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on that Fantasy Sports Radio Network app. I got my man Mikey Florio with me on the ones and two's keeping it so hot that we sweat steam and I got a great show for you on a Wednesday. Okay. First of all, Gencarlos Stanton did not hit a home run today. Okay, I want to let that be known. The Marlins have already played, so the streak is over, but it seems like he was trying to hit one
on our show for the entire week. He did not go yard today and picking up on something we talked about yesterday, it sounds like the Marlins are willing to engage in trade conversations with other teams about gen Carlos Stanton. That's another shot called by speeds of fitting statistician we're gonna get into today. I'm gonna give you news and
notes from around the league. I'm also going to talk about a couple of different ways where the NFL continues to be tone deaf on what their players want and the kind of the brand that they are putting out there.
I'm talking about their policies on cleats. We're gonna discuss their policy see on pain management and incredibly powerful testimonial from Eugene Monroe, former offensive lineman for the Ravens, that we're gonna get into a little bit about how he is managing the pain he has one year after retiring from the NFL. As you know, we're putting the spotlight on a different team every day as we get into fantasy football, and the buzz continues to be palpable. We are in the a f C South all week long.
We continue today with the Indianapolis Colts. The question out there really is will Andrew be up all night to get lucky or will he be okay for Week one Week two pup list. This is what we need to know, and it's such a big issue to be quite honest, that I have a new poll up. We haven't done this for any other team so far in our previews. We got a poll question up there right now about the season win total for the Colts. It's currently at eight and a half, right, But one of the options
I have is should they take the line down? Does Andrew luck matter that much to the Colts? I think so, and that will be clear to you as well when we talk about who you need to fade on the Indianapolis Colts, because absolutely they are all fool gazey as you know. Also, we are crowning the best sports movie of all time this summer right here on the Fantasy Freestyle. Two of the four tickets to the final four have
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speeds the spitting statistician when you can. All right, let's get into it. I gotta give you some news and notes from around the league before we get into my reasons why the NFL is tone death completely. All right? Uh? In Major League Baseball, tonight, Mariners third baseman Kyle Seeger is once again going to miss a game. This is his second game in a row missing with the flu. It's not a big deal. He's day to day. He should be just back and fine going into the weekend.
Also of note, Nationals outfielder Jason Worth. It looks like he's going to start a rehab assignment over the weekend coming back from that foot injury. He's been out since early June. It's been over two months and that would be a big help to the Nationals. Remember, Bryce Harper is going to miss some time. Worth was successful in that two hole of the lineup for a while, so keep an eye on the rehab of Jason Worth. Also keep an eye on this. This could be a nice
little value for some people in season long leagues. At the end of the season. Angels starting pitcher Andrew Heeney looks like he is going to make his season debut and return from Tommy John surgery after fourteen months on the shelf. It looks like he is set to start for the Angels on Friday. If you need a little bit uh in season long, this may be someone to keep an eye on on the waiver wire. Also, as I mentioned, Giancarlo Stanton last night hit his forty fourth
home run of the season. Didn't go yard today, but it is still as high as you are going to get if the Marlins want to try to flip him or trade him. And we get reports today that the Marlins are willing to engage in trade talk for the slugger With ten in years and two hundred and ninety five million dollars still left on his deal. There is still news though in the middle of the week around the NFL as well. Okay, so there are some keeople that I gotta give you an update on. First his
eagle is running back Ryan Matthews. Remember I told you at the beginning of the week he was gonna go to Philly and as soon as he can clear physical he would be cut. Well guess what he got cut after his physical. That clears four million dollars of cap space for the Philadelphia Eagles. I do think Ryan Matthews will latch on somewhere, but where that is keep it. Tune to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network hashtag shot called by your boy Speeds the fitting statistician. Ravens wide receiver
Brichard Perriman, he has a big time hamstring strain. He's gonna be out for it looks like two two more weeks. They don't know if he is going to be ready for Week one. Remember I continue to fade this Baltimore Ravens offense. They are not dynamic in my opinion, and Perriman, he's been injury riddled as well, does not hurt help their cause. On the flip side, though, Dolphins running back Jed g I E Has gotten out of the concussion protocol.
