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You could also be watching on the YouTube stream for the Fantasy Sports Network. Coming inside to Studio thirty four here in Midtown Manhattan at Rock and Riley's, we got a good show for you on a Wednesday, I got my guys down in the Fantasy Missy, who's the lone of the manim along the ones and twos keeping it so hot that we sweat steam. And we got my
boy Danny down there on the YouTube chat. He's gonna be monitoring that, letting me know what people are saying throughout the hour, because remember it is the Fantasy Freestyle. So who knows what we are going to talk about. Here's what I intend to talk about today, all right, there are now four vacancies left in the NFL for head coaches. They started we started the week with six. So what I'm gonna do is I am going to
rank all of those jobs that were out there. I'm gonna tell you if I were a head coach, what I would be considering before taking any of these jobs, and which ones maybe a little bit of a better situation than the rest. Here's what we're gonna do. Also, there are now eight teams left that are gonna play in what I considered to be the best weekend in
all of football, the Divisional Round. I'm gonna make put a kind of like confidence ranks on them, and I'm gonna tell you which coach quarterback combos I am the most confident in going into the Divisional Round. We will also talk with the hashtag stats over beat Cipher. If you want to holler at me, you can at eight
four four eight four three six eight seven nine. You know I always love to hear from the stats over beat Cipher will check in on the chat room as well on YouTube if you have any comments about head coach openings the divisional round and we have a poll question up on Twitter. As you know, we have to hit an R I P for our boy Ted Finn Jr. Who moved on while I was away on vacation. The question is how should we honor Ted finn Jr. How should we move on from him? Should we get another fish?
Should we get a different animal? Bavona was talking about a snake or a lizard the other day. Should we get uh nothing and just honor him by letting it lie or something else. Let us know what you think. I have already heard from my homegirl, Mim first team all lit, and she is not ready to move on from our guy, Ted finn Jr. Let us know what you think. We'll talk NFL head coaching opportunities, will talk the confidence I have in some of these divisional teams.
And I'm also gonna tell you why the NFL right now does not have confidence in their own officials. All that and more, along with news and notes from around the NFL. When we come back, it is the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Let's go. The sharpest fantasy sports minds are now available
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it is? It's your boy speeds and spitting statistician. I am the stable genius of the Fantasy Sports Radio Network and you are listening to the Fantasy Freestyle. Let's get it going. Okay, we've got some news and notes in advance of divisional weekend. There are still eight teams competing for the Lombardi Trophy, um and some and you know we're back at practice. Okay, so what's interesting to note? I mentioned that Rex Burkhead returned to practice yesterday for
the Pats dealing with that knee injury. They are saying that he was quote unquote heavily favoring that knee today in practice. I think this is going to be one of the one of the biggest issues for any of the teams that are playing this weekend, because if Rex Burkehead is any reasonable fac simile of himself, I think it compromises Dion Lewis. And I think it, you know, because it does provide an opportunity and an option in the run game and in the passing game for the
New England Patriots. So keep an eye on Rex Burkhead. Julio Jones did not practice today because of that ankle injury. Listen, this is the same injury Julio Jones has had for a while. He played through it and got nine catches and a touchdown in wild Card weekend. I expect Julio Jones to be out there for the Falcons on Saturday as they take on the Philadelphi ther Eagles. One guy who will not be playing for his team is DeMarco Murray on the Tennessee Titans. They have ruled him out
for their game against the Patriots. So it looks like it will be uh, Derrick Henry and Marcus Mariota doing the exotic smash mouthing for the Tennessee Titans. Interesting to note, I don't think it affects their game this weekend. But Sam Bradford has returned to practice for the Minnesota Vikings. They now have a three week window in order to activate them if that's what they want to do. I think it's interesting. At least maybe he's uh, you know, it's good news that he's back in the fold and
back active, at least in practice. Remember, all three of the Minnesota Viking quarterbacks are in fact free agents in the off season. It's gonna be a very interesting off season for the Minnesota Vikings. But before that, they still have a chance to host the Super Bowl, and I'm sure that is their short term focus. Today. You know, we had some coaching news yesterday with John Gruden with
Navy as well. Today we're hearing a lot about coordinators. Okay, it looks like the Chargers will be retaining both their offensive and their defensive coordinators. You know who is not retaining pretty much anybody? It is the Seattle Seahawks. I don't want to mention this because I've been saying for a couple of weeks that I think, uh, the walls are closing in on the Seattle Seahawks. I said that I noticed that when Bobby Wagner and Earl Thomas, we're
