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the best yet, Martinez, you know what it is. It's your boy, Dane Martinez, a k A. Speeds a k A to spitting Statistician, And you are listening live to the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Big shout out if you're listening live on I Heart Radio on tune In Radio, if you're listening live on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network app, or if you're watching live on the Fantasy Sports Network YouTube live stream, which takes you right inside Studio thirty four

here in Rock and Riley's in Midtown Manhattan. We got a big show for you on a Thursday. My man, the Manimal is not down in the fantasy pit of misery. Instead, I've got my guys. One of my fantasy best friends forever, Mike Florio is on the ones and tools, keeping it so hot that we sweat steam. We're gonna be talking with Florio a little bit later on because he was in this same draft as I was. When we had a way too early for two thousand and eighteen draft.

Mike Florio actually had the number one overall pick. You want to know where he went. Tune in a little bit later on in the show. We'll talk about it a little bit. We've also got my boy Danny down there in the pit of misery. We're gonna be chatting it up with you guys on the YouTube stream. Here's what I want to talk about. Okay, I want to talk about what I believe is going to be a big problem for the NFL in the playoffs. Okay, we saw Travis Kelsey getting knocked out a little stumbling a

little bit, and he missed the rest of the game. Right. Cam Newton also got his clock cleaned, went into the tent and they said he had an eye injury. Only issue with that was he's wearing a visor. So what kind of eye injury did he have? He had the kind of eye injury that takes your equilibrium from you, where you should have had your helmet taken from you and been in the cold, dark, quiet room but the NFL can't do that in the playoffs with one of

its big stars. But what happens if Tom Brady, Lavan Bell, Drew Brees, Rob Gronkowski is laid out like Tyrod Taylor was in wild Card weekend? And that brings me to our pole question out there on Twitter at spitting speeds. Is the NFL following the Concussion Protocol and those guidelines with fidelity in the NFL playoffs? And also should they should there be a different risk proposition because it is

the playoffs. We're gonna chat about that. I want to know what you guys are saying on the YouTube chat as the hashtag stats over beat Cipher. We're also going to get into the officiating that happened in wild Card weekend. A lot of people are saying that it is poor, and I have a couple of suggestions for NFL referees and officials that might make things a little bit better. We've got technology out the ying yang, how about what

you apply it in the right way. What we're also going to do, if you remember Fantasy Freestyle from last year, we are bringing it back. It is speeds first, the kids. We have our first predictions for the NFL Playoffs from my home girl, Zoe take the points, Garulic. We'll see who Zoe picks and if it matches up with what Speed says, Come on back. We're often running Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Let's go They You know that you can listen to this show live on

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a day. Little Daddy Yankee, as we come back here, author Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sportworts Radio Network Dame Martinez Speeds, the Spitting Statisticians, the stable genius of the Fantasy Sports radio network, hitting you up on a Thursday, we got Danny and Mike Florio, one of my fantasy best friends forever down there in the fantasy pit of misery. Hey, Florio, do me a favorite. Do not look at the poll

results right now? Okay? On the poll question, I asked the pole question, um our NFL teams following the concussion protocol with fidelity during the NFL playoffs. I'm gonna tell you something. I am very surprised by the poll results. I'm gonna bring in Florio a little bit later on in the show after I go off about this concussion protocol and Florio, I am surprised by the poll results. So um, I'm gonna make you guess what they are a little bit later on in the show. Do not

look at the poll results. But that is a little bit later on. If you want to contribute to the poll results, hit me up on Twitter at Spitting Speeds. You can always follow me up a pole questions up. You could always holler at me. I'll be trying to get back to everybody, help them win their leagues. And win that cash. All right, let's go around the league.

News and notes from around the NFL. A lot of contractual talk and also, you know, some injuries to catch you up on getting ahead of divisional weekend in the NFL. Um out in Los Angeles. Remember we've been talking about Sammy Watkins and if he wants to be part of a fantasy herd by staying there in Los Angeles or being the number one guy somewhere else. I've heard Houston, I've heard San Francisco, both teams I think will be looking for wide receivers in the off season. Reports now

saying the Rams may franchise tag Sammy Watkins. And I think that's very interesting because check this out. Last year, Uh, they signed Robert Woods to a you know, legitimate deal. They signed Tavon Austin to one of the most ridiculous deals in the NFL. Right now, the Rams already have a ton of money locked up in their wide receiver position. You also have Cooper Cup there as well, the rookie. Do you really want to spend that kind of money on Sammy Watkins as well? I'm not so sure. Keep

an eye on this. Was saying the Rams may tag Sammy Watkins. I don't think so. I think Sammy Watkins is gonna wind up somewhere else in the off season. But we'll keep an eye out on this. Head coach in the Atlanta Falcons, Dan Quinn says that Julio Jones will be fine. He is good to go with that ankle injury. This has been the m O for Julio