He has been cleared and ready for contact already. So it's good to see that J. G I E Is out of the cold dark quiet room and cleared of the protocol. Bucks beat reporter is actually now saying that O. J. Howard, the rookie tight end, is going to be more of a blocking tight end early on. Remember I've said this before. Tight end is the hardest position for rookies to pick up.
Why because they have to know the entire route tree for the receivers, and they also have to know all the blocking schemes that go along with being a tight end. It's a lot of stuff for tight ends to learn early on. I've said stick with Camin Braid. I think he is going to be the Bucks tight end to own, especially early in the season. O J. Howard and meet to me is completely overvalued going in eleventh round of drafts.
Right now. Tomorrow began's Week two of the preseason. Okay, and so I'm gonna be telling you what I'm looking for in all those games on tomorrow's show. One thing to know already, though, J Cutler smoking J will be under center for the Miami Dolphins as they take on the Baltimore Ravens. Remember how great of a start Mitchell
Trabinsky had in his debut yesterday. Well beat reporters in Chicago still saying that Mike Glennan, remember he who signed the three year, fifty four million dollar contract in the off season, is quote unquote still the heavy favorite to start for the Chicago Beers. However, there is buzz in camp. Somebody to look out is their tight end rookie Adam Schheen. Okay, they are saying that he's gonna quote unquote a big part of the offense. And if you remember, they've got
Marcus Wheaton down. A lot of people are high on guys like Cameron Meredith, but maybe there is opportunity for a new quarterback to have the security blanket of Adam Sheheen. I'm telling you there are a lot of tight end sleepers I like. Even if you listen to this network, the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, you hear about guys like Shaheen. You hear about guys like Austin Hooper on the Braves. Hear about my guy on the New York Football Jets,
Austin Safari and Jenkins. Even guys like you know, Hunter Henry Jack Doyle, who we're gonna talk a little bit more about when we get into the Indianapolis Colts a little bit late are on. And also, as you know, Ezekiel Elliott, Cowboys running back, has officially appealed his six game suspension. You gotta keep a close eye on this where it's going to play out. Okay, remember Tom Brady pushed this back for a full year. There has been
a year of investigating this. Now with the appeal literally in this season two thousand seventeen, Ezekiel Elliott may play all sixteen games. He may have six getting suspended. The suspension may go down to four or even less. Keep an eye out on this situation. So what you need to do is download the Fantasy Sports Radio Network app. This way you could always stay up to date with everybody. My man Corey Parks in the Fantasy Executive the g Tony Senkada, my man Greg Slussman, my guy Mike Florio
on Fantasy Best Friends Forever. They will tell you what you need to know when it comes to the Zeke suspension and everything else. All right, I'll let you guys know that there were a couple of things that struck me recently about the NFL being toned deaf. The first of all is that they are going to, they say, relax some of the regulations around the cleats that players are now allowed to wear. Remember last year, DeAndre Hopkins got fined, a couple of other guys got fined for
wearing the Yeazy s. The Kanye West sues. You know what I'm saying, and they're going to relax these restrictions. But check this out, only for pregame warmups. I think that's absolutely ridiculous. But here's the statement from the NFL. Players will be allowed to wear more personalized cleats for pregame prior to warmups, and will have greater greater flexibility on cleat color worn in the games. During pregame warmups, players can use any design they want, so long as
it doesn't depict commercialized or trademark logos. The cleats also cannot have anything that would be deemed offensive or express political views. I think that's very interesting. Remember they're dealing with this stuff on the anthem people making their statements, so they're saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, you could be funky, you could wear those yeasys, you can wear some different colors, but just still can't have political views when you're on, you know, the shield of the NFL. I thought it
was also interesting. Ocho Sinko chad Ocho Sinko Johnson tweeted asking if he could get his money back. Remember he was fine for wearing like gold plated cleats back in the day, so he he hopped on that on social media. I thought that was funny. But once again the NFL missing the boat on the ability of their players to express themselves. And I think that is very important to note. So even when they're going far, they're not going far enough.