going back and forth. Will check this out. Today, the Seattle Seahawks have fired their offensive coordinator Darryl Bevil after seven years. They fired their defensive coordinator Chris Richard after a number of years with the team. They are firing their offensive line coach Tom Cable. It looks like the Seahawks are cleaning house underneath Pete Carroll. It looks like, listen,
there is a regime change there. They are pretty much acknowledging that they're gonna need to do something different, especially on the offensive line. Where when they went to the Super Bowl for Super Bowl forty eight, they had the most money spent on their offensive line. Now four years later, they have the east amount of money spent on that offensive line. This is a team that, to be quite honest, is Russell Wilson and not a lot else. I know that they still have their studs on the defense, but
the legion of boom is getting older. There were chips in the armor this season. Also, think about a Doug Baldwin, their number one receiver. He is turning thirty years old this year. Jimmy Graham, who had nine touchdowns I believe, and a Pro bowler. He is a free agent. I know he is friends with Russell Wilson, but there is the potential that Jimmy Graham moves on as well. Keep an eye on the Seattle Seahawks. They may look a lot different come next year. Also interesting news out of
Dallas Cole Beasley their wide receiver. Apparently you can add him to the list of football players that try their hand at rapping. He's released. They track called eighties stings. Um, we're gonna play that maybe later on in the week, because here's what I want to do. I want to compare what Cole Beasley does up against our boy. The analyt is Chris Venture. Everybody here at the Fantasy Sports Radio Network telling me that he dropped a couple of bars.
Chris Venture is not back yet with us here on the Fantasy Freestyle. He will be at the end of the week, though, So what I want to do when Chris is back is I want to play a little bit of what Venture did for me when he was filling in for me on the Fantasy Freestyle last week. I want to juxtapose that against Cole Beasley and see what happens. And I also want to talk real quick. The Chargers have signed place kicker Roberto Aguayo. Okay, so
he's gonna get another chance. And just to update something that I talked about at the beginning of the week. Remember how I talked about how um with these kids at places like Georgia and Alabama stockpiling of talent. Well, the starting quarterback for the Georgia Bulldogs at the beginning of the season was Jacob Easton, and he has announced that it looks like he's going to be transferring back to his home state of Washington. He is from Lake Stevens, Washington.
It looks like he may in fact transfer to you Dubs after Browning moves on. Remember now Georgia has uh from who was there as a freshman. They also have signed the number one quarterback in the recruiting class as well, So it looks like Jacob Eason is moving on. All right, here's what I want to do today. On the Fantasy Freestyle.
The first thing I want to do is tell you we got that pole question up again, remember about what should we do with Ted finn Jr. Right now, thirty three of you, a third of the people who have responded to the pole so far say that, uh, we should get another fish. And I think that that's interesting because everybody was complaining about how he took care of his water and if he was okay and all this.
But people are now saying that we should get another fish or place Ted finn Jr. Maybe we'll name Mike gillies Lei or something else. I will tell you someone who is not down with this, and that's my co host on the Sunday Lineup block Show. Maria Marino is saying on Twitter that we need a proper morning period before any other mascots can be considered. How tag too soon,
but people think that we should get another fish. My guy, Mike Florio of Fantasy Best Friends Forever Fame says that corn Roll Chris Ventra is my pick for the mascot. Go on Chris Vnch's Twitter page you'll see what we're talking about. Mike Florio is also gonna join me on the Fantasy Freestyle tomorrow. Uh, we're gonna talk a little bit about a way too early draft we did among the hosts of the Fantasy Sports Network. So get in. Maybe we'll talk about how to replace Ted Finn Jr.
As well. What I wanted to hear from you guys on the YouTube chat my boy Danny down there in the Fantasy Pit of misery. Let us know what you think we should do, all right, let us know if you think we should get another fish, if we should uh honor him by maybe not replacing him, or something else. Because Chris was talking about a venus fly trap earlier in the week. So I want to hear from you guys. Danny chat with them, let me know what the people
are saying. We'll talk about that a little bit later on in the show. What I want to do right now is to you about the head coach openings that are in the NFL, though there were six going into this week in Oakland and the Giants, the Colds, the Lions, the Bears, and the Cardinals. The Bears and the Raiders have filled out their openings. But I want to tell you how I would ranked. First of all, here's what you gotta do. You gotta consider what, like kind of
the priorities are the criteria. If I was a free agent coach and people are, you know, seeking permission to interview me, I'll tell you what. The first thing is really the quarterback. This is a still a quarterback league. You need, I think a team that has a quarterback that is you know, between ages thirty excuse me, between ages seven and thirty one, that is in its prime.
