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show for you on a Friday. I'll give you all the news and notes as you slide into the last weekend before the Super Bowl. We'll talk a little bit about the Pro Bowl, about that skills competition that happened, and we have to update the story. Remember I played the clip of Ali Raceman giving testimony um earlier in this week, and has this not mushroom cloud this week? Or what I'm talking about the the USA Gymnastics. I'm talking about Michigan State. Now it involved in a fairly

deep level, so I'll get into that as well. And of course we have the stats over beat Cipher. If you want to hit me up, you can by following me on Twitter at Spitting Speeds. You could get the chat room out there on YouTube. I hope my man strong style is down there already and you can holler at your boy yet eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine. I gotta poll question up because listen, there's no football this Sunday for the first time in

a very long time, so I'm very intrigued. What would you rather watch? Would it be the Pro Bowl or uh, you know, one of these other leagues, the XFL which Vince McMahon says it's coming back, the Arena League, the CFL Canadian Football, or on this Sunday night without football, you gotta shoe the Pro Bowl and stead watch. I think the Grammys are on this Sunday night, the Royal Rumble. A lot of people have been talking about on this network.

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NFL as usual. Listen, the Pats have had a walk through today and Rob Gronkowski was not there, Okay, so listen, this concussion story is what we are going to continue to monitor all weekend long, and I'm guaranteeing you this will be the number one injury update or piece of news that they are gonna be talking about at Media Day. So I have a feeling I gotta feel in that Rob Gronkowski will have a limited practice session like on Monday.

I think media Day is Tuesday, a right, so if he has not seen the field and that is hanging over still, I think it would be such a huge topic at media Day. I think the Patriots are savvy enough to at least have Gronk out there, maybe in a red jersey or in a limited piece of work, so they can say that he is trending in the right direction. What I will say about this, though, and this is because I truly care about players safety. Never Mind the NFL and the NFL p A and there

you know their passive aggressiveness towards these issues. I care about player safety. So I wonder should the protocol not only be different, We've talked about that, but what about the return to play protocol? Because the Super Bowl is a different animal than most. Isn't it louder then most games? Aren't there more flashing lights than most games? Aren't there more fireworks than most games? Aren't there more jet flyovers

then most games? Aren't there more like crowd noise and paparazzi and lights and all that stuff which could be bad to someone recovering from a concussion. But I digress. I'm sure he'll be fine. I'm sure he'll get cleared. Pat Shermer says, Eli Manning quote unquote has years left, and Dave Gettuman the new Giants GM says Eli. Still, when he checks the tape, still has plenty of armed talent. This now sounds like a new regime that wants Eli

Manning to stay with the new York Football Giants. What I think is going to happen is what I've been telling you guys for a while. Yes, I do believe that the New York Giants will retain Eli Manning. But what I also do think is that they're going to use that number two overall pick on a quarterback, and I think it is the Rosen one out of U c.

L A. Josh Rosen. But I think that Eli will wind up doing the same thing for Rosen that Kurt Warner did for Eli in his rookie year, that being mentor him, help him with the playbooks, start the first you know, six to eight games, and then eventually give way maybe to the rookie when he is ready. But the front office really sounds like they are behind Eli Manning. In Buffalo, sad News to report center Eric Would has a neck uh injury, a kind of degenerative issue, which

is going to force his retirement from the NFL. Would has been the Bills cententer ever since he was drafted in the first round in two thousand and nine. Listen, that's what you're looking for when you draft the first round offensive lineman. You were looking for stability, and you could just pencil his name into the lineup for ten years. And that is what the Buffalo Bills got out of Eric Would We tip our cap here at the fantasy freestyle to Eric would Josh McDaniels is meeting with the

Colts again. Let me tell you something. This is like the worst kept secret in all of the NFL. Okay, Josh McDaniels is going to be the next head coach. They're calling it like a follow up interview. What this is is planning. They are planning so that they can hit the ground running. Okay, that's what they're doing. They're figuring out their free agency plan, their draft strategy, maybe their practice scheduled things like that, going over the personnel

so that Josh McDaniels can hit the ground running. This is only because the Patriots are still playing. That's the only reason. Also that the Detroit Lions head coach opening is still opening. That's because it's gonna be Matt Patricia, the defensive coordinator in New England. This is no This is happens all the time. Okay. Last year, if you remember, the Atlanta Falcons were in the Super Bowl. At that

