's going to be okay now his yardage total might go up but there's not a regression to the mean with Lamar Jackson he had five rushing touchdowns last year that was just crazy okay why do you say that because I feel like he as as dynamic as he get right at he is and as much Pub as he gets you would think that this would be double digit touchdown guy but he's never done it he's never been that guy to get all the rushing touchdowns had he had five rushing touchdowns combined in 21 and 22 he only has 29 in his career right and he had 14 of those in back-to-back Seasons early MH but I do think you're going to get some migration back to the main I also think there's a great chance this is his first year throwing for 4,000 yards that schedule's evil I mean I got to for if you think you're going to grind out teams playing good defense when you've got legit one corner that I really trust it ain't gonna happen yeah you go up and down who Baltimore plays good luck with that yeah those two games with the Steelers I they're always close it doesn't make any sense that they're close but I mean you play the Chiefs and the Cowboys and the bills you've obviously got two with the Bengals two with the Browns you got to play the Buccaneers uh you have to play the Chargers you got to play the Eagles you got to play the Texans that's a lot of teams that can score points good offense beats good defense in this league yeah are you going to make sure that we're at another game for the Ravens Bucks game so I don't have to watch it because I don't I don't like it when I I see my team lose that poorly well I mean I could you just have to remind me of that we just audibled a decent amount of the schedule after Florida State got beat because I I I mean I'm just going to be as honest about this I can the Tallahassee drive is not a super fun drive and if you think that I was angry on Monday if I have to drag my drunk keester back here from Tallahassee Florida on a Sunday to cover fantasy football she but you'd have to have a young priest and an old priest at that door you'd have to call Adam black and be like hey you got a couple buddies cuz we're going to have to exercise the teamon out of him cuz he's trying to kill people driving down the freeway it's not good not good at all we'll continue the quarterback discussion here in the sports Ury on ESPN Ashville uh we have a quick follow up on a super chat from Jason Quinones all right yeah uh it was for one year and he also has St Brown that's an that makes it interesting in you do have his number one receiver which is intriguing to me but do you want the whole offense I don't I mean I don't that gives you the quarterback the running back and the wide receiver that's just a lot of my fantasy team that's depending on one team if they poo the bed it is then it is then that's probably a bit much I actually you know what as I'm saying this I think having almond Ro makes me like that less I would like to have GF I don't necessarily want jir Gibbs yeah in a vacuum that makes me safe for one year no because I love Aaron Jones uh and another thing that I did want to touch on from Philly cheese why does no one remember that Kelsey's small too it's not that I don't remember it I also know that he's built like a Greek god and has thighs like tree trunks cam Jurgens doesn't I got news for you all right anytime you ever hear me say something like that I want you to remember the analogy that I'm getting ready to make Jason Kelce and I are the same size we're both the exact same size yeah I've got him by about maybe an inch cuz cuz I think he's 63 and some change I'm 6'4 and some change we're both 295 lbs cam Jurgens looks way more like me than he does like Jason Kelce so just Dimensions alone does not necessarily a style make cam Jurgens is a thin dude you see him up close in person which I have he don't look to Tyler gon doesn't look 330 lbs mhm and if you watch him on a football field just think about that that dude's 330 lbs he holds that completely differently cam Jurgens moves better but he's not nearly as strong that's what I when I said size that's what I meant that's because I think we also forget that it's also what your body can do yes right just because my body is this same size it doesn't mean that it's built to do the same things that Jason's body is cam cam doesn't have the B you know the lower body strength the leg strength I Jason Kelce moved mountains MH I just out of the way willy-nilly almost by himself he has the biggest Cavs I've ever seen and you've got to understand that those plays wind up with a lot of people on your back cam Jurgens has really thin ankles that's just it's a structural thing that's what I used to say about it's the K on Johnson rule ker on Johnson was 210 pounds he was 210 pounds and he was built like Steph Curry saquon Barkley is not much bigger than that he's built way more for the Long Haul there's a reason one of them's still in the league and one of them's not that was the point it was a good point by Philly cheesee because they are dimensionally the same size they're just built very differently you're in the sports Ury this is ESN Ash will talk more fantasy quarterback action next did you know you can now use your body's own healing properties to revitalize your achy joints and get real lasting pain relief I'm talking about Advanced regenerative medicine at QC kinetics if you're tired of arthritic pain in your knees hips back or shoulder this is something you need to check out everybody's talking about regenerative medicine and the local medical professionals at QC kinetics are experts in these amazing treatments people here Rave about the results you can enhance your joints improve mobility and get back to doing the stuff you love without pain and without drugs or surgery or downtime under the leadership of medical director Dr Mitchell shine cup QC kinetics is the nation's leader in this exciting breakthrough using cellular therapies they've got tens of thousands of satisfied 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proudly sponsored by Engles markets and iHeart media Asheville go cats the sports aacy these guys are aing disgrace we are back at the sports uracy on ESPN Asheville Cuts keep coming in in the NFL signings as well free agent signings and such I'm I'm pretty happy about one that just came down LS sin leis sin to the New York fighting Jets the former first round pick out of the University of Georgia has played how many snaps 10 in his career 10 snaps two years he's played 10 snaps played two his rookie year played eight last year that's insane let ask you a question and this I know we're talking about something else and we have an update on Battle for the belt momentarily if there was an NFL defensive coach if you're a guy like Louis CA you're trying to rehab your NFL career is there a defensive coach you would rather play for than Robert Salah no sir I don't think I would either because there's so much talent around me I mean if he comes in and can walk and chew gum at the same time as a safety in that system that's intriguing to say the least I you know what I just I'm a Jets fan you call me a homer it's fine I'm harder on my team tank you correct me if I'm wrong I'm harder on my team than probably anybody else is yes I gotta give Joe D the just full on had a boy best is best was best will be man just got 37 Players yesterday I wasn't sad about one of them count three udfas all dudes dogs that you found cuz you're the man I want to just come to New Jersey be best friends with you no big deal we look like brothers as it is we saw each other raft I was the drunk guy that yelled J D I love you from across the street that was me sure you were really embarrassing cuz they were in