I mentioned though that Eugene Monroe. There's another, uh now another testimonial. This guy wrote an article on the Players Tribune where it's you know, the athletes speaking from the heart and as themselves, and he talked about how he retired a full year ago, but he's still managing his physical condition and how it's now a part of his daily routine and something that he thinks will be that
way forever. He went. He went so deep as to say, you know, like he wonders which like seventeen power, which is the name of a famous run play that they ran in Baltimore, which seventeen power is responsible for every twinge in his neck, every tweak in his back. What caused the headaches? You know, what practice drill where he was going man up with another defensive lineman causes the headaches.
Which time when he got floored and had his head bang against the turf is what causes his sensitivity to light. You know. He talked about how he saw Trey Thomas in his rookie year, who was kind of a veteran at that point, and saw the way he walked and wondered if that would be ever him, you know. But was also interesting is that Eugene Monroe is proud to say that he is one free of pharmaceutical drugs, you know, and that he's achieved being able to kind of live
because he's integrated cannabis into his lifestyle. Remember I said last week how the NFL and the NFL p A are looking at me. We now study the effects of marijuana. But this was again the NFL being toned deaf when Roger Goodell says that it's still a dangerous and addicting habit. He's doing this is he you know, he talks about Eugi Monroe. This is talks about how he was given vicodin before every practice, how NFL players lined up for toal doll shots, and now how this is still the
impact he has. He says that in this year that he's been retired, how he meets with NFL players who now want to be able to have cannabis oils, want to be able to use this, But no, they're gonna get a four game suspension. You can still in the NFL get a four games suspension for failing a marijuana test. That is longer than the suspension Josh Brown got for admitting to domestic violence against his wife on multiple occasions.
This is how they have it wrong. And then also ESPN, their biggest sponsor, when they were doing their fantasy football marathon, did a little piece on auction drafts that Odell Beckham had something to say about that. Kevin Durant had something to say about It's very interesting when you're auctioning off African American players. Go watch the movie Get Out recently, and we'll talk part about the history as well. It was a little unnerving at work. At best case, it
was in poor taste. In worst case, it was a lot more. We'll talk about it some more on the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Ezekiel, Elliott, Carl Anthony, Talents, Corey Seeger. Those are the rookies of the year. Much like the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, the fastest growing fantasy sports network on radio is completely Free seven. Listen to us live at F ANDC s Y dot com, slash Radio or dowlow the app right now in the
Google place to our core on isilands. What you'll fit to see this Dave Martinez, speeds and spitting statistician. Welcome back to Fantasy Freestyle right here on the award winning
Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Before we went to the break, you know, I was telling you things about how like the NFL has mismanaged pain management, and now how all these retired guys are coming out with talking about I'm talking about how they're mismanaging the idea of how to be creative when it comes to wearing cleats, you know. And also I wanted to touch on this because ESPN did this uh Fantasy Football marathon over the weekend, and one of the things they did, they did a segment
of like an auction draft. But it just did not play well at all. Okay, it really especially when you juxtaposed it this weekend about what was going down in Charlottesville and then when you talk about, you know, just where we are in this kind tree. You know, they literally had the like faces of players up on sticks holding them up as an auction. It looked very much like a scene from the recent movie get Out. And if you know what I'm talking about, you know it
was really alarming. Odell Beckham tweeted out very right with a link to it. Speechless. Kevin Durant said on Twitter and I quote bommass e FPN running out of ideas. A lot of people were rubbed the wrong way about this, and ESPN has come out with a statement and I quote auction drafts are a common part of fantasy football, and ESPN segments replicated an auction draft with a diverse slate of top professional football players. We understand the optics