That is one of those quarterbacks things and still read defenses get you out of the bad plays into the right ones, the ones that are at the line going oh maha, kill kill kill. That's what you want. You want one of those quarterbacks that are gonna be stable, that are signed with your team, because that's what you need, right That is, uh, the number one priority for me.
The other thing I look at as I look at the division, and I look at if I can compete in my division in the short term, you know, I don't want to be To be quite honest, let's put it this way, the NFC South would be a horrible division right now to be in, you know, because let's say Tampa Bay, you know, fired their coach. Let's just say, right, I know, I gotta contend with m v P candidates. You know, I gotta contend with I gotta contend with Cam Newton, I gotta contend with Drew Brees and that
sort of stuff. So I gotta tell you that would be something I look at. And then what I look at is the ownership. Is the ownership stable, is the ownership committed? Is the ownership gonna spend the money? These are the things I think about. The quarterbacks, the ownership, and the division. So for me, that is why the number one job in my opinion, is the one that got filled and that is in Oakland. That is to me, the number one job. And so they were able to
attract a guy like John Gruden. You have the quarterback Derek Carr in place, he signed the contract, He's you know, healthy, he's a team he's a young quarterback. He's a quarterback that has some mobility and a quarterback that can absolutely sling the rock. You have the commitment in place from the ownership. You know they're gonna spend money. Why because they got that move to Las Vegas. So I think John Gruden put himself in the best job that was
out there. There were five other jobs. Okay, Chicago, however, they filled it with Nagy. I think they did what they had to do. They had to find kind of a hot coordinator. That was a year too early, let's say, because honestly, you know, they're probably the worst team in that division. You gotta contend with the Minnesota Vikings, who are gonna be good for a while. You gotta contend with Aaron Rodgers, so you're not gonna get your pick of the litter. It's not like they are brimming with
talent either. You know, they need talent on the outside. They have a young quarterback that they're still trying to develop, so they tried to find a young, up and coming mind. It's different. Oakland was able to get the number one talent out there. Chicago had to take a chance on a young and up and coming offensive mind to mold them. I'm gonna talk about the other job off that are available when we come back. The one that I would take might supplies. You find out what it is when
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the best weekend in all of football. A little bit later on in the show, I'll give you my confidence ranks of the eight teams that are still playing as it relates to the head coach and the quarterback combo. And that's the thing, because we're talking about now these open head coaching jobs. You know, John Ruden just went to the Oakland Raiders. I thought that was the best job out there when you consider the quarterback, when you consider the division, when you consider the wherewithal of the
ownership group. Listen, you're gonna be able to represent as the team moves to Las Vegas, so that would be pretty cool. And then also Naggy down in Chicago. I think it was fitting that they had to get a coordinator that's a little bit early with it. That would be a stretched job for him, because, listen, you not have as attractive as an option. You're in a tougher division with Green Bay and Minnesota and even to a
certain extent Detroit. There, you know you don't have the talent you have to develop this young quarterback in Mitchell Trabinsky. So I can see how they had to kind of reach for someone to fill that role. But here are the other four jobs, right, you have the Cardinals, you have the Giants, you have the Colts, and you have the Detroit lines. I'm gonna tell you, going in order from four to one, what I think are the most
attractive jobs. And I gotta tell you the one that I think is the hardest one, the worst one is the Arizona Cardinals. And here's why. Remember for me, the priorities go quarterback, then division, then ownership. And I know that the Bidwells are great owners. I I like the front office there. I like that they have a decent defense. They have some young talent there. Obviously David Johnson. You know, you gotta love the honey Badger. But here's the thing.
