Pats Drama, Lavar Drama, and More!

eight to spitting Statistician. We are stable geniuses here on the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network because we know the national anthem. I got my man Chris Bavona, the Manimal, down there in the fantasy bit of misery on the one the two keeping it so hot that we sweat steam. I got my big boy Danny down there as well, working on the YouTube stream. So you can come inside to Studio thirty four. We'll be engaging you in the chat as well. Got a good show

for you on a Tuesday, big shout out. If you're listening on I Heart Radio or tune in Radio or the Fantasy Sports Radio Network app. Let me tell you something. We talked about the National Championship Game yesterday, going into it and I said that style makes fight well. Uh, Nick Saban decided to change the style at halftime. He heard what I had to say and absolutely changed up the style and that changed up the fight. So we're gonna talk about that a little bit later on in

this show. We are also, you know, when I was away in Asia, all this news came out about acrimony at the top of the New England Patriots as it related to Kraft, Belichick and Brady. Haven't had a chance to give you my take on that, So that's what we're gonna be talking about a little bit later on as well. That is the subject of our poll question

on Twitter. You can always check me out on Twitter follow me at spitting Speeds if you want to get down and be part of the hashtag stats over beat cipher. The poll question is will be Will both Bill and Tom be with the Patriots next year? Is it only if they win the Super Bowl? Is it that one of them is gonna go Bill o Goo Toma go? Or is this a whole lot of nothing when it comes to the acrimony at the top of the New

England Patriots. Also start chatting about it if you want on the YouTube chat Okay, my boy Danny is gonna be able to tell us what we're saying. I want to get your perspective. You're gonna get my perspective on this as well during the show here on the Fantasy Freestyle today and also listen later on when we put the Fun and Functional Sports Radio. We have to start once again talking about someone who Steve Kerr is not happy is getting the coverage that he is. That, of

course is LaVar ball and the Big Baller brand. Whether it is in Los Angeles or Lithuania, we're gonna be talking about it. If you want to get down and talk with your boy Speeds the spitting Statastician, the number two call is eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine. You could get down with the hashtag stats over beat Cipher. We're also gonna give you some news and notes to get you ready for the divisional weekend of the NFL. I call it the best weekend

in all of football. Later on in the week, we're gonna give you my picks, the DFS picks. We may even get to some kids picks as well, and then we'll also talk a little bit about that bombshell out there in Oakland as the Raiders introduce their new head coach and it is Chucky John Gouden. All that and more, we come back to full show Fantasy Freestyle. Come on back, Fantasy Sports Radio Network, Let's go. The sharpest fantasy sports

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Fantasy Sports Radio Network App today. Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyle Here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, Dane Martinez speeds the spitting statistician. The stable genius is in the building right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. The building being Studio thirty four Rock and Riley's. Let me tell you then, last month Rock and Riley's had

basically a different holiday party every night. It really seems Bivona like people are taking their New Year's resolution seriously, maybe trying to keep the pounds of those beer calories off that's a less less uh less folks at Rock and Riley's right after the holidays, I think people are done with partying. They're like refocused on their new uh beginning of year goals. What do you think about that? Bavona to quote uh to quote Austin Powers specifically fraud

a lies. I guarantee that they just they're just trying to save money from all the drinking and all the party and they're doing their partying at home. Now. Well, listen, I'm gonna tell you something. If you if you wanna earn money, you need to listen to our show DFS Lineup lock six to seven pm Eastern Time, Monday through Friday. It's Me and my Man v Tony Sencada. Tony Sencada was relatively confident about his lineup tonight. In the NBA. There's four games and the first game doesn't tip until

seven thirties. So I recommend if you want something check out Tony Sankada's lineup tonight for DraftKings. He uh, maybe you need to win a little bit of cash. But let's keep it moving here on Fantasy Freestyle and give you the news and notes from around the NFL today. The headline event was really the press conference that they had out there in the Bay Area to introduce new

Raiders head coach John Gruden. And uh, you know, we reported this before that he signed a ten year, over a hundred million dollar contract to be the head coach of the Raiders as they transition from Oakland into Las Vegas. And I saw some of this press conference. Let me tell you something, His passion, his enthusiasm is absolutely infectious.