could have been portrayed as offensive, and we apologize. I think the context was absolutely irrelevant. It was ignorant in its presentation, and uh, you know, count on Dan Martinez speis the spitting statistician to call someone out on it. However, I do want to keep it moving because we got a lot of stuff going on, and I want to get into one of my team by team previews right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, and we're talking about the Indianapolis Colts. Listen. I said it at the
top of the show. I said it when we had that poll question up about the Indianapolis Colts. This is going to come down completely to Andrew Luck. Okay, we've been hearing that he's okay. We've been hearing he'll be fine for week one. We were hearing that he was definitely not going to be on the pup list for
week one. Now we're hearing that, you know, GM and the owner can't unequivocably say if he'll be ready for week one, and now we're here and oh, but it'll be okay because they think they could beat the Rams in week one. Anyway, we're hearing that they're gonna be careful. This has a tremendous effect because, honestly, Andrew Luck is that good. He was QB four last year while he was battling injury. It in forty yards, thirty one touchdowns
and thirteen interceptions. The other thing about Andrew Luck when it comes to fantasy football is his rushing ability goes under valued at times. He had three hundred and forty one rushing yards he played in fifteen games. That was still good enough for seventh among quarterbacks. There's easily a way that if he plays sixteen games, he is a top four or five quarterback in terms of rushing yards, and that can really help you out. However, I am not liking the news I'm hearing on Andrew Luck. I
think it is officially time to sound the alarm. If you listen to the fantasy freestyle, you know I'm not spending up for these top four or five quarterbacks anyway. They're not gonna be on my team's I'm gonna want to get quarterbacks, you know, ten through twelve. I'm hoping it would be the last person in my draft to get their first quarterback. And if I wind up with Philip Rivers or Matthew Stafford or Cam Newton, I am happy with that. So I'm not gonna have Andrew Luck
an way. The one thing I want to let you guys know, though, is this can be one of the only situations where I say it's possible to stray from your draft strategy if Andrew Luck falls like a cement block and he's still there in round six, in round seven, I think at that point you may have to pull the trigger because you want to then have him when
he's back and healthy for the Fantasy playoffs. I can get behind someone wanting to do that, because you can still have say, Eli Manning for the first couple of games. You can still have Matthew Stafford for the first couple of games and be fine. But Andrew Luck. You really got to keep an eye on it, on it. But remember the culture, the same team that once said the same kind of things about Peyton Manning when he had a neck injury and then he turned out to miss
the entire season. My man, Corey Parson had him at quarterback five, but I don't think that's gonna be the case. I had him at quarterback four. But I'm gonna have an updated rankings available for you guys next week, and sir, only Andrew Luck is going to sink like a stone as we go to the running back position. However, listen, Frank gore Man, listen. I want to tip my cap here on the Fantasy style to Frank Gore. I don't think you know this, but he was running back twelve
last year. Okay, running back twelve in his age thirty three season over a thousand yards one thousand, twenty five yards. You also had thirty eight catches in two seventy seven yards in the passing game. More importantly, let's take a step back. Frank Gore is a Hall of Fame running back. Let's take a step back. Frank Gore is eighth all time in rushing. He has thirteen thousand and sixty five yards. The seven that are ahead of him are all in
the Hall of Fame. The five that are behind him and are eligible are all in the Hall of Fame. He has thirteen hundred yards on the next UH most active player, which is Adrian Peterson. This guy, with his thirteen thousand and sixty five yards, that's eighth all time. He is one thousand and thirty seven yards away from passing Curtis Martin for fourth all time, and then could finish this season fourth all time, behind only Barry Sanders,
Walter Payton, and Emmett Smith. He's entering his thirteenth season at age thirty four. I just want to tip my cap to Frank Gore. Here's the thing though, This Andrew Luck news impacts Frank Gore because if you've got Scott Tolzien under center, then your safeties are gonna cheat up a little bit. You're gonna put more men in the box. And I think that is a problem this year for