Jones all season long. Julio Jones has been banged up pretty much every year of his NFL career, and he you know, MSS practice, They manage his reps, but then he goes out there on Sundays, whether he is a decoy or not. And uh, you know, so he'll be out there in Philadelphia on Saturday as the Falcons is take on the Philadelphia Eagles. This is the first time, as I suspected, the first time a number one seed after the buy is going to be a home dog to a number six seed. I'll tell you about my

picks a little bit later on in the week. Listen to New England. Patriots are back in action after the bye, and it looks like this extra time off was good for everybody that was banged up. The Patriots are not the most forthcoming with their injury reports anyway. But Chris Hogan back practicing, albeit on a limited basis, with that shoulder Rex burkehead they said, Oh, he was heavily favoring it. They say he was making progress now back practicing coming

off that knee. Even Malcolm Mitchell back practicing. Uh, Gillesley back practicing. It looks like the New England Patriots will have a full cupboard of weapons when they take on the Tennessee Titans. Remember they did have the buy it should be that way. Who will not be ready? It looks like his DeMarco Murray on the other side for exotic smash mouth. But there are reports now that it looks like DeMarco Murray people are saying may have played

his last snap with the Tennessee Titans. It looks like this could be Derek's backfield moving forward to Marco already may wind up being elsewhere after the Titans get eliminated. Also, in contractual kind of negotiation time, Levian Bell is saying that if the Pittsburgh Steelers franchise him and again, he may just walk away. I think that's an idle threat, But what I do believe is possible. And I've been

saying this all season long. You guys know I have been high on the Pittsburgh Steelers in this offense all season long. You know I have been saying that this is potentially the last ride for Big Ben Roethlisberger. Let me ask you this, If you're Levan Bell and you win the Super Bowl and Big Ben goes and retires, why would you want to sign with the Pittsburgh Steelers. I don't think you do, so. I think Levian is set in the groundwork. He could be elsewhere as well,

And wouldn't that be interesting? Wouldn't that impact the way you draft fantasy? Next year? Will show you the way that Mike Florio, that I that Greg Suspen, Jake Seely, Corey Parsons, and some of the other big boys here at the Fantasy Sports Radio Network drafted a little bit later on in the show. But something I want to talk to you guys about here on the hashtag stats overbeat Cipher is this idea of the officiating. Okay, there was lots of buzz this week about bad calls in

that Tennessee Kansas City game. I thought Marcus Mariota fumbled not once, but twice, once when Derrick Johnson lit him up at the end of the game, and also on that two point conversion. I thought he did. There were other calls that they are now saying that, uh, Jeff Triplet, the ref maybe blew he maybe blew um on the Mariota stacked to himself when he threw the touchdown and caught it himself. Triplet wrongly announced that Mariota was an

eligible receiver because he was in the shotgun. That's not the case. He was an eligible receiver because the ball was tipped. Anybody can catch the ball after the ball was tipped. There was a play after a Titan's first down when the ball was spotted about like three or four yards short of where it was supposed to be. There was one time when Triplet announced the penalty on somebody who was not even in the game. I think it was like number eleven on Tennessee. There was no

number eleven on tendency. There was also one time where there was an inavert and whistle on a Derrick Henry carry at the end of the game. A lot of people are saying, even Mike Pereira, you know who comes in as like the rules expert on the officiating crew. He even tweeted later on that it was a really bad game and you don't but from the officials, and you don't see that a lot. You know, you don't see coaches critiquing other coaches, ref saying bad things about

other refs. That's the fraternity, right, So for that to happen, I think there was something going on here. And there's a lot of buzz about just Triplet specifically being a bad ref an older gentleman as well, and there's talk that he may in fact move on. I I equated remember like Adelaide Bird who had that scoring for u uh triple G and Canelo Alvarez and then there was controversy over that and Adelaide Bird eventually stepped away. Jeff

Triplet might do the same thing. But I ask you this, I have a couple of things that I think the NFL can easily do to improve officiating. I want to give you my platform, my thesis, and then hit me up hashtag stats over be, hit me up in the chat room, hit me up if you want at eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine and seeing what you guys think about it. Here's what I think we need to do number one for the officials.