If you want someone who's like a players coach, that will run through the wall for someone, then this was a great higher to have the face of your organization as you change. You know, they talked about the f c A, the Fired Football Coaches Association, how he's real, he's still scouting players, how he's still building plays and playbooks, how he's working for ESPN, you know, in the draft, how he got to see every facility, saw every offensive

and defensive scheme in the league. I actually buy that him being a broadcaster helped him, you know, kind of scout everybody and learn not just one philosophy, one style. So I like that. I thought, here's some interesting takeaways from the press conference. He's never met Marshawn Lynch, and he said he was intrigued by Marshawn. You know, he'll have to sit down and talk with him about how he fits into the offense. Keep an eye on this, because maybe he doesn't fit into the new offense that

they're gonna want to put in there. He did say though, he shared his love for Oakland and his love for the franchise, so he'd be interested to get in the room and finally meet him. He said he loved where his young quarterback Derek Carr was okay, said he's as skilled as anybody throwing the ball. Loves that he's entering his prime. Said he probably had a down year because is of the back injury, which is valid in my opinion.

I thought what was interesting though, he really didn't have any answer for one reporter who asked about um potential kneeling controversy as it related to the Oakland Raiders. He was pretty much just all football, you know. He was like, I still have to look into that. Remember there were reports that there was unrest in the Raiders locker room

because of the kneeling protest. Ironically, though, he also did not have an answer when it came to like the Raiders moving to Vegas, which is something if you signed a ten year deal you gotta realize, right Um, He said, he's just focused on like the black hole and fans in Oakland for the next two years. He had to throw away line kind of he didn't know if he'd be alive in ten years, so he doesn't know if this full contract is gonna happen. He's really focused on

trying to maximize the last two years in Oakland. I think he's gonna do a good job. I think remember and I'm gonna do this tomorrow on tomorrow's Fantasy Freestyle. I'm gonna kind of rank all of the jobs that you had that are out there in the NFL and which I think are the best ones, in which I think are the kind of like like the bottom of the barrel. And to be quite honest, I'm gonna include the job of the Raiders and the job of the

Bears that got high with Naggy going over there. And and the first thing you look at is the quarterback that you're inheriting, you know. And and in this job you have Derek Carr who's entering his prime, who can sling them Rock who's already locked up contractually, so you know you're gonna have him. And I think that that was what makes this Oakland Raiders job one of the

most attractive. The other things you look at, in my opinion, or the division you're competing in, the stability of ownership. You know, um, if you wear your cap situation and your draft situation to be able to kind of fill up the cupboard. But we'll talk about that tomorrow. Is I rank the head coaching vacancies in the NFL. Also listen, we do have games to play this weekend, and so

there are some practice reports that are interesting. Chris Hogan back at practice on a limited asis for the Patriots. He's expected to be back after a shoulder injury. Remember he's been dealing with that all season. James White also back with a limited practice, coming back from an ankle injury. But here's the big one for me. Rex Burkhead back at practice for the Patriots coming back from a knee injury.

I think that severely compromises the DFS value of a guy like Deevin Lewis, let's say, because if Burkehead is back, I think he will in fact get a lot of opportunity for the Patriots as they take on the Titans in that game. DeMarco Murray likely to not go. He missed practice today for the Tennessee Titans. The Carolina Panthers have fired their offensive coordinator, Mike Schula. Listen their run game, if you take away Cam Newton was literally last in

the NFL. So I understand that. Okay, so that's gonna be interesting whoever goes there. But I think they still need a while, a wide out one, a true number one wide receiverver I don't know that Funchius is that, but remember there are guys out there. I mean, what about Allen Robinson. That would might be nice Cam Newton, Right, what about Josh Gordon? Might be nice for Cam Newton. So we'll see about that. All right. Here's the other thing I want to talk about here in this segment.

Listen that National Championship game I talk I talked about it at the beginning of the show. Remember how I said last night when I thought that Alabama would win the game. Alabama did in fact win the game. Um, I did think they were going to cover the point spread the points where it was four, So that did not happen. Unfortunately, but I didn't have Alabama winning their stifth national title in nine years on the Nick Saban,

which is absolutely ridiculous. I was a big fan. I said, style makes fight, and in the style of fight that was happening in the first half, Nick Saban and the Alabama Criminson tide realized that they were not winning the fight. So they changed the style and they changed and they went to the freshman quarterback to uh, I'm not gonna try to pronounce and Butcher's last name. You know who I'm talking about. They put into a in favor of