line at the steakhouse and it was just it's really uncomfortable I'm sure you're wondering who that was tank was too busy later that night almost getting hit by a bus by Darren sprouls that's right still thank that little guy for that 100% I saw the episode of him in the league and I I looked at may I went heyy the last time I saw that guy kept tank from being a bug on the windshield of an Indianapolis city bus you know what this could actually confirm it for Me Maybe I just need to get really drunk watch that episode of The League and it'll all come rushing back to me cuz I'm still not really positive that's who that was that's 100% that was I just remember looking down on a little fell going I can tell thank you sir I'm I'm good I I can def I cuz I was good and I can tell you definitively the that's who that was you want to sh a blast to get to that point that's on you but uh I I can confirm that's who that was uh speaking of thingsa blast speaking of things I can also confirm we have two new entrance into the battle for the belt uhhuh here comes here we go uh Matt hudleston you are officially in the battle for the belt and I didn't even know you could do this he added a little tip in there to cover the PayPal fees s you know since we do this as a donation to charity at the 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however if you're like me and one of your best friends in college was named Mike Smith once you lose touch with that person you will never find them again I have probably been through the profiles of 87 Mike Smiths and all of them served in the Air Force and now I now I have no idea uh I have gotten no less than 50 Facebook messages over the years that are hey are you the Jeremy green that passed out at that party one time in Philadelphia and I've had to respond with you had me to Philadelphia I'm going to go with no but I am learning something about this name that I carry that apparently we all have similar interests indeed indeed uh badminton Chief among them no doubt uh illumination uh 89 said demo Ryan to is there a coach you would rather play for that's not a wrong answer either they came out of the same system so I you're not you're gonna get no argument from me because that's a super talented defense too but that would be my one too okay now offensively um I would much rather play for Domingo Ryan because your quarterback is not old enough to be my dad so also not not not sure what I'm what I'm stepping into there if uh you know in this scenario there would be no you know Aon and good God what what you what you would get with Nathaniel Hackett with no Aaron we already saw that and I don't like it on the other hand I get Bobby slowick so sounds like that's a winner for me you're in the sportsy and this is zspn Ashville the battle for the belt you got the link up in the YouTube you got the correct one up in YouTube right there's no do on bitley uh thanks whoever pointed that out to me there you go I knew it looked weird and then I clicked on it and you know it's I got a lot of stuff I got a lot of stuff going over here and I'm not very smart okay sign up for the battle for the belt um it is the sports accuracy on ESPN Asheville of course we'll keep you up to date on all of the things NFL and talk more fantasy when we come back from the break here in the Eng 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have come up with a specialty gimmick at one French Museum that might get Jeremy interested bad nope there there there is now a uh an exhibition at the uh Mera Museum of European and Mediterranean civilizations I have a rule I don't go to any Museum whose name I fell asleep during and the new exhibit is called naturist par uh paradises there's paintings of you know lovely scenes and it's got a lot of naked people in it oh do like n people you do like NY people well here's the thing in order to allow France's naturist enthusiasts to get the most out of this naturist exhibit one night a month after closing they're opening up the museum to the naturist organization FFN it's called I don't know what it stands for I don't care I could come up with some really good ideas and get us both fired immediately but you know what but but you know what this means the new gimmick for museums naked night that's how you're going to get people in those doors the catch it's never the people you want to be naked oh you had there's always that there is always that that's the old rule when you see a sign that says nude beach just be prepared if you're going to go over that Dune you probably going to see some stuff you don't want them for every 10 Cindy for every one Cindy Crawford you'll see 10 Jay Crawford all you got to remember I would say more like a hundred um the uh naturous paradise's exhibit though does does require one thing shoes you got to wear your shoes you can go naked but you got to wear your shoes and they say that's to protect the visitors because of the paret flooring they don't want they want you getting splinters all right so I could trip on some water and get a splinter there but not in my foot precisely oh I guess that makes sense to French people weird if I was going to get a splinter I'd much rather it being my toe than anything that could preclude further bad mning my story is about Dabo Sweeny uh we will see him this weekend in Atlanta Georgia for the afflac kickoff game with the George Bulldogs last year you might remember that a caller Into His Radio Show became quite the story old Tyler from Spartanburg old Tyler from Spartanburg well unfortunately I C the Sarah mlock music cuz we got a problem mhm and that would be what I will you no more callers on dabo's radio show Tyler from Spartanburg broke it you just you sat the bar because you were 100% right dbo gotten his feelings so now came out from the one at 1055 the roar MH it's official Clemson football coach dbos Sweeny will no longer take it's not going to go well for Dabo the heat is getting turned up and you keep coming into seasons ranked 15th and ending up just barely making the ACC Championship Game you're not supposed to just barely do that well I feel like this is a great time for us to say that uh starting next week we we will have a phone in line we've tried to do this for a long time we have found finally found a way thanks to a very odd unexpected source that we can do this yeah and I think it is only fitting that we call our call-in line the Tyler from Spartanburg call-in line I love it and we find somebody to sponsor it and we have the Tyler from Spartenburg line sponsored by Little Caesars oh like it if Dabo won't take your calls Tyler I'll call we'll take your calls big dog we'll take your calls big dog uh fantasy quarterbacks for 2024 you got Josh Allen at the top Lamar Jackson at two three Jaylen Herz is my three okay Pat Mahomes is my four okay and there's a here here's where it comes into well you both play schedules that are not that awful and and you're just really safe if those two play 17 games they're going to finish in the top six it's just going to happen it's the nature of the Beast yes I have no insecurity with you I have no fear with you I don't think they have the top end upside but they don't they also don't have the scary floor because my five I'm not going to say he has a scary floor I do have the sophomore slump thing in the back of my head and it's CJ strad okay CJ strad could be the number one quarterback fantasy football Factor fiction I don't does he run enough does it matter with the receivers he has and a running game that I really don't believe in and a schedule that is not great I was going to say but what is that what does that statline have to look like if he doesn't run the ball does he have to throw 38 touchdowns