Frank Gore. Everybody's you know, production will fall if Andrew Luck is not there behind Frank Gore, though, which could be something you need to look at. Because Gore is entering his age thirty fourth season. It is possible. We know it is a war of attrition at the running back position. We're talking about Robert Turban and we're talking about Marlon Mack. Marlon Mack is an interesting guy in deep leagues. In in dynasty leagues, you know Frank Gore
is not gonna be there forever. This rookie out of UCF did get a little bit of buzz in training camp already. To keep an eye out on Marlon Mack. If you're looking to be in a dynasty league or an incredibly deep league, and you may want to handcuff Frank Gore. As we go to the wide receiver position, it's the same narrative. Okay, I'm gonna be like a broken record talking about the Indianapolis Colts. I love t Y Hilton. T Y Hilton was wide out five last
year on the Player Raider. T Y Hilton led the NFL in receiving yards last year with forty eight to go along with nine D one catches and six touchdowns. He was he was Corey Parson the Fantasy Executives. He was his fourth ranked wide receiver. He thought t Y Hilton was a back end of the first round, but with Andrew Luck questionable and Scott Tolzen under center, I say you have to drop t Y Hilton. Now. T Yon's available at the end of round two or in
round three, you gotta snatch him up. I understand that t Y Hilton is also known around NFL circles for literally being the best in the NFL of getting into and out of breaks. It's not only about your forty time, Okay, John Ross with his four point two two. It's about being sudden. It's about being getting into and out of breaks to create that separation from dbs and other cornerbacks in the league say t Y Hilton is actually the
best in the league. At doing that, So I think it's important and they'll still get open, but it's a big difference if you've got Scott Tolzine, especially in the first quarter of the season, getting you balls. The same could be said from my man Dante Moncrief Florio, I love Dante Moncrief. Dante Moncrief has been on my teams in the past. I even named one of my fantasy football teams after Dante Moncrief had that Jamaican accent. You know what I'm saying. Everything I r I said Yamon
yaman Clief, yaman Crief, all about Dante Moncrief. I had him as wide receiver twenty six in my rankings. This is the guy that Andrew look looks too in the red zone and only nine games last year, Dante Moncrief yaman Creef had seven touchdowns. This is a guy who is the ex outside wide receiver that Andrew Luck loves. This is a touch down receiver, but not with Scott Tolzine. This guy is right in the same range as other stud you know, second wide receivers. Okay, Corey Parson had
him as wide out twenty six. He had many sanders as wide out thirty. He had DeShawn Jackson as wide out thirty two. He had Brandon Marshall as wide out twenty eight, Jamison Crowder as twenty seven, even Davante Adams into twenties. This is Dante Moncrief is in the conversation for the best wide out two in the National Football League, but not with Scott Tolzine under center. I'm sorry. The same can be said at tight end Jack Doyle. There's
no Dwight Dwyne Allen this year. Maybe you believe in Eric Swope, I personally do not, and I think Jack Doyle is primed to be a rising, ascending tight end. He was tight and thirteen last year with fifty nine catches, five four yards, five touchdowns. My boy Mike Clay, who always gets it right, thinks that he can get over sixty catches, over six yards this year, over six touchdowns. But not with Scott Tolzen under center. I'm telling you,
Andrew luck is such an important player. He once was the highest played player in the NFL when he redid his deal. I think he is such an important player that I believe Vegas and sports Book need to take the season win total for the Indianapolis Colts off the board. That's why it is an option on a poll at F and T s Y Radio at spitting speeds. I say, though, because I don't believe even Andrew Luck. I love him as a player, I don't believe in his health right now.
I think they messed it up. I think you need to if the line is up, you need to take the under. This is a division where teams like the Texans and the Titans and even the Jaguars are ascending. I think the Colts mismanaged their window when they were in the a f C title game, doing things like drafting Philip doors Set in the first round when you already had studs at wide out. I say, regardless, take the under right now, it's at eight and a half.
Take the under on the Indianapolis Colt. When we come back, we're gonna go through the schedule. We're gonna get Mike Florios thoughts on this Andrew Luck situation. And my man Gabe moran SE's responding to our poll as well. We'll see what he has to say. Dropping stats over beats. It's the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Have you ever wanted to have a fantasy expert in the palm of your hand, in the pocket of your happys. We'll check it out now you can.