point in time, their offensive coordinator was Kyle Shanahan. Everyone knew he was going to be the next head coach in San Francisco. They just couldn't announce the same thing's gonna happen with Matt Patricia in Detroit. To be quite honest, that's the same reason the timing for the Pat Shermer announcement earlier this week. It was as soon as Minnesota

got bounced from the playoffs. Speaking of coaching hires, the Arizona Cardinals have hired ex Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Mike McCoy as they are oc Remember um McCoy was also the head coach of the Chargers for a few years back in the day. But he's really a bad quarterback. Look, this guy was offensive coordinator for Denver the last few years,

worrying about like Simeon and Lynch and Oswidler. He now goes to um Arizona right after Carson Palmer retires and he's going to have to build that Q be room up from the ground up as well. Last piece of notes, I'll give you this from a team that is actually in the Super Bowl, but it's injury news, but it's not going to impact the game. It came out that Carson Wentz not only toward his A C L, but he also tored his L C L in that injury against the Rams. I gotta tell you, guys, if if

I could show you Speeds has done the same thing. Okay, I got an A C L SCAR. I got an L C L SCAR, So I understand that recovery. They have the timetable at nine to twelve months. Listen to if you think about that, because it would happened in December or late November, real late in the season. That puts his kind of Week one status in a little

bit of doubt. They say today that they are quote unquote hopeful that he makes it for Week one, keeping on on that, but he'll be missing most of training camp, most of the preseason at the very least. All Right, I gotta go back to this here on the Fantasy Freestyle. Earlier in the week, I played the Ali Raisman testimony um that she had about Larry Nasser, who has then since been sentenced to I believe it was between forty

and a hundred and seventy five years in prison. And I talked about how earlier this week, three of the members of the United States Olympic the USA Gymnasts. Actually USA Gymnastics resigned the chairman of the board, the vice chairman of the board, the treasury of the board has

already resigned. I talked about how this was going to be an issue that was going to continue to blow up as a big story, and today, um, the United States Olympic Committee has said to USA Gymnastics that if they do not fire or have their entire board resign, that the United States Olympic Committee is going to decertify USA Gymnastics. The United States will no longer have an Olympic level program unless the entire board of USA Gymnastics resigns.

I think that is a strong step. I think that is an appropriate step for the United States Olympic Committee showing that they are absolutely very serious about this heating Ali Raceman and others words. How they say they are going to further investigate who knew that this was going on and when they knew it. They are going to force the entire board of United States gym Gymnastics to

resign by the end of the month, by Wednesday. They are going to put an interim board in place by the end of next month, by February, and what they are going to do is then kind of certify or make the board official in twelve months after that. Okay, they're going to continue and endum and then investigation. Remember, Larry Nasser was the team doctor, and to be quite honest, one piece that I did not know until later on this week is he was He is already serving a

sixty year sentence um for um, you know, the same thing, harassment. UM. So the judge did in fact sign his death warrant, but it continues, okay this week. Also because Larry Nasser was also a team doctor for Michigan State, and Michigan State is starting to have officials run for the hills as well. Okay. The president of the university, Luanne Simon, who I should say is as a woman, okay, resigned on Wednesday. Today the athletic director Mark Hollis abruptly retired today.

This scandal goes far beyond just Gymnastics USA Gymnastics in Michigan State officials are leaving left and right and outside the lines. Today had a report out that there is kind of institutional um issues with this at Michigan State, that they were actually suppressing information on sexual assault allegations against members of the football team and of the basketball team. It makes me wonder, Hey, Tom Izzoh, Hey Mark D'Antonio,

did you know about this as well? You know, we could have here a Joe Paterno Sandusky kind of situation. This watch this, The A D the university president have both left in shame this week already the entire board of USA Gymnastics is being forced to resign or have them be decertified. And I think these are appropriate steps after what Larry Nasser did institutionally with kind of protection it looks like from a couple of organizations for a

while with children. So I'm glad that we talked about it when we did here on the Fantasy Freestyle, and I'm glad that we continue to have updates as this spirals even more. When we come back though on the Fantasy Freestyle, we're gonna have a brighter topic, the NFL Pro Bowl. When we come back here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. At your boy speed it spitting statistician, we'll have Chris Venture back to as well. Come all right back, Hey there, everybody, it's me Joe Peza Pia.