Jalen Hurts. He even Saban even said it after the game, said he felt like he needed to throw the ball a little bit more and that toa would throw the ball better. Um, that's what happened. The kid made some great throw. The zip on his throw was ridiculous. He scrambled out of trouble a couple of times and really

lad that team to victory. But what I thought was an interesting part of this game was the amount of freshmen that were on the field for both sides making plays not only to a Georgia quarterback, from some of these running backs. Harris on one side Swift on the other some wide receivers that were defensive lineman. And it reminds me of how like the cupboard is never bare at these places and I don't understand. Like, and the funny part with Georgia, for example, they had another kid

Easton who was their starting quarterback. He went down in the first game, and then they bring in from and they have the number one recruit in all of the country at quarterback going to Georgia, Like what what is Like? What is this? If you're the blue star recruit, do you like prefer to maybe the backup at Alabama or at Georgia for two or three years? Why not go to another squad where you could start right away, like a Power five squad that you could start wide away.

I just don't necessarily get it. What is it? Is it the exposure you get, you know, for being with these big teams on TV the national press is that it is? It? Is it the facilities down there in the SEC with l s U or Alabama? Is the coaching you get with Nick Saban? Like put put yourself in the mind of this kid. Let's say who's coming there, and he knows he's got, you know, a championship quarterback in front of him, Like, what what is it that

makes you go there anyway? Is it you think the one year of exposure the chance you get is enough to go to the NFL? Like, or is it that you appreciate that you're gonna be against NFL competition in practice? You know, like the kind of iron sharpens iron kind of idea? What is it that makes them be able to backlog this talent? And then here's my other question.

If you can backlog this talent at defensive line, at cornerback, at running back, at wide out, at quarterback, why can't Nick Saban go and get a niker that can be rock solid? This kid, Popadopoulos or Popcustus whatever his name was, missing not one but two and shanking them, pulling them wide right. He had the yips Like his name was Blake Bortles. Let me tell you something about that. Okay, So I don't understand this. There was so much NFL talent on that field. It was a great game, and

kudos to Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide. Maybe they can now go play my guys, the University of Central Florida, the undefeated Golden Knights, who in my opinion, deserve his share of the national title. And if this was twenty five years ago, it would happen just like that. But congratulations to the Alabama Crimson Tide who win the

national championship in overtime over Georgia in Atlanta. Three. Maybe he'll take hours a break and then hit that recruiting trail again to restock the cupboard, like it looks like they always do. But I gotta get into that, like Danny later on, we gotta go on the chat at and we gotta find out, like why if you were like this, you know, big time recruit, why google there to sit behind kids for you know, three years and then maybe get a chance. Is that the exposure? Is that?

The coaching, the facilities, the competition? What is it? I want to hear about it in the YouTube chat when we come back. I took you you might take on the Patriots dramas, the Fantasy freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You know what it is, Hunter, Henry Sterling, Shepherd, Michael Thomas. These three NFL softmores are not due to slump. They're due to break out, just like the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. A year two, things are only getting better.

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the Fantasy Freestyle and the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Um, when I was away in Asia, this news broke about the drama with the Patriots, right, you know, Robert Kraft, Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and there's listen. I was early with it though. I was giving you guys this insight a couple of weeks ago. Remember if you remember, and I know you do, because I know you keep tabs on everything that stats overbeat Cipher discusses. And I told you guys that there was some drama around this guy

Alex Guerrero, that was Brady's personal trainer. He was on the sidelines, he was on the team plane. He had an office at the facility, and Belichick revoked some of his privileges. If you remember, that was like a couple of weeks ago. I reported that, and I said that there was a little bit of drama there between Bill Belichick with the medical staff, and so that was the first crack. And I told you, I don't like this with teams, when teams that have been together for so long.

I said the same thing with Bobby Wagner and Arl Thomas going back and forth in social media. That really is what it starts to signal the fall of Rome. These guys that have been together for fifteen twenty years something like that. Okay, and they've done a lot of winning, Okay. But I think here's what here's here's my take on it. And I you know, I know all the inside. I read, I read the article, I know all the details. Um. I think that Bill Belichick was planning for the future

without Tom Brady, okay, uh. And I think he's done that before. And I think Bill Belichick has always been a year early moving on from you rather than a year late. And he's done that with everybody from Teddy Brushki to Lineman to you know, even Stalworth's of the organization. And I think Tom Brady thought that the time was coming for him, and I thought that, uh, that Jimmy Garoppolo was a threat. In essence, Jimmy Garoppolo was a threat.