We need younger officials. What all these officials are like fifty sixty years old and they're expected to keep up with the pace of play with like the best athletes in the world. We get these next gen stats, right, the Tyreek Killers running at twenty two miles an hour. You know that. Uh that Derrick Henry and its touchdown run got up to you know all this momentum. Why are we having a sixties sixty five year old man trying to keep up with him on the sidelines. Younger

officials people, that's number one. Number two, why are the officials? Why are the referees not full time employees of the NFL? Why are they part time guys who are doing this gig and also like a lawyer in the off season or a tax consultant in the off season. Make this position full time. Make them then work with the teams, do practices throughout the season, Do do workshops throughout the

season and in the off season. Uh, you know at the draft, combine talking to the kids that are coming in the rookies that the ref should be full time. This shouldn't be the side hustle for ed hockey Lee, this should be his main gig. That's number two. Number three technology. You know, we have now all these camera angles and these slow mo instant replays which quite frankly make everything look like it is not a catch. Why

can't we use technology in a smart way? You know, we saw that they still had to uh put an index card on the first down chains to see if there was room in between the ball. First of all, why are we using chains in two thousand and eighteen. Why can't there just be like a sensor on the ball and we know if he got you know, ten yards ahead. Can't we do that? Can't we put a chip in the ball? Didn't we have a chip in the uprights when we were testing How why the uprights

needed to be in the preseason. Why can't we put a chip in the ball to not only spot the ball, see if it breaks the plane of an end zone, see like if it loses touch from you know, from a receiver if they're bobbling it. Why can't we have a censor on the side the mines also to see if a guy stepped out of bounds or not. We have an electronic eye in tennis? Why can't we have one on the sidelines of the NFL. We're literally gonna

I got it. Let's have these two sixty year old men stretch out a chain a chain link that measures ten yards. That's the most appropriate way to do it in two thousand and eighteen. I disagree. I think we can do better. Let me know what you guys think out there on the chat room right there listening to the Fantasy Freestyle and the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Hit me up on Twitter at spitting speeds when we come back. I'm telling you, the concussion protocol is go to get

fudged and it's going to cause controversy. There are four games this weekend to next Sunday and then the Super Bowl. I am garin damn teeing you. In one of the seven playoff games left in the NFL, a big times star is gonna get his bell wrong. In what normal situations, they would have taken its helmet away and for some reason magic will happen inside the medical tent. It already happened wild Card weekend. I'm gonna say how this is a real problem for the NFL when we come back.

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I was talking a little bit about NFL officiating. How they need in my opinion, they need younger referees, they need full time referees, and they need to do something with the ball. They could have some sensors on the ball. We don't need to stretch out a chain for ten yards. It's two thousand and eighteen. We could find out, Hello, Hello, we can find out also when people hit the sidelines.

We've got people waving her Studio thirty four and Rock and Riley's people have cut their New Year's resolutions short because they're still out here drinking on a Thursday. But I digress. All right, check this out. I wanted to talk to you guys about this concussion protocol because I think I think it's a sham when we go to the NFL playoffs. Okay, first of all, already earlier this year.

I don't know if you um saw this, but the Seattle Seahawks were fined a hundred thousand dollars one week when they said they violated the concussion protocol as it related to Russell was listening. So Russell got banged up. They did not follow the protocol. He was back in there.

They later investigated it and find the organization a hundred k. I gotta tell you something, if you're the Seattle Seahawks and you're in a tight spot and you need your m VP candidate Russell Wilson, a hundred thousand dollars is a small price to pay for the organization. And that's like in Week seven. Imagine if this was the NFC Championship game. I think there are going to be teams. I think they're going to be organizations. I think there's gonna be scenarios and scenes that are a problem for

the NFL. Look at wild Card weekend. Three examples One Travis Kelsey. Travis Kelsey got banged up, he was stumbling. He left the game, and Travis Kelsey is one of the preeminent tight ends in the NFL, and I would say that changed. That changed the game. The Chiefs were not the same after Travis Kelsey left, but he left Tyrod Taylor, and one of the last plaise of that

game got what looked like a scary concussion. I want to ask you what happens though, if instead of being the fourth quarter, that's a you know, in a three three game, in the middle of the third quarter, and he's not laying there visibly like passed out or shaking, but you know, he gets dinged up and then he's you know, he's okay. And the Buffalo Bills have to decide in a three three tie in their first play off game in seventeen years. Do they bring out, you know,