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A s. Hitting me up. He was on a little bit of a basketball uh roots show and hitting up me and Tony Sencada to me and Tony um are lineups overlapped a lot tonight in DFS. Okay, you still got five minutes left, I think in DFS tonight. I think the first game doesn't tip off until seven thirty. I'm gonna tell you right now. We like Shabaz Napier as a punt play on Portland tonight. He's gonna get some extra minutes. I like Zach Lavine tonight, he's gonna

get more minutes. I like Michael kid Gil Chris as a punt play tonight. And listen, this Houston, New Orleans game has a two seven total. I'm gonna try and get as much of that game as absolutely possible. But I want to turn our attention to UH the Pro Bowl this weekend on Sunday. There was a Pro Bowl skills competition last night, or at least it aired last night. And listen, this is something we talked about last year.

We were very excited about the prospect of the dodgeball matchup, and we thought some of these other ones were interesting. So I previewed them a little bit on yesterday's show, and I gotta tell you something, shots called by your Boys speeds the spitting Statistician. First of all, there was the passing kind of like passing accuracy QB challenge. Derek Carr took that home over Russell Wilson over Alex Smith, and there was one other quarterback over Jared Goff as well.

Derek Carr took it. I think, you know, John Gruden's gotta love it. Russell Wilson didn't look too good. I think he put up the lowest score. But to be honest, when does Russell Wilson get a chance to really just stand in one spot and deliver the football? He's better. He should have been on rolling out more than just standing and delivering from the pocket because that offensive line does not protect him. Then they had the drone drop. Okay, I like this event. I think it is cool. It

was Jarvis Landry and Patrick Peterson. Jarvis Landry gets to win. Does Patrick Peterson? I think could not handle it when it came from a hundred and twenty ft high. Okay, that's like twelve stories high. I think that's crazy. Now, I liked this event, but I was I said it last night. I will say it again. This event would be better if they had these guys, you know, Jervis

Landry and uh Patrick Peterson. But then if they also did it with two of the linemen that they had, Like, let's say they also did it with Geno Atkins and Ryan Terrogan. I think that would be fun to see. I think, you know, having the big men do it. I think that would be a little bit more interesting than they had this um like Gridiron Gauntlet, which is like a relay race and an obstacle course. This this one, to me is just I don't really think like this is that. I think if of all the events, this

is the one to cut. This is also the one though that we see the defensive lineman and the linebackers in. They're doing you know, they're pushing heavy bags, They're going over and under walls and stuff like that, and that's like, okay, I'd rather see the defensive lineman do silly stuff like catch balls from a drone. I really would That was just okay, they're the best hands one. I like that woman. I like that they added a wall you gotta kind of jump over to make a high catch. I like

that they have the diving catch they added. I would like to see more more obstacles around, kind of the sideline, the toe tapping. But it was cool. Um Michael Thomas took it on home. I gotta tell you something. Keenan Allen, though fo Gazzey. Forget about him. He put on a bad showing uh in the Best Hands competition. Then they did this a new thing with the kickers kick tac toe. I thought it was creative. I thought it was pretty cool. They had to be in essence, Wind kicked tick tac

toe with balls they kicked. They started though, from forty five yards out, and they weren't really being effective with their accuracy, so they moved in to thirty five, then ultimately to twenty five yards. It was cool, though, I think they should bring it back. I thought that was very in interesting. And then what they did at the end was dodgeball, all right, and I like the dodgeball. It came down to the dodgeball. The a f C wound up winning. And if you remember what I said yesterday,

you could play it back. Bona the Manimal will tell you what I thought was. I liked the a f C. Bivona. You could back me up on this when I bring you in later on in the show. I said, I like the a f C because the NFC's wide receivers were Michael Thomas and um who else, oh, Davante Adams. Those are two tall guys, big outside receiver kind of guys, I said the a f C. I like them because their wide receivers were Keenan Allen and Jarvis Landry. More

slot guys, more shiftier guys. I said, I thought that would give the a f C the advantage, and I picked the a f C to win at Dodgeball. Well, it came down there was only one person left on each team, and the sole survivor for the a f C, who ultimately won was Jarvis Landry. Just like I said that that would be a benefit to the a f C team, and that is in fact what happened. What this is your boy speeds the spitting statistician, once again

calling his shot. The other thing that it's always interesting, people said later on, because Landry was a sole survivor in dodgeball because he won the drone drop, because last year he also won the best hands competition. Did this help his free agency case at all? I don't think so, but it is interesting and funny to think about. But as I said on Sunday, we will in fact have the Pro Bowl, and I got a couple of things