One of the most interesting details I found in the article was that Jimmy Garoppolo actually was refused treatment at TB twelve. Okay, Jimmy Garoppolo is the threat. Jimmy Garoppolo is public enemy number one. That's why this whole thing not only was with the Alex Guerrero and Who's training piece, but also this idea of how they had to trade Jimmy Garoppolo. Bill Belichick wanted to keep Jimmy Garoppolo, you know,

but um Robert Craft got wind of it. Maybe the way Robert Craft got wind of it was because is I don't know if you guys know this, but Tom Brady and Jimmy Garoppolo the same agent. Okay, So if one of them is talking about personnel moves and one of them is thinking about, you know, the future, then

the other one knows as well. Okay. So maybe Brady went up the backstairs to Robert Kraft and said, you need to put your finger on the thumb on this, and you need to get Jimmy Jimmy g Q out of here, and Bill didn't want that because Bill had been toiling and Bill had been prepping and planning for a day without Tom Brady. And by all accounts, Jimmy Garoppolo was the air apparent, but uh Craft sided with Brady is how it went down. And I think that is is really part of the acrimony. I think that

it became obvious with the Jimmy Garoppolo piece. I think he became obvious with the Alex Guerrero piece. And there's other things that I feel that are coming out though. Um I think Tom Brady is in an avocado cult. I think Tom Brady is in an avocado oags based cult. You know, to be that great, you have to be a little bit of a different cat, you know, to be that singularly focused, you have to be a little weird,

you know. You see. Also there's the great cut ups of like all the history onics that Oldell Beckham does on the sidelines and how Tom Brady does the exact same thing. Tom Brady is a special dude, and I mean special dude. Okay. I don't know if it's maybe the avocados. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's the sleep chamber that he's in, maybe it's all that good stuff he's getting from Alex Guerrero. But he's a different kind of cat. And we're hearing a little bit

more about this. Uh Josh McDaniels, his father apparently was screaming at him from the stands of a recent game, basically that he's in a hole. That was in this article as well. And I'm gonna tell you something, Yeah, I think Bill Belichick and Tom Brady will ultimately still be together. Like this pole question I have up on Twitter right now. Sevent of you say yes, Bill and Tom will both be with the Patriots in two thousand and eighteen. And I agree with you. I agree with

the of you. Okay, I you know that my second response would be that Bill is the only one that could leave. Bill is the only one that could leave. And and here's why I wouldn't put it past you. And I'm gonna give you a couple of reasons, and and and it may not be what you're thinking, you know, It's always there's always been the question like who needs

two more? Did Brady need Belichick or did Belichick need Brady, right, because Belichick was a coach with Cleveland for one day, he was a coach with the Jets, right, So could he do it without him? And and and and I think for guys like Belichick, that always burns, right, like could you do it without that that star to to prove that it was really you, that it was really you all behind it all, behind the dynasty, behind the success. So I think that that is a little bit there.

You hear Rumors about the New York Football Giants were also hearing today. There were reports that Nick Saban is not interested in the Giants. And remember, I'm going to rank all these openings on tomorrow's episode of The Fantasy Freestyle. The Giants are not the top one, but they're not the bottom one either, um, and so maybe belichick season opening there. It has been reported by you know, close personal friends and YadA, YadA, YadA. But here's the thing.

I think that Belichick sees the end with Tom Brady. You know, this guy is forty years old, right, So I think that Belichick. If anybody is going to leave, it will be Belichick. I don't think Belichick is going to leave because winning is a great deodorant. And the Patriots are still you know, one of the favorites to win. They will be a favorite to win the Super Bowl every year that Tom Brady is there. Right. So, But

here's the thing. I think the problem is that I think the Patriots will lose both their offensive and their defensive coordinators this season. Okay, Matt Patricia, the defensive coordinator, has been linked to the Detroit Lions job. Um, that's kind of like a slow burn. They can't really probably announce it because Patricia is you know, with the Patriots still and there are still competing for the super Bowl, and it looks Josh McDaniels is a very, uh, kind

of hot candidate. He's been linked to the Giants job. He's been linked to a couple of others as well. McDaniels has been a head coach in the league before. And I think that if um, McDaniels and Patricia leave, that's gonna be interesting to see how the Patriots respond to that. And you know we talked about is a Bill as a Brady. You know, those are some coordinators who have been there for a while and have been successful.