Tyrod Taylor. Do they entrust it to Nate Peterman? What if this is not even Tyrod Taylor? What if this is a star on a nether level. What if in the NFC Championship game, in the middle of the second quarter of a ten ten game, Drew Brees gets his uh gets snot bubbles popped out of him and it's on third down, so he hits has to hit the sideline. But then it's obvious on the sideline that he's not responding to the test, and in normal circumstances they would

take his helmet away. Do you think they actually do? What if Tom Brady, he's in the Super Bowl and he gets his bell wrong, like apparently has happened before, so says Gisel. What if Rob Gronkowski gets his bell rung because he's got a target on his back. What if lavy On Bell gets his bell wrung? What what what do they do? What are the teams do in this situation? And here's the other thing, this has already happened. Last week,

Cam Newton got rocked. Cameron Jordan at the end of the game on a postgame interview, said he thought they knocked Cam out. Cam Newton goes into the tent, they put up the little blue curtain, and then he comes back out and they say it was an eye injury. The man was wearing a visor. What he got poked in the eye. No, no, no, that was a cover up. They are not following their own guidelines, their own protocols, because in the playoffs it is a different risk proposition.

You know, they always tell quarterbacks they need to slide, but then they say, oh, but if it's a third down, Oh, if it's in the red zone, then you go for it. Right. I think the same thing is happening with the NFL and their concussion protocol. Yeah, they want to make it look like they care about players safety. Yeah, there's an independent neurologist. Yeah, the referee can make the signal and tell him you need to go. But are they gonna

do that? What is Bill Belichick and Tom Brady gonna do if in the a f C Championship game, Tom Brady looks a little woozy and the ref wants to say you need to sit out. You really think that's gonna happen, because I don't what if it's Drew brees in the NFC Championship game, same situation. You think Sean Payne is gonna listen to the ref when the ref says that he looks a little dazed, send them to

the independent neurologist. I don't think so. And the other thing is, I don't think Saints fans or Patriots fans or Steelers fans would want them too. I think they would want the team to leave their blue chips stud in. It will be the championship game, the super Bowl, for God's sakes, and I think that will make a very interesting converssation. I think this cloud will hang over. You've seen the refs with quick hooks throughout the season saying up, you've got to go to the sideline. Up, They go

right into the locker room. They take their helmet away right away. Why didn't that happen with kimym Newton Because the Panthers need Cam Newton and it was a close playoff game, that's why. So what is it here? Are we actually caring about players safety? Is it kind of a zero tolerance? Is it a hashtag all brains matter? Or do brains not matter as much during the NFL playoffs? Do brains not matter as much if it's a close

game in the third quarter of the Super Bowl. Do brains not matter as much if it happens to be Levy on Bells, if it happens to be Rob Gronkowski's, if it happens to be Adam Feelings, if it happened to be Big Ben Roethlisberger's. Let's say Sunday in the third quarter, Pittsburgh's up seventeen to ten, and Big Ben gets rocked. But he's a gamer. He's gonna want to go out there. Where is the independent neurologist? Then? So

that's what I asked you on Twitter. I asked you, are the NFL teams following the concussion Protocol with fidelity during these NFL playoffs? And check this out? Check this out right now? Only eight percent of you say yes, percent of you agree with me that this protocol is b s in the NFL playoffs. I've found that stunning of you agree with me that this is all for show right now. It's like taking your shoes off at the airport. That's for peace of mind on the public,

not how to actually catch a terrorist. That's the play kate the public, And that's what the concussion protocol is in the NFL playoffs. It's just to be like, oh, we care, No you don't. Right now, of you say no, they're not following the protocol, and it bothers me. But what I find interesting is the percent of you who were honest and say no, but I'm okay with it, because I do think it's okay. I do think there should be heightened risk in the NFL playoffs. I do

think it's a different risk proposition. The same way Aaron Rodgers is not sliding, you know, he's just going right out of bound in Week two of the preseason, but in Week sixteen, with the playoffs on the line to try and get the first down on third and six, he's diving. He's going head first. The risk changes these things, and I think that that's valid. I think that should