to say about this. First of all, I agree with most people who don't care we had a pull question up yesterday and more people said they would watch the skills competition rather than the Pro Bowl. That they would watch the skills competition but not the game was more than even would watch the game but not the skills competition. And we gotta pull question up right now. And it's like the Pro Bowl up against other leagues, the CFL, your Marina League. Right now, the x FL is kicking

the Pro Bowls. But I I also believe, like if I had a poll of like will you watch the Pro Bowl, will you watch the Grammys or will you watch the Royal Rumble on Sunday, I bet the Pro Bowl would not win that one either. So they gotta do some things, I think to bring up the excitement, you know, because also the players were saying it themselves.

I heard an interview with t Sizzle Terrell Suggs. He said, like, you know, he's a he's a veteran at this point, he's been in the league for like fifteen sixteen years. He's saying that he was gonna skip the Pro Bowl, but his kids wanted to go down to our Land though, So that's what he's doing. He's doing it, you know, for the family. For the kids. He said, though all the players, though the young players, were asking him what

was it like when he was in Hawaii. He was like, that was an incentive for NFL players to go to the Pro Bowl. But that is not the case anymore. Check this out. Also, you know, remember when the Pro Bowl rosters were announced and there was all this angst about all these guys who were snubs who didn't make the cut. We'll check this out. We have had twenty eight replacements for the Pro Bowl so far at last check, and there probably will even become more by the last

time I check it. You know. So even if you think you're a snub and you don't make it, the next twenty eight guys made it. Okay, So a lot of people are still gonna get that bonus money. A lot of people still gonna get that free trip. Too bad it's to Orlando instead of to Hawaii. What I do want to say, though there's still no Jets on the roster, I believe there are no Bears on the roster either. There is one member though, of the o

N sixteen. Cleveland Browns linebacker Joe Sholbert made the squad, and no, I'm not doing DFS for this because listen, you gotta you gotta draw the line somewhere. Even my man, the Tony Sincada, said he was drawing some red lines in the sand here. But if you're into that sort of thing, here's what I'll tell you. They're doing the Pro Bowl Super Bowl slate as a two game slate. Okay, you gotta take a defense from the Super Bowl teams because this game, the Pro Bowl is gonna be ridiculously

high scoring. They're not even allowed to sack the quarterback, right, so you can't take a Pro Bowl defense. You gotta take one of those defense and you gotta take um a a quarterback from the teams that are in the Super Bowl. Okay, so in the Super Bowl, you gotta take a defense and you gotta take a quarterback. I do think there are some value though, with running backs and wide receivers in the Pro Bow because they're gonna

get a lot of opportunities. They're not gonna call any penalties. Really, it's kind of an open game. And here's the thing that I look for. First of all, I look for guys that you could stack with their normal quarterback, you know what I mean. Where there's a com so, for example, like Philip Rivers and Keenan Allen are both gonna be there at some point in the third quarter, the FC is gonna get a drive, Philip Rivers is going to be focusing in on Keenan Allen. I think that's interesting.

This also happens with Drew Brees and Michael Thomas, who I both believe will be there. So maybe Michael Thomas Keenan Allen are interesting wide receivers to consider in this kind of slate. Also Russell Wilson and Jimmy Graham. You know it's not a wide receiver, but that might be an interesting stack option, um, at least on the tight end side, if you don't want to go with a guy like Gronk or Earths if they're too too expensive

in that one. Okay, but that's I still think we need to change or fix the Pro Bowl because you know it's not people don't want to watch it. Uh, players don't even want to go. So here's a couple of ideas. What do you think about this? And I'm gonna ask my man, Chris Ventra, who we're gonna bring in in our next segment after the commercial break, what he would do. I got three ideas. One is making

kind of like a rising Stars game. Make it that like you have to be twenty six years old or younger in order to play, Like I knows is there and all that, but he's only going for the kids, you know. Make it be people that actually relish the chance of playing in the Pro Bowl. Make it be like first or second year guys. Make it be like a Rising Stars kind of game, right where it's guys in years one and two of their career, verse guys in years three and four of their career or something

like that. But I think you gotta make it all young kids. That's idea number one. Idea number two is what about what if you do something like reignite like old school rivalries, Like you get guys that were all playing UM in different conferences in college or something like that, where you get natural rivalries from back in college or back in their youth, and you build up teams that way. I think that could be interesting. Or the other thing