I think that could be an issue which could also accelerate maybe Bill Belichick, you know, cashing in his chips now. Maybe you cash in your chips a year early rather than a year late because you couldn't replace the quarterback a year early rather than early year late. Maybe you cash in your chips when you know Brady's turning forty one and you don't have the air apparent. Maybe you cash in your chips when you know you're losing your

offensive coordinator, you're losing your defensive coordinator. I don't think he's I don't think he's been on this for a while because if he was, what he would have done was traded Jimmy Garoppolo to the Giants and then coach the Giants. Right. But here's why I'm really excited about

this potential. Whether it happens or not, it's gonna happen eventually, much like the Trump administration, where now when people are leaving now, they're giving uh, you know, their accounts of what was going on on the inside behind the curtain, if you will, you know, we see this book Fire and Fury out. Bannon wants to have his say, regardless of what you think about the administration there, right, and I think if you listen to the fantasy freestyle. You

know what Spezia spen satisticition things. But I'm excited for for the palace intrigue of the New England Patriots to finally come out. Wouldn't it be great when in two years Bill Belichick writes the book about the Deflator. Won't it be great when Josh McDaniels in ten years gets to in an interview because he's not with the Patriots anymore, but he's the successful head coach of the New York Giants who's delivered a Super Bowl two in the year

two thousand and twenty one. Won't it be great when he gives an interview about what was really on the spy Gate tapes, about how many ps I Tom Brady really needed, about why Alex Guerrero needed to be there to give tom Brady, you know, the good avocados. I think that's what I'm interested in. I'm interested in this eventually breaking up so we could go behind the curtain, you know, and see, you know, why the NFL destroyed the tapes at Spygate, to see why Tom Brady destroyed

his phone as part of that investigation. I'm excited for the acceleration of the palace intrigue. If you with me on that on the Fantasy freef Style on the YouTube stream, hit me up in the chat, let me know what

you're thinking about that. I also want to know on the chat what you're thinking if you're a five star recruit and you have the option of being the man somewhere else and still be on TV, but instead you signed to school where you know you have two people already ahead of you, and you're only gonna get one year of playing time. Hit me up on the chat. As we uh, you know, on the Fantasy Sports YouTube chat, Fantasy Freestyle popping off with the hashtag stats over beat Cipher.

Even after the playoffs, we're still here talking. Okay, we're putting the fun and functional sports radio here in the Fantasy Sports Radio network. So that's what I'm intrigued about. Okay, maybe when Jimmy Garoppolo's agent, you know, links up with the guy, remember the two fired equipment guys from New England. What happens when they all, you know, right there tell all kind of like fire and fury that came out on bookshelves apparently everywhere last week when I was away

in Asia. That's what I'm thinking. In the next segment, we're gonna find out what you guys are thinking on the YouTube stream as well well. We're also going to talk about is uh quite frankly our boy LaVar Ball is back in the news. We're gonna play with Steve Kerr had to say about him and why he's still you know, I still think he's crazy like a fox.

We'll talk about if he should be deep covered by news outlets, if he should be in the news for anything, and if he's really doing a smart job here staying and in the news. I also want to hear from you guys. We'll hear from the status over beat Cipher on the YouTube chat. If you want to holler at your boy speeds and stating spitting statistician the state genius. The number to call is eight four four eight four

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blood cancer. When we come back on the Fantasy Freestyle, we're talking big Baller brand and I want to hear what you guys are thinking in the chat room about, like I said, the National Championship and these five star recruits and the drama in New England. You say that Bill and Tom will both be a bit patriots. We'll find out. We'll talk about it a little bit more Fantasy Freestyle. Have you ever wanted to have a fantasy expert in the of your hand? Were better yet in

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Do you know what it is? Speedy spitting statistician here on the Fantasy Freestyle and the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio network holding you down on a Tuesday down there in the fantasy pit of misery, We've got my boys, Cristal Vona, Big Danny there on the YouTube chat to people talking about Patriots drama. We're gonna get into that in a little bit. See what you people are saying. See if I agree with the hashtag stats over beat Cipher. But I wanted to get into this story real quick. Listen,