be part of the equation. So right now, eight percent of you say yes, the NFL teams are following the protocol, say no, and it bothers me, And then of you say no, but I'm straight up, I'm okay with it. I am in that camp. I appreciate of you that are being honest, but I want to hear from you guys, I want to go down to the YouTube stream all

right there the hashtag stats over beat cipher. So we go down to the fantasy Pit of misery, and I know, my mooy, Danny is down there, Danny going doing stairs, running up and down from the fantasy pit of misery into the studio all the way back down. Hey Danny, if you're in the fantasy Pit of misery, I want to know, what do you think about this concussion matter? Do you think it's true hashtag all brains matter? Or do NFL playoff brains matter a little bit less? What

do you think, Danny? I mean, do you think here? Here? I guess it's more of the argument. Do you think the player wants to be out of the game when when the player never wants to be out of the game. Though, yeah, the player would never want to be out of the game. I think though the player has the ability to convince the team a little bit more when the playoffs are on the line and it happens to be a star like Cam Newton got rocked by the NFL concussion guidelines.

Cam Newton should have gone to the locker room. Instead, he went to the little tent for about thirty seconds and all of a sudden was fine. Like, That's what I think is BS quite frankly, if they're gonna have a policy, they have to implement it. And if that means that Tom Brady misses two drives in the Super Bowl, so be it. But they're never gonna do it that way,

you know what I mean, Danny, I absolutely agree with that. Yeah, all the star quarterbacks especially, I mean, they're they're definitely not gonna be They're gonna be the exception to the rules. So do their brains matter less? I guess, I guess. Check this out. Check this out here the flip side. Uh, just you know, put it to put a little bow on this. I got some people that brains matter more. Check this out. I went to a college football game

this season. I went to a Columbia college football game. Okay, in the IVY League. Do you know in the IVY League they kick off from the forty not from the thirty five because they don't want any touch They want all touchbacks, they don't want any kickoff returns because they think that in the IVY League all these kids are gonna go on to be doctors and lawyers and that their brains matter so much so they're in the league. They actually kick off from the forty, not from the

thirty five. They also in the Ivy League have less practices in pasts than any other conference in the n C Double A. Why because their brains matter more. They're gonna be doctors, they're gonna be lawyers, they're gonna be engineers. They're at Ivy League schools. Their brains matter more than the farm boys in the SEC. Apparently, hashtag all brains matter. I want to hear what you have to say about this on the hashtag stats over beat Cipher on the

Fantasy sports radio network YouTube Streme. When we come back, we're gonna have my guy Mike Florio from the Fantasy Best Freshmans Forever. We're gonna chop it up about this. We're gonna talk about that two thousand and eighteen fantasy draft that we already had way too early, and we're gonna debut for two thousand eighteen speeds versus the kids. We got kids making picks. Can they do better than speeds? To spitting statistician, we'll find out after this fantasy freestyle.

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Frank Stanfell, along with Greg Sussman. They chop it up, Yo, Florio, we've had something programming changes. What's the time on BFFs these days? Nothing changed on bff still eleven a and twelve pm Eastern, All right, so you can definitely check out Mike Florio, Frank Stanfell and of course Susmania Greg Sussman. There on the Fantasy Best Friends Forever. I like it. It's a great show. You guys should check it out.

Maybe you should even use the Fantasy Sports Radio Network app in order to do so, because here at the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, we are the only twenty four hour a day, seven day a week free way for you to get everything you need to win your leagues and win that cash. Hey, Floria, what did you think

about my take on these concussions? What do you think? Like, isn't it kind of an inevitability that at some point in the playoffs one of like the true faces of the league gets concost and the has an issue on its hands, like do they let do they take Big Ben away from the Steelers in the a f C Championship Game. I think we kind of already saw something like that with Cam with Cam and it sucks because like, yeah, obviously you want the stars out there and these are mean,

more meaningful games. But I actually voted that it kind of bothers me because I came into on Monday on BFS and I said that I thought that, like, the Panthers clearly violated the rules and and it ended up the Chiefs didn't violate the rules and they lost and lost. But here's the thing. Also, remember Russell will This happened with Russell Wilson in the regular season, and all the

league didn't find the Seahawks a hundred thousand dollars. So, like, if I'm the Panthers, right, and I have the decision of like, am I gonna look the other way and run Cam Newton out there, the penalty of a hundred thousand dollars from my organization versus like the potential for the Super Bowl tophee is really a no brainer, right, Like, if Tom Brady gets his bell rung in the Super Bowl,

they're not gonna pull Tom Brady. Oh, you're right. The fact that it's a hundred dollar fun as well, it's not a deterrent, right, That's not a deterrent that Russell Wilson. That was a joke. I know, That's what I'm saying. He walked in and he turned around and walked right out. He was like, I'm good. And now you got the little tent that they could just put up, you know, And I thought it was hysterical. They said with Cam