When I look at the quarterback and I look at the division, those are both negatives for this job. B Carson Palmer just retired, so that this is an open question. Are you gonna try and lore uh free agent quarterback? Are you're gonna try and sign Tyrod Taylor or Alex Smith or Kirk Cousins. I don't know that that's an attractive option for this quarterback. You know, because you have Larry Fitzgerald there will He's still be there. And to be quite artist, managing an aging superstar is one of
the hardest things to do with the coach. Why would you inherit that when you have an aging Larry Fitzgerald, when you have an aging Adrian Peterson who may or may not be there, you have an aging Patrick Peterson who may or may not be there. I think that is a slippery slope for a new coach. You also have the division there, right, So on the quarterback side, what are you gonna do? You know, use your mid level pick in the first round to draft the quarterback.
Do you really want to hit your wagon to Baker Mayfield? Do you really want to hit your wagon? And Josh Allen as a new coach, I don't know. And then when you look at the division, the Rams look like they're gonna be good for a while. Okay young at coach McVeigh. You got Burly and got their young. You got a Wade Phillips coordinating the defense that are gonna be good for a while. You got the forty Niners, who everybody thinks with Jimmy g Q at the helm
is ascending, like whoa. They won their last five games. You know that Lynch in Shanahan. They have a commitment there to try and turn things around. You have to Seattle Seahawks in that division. I think the Cardinals are gonna be the worst team in the division for the foreseeable future. They don't really have an answer at quarterback.
They are my toughest job to staff. I think they're gonna wind up not with one of the names you know about, not with the Josh McDaniels, not with any of these hot coordinators, not with any of these big names. I think they're gonna have to go the same route as the Chicago Bears and get a guy who this will be maybe their first opportunity at head coach. I think that's where the Cardinals are gonna have to go. The third job out of the four that are left remaining,
in my opinion, is the Indianapolis Colts. I see some issues with this Indianapolis Colts team as well. Okay, you know, the ownership might be willing to spend, but the ownership is also out there on social media or the say is kind of a distraction. He's he's not necessarily the stable genius that I'm looking for in ownership. Here's the other thing. This division is not as much of a cake walk as it used to be. The two Tennessee Titans are gonna be hovering around eight and eight, nine
and seven for a while. The Jacksonville Jaguars are on the ascend. You know, so I don't know the Houston Texans man with Deshaun Watson underneath center, they will be contending for a while. This is not the laughing stock division that it once was. And here's the here's the kicker. What do you have at the quarterback position? I know that Andrew Luck is amazing when healthy, but you're inheriting a question mark at quarterback, and his contract at one
point was the heaviest in all of the NFL. Is that really what you want? Is that really decided? Do you really want to inherit the question mark at quarterback that Andrew Luck is? This could be an issue for you for the next one to three years that you're still trying to figure out and then wind up with Jacoby Brissett as your option, or even worse, you have to manage an aging Frank Gore. Is that what you want? You have to manage a bottom five defense, a blunt,
guts trash offensive line. This is a team that could be far away. Andrew Luck was, You're saving Grace and now that is a question mark as well. So I don't know that the Indianapolis Colts are gonna be able to attract a big name. Then you have the two that are left that I think are actually decent. But I'm gonna surprise you because I think the number one job is actually the Detroit Lions. I like the Detroit Lions job. I told you it comes down to the quarterback,
and much like how Oakland has Derek Carr. I love Matthew Stafford. I love Matthew Stafford as a quarterback. This I is stable, He's in his prime right now. And I think you have an improving team. I think you have an improving offensive line. I think what they're gonna do. I think there's rumors out there that Matt Patricia, the Patriots defensive coordinator, is gonna be the answer there in Detroit,
and I like that. You need to bring in a defensive guy because with that also allows you to do is keep my guy Jim Bob Cooder to man the offense, and I think that's what Patricia might do. The offense is not the problem. Yes, they need a running back. If I was the Detroit Lions, I would go the way of Dallas drafting Zeke at number four. I would go the way of the Jags drafting Leonard four Net at number four. I would draft a stud running back.
If I was the Detroit Lions. It's not gonna be Sae Kwon Barkley, but if you can get a Darius Guice out of l s U, A Sony Michelle out of Georgia, Rashad Penny from San Diego State I would invest the draft capital for a running back, or if you could pry Carlos Hide away from the Niners, if you can get a Van Bell away from the Pittsburgh Steelers, that's where I would go, and then I would impart my scheme. I think a defensive coach would love this opportunity.
The cupboard is not bar in Detroit. You have the quarterback. I like this Detroit Lions job even better than the New York Football Giants. And here's the other part. Aaron Rodgers isn't getting any younger, so eventually it's not like it's not like a um Tom Brady or Drew Brees or Philip Rivers or a big bend situation. But Rodgers is not getting any younger. And I think right as you start to build your culture and be on the ascend, that's when Aaron Rodgers might step away in that division.