LaVar Ball keeps himself in the news. You know, if you believe that no no, uh no news is bad news. You know in public public relations, you know, is just staying in the vernacular in the lexicon. Boy, does LaVar Ball do a good of this. The last thing that happened, though, is LaVar Ball popped off about Luke Walton, the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers are still toiling at the bottom of the Western Conference, even with his son Lonzo the number two overall pick and my guy,

the other rookie, Kyle Kuzma. Here's what he said about Luke Walton. He says, quote unquote, that's a good team, but nobody wants to play for him. Him being Luke Walton. I can see it. No high fives when they come out of the game. People don't know why they're in the game. He's too young. He's too young. He ain't connecting with them anymore. You can look at every player

he's connecting. He's not connecting with not one player. So basically LaVar saying that the head coach of his son's team, this is not a high school team in Chino Hills. This is the Los Angeles Lakers we're talking about, saying that he's not connecting a lot of people have come out and said, like, how Kuzma came out. Other players said, you know that this is really kind of drawing the line there. I think a Lonzo is the only person that could really shut LaVar up. But what's interesting is

how other people have really reacted. Um Stan van Gundi has you know, reacted to this, saying that like LaVar should not be covered, and and and and they're kind of questioning the media, like why is the media offering LaVar ball this platform to continue to like critique coaches. You know, so other coaches are gonna step up four coaches. It's kind of like that fraternity, you know, So Stan

Van Gundy did. Carlisle said, I think that like, uh team should revoke the press passes of the news organizations that cover LaVall ball. And I think that's a little bit crazy. But I hear what you're doing. You're like, why give this guy the platform? And then interestingly enough, Steve Carr also had some interesting things to say about this. This is I believe from point nine the game out

there in the Bay Area. Listen to what Steve Carr this is at the press conference last night when someone asked them a little bit about LaVar ball, let's play that Navona question was coming. So I haven't prepared for it, but um, this is this is the world we live in now. Um. You know, I was thinking about ESPN and and uh, you know, they laid off I don't know a hundred people. How many people did they lay off over the last year, more many of you whom

were really talented journalists covering the NBA. Um And um, so we you know, and this is not an ESPN judgment. It's a societal thing more than anything. But um, you know where we're going is we're going away from covering the game and we're getting closer to just sensationalized news. And um, it's not even news really, it's just complete nonsense. Um. But if you package that irrational nonsense with some glitter and some ribbon. People are gonna watch UM. So I've

talked to UM people in the media this year. I said, why do you why do you guys have to cover that guy? They say, well, we don't want to, nobody wants to, but our our bosses tell us we have to UM because of the ratings, because of the readership. So somewhere, UM, I guess it's in the Lithuania, one of our balls laughing at all of us. People are eating out of his hands for no apparent reason or than you know, he's become like Kardashian of the NBA

or something, and and that sells. And that's what is true in politics and entertainment and now in sports. So they have it listen, and I think, you know, he calls him the Kardashion of the NBA. But I gotta tell you something. I agree with him. It's this overall sensationalism. He talked about it in politics, he talked about it,

and entertainment he talked about it in sports. This idea that you're not actually even covering the action, you're covering the kind of like snapshot reality tabloid magazine kind of stuff, because that's what gets clicks, that's what get likes, that's what gets follows these days, you know. And and the other thing he said that I agree with. To be quite honest, LaVar Ball is probably laughing at all of us.

You know, he sly like a fox. Everything he's done, people say it's crazy, but it's kind of worked out just fine for him. You know, I mean four dollar pairs of sneakers, them joined to selling, you know. Uh, he was talking about where Alonso was gonna wind up. That's where Alonso wound up with the Lakers. Perfect for the brand. You know. He's take the little the middle to the middle son and the lower son Leangelo Lamello there in Lithuania. But you know, it's keeping them in

the news. And now they're that team is pulling out of the Baltic League to play in what's called the Big Ball, a brand challenge games, and they're gonna get and to be honest, they had to avoid the n C double A. Anyway, the kids stole like Gucci or Louis Vuitton, whatever it was on their trip abroad. They had to avoid the NT double A. How are you still an amateur if You're getting three hundred dollars a pair for your sneakers. So smart move by LaVar and

now nothing nothing. The kids are playing against men. Remember when other kids, other kids have done this instead of going to college, like going to international ball, Like this is a smart move, just doing it in a better branded. Hey, so I'm not against this. I understand this. He gets to play against men, they get to build their brand, they get to avoid the n C double a. He's he's, he's in the news. But I agree with this Kardashian analogy.