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winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. I'm your man, Dane Martinez, feeds the spitting statistician holding you down on a Wednesday, whether you're listening on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, whether you're listening live on tune in Radio or on I Heart Radio. I'm so glad to have your audience. I got my man Mike Florio with me on the ones
and tools, keeping it so hot that we s what steam. Mike, I want to bring you in for this segment, talk a little bit more about the Colts, and then, as you know, we're gonna put the fun and functional Sports Radio sneak preview guys. The movie poll right now has literally flipped back and forth with the leader during the course of this show, and it's right now. We're definitely gonna get into that in a little bit. But Flory, I want to ask you, um, as it comes to
Andrew Luck, right, I just don't. I just don't. Um. I don't want to take a chance on this. I don't want to take a chance on having a guy like Dante Moncrief who's connected to Luck, and then have Luck missed the first four games. I don't want to have a guy like Jack Doyle as my sleeper tight end that I actually draft and then have Andrew Luck
missed four games. What are your thoughts about the Andrew Luckluck injury and it's impact not only on Luck, but on the rest of the Colt's weapon bits, on the cults outlook themselves. I think it's one of the hardest things when you're doing your fantasy football rankings, because right now I had I had Andrew looked forth, I've lowered him down to like seven or eight. I've lowered Ta Hilton a bit, Dante Moncrief a bit. But but how
low is too low exactly, like I can't. I still have t Y Hilton like eleven, and I can't put him any lower because we have no actual report that Luck is going to miss time right now. It's just everything is just you hear conflicting reports every single day, So it's it's a situation I want to avoid. But in rankings and stuff, I feel like you can't lower them too much, right, because like you talk about lowering them too much. Right, Let's play a little name game here, Florio.
I mean, look, with t Y Hilton, you're dropping him down? Are you dropping him down to the point where you're like that more safe? Comfortable? Why don't want a guy like Doug Baldwin is better than t Y Hilton? Yeah? I actually I believe I have Doug Baldwin higher, especially in the PPR. What about if we get worried that my man DeAndre Hopkins will have some targets from Tom Savage. Could he get out of t Y Hilton or now? As of now, I haven't, But if Andrew look misses Tom,
yeah I could see that. Yeah. What about a guy like a Marii Cooper. I've I have bumped Cooper ahead of him. Yes see, That's what I'm saying. It's so hard, and the names you're still down there at are like so still explosive and safe. Why risk it with a guy like t Y Hilton. Hey, Floria, Let's go through their schedule real quick, because I'm looking at their first like six games, and there's a few games there that I think obviously Andrew Luck being there will matter or not.
You know what, In Week four they go to Seattle, so maybe they lose that game anyway. Week five they host San Francisco, maybe they win that game anyway. But week to hosting the Arizons on the Cardinals. Week three hosting the Cleveland Browns. Week one in the opener, going all the way out to l A to take on the Rams. You know they got away contest at division rival Tennessee. This could really impact the Colts entire season.
Where do you think ultimately Luck will be back and what do you think ultimately on their season win total number? I honestly don't think you can give an accurate projection as to when do you think Andrew Luck is gonna be back? Because one day it's oh, they don't expect him to miss any time. One day it's oh home this week one one day, he's gonna be on the pub. We've heard every sort of scenario you can hear from
Andrew Luck early on. I will say this, though, I agree with you that I think they're over unders should be pulled strictly because their defenses is pretty bad, and Andrew Luck oftentimes has to overcome that and put up a lot of points. If you take Andrew Luck off the board, I think they're they They're possibly one of the worst teams in the NFL. Yeah, I don't disagree with you. I mean that's why I'm saying to people right now what you still can bet the under on
the Indianapolis Colts. I'm gonna tell you, I think this is like an eight and eight, nine and seven kind of team, even with Andrew Luck there, Okay, I told you. I like the way that the Titans are improving Exotic smash Mouth. We're gonna preview them tomorrow. I like what the Houston Texans are doing with their top three defense. I even like improvements to maybe be made in Jacksonville, especially if they can get away from borderstal service. Blake
Bortles check it out. My man, Gabe Morante as well the host Next Hour on the Fantasy Sports r DIO network with Red Heat and Rage. He also thinks the same, says it all depends on Luck's health, but they look like in eight and eight team. I said, yeah, I'm surprised it's still up on the board, he says, though he wants to give him a little credit, saying that they drafted well on defense. I love the first round
pick out of Ohio State, Malik Hooker. I think in the mold of Earl Thomas, he is an elite side behind the sideline coverage, deep end safety, and will allow the calls to do a lot more things. Maybe they're on the right on the upswing there with the defense, but I still think they're behind all of the other defenses in this division. I say take the under, but I would be very careful about this line. Dan, I
have a question for fire Away brother man. So you you obviously you pay attention to the lines in Vegas. If Andrew Luck was to get hurt, obviously their line would drop. Do you think it bodes well for Andrew? Look that they haven't dropped the line, Like, could Vegas know something that the public don't. That's a very interesting question. No, I think yeah, it could be right because what they do, generally speaking, as soon as injuries hit and things like that,
they just take the line off the board. They would never want to be out there and have a liability that your professional gamblers and your sharps could really just pound right away, right like, for example, tomorrow, you know tomorrow we got games going on. Right if, for some reason, a huge star if we see Aaron Rodgersers go down with a non contact knee injury, Vegas is gonna respond lightning quick taking all the Packers lines off the board.