and you know four interceptions to be able to to claim the top spot he finished 11th last year okay I'm not I'm I'm saying this sounds about right for him I'm just trying to figure out like what's he got to do to get to one he missed two games mhm and part of a third he threw for 4,100 yards had 23 touchdowns and five interceptions if he doesn't throw for I mean I think 30 is his floor okay the five interceptions yeah that helps he ran 39 times last year rush for three touchdowns if he could get that to five I mean I think there's a possibility CJ St throws for 5,000 yards this year that offense is that good you got that many receivers you got that many dudes MH all right I'll put it to this way Nico Collins Stefon Diggs tank Dell they all three play 17 games which one doesn't have over a thousand yards eight one there you go you're gonna get another four to five out of Joe Mixon and you've got You' still got Dalton shelu I didn't even mention very true I think that puts his floor at 4,300 mhm cuz I think I have Joe Mixon at 500 yards between the first three I said they end up somewhere in like that 3150 3200 range and then Dalton Schultz is good for another six to seven yeah I mean they just have so many weapons that it doesn't really matter which guy get it doesn't matter the matchup you're always going to have somebody that's in a good matchup mhm and I don't believe in Joe Mixon as a between the tackle running back the same way I do L Michel perun or not Lich yeah I was throwing it back the Chiefs just signed Sam a Peron my brain went to L Michel Peron we there was a lot of Perron in my head and I I met Pacho and you know what I mean we appreciate you walking us down that path though my brain's a dark place L Michel perine he was in Kansas City last year by the way we have breaking news all right breaking news who's going to break the news who's going to break the news who's going to break the news who's going to break the news it's from our buddy Jay Glazer the Pittsburgh Steelers have made their decision oh and Russell Wilson will be the starter week one no of course he will I figured that's the way that was going to go I really didn't because I thought that team was smarter than that well clearly they're not clearly they're concerned about the turnovers because that seems to be the only difference like there is an upside that to to Justin fields that Russell Wilson does not have the rushing and stuff and what Arthur Smith could do schematically with that with the other backs that they have and the other weapons that they have I think the only difference comes down to who's going to take care of the ball better and I guess Russell wins just by a nose Okay so walk me through that uhhuh it's about who's going to take care of the ball better yes okay so how do you win that way is that defense good enough to shut down the teams are going to play in the AFC no not good God no is that running game consistent enough enough that you're going to score points that way you planning on winning a bunch of these games 12 to 10 bro cuz that's about all you got I mean this is a team that just played three preseason games they rushed it 24 times for 78 yards in one M 27 times for 106 yards in another 25 times for 109 and that was their high water mark you couldn't run with your starters against backups in the pre-season what do you think is going to happen now that I'm not worried about your quarterback at all you have no weapons it's George Pickins and a bunch of dudes Pat Fri mouth I stand by what I say really you're off him it's not that I'm off of he's a good tight end he's not a seam stretcher he's not a guy that's going to beat you over the top no of course not I can put eight dudes in the Box against Pittsburgh Steelers if I have a legit number one corner and I have no fear of anything you can do nothing it's a decision that is very befitting of Mike Tomlin you'll never be awful but you're never really a threat and that's that's Russell Wilson and with Justin Fields can they be a threat they're harder to defend I can score see with Justin Fields I see multiple ways to score I didn't tell you either one of them was hey let's get the guns out and celebrate the Pittsburgh Steelers no at this point it's it's about what where are we at as a team what is the next step it I mean this has to be the discussion in that locker room of we're not good enough right we're not a championship team right now you got to go game by game and build us back into that so how do we get their best do we start off the season by having Russell out there that he's not going to turn the ball over maybe the first few weeks of the Season we get some favorable matchups in there we're able to I don't know get Justin Fields more acquainted with the offense or I don't know maybe just more study time is what Justin Fields needs I'm just trying to think of where your mind can be because I see the benefit to Fields it's a much tougher sell for me for Russ it is for me too because I just I I flat out look at your defense and go outside of TJ Watt and Alex heith I like Minka Fitzpatrick but I don't know what it is that you think you do that is going to shut teams down I mean you want my my Stone Cold lock of week one yes the Atlanta Falcons are going to hand you your ARS in your hat and laugh about it in Atlanta I'll bet you anything you want yeah Kurt Cousins and those big receivers against what you're throwing out there with one of the best off lines in the league oh and I've got two highlevel safeties that are going to screw with Russell Wilson which has screwed with him since the latter years in Seattle M and a true number one corner then you go Broncos Chargers Colts okay you could come out of that two and two three of those four games are on the road MH then you go Cowboys Raiders not that daunting yet catch one with the Jets I will be at that game good luck with that Giants commanders we feel good about ourselves you know we've played how many games that is what is that eight nine it's nine we're five and four we're competitive for the playoffs I want you to tell me the game they win from there Ravens at the Browns at the Bengals Browns at the Eagles at the Ravens Chiefs bingles not one that has five and 12 written all over it yes you need wi I do not see how you could possibly be a wild card Contender could you go n and eight sure CU Mike tomlin's a witch and that seems to happen just about every year whether it makes any sense or not can you be better than that no no no so is Mike Tomlin looking at the schedule going you know what we're not going to be good we're not going to win a whole lot of games see to me that schedule is why you start Justin Fields Russell Wilson ain't get any better well he's not it's just not going to happen and I'm telling you if you lay down a couple of those that you're not supposed to you lose to a Colts team that I think you're equivalent to at best yeah you could a Chargers team that talent-wise you're equivalent to at best on the road at the commanders God forbid you lose to the Broncos yeah I was going to say I know I know you're hot on the commanders as a sneaky team I think and you catch them at a bad time to cuz that's where they should really be hitting a stride and you still don't have Jaden Daniels hitting that now far less existent rookie wall because guys play some again in college yep I I I don't get it I I don't I do not understand what you could possibly have seen I've been getting reports from your Camp every single day I ain't heard a good one about Russell Wilson yet watched all three preseason games didn't see anything that made me think he was a starting level quarterback in this league is this one of those scenarios where he's a