Newton that it was actually an eye injury. The man was wearing a visor what kind of eye injury could he possibly have had? And he saying like, oh, I thought, doesn't hit my eye. But then I realized I had advice right exactly. It's absolutely ridiculous. So you were with say that that say no and it bothers you. I am with the pent that say no, But I'm actually okay with it. I mean I think, like, you know, are you not entertained? Let him, let him e cake,

let him, let him go out there. I think that's part of the risk prop position, you know, the same way that Aaron Rodgers doesn't go to the sidelines when he needs that first down in a playoff game verse week two of the preseason. I think in the playoffs, like, yo, you gotta put your brain at risk. Apparently that's what the NFL is in my opinion, But we shall see. Hey Florio, I don't know if you remember, but last year we did something. It was a lot of fun.

It was speeds versus the kids. Okay, So what I did was I picked all the playoff games and then I brought on a lot of kids that were between Like we had kids as young as like a year and a half old up to about like I would say eight nine year old kids, and they were just picking the games with whatever rationale they wanted. And we wanted to see if any of these kids could actually pick the games at a better clip than the quote unquote expert that was speeds and spitting statistician. I am

happy to report that last year, nobody beat me. I actually beat all the kids. I also beat uh, Chris Bovona, I believe it was. I also beat Don Burns. I had the best record picking the playoff games last year. Uh. Last week I was still in Asia, but on Twitter, uh with your boy, Chris Ventra. I picked last week. I went three and one. The Titans were the only game that I did not get correctly. I did, however, have the Falcons over the Rams. I had the excuse me.

I had the Jaguars over the Bills, and I had the Saints over the Panthers. So I'm three in one right now. I'll be giving my official picks for divisional Weekend on tomorrow's episode of the Fantasy Freestyle. Chris Ventra our boy, Who's coming back tomorrow. He's two and two. He lost on the Titans as well. He had the Chiefs, but he also had his boy Todd Gurley in the Rams. So he's two and two. I'm three and one, and we have the debut of Speeds versus the kids. We have,

we have my homegirls. Zoe, Zoe has picked these games already. Zoe is only about a year and a half to two years old. Okay, maybe she's about two years old, and Zoe is ready to pick these games. Florio, can we play Zoe's picks right now for divisional weekend? Uh? This is Zoe? Uh, this is her picks for divisional weekend? Say hi? She doesn't want to say hi, which is weird. Clearly the Eagles, Who, Patriots or Titans. She's going with

the Titans, Vikings or Saints. Okay, she's going with the Saints. And now, Florio, now let's play the second one. That's what she makes the last pick. Okay, so she's going so far, she's going Eagles, Titans, Saints. Let's see who she has between the Steelers and the Jaguars. Steelers or Jacksonville. That sounds like Jacksonville to me. What do you think, Florio? It looks like Okay, so we have Zoe. Zoe is going with the Eagles, the Titans, Jacksonville and the Saints.

Note that Zoe is taking all four underdogs in Divisional Weekend. That's why I call her Zoe taking the points. Garalic big shout out to my homegirl, Zoe. Zoe is only about two years old. She's picking the Eagles, the Titans, the Jags, and the Saints. See if she could do better than speeds. The spitting statistician Florio, what are you think about Zoey's picks? She's going Eagles, Titans, Jags, and Saints.

She's taken the points. She likes the underdogs. What do you think The only one that I think has a legit chance is the Saints. Yeah, yeah, I hear you. I hear you. A lot of people do like the Saints. You don't. Um. I gotta tell you, though, UM, I agree with Zoe on two of her picks. That's a tease for you for tomorrow. I I am picking two of the same teams as Zoe. Okay, so we will

talk about that a little bit more tomorrow. I'll say this, though, if you were on the Fantasy Freestyle all year long, you know the other team that I am going with. I'll leave it at that. Um. Hey, Florio. Uh, last week we did this not kind of like way too early draft for two thousand and eighteen, you had the number one overall pick, and uh, you won't up with the girly man you want with Todd Gurley number one

one overall? Why did you take Todd Gurley as opposed to say, Calavon bell Is, Zeke Elliott, and David Johnson, maybe even in Antonio Brown. What about Todd Gurley stood out? I know he was the number one performer this year, but a lot of times, you know, stay at number one, Uh isn't really consistent. You know, like people poke their head up and then go right back into kind of the mid level range. Why are you confident that girle