The fact that they haven't could be good news for luck, but I would be surprised. I bet some places have in fact taken it down. There are some places where you can't get this bet. To be quite honest, I think you're ahead of the books if you find a place that still has this line up, because every day that goes by, it seems like the news gets worse and worse, and unfortunately Number twelve will not be up all night to get lucky. Hey, um, Mike, we also have a very close poll going up right now in
the championship of the Football Movies Region. We've got the number one seed Rudy up against the number seven seed, Varsity Blues. I gotta tell you the truth. I gotta tell you the truth. People always associate, you know, music movies with their own experience, right, They may kind of like what used to be called in school text to self connections. This was my movie. Varsity Blues was my movie in college. When I was up at Syracuse from
O two. Um, this movie was there and me and my friends were This became kind of like an epic movie, alright, and we watched this all the time, not only for the whip cream bikini, although that did not hurt. But this is a movie that has a special place in my heart. We heard earlier in the week, Mike that Aaron Rodgers loves Varsity Blues himself. Now, Rudy is great, but we've heard that it is actually not historically accurate that Rudy did not get on the field in that way.
So I'm considering that this may be an upset the Cinderella, a story of Varsity Blues could in fact continue. I am voting for Varsity Blues. Now. The first question here for you, Mike, is, um, have you seen these movies? I've seen Rudy. I have not seen Varsity Blues. Okay, well, I encourage you to see Varsity Blues. I think it's a great movie. So where are you going with this? I mean right now? You know, are you going with Rudy just because you've seen it before? It's a one seed?
This vote right now is your vote could matter, Mike, where are you going with this one? Originally I was going to vote Rudy because it's the one that I've seen. But hearing how how near and dear to your heart Varsity Blue is, I'm going to vote for Varsity Blues. Okay, fair enough, there's another vote. Listen. I'm a lot. I'm lobbying over here. I'm lobbying. Yeah, and I do think it would be cool to see the Cinderella story as a seven seed continue. And we've got a lot of
conversation going on on Twitter right now. Big shout out First the fantasy footballer at f ball seventy eight. He says, wait, I picked Rudy, but I completely forgot about Ali and the whip cream scene. Can I change my vote? And I told him I was like, listen, I even put the whip cream bikini in the poll. To have people remember, you know, I'm trying to promote this and also my
man Howie Balaban out there um at HR Balaband. We're gonna have Howie on I think on the Friday Show to break down the final four in this entire tournament, so big shout out to Howie. He says it's gonna be close, but in the end, the whip cream beats the underdog story and it's a more rewatchable movie for him at least. And right now, fifty two percent of the vote are going with the number seven seed Varsity Blues. It is still close, though, Florio, your vote could in
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Here comes the brand new flavor in your ear. Boy, you know what it is, your boy day Martinez speeds and spitting statistician coming back to you dropping stats over beats on the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. I got Mike Florio. This is my last day with you, mikey huh. We're gonna have Chris Pavona, the Bounty Hunter back on the Ones intunes this tomorrow. But it's been it's been great having you. Man. How
have you enjoyed the thrill ride that is the Fantasy Freestyle? Thanks? Man, it's been fun. It's been a lot of fun. Absolutely, you are welcome anytime, my friend, if you want to drop stats over beats. Let's talk about hard knocks real quick. We were talking about you know, we were talking off the air. Do you think this is real leadership from Jamis Winston or do you think they're just like producing