You know, we want to just cover the bright shiny thing. That's why instead I encourage you to listen to the Fantasy Freestyle because we put the fun and functional sports radio, but we also covered that meaty potatoes that helps you win your leagues and win that cash. But what I wanna do is go to the hashtag stats overbeat Cipher because we gotta avoid Danny in the pit of misery down there in the Fantasy the misery. And you know, we finally got a new Dilly Dilly commercial by the way,

for bud Light. When a man is like transforming everything into cases of bud Light, and that's like the superpower. He doesn't want, you know, he doesn't want fame and fortune or immortality. He just wants more bud light. I'm into that. But Danny down there in the fantasy pit of misery. You've been monitoring the YouTube stream and he said that in the chat we got some good ones. Are we're talking about are we tal talking about the

national championship in the high school recruits? We we're talking about the Patriots drama, We're talking about LaVar ball. What are they talking about in the chat room? This is the freestyle, right, So this is the fantasy freestyle. This is the freestyle portion of the show because honestly, guys, my my, my stats over beat cipher. You know, when it was football season, the phone lines at eight four four eight four three six seven nine with light up

day by day. Right, people want to ask questions dilly dilly after the football season. I feel like I feel used. I feel used. But it is a fantasy freestyle, so we could talk about anything whatever. The chat room wants to talk about. Speeds, the spitting statistician, the stable genius is ready to talk about it. That's why we call it the freestyle. So what are the people talking about in the chat room Danny and they're talking about Patriots

drama or something else. It's it's actually a little bit all over the place to give you kind of the the best little snippets. So that's tough. I had to I had to mention this. That's tough, said, I haven't watched you since I lost Week sixteen. But they're back, I guess. But they're I guess, so that means they're watching today. The question is holler back at them and be like, will you watch again? All right? You know

the thing is listen. I mean, I'm glad that you haven't came since you lost, you know, because we're gonna be here twelve months a year. Okay, we put the fun and functional sports radio. I'll give you what you need in uh to bet, you know, wild Card to division weekends, all the football games. After football. What we're gonna do is, day by day we're gonna get you

ready for baseball. I'm gonna be giving team previews and last year and my team by team previews, I said that Houston Astros would be in the World Series last year and my team by team previews, I said put money on Jose alve Is the A L M v P. So you want to tune in for these sorts of things. So we got to find out if he's gonna be back, if he's likeing the show, stuff like that. What else are people saying? All right, so we gotta we actually

have a couple of comments about the Manimal downstairs. We're sitting sitting right next to me. Yeah, we got a strong style, Ninja says, Manimal is is rough riding for life. Yeah. DMX was on that. We had a little Swiss beats coming in today on the Fantasy freestyle. That's the thing. Wait, hashtag stats over beats, right, not only is the freestyle not only from the fantasy pit of misery. Can you throw me any topic and I will be ready on

the freestyle. But we got the stats over beats, we got the hip hop, we got Bob in your head because the neck knows what's up. A lot of people like the beats that my guy, the Manimal is dropping. We had some DMX, we had some drag on Swiss beats coming in. So yeah, yeah, yeah, what else are they saying about our guy the Manimal? Actually, uh, that's

it for Manimal. Everyone's agreeing that he is he's writing rough Riding, um, but also from Ninja we got Brady put Jimmy G in the Pit of misery, so apparently he's down here with us somewhere, all right. Yeah, I hear that Jimmy G. You know who loves Jimmy G is our guy, Chris Ventra. Chris Ventra. It's your boy, the analyst, Chris Ventra, and I still have yet to

hear Chris Ventra's first into the Freestyle game. I hear it was legendary, but I hear that I'm not allowed to hear it and criticis kit until Ventra is back in that chair to defend himself. That that's that seems very fair, okay, and that's gonna be on Thursday's edition of The Fantasy Freestyle. What else are what else are people saying? We got from Graham? It says he said, Uh, I don't know what's gonna happen with Bill with Bill Belichick. Sorry that was sorry, but but I hope it involves

the Giants. Yeah, a lot of people think that it could be. I understand it, you know, wanting to go to another Blue Chips stable class franchise. I understand it because of the connections with Bill Parcels. I understand it because he used to be a coach on this staff. Thanks Danny down there in the pit of misery. Let me know if you get anything else really good. I also want to give a shout out to Clayton Treyhan, who always responds to our polls, whether it is the

football season, fantasy football season or not. Remember the poll question is will Bill, will Bill and Tom both me with the Patriots in two thousand eighteen sevent say, of course they will. Clayton Treyhand says, not only that Kraft has the money to keep both Patricia and McDaniels as well. Don't be shocked if we see all of them together