is like let's say there was um uh. Let's pick a team that has a lot of representatives, like the Steelers have a lot of representatives. Why don't we make the offensive players on the Steelers beyond one team, and the defensive players on the Steelers beyond the other teams, so they gotta face each other. Wouldn't it be interesting if, like the pass rusher was rushing against his quarterback or offensive lineman, we're going up against defensive lineman of the

same team. What if Patrick Peterson, you know, had to cover Larry Fitzgerald. What if Xavier Rhodes had to cover Adam Feeling. I think that might be another interesting way to look at it. But here's the thing. They need to do something because moving it to Orlando does not inspire attention. Having twenty eight replacements does not inspire attention. So much. Show that people are saying they would rather watch the XFL than the NFL Pro Bowl. Check this out.

We got Eric Johnson, excuse me, Clayton Trey hand saying didn't get to watch most of it, but enjoyed the Gray Cup. The CFL would enjoy that over the Pro Bowl. Hand Holt saying not sold on the success of the XFL, but if they involve more w W E kind of stuff, would watch it better than the Pro Bowl. I'm saying, like the XFL is winning this poll. I believe that the Grammys would beat the Pro Bowl, the Royal Rumble will beat the Pro Bowl. We'll bring in the stats

over beat Cipher. When we come back after the break, my man Chris Ventra is back in the building. We're gonna catch him up on all the fund we've had in functional sports radio for the last week, including this Pro Bowl conversation. Come on back for that. It's the spitting statistician, the stable genius, right here on the Fantasy Freestyles. We slide into the weekend on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network.

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Stop being a weirdo and streaming it online. Get it on your phone, take it with you every where you go. Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyle. Right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network Day Martinez taking you into the weekend. Every Monday through Friday, seven a p m. Eastern Time, we put the fun and functional sports radio and we holler at the hashtag Stat's over beat Cipher. So many ways to join the show. You could call in at eight four four, eight four three six eight seven nine.

You could hit me on Twitter spitting speeds if you want to follow me and the stats overbeat cipher, and also you can hit us up on the chat room. Okay, what we do is we uh we got the video stream going where you can come inside to Studio thirty four on the Fantasy Sports YouTube stream. We're also doing things on Twitch, on Twitter, on Periscope, on Facebook, and I'm bringing in my boy right now, the analyst, Chris Ventra, because here's the thing. I used to love it. We

used to bring in the boy. We used to do the DFS lineups and all this. The guy filled in for me, you know when I was away on vacation. But now Ventra, you're only here on Fridays. So what we gotta do is catch you up with all the fun we've had all week a Bavona. It's like I'm reminded of when you were only doing like one day a week with me flipping back and forth with Don Burns. We had to catch you up on Friday's as well.

So that's what we're gonna be doing here on a Friday with the analyst Chris Ventra, Hey, Venture, how are you doing this week? How is your week? I know you missed the Fantasy Freestyle. I do, I do I miss I miss hanging out with you guys doing your show. Um, you know it's different. I wake up very early now, Okay, okay, okay doing the rot experts and stuff like that. But were they talking a lot about the Milwaukee Brewers. Well, actually that's more recent news. They weren't really talking about

that earlier this week. Yeah, the Milwaukee Brewers, you know, getting Kristin Yellow signing Lorenzo Kane, looks like they may be making a run. But let me talk to you, uh a Venture about some of the things we've been doing here this week, because I would love to get your take on it. Well, you know, we already talked with the stats overbeat Side for the first thing is listen, this XFL is coming back. You know, we were talking a little bit about that a lot of people are

chatting about it. Do you think the XFL is viable? Do you think this is gonna succeed this time? Do you think people are gonna actually watch it? I was wondering if this league will have enough solid offensive lineman to put a good product on the field. Are you into this new uh XFL reboot? Yeah, you're right. On YouTube they're talking about it. It's a good debate what I'm saying. They're talking about, you know what Vince is gonna do? What what type of play is they're gonna run.