it that way and it's contrived, edited that way. I mean, like listen, I like a lot of the things he's doing, but it sounded it seemed a little forced, you know, him going to every single player, but in the locker room before the game, being like, I got your back, man, I got your back. Him going to offensive linemen that were kind of like making jokes or whatever, being like, Yo, Ryan, our backup quarterback just got hurt. You need to be sullen, You need to be humble right now. You know all
that stuff. Do you think that's really him or do you think a little bit of that is manufacturing? So I thought the old line talking to the old lineman was a little bit more real because that could be him. You know, he plays quarterback. He's relying on the old lineman and so he obviously one wants them playing their best. Who knows an injury one of those backup old lineman could be guarding blocking for him. I thought they're walking around the locker room saying I got your back to
every player seemed a little forced. Now, maybe he wants to do and he's the face of the franchise. He wants these young guys compete for a spot to know he's even he's got you know, he supported them and everything, But I think it was a little forced for the camera. Let me ask you this. Also, at the very beginning of the episode, you know, they had the James Winston. I've always said if I when I have a child, I am going to make sure that that child has
a four syllable name. Okay, my name works, Dane Martinez. How does it feel like to not be able to have that chant work for your name? Yeah, in my head, I just tried it out and it doesn't work. It doesn't work, man. And as you know, also, the big story was, as I said, Man, I called this that Roberto o'guire was gonna get cut because Nick Folk, my man, the Folk, he ro former Jet was the more consistent guy. They really made a big deal out of this, but
you knew the writing was on the wall. Dirk Cutter said, you gotta hit from inside of fifty. They even showed like in the game, other players, you know, it's a fourth quarter of a meaningless preseason game. They were watching Roberto kick. They kind of knew it was gonna be over. How do you think that scene played out? I thought it was it was Hey, I think they made a huge deal about a kicker or I understand they went out and they traded up up in the second round
to get him. They thought he was gonna be something special. But again, it's a kicker. I think maybe if the camera wasn't there, they give him one more shot or something. I think they kind of gotta make the cuts though. They gotta get down to fifty three. I mean, it was painfully obvious to everybody. Know. Oh, I agree, but I it's just funny that you know it. It was like the highlight of the whole episode was focused on
the kickers. You. I would have never thought they would get a whole episode of Hard Knocks focused primarily on kicking. I hear you, I hear you. I gotta tell you. They're trying to make Jamis Winston star. I think the real star of this show is Gerald McCoy. Yet another episode where McCoy was the man. I think it was great and very smart by the Bucks to bring in my man. The gun show ed Hockeyley to start talking
about would things be fifteen yard penalties or not? But I thought it was a great scene with Gerald McCoy doing like a little butterfly dance with the stinky leg right right to him, being like, Yo, is this okay? Is this not okay? Keep an eye when McCoy makes a sack at some point this season. If he does that exact dance and it's like not not not at hockey Lee told me specifically that I could do that.
We're gonna talk a little bit more about players celebrations because Josh Norman, the cornerback on the Washington football team, had some interesting things to say. We're gonna talk about that tomorrow when my man Chris Bovona is back in that seat. But thank you so much, Florio for holding me down for the last four episodes. Okay, whether it be talking about you know, um, the New York Giants, the Mets lineup, or hard knocks in these movies. Had
a great time with you. When it comes to this movie, get out and vote right now. There are eighteen hours left. I'm talking right now for the Cinderella Varsity Blues. Can Rudy make a comeback? We will tell you tomorrow And boy, I know Chris Bavona is gonna have something to say on this as well, but right now, it's your boy. Dane Martinez speeds the Spin Statistician another episode of the Fantasy Freestyle in the Books on the award winning fantasy sports radio network Sea. Tomorrow, people to