I like the Detroit Lions job, and I think they're gonna be able to attract a big name, and I think that name is going to be Matt Patricia, the defensive coordinator of the New England Patriots, and that leaves the Giants. The Giants I have is better than the coult job, but worse than the Detroit job. And here's why. Yes, you have a classy, stable organization. Check. The Matra family is one of the best in the NFL, you know, along with the Rooney's and a couple of others. So
that's not a concern. The division is going to be competitive. Dak Prescott and Zeke Elliott are young. The Philadelphia Eagles and Carson Wentz are young. They're gonna be contending for a while in that division. But the quarterback position is as is a problem for me. I like having the guy in his prime, the Staffords, the cars. That's the kind of guy I want to inherit. If you told me Andrew luck was healthy, that's where I would want to in HEROD. I don't want to inherit. This public
relations nightmare that can be Eli manning. This is what did This is what did Bob mcadowin right, benching Eli playing Eli, Having to respect Eli. Managing an aging superstar is one of the hardest things for a coach to do, so that would be a problem for me. And also, this offensive line trash running game non existed. Yes, you have a defense, but I think the Giants are actually further away a then most people think. I think they're
further away than the Detroit Lions are. So that's why I would go Detroit one Giants to Colts three and Cardinals four. I like the Raider's job and John Gruden better than all of them. The Bears job is right around the Indianapolis Colts. To me, that's how I would rank them. All right, That's how I think these jobs should go um and I think Detroit is gonna get a nice name in Matt Patricia. I wouldn't be surprised if the New York Football Giants wind up with Josh
McDaniels as their new head coach. Remember still going with that tree. I think Josh McDaniels will have his pick, and I think that he would prefer the New York Football Giants over the Indianapolis Colts unless for some reason he knows that Andrew Luck is gonna be healthy. And I think the Arizona Cardinals are in bad shape. I think, like Chicago, they are going to have to take a chance on a young, up and coming name that is gonna, you know, want to grab any opportunity they can, much
like the Chicago Bears. Because I think they are primed to be the worst team in that division for a while, and I think their quarterback situation is a problem. When we come back here on the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, We're gonna do a couple of things. I'm gonna tell you my confidence ranks when it comes to the teams that are still left in the division A round and then Yo, it's the Fantasy Freestyle, so
we have to go to the hashtag stats overbeat Cipher. Okay, and I want to see what you guys are saying about Ted Finn Jr. What you guys are saying about these head coach openings, And if we have time, we're also going to talk about why the NFL does not have a ton of confidence in their officials. Okay, there's a bunch of reports out about one officials, specifically who I think is going to be moving on much the way Adelaide Bird moved on after calling that Triple G
Canelo Alvarez fight. We're gonna get into the at on the Fantasy Freestyle, and we'll also check in on the YouTube stream. I know the YouTube stream is talking a lot about how we replace Ted Finn Jr. Right now, thirty percent of you say get another fish, while thirty two percent of you you say, honor him by not just replicating him and replacing him. Ever, let the memory of Ted Finn Jr. Live on of you. I'm saying
to get another animal as a mascot. I'm a little concerned about that because I get allergies in this fish bowl that is Studio thirty four here at Rock and Riley's all right, we're gonna be coming back in right after this. Here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, it's your boy, Dame Martinez Speeds, the spitting statistician, the stable genius of the network right here on the Fantasy Freestyle
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know why, because he is a stable genius. Here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, we talked about head coach openings. But listen, this is the best week in the NFL in my opinion. Okay, the one and two seeds are in action. You get two games on a Saturday and two games on Sunday. I'm a little disappointed in some of the games, though I'm not excited about necessarily the Tennessee New England game. I think the Pats are gonna roll. Um. I'm very excited to see the Saints and Vikings game.