name so we got to throw him out there first week let him throw four interceptions and then bring in Justin Fields is that pressure still exist for Russell Wilson you can't have that quick trigger you just can't you'd have had to have really put that out there I mean this makes it sound like Justin Fields had no shot to win this job anyway which would scream the question to me why'd you bring him in here in the first place I mean because you know that's going to be a distraction unless because if he comes in here throws two interceptions in a half whoa boy oh yeah which I have no doubts that he'll probably do I get that once week one rolls around which we're just a little less than or a little over a week away from the start of the season week one rolls around I get you're going to have a different offensive line out there than you had in the preseason but none of that went well in the preseason no the the line was awful and so if that same thing happens in that first game Sitting Duck I don't see a way that that doesn't come back to bite you and then does it look poorly and this is from the pr standpoint then how poorly does that look on Mike Tomlin who already faces so much pressure from half of the fan base that now why are you why are you playing mik Tomlin Mike Tomlin doesn't get PR things don't matter you've got enough credits and debits that none of that matters at some point it's got to doesn't it I mean not as long you've never been sub 500 so yeah you got way more credits in that account than you've ever had debits I'm not worried about the pr I'm worried about there are a handful of ways that this can go horor awful and you got a fan base that's way more on the brink than people think because Steeler fans do not expect to be N9 and eight they expect to be we expect a Super Bowl every decade yep we expect to at least be in a Super Bowl every decade and that's on the low side this ain't the Jets I mean I'll I'll throw a shade at my own team you get the Jets to a Super Bowl we we'll let you stay here until you die we might pay your kid after you die right just because we will love you for so long Mike Tomlin you're the third best coach in our history and we've only had five so I just to me it's a this is a very it's a zero some game to me eating sleep football said this the best way I think you could possibly say it Justin Fields is the Lamborghini that keeps stopping in the middle of the road Russ is an Uber ride you may die you may not I couldn't said any better myself yeah it baffles me that this was the decision that was uh that was made in certain ways but also I'm I'm like any other fan I'm stuck on the name Super Bowl winner why would he not be the starter well and I do need to clarify this I'm not saying Justin Fields is a good quarterback because he's not Justin Fields is tougher to defend yes and your defense is close enough to really good that if you can run the ball you could win that way I don't see how Russell Wilson scares anybody out of a box ever I said this last year in Denver their weapons were better than yours straight up you have one George Pickins they had a courin Sutton and a Jerry Judy he couldn't do anything mhm but he only threw a couple of interceptions yeah he also only threw a couple of passes that went more than 20 yards too so I I mean if you want to play that way more power to you it's not going to go the way you want yeah Pittsburgh Steelers I I mean I guess we haven't really made it to week one just yet but I believe I did say that I do not expect both of these quarterbacks to be on this team when this decision was made so I guess that's just another failed prediction by me who's shocked you're in the sports occy and this is cspn Asheville it's easy to make excuses about not losing 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looking to bust a move there but no I can't sorry same button there it is who got the axe now now Jaylen rager New England Patriots have released Jaylen rer te's and pe's uh New England and Carolina combined for 10 waiver claims the rest of the league had 16 wow uh and if you're looking for the high Watermark names on that list um KJ Henry he he's he's doing stuff uhhuh uh he's going to Cincinnati MH end of message that's it there I me there's just not much there Carolina got six yep they they claimed three defensive backs which is shocking to me all right let's uh get into today's daily draft brought to you by our good friends at Dale's pale ale daily Draft today the most over covered stories in sports Feeling oversaturated by a certain topic this is where to stake your claim to say that I'm sick and tired of hearing about whatever number one pick on the board I'll I'll give it to you you're going to give it to me most oversaturated there is a very obvious number one pick here well I mean I want to I want to say but I but I can't say it cuz I'm not allowed to say his name oh does that just mean I should take the helmet down and hold it in front of the camera I think you should his name starts with a d and rhymes with Leon Sanders yeah that guy that's the obvious number I am so sick and tired of Coach prime it was funny for the first year it was funny till it wasn't and look I there was a possibility that you could have done good things here it has become so abundantly clear to me that you're not going to and now it's getting to such a point that at some point somebody has to stand up all right so I did a little digging and we're we're pulling just a flat back on conversation probation here not adamantly talking about we're actually talking about him to slam him here more than anything right so the reporter that he revoked the the it said he wouldn't answer questions yeah yeah Keeler or whatever from from The Denver Post uh do you know who that guy is no I just know he's a columnist there you go that's the only word you needed to know he's columnist he's paid to give his opinions that's that's what we areh this there not a reporter okay I heard this this morning said in a way that I it I've said it I've said the same thing I just haven't said it this precisely you you don't get a ton of columnists that go to these press conferences it is not unored that a coach would see a columnist and not want to give them an answer to the specific question that they're asking so they would just never call on them Colorado put out a press release that is the definition of unprofessional and so I dug into this just a little bit at this point I'm going to call Colorado miss new boobs okay because you're walking around with a hubris that is absolutely not justified at all yep and the only way I can equate it is somebody that has plastic surgery done a lot of plastic surgery done and they think they look just bullets and the rest of us are going how many bees stung you because your why is your face so shiny did they did they take fate F fat out of your keester and put it in your face because that's what this all looks like how many times since 2002 has Colorado won 10 games I'll say once it was once in 2016 mhm how many times have they won more than five five games since 2007 zero it's the same number it's one it's that one time okay you are a dumpster fire program I get it you were good in the 90s well there were some things that went into that but it's fine you had a coach when I was still legally allowed to poop my pants and not be made fun of you're a bad Athletic program and now you have a coach who's loud crass I will just go ahead and tell you mistreating some of these players no doubt the social media handle thing on the jerseys it's all a disaster and I get it you're going from a marketing standpoint I'm a marketing guy I get it at some point you run out of bull squirt to sell people and