Well once again deserve the number one overall pick. Maybe he won't be the number one performer, but I have no doubts that he is going to be a top three to five running back. I mean, he literally won me a championship this year. He put me on his back and delivered two four point games. I went out. I've have Girley for three straight years now in all my keeper leagues and dynasty. I got him as a rookie. Evan ridding him since I have his shirt, Dane, I

had to go with my guy. I'm not everyone to go bold and make, you know, try to make a pick that people are gonna talk about. Maybe it's boring because he was the number one player this year. The weapons are coming back, Sean McVeigh is gonna be back. I don't really see what concerns that are there for tug Gerley, where I think you can make concerns for the other running backs. What would be okay, what would be your concern for Levy on Bell? Big Ben retires

fair enough? You know, I've been on that train. I've been saying that I actually believe it. Big Ben retires, Levyan Bell will not be on the Pittsburgh Steelers. And I gotta say this. You know, obviously we're doing this. You know, we acknowledge it is kind of way too early that we're doing this. And so that's what I wanted to ask you about. Also, some of like the wide receivers who are out here, we're drafted that or

or maybe elsewhere next year. When you're doing something like this, when you're drafting quote unquote way too early, how much do you consider, you know, player movement. You know, I'm thinking about guys like Josh Gordon, who maybe elsewhere. I'm thinking about rumors, you know, that are around guys like Carlos Hyde, or rumors that are around someone like even

an old Dell Beckham. You know, how much of that do you consider when doing a draft like this, Mike, I think I would consider it a lot more of the the draft that we were gonna play out. Like, for instance, I just completed my first baseball draft of the season, and I went with guys who I think are gonna get safe playing time rather than guys who are unsigned and we don't know where they're gonna end up. Well,

that was like a tiebreaker for me. But in a mock draft like this, like, I think it's fun to take a Josh Gordon and get to speculate where you think he's gonna end up. Stuff like that. Yeah, so I did that. I took Josh Gordon, who I'm going to speculate on. I also took Allen Robinson, who you know, people forget, you know, like DeAndre Hopkins was the number two wide receiver in this draft. Okay, he went I

think was like number six overall something like that. DeAndre Hopkins wasn't even considered one of the top four wide receivers going into last year's draft. You know a lot of people had him like, you know, nine, ten, eleven, something like that. You know, so who knows who those guys are gonna be. That's why I went with guys like Josh Gordon Allen Robinson who have the potential to be top five. But you never know because it's something

you know that you want to talk about. Right. Also, we did We did six rounds, Mike, and there were only three quarterbacks taken, Aaron Rodgers, Deshaun Watson, and Russell Wilson. You were one of the teams that took a quarterback. I want to ask you, why did you go with

a quarterback instead of waiting. I've been always recommended waiting, and last year, you know, if I waited, I was telling people you can wait and get guys like Matthew Stafford, Carson Wentz and Alex Smith that would have worked out for you. This year, why did you go ahead and grab one of the top quarterbacks You took Russell Wilson in the fifth round. Yeah. Normally I'm a huge advocate of waiting, and I think I'm going to be this year.

The loan exception to me is if you can get one of these, if everyone else is waiting and one of the elite guys falls to you at a price and I think is a fair value. And getting Russell Wilson in the fifth round, who was the number one quarterback, and unless you know they actually get a run game in there, I don't think that's gonna change. So I was excited to get Wilson in the fifth round, but if if he didn't follow me, I would have just

waited on quarterback like I always do. All right, fair enough, And the last thing I'll do real quick with you, Mike here is there were a lot of rookie running batch drafted Sae Kwon, Barkley, Darius Guys from l As you, Sony Michelle from Georgia. I even when when got Rashad Penny from San Diego State. If you look at the rookies this year between Kareem Hunt, Leonard four Nette, Dalvin Cook, Alvin Kamara, you gotta figure there are going to be

four or five rookies that make an impact. Are you okay with seeing a lot of rookies go in this draft? As well. I think these are very talented players. I think that last year, the performance of rookies this year is going to drive up the price of rookies next year. And I also think they want to mock like this. Everyone kind of wants to be first on a guy. So maybe that's why you see rookies get pushed up. Yeah, you want to be the guy that says that you

had him eight months ago. Planting your flag here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. All right, when we come back here on the Fantasy Freestyle, will tie a nice neat little bow on this episode and we'll check in on the concussion poll again as the Fantasy Freestyle coming right back. Playing Daily Fantasy Basketball this year, consider Daily rohdo your go to resource whether you play on Draft Kings or FanDuel. Daily rodos, customizable projections, podcasts, strategy guides,