I think that's gonna be the best game of the weekend. I think we have a home dog situation in Philadelphia, so if you listen to the Fantasy Freestyle, you know how Speeds feels about the home Dogs. And then of course we also have that revenge game maybe for Big Ben and the Pittsburgh Steelers looking at um, you know, return the favor on what they did with the Jacksonville Jaguars came to town. I believe that was week five, five, six in the head because that's how many interceptions big
Ben through. So let's look into it. Okay, here's my confidence ranks and we'll go eight through one. The team that I am the least confident in this weekend is the Jacksonville Jaguars. Listen, and this comes down to their quarterback. Okay, I know their defense is there. I have no problem with their head coach, Doug Morone, their exactly their front office, um Tom Coughlin. But the problem is Blake Bortles has
the yips. But and now you may say back to me, what Blake Bortles through for less than a hundred yards in Week five when they beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, And that would be true. But I don't think that's gonna get it done this time. I just can't be confident in Blake Bortles. And the thing is, I think the Jaguars defense is gonna do work, but I think Pittsburgh will be able to score some points. The question is, can Blake Bortles keep the Jags in it by scoring
points them selves? You know they got ten points last last week against the Buffalo Bills. Uh, the Pittsburgh Stelers are a better defense. I think they're gonna need to score more than ten points. Even though the Steelers are facing a great defense. I think the Steelers gonna put up points. Antonio Brown is their leavy On Bella is there. I'm not confident in the offense of Jacksonville. There in the eighth position in my power confidence ranks. Seventh is
the Tennessee Titans. Listen, I'm not confident in Mike mclarkey is what it comes down to. This guy's job was on the line. He saved his job by winning in Week seventeen and winning in wild card weekend and upset fashion. I believe his job was in jeopardy. I think his offense this exotic smash mouth at this point in the year. I think it's a twentieth century offense. I I don't
have confidence in it. Remember there were times earlier on in the season where guys like Richard Matthews were talking about how they like going to the no huddle, and I think that's better. I think Um malarkey was on the edge of being fired. He saved his job, but I do not have confidence in them going into England and winnings. So they're in the seventh spot. For me.
In the sixth spot is the Philadelphia Eagles um. When it comes to NICKI Foles and Peterson, Listen, I have confidence in their defense, I have confidence in their running game. I have confidence in their home field advantage. Okay, for me, it's just about Nick Foles. For me, it's can Nick Foles be the guy who was there the first week
he stepped in for Wentz instead of the last couple. Okay, it's just such a shame that they lost Carson Wentz because otherwise, remember I was on the Eagles early, Okay. I I do have some concerns about this team if they're gonna be able to adjust what comes their way. So that's why they're in the sixth spot for me, and you know, Peterson is also new to this in the head coaching position. Up next though, for me in the five spot is the Minnesota Vikings. I have confidence
in Mike Zimmer, I have confidence in that defense. I have confidence in them at home. But Ton case Keenum still has to answer some questions, you know, case Keenum. It's it's a shame because he's been doing it all season long. Right, He's been doing it all season. But the thing is, Zimmer wasn't even confident in him. He would only go to him and be like, he's my starter this week, Teddy Bridgewater breathing down his neck, you know.
So I have confidence in Minnesota, I really do, But I just have more confidence in their opponents this week. I think that that Peyton Breeze combo is one of the most you know, is one of the head coach quarterback combos that you should have the most confidence in out of everybody this week. So Jacksonville eight, Tennessee seven, Philadelphia six, Minnesota five. Although I will say this is not necessarily the way I'm picking the games, Okay, this
is just my confidence in the coach quarterback combination. And so Zimmer and Keenum wind up as number five. I have slightly more confidence in number four. It's Atlanta, dan Quinn and Matt Ryan. They have been there before together. Remember this team went to the Super Bowl last year. Matt Ryan the defending m v P. You gotta have more confidence in Matt Ryan than you do in a guy like case Keenum. And also they did this already. They went on the road last week to l A
and it looked like a business trip to them. And I have confidence in that that they can travel with their business trip, know that they can run the ball, know that they have an m v P quarterback. I think that gives me more confidence than even a Case Keenum his first time out there, Nick Foles his first time out there. Remember I said early on that I like the NFC South in the NFC, that I liked Ryan Cam and Breeze and this plays into that. Okay, so give me Matt Ryan and having confidence in them
ahead of some of the other guys. I may still pick Minnesota. And just because I have Atlanta higher than Philly doesn't mean I'm picking the Falcons. Remember I love the home Dogs. But this is which coach, quarterback combo do I have confidence in. So Atlanta is number four. Number three is in Pittsburgh. Mike Tomlin, Big Ben. They've been together for such a long time. They are at home.