I heard you talking about it too on Line up Block. Like you said, the offensive line, I don't know how they're gonna come up with a good offensive lineman, and so I don't know. I mean, it failed the first time. You're gonna do something really different. Yeah. If they're saying they're gonna try and do shorter games or only two hours fast, yeah I think that. I mean, that would

be helpful. But I don't know. You think we're hearing a lot of talk about maybe Johnny Manziel trying to get involved in this, but I don't know if he's eligible because I think he might have some criminal activity in his past. Do you think this would be a good look, a good branding for Johnny Football. Well, actually, the guys on our target, you know, all In kid Jakes. Yeah, they were talking about it, and they're saying they're a family friendly type thing. But that's what the NFL is already,

which is true, um kind of you know. I think they're trying to get away from this politicized stuff. You know, so I don't know you. I don't think you know, Colin Kaepernick may not find his way in the XFL. But you know what Colin I think so okay because what he did wasn't legal, I understand, but they just don't want a drama around it. You know, they seem to bring viewership. How else are they going to bring viewership.

I think it might be a good idea to bring controversial people onto the Tim Tebow, well, Tim t Yeah, you can bring to t Bow. I mean, anything that's gonna get you viewership and want people, make people watch and come to the games. I think they should do because listen, it's the XFL. Chances are take a chance you're gonna fail again. Yeah, no, no, that makes sense.

Let me ask you this. One of the things we've been railing about this week has been I've been saying, you know, the concussion protocol is a joke, especially here in the playoffs, you know, and as you know, Rob Gronkowski got his bell wrong, and I've been saying that. Listen, they're gonna you know, unaffiliated neural trauma consultants. You know, I got that in a token will get you home, you know what I mean. But um, listen, what do

you think? You know? They the NFL came out and cleared the Panthers of any wrongdoing, cleared the Texans of any wrongdoing, and the Tom Savage remember when he was like seizing on the floor, and then they added that it was irresponsible of people like your boy speeds and spitting statistician to take any unbridge about what's going on. What do you think about this, uh, the concussion protocol and the way they're playing it here in the NFL. Well, I mean, I think it's you know, it's good to

have a protocol comes see a head injuries. But of course listen, but they're not following it. Bro, you know, Russell Wilson, the Seahawks got find a hundred thousand dollars with Tom Savage you know, I still believe that the Cam Newton and now we're gonna see how they do it with Rob Gronkowski with the big game of the year coming up right right right, No, I agree with you that, you know, the NFL, I feel like it does a lot of things, you know, maybe not the

correct way. Like I don't even like the defensive past inference. Cool, it's another thing where the rest can control the game if it's a forty yard bomb, Brandon Cooks. You saw that Ramsey penalty was ridiculous, and to change the entire game that thirty two yard pass interference penalty that if that game is fourteen three instead of teen ten at half time, we're even less like seventeen three, which is

possible as well. Absolutely, I completely agree Pat's got all the calls in that game, right, And and defensive pensty ference shouldn't be uh spot of the foul play because you can throw a fifty odd bomb, just get a piste ferarence. It's fifty penalty. It's crazy. It should be like college where it's if it's like you know, if it's a normal pist I fear it's like a fifteen yard penalty. And if it's really blatant and really flately,

you know, like a flagrant foul, then it should be foul. Yeah, it should be something like that because all these rules, well, why why can't we just have listen, Why is it that fifteen yards test to be the hardest one? Right? Like, what about listen, I understand fifteen yards unnecessary roughness and

stuff like that. What about if it's a like a bomb, like you're saying this past interference, you know, instead of it being a spot foul, if even if it's down the field more than fifteen fifteen yards, why don't we introduce the new twenty yard penalty or whatever the spot of the foul would be, and you divide by two or something like that, you know, give him half of that, because now you could just take shots down the field and that really changed the entire a f C Championship game.

I agree with you on that. And then venture I gotta ask you about one other thing that we been doing here, putting the fun and functional sports Radio. I'm not sure if you're aware, but me and our guy the Madamo, Chris Bavona, we've been having a little bit of fun this week with um rapping athletes. You're you're familiar with this. So we've had um, we had the nose tackle on the Washington football team. On we had Marvin Bagley the third he's a big time freshman at

a duke basketball UM. And you know, we've had Cole Beasley, Levy on Bell. We obviously Dame Dollar and you know, obviously if you follow the stats, overbeat Cipher, our guys Kenna Cashman from Road to Where Young Cos and the trap game. My astro's the effect. And so I gotta tell you the truth because you know, I I said, I told the Cipher that I would every time we uh have a rapping athlete on the show, we try to you know, rank him, you know, or put him

in the continuum. And and for us, you know, just as our frame of reference if they're doing really if you know, if we like the verses or the flow or whatever, then you know we say that's closer to the Damian Lillard side of things, right right If we don't like it, Chris, you know, we we we we call it, you know, more on the Chris venturous side, on the on the analysts side, on the Dilly Dilly freestyle, How do you feel about that because I can't. You know,