I feel like that's where we are with Deion Sanders and he knows it and that's why he's mad and that's why he banned the columnist from The Denver Post from asking questions because the guy was writing articles talking about the BS hype train that was Deion Sanders referring to uh you know all Colorado people in the National media as well as drinking the Dion Kool-Aid it's the same stuff that I said in week one of last year this is not good yes he's got two great players on his team he's got a couple of more more decent you know to good players on that team he has two first round pi say Shiloh's in that group he has two first round picks in the upcoming draft he has maybe three other guys that would get drafted he has maybe five more that will get drafted over the course of the next three years that's it this was a cute story when he was winning games at Jackson State once he jumped to a big Power five program and y'all all caught on to the that's the Colorado hype train they're 4-0 look at this aren't they the greatest thing since sliced bread never had me fooled not once and it's only gotten worse Story by Story by story here on uh the ESPN Airwaves on the nation one of the national shows I think it was yesterday I heard a reporter and I don't remember whose name it was what what his name was but he's a guy close to the situation say and he said I can't tell you what I know about what's going on in that locker room right now but there's going to come a day and anybody who wants to make a 3030 about this call me cuz I'm going to have some great stories and the problem the biggest problem about this is is that is going to shine some big old lights on some big deficiencies for some very very powerful people now I don't know if that's if that's like within the the media in ESPN hierarchy or if he was just talking about at Colorado with what they've allowed Dion to get away with and the type of culture that they've allowed him to build there this house of cards is going to come tumbling down in major fashion and I'd hate to say I'd hate to be the one to have to say I told you so I'm going to leave this right here and then we need to move on yes if half of what I have heard out of Colorado is true you have way bigger issues than what's going on at Michigan Wow way bigger ISS way bigger not because you're breaking rules per se but because some of these things will come out in the era that we're in and they will shine your program in such a poor light that you will never in my lifetime recover mhm I'm going to leave that right there I'm going to pin it I'm going to put literally a note of where I said that and 3 years from now I'm gonna remind you that I said it yep because I'm not there so I can't confirm it it's going to be bad uh notorious b with a really good point uh unpopular opinion I agree with him Dion is GNA hurt shadur and Travis's draft stock nor than he helps I think he already has mhm because both of them walk around like they are Elite prospects and neither one one of them are Travis is much closer he can't even which which side of the ball he was play on and he's telling people that like I want to come to the league and play wide receiver and Corner well you're not going to yeah it's not going to happen it's not how that works no because there's only so much tread on your knees and every time you run out for a pass route there's a reason we don't have guys do this a reason it hadn't really happened since Charles Woodson MH and he was different and it didn't happen as much with him as you think okay you left me you left me just a a smorgus board M I know if I don't take this you will my number one pick's Aaron Rogers Okay it definitely was not coming back to you I get why we talk about this so much here is my question if Aaron Rogers had gone to the San Francisco 49ers would we talk about him as much as we do because I don't think we would no I think this is all because he's in New York with a team that's really good minus the quarterback and I and I'll be honest with you I think he's over over covered on both sides he's one of the only people I've ever looked at and going I don't think anybody has a really unbiased take on him the people that hate him hate him too much you hate his political views you hate his take on whatever ever and you're crazy people you're wackadoodles the people that love him you're not seeing what's directly in front of your face and you are also wackadoodles at this point you should be taking the exact tack that I am as a 30 plus year Jet fan of man he looks good in a pair of shorts that arm's still a frozen rope he does look slow and he does look old mhm but I never said he had to be an MVP you have to be better than Z Wilson you have to be better than what trod Taylor would give you if you are this team's going to be tough to deal with if you're not it will go down as one of the greatest disasters in the history of the NFL yeah I mean if it doesn't work the problem Aaron has and the problem that we all have being on the other side of this and having to listen to it is obviously the injury the the injury did us all a disservice because now we just pick back up where we were last year we got 35 seconds of Aaron Rodgers on the field on the opening week last week and everybody jumped off a bridge we had the I'm done with the Jets from Jeremy this is the last straw until the Hope comes back Hope Springs Eternal and it's back Aaron is over covered you're right on both sides and you're right it was not coming back to you because I'm just so done with it I'm done with the not knowing the guessing is this going to work is he going to be good enough to get this team that is so def defensively strong to the playoffs and maybe to a championship thank God we only have one more week before we get to see full action on the field and then we can actually start making some real you know guesstimates on how this thing is going to go cuz we still don't know every oh he was bad in Green Bay the last year well he was 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started talking and then I was like oh he had it's what we have commercials for is that very thing I took coach Prime you took coach Prime I took Aaron Rogers uh my second pick is the easiest selection in the history of time it is and I'm G to cheat because I cheat that's what I do okay I'm going La bronny James both of them together if I never heard either one of their names for the rest of my life it would be I'd be perfectly fine with that because you are two people that are completely absolutely unequivocally irrelevant to the sport you play I have heard more stories in the last uh I'll say 24 hours but I think it's actually 48 that Brony James is not good LeBron told him not to call him dad on the court what' you think was going to happen he's going to walk around going P can I stand over here Papa sitting over there like yentel thinking Daddy can you Papa can you hear me good Lord daddy daddy daddy daddy they're dunking on my forehead again Daddy this is not fun for me uh yeah well over way overd dead yeah I way over dead I could I honestly think I and I don't even care for the NBA I just it you have burned me out I think I could name 40 players that are more relevant right now than LeBron multiplied by Brony now Bron's bringing bringing LeBron down as you multiply something by zero it also becomes zero irrelevant don't care don't everyone hear it again okay all right all right um my next selection over overplayed stories God I feel like you're having to think way too hard about I've got three that I could realiz well I mean you have you have much less tolerance for for Tom fullery than I do um oh I okay here's one I'm really sick and tired of hearing about the