in two thousand eighteen. I think McDaniels has gone. I think Patricia is gone, and I think that could be an underlying factor, is to if anybody's gonna go, Bill Belichick may go as well. When we come back, we put a nice little bow on this episode of the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Coming right Back Fantasy Freestyle, you can backlog this talent at defensive line, at cornerback, at running back,

at whine out at quarterbacks. Why can't Nick Saban go and get a kicker that can be rock solid? This kid, Bob Coustas whatever his name was, missing not one but two and shankings and kudos to Nick Saban and the Alabama Crimson Tide. Maybe they can now go play my guys at the University of Central Florida the undefeated Golden Knight, who, in my opinion, deserving share of the national title. Week

days from seven to eight pm. E. Stern on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, Welcome back to the Fantasy Free Style, where the Manimals still making the head Bob as we come back in hashtags stats over on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Nobody does it quite like speeds is bitting statisticians Stable genius on the Fantasy Sports Radio and Network, Gay, Hey, Manimal, we had Danny down there in the Fantasy pit of misery.

I need the manimal for a hot second tomorrow. I'm thinking about making our poll question be what should we do to move on from Ted Finn Jr? What's your studio thirty four? Do you know? Like? Should we have a new fish? Should we get a new different kind of animal? Should we just like never get another animal or you know what, what do you think the options

for the pole should be? Bivona, Well, I I'm not against getting the idea of getting another so getting another fish, getting another fish, getting another fish, getting another fish that's not a beta was okay, getting another their species of fisting another species, so like getting another beta fish, getting

another kind of fish that's something like a venus fly trap. Oh, getting like a plant, yes, something that's just a little bit easier to take care of, okay, but but like yeah, but like listen, it's one thing to get a plant. It's another thing to get a venus fly trap. Oh, you're you're stuck on this venus fly trap. I think it'd be kind of cool for our studio there, but you know, you know, someone's gonna get their hand caught.

The other thing, Danny really wants a dog. And I'm gonna tell you right now, Danny, I've had a dog now for the past five months. You really really want to have a dog? Network dog. I'm allergic. I'm allergic. I cannot be. I cannot be in this confined space that is Studio thirty four with the dog. And then they get you a kid. Over everything. Now, I can't have a dog be in the pole. What we're gonna have is get another beta fish, get another kind of fish,

get a plant. I don't know if we'll specify venus fly trap. Four options should be just like nothing, right, Like what's that a lizard? All right? All right? Get another fish, get another animal, get a plant, or do nothing. I like it. Those are the options tomorrow. Okay, So tune in tomorrow to the Fantasy Freestyle. We're gonna be talking about how do we adequately replace Ted Finn Jr. Or if we do it at all? Okay? And then

tomorrow on tomorrow's show. What I'm also gonna do is, at the beginning of the week, there were six head coach openings in the NFL. Two of them have been filled John Gruden in Oakland, and you also have un Matt Nagy in Chicago. What I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna rank all six of the jobs that were out there. There was Oakland, there was Chicago. There was the Arizona Cardinals, the New York Football Giants, the Detroit Lions, and the

Indianapolis Colts. I'm gonna rank all of them in terms of what I think are the most attractive and tell you why, and tell you the kinds of coaches that each of those teams are gonna go after. I'm also gonna tell you what I think. Remember, Vivona, I used to always talk a lot about players safety in the NFL as we put the Fun and Functional Sports Radio. I also talked a lot about medical marijuana and how they're changing it, trying to go there instead of some

of the pain pills and the ball and getting shot up. Well, I want to bring this back into focus because I think that the NFL it's going down a very slippery slope, especially in the playoffs. And my case in point, my exhibit A is the injury that happened to Cam Newton in the wild card round. They said that Cam Newton had an eye injury, but he had his visor on, So what how did he get poked in the eye? How did he get an eye injury? You know the kind of injury he had that was an eye injury.

It was one where he lost his balance and his equilibrium because it wasn't an eye injury, it was a head injury. But they couldn't bring him to the dark quiet room because it was the playoffs and they couldn't

lose their former MVP quarterback. I'm gonna talk about how the concussion protocol hangs over the NFL playoffs as a dark cloud and the potential for disaster in the next couple of weeks that I really think the NFL is going to have to confront and they're not gonna be able to call it an eye injury when Tom Brady has to go into the tent in the a f C Championship game. But enough about that for now. We'll talk about that more tomorrow on the Fantasy Freestyle right

here on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. It's your boy, Dame Martinez Speed the spitting statisticians. I'm the stable genius right here. I'll see you tomorrow