It looks like Antonio Brown will be healthy. I just every now and Ben then though, Big Ben man, you know, makes that bone head play, whether it's the last play against the um Patriots in that game, whether it's the game he had against Jacksonville and their first matchup. I love me some Mike Tomlin, I love me some Big Ben. But they wound up third just because they have slightly
more confidence in the first two. Number two is uh the Saints Listen Sean Payton, Drew Brees, Hall of Famer Drew Brees, Sean Payton super Bowl winning coach with Drew Brees. I really like what they're doing. I really think they are the most complete team. I like their defense is improving. They have the running game, which they haven't had since they won the Super Bowl in two thousand What was that two thousand and eight, two thousand nine. So I
love uh Peetyton and I love Breese. Don't be wrong. I love Pittsburgh as well. There. Actually might pick to win the Super Bowl because I think that the a game of the Pittsburgh Steelers is better than the game of anybody else. But I have Pittsburgh at number three, New Orleans at number two. The combo of Peyton and Breeze. I love the evolution of this team. Four of the top ten quarterback seasons in history belong to Drew Brees, both in terms of passing yards and in terms of
completion percentage. That gives me confidence. I love what they have there. But Number one, even with the drama that we discussed yesterday, is the New England Patriots. Bill Belichick, Tom Brady. Yeah, you can have no more confidence in that. Although I do believe that they get up ended, and
I'm gonna talk about why a little bit tomorrow. I got a sneaky feeling that, um, this concussion protocol is gonna be the problem of somebody big time in the NFL Playoffs, but we'll talk about that a little bit more tomorrow's edition of the Fantasy Freestyle. What I want to do right now is I want to go to
the hashtag stats overbeat Cipher on the YouTube page. We got that chat room and you know it's a Fantasy Freestyle, So I want to be able to address whatever you people are saying in the chat, whether it's about Ted Finn Jr. The head coach, openings, the divisional round of the playoffs, or something else. So we bring in my man Danny right now for the end of this segment. Down there in the Fantasy Pit of misery. What are
the people saying down there on the YouTube chat? What are we talking about today on the Fantasy Freestyle, Danny, Well, we're all over the place, but give me what they're talking about. We can talk about Ted Finn as well, but what's all over the place. I'm down to freestyle with the people all over the place, meaning majority is Ted Finn replacements or tributes to Ted Finn. Okay, so let's get into that a little bit. Um. Here's my thing. Yesterday I think you guys were talking about a dog.
I can't have a dog. Because I get allergic to a dog, okay, and I don't think it would be humane to have a dog in this environment. It's too hot, it's too cold, it's not getting taken care of. The lights are too bright, you know. So I don't think a dog works. But what do people want to do to honor Ted Finn? Because right now the poll question it's pretty it's pretty tight. Thirty two right now saying get another fish, but thirty are also saying don't ever
replace him. So what do the people want to do? So, as far as we'll get to the other animals first, but as far as the dog thing, um Strong Style Ninja says, we should get a pug and name him, uh, pug Martin. I like that. I like that Pug Martin. I like I like to play only I like to play on words for an athlete in the in to honor Ted Finn Jr. So whatever we do next, we will we will give it a nickname. Kevin Freeman said
we should we should get another fish. I guess he didn't really suggest the fish, but I'm guessing it's some sort of sea creature because he said Megatron, the megalodon. Okay, So that is definitely a marine animal, shall we say? And I I like the idea of marine animals, okay, because I think they're easy to be contained in a bowl, in a in a tank, um and they don't make me allergic. So I like that. I like that. What about people, because right now we have thirty two percent
are saying we should never replace him. Maria Marino also thinks it's way too soon to start to consider this. So are there any people on that side of the way that we could maybe have a tribute? Actually, Lance Davis says we should get a plaque for ten Finn. Like that? I like that. That is my new favorite. We should get a plaque almost like a not like a tombstone or a grave site, but maybe a plaque that we could put up right by the Mike Tyson
or something else here. I like that. We gotta talk to our guys, Mike car Donald and Nando Dafino see if we can make a plaque. We've got championship belts here. We should have a plaque to Ted Finn Jr. Who is that? Who is that that had that suggestion? Davis? I'm with Lance Davis, Okay, I really like it. Hey, Lance, Davis, you are officially part of the hashtag stats over beat Cipher.