NCAA and its uh recruiting violations from now on I do not care if Chiron Moore goes out and he is contacting dudes at 3:00 in the morning in the middle of March when he's not supposed to I Don't Give a rip it does not matter to me now that these guys are are are are making money I'm I'm really not interested I mean I get that even the pros have rules of tampering and you can't reach out so and so and whatnot that messes with another team in your division right I'm high school kids who cares what time of day or what month of the year you're contacting the high school kids I'm sure every High School coach listening to that when you don't know what the hell you're talking about tank and I get it I probably don't I'm just we act when these stories come out we're expected to act like oh my God Michigan's cheating or whoever who was it yesterday that was in the news for this I don't even remember pen state or Iowa or there have been a bunch of them I just don't care at this point here's when here's when you can give me another one of these stories and I will care and it's not that I will care it's that I will laugh until I defecate on myself when Brian Kelly does another uh little hipop dance with a recruit on that stage I'll I'm in when oh let's I'm trying to think of the nerdiest coach I can think of who is the nerdiest coach in college football in college football I can't really think of a nerdy Kirby Smart I'll go Kirby Kirby Smart CU Kirby is a pretty nerdy dude he is when Kirby Smart stands out of a recruit's window holding up a boom box like say anything style then you can tell me till then I don't care I don't care who got paid I don't care who got word that rhymes with that it starts with an l i I don't care I do not care how these players are getting on cavus it doesn't matter it's a wild wild west you did this to yourself shut up about it yes all right and my next one it's I I I've already seen three stories in the last two days about this and it's it was a dumb idea when it was invented it didn't do a damn thing last year when you launch it and I really don't care what the dates are or what the matchups are for the NBA end seon tournament oh you're going you're going way you're going way deeper into this than I am I heard no you could have had I not done this for a living I wouldn't even known it happened ex precisely and that's the point my point is I have seen like I said three articles in the last two days and I'm pretty sure we're all about to get inundated with the TV coverage right the ads during all of the football that we're going to be enjoying this week in between college and then the NFL next week you are going to be seeing that oh the End season Tournament begins on November the 12th no one cares how this stupid tournament works it's ridiculous last year you named a champion and nobody cared you want me all right I got an idea I can tell you I can tell you how you could make me care let's go Deathmatch style like aew barbwire ropes something's on fire maybe a pit of misery then I'll care until then I do not care yeah I care literally zero NOP it's a madeup trophy and it it didn't work it got nobody interested it added nothing and the NFL is going to continue to drown out that stupid gimmick okay uh you left me two that are cuz I would we could have done this till tomorrow and I don't think I could have ever gotten to either of the two you just said yeah uh my first one is Russell Wilson I feel like I should be allowed to throw Justin Fields into that and take them together okay because I don't really care which one is the quarterback I find Pittsburgh to be way more interesting with one than the other but we have talked about this at nauseum and it's for a team who on the high side goes 9 and8 it doesn't matter it's not like one of these is a young guy that we really believe is the franchise I hate to break it to you doesn't matter who wins and now that Russell's won the starting job doesn't matter who plays how many games both of these dudes are going to be looking for somewhere else to play next year period and you're going to be looking for a new quarterback period doesn't matter uh and I cannot physically believe you left this one for me y uh Tay Tay I get why why Entertainment Tonight talks about Tay Tay at a Kansas City Chiefs game I I Get It For the Love of All that's good and holy can we just have football all right can I just I I would argue that Taylor Swift is the most overrated person on on the planet Earth I'll agree I I I need a respit from her face and that is on Sunday from 1 to 7 and then from 8:20 on Sunday night until whatever time after 11 that game ends and then 8:00 on Monday night and 8:15 on Thursday night outside of that you put her inwhere you want to because I don't watch television I don't care I need my safe space my tay tay safe space and I need it back I don't care if that means they need to break up I don't care if I I don't care I don't care if we need to start a new network the the anti- Tay Network I don't care MH I need it to be over she can keep her awful music and and and her awful wardrobe and all of the things she does 17-year- old girls can love it that's fine I'm a 37 year old man I don't care all right your face annoys me your voice annoys me and now we've gotten to a point that the sound of your name annoys me go away please I mean yeah I I probably should have taken it but the reason that I didn't is because I don't I don't I really don't mind it I really don't because I don't engage in it I don't care that she's at the games when they show her in between Place fine the girlfriend who is more way more popular than any person in the NFL ever thought about being yeah I'm going to show that person on television I I don't care show that somewhere else I don't ask for much in this life I me I want my football to be unadulterated well I mean you're you you're not getting that and and you'll never get it as long as Superstars show up to games they're always going to show them and when the show show them somewhere else give me Red Zone all right if you show them on CBS I don't care give me Red Zone Scott Hansen my guy my dude the best there is in the business I need 2024 to be a no no to a Tay Tay never going to happen she brings too many eyeballs to it I didn't you know the football fan in me didn't want to think that was possible but the numbers bear it out I mean hell look what just happened with the the the new heights podcast the Kelsey Brothers great product great guys they do a wonderful job I get why that's famous without I get that without Tay Tay it was doing okay it ain't making that kind of money it it wasn't making that kind of money right it ain't getting a100 million doll deal that's I don't think that's just for the distribution of it I I don't think that's you're locked in on that money I'm I'm just telling you that money is not that to it's it's not she helped she didn't help as much as you think yeah I just so happen to know how much some of the production deals are show on are on shows that do what we do trust me I keep showing up every day because I see a light at the end of the tunnel the only problem I have with with Taylor at the football games really is when the producers choose to use her music to come back from a commercial break I don't need to hear that NOP ever aw I don't it I have to hear that crap enough in my house and I do not want to hear it we sleep with music on every night and I try my damnest before she falls asleep or before I fall asleep to go and turn my music on because I know I'm going to have to wake up in the middle of the night listening to Tay Tay if I don't and I'm not interested because it's not good it not it does not appeal to me it never has