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Radio Network. We've been talking about officiating, how I believe they need younger officials. I belie if they need full time officials, and they should take advantage of some of the technology that they do. In fact, have big shout out to Liberty Finder on Twitter who hits me off saying that he agrees with those ideas that he saw a referee out there as a tax consultant sometime at

Walmart last week. We're also talking about the concussions. Florio and I both thinks that it is a sham that that teams are following the concussion protocol here in the NFL playoffs hashtag all Brains Matter, And right now, eight percent of you believe that teams are following the concussion protocol. Fifty three percent say that you don't think they are and frustrate you. That's what Florio says. I'm with the thirty pcent right now that say it is not being followed.

But actually, when you want to be real with yourself. You are okay with it. We also go down now to Danny and the fantasy pit of misery, Dilly Dilly, to everybody in the hashtag stats over beat. Cipher want to find out what the people are saying. Because it's the freestyle, so I can handle anything. What are the people saying, Danny? Are they talking about the refs, the concussions or something else? Because it's the freestyle, I'm ready

to talk anything. We're going for something else. Okay, what do we got? What are the people saying? First off, I want to I want to at least touch on some football stuff. We actually have some predictions, and not not so much predictions, but of other places that Bell could go to they'd like to see him. I think he could go to the Detroit Lions. He played at Michigan State. They have a stable quarterback entering his prime. That would be the only piece missing for the Detroit Lions.

I think he could go there, But go ahead, we got Lance Davis same. Bell could go to the Bears. He could, but Jordan Howard is already there. I think these are more hopeful than could. And then we have a strong style Ninja saying Bill could go to the forty niners. Oh, that would be interesting. Carlos Hyde is a free agent. Imagine if Jimmy g Q and Levi on Bell were in the backfield for the up and coming San Francisco for Strong Style has been there a couple of times so far this week. I wonder if

that is a shouldn't Ski Nakamura reference? I actually leave Shinska Nakamura a florio. What if I told you I think Shinsky Nakamura is the winner of the Royal Rumbull setting up a Nakamura aj Styles title match at russell Mania. That's what I think could in fact happen. Oh you agree? Really? Yes? Oh fantastic, fantastic. Ask ask our boys strong Style in the chat. If that's what he thinks? What else? Do we got anything else, Danny? Or is that all for today?

That's pretty much it. I mean, we got a lot of people cheers into Ted Finn because Thursday, so we're cheers in. Fair enough, fair enough. A lot of people have been hitting me up with other reptiles. But then people are saying, listen, it's too cold in here for any reptile. I like the idea yesterday where a listener said we need to get a plaque here in the studio to honor Ted Finn Jr. And not necessarily replace him with another animal. Check it out tomorrow on the

Fantasy Freestyle, we got a big show. Okay, I'm gonna be giving out a DFS lineup. Hey, Florio, are you still in the Fantasy pit of misery with us tomorrow? Yes? How about you doing DFS lineup on FanDuel. You want to do a DFS lineup with me and Ventra? Sure, I didn't have much success last week, That's all right, That's why we win it back, baby, So we're gonna be doing DFS lineups. I will give you my, in fact, my picks for divisional weekend. I agree with two of

Zoe take the Points Garlicks picks. And we're also here from from some more kids that are picking the game. We're gonna have the old favorites that we had last week, excuse me, last year some of the people. And then also I believe that our boy, the analyst, Chris Ventra, will be back, so I'm gonna have to ask him about his lyricism that happened on the Fantasy Freestyle will juxtapose that against Cole Beasley, maybe Leavian at Bell as well.

It'll be a fun football Friday. We put the fun in functional sports radio right here on the Fantasy Freestyle Shop. Boy Dain Martinez, speed and spitting statistician the Stable Genius, will be back tomorrow right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Have a good night.