I like your suggestion. We need a plaque here in Studio thirty four to honor Ted Finn Jr. When we come back here on the Fantasy Freestyle, we'll hear more from Danny down in the Fantasy Pit of Misery. It's the Freestyle, so we gotta hear what people are saying, and we'll also tie a nice neat little bow on this episode of the Fantasy Freestyle. Tell you what you can expect later on in the week. It's your boy. Dame Martinez Speeds, the spitting statistician, the stabble Genius here
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Fantasy Freestyle here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Our boy Ted Finned Jr. Has gone to the crossroads and we're talking to here on Fantasy Freestyle about how we should appropriately honor our boy, Ted Finn Jr. If you're a fan of the Fantasy Freestyle, you know about Ted finn Jr. Right now, say get another fish the same amount. Say never replace him percent, say get a different animal mascot Our Homegirl, first Team All lit Maria Marino says,
we need a proper morning period. Maybe we should do awake for him. We also check this outby Laredo. This was big news for Habby hit me up on Twitter saying did this happen today? I just got back from vacation. R I p Ted Finn Jr. Fantasy Hall of Famer. I agree, And then Hobby Laredo says, what about a turtle? And I think that's very interesting. Uh, Danny down there in the Fantasy Pit of misery, has anybody suggested a reptile like a turtle for Ted Finn Junior's replacement. It's
funny you would say that. Eric Johnson said we should get a turtle. Yeah. I like turtle. I might get a turtle myself in my like real life, also in my domicile. I'm looking into a turtle. The unicorn knows what's up. Also, we got Jimmie Ross Junor on Twitter saying, check this out. I would stick with a stuffed fish from a toy store. That doesn't sound like any fun
to me. What do you think we could get? What about those uh, those giant fish that you can actually control, like the little mini blimp things, so we can fly them around the studio and everything. But then, you know, we got the lights, we got the cameras. I don't know if that's gonna work out. Yeah, mabe, it'd be good for a while. It'll last seventeen weeks, listen. I am, I am. I am surprised and overjoyed that Ted Finn Jr. Did in act last that long. But we gotta keep
it moving. Maybe we'll get a turtle. Maybe we'll get a plaque. I like the plaque idea. We gotta keep that one alive. Hey, check this out. Tomorrow on the Fantasy Freestyle, our boy the Manimal, Chris Bovona will not be here. We're gonna be joined instead by one of our best friends forever down there in the fantasy Pit of misery. It's gonna be Mike Florio producing the show, and he's gonna hop on because a lot of the
hosts here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. We did a way too early for two thousand eighteen Fantasy football Draft. Mike Florio had the number one overall pick. I had the number four pick. So we're gonna break down the little mini draft that we did, and we're gonna see if he likes his team, if I like my team, what other teams we like, what rookies we took, and who we expect to move and have a big impact.
So with Mike Florio on tomorrow on a Thursday edition of The Fantasy Freestyle, we're gonna go through our two thousand and eighteen Annasy Football Draft. We're also gonna start to get our divisional round picks out there. Okay, I'm gonna give my picks on Friday, we'll get Florio's picks. We may revive our game that we did last year's Speeds versus the kids. I'm trying to get some kids to pick the game, see if they could do it
better than Spitting Speeds. And we have two stories that I definitely want to get to that I wanted to get to the last couple of days. One is how I believe that the concussion Protocol is hanging over the NFL Playoffs and I think it's gonna be a problem for somebody in the next couple of weeks. I'll tell you what I mean a little bit more about that on tomorrow's show. And also there's reports that there's a lot of concern about the officiating here in the NFL playoffs.
I have a couple of ideas and for officiating moving forward all that tomorrow with a special guest, one of my best friends forever. It is Mike Florio joining Speeds and Spitting Statistician. On tomorrow's edition of the Fantasy Freestyle. We'll have Danny on there in the Fantasy Pit of Misery, but we will not have Chris Bovona for the next couple of days. Hey Bavona, what are you doing? Why are why are we missing you for the next couple of days and Florio's. And you got a vacation, you're
having fun. What's going on exactly? Well, I mean it's get a little bit of a vacation, but it's more than I'm going to visit my girlfriend's hometown. Oh where's that? That is in Kentucky? Nice? All right? So you'll be down there in the heartland. Uh, do me a favor, Get me a little souvenir down there from the Louisville Yeah, yeah, yeah, Louisville. Remember they call it Louisville. Don't mess it up, all right, venture.
So I'll see you on Monday. I'll see everybody else tomorrow, right back here on the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. I have a good night. Speeds is out Base