and she is just fine this is the best way I can explain it there is you will never hear a better metaphor in the history of the world I would rather hear Bill Clinton Read 50 Shades of Gray and he replaced the main character with Hillary yes you would I would yes would she don't say no I'll do stuff to her they don't write about in the Bible not here for a good time I'm here for a long time let's go yes I am oh jeez I'm out yeah I'm good no good no good somebody just spit monster on their 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in the blue jean box the sports Ury what are you people on dope it is ESPN Asheville the sports Ury live in the Eng Les Studio still in the midst of the daily draft here the over covered stories you we're over covering them in the draft today 100% I came up with this that day and I thought we'll get to the bottom of the I mean this is like you know this is this is the Festivus draft this is the the Airing of Grievances this is the Airing of Grievances phase of the uh daily draft brought to you by Dale's paleale uh my over covered stories ones that I just hate every time I see them uh coach Prime he's a number one the ncaa's infractions the recruiting violations that doesn't exist anymore now that we're openly just giving McDonald's bags of cash away I don't care about what time or what day you called to recruit the NBA in season tournament has been in the headlines for the last two days cuz the NBA is just searching for any Breath of Life that they can find and they're not finding it you don't have anything that interests anybody here please move along in that same just remember you if you ever think that your life just sucks just remember you could be the social media intern for the NBA that's going what can I post that will get 11 views the first week of the college football season um Papa can you hear me that do it nope just jokes oh shoot oh if you just joined us that a reference to bronnie James and his father they were the number two selection of the most over covered story in sports for fler damas number one was Aaron Rogers two LeBron and Sun LeBron yeah uh then Russ and Justin yep the Steelers quarterbacks and then you took Tay Tay which pretty much everybody sick of yep no no no Tay Tay all good selections all good selections feeling pretty solid right now good for you good for you um as far as my next election goes um you know I am I am sick of one thing and this is not this is not in the media per se although the media still covers the the ridiculous aspect of of the Olympics it's been over for a while can we stop with all of the stupid memes please all of us can we all come together today and and and just agree that we can put the Olympics to bed we no longer we no longer yeah we no longer have to do this we don't need to share ray gun memes anymore we don't need to be sharing pictures of the uh the the the the the the trained killer shooter guy the the guy who took up shooting because he got divorced no more we don't need to do any of that don't care don't even kind of care precisely we'll put it away four more years can go by will'll never think about it again until 2 weeks before the O I mean at least that's how I do it I never think about Olympics or Olympic sports until about two weeks before the Olympics actually happen and then and then you got me then I'm hooked but once that closing ceremony happens it's over and I know and I do not care anymore and I guess I guess that's a bad break for the par Olympians who are going to be starting who are starting their games in Paris but it is it just it it is what it is I think I think I want to put Clemson down as my next one oh was that on your list yes I am really growing tired of what I said earlier remember when I said this is not where Clemson's supposed to be that's that's what I'm talking about I am sick of saying that I am sick of us having to play like this is a thing anymore because I don't think it is I think much like um well many look schools just schools and programs and pro teams they lose they get outside their window Clemson was a great run you had a couple of years where you ruled college football you were right up there with Alabama neck and neck that moment's over your coach has decided he no longer wants to play the game the way it needs to be played to be successful and I think we should stop giving them the benefit of the doubt they're not that program anymore I don't disagree with you at all I think you and I are going to Atlanta to watch them get absolutely housed and if I'm wrong I'll admit was wrong mhm I don't think I am I don't either the I'm struggling with the line a little bit for 13 and a half is a lot well it depends on where you're getting it I've seen it 13 and a half SE 14 14 and a half okay 13 and a half is much easier than 14 and a half 14 and a half is one of those where I go oh they can back door cover that I don't want that happen they could final selection from from you Mr Green I have two oh okay um I'm not going to take the Dallas Cowboys because I think that team is interesting they are I think Dak is interesting I think the CD lamb thing was interesting so I'm gonna narrow it down and I'm gonna take Jerry Jones on the hole at what point do you look at an 81y old man and go you're a bit of an old coot and that's just what you are and you say things sometimes that don't make a whole lot of sense now in this country we make those people president that works on both sides of the aisle make them laugh make them laugh Jerry Jones is a crazy person stop taking every stop putting a microphone in his face first of all but even if you do because you're at Cowboy camp and he just demands it stop taking every everything he says so to heart he backtracks probably 60% of it within three or four days it's just like the CD lamb thing oh we're well in no hurry to do it and then look what happened you did it a week later stop putting so much Credence into what he says a he has final say on this team stepen and a lot of people back behind the scenes are doing way more of that than you think you don't do that with hardly any other owner in Sports anywhere let alone in the NFL stop doing it with him you took Clemson from me and so you know what I'm you know what I'm I'm just I'm gonna do it I'm gonna do it this is I feel like I've already won this okay and so I feel like I can take my own little passion project it's Lincoln Riley could you stop I I understand that you want LA to be relevant it's not they're going to go into the Big 12 or big big 10 excuse me and get their absolute brains beat out oh but but deanton Lyn he's gonna change everything no he's not he's a good coach his dad's a good coach he ain't that good of a coach right Lincoln Riley has completely L this defense and had his fingers in his ears like la la la and now he has no quarter back not by comparison to what he's had in the past you had the best quarterback in college football talent wise last year and you were barely Bowl eligible I don't care what you do now I'm looking up and down that schedule going if you get to a bowl game I will I will actually give you a little bit of credit for that why are we still talking about them like they're nationally relevant they're not and I hate to break this to you in my lifetime outside of Pete Carroll they never have been not for one minute you take away both sides of that from the day Peak got there to the day Peete left they've never been nationally relevant again not with Lane kein not with Kay Hilton not with Lincoln Riley they weren't before that with Paul Hackett it's the same thing La doesn't care why do you USC is irrelevant they've been irrelevant they will continue to be irrelevant you took the money you