the people in the stats would beat Cipher. They would getting at me because they didn't want me to like talk behind your back, you know what I'm saying. So now I you know, I have you on on Friday. So I wanted to let you know that that's how we're using you in the framing of how we evaluate all other Exactly the scales starts. The scale goes from Chris Venture to Damien. I appreciate you telling me straight up. Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you to your face, you know, to your

microphone or whatever it is. And honestly, I'm not delusional. The truth is I'm awful, but I'll tell you what I do though I respect your effort. Though I have a decent flow if you want me, like, you know, if I want you to what if if I ever do another and when I think I got a pretty good flow, I'm good with hearing music. The thing is the lyrics that hearing music. Have you ever seen white

man can jump with? You're talking about if you can listen to Jimmy Hendricks or if you could hear Jimmie Hendricks, You're good with hearing the flow? Is this what you're saying that I could feel the rhythm. I know what's going on because you're Sicilian. No, you could spit too well's then why are you Why are you on the bottom side of the of the scale. I'm saying I could spit to the flow lyrics is my problem. But your cadence, you're you're, you're, you're a fan of that.

You feel like that's strong, right, I can make that strong. I just you know, I don't know. I was freestelling on the WIM. I try to get the cipher involved. I appreciate it. Don't listen. We do drop stats over beat here on the Fantasy Freestyle, so I appreciate that. Like you said, you are not delusional. But at the same time, I got one, um, I got one last question for you because on Monday through Thursday now we got our boy Danny Otto, who's down there in the

Fantasy Pit of misery on the video stream. But Ventra, I gotta ask you this because, um, you know what's on the Fantasy Sports Network on Wednesday nights at nine o'clock. Yes, I do popping off, popping off right, popping off with Danny Otto. Our homegirl Ashley A. Bray. You My question for you, why are you not on popping off? I don't know, see, like I'm a nerd. I'm a little nerdy. I play video game. Yeah yeah, I know. We talked about it in the Fantasy Pit of Miseries. Sometimes you

are very protective over Pokemon. I was very protective what I said. But anyway, um, yeah, I'm a little bit of a nerd like that, But I'm not popping off because that sounds like that's what they do. I don't think I'm not nerves. I don't know if I'm not that level of nerds. You think that Ashley A. Bray you and U Danny Otto are more nerdy than you. Well, you know, I'm not saying that. That's what you just said.

You just said you're a little nerdy, but you're not on that level of nerd over here, Like I'm smelling a little bit of beef. I don't know if I could talk about the Jurassic Park figurines and all that stuff when I was younger, maybe but more I don't know if you saw, but that's what it was about. So you draw the line at Pokemon, right right? I drew the line. I see Okay, that's another part of

the scale. Absolutely, but you won't go into jaazzic. I think I heard they talked a little bit about Black Mirror as well. I played that game. Actually, no, that's a show, bro. Oh but there's both a game in the show. I also watched all those episodes. Yes, that could be on that. Maybe I'll get the appearance on that. But yeah, I think you yet, I think you should. The last thing I want to ask you, bro, what are you gonna be watching this Sunday? Are you gonna

watch this whole Pro Bowl? Do you care about this at all? I mean, I'm gonna take a ganda, Okay, are you gonna watch the you know, like the Grammys of the Royal Rumbo something like that. I'm not watching Royal Ramba my Chicken on that, um, But maybe, honestly, maybe the Probowl over all those things, to be honest, fair enough, it's our strong Style and the statue wul beat cipher because Yo shout out to strong Style. I'm picking shouldn't gay Nakamura to win the Royal Rambow and

go against a j Styles at WrestleMania. But when we come back is what we're gonna do. Thanks for spending a couple of minutes with us. All right, Venture, I'm glad to catch you up. And by the way, oh, I gotta ask you the one last thing. I want to get your thoughts on. We have controversy and speeds versus the kids Ventra because we had a kid that came in and went two and oh championship Sunday. But I don't know if only two and oh should get it done because our winning percentage is better when we

come back after the break. I want to get your thoughts on that. I'm gonna go tie a nice neat little bow up on this episode of the Fantasy Freestyle gets you going into the weekends being spitting statistician. You know what it is, fantasy pre styled. The entire board of USA Gymnastics is being forced to resign or have them be decertified. And I think these are appropriate steps after what Larry Nasser did institutionally with kind of protection. It looks like from a couple of organizations for a