went to the Big 10 that's fine enjoy being the eighth best team in your conference cuz that's what you are mhm some years you might get to six some years you might fall to 10 but that's where you live now and they ain't never coming back stop talking about him in the NFL stop talking about well could he take another job no because nobody wants him the book's out we've read it that felt good yeah I did that felt good yeah yeah was cathartic um my last one is going to be college football related as well this is more of a preemptive strike though so maybe this maybe this is my cheating pick of this is not the topic yet but I feel like we're going to have a whole bunch of discussions about this over the next year God if this is what I think you're about to do it's Revenue sharing in college football oh you had me so excited that I thought you were actually going to make this competitive in the what were you what were you thinking I thought you were about to say Brock pie and I was going to go oh that's so good cuz that was the one that I didn't take Brock pie that was my seven that's that's not a bad one um no a lot of successful quarterbacks in that system why we talk so much about this one and please for the love of God because he was Mr relevant and if he had been one pick before that what exactly would your Narrative of been yep that is that is a good one but when it comes to college football now that we've gone down the path now that we've opened the door with all the nil and stuff Nick Sabin started this discussion I think Nick Sabin was the first guy who said we're g to have to do the revenue sharing thing contracts all of that I think it's a good idea I've always thought it was a good idea with contracts but yes Revenue sharing I think is going to be a major topic of the football season when we're at you know when we're not talking about what's on the field that that's going to be the clerical issue of the year yeah my argument with that would be that's going to be adjudicated in a court through a lawsuit and they're going to be told what it is and I go ahead and tell you there's going to be a whole lot of big boys that really don't like it y because it's going to lead to an nil salary cap it's going to lead to a coaching salary cap it's going to lead to a whole mess of things that you ain't going to like that are good for the sport Abol they are because you have a lot of sleeping Giants that if you leveled off the money in this it wouldn't be Georgia and Ohio State and and Oregon and Texas and Michigan every year you would bring back a lot more Washington's I'll don't even go Florida State Miami Florida a lot of those teams if all things were equal it would be way closer than it is and that would be really entertaining for the sport to me MH but I I I don't think it's going to be a narrative I think it's going to be hey we just adjudicate a lawsuit and this is what it means okay if if they could bring back some parody that'd be great cuz I think it's only going to take one round of this 12 team playoff for us to figure out or for the for the for the masses to figure out there are some teams that just ain't built to compete and this whole group of five business that we got to you're telling me we're going to have an appalachin state or a liberty or a Coastal Carolina at some point in the playoff against Alabama smoked like a deli meat oh that's you know what we're going have to put a pin in that for tomorrow because we're running out of time and we got some stuff to to clear up we're got to push off okay we tried to do tight ends and quarterbacks we got through half of the top 10 of quarterbacks yep that good day work everybody really solid from us we have two uh we have a super chat first of all from our buddy Bo Walker no no yeah yeah yeah there we go how many times can we hit that's more airpl than Little John's gotten since 2016 uh that's not true never mind he said just wow it let get weird you're both in uh much trouble good thing about names on the door uh no it's what we we figured this out a few years ago hey we just come here and tell jokes hey it's y'all seem to like it so thank y'all for liking it uh he said love you guys we love you too my friend uh we have a shano ma here comes the money here we go money talk here comes the money raing two-time battle for the belt Champion Michael Meadows and his son Jeffrey Meadows he has now for the second year brought his son who almost beat us last year MH we we must team up to make sure that the name on this belt next year is not Meadows and if it is that it starts with a Jeffrey and not a Michael because he's now beat me twice and he's taking way too much joy he said something yesterday but it's a lot of fun taking my things away yeah I don't like that but you earned it did a great job thank you for being a great listener to the show now I've wanted to do this for two days and I'm doing it now hit the other button with your 7 Sam dirty pery shark of back flat I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore let the heat flow through you this started with mullet senior because he like I is a Jets fan and he's been looking at the J Joe Douglas has done and the undrafted free agents and all this talent that was getting ready to get cut so I was prepared yesterday to go on a little rant well then Joe D did that thing he did and started trading players and he kept all the guys I wanted to keep anyway but I had an idea because I start and it really has been reemphasized by the waiver wire today we have a slew of teams that are just outra every other team in the league and I'm not saying this is a problem that the average fan really cares about but if you're a fan of the Ravens if you're a fan of the Jets at this point that's new 49ers Eagles these teams that draft really really well we need a concession on undrafted free agents you've already basically throttled how much money you can spend you've got to give me something of how I can keep these guys and not handicap my roster the Jets had three Eric Watts Brad McGregor lyard Taylor the third all three of them had legit draftable grades they found a way to keep them it was hard you had to make a trade with a team in the division we need some spots we need some spots on the practice squad where these guys we can keep them in the building and I understand you're trying to keep up competitive balance and all those things it's not really fair that we Scout so well and I'm talking about those teams because for the first in my life my team fits into it we Scout so well and then we have to throw all these guys out there and if you notice looking up and down the waiver claims today did did you notice the teams that claimed a bunch of guys the Carolina Panthers who have missed on a slew of draft picks and the New England Patriots who have missed on a slew of draft picks I'm not saying it's pressing I'm not saying something we got to do tomorrow just you know maybe over the course of the year we look around we go you know what we'll add three spots we're giving draft picks away for for cultivating head coaching Talent we should be rewarding teams that can look at smaller School guys UND drafted guys and find ways for them to make the roster because that's really at the net root of it you doing your job I'm mad and this is the sports accuracy on ESPN Asheville and don't forget all season long the cas is just awaiting for you with the DraftKings Sportsbook app we had the appetizer last week and now it's time to Feast week one in full effect and of course it's all headlined by the big matchup in Atlanta between Clemson and Georgia which we will be there uh this is going to be the biggest DraftKings 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