while with children. We say from seven to eight p m. E. Stern on the Phantasy Sports Radio Network, little Beanie SEAgel, as we come back here dropping stats over beats on the Fantasy Freestyle. I'm about to get out of here for a weekend, but before I do, let me tell you something. We got to the Pro Bowl and the skills competition and all of this stuff this weekend. But when we come back next week, oh boy, we're gonna be talking about the Super Bowl, super Bowl fifty two,

the New England Patriots, and the Philadelphia Eagles. As you know, your boys, Speeds has been on the Philadelphia Eagles all season long. At the beginning of the season when I did my preview shows, I was telling you about the Eagles, and what do you know, they are now in the Super Bowl. Remember after the Super Bowl, I'm gonna start giving you my team by team previews of Major League Baseball, right and the last year and that I gave you the Houston Astros. Then in football this year, I give

you the Philadelphia Eagles. I wonder who I will give you in my baseball previews that will wind up competing for their championship. But we're gonna be doing everything from the prop bets to you know, maybe I'll rank the skilled players, will do a DFS lineup, and the other thing we're gonna do is Speeds versus the kids. We gotta finish off speeds versus the kids. Speeds boy is six and three so far uh chriss Ventra is also

six and three, so a venture is there. I want to bring him back because I haven't had an opportunity to ask him about how do we play this because we have some new kids that are in there. Okay, so a lot of the kids went three and one in division weekend. Some didn't pick, so they're still at three and one. Our homegol Michaela is now four and two. Four and two is pretty good, but six and three is the same percentage and more wins, right, so I got like, I like us against even Michaela who is

six years old. However, there is a new kid who picked in Divisional week championship Sunday. His name is Sammy and he went Eagles and Pats. So Ventra, I ask you, We got Sammy who was two and oh, and then you have us who are both six and three. Michaela is four and two at the same winning percentage, and then you got Goose and Tito at three and one, who is currently winning speeds versus the kids. You think it's us at six and three, or do you think

it's Sammy at two and oh? Well, obviously anyone who has you know, the same winning percentage and played less games, we should be ahead of Okay, so we're ahead then in your opinion, we're ahead of MICHAELA at four and two? What about Goose and Tito at three and one? Higher winning percentage but less games picked. We've picked nine games, they've only picked four. And then Sammy who's you know,

undefeated but only two and oh? Right, well, the three and one, I would say it's a little bendest because they only picked four games. Yeah, but there in accuracy, right, we're not too far off. We picked five more games. That's a big difference. Okay, okay, so we slightly ahead of them. So so you think we're ahead of them. What about Sammy who's two and oh? Two and oh is interesting? It's only two games, I know, but he's got a zero. He hasn't gotten anything wrong yet. If

you're riding with Sammy's picks, you haven't lost. Sun defeated. He defeated. So how we do that is we do it like this. So going into the championship the super Bowl, whoever wins that, whoever it gets that right, ends up beating in first place. If he wins, he's three and oh. So you say, all right, so let's say let's say you, me and Sammy all picked the same team and its team that wins, and that makes us seven and three.

But he goes to three and oh, you give it to Sammy at three and oh over us at seven and three. I mean, I guess you're gonna have to because you know what, we would have been one and one if we picked the championship games. Yeah, I know, I know that's what I'm saying. So we'll find out. We'll find out. I think it's a good question. And do me a favorite holler at the stats overbeat Cipher and all your people, and I think, because that's what we gotta do. We gotta find out if we really

did in fact beat. The kids will be making our official picks, We'll be telling you prop bets, and we'll have everything. We will have you covered like white on rice when it comes to Super Bowl coverage next week here on the Fantasy Freestyle, Great week. I hope everybody has a good week in my DFS lineup doing pretty good so far. I told you about Michael kiddog Gil Chris. He already has ten points, three rebounds, and assistant is

Steel in the second quarter for Charlotte. I like that, and uh, it looks like people do not want to watch the Pro Bowl. I'll probably check it out for a little bit, just so I could break it down for the stats over beat Cipher right here on the Fantasy Freestyle from my Man Chris Venture, the analysts from My Boy the Manamal Chris Bovona, and everybody down there in the fantasy pit of misery. It is your boy, Dame Martinez Speed, the spitting statistician, the stable genius here

of the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Have a good